Marilyn Sutton Loos

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Beschreibung

Unlike thousands of other Americans who never leave their neighborhoods until high school, by the time Marilyn Sutton Loos was four years old, she had lived in Palestine, England, and America, and twice crossed the Atlantic and Mediterranean by boat. By the time she was fourteen, she had been evacuated once, lived in the Middle East unscathed through World War II, and added to the list of countries she had lived in or visited: Trans-Jordan, Cyprus, and Lebanon, with short times in Syria. She had become acquainted with Anglicans, Quakers, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Seventh Day Adventists, and Plymouth Brethren, as well as Muslims, Druze and Jews of various denominations. She had learned to speak English, French, and simple Arabic, and occasionally used words of Turkish, and Armenian. Embroidery-whether tangible or figurative-was a leitmotif of the family's life. This is her attempt to write, from memory (unembroidered), about that life as they lived, taught, learned, traveled, and vacationed during the late 1930s and World War II. At the time, all these experiences seemed perfectly normal to her, but the many adjustments to American living showed how unusual they were to Americans. From 1946 to 1953 the family's lives became more similar to other American lives, but often seemed quite unusual to her.

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Marilyn Sutton Loos was born in Jerusalem, Palestine to a British Anglican and American Quaker. She was taught by a British governess through third grade, attended the American Community School of Beirut, Lebanon as a boarder, from fourth through ninth grade, and Westtown Friends School (in Pennsylvania) through twelfth grade. She earned her BA in French from Smith College, spending her Junior year in France, and an MA in Arab Studies from the American University of Beirut. She worked as a secretary in the Psychology Department of the American University of Beirut, then as a translator from French into English for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWAPRNE). Returning to the USA, she worked as a secretary, and then an administrative assistant, for the American Friends Service Committee. She married Gordon M. Loos and they raised two children, Jonathan and Elizabeth. When they were respectively in high school and middle school, she returned to the employment world as a paraprofessional in the library of the Radnor High School, and later as a technical editor of instruction books at the Protection and Control department of General Electric. She is now a retired widow, living in Haverford, PA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781977223272
• Artikelnr.: 67832217