Education
University of New Hampshire.
University of New Hampshire.
He was a merchant sailor, a university teacher and worked in public relations for the World Health Organization. Born in New York City, Willard was a merchant sailor on the Hudson River and on the Atlantic Ocean during the Second World War, after which he hitchhiked across the United States, doing odd jobs to earn his living. He toured Spain on a motorcycle in the 1960s and earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on the subject of "Genius and Madness in the 18th Century." Willard taught at the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University and then began work at international institutions.
Willard spent three months of professional activity in Ethiopia and three months in Cameroon.
Foreign six years he was chief of public information for the World Health Organization in India and Southeast Asia, followed by an assignment as editor-in-chief of World Health magazine of the same agency. He then became editor of United Nations Special, a magazine for international civil servants in Geneva.
In 1981 he was the information attaché for a world survey in preparation for the organization"s fifth World Conference on Smoking and Health. Musical cassette.
He is now a free-lance journalist and is a member of the Advisory Circle of the Seva Foundation.
