Background
Zook, Donovan Quay was born on October 22, 1918 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of David Blough and Lena May (Landis) Zook.
Zook, Donovan Quay was born on October 22, 1918 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of David Blough and Lena May (Landis) Zook.
Bachelor of Arts, Ohio U., 1940; administrative intern, National Institute Public Affairs, 1940-1941; Master of Arts, American U., 1946.
Budget and planning examiner, United States Housing Authority, 1940-1942;
administrative analyst, OPA, 1942-1943;
staff, Office Shore Establishments and Industrial Pers., Navy Department, 1943-1944;
division chief, Foreign Economics Administration, 1945-1946;
assistant chief management office, Office Chief of Staff, War Department, 1946-1947;
management consultant, Department State, 1947-1949;
Executive officer Office Departmental Administration, Department State, 1949-1951;
special assistant to deputy under-secretary of state, Department State, 1951-1953;
executive secretary, Board of Foreign Service, 1951-1957;
executive assistant to assistant secretary state, contractor, Department State, 1953-1955;
special assistant to deputy under-secretary state, Department State, 1955-1957;
chief political section, American Embassy, Santiago, Chile, 1957-1959;
counselor for political affairs, American Embassy, Santiago, Chile, 1959-1961;
deputy chief of mission and counselor of embassy, American Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1961-1963;
director Board Examiners for Foreign Svc. and chief recruitment and examination division, Department State, 1963-1965;
consul general, Department State, 1965;
director Office of Atomic Energy Affairs,, Bureau International Science Affairs, 1965-1973. Senior political adviser to the United States delegate to Inter-American Nuclear Energy Commission, also member United States delegate General Conference and Board of Governors International Atomic Energy Agency, 1965-1972. Member United States delegate 4th United Nations Conference on Peaceful Uses Atomic Energy.
Consultant to secretary state's advising committee on science and foreign affairs, 1973-1974, also commission on science andtech. cooperation between Japan and United States, 1975, survey of technical and foreign affairs, 1976.
Member Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Pennsylvania German Society, Lancaster Mennonite History Society, Mennonite History Associations, National Genealogical Society, Virginia Genealogical Society, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Foundation, Sierra Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Phi Eta Sigma.
Married Theresa Fuetterer, June 21, 1941. Children: Theodore Alan, Jacqueline Deborah (Mistress Campbell Carrington Cochran IV).