Franc Marion Luther Shor

Background

Shor, Franc Marion Luther was born on March 24, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Gershon and Lelah (Luther) Shor.

Education

Student Amherst College, Colorado College, University of Illinois, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, 1931-1943.

Career

Reporter and copyreader with Jefferson City Capital News, Associate Press, Chicago Herald-Examiner, Chicago Daily News, New York American, Denver Post, San Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Francisco Chronicle, 1934-1941. China correspondent Readers Digest, 1948. Free-lance photographer, writer, lecturer, 1949-1952.

Staff National Geo. Magazine, 1953-1974, assistant editor, 1956-1958, senior assistant editor, 1958-1964, associate editor, 1964-1974. Executive officer, acting deputy director China office United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1946-1947. Panel chairman National Endowment for Humanities, 1967.

Member jury Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, 1969, 70. Chairman of the Board Parks and History Association, 1968-1969. Chairman of the Board Washington Community School Music, 1967-1969.

Membership

Member jury Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, 1969, 70. Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow Royal Geography Society Royal Central Asian Society, Medieval Academy American.

Club: Cosmos (Washington). Organizer, leader (with Jean Bowie Shor) expedition to Central Asia, 1949-1951.

Connections

Married Jean Bowie, 1948 (divorced). Married second, Donna Hamilton, 1964 (divorced). Children: Lawrence, Brian Robert and Donnali (twins).

Father:

George Gershon Shor

Mother:

Lelah (Luther) Shor

Spouse:

Donna Hamilton

Spouse:

Jean Bowie

child:

Brian Robert and Donnali Shor (twins)

child:

Lawrence Shor