Background
Fleishhacker, David was born on May 30, 1937 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Mortimer and Janet (Choynski) Fleishhacker.
(The events of September 11 suddenly made Afghanistan a fo...)
The events of September 11 suddenly made Afghanistan a focus of American interest. Yet a search of bookstores and libraries will reveal that no book about the country, its history, geography, or culture exists for the common reader. Using as a springboard a recounting one of the earliest (and the smallest) Peace Corps projects which sent nine Americans to that nation in 1962, Lessons from Afghanistan explores what it is really like for someone to live in an essentially medieval culture in the current century. Conventions about the use of time and space, attitudes about life stemming from thousand-year old traditions, and the practical necessities of living in a country fragmented by geography and history are the underlying facts of life in Afghanistan. These are barriers to progress but, more important, they are the realities which Americans so poorly understand and must learn of in the process of becoming re-engaged with other nations in response to international terrorism. It is a book filled with incidents and experiences that describe a remote, little-understood culture, but it is also a book that reveals the blindness of our own culture to alternative worldviews outside our borders.
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Fleishhacker, David was born on May 30, 1937 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Mortimer and Janet (Choynski) Fleishhacker.
AB, Princeton University, 1959; Master of Arts, University of California, 1965.
Teacher, Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, 1959-1961; teacher, Peace Corps, Afghanistan, 1962-1964; teacher, Marin Country Day School, Corte Madera, California, 1965; teacher, Town School, San Francisco, 1965-1970; headmaster, Katherine Delmar Burke School, San Francisco, 1970-1995. Retired; interim head, Hillbrook School, Los Gatos, 1997-1998; interim head, South Peninsula Hebrew Day School, since 1998. Private educational consultant.
(The events of September 11 suddenly made Afghanistan a fo...)
Trustee International House, Berkeley, California, 1987—1995. President Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, since 1990, Music in School Today, since 2002. Board directors St. Joseph's Hospital/Queen of Angels, Los Angeles, since 1976, San Francisco Youth Orchestra, since 1981, San Francisco Boys Chorus, 1997—2003, Booker T. Washington Community Center, 1995—2004, Educating Girls Globally, since 2002, Berkeley Repertory Theater, since 2007.
Member National Association Principals Schools Girls. (board directors 1979-1982), Elementary School Heads Association, California Association Indiana Schools (treasurer 1978-1981).
Married Victoria Escamilla, August 1965. Children: William, Eleanor, Jeffrey.