Background
Critchfield, Richard Patrick was born on March 23, 1931 in Minneapolis. Son of Ralph James and Anne (Williams) Critchfield.
(The story of a young peasant man from the upper Nile reve...)
The story of a young peasant man from the upper Nile reveals the cultural and psychological turbulence of a country being thrust into the twentieth century.
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(Warning that the loss of cultural continuity by villagers...)
Warning that the loss of cultural continuity by villagers will ultimately destroy cities, a journalist documents the closing urban-rural population gap and loss of cultural stability because of technological advances and population drain to urban centers.
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Critchfield, Richard Patrick was born on March 23, 1931 in Minneapolis. Son of Ralph James and Anne (Williams) Critchfield.
Master of Science, Columbia University, 1957. Student, Leopold Fraenzens University, Innsbruck, Austria, 1968. Student, University Vienna, Austria, 1959.
Student, Northwestern University, 1960. HHD (honorary), North Dakota State University, 1986.
Reporter, Cedar Valley Daily Times, Vinton, Iowa., 1955-1956;
Washington correspondent, Salt Lake City Deseret News, also other papers Munroe News Bureau, Washington, 1957-1958;
acting assistant professor, U. Nagpur, India, 1960-1962;
Asian correspondent, Washington Star, 1963-1968;
White House correspondent, Washington Star, Washington, 1968-1969;
national correspondent, Washington Star, Washington, 1971-1972;
special correspondent on rural development, The Economist, London, 1973-1994. Free-lance writer Los Angeles Times, Asian Wall St. Journal, New York Times, Reader's Digest, Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, Economist, World Monitor, also others. Book reviewer New York Times, Washington Post, Book World, Los Angeles Times, 1986-1994.
Consultant Am.Univs. Field Staff, 1976-1985, Agency for International Development, Indonesia, 1979, Rockefeller Foundation, 1980-1981, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980. Visiting fellow Overseas Development Council, 1985-1994;keynote speaker American Society Agronomy, 1981. Conductor seminars World Bank, Congressional Staff Speakers Forum, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Tufts U., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown U., Dartmouth College, University of California-Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, U. Iowa, Indiana U., Michigan State University, others, 1980-1986.
Conductor workshop on African agriculture Sasakawa Africa Association, Washington, 1992, Cotonou, Benin, 1993. Visitor in residence Wadham College, University of Oxford,1986. Presenter numerous seminars.
Speaker in field.
(Warning that the loss of cultural continuity by villagers...)
(The story of a young peasant man from the upper Nile reve...)
(Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War, The)
(Ex-library, dj taped to book)
Served with Army of the United States, 1953-1955, Korea. Member Explorers Club, Overseas Press Club of New York City (award best daily reporting Vietnam 1965), Cosmos Club, Commonwealth Club of California, Phi Kappa Psi.