Education
He then attended Florida State University for two years pursuing his graduate degree in social work before he left for Vietnam.
He then attended Florida State University for two years pursuing his graduate degree in social work before he left for Vietnam.
Studebaker was the 7th child of eight born on a farm in the small town of West Milton, Ohio. He also had a great love for music and was a guitarist. He expressed concerns about social issues of the day, including the war in Southeast Asia.
"The dehumanizing process of war concerns me deeply," Studebaker said.
"What can I do about man"s inhumanity to man?"
While in Vietnam he volunteered with the Vietnam Christian service where his goal was to follow the example of Jesus Christ. He volunteered for two years working with a Montagnard hill tribe where he helped them with agricultural production.
He bought fertilizer and sold it to the tribe at cost to yield a better crop, did the same with a roto-tiller, and also worked on a poultry production project He believed that working with the people of Vietnam was the only way to pursue true peace and stability in Vietnam rather than war, although he did not side with either the Vietnamese or the United States military.
He was killed on April 26, 1971 by North Vietnamese when they first attacked the volunteers’ house with rockets and then invaded.
The soldiers did not know who Studebaker was, they merely saw him as an American and therefore a threat and so he was executed. A record album was released of Ted Studebaker"s music The name of the album is Life is Good, Yea!/Ted Studebaker in Vietnam.
Quotations: "The dehumanizing process of war concerns me deeply,".