Harvard/International Seminar/1958
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These are the participants from 1958 for the yearly International Seminar led by Henry Kissinger at Harvard University.[1][2]. The fully paid six week stay had as one of its purposes to "establish better understanding among a select group of people who will be in top leadership roles in their countries in the years ahead".[3] Approximately half are from the field of the humanities and half in politics and economics.[4]
For next year's cadre, see Harvard/International Seminar/1959. For the previous year, see Harvard/International Seminar/1957. For an overview of the program itself, see Harvard/International Seminar.
Participants
- Thomas Rodolphe Kanza - Belgium. Student in Advanced European Studies at the College of Europe; formerly Professor of Pedagogy and Africanism at St. Joseph Institute and the Institute of Physical Education, and in charge of the psychology courses at the Institute of Social Science, in Leopoldville.
- Albert Depondi- Magistrate of the Council of State, the highest administrative court in Belgium.
- Trajano Pupo Netto - Brazil. Manager of the Sao Paulo Branch of the First National City Bank of N.Y.
- Nai Pan Hla - Burma. Senior Cultural Officer, Hon Cultural Section, Ministry of Union Culture which is concerned with the revival of Mon literature and culture and with publishing books on this subject.
- Maung Nu - Burma. Secretary of the Burma Research Board and therefore of the Executive Research Committee and the Burma Research Council; these bodies support scientific and engineering applied research.
- Samson Sena Wijesinha - Sri Lanka. Crown Counsel in the Department of the Attorney-General, presently Office Assistant to the Attorney-General.
- Louis Cheng-Yuan Liu - Republic of China (Taiwan). Delegate to the National Assembly and Chief of the Organization Department of the Democratic Socialist Party; Editor of the Democratic China Magazine, a bi-monthly publication.
- Axel Christian Kristensen - Denmark. Member of Parliament; Vice-Chairman of the Venstres Landorganisation Party; formerly Minister of Commerce, Industry and Shipping.
- Ali Hamdi El Gairaal - Egypt. Managing Editor of Al-Ahram, a daily newspaper; formerly Deputy Chief Editor of Al Akhbar, a daily newspaper, and Chief Editor of the Middle East News Agency.
- Denzil Kingson Freeth - UK Member of Parliament.
- Anne Horatia Piper - UK. Novelist. Author of Early to Bed, Green for Love, The Hot Year and Spinsters under the Skin, among others.
- Barbara Newman Smith - UK. Journalist in the Foreign Department of The Economist.
- Lionel Gerald Assouad - France. Joint General Secretary of "Le Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Francais," and Director of the series of volumes "Les Idees etLa Vie," and Assistant to the Director of "La Vie des Metiers."
- Yves Bonnefoy - France. Working at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; poet, critic, translator and art historian.
- Roland Jean Delcour - France. Foreign Editor of Le Monde, a daily newspaper, with special reference to East and West Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Austria and Italy; formerly their correspondent in Berlin.
- Jürgen Eick - Germany. Economic Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a daily newspaper.
- Georg Michael Kahn-Ackermann - Germany. Member of the Bundestag; journalist.
- Martin Walser Editor, producer and writer for the German Broadcasting Corporation in Stuttgart; short-story author and novelist.
- Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty* -Organizer of Extra-Mural Studies of the University College of Ghana Institute of Extra-Mural Studies; author of articles and a book of poems. (not listed in the HIS 1969 index)
- Handyam Ananthampillai Devaki - Research Associate in Economics at the Indian Cooperative Union.
- Tiruvenkat Krishnama Seshadri - Senior Sub-Editor of The Times of India.
- Sumantoro - Editor in Chief of Berita Indonesia, a daily newspaper.
- Ziad Jafar al-Taskari - Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Iraq Parliament.
- Seamus O'Neill - Professor of Irish History and Irish language at Carysfort College; author of several books including Tonn Tuile, and of articles and poetry.
- Joshua Prawer - Israel. Associate Professor in the Department of History of the Hebrew University; Chairman of the Pedagogical Council in the Ministry of Education and Culture.
- Luciano Codignola - Italy. Director of the Library and the Cultural Educational Center of Olivetti Corporation; theater critic for Tempo Presente.
- Lucia Bellegarde de Saint Lary - Italy. Author of novels and short stories for young people; contributor to several Italian periodicals.
- Giuseppina Dematteis - General Manager and part owner of Societa Italiana Lavorazioni Termoplastiche, a plastics company.
- Shin-ichi Inoue - Assistant to the Chief of the Foreign Exchange Control Department of the Bank of Japan.
- Shunko Muto Uto - Japan. Assistant Judge of the Tokyo District Court; Assistant Instructor of the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court.
- Tamako Nakanishi - Staff member of the Tokyo Branch Office of the International Labor Organization.
- Sung Yup Pyun - South Korea. Teacher of Music at Posung Girls High School, Seoul.
- Henri Peschar Netherlands. Member of Parliament.
- Syed Nurul Alam -East Pakistan (Bangladesh) Lecturer in Economics at Dacca University.
- Mohammad Hazrat Ali Sikdar -Pakistan. Advocate of the High Court of West Pakistan in Karachi.
- Datu Ahhmad Nora Badaruddin*. Technical Assistant of the Committee on National Minorities of the House of Representatives; Secretary-General of the Moslem Association of the Philippines. (not listed in the HIS 1969 index)
- Jan Jozef Szczepanski - Author of several novels and short stories; translator; Member of the Managing Board of the Union of Polish Writers.
- Petit Grau General Technical Secretary with Credinter S.A. Centro Internacional de Promocion Economica, a society to study foreign and internal investment in Spain.
- Lars Henrik Ulvenstam - Editor in Chief of R8ster i Radio-TV, the weekly magazine of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation; radio lecturer on literary and historical subjects.
- Prasert Rojanaroj - Assistant General Secretary of the Thai National Trade Union Congress; President of the Thai Clerical Employee Union.
- Suat Sinanoglu - Turkey. Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Classical Philology of the University of Ankara.
- Hoang Khac Thanh - South Vietnam. Comptroller General of the Credit Commercial du Viet-Nam, a commercial banking institution.
- Dusan Simic, staff writer for Borba, Yugoslavia's largest daily newspaper,
- Franklin G. Balch -Candidate for Ph.D. in International Relations at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and research assistant for the Center for International Affairs. 1950-55, Special Assistant to the Chancellor of the Free University in Exile of the Free Europe Committee; 1957-58, research assistant for the Defense Studies Program.
- Elmer Warren Borklund -Candidate for Ph.D. in English at the University of Chicago; 1955-56, instructor at the University of Chicago; 1956-58, serving with the U.S. Army.
- Eric Gustafson -Candidate for Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University and Ford Foundation Fellow in metropolitan economic problems; Economist with the New York Metropolitan Region Study.
- James L. Houghteling Jr -Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Formerly with ECA (Marshall Plan), Washington and Paris.
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References
- ↑ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1958/7/24/international-seminar-pthe-international-seminar-seeks/
- ↑ https://findit.library.yale.edu/images_layout/fullview?parentoid=11784668
- ↑ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/8/12/international-seminar-introduces-foreign-dignitaries-to/
- ↑ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/8/12/international-seminar-introduces-foreign-dignitaries-to/
