Henry Pierson French

Background

French, Henry Pierson was born on November 21, 1934 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Henry Pierson and Genevieve Lynn (Johnson) French.

Education

AB, U. Delaware, 1960; Master of Arts, U. Rochester, 1961; Master of Arts in Education, U. Rochester, 1962; Doctor of Education, U. Rochester, 1968.

Career

Teacher, Pittsford (New York) Control H.S., 1962-1966; field service associate, U. Rochester, New York, 1962-1966; associate lecturer, U. Rochester, New York, 1967-1968; visiting assistant professor College Edition and East Asian Center, U. Rochester, New York, 1968-1969; assistant professor education, U. Rochester, New York, 1969-1970; associate professor Center Special Degree Programs, U. Rochester, New York, 1970-1972; lecturer East Asian studies, U. Rochester, New York, 1972-1974; senior lecturer, U. Rochester, New York, since 1974. Adjunct assistant professor of history State University of New York-Monroe Community College, 1964-1967, assistant professor of history, 1967-1970, associate professor, 1970-1974, professor, since 1974, department chairman historyand political science, 1979-1985, chairman tenure, promotion committee, since 1985, sabbatical leave, 1986. Moderator, host Disciplines Within the Social Sciences series, 1968.

Moderator, permanent panelist Foreign Policy Association and Rochester Association for United Nations Great Decisions, 1973, 77, 78 series Channel 21Ednl. television, Rochester. Consultant, panelist Great Decisions television series, 1982, 84. Visiting professor of history, 1988-1989.

Professor Canisius College, 1968, 69, 71, 73, 89, Dunlop Tire Corporation Japan Institute faculty, 1989, Rochester Institute Technology, 1969-1970, spring 1977, 98, State University of New York, Brockport, 1971. Adjunct mentorSUNY-Empire State College, 1976, 88, 89, spring/fall 1997. Board directors political institutions Robert A. Taft Institute Government, 1962-1965.

Co-director, administrator National Defense Education Act institutions, 1965-1969. Board directors Rochester Association United Nations, 1972-1983, 85-91, chairman policy committee, 1972-1974, vice president, 1975-1977, president, 1977-1978, Chairman of the Board, 1978-1979, chairman nominating committee, 1983-1984. Panelist 10th conference International Association Historians of Asia, 1986, 12th conference, 1991, 13th conference, chair, 1994, 14th conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 1996.

Presenter Gannett News Svc., Rochester, New York, 1994.

Membership

Vestryman St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rochester, 1965-1968, Christ Episc.Ch., Pittsford, 1976-1979, junior warden, 1979-1980, senior warden, 1980-1981, chairman rector selection committee, 1982. Delegate to diocesan Convention, 1989-1991, 94-97. 1st provisional lay deputy 1991.

Lay deputy, 1994, 97. Member of commission on Ordained Ministry, Episcopalian Diocese of Rochester, 1987-1994, chairman, 1992-1994. Advisor Shanghai-Rochester Bishops' Visitation in the United States and China, 1989-1990, co-leader lay delegation to Shanghai and China Christian Couns., China, 1992, 94, 97.

Coordinator visit of Bishop Shen Yifan and Hong Luming to Rochester, November 1-8, 1993. Presenter Symposium on Protestant Christianity in Modern China and East Asia, Chongging and Nanjing, 1994. Trustee Reynolds Library.

Board, since 1991, Mendon Public Library., 1996-1997, Rochester Public Library., since 1992, vice president, 1996-1998, president, since 1998. Trustee Friends of Rochester Public Library., since 1983, vice president, 1986-1988, president, 1988-1991. Trustee Rochester Regional Library.

Council, since 1998; chairman, presenter Rochester Literature award to James Baldwin, 1986. Member Education Advisory Board, since 1988, Preferred Care health maintenance organization, since 1988. Member of New York State Citizens' Committee for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, 1988-1990.

Member Association Asian Studies, Middle Atlantic and New England Conference for Canada Studies, Torch (board directors Rochester chapter 1973-1976, president 1974-1975), University Club (vice president 1975-1976, secretary 1988-1990, president-elect 1991-1992, president 1992-1993), Twenty Club, Delta Tau Delta.

Connections

Married Beverly Anne Bauernschmidt, August 22, 1959. Children: Henry Pierson III, Donna Lynn (deceased), William Dean, Susan Gayle, John Douglas.

Father:

Henry Pierson French

Mother:

Genevieve Lynn (Johnson) French

Spouse:

Beverly Anne Bauernschmidt

child:

William Dean French

child:

Susan Gayle French

child:

John Douglas French

child:

Donna Lynn French (deceased)

child:

Henry Pierson III French