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Peter Gwillim Kreitler

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Born: Peter Gwillim Kreitler


Spouse: Katy Kreitler

Children: Laura Kreitler

Parents: John Kreitler and Muriel Taylor Gwillim Kreitler

Sibling: John Taylor Kreitler

Early Life

Education

  • B.A. 1966, Brown University
  • M.Div., 1969, Virginia Theological Seminary

Career

  • Episcopal priest
  • TV talk show host

Accomplishments

Author of:

  • Affair Prevention, with Bill Bruns (1981)
  • Flatiron: A Photographic History of the World's First Steel Frame Skyscraper, 1901-1990 (1991)
  • The Earth's Killer C's: An Eco-Conservatives Easy Guide to the Environmental Crisis (1995)
  • United We Stand: Flying the American Flag (2001)

(Reed Gwillim Law, Jr. remembers:) In July, 1942, many U.S. magazines agreed to feature the flag on their covers. Peter Kreitler collected many of those issues many years later. "United We Stand" shows those covers. The Smithsonian Institution mounted an exhibit of the magazines at the American History Museum in Washington for a month in 2002. Janice and I and some of our children went to see it. Pete reminded me that we had met before, in Harwich, Cape Cod. Grammy (Bessie Law) had taken me to visit Aunt Edith (Pete's grandmother), one summer in the late 1960s. He remembered seeing me walking on the beach in black shoes and socks.

Health

Faith

  • Was an Episcopal priest at one period of his life

See Cleaning Up the Planet on a Wing and a Prayer; Cathy's World: United We Stand; A look at one way America responded to the tragedy of December 7, 1941