Interview with James P. Thurber Jr
Library of Congress Interview with James P. Thurber Jr. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Information Series JAMES P. THURBER, JR. Interviewed by: Emily Thurber Initial interview date: December 1990 Copyright 1998 ADST Bio-sketch Including Pre-USIA Employment Q: This is Emily Thurber. I am going to interview my husband, James Thurber, for the USIA Oral History Project. Jim, I thought you could begin by telling a bit about your education, your background, your early life, and then how you got interested in the Foreign Service. THURBER: I joined the Foreign Service in 1967. It was the third career, the first being a reporter/editor with The Wall Street Journal from 1952 to 1956, followed by 11 years at Stanford University in a variety of jobs, from a writer in the fund raising office to Assistant to the Provost, the position I held when I left Stanford in 1967, but I'm getting ahead of the story. To back up right to the beginning, I was raised in Milton, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, educated most of my earlier education at Milton Academy and, from there, I went for a year to the Thatcher School in Ojai, California, and then on up the coast to Stanford where I graduated in 1950. Interview with James P. Thurber Jr. http://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib001178 Library of Congress Needless to say, probably the most important thing about my education was the fact that I met Emy while at Stanford, and we were married during my last quarter at the university, she having completed two years.
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