Everett F. Drumright系列

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标识符： WHC-M-2652

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美国大使。私人信件(1944-2002)，演讲(1954-1976)，和埃弗里特·f·德拉姆赖特的个人记录，包括德拉姆赖特自传的大纲和笔记，以及他的妻子弗洛伦斯·蒂茨·德拉姆赖特的杂文。藏品还包括有关中国历史文化、台湾和香港的印刷品;七本相册和剪贴簿(1950年至1984年)记录了Drumright作为美国驻华大使的生活和职业生涯。

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1935-2002

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埃弗雷特·弗朗西斯·德拉姆莱特1906年出生于俄克拉荷马州德拉姆莱特。他的父亲亚伦·哈奇·德拉姆莱特(Aaron Hatcher Drumright)是俄克拉荷马州德拉姆莱特镇(Drumright)的创始人之一，该镇就是以他的名字命名的。埃弗雷特于1929年毕业于俄克拉荷马大学(University of Oklahoma)，获得商学学位，不到一年就加入了美国外交部门。他在墨西哥的华雷斯度过了他的第一次试用期，然后被派往中国学习中文。1932年2月，他从北京学成归国，途经上海前往汉口，在中国军队和企图侵占中国的日本军队的交火中被俘。1932年至1941年，他先后在南京、重庆和上海服役。他到达上海不到一个星期就被日本人俘虏，在集中营里呆了六个多月。他和其他美国官员只有在美国和日本同意交换外交官后才被释放。在华盛顿特区短暂停留后，Drumright于1943年1月回到中国西部，并一直待到1944年。之后，他再次被派往华盛顿，后来又被派往日本东京，担任麦克阿瑟将军司令部政治部的副部长。 He stayed in Japan for only amonth before he was sent to Korea where he helped establish the U.S. Embassy to the new Korean government. When fighting broke out with North Korea, he was instrumental in evacuating more than 600 American civilians from Seoul, placing them on commercialvessels bound for Japan. Then he helped the American Ambassador load up his car with official documents, and the two of them followed the Korean government to safety in the south. Drumright’s career took him to India for two years, before he finally returned to Washington D.C. where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. He served as Consul General to Hong Kong from 1954 to 1958. The highlight and culmination of his 31-year career came in 1958 when he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of China on Taiwan. During his four years in Taiwan, Drumright was the official channel between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek during the crisis over Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands off the coast of China. Everett Drumright retired from the Foreign Service in 1962 and spent the remainder of his life sharing his Asian expertise and knowledge with government officials, including President Nixon, and interested private citizens. He and his wife led several tour groups to Taiwan and Asia to introduce them to Asian culture. He died in 1993 at Poway, California at the age of 86.

佛罗伦萨Mae（Teets）Drumright [又称她的笔名，佛罗伦萨·卑尔根]于1915年出生于伊利诺伊州米尔奇维尔。她是乔治·卑尔根龙头的女儿，一个安全制造商。1942年，她毕业于爱荷华州Cedar Rapids的Coe College，英语学士学位。佛罗伦萨后来参加了哥伦比亚大学在纽约市。她在纽约市生活和工作，作为波音飞机公司的公共关系代表，直到第二次世界大战结束。她是第一个在第一次出版社航班期间在B-29中飞行的女性。她后来在纽约时报工作，然后成为基督教科学显示器的特色和旅游作家。多年来，她在纽约花了六个月，六个月在天空和世界的高速公路上，专门从事航空公司。1953年，她发表了一本标题为标题的书籍，她出国;Herpocket顾问，女性旅游指南。 Her writing also appeared in other newspapers and magazines. In March of 1955, while in the Philippines working on a series on women’s travel for the Christian Science Monitor, she met Everett Drumright, or “Drum” as she called him. After several meetings, she agreed to look him up when she arrived at Hong Kong, the next stop on her agenda. Friends would later joke that she had stopped in Hong Kong to pick up her M-A-I-L and came out with a M-A-L-E. They were married three months later in Tokyo, Japan. For the next eight years, Florence played Foreign Service wife to her diplomat husband, entertaining world-renowned guests in her home. In 1961, she published a novel titled The Men Who Loved Lucinda, under her pen-name Florence Bergen. The “stream of consciousness” novel was never widely popular or well-known. After Drumright’s retirement, the couple often led art and cultural tours to China and other locations in Asia. In 1969, Florence published her third book titled Taiwan, Eden in Asiaunder the name Florence Drumwright [instead of Drumright]. Everett and Florence Drumright donated art pieces consisting of 70 Chinese paintings and calligraphy, which among them 26 were done mostly by masters of the 1950s and '60s in Taiwan, to the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. After Drumright’s death, Florence endowed two scholarships, one at the University of Illinois at Chicago and one at the University of Oklahoma, to enable American-born Chinese students to study their cultural heritage. Florence died at Cape Coral, Florida in 2003, at the age of 88.