Background
Klimm, Lester Earl was born on June 6, 1902 in Brooklyn. Son of George Stephen and Wilhelmina Alfreda (Rood) Klimm.
Klimm, Lester Earl was born on June 6, 1902 in Brooklyn. Son of George Stephen and Wilhelmina Alfreda (Rood) Klimm.
Student Middlebury College, 1920-1922. Bachelor of Science, Columbia, 1924. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1930.
Lee (Mistress Donald R. MacAfee). Reporter, deskman Hartford Post, 1918-1920. Instructor geography Wharton School Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, 1924-1930, assistant professor, 1930-1936, associate professor, 1936-1946, professor, since 1946.
Faculty Columbia, summers 1927, 39, 40, Harvard, 1950.
Social Science Research fellow British Isles, 1933-1934. With Office Chief of Staff, War Department, 1942-1945.
Committee geophysics and geography Research and Development Board, Department of Defense, 1948-1953. Official United States delegate 17th International Geography Congress.
1952, and 18th Congress, 1956.
Chairman environmental research subpanel, army scientific advisory panel for since 1958.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (councilor 1954-1956). Member American Geography Society (councilor since 1946), Association American Geographers (councilor 1944-1946, vice president 1957-1958, president 1958-1959), Geography Society Philadelphia, Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha Sigma Phi. Club: Lenape (Philadelphia).
Married Mary Elizabeth Lee, December 21, 1927.