Background
Bighinatti, Enso Victor was born on December 18, 1921 in East Berlin, Connecticut, United States. Son of Floriano and Palmina (Ferrarino) Bighinatti.
Bighinatti, Enso Victor was born on December 18, 1921 in East Berlin, Connecticut, United States. Son of Floriano and Palmina (Ferrarino) Bighinatti.
Student, Central Connecticut College, 1950. Student, Springfield College, 1951.
Administrator or director disaster relief actions in the United States American Red Cross, 1951-1975. Consultant, adviser disaster organization and operations Indonesian Red Cross, 1961. Director operations Cuban Bay of Pigs prisoner exchange, 1962.
Adviser State Department on forest fires disaster, Parana, Brazil, 1963. Organized disaster plan and mutual aid system for Caribbean countries, 1968. Coordinator American Red Cross aid Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, 1968.
Coordinator Peru earthquakes American Red Cross, 1967, coordinator refugee program Vietnam, 1969, East Pakistan Cyclone Relief, 1970. Director relief operations International Committee Red Cross, Jordan civil war, 1970. Adviser to Ross Perot's trips to Vietnam in attempt to deliver relief packages to the United States Prisoner Of War's, 1970.
National director American Red Cross disaster preparedness and relief, 1970-1975. Operations director for resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in the United States, 1975. Under secretary-general for disaster relief League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1975-1981.
Assistant to president American Red Cross, Washington, 1982-1984. Administrator Guatemalan earthquake relief League of Red Cross Societies, 1976, Turkish earthquake relief, 1977. Director Southeast Asia refugee relief and resettlement operations International Red Cross, 1979.
Consultant, organizer, lecturer Pan American Health Organization seminar, Santiago, Chile, 1969.
Served with United States Air Force, 1942-1945. Prisoner of war 1944-1945. Escaped 1945.
Married Mildred Felicia Genovese, October 20, 1945.