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Murphy, Dick - Oral History Interview
No full textRichard W. (Dick) Murphy ‘58 graduated from Yale in 1954 as a history major. While he was at Yale, he became interested in Asia, largely through two courses: Government and Politics in China and Japan and Chinese History. He was also part of the Army ROTC program. As a Second Lt., Murphy was trained as a counterintelligence officer in Baltimore, and after taking an intensive Japanese course, went to Japan and then to Korea.
While in Korea, Murphy decided to apply for a masters degree in international relations. He took the GRE in an unheated, old school house in downtown Seoul, still devastated from the War. Upon returning to the U.S. in the summer of 1956, Murphy sought advice from his Chinese history professor at Yale. The professor encouraged him to consider SAIS, and he put Murphy in touch with Paul Linebarger, who interviewed Murphy in Washington, D.C. Murphy was soon after admitted to SAIS.
At the time, SAIS was a small school with under 100 students and comprised two buildings, one at 1906 Florida Avenue and the other on 19th Street. The Bologna Center had just opened.
Murphy and other unmarried male students lived on the third and fourth floors of the Florida Avenue building. Their “dorm mother” was Mr. Shork (also the SAIS librarian).
Linebarger was Murphy’s principal professor at SAIS as East Asia was his regional area of concentration. He took different courses from Linebarger on China and Japan and recalls Linebarger’s father being a legal advisor to Sun Yat-sen. Murphy also recalls Linebarger teaching his classes from a theoretical/academic perspective combined with stories from his life, having an artificial eye, wearing solid colored ties and taking students out to dinner for Peking duck or over to his house. Linebarger wrote science fiction books under his pseudonym, Cordwainer Smith, and had his books translated into several languages (one time into Farsi). Murphy also recalls Dean Thayer, Priscilla Mason and Bill Phillips and shares memories of the day he took the Oral Exam at SAIS.
During his career Murphy worked in Army Intelligence as well as for American Enterprise Institute, Senator Hugh Scott (PA) on Capitol Hill, Merck & Co., Inc. as their Washington Representative and Director of Government Relations, the National Food Processors Association and later with the International Service Agencies, an umbrella group of American charities working overseas that participated in the annual Federal government employees’ charitable fundraising campaign.
Near the end of his career, Murphy was hired to work at CSIS as special assistant to the president in the fall of 1990 and later became Director of External Relations and Senior Associate. Murphy was executive director of the CSIS American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee, comprising prominent individuals from the United States and Ukraine, and worked closely with the committee’s chairman, CSIS Counselor (and SAIS professor) Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. He accompanied Brzezinski to Ukraine several times where they met with Ukraine’s president and other political leaders. After this position, Murphy worked on some consulting/pro-bono projects and has since retired. For SAIS students he imparts: “Start networking as soon as possible.”
Murphy met his wife, Ludmilla K. (Luda) Murphy B ’60, ’61, at SAIS and they have a daughter
Dick Moller
No full text2 men in tall grass with rifles, "Moo cow" Murphy and Mick McGrath. "Moo cow" was given that name at quarantine when on guard duty. He challenged a noise with no response, fired a shot and killed a cow. Quality of original photo poor.Moller, Esmond Murray.Date:1942 - Digital File Onl
Dick Zyzak and Dave Murphy pass
No full textUniversity of Idaho football players, Dave Murphy receiving a ball from quarterback Dick Zyzak
Murphy, Ludmilla - Oral History Interview
No full textLudmilla Ksensenko (Luda) Murphy B’60, ’61 earned a degree in economics from the University of Connecticut, and upon graduating, won a full fellowship to study at SAIS undertaking her first year at the Bologna Center and her second year in Washington, D.C. After SAIS, Murphy devoted her career to the U.S. Department of Labor where she was an economist. She later conducted seminars for senior policy makers from around the world, particularly in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. After retiring from the government, Murphy was a consultant in the Ukraine for Financial Markets International, working with Ukrainian officials to develop labor market information programs. Murphy also served as an international observer in Ukraine's parliamentary elections. Her story would not be complete, however, without her meeting Dick Murphy, her husband, while at SAIS, and of all places, in the Library
Motion and mobility in the realist novels of Philip K Dick
No full textThis essay explores the ways that ideas of motion and mobility support readings of Philip K Dick's early novels that take full account of the changing geographical context. They are set during a period of rapid suburban expansion, the building of the interstate and the spread of automobility through car ownership, and their characters frequently exist in a state between continuity through conformity and the potential for change. The open ended forms of the novels reflect a world around Dick that was still under construction, and where alternative realities can be glimpsed between incomplete materialities
Pursuing History: The Joys and Hazards of Following All the Stories of the Past
No full textMemoirs of Ernest (Ern) J. Dick, historian and archivist. Ern worked at the CBC Archives, has many connections with the Nova Scotia historical community, and developed the "Moving Images of Atlantic Canada’" course at Saint Mary's University. He is also the author of "Silver Hair and Golden Voice - Austin Willis from Halifax to Hollywood", published by Nimbus in 2020
Dick Dinman Salutes WW2 Air Hero Jimmy Stewart
No full textThe dual releases of Olive Films stunning Blu-ray incarnation of the James Stewart air power classic STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND as well as author Robert Matzen’s awe inspiring book MISSION: JIMMY STEWART AND THE FIGHT FOR EUROPE, which for the first time ever reveals the truth about Stewart’s dangerous bombing missions over Germany, give producer/host Dick Dinman ample motivation to salute the spectacular military career of screen icon Stewart and Dick is joined by returning guest Robert Matzen as they marvel at the courage, skill and fortitude of this certifiable American hero.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_dvdcotr/1268/thumbnail.jp
Jere Nash Interview with Dick Molpus
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Secretary of State Dick Molpus in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include the Educational Reform Act of 1982; William Winter; Buddie Newman; Ellis Bodron; Sonny Meredith
Sheriff Bud Murphy
No full textPhotograph of Sheriff Bud Murphy and deputies Dick Johnson and Rufus Fuller with evidence seized in a bootlegging case in the 1950's
Dick Dinman & Alan K. Rode Meet “The Phantom Lady”!
No full textProducer/host Dick Dinman and acclaimed+ author and Film Noir Foundation charter director Alan K. Rode salute the Arrow Academy Blu-ray releases of two certifiable Noir classics MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS and PHANTOM LADY. PLUS: Arrow hits the Blu-ray mark with SO DARK THE NIGHT and THE DAY OF THE JACKAL!https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_dvdcotr/1258/thumbnail.jp
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