Background
Furnas, Howard Earl was born on January 29, 1919 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Son of Howard Earl and Dorothy Anna (Collings) Furnas.
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Furnas, Howard Earl was born on January 29, 1919 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Son of Howard Earl and Dorothy Anna (Collings) Furnas.
AB, Hillsdale College, Michigan, 1940. Postgraduate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947.
Joined Foreign Svc., Department State, 1947; assigned to embassy, New Delhi, 1948-1949; assistant to special assistant to secretary state for intelligence, 1949-1952, 54-57; assigned to, United States mission to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Paris, 1952-1954; member policy planning staff, also alternate Department State representative to plannning board, National Security Council, 1957-1961; deputy special assistant to secretary state for atomic energy and outer space, 1961-1962; department executive secretary, Department State, 1962-1963; delegate, 2d National Conference Peaceful Uses Space, Seattle, 1962; deputy special assistant to secretary state for multilateral force negotiations, 1963-1964; special assistant to secretary state, 1964-1965; member VIII senior seminar in foreign policy, 1965-1966; assigned, Office Undersec. State Political Affairs, 1966-1969; special assistant to director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1969-1971; special adviser to chairman general advising committee on arms control and disarmament, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1969-1971; professor international relations, Windham College, Putney, Vermont, 1971-1976; also trustee, Windham College, Putney, Vermont president, Unipro Tennis Superior vena cava syndrome, Howard Furnas Associations, Windsor, Vermont, since 1974; president, Chuckle Hill, Ltd., 1975-1976. President The Vermont Group, International Cons., 1989-1990.
Board directors Montgomery County Scholarship Fund, Maryland, 1954-1960. Trustee Woodstock Country School, Vermont, 1973-1975. Vestryman St. James Church, Woodstock, Vermont.
Justice of peace West Windsor, Vermont, 1986-1995, United States joint chief of staff, Washington, District of Columbia, 1945. Major United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member Kenwood Golf and Country Club (Washington), Woodstock Country Club, Twin States Valley Club, The Round Table, Delta Tau Delta.
Married Gail Abbott, May 14, 1942. Children: Howard Earl III, Paul Abbott, Christopher Collings.