Daily News | David P. Efroymson, award-winning professor emeritus at La Salle, former religion department chair, lecturer, and author, has died at 91
David P. Efroymson, 91, formerly of Philadelphia, award-winning professor emeritus at La Salle University, former chair of the school’s religion department, lecturer, author, and mentor, died Thursday, Dec. 1, of septic shock at Jefferson Abington Hospital.
He earned a doctorate in religion from Temple University in 1976, chaired La Salle’s department of religion from 1982 to 1991, and spoke often at symposia, conferences, and seminars in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and elsewhere. He also edited and reviewed books, and wroteHis father had converted from Judaism to Catholicism, and Dr.
In 1986, he was featured in The Inquirer’s Sunday magazine as one of Philadelphia’s “Top Ten Profs,” and a La Salle student told of being disappointed by her high school religion class. She said she complained, and one of her teachers said: “Wait till you go to La Salle. Take David Efroymson, and he’ll show you what theology is like for grown-ups.”
He served as a Catholic priest in Joliet, Ill., from 1957 to 1965, initiating progressive Bible study groups and becoming, to the discomfort of his superiors, involved with political and social issues that ignited his passion and intellect. Among other things, he addressed local race relations as chair of the Joliet Human Relations Commission and supported reforms that resulted from the Second Vatican Council.
Dr. Efroymson was a lifelong Chicago sports fan, and he proudly wore his red Bulls cap and jacket around the La Salle campus. He liked to share boyhood stories of riding the street cars, hanging out with buddies in Jackson Park, and ice skating on frozen Lake Michigan.
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