1969

March

• 5 - Bellairs's article, "Exterminating Negroes; or, Situation Bears Watching", appears in the National Catholic Reporter.

c. April-May

• John and Priscilla move to a new, larger apartment (#11) in the same building on Ellery Street, Cambridge [1]. Lived at this location until May 1970.

Spring

• Bellairs leaves his teaching position at Emmanuel College (begun 1968).

June

• Brad Strickland marries Barbara Ann Justus.

August

• 27 - Bellairs wrote a letter to the editors of the National Catholic Reporter, published with the headline "Forgiving Defregger is not the question".

Fall

• Bellairs begins work as a member of the English faculty at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.

September

• 12 - Frank J. Bellairs, son of John Bellairs, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1999).
• The Face in the Frost published.

October

• 9 - Bellairs writes the humor column "Graffiti" for the first edition of Cambridge Phoenix.

November

• 26 - Bellairs writes "A Look at an Updated Nun", a book review of Last on the Menu by Sister Eleanor Quin in the National Catholic Reporter.

Unknown

• The book, A Funny Thing Happened To The Church, is published. The book is a collection of humor, cartoons, satire, and fiction from the pages of The Critic edited by Joel Wells and includes "The Life and Times of St. Fidgeta".

Reference

• [1] Correspondence with Priscilla Bellairs.