Robert Parker

Background

Parker, Robert was born on June 14, 1906 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Robert Bogardus and Alice Marianne (Downing) Parker.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1930. M, Lorraine Wolcott Jackson.

Career

Associated successively with Elizabeth (New Jersey) Times, Newark (New Jersey) Sunday Call, Schenectady (New York) Gazette. Reporter New York Evening Journal, 1930-1932. With Associated Press, 1933-1941, as foreign correspondent (covering Spanish Civil War, League of Nations, et cetera), Paris, France, 1934-1939, director for Eastern Europe, Warsaw, Budapest, Bern, 1939-1941.

Chief for Eastern Europe (headquarters Istanbul, Turkey, Office War Information, 1942-1943.

Special assistant to American ambassadors to Turkey and Egypt, 1942-1943. Director public relations, Atlantic City Conference of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, November, December 1943.

Lecturer, orientation program United States Army Air Forces, under auspices of Writers War Board, 1944. Accredited war correspondent C.B.I. theater, 1945.

Chief United Nations bureau of New York Daily News, since 1953.

Achievements

• Robert Parker has been listed as a notable foreign correspondent, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Society of Cincinnati, Sigma Phi, Pi Gamma Museum. Clubs: National Press (Washington, District of Columbia). Club d’Istanbul (Istanbul, Turkey).

Connections

Children: Robert, Daphne Wolcott.

Father:

Robert Bogardus Parker

Mother:

Alice Marianne (Downing) Parker

child:

Robert Parker

child:

Daphne Wolcott Parker