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The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project The Interpreter Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Number 228 Remember September 11, 2001 [email protected] February 1, 2017

Our Mission Hands” trained themselves in mystery why he was not BOQ improvised by and for Japanese military matters and immediately commissioned as an language officer schoolmates. In the Spring of 2000, the vocabulary. Less than half year officer as had been Don and his He welcomed me to reside Archives continued the origi- a year later, on December 7, brother, John, I suspect it was there while I was on duty at nal efforts of Captain Roger came the Japanese Navy attack because his language command Pearl Harbor. Others sharing the Pineau and William Hudson, on Pearl Harbor, which John was of only vernacular Japanese, BOQ included Marine Corps and the Archives first at- survived. (colloquial and slangy), and he officer, Sherwood Moran; and tempts in 1992, to gather the During WWII, John Shively did not read and write kanji; our Navy JLS schoolmates, papers, letters, photographs, performed intelligence duties also because there are such great Frank Turner, , and records of graduates of jointly for the Marine Corps and differences between colloquial and Robert Boyd. After I the US Navy Japanese/ the OSS that included processing and literary Japanese. completed drafting the two- Oriental Language School, of enemy documents, planning Otis and I were roommates, volume Tarawa defense University of Colorado at for amphibious operations at first at the JLS in Berkeley then installations report, I went back Boulder, 1942-1946. We islands of the Pacific, and again at Boulder. The next time to my Division at Waimea to assemble these papers in interrogation of Japanese POWs. we met after graduating from the prepare for the next Marine recognition of the contribu- Postwar, he attained the Navy JLS at Boulder was in Corps campaign, which was to tions made by JLS/OLS Marine Corps Reserve rank of November 1943 when Otis was be the Marianas Islands of instructors and graduates to Colonel, Retiring from the working in the Joint Intelligence Saipan and Tinian. the War effort in the Pacific active Marine Corps Reserve, he Center Pacific Ocean Area A few months later, I was and the Cold War, to the joined and followed the (JICPOA) at the headquarters of back in Honolulu again, this time creation of East Asian transition of OSS into the CIA, Adm. Nimitz (CINCPAC) at to assist in preparations for the language programs across from which he retired in 1971. Pearl Harbor. Marianas Islands campaign, the country, and to the John passed away in California I visited Pearl Harbor in which work included composing development of Japanese- at the age of 95 on April 4, 2005. transit to escort the 17 POWs the propaganda leaflets in Japanese American cultural rec- Otis Cary, like Don and John Second Marine Division had and Korean to be air-dropped on onciliation programs after Shively, was born in , not captured on Tarawa. It was a Saipan and Tinian. Otis and World War II. in but in Otaru, Hokkaido, brief visit, just long enough to Frank Huggins assisted me by where earlier generations of his assign the prisoners over to Otis enlisting services of Japanese CLOSE FRIENDS Amherst-educated family were and his senior language officer military POWs in the stockade at Don Shively & Otis Cary based as Christian missionaries. colleague, Frank Huggins, at the Pearl Harbor to help proofread Otis was, thus, the son and POW enclosure. and improve the texts. (Cont’d from Issue #226) I first grandson of Amherst graduates After that, I was transported The next time I saw Otis was met Don’s brother, John R. who helped to found Doshisha onward to Waimea on the Big two months later, on D-day, June Shively, in New Caledonia in University, which has Island, Hawaii, where my 15, 1944, during the amphibious 1944, when John was already a maintained close relations with Division was now to be based at landings on Saipan by two Marine Corps Major, doing Amherst over many decades. “Camp Tarawa” for troop Marine divisions and one Army secret intelligence work, at an After elementary school in replacement, health recovery, division. isolated OSS installation located Japan, Otis studied at Deerfield and preparation for the next The Second Marine Division, on the peninsula across the bay Academy in Western campaign. The sprawling tent for which I was a Japanese from Marine camp Goettge at Massachusetts; then at Amherst encampment was situated on the language officer, established the Anse Vata. Eleven years older College, during which time I met property of the immense Parker northernmost beachhead. Battle than Don, John was born in him in Cambridge, Mass. in Ranch, and headquartered at the action had begun that morning. I 1910, in Kyoto, Japan; grew up 1940 when he visited my little town of Kamuela (the was sent ashore early in the there; and like Don was fluent in Harvard College roommate, Don Hawaiian word for “Samuel”). I afternoon by LCVP landing craft Japanese. Shively. Like Don, Otis not only stayed there during several together with assault troops. For a while in his early was also born in Japan but had months before being sent back to Splashing ashore, we paused to twenties John served in Japan as been a schoolmate of Don's at the headquarters of Adm. Nimitz dig protective trenches an English teacher in a Japanese the Canadian Academy in Kobe. to prepare photo and drawing preparatory to moving inland to high school. In 1939, he earned Soon after the Pearl Harbor illustrated descriptive reports on locate and join our respective a Master’s degree from the attack, both Otis and I went into the defense installations the units. Our beach area came University of Hawaii. Navy Japanese Language Japanese had built at Tarawa. under rifle and mortar fire. Subsequently while studying training, with temporary rank of Already a war veteran in About two hours later, an for a PhD degree at Columbia, in Yeoman Second Class. Upon 1943, Otis had his introduction Amtrak pulled up to the beach 1940 John was recruited by the completion of training at to warfare when he participated and unloaded, to my Navy to serve in the Marine Berkeley and Boulder, Otis was in the Aleutians campaign to astonishment, Otis Cary, John Corps as Japanese language and commissioned as a Navy Ensign dislodge Japanese occupation Decker, and an elderly Korean intelligence officer. World War and I as a Marine Second forces from the island of Attu. man, who turned out to be a II was under way in Europe, and Lieutenant. When I saw him again, Otis was Christian pastor, Father Cho of war clouds were gathering over Otis was already fluent in residing near the University of Hawaii. He was to work with the Pacific, John was posted to Japanese before the wartime Hawaii in a civilian house Korean POWs, but none could Pearl Harbor where he and a training. It is something of a cooperatively rented to serve as a be accessible for some days. handful of other such " Japan As our location came under Reportedly, on occasions Otis survival in encounters with graduating from McDonogh fire, and there was chaos along even met and conversed with one armed Japanese troops on Saipan School in 1943, he went on to the beach, I humorously of the Emperor’s brothers, Prince and Tinian. Duke University, graduating in welcomed Otis to Saipan. Takamatsu. Although Don Shively and 1945. Within minutes we were shocked By then, undoubtedly, Otis Otis Cary had shared rather He was an officer in the U. S. to witness several yards inland had mastered perfectly correct similar missionary family Navy for a brief period during from us a foxhole pit struck formal Japanese, which is like a backgrounds and schooling in WWII before going to Harvard directly by a mortar shell. A different language. On other Japan, their personalities and Business School where he moment earlier, there had been occasions, when distinguished characteristics as adults were received his MBA in 1949. Mr. two live Marines crouching American scholars and quite different. Don was self- Scott began his career in there. In the mortar explosion, celebrities were speakers at assured, dour, austere, erudite, advertising in New York but the both men simply Doshisha University, Otis served focused, disciplined, and settled back in Baltimore as disappeared, as if evaporated. as their interpreter. reclusive. Don loved traditional President of Mrs. Filbert's I urged Otis, John Decker and Following my brief wartime Japan, history, literature, drama, Margarine for many years while the terrified civilian Father Cho assignments at Pearl Harbor, our art, and music. He aimed to be a raising his family. He held other to return immediately to their paths had not converged again university Professor of Japanese top managerial positions in transport ship on one of the during the WWII, but 55 years history and culture. Chicago, Indiana, and California shuttling LCVPs; then join a unit after the war Otis and I met at a Otis Cary by nature was before retiring to the Palo Alto to land on Saipan several days reunion conference of retired virtually the opposite of Don. area, where he was a co-founder later, which they did. Japanese language officers, titled He was boyish, out-going, of a prominent outplacement During the Marianas “Bridge To The Rising Sun”, humorous, animated, and firm, Mulford, Moreland, Scott campaign, Otis served on Saipan held in April 2000 at Claremont, gregarious. Otis loved and Associates. for about a month as a language California. contemporary Japan, Japanese Additionally he was an officer of JICPOA, after which I attended that conference and food, team sports, friendships active consultant for corporate he returned to Pearl Harbor. I met together with previous with Japanese students, speaking management and strategic participated in the Tinian Island colleagues and mutual friends of and joking in Japanese slang. development for numerous campaign, and then returned to mine and Otis, whom we had not His postwar aim was to follow in leading companies. During the stay on Saipan for a total of 14 seen for many years. Although footsteps of his parents and 1980's and 90's, he especially months, except for three weeks Otis was only 79 years of age he grandparents, serving in Japan as loved working with West of participation at the beginning was clearly suffering from a Christian educational Marine, Inc. and became a of the Okinawa campaign in Parkinsons Disease; had lost missionary at Doshisha. Don member of their Board of March/ April, 1945. much of his memory and ability and Otis both achieved their life Directors. As gifted as he was in After the war, Otis went back to speak. I recall sadly but with goals, with success and business, he was even more to Amherst to complete admiration that his wife, Alice, distinction. beloved as a mentor and advisor undergraduate study; received had to read his presentation There was an exception to the on life's issues and challenges. his B.A. in 1946; entered Yale, paper and to speak for him usual cheerful optimism of Otis. He loved offering words of where he earned an MA in during the conference. He He lived in apprehension that his wisdom and sharing his expertise American studies. His wife, passed away six years later, in military service and interrogation whenever he could, with his Alice, graduated from the School Oakland, California on April 14, of Japanese prisoners during unique blend of insight, intellect of Medicine at Yale. Otis and 2006. WWII would come back to haunt and humor. Alice had one son and three In their earlier years, both him when he became a teacher in He was a valued speaker and daughters. They spent many Don Shively and Otis Cary had postwar Japan. He thought he teacher for the American years in Japan where Otis served been extremely healthy and might be treated as a foreign Management Association for 20 as the representative of Amherst athletic. During their college pariah. He expressed this fear years, and is listed in "Who's and was on the faculty of days Don was an excellent tennis frequently; it was almost an Who in America". Doshisha University, where he player and Otis an excellent obsession. I kept reassuring Otis Walter and his beloved wife taught courses on American soccer player. Otis had played that postwar Japan will have of 25 years, Helene, have been Studies. During sabbaticals in soccer at Boulder Colorado when changed, it would be a different living in Palm Springs for the 1950 and 1956 Otis went back to we were there studying Japanese. society, and that he most likely last eleven years of his life. Amherst and taught courses on Don Shively and his brother, would be respected and Above all, Walter valued his Japanese history and culture. John, a dozen years his elder, appreciated. My surmise turned special relationships with family In 1992, Otis retired from both died in California only four out to be correct. and friends. He cherished those Doshisha but stayed on in Kyoto months apart in the same year, Robert Sheeks times he and Helene could spend JLS 1943 until 1996 when he departed to 2005. Otis Cary died the with grandchildren and all those spend final years with family in following year, 2006, eight [Ed. Note: Thanks to Bob Sheeks for near and dear to him. Oakland, California. Otis wrote months after Don Shively. allowing us to print this memoir Before his health began to and translated several articles, I am indebted to both Otis episode.] decline, he enjoyed golf and was ______and books mainly about the Cary and Don Shively for their a regular back at the Baltimore history of , beneficial effect on my life. Walter Scott, Jr. Country Club. Unfortunately he published in English and They inspired and helped me to contracted Parkinson's disease in Japanese. Among honors be fluent in spoken Japanese by (1925 - 2011) the early 2000's and was forced received by Otis is Japan's Order insisting on speaking with me in OLS 11/9/45 to curtail many of his former of the Sacred Treasure. Japanese as much as possible, activities, including some annual Otis more than overcame his rather than in English. Their Walter Scott, Jr., born and raised getaways with Helene to special, Japanese language limitation that tutoring helped to make me more in Baltimore, Md. died August significant places. Walter is pre- had caused the Navy to delay his effective during military service 18, 2011 at his home in Palm deceased by his wife and mother commission and enroll him in at Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. I Springs, Calif. Born July 24, of his four children, Barbara Lou the JLS. believe it contributed to my 1925, he was 86 years old. After Main Scott (1925-1964). He is survived by his wife, Helene meeting with Dr. Inazo Mitobe, 1947 and the Ph.D. in 1950. He He was active in a number of Woolf Scott of Palm Springs; professor at the Imperial was on the faculty of Indiana professional organizations in his son, Stephen Scott (Merrilee); University in Japan, who later University from 1949 to 1961, academic field, especially in the daughters, Susan Scott Wheel worked for the League of and after that, of the University American Association of (Eric) and Cynthia Scott Thomas Nations in Geneva. of Wisconsin, Madison, from Teachers of Slavic and East

(Tony); and son, Christopher Granada Pioneer 1961-89. At Wisconsin, he was European Languages Scott (Prue). He has nine Volume 1, Number 30 Chairman of his Department, (AATSEEL). grandchildren, and is also January 28, 1943 (1962-68 and 1977-1985); in He was a member of its survived by his sister Marjorie Page 5 addition, he was Associate Dean Executive Council for 25 years, Beasley (Robert) of Baltimore. (Humanities) of the Graduate and President for two (1973 and [Ed. Note: Marilyn Burns, an MA The Desert Sun students, and a half-time gift fund – School from 1965 to 1968. As a 1974), founder and editor for its August 24, 2011 archivist, located this article in the scholar, he took pride in the first fourteen years of The Slavic ______Granada Pioneer during her research opportunity he and his and East European Journal (the on Japanese American college and generation had to contribute to organ of AATSEEL), and author Tadahito Shizuoka university students in Colorado the development of the academic of its history: AATSEEL: The Sensei during World War II. Since sensei field of Slavic languages and First Fifty Years (1991). He was stories are always in short supply, I literatures in America after the recipient of two AATSEEL You’ve heard of men who read thought I would include this story.] ______World War II. awards: in 1970, "For at their breakfast tables, but In 1957, he initiated (as editor Outstanding Service as Editor of Tadahito Shizuoka is an extreme Joseph T. "Tom" SHAW or co-editor) three scholarly the Slavic and East European case, for “he loves his books 1919-2011 publications in the Slavic field, Journal, 1957-70," and in 1991, more than his food,” according OLS 1945 (Russian) all of which still continue: the "For Distinguished Contribution to his wife. quarterly Slavic and East to the Profession." The well-red gentleman in SHAW, Joseph Thomas (Tom) European Journal (the central From the time he came to question was until Tuesday an Professor Emeritus of Slavic American scholarly journal in Madison in 1961, he was a English instructor in the adult Languages, University of the field), the annual American member of St. Andrew's education department here. He Wisconsin, Madison, died on Bibliography of Slavic and East Episcopal Church, where (among left the center this week to April 4, 2011 in Madison, WI of European Studies, and the other things) he served terms as become an instructor of the a continuing illness. occasional Indiana Slavic vestryman and as warden. But Japanese language at the Boulder He was born in Ashland City, Studies. his principal service in the Naval Intelligence School. TN on May 13, 1919, the son of During his entire career, his Episcopal Church was as a lector Shizuoka has acquired more George W. and Ruby Mae (Pace) scholarship was centered on (lay scripture reader) and server than 3000 books after coming to Shaw. He was married on Alexander Pushkin, the greatest at Sunday services, on regular America as a student in 1919, October 30, 1942 to the late and most-loved Russian poet and schedule, for more than a half- and during his brief stay in the Betty Lee Ray. He is survived by man of letters, and the central century (all but seven years at St. center, magazines, books, and one son, David M., Pittsburgh, focus of literary scholarship in Andrew's). He was interested in other reading material always PA; and one brother, E. Wayne, Russia. His three-volume the selection and preparation of cluttered his apartment. An Thomasville, GA. He was annotated translation of ordained clergy; he served terms, ardent admirer of Walt Whitman, preceded in death by his wife of Pushkin's Letters into English under three bishops, on the two he hopes someday to translate almost 60 years, Betty (Ray); (first edition, 1964) is now in its organizations directly involved the works of Whitman into two sons, Joseph T., Jr. and fourth edition; in his scholarship, in this process in the Episcopal Japanese. James W.; and by three brothers, he is perhaps best known Diocese of Milwaukee: the As a strong advocate of the G. Wyatt, Henry A. and Loyle P. internationally, especially in Standing Committee (1972-76) theory that one should obtain all Shaw, and one sister, Velma Russia, for his detailed studies of and the Commission on Ministry the education possible before (Shaw) Taylor. Pushkin's rhyming and for his (1978-86). reaching the age of 30, Shizuoka He served on active duty in Rhyme Dictionaries and The Tennessean graduated high school in Nampa, the US Navy in World War II Concordances to the Poetry of April 14, 2011 Ida., And then entered Pasadena (1942-46) and the Korean War ______Pushkin and also of two College, California. He later (1951-53), and after that, contemporaries, Batiushkov and enrolled at Princeton University continued in the active reserve DONALD F. SMITH Baratynskii. After his retirement and in 1935 received his M. A. and then the inactive reserve 80, OLS 1945 from teaching, he continued to Degree at the University of until his retirement with the rank be active in research and Donald Farnsworth Smith, 80, of Southern California. In every of Captain, US Naval Reserve. publication. He not only Front Street died July 23 in the way the ideal scholar, Shizuoka After graduating from completed his long-term project Daughters of Sarah Nursing was once judged Southern Cheatham County Central High on Pushkin's Rhymes, but he Home. California’s top speaker in the School at Ashland City in 1936, also republished, in his Collected Mr. Smith was a lifelong Japanese language. and spending two years at Austin Works, not only his previously Schenectady resident. He was a He has since had countless Peay State University, published books, but collections graduate of Williston Academy years of teaching experiences at Clarksville, TN (1936-38), he of his articles, so that all the all in Massachusetts, Amherst various schools and colleges. continued his education at the the published scholarship of his College and Harvard Law Interpolated in his long teaching University of Tennessee, entire career is now available in School. At the time of his death, career and Japanese language Knoxville, where he awarded the book form. A number of his he had been a practicing attorney schools in Los Angeles was a B.A. with Highest Honors in works have been published (or and partner of the Borst & Smith visit to Japan in 1936, when he English in 1940, and the M.A. in are scheduled to be published) in Law Firm since 1938. taught at a women’s college in 1941. After serving during Russian translation in Russia: Mr. Smith was a member and Osaka. Of all the notables World War II, he went to several articles in professional past president of the Schenectady Shizuoka has contacted, he Harvard University, where he journals; and several books, in Bar Association and was a cherishes the memory of his was granted his second M.A. in Moscow. member of the New York State r-a- lovers; history and absurdity take WMGM, New York City; son of Bar Association. snickenberger&pid=164328336#stha no prisoners.'' Martin and Elizabeth (Campbell) sh.8Vy7A9sg.dpuf He served as a Japanese ______The author, who was born in Roehrenbeck. Mother, Marie translator in the Naval Reserves 1905 in Coatesville, Pa., was (Johns) Roehrenbeck; daughter during World War II. W. M. Spackman removed as editor of Princeton's of Michael and Mary Jane Mr. Smith was a past member Is Dead at 85; Author of Nassau Literary Magazine while (Smith) Johns. Mohawk Golf Club and an undergraduate. The university Ridgewood (NJ) High School Novels about Romance president of the Mohawk Club, a president, John Grier Hibben, Member Silliman College, York former member of the Niskayuna William Mode Spackman [OLS suppressed an issue that Hall and Chi Phi. School Board and a former 7/11/44- ], a writer and classicist contained what he called the Enlisted U.S. Marine Corps attorney for the Schenectady Day who in a burst of creativity late ''most sacrilegious and obscene 1943, enrolled in V-12 program Nursery. He was also a member in life became the author of five articles'' he had ever seen in (Princeton 1943-44, Yale 1944- and former senior warden of St. novels, died on Friday at his print. About Mr. Spackman, he 45, Japanese Language School, Stephen's Episcopal Church. home in Princeton, N.J. said: ''I understand that he has University of Colorado 1945, Survivors include his wife, Mr. Spackman, who was 85 been reading a good deal of Oklahoma Agricultural & Ann Herrick Smith; a son, Peter years old, suffered from prostate James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and T. S. Mechanical College 1945-46 H. Smith of Guilderland; a cancer, said his daughter, Harriet Eliiot and other of the [commissioned Second daughter, Donna Blankman of Newell of Carmel, Calif. modernists in literature. He has Lieutenant U.S. Marine Corps Port Washington, Nassau William Mode Spackman evidently been well soaked in 1946]); staff sergeant Office County; a sister, Helen Cooney wrote novels of romance, but this type of literature and has Strategic Services Camp Elliott of Williamsburg, Va.; and five they were by no means romance tried to go the writers one 1945, and at Brooklyn Navy grandchildren. novels. His style, one couched in better.'' Yard until discharge 1946, Albany Times Union prose that drew the admiration of After graduation, Mr. enlisted Ensign U.S. Navy 1948, August 1, 1994 Spackman became a Rhodes flight training jet engine school ______critics and comparisons with the work of Henry James and F. Scholar at Balliol College, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Snickenberger, Walter A. Scott Fitzgerald, dealt with male- Oxford. Later he worked as a stationed at Quonset Point, RI, USMC, OLS 4/2/45- female relationships with Rockefeller Fellow in opinion Naval Air Station, 1949-50; research at Columbia University, received training at Naval Air Walter A. Snickenberger, Sr. of sympathy, humor and as a radio writer, as a public Station, Pensacola, Fla, and Wellesley, MA, formerly of New knowledgeable understanding. relations executive and a literary Corpus Christi, Texas, 1948-49; London, NH, April 17, 2013. Alice Quinn, poetry editor of critic. He also taught classics at member Society of Automotive Age 89. The New Yorker magazine, who New York University and the Engineers, American Society of Devoted father of Dr. Thomas was his editor at Alfred A. University of Colorado. His Mechanical Engineers, and Our W. Snickenberger and his wife Knopf, said yesterday, ''Mr. other novels are ''A Difference in Lady Queen of Peace Church Patricia of Libertyville, IL and Spackman was a radiant human Design,'' and ''A Little (Roman Catholic), Greenwood Walter A. Snickenberger Jr. and being and a radiant writer, a Decorum.'' ''On the Decay of Lake, NJ. his wife Wendy of Wellesley, writer of great charm and high Humanism'' is a volume of Ensign Roehrenbeck, a jet MA. Grandfather of Daniel of style, who took as his subject essays. fighter pilot, was killed in a Chicago, Anna of Memphis, TN, men and women who really liked In 1984, he received the crash landing on aircraft carrier Amy of Detroit, MI, Alex of and enjoyed each other.'' Howard D. Vursell Memorial USS Midway. Survived by New York City, NY, Mark of Mr. Spackman's first novel, Award from the American parents and a brother, Robert Boston and Sally of Burlington, ''Heyday,'' about the Princeton University class of 1927, of Academy and Institute of Arts Roehrenbeck. VT. Also survived by his wife of and Letters for ''work that merits 40 years Mary W. (Warren) which he was a member, was Obituary Record of the Graduates of recognition for the quality of its Snickenberger. published in 1953. His second, the Undergraduate Schools Deceased prose style.'' Proud to have served in the ''An Armful of Warm Girl,'' was During the Year 1950-1951 He is survived by his second Yale University U.S. Marine Corps as a Captain. issued in 1978, when he was 72 years old. Yet another, ''As I wife, Laurice Macksoud p. 145 Graduate of Dartmouth College, ______Spackman; Mrs. Newell and his class of 1946 and the Amos Tuck Sauntered Out, on Mid-Century son, Peter Spackman of Newton, Graduate School of Business at Morning,'' is awaiting David P. Applby Mass., his children by his first Dartmouth, Class of 1948. publication. Music Professor wife, Mary Ann Matthews Retired Vice President of The scope of Mr. Spackman's Spackman, who died in 1978; OLS 4/2/45- Student Affairs at Southern sweep of literature drew the eight grandchildren, and six David P. Appleby, a professor of Methodist University, Dallas, attention of John Leonard in a review of a Spackman novel in great-grandchildren. music and scholar of Brazilian TX. Dean of Admissions and composers, was born in Belo Financial Aid at Cornell The New York Times in 1980. Richard F. Shepard Horizonte, Brazil and began University, Ithaca, NY. '' 'A Presence With Secrets ' is The New York Times every bit as delightful as 'An August 9, 1990 collecting musical scores when Funeral services private. ______he was seven years old. As an Expressions of sympathy may be Armful of Warm Girl,' if adult, Appleby worked as a made in Walter's memory to the somewhat less shapely, and just Frank Roehrenbeck, Jr. professional pianist, and became Alzheimer's Association, 480 as much a comedy of manners, OLS 3/5/45- a professor of music at Eastern Pleasant St., Watertown, MA even if those manners belong 1925-1950 Illinois University. 02472. Online guestbook at more to the 18th century than to Frank Joseph Roehrenbeck, Jr., He was the author of several www.gfdoherty.com. George F. the 20th,'' Mr. Leonard wrote. B.E. 1947. Born September 21, books, including Bravo Brazil!, Doherty & Sons Funeral Home, ''Perhaps that is one of his points: 1925, Jersey City , NJ; died July The Music of Brazil, and Heitor Wellesley, MA. the 20th century will make its claims, even on artists and 18, 1950, at sea. Villa-Lobos: A Life. Appleby http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/the Father, Frank Joseph actively collected materials on ithacajournal/obituary.aspx?n=walte Roehrenbeck, general manager major Brazilian composers, both past and present, and corresponded with many of the composers he studied.

Biographical Note, David P. Appleby Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/ 00089/lac-00089.html ______