1932
The DAM has asked us to record in this issue what our classmates have done to make the world a better place. Although we may have a number of men who have achieved success and high honors in various fields, there were two, we feel, who stand out above others.
Edward B. Marks, in his 50-year career of humanitarian assistance, almost equally divided between the U.S. Government and the United Nations, aided refugees on three continents. In die post-WWII period he was chief of UN refugee and migration missions in Athens and Belgrade. Later, working for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), he was in the emerging countries of Africa. On retirement from AID he was awarded its first Distinguished Career Award. He then served with UNICEF, became Deputy Director for the UN's International Year of the Child, and in 1985 became interval president of the U.S. committee for UNICEF. He now is on the executive committee and board of UNICEF.
The late Howland H. Sargeant was responsible for the most powerful voice of freedom in the U.S.S.R. during the many years of communist rule. In 1954 he became president of the Radio Liberty Committee. Under his lengthy leadership, Radio Liberty broad-casted 24 hours a day in 17 languages, and most of the broadcasters were former Soviet citizens. With powerful transmitters in West Germany, Spain, and Taiwan, it reached an area behind the Iron Curtain inhabited by 175 million people and gave them the free world's side of the news.
Prior to Radio Liberty, Howie chaired three successive U.S. delegations to the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural (UNESCO) General Conferences, and in 1951 became the only American elected president of a UNESCO General Conference.
Again it's our sad duty to report the loss of another fine classmate. Larry Collins died on October 27.
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Howland H. Sargeant was responsible for the most powerful voice of freedom in the U.S.S.R. during the many years of communist rule Radio Liberty. JOE ROBERTS '32
