BUCK, Stuart Henry. Attleboro, co. Bristol, MA 11.2.1911 — Lynchburg, VA 7.4.1997 (or 28.3.). U.S. Tibetologist and Mongolist. Son of Frederic Holden Buck, Sr. (1875–1929) and Florence Rosaline Hacket (1882–1979). Graduated from Harvard (A.B. 1933). Probably at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Served 35 years in National Security Agency…
BROOKS, Robert Romano Ravi. Rome, Italy 5.12.1905 — Nyack, NY 28.1.1992. U.S. Economist. Son of James Brooks (1872–1952) and Rubina Anna Giallanza Ravi. Grew up in Vermont and Florida. B.A. 1929 Oxford, then further studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. Ph.D. From 1945 Orin Sage Professor of Economics at Williams…
BREWSTER, Paul G. Stendal, Ind. 5.11.1898 — 19??. U.S. Folklorist, Specialist of Games. B.S. 1920 Oakland City College. M.A. 1925 University of Oklahoma (but never Ph.D.). In 1926-29 taught at University of Tennessee, 1929-30 at University of North Carolina, 1948-49 at Surfleff College, 1949-52 at Henderson State Teachers’ College and…
BOWERS, Faubion. Miami, Oklahoma 29.1.1917 — New York City 17.11.1999. U.S. Japanologist. Son of Powell Clayton Bowers (1890–1978) and Emma Lou Robinson. Grew up in Tulsa. Briefly studied 1935 at Columbia University and, after music studies in France, in 1939 graduated from Juilliard Graduate School of Music as concert pianist.…
BLAIR, Chauncey Justus. Chicago 3.12.1913 — Chapel Hill, N.C. 1999. U.S. Indologist. Son of Chauncey Buckley Blair (1886–1948) and Mildred Mitchell Marshall (or Paulette M. Picard?). Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. In 1959 living in West Hyattsville, Maryland, in 1981 in Bowie, Maryland, and in 1986 in Franconia, N.H. Married 1953…
BAUMER, Rachel Van Meter. 1928 — 15.3.1995. U.S. Indologist (Bengali). Student of T. W. Clark. Ph.D. 1964 University of Pennsylvania. First taught at Michigan State University in East Lansing, from 1970 at University of Minnesota, later in the 1970s Professor and chairperson of the South Asia Program at the University…
BAHM, Archie John. Imlay, Michigan 21/22.8.1907 — Albuquerque, New Mexico 12.3.1996.U.S. Philosopher. Son of John Samuel Bahm (1877–1959) and Lena Kohn. B.A. 1929 Albion College, Michigan. M.A. 1930 and Ph.D. 1933 University of Michigan. In 1934-46 taught at Texas Technological College, 1946-48 Associate Professor at University of Denver, Both Wikipedia…
ATKINS, Samuel De Coster. Madison, N.J. 25.10.1910 — Pomona, Calif. 20.3.2002. U.S. Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor at Princeton University. Son of Oscar A. Atkins. After Morristown High School studies at Princeton: A.B. 1931, A.M. 1932, Ph.D. 1935. In 1935-37 Assistant at Baylor, then at Princeton: Instructor in Classics and…
WARD, Susan R. (formerly Benjamin, née Stone). Belcherton, MA 5.2.1822 — Calcutta 27.4.1884. American Baptist Missionary in Assam. Married 1848 Rev. Judson Benjamin (1819–1855) and came with him to Burma. They had three children, two died young After several years as widow she married 1860 Rev. William Ward (d. 1873),…
SWANSON, Donald Carl Eugene. St.Paul, Minnesota 18.11.1914 — 12.4.1976. U.S. Linguist. Son of Evan Swanson (Ivan Svensson, 1881–1946, from Sweden) and his wife Mary. Studies at University of Minnesota (B.A. 1936, M.A. 1939, in Classics). M.A. and Ph.D. 1941 Princeton University. After one year as Instructor of Classics at University…