OSS Penrose, Stephen Beasley Linnard,Jr

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Penrose ​

• FORENAME

Stephen Beasley Linnard,Jr ​

• UNIT

OSS Chief of Secret Intelligence,Europe ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Bronze Star ​

• PLACE

Europe ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 19.3.1908 Walla Walla,Washington​

son of Stephen Beasley Linnard and Mary Shipman Penrose​

attended Walla Walla High School 1919-23​

graduated Whitman College 1928 (B.A.)​

physics teacher,American University of Beirut,Lebanon (3 years)​

graduated Columbia University 1934 (Ph.D.)​

teacher of philosophy and psychology,Whitman College​

teacher of philosophy and psychology,Rockford College​

Assistant Director,Near East College Association,New York city​

OSS Cairo​

OSS Washington,D.C. (Deputy Chief of Secret Intelligence)​

OSS Chief of Secret Intelligence,Europe​

Special Assistant,US Secretary of Defense postwar​

President,American University of Beirut,Lebanon 1948-54​

married Margaret (Peggy) Pressley (nee Dale) 1934 Mexico City (3 children)​

died 9.12.1954 ​

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