He was often backpacking, on bike trips, helping with Boy Scout trips, and supporting his sons’ soccer and volleyball activities. They became parents in 1978 with son, Stefan and his brother, Mik in 1983. They were happy that their roommates, including Phil’s brother, Larry, welcomed them back to SB and life in their “hippie” household was lively for another few years. After days of wedding celebrations, they began their camping trip back to Santa Barbara sustained by a giant sausage given to them as a wedding present. Phil and Ilze married in a lively Latvian style celebration on a warm, humid, mosquito ridden day in Columbus, Ohio in August 1973. He was always an entrepreneurial educator holding after school classes and camps whenever he could. He took this skill to Mountain View Elementary School where he taught for an additional 7 years retiring in 2018. He was an early computer enthusiast and eventually became the computer specialist at Montessori. He enthusiastically led his students backpacking, encouraging them to actually plan their own trips and cook their meals independently. Initially he taught the very young but really came into his own teaching the upper elementary students – math being his favorite. In addition to teaching, he was the director of the school in 1974 and served on its Board of Trustees and various committees throughout the years. He joined the school in 1971 when it was on the Riviera, then moved with it to the Hope Campus on La Colina Rd and finally to Fairview Ave. It was, however, at the Montessori Center School that he would teach for the next 40 years. Phil enjoyed life in Santa Barbara trying a variety of activities – he had an organic food store called Yellow Sun West, he volunteered at La Casa de la Raza constructing its theater and he taught at the “Free School” that was housed at La Casa. Starting off in the middle of winter they survived blizzards in Wyoming and Montana, endless rain in Seattle and Vancouver and found themselves in Santa Barbara on a beautiful day at the end of January 1971. There he met Ilze Svanks and soon the two were off on a cross country trip that was to last fifty years. He hung out at a local bar called Larry’s that attracted a great variety of tipplers – OSU grad students, poets, chess players, politicos, pundits and those who liked to BS about everything. Loneliness induced Phil to return to Columbus where he had many friends and where he was able to be a substitute teacher and could work on a construction crew that completely framed one house per day even in icy winter. In 1969 He taught at Madison South High School in London, Ohio, where he was impressed that many of his students could work long hours on the family farm while attending high school. The Vietnam War was for him, and for many other resolutely anti-war young men, a compelling reason for continuing to graduate school and for starting a teaching career. He was academically very successful at Wabash College in Indiana but found the single sex campus not to his liking and after one year, he announced to his family at Christmas breakfast that he had quit college and would be traveling around the country in an old Nash car with his friend.Īfter a year of eventful travel in the US and Mexico with short bouts of work in Florida, New Orleans and California, he returned in 1963 to continue his education at Ohio State University where he received both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Journalism and Communications. He was gregarious and greatly enjoyed his high school fraternity life. He was the fearless kid who, on vacation, would climb up somewhere really high, and get everybody super scared.
He was always adventurous, ready for action, sometimes skipping school, a teenage rebel who presented his parents and grandparents with challenges. In Cincinnati, Phil went to Pleasant Ridge Elementary School, and then to Walnut Hills Junior and High School. He and his parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio a few years later where they welcomed his brother Larry in 1948, and sister, Tina, in 1951. Phil Landfried was born November 4,1944, to John and MaryBelle (Brown) Landfried, in Dallas, Texas. It is with great sadness that the family of John Philip Landfried announces his passing in his sleep on January 12, 2022.
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