- Date Of Death: February 28, 2012
- State: Pennsylvania
Dr. Alfred J. Castaldi, the son of S. Joseph and Martha (Cartwright) Castaldi of Philadelphia, died on Tuesday February 28, 2012. He was 87 years old. His career was divided between the public school and the university. For ten years while he was a teacher and principal in the Lower Merion School District, he also taught a science class to teachers taking graduate work at Lehigh University. In 1966 he joined the Lehigh faculty full time. He taught Educational Measurement and Research, conceived as scientific inquiry into educational problems, and assisted Doctoral students attempting such inquiry. He also assumed responsibility for Lehigh’s experimental Centennial Schools. In 1970 he was made full professor. As a member of a Federally funded Consortium between Lehigh and Inter-American University of Puerto Rico he was granted a leave of absence form Lehigh to become the first Dean of the Graduate School of Education of Inter-American. Eighteen Puerto Rican students, mainly from the Universities of Puerto Rico and Inter-American, earned Doctoral Degrees from Lehigh. He received his Bachelor’s, Masters’s and Doctoral degrees form the University of PA.
