UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MISSION Released by the
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HERRICK B. YOUNG

Dr. Herrick b. Young is Secretarv of Missionary Personnel of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.

ACADEMIC TRAINING:

Indiana University, Be Ae

Columbia University, M.A. in Indo-Iranian Literature.
University of Pennsylvania, Ph. De

Dr. Young held a Harrison Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvanic

AFFILIATIONS:

 

A Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society,

ead of the America in Oriental Society, and the Royal Asiatic
ociet

Phi ne ibe Kappa, honorary educational fraternity,

Sigma Delta chi, professional journalistic fraternity.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

 

"Moslem Editors Say"

"Tslam Awakens"

Two English textbooks adopted for use in Iranian schoolse

br. Young is a contributing editor to the Yorld Book Encyclopedia.

POSITIONS HELD:

 

Reporter for the Associated Press in Indianapolis. From 1925-1925,
Dr. Young was a member of the faculty of Alborz College in Teheran,
Iran, serving as Professor of Literature, Librarian, and Director
of Resident Students. During his first year in iran, Drs Young
covered the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlevi for American newspapers
and has since that time been a frequent contributor to American
and British magazines and newspapers on political, religious and
social trends in the Near East, in Central Europe, and in Russia.
Dre Young is in great demand as a speaker on the Near East, having
acted as visiting lecturer for the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, in addition to his missionary presentations in
thirty states. He has addressed students of twenty-six colleges

in all parts of the United States.

TRAVEL:

Dre Young was for ten yoars a Presbyterian missionary at Teheran,
Tran, and as Chairman of the Near East Christian Council he had
occasion to keep in touch with changing conditions in Egypt,
Palestine, Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.

SUBJECTS UPON WHICH ESPECIALLY QUALIFIED TO SPEAK:
‘orld Mission or the Christian cnuren
Christian Living in Social Relations,"