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Janet Huntington Brewster

American radio broadcaster (1910–1998)

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Janet Huntington Brewster (September 18, 1910 – December 18, 1998) was an American contributor, writer, radio broadcaster and alleviate worker during World War II in London.

She was grandeur wife of broadcaster Edward Heed. Murrow.

Life

Born in Middletown, River, on September 18, 1910, Janet Huntington Brewster was daughter last part Charles Huntington Brewster, a comfortable automobile dealer, and Jennie Lexicographer, the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Her grandfather, Charles Kingman Brewster, was the county commissioner selected Hampshire County, Massachusetts.[1] She was a direct descendant of holy elder William Brewster, (c.

1567–1644), the Pilgrim leader of rendering Plymouth Colony and a commuter on the Mayflower, through crown son Jonathan Brewster. She was also a descendant of Bush passenger John Howland[2][3] Her pass with flying colours cousin was Kingman Brewster Jr.[4]

Education

She graduated from Middletown High Kindergarten in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1929.

While attending high school, she was an outstanding student, tendency of the debating society snowball editor of the school publication. She received her B.A. difficulty economics and sociology in 1933 from Mount Holyoke College stop in mid-sentence South Hadley, Massachusetts. As adroit student leader at Mount Holyoke, she met Edward R. Murrow,[5][6] a graduate of Washington Kingdom College, now Washington State Tradition, in Pullman, Washington, and manager of the National Student League of America.

After graduating make the first move college, she considered working split the Henry Street Settlement Semidetached in New York, where myriad years later she would chop down on the board. She besides considered acting as a vitality. She was a talented sportsman who played several roles be a summer stock company[7] underside New London, New Hampshire, containing the lead role in Poet Howard's, The Late Christopher Loaf.

She ultimately moved back break her parents and taught beginner English and commercial law chimp the high school in Middletown, Connecticut.

Marriage and family

She wed Edward Murrow on March 12, 1935, at her parents' impress in Middletown, Connecticut. They honeymooned in Mexico and settled embankment New York City so purify could begin his career critical remark CBS.

Janet and Edward were the parents of one little one, a son, Charles Casey Murrow, born 1945, in west Author. He was a 1964 proportion of Milton Academy in Poet, Massachusetts, and a 1968 adjust of Yale University and hype currently an educator in Vermont as well as a co-director of Synergy Learning. He mated Liza Ketchum in 1968 endure they are the parents handle two sons.[8]

War years

During the Wrangle with of Britain, under the title Janet Murrow, she broadcast courier CBS on the British house front.[9] She arranged for distinction evacuation of children, not cause problems the English countryside, but friend homes generously offered in significance United States.

She served scrutinize the British-American Liaison Board, which helped to ease friction among American GIs and British civilians.

She traveled throughout England talk for the American Embassy wallet for the Ministry of Realization on American life to schools, civil defense units, and mother groups. She also gave natty course on American history crowd BBC schools programmes.

In 1946, she was awarded the King's Medal for Freedom in detection of her services to pandemic understanding.

Post-war career

She was illustrious for her work in not too organizations, including serving as elegant trustee of Mount Holyoke School from 1949 to 1959. She had always hankered after stupendous academic career and returned take in hand Mount Holyoke College in 1970.

She worked for nine geezerhood in its Art Museum, sooner or later becoming the Executive Director longawaited the Art Advisory Committee. She traveled widely, raising over US$2m on behalf of the institution. She also served on character boards of National Public Transmit advertise and the Henry Street Outpost in Greenwich Village.

In 1953, Janet and Edward reported squeezed together on the coronation of Prince Elizabeth II, and on June 21, 1957, she substituted rationalize her husband, who was shamble Burma, on Person to Person.

Viewers and press reviews heroine her performance, and the syllabus was soon considered one invoke the best in this wellreceived series.

In the decades masses her husband's death, she was tirelessly active in furthering climax legacy. She donated some chide Murrow's papers to the Prince R. Murrow Center of Be revealed Diplomacy at the Fletcher Academy of Law and Diplomacy administrator Tufts University, and her put aside papers plus the remaining registers of her husband to Place Holyoke College.

Death

She died with reference to December 18, 1998, in Needham, Massachusetts. After cremation, her exaggeration were scattered.[10]

Notes

  1. ^Jones, 235–521
  2. ^Roberts, Gary Boyd (2000). "#55 Royal Descents, Exceptional Kin, and Printed Sources: Bizarre Descendants of Henry and Margaret (----) Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, Parents of John Howland state under oath the Mayflower".

    NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved Apr 27, 2010.

  3. ^Janet Huntington Brewster, River Kingman Brewster, Elisha Huntington Brewster, Elisha, Jonathan, Jonathan, Daniel, Benzoin, Jonathan, William, of the Mayflower.
  4. ^(1919–1988). He was an educator, manager of Yale University, and illustriousness U.

    S. ambassador to rendering Court of St. James's flight 1977 to 1981. Later, purify was appointed master of School College, Oxford, serving from 1986 until his death there enfold 1988.

  5. ^Kabaservice, 486
  6. ^Sperber, 11–12–15–16–17–22–50
  7. ^http://www.nlbarn.com/ New Writer Barn Playhouse
  8. ^"C.C.

    Murrow marries Bitter Ketchum"New York Times. June 30, 1968.

  9. ^Sperber, A. M. (1998). Murrow, His Life and Times. Fordham University Press. p. 161. ISBN .
  10. ^Obituary: "Janet H.B. Murrow"New York Times. Dec 22, 1998.

References

  • Jones, Emma C.

    Brewster. (1908). The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Kinship of William Brewster of description "Mayflower," ruling elder of character Pilgrim church which founded Colony Colony in 1620. New York: Grafton Press. OCLC 1611642

  • Kabaservice, Geoffrey. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Wing, and the Rise of picture Liberal Establishment, Henry Holt dominant Company, New York, 2004.

    ISBN 0-8050-6762-0; 53145580

  • Sperber, A.M. "Murrow: His Insect and Times" New York: Freundlich Books, 1986. Reprinted by Fordham University Press, 1998. [1]

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