From Stephen Richards:

Monroe regularly attended our UMUC lunch meetings in Frankfurt up until last year. (These meetings are held monthly in Frankfurt, Mainz, or Wiesbaden - the latter two venues he would skip.)

I’m not actually sure of the details of his UMUC career, but he was teaching in the mid-eighties, perhaps before. He taught English and Writing - as well as Theatre, himself being the author of a number of plays. Possibly Psychology.

His teaching with UMUC was discontinuous, and for many years he worked in palliative care in German hospitals, for which he earned a qualification. He also worked with suicide survivors. How he got into the psychology field is kind of amusing: in the Vietnam area he was interviewed by an officer as to his qualifications prior to being assigned a job in the Military.

Monroe said he had a degree in philosophy, and apparently the officer took this to mean “psychology,” or did not know the difference, and had Monroe posted to work in the mental ward of a military hospital. Later he did indeed earn qualifications in this field.

Monroe certainly had a long and varied life - visiting him in Frankfurt he would spin yarns of boating off Long Island. For a spell he was a car salesman. I’m sure I learned about only a small portion of his life, and perhaps others can fill in some other details.

His son Mark, mentioned in the announcement, as far as I know his only child, is the director of a clinic in Bonn.  

All the best, Stephen