Pattern of Circles; An Ambassadors Story

Pattern of Circles; An Ambassadors StoryPattern of Circles; An Ambassadors Story This hardcover book is by the author John E. Dolibois, who was born in Luxembourg. He was moved to Ohio at age 13. He was stationed in Luxembourg during World War II with Army intelligence. Here he landed a postwar job at his alma mater, Miami University of Ohio, and worked his way up to vice president and chief development officer. Retiring after 34 years at the university, he was appointed in 1981 as U. S.

Pattern of Circles; An Ambassadors Story-This hardcover book is by the author John E. Dolibois, who was born in Luxembourg. He was moved to Ohio at age 13. He was stationed in Luxembourg during World War II with Army intelligence. Here he landed a postwar job at his alma mater, Miami University of Ohio, and worked his way up to vice-president and chief development officer. Retiring after 34 years at the university, he was appointed in 1981 as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, the first naturalized American to be sent to the land of his birth in that capacity. This heartwarming, entertaining memoir tells the story of his struggles to overcome social barriers in the Akron community and to become the first member of his family to enter a university, his dramatic military assignment interrogating people awaiting trial at Nuremburg (Goering, Donitz, Ribbentrop and others).  This is his autobiography, which he calls "an essay in gratitude," re-creates a life of notable service to his community, to scholarship, to the nation. This hardcover has 314 pages and is illustrated. This book was published in 1989 by the Kent State university press. It is in like new condition.