Series 5: John H. and Georgana Foster Family, 1938-2003

John Henry Foster (b. 1926) is the eldest child of Henry and Thyra Jane Foster. He graduated from the Westtown School and then Cornell University, with graduate degrees from Purdue and Cornell Universities. He worked in an AFSC work camp in Mexico in 1948 and as the agriculturalist in Friends Rural Center, Rasulia, India, 1951-1954 where he was the first American involved in a largely English Quaker program. In 1954, he married Georgana Falb. Also in 1954, he joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, teaching Agricultural Economics and Third World Rural Development. In 1964-1965 he returned to India as a Fulbright lecturer in agricultural economics as Allahabad Institute. In addition to organizing the family papers, John H. Foster transcribed many of the writings and added interpretation. His comments are filed together with the related material.