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Spencer,, Samuel Reid was born in 1919 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States.
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Introduced into Congress two days before the fall of France and signed into law three months later as Luftwaffe bombs set London afire, the Selective Training and Service Act began the process by which fifteen million Americans were inducted into the armed services during the Second World War. Clifford and Spencer recount a neglected but vitally important development in the transformation of American policies prior to Pearl Harbor--the first time in American history when men were conscripted into military service during peacetime. Central to the discussion in The First Peacetime Draft is the first important American policy response to Hitler's victory in Europe in the spring of 1940--the Selective Service Act. It marked the effective end of the isolationist tradition in the United States because for the first time while the country remained officially at peace civilians were drafted into the armed forces to face the possible threat of aggression from abroad. Emerging from the initiative of civilians, not from the Army or the White House, the conscription campaign resulted in a colorful three-month public debate that engaged the entire population. This volume is based on research in more than ninety manuscript collection in the United States, Canada, and Britain, as well as interviews with some two dozen participants. In addition to being a detailed political history of the debate over conscription, it places the draft in the context of Roosevelt's zig-zag path to war and evaluates it in terms of the overall evolution of the American defense and foreign policies since 1940. This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
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Spencer,, Samuel Reid was born in 1919 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States.
AB summa cum laude, Davidson College, 1940. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Davidson College, 1964. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1947.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Oglethorpe University, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Queens College, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bridgewater College, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Marymount University, 1988. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hollins College, 1991.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mary Baldwin College, 1992. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Washington and Lee University, 1991.
With Vick Chemical Company, New York City, 1940. Research assistant to Grenville Clark, Dublin, 1947-1948. Assistant to president Davidson College, 1951-1954, dean of students, associate professor history, 1954, dean of students, professor history, 1955-1957.
President Mary Baldwin College, 1957-1968, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1968-1983, president emeritus, since 1983. President Virginia Foundation for Indiana Colleges, Richmond, 1983-1988. Senior consultant Academy Search Consultation Service, 1989—2000.
Interim president Hollins College, 1990-1991. Director Piedmont Bank & Trust Company. Fulbright lecturer University Munich, 1965-1966.
Member Board Foreign Scholarships, 1980-1983, chairman, 1982-1983. Board directors Association American Colleges, 1976-1983, chairman association, 1981-1982. President Southern University Conference, 1979-1980.
Member commission governmental relations American Council Education, 1973-1976.
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Board directors Grenville Clark Fund, Dartmouth College, since 1973, Charlotte-Mecklenburg chapter Urban League, 1979-1983, since 2000. Trustee Agnes Scott College, 1975-1991, Mary Baldwin College, since 1996. Trustee Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1985-1994, chairman, 1988-1994.
Major Army of the United States, 1940-1945. Member Fulbright Association (board directors 1989-1992), Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Ava Clark; 1948. Children: Samuel Reid, Ellen Spencer Henschen, Ava Clayton, Frank.