Background
H. C. Fenn was the son of the Reverend Doctor Courtenay Hughes Fenn, missionary to China and compiler of The Five Thousand Dictionary, and his wife Alice Holstein May Fenn, and grew up in Peking.
H. C. Fenn was the son of the Reverend Doctor Courtenay Hughes Fenn, missionary to China and compiler of The Five Thousand Dictionary, and his wife Alice Holstein May Fenn, and grew up in Peking.
Bachelor, Hamilton College, 1916; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1929; student, teachers college, 1936-1940.
Educational missionary, China, 1920-1927;
faculty, Oak Lane Country Day School of Temple University, Philadelphia, 1929-1935;
faculty, Lincoln School of Teachers College, New York City, 1935-1941;
faculty, Presidio Hill School, San Francisco, 1941-1943;
faculty department Oriental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, 1943-1946;
faculty Institute Far Eastern Langs., Yale University, 1949-1963;
director, Yale University, 1953-1963;
emeritus, Yale University, 1963-1992. Member of faculty Darmouth College, 1964-1966. President College Chinese Studies, Peiping, China, 1946-1948.
Director Chinese Language Information Center, Modern Language Association, 1963-1992. Consultant United States Office Education, 1960-1963, New York State Department Education, 1963, Dartmouth, 1963.
2nd Lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1918. Member Modern Language Association, Chinese Language Teachers Association, Association for Asian Studies, Rotary, Yale-in-China (board of trustees), Phi Delta Kappa. M C.
Married Constance Latimer Sargent, January 27, 1925. Children: Courtenay, Robert, David Donald.