Renee-Marie Croose Parry (1922 – 2015) Obituary
Monday, May 11, 2015
We were sorry to record the death of Renee-Marie Croose Parry, Co-Founder of The Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Association of Great Britain and Ireland in 1966, who died on 11 May 2015 at the age of 93.
Born in Bavaria to Margot and Wilhelm Hausenstein, in 1962 she married an English economist and businessman, Kenneth Croose Parry, and for 23 years they lived in London where they co-founded not only the Teilhard Association but three other voluntary groups: the ad hoc committee of People for a Non-Nuclear World (1976-78); the Centre for the Advancement of Human Cooperation (1984-) and the Parliamentary Liaison Group for Alternative Energy Strategies, later The Alternative Energy Group (1978-).
In a personal tribute Bronwen Astor, who knew Renee-Marie and Kenneth well, expresses the sentiments of all Teilhardians when she says, “We all owe a great debt to Renee-Marie. Her tremendous energy and unfailing sense of humour combined with intellectual and personal gifts of memory and rigour attracted many eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians and set the Teilhard Centre on a firm footing in its first twenty years.”
Alison Williams
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