Background
Reed, Helen Tarasov was born on November 23, 1915 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Arrived in United States, 1916, naturalized, 1927. Daughter of Peter P. Reed and Claudia M. (Yurevich) Tarasov Reed.
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Reed, Helen Tarasov was born on November 23, 1915 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Arrived in United States, 1916, naturalized, 1927. Daughter of Peter P. Reed and Claudia M. (Yurevich) Tarasov Reed.
Bachelor, Western Reserve University, 1936. Credit in Ecole. library, Science Po. Paris, 1934—1935; Master of Arts, Fletcher School Law & Diplomacy, 1937.
Postgraduate, New School Social Research, 1939.
Economist United States Government, Washington, 1939—1945, Berlin, 1945—1946. Instructor University North Carolina, Asheville, 1945—1946. Coordinator foreign language Asheville Country Day School, 1959—1973.
Private practice as science translator, Asheville, from 1952. Instructor in advisory English South China Institute of Technology, Guangzhou, China, 1984—1985, Nanjng Institute Posts & Telecommunications, 1985—1986, Gansu Province Institute Membrane Science & Technology, 1986. Held workshops in foreign language teaching Independent Schools Association.
Evening course University North Carolina in Russian. Special courses Young Women’s Christian Association in parliamentary law, procedure. Parliamentarian North Carolina conventions League of Women Voters.
Member, secretary Western Carolina Development Association Forestry commission, 1980—1984. Member energy task force American Association of University Women, Washington, 1977—1979.
Member of American Association of University Women (past president, treasurer), American Society Interpreters, American Translators' Association, American Forestry Association, American Economic Association, American Enka, Unitarian-Universalist, Carolina Mountain Club, League of Women Voters, Sierra Club.
Married Haldee Lee Reed, February 18, 1946 (deceased 1978). Children: Claudette Reed Upton Keeley, Ronald Peter, Andrew Douglas.