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| 7. | Lois M. Berry was born 29 Oct 1956, Texas, USA; died 3 Dec 2008, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA. Other Events:
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| 12. |  James Otto Shepard, Sr. was born 28 Nov 1915, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA (son of George Franklin Shepard and Anna Marie Batton); died 20 Jul 2004, Houston, Texas, USA; was buried 24 Jul 2004, Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Paternal DNA: I1-P109 -> Scandinavian - Viking origin
- Reference Number: 176
- Residence: 1920, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1930, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- _MILT: 27 Nov 1942, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
- _MILT: 7 Dec 1942
- other: 25 Nov 1945
James married Cynthia H. Norton, PhD 2 Nov 1946, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Cynthia (daughter of George W. Norton and Flossie Phillips) was born 19 Nov 1928, Burnett, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died Living. [Group Sheet]
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| 13. |  Cynthia H. Norton, PhD was born 19 Nov 1928, Burnett, Vigo, Indiana, USA (daughter of George W. Norton and Flossie Phillips); died Living. Other Events:
- Maternal DNA: L1c2b1 -> West Africa
- Political Party: Republican
- Reference Number: 175
- Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- _DEG: 1968, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Indiana State University-Bachelors in Political Science
- _DEG: 1972, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; University of Massachusetts, Doctorate in Education
- Residence: Between 1974 and 1976, Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Tenure: Between 1986 and 1989, Sierra Leone; U. S. Ambassador - Appointed by Ronald Reagan - POTUS
- Residence: Between 1986 and 1989, Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone; West Africa
- Tenure: Between 1989 and 1993, Burundi; U. S. Ambassador - Appointed by George Bush - POTUS
- Residence: Between 1989 and 1993, Burundi; East Africa
- Tenure: Between 2004 and 2008, Tunis, Tunisia; United States Executive Director of the African Development Bank
- Residence: Between 2004 and 2008, Tunis, Tunisia
Notes:
Cynthia Shepard Perry
Ambassadorial Posts
Sierra Leone, 1986 - 1989
Burundi, 1989 - 1993
Cynthia Perry was most recently the United States Executive Director of the African Development Bank. A native of Indiana, Dr. Perry was the US Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1986-1989 and to Burundi from 1989-1993.
Her career began in 1957 with the Nichols Investment Corporation. Dr. Perry later joined the IBM Corporation as an educational representative in the Office Products Division. From 1968-1971, she was the Director of the National Teachers Corps at the University of Massachusetts, where she received her Doctorate in International Education in 1972. Joining the faculty of Texas Southern University in 1971, she was an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Teacher Corps/Peace Corps and then became a full Professor and Dean of International Affairs from 1978-1982.
Her first assignment to Africa was at the University of Nairobi in 1968 through Operation Crossroads Africa. From 1971-1973, Mrs. Perry and her husband, Dr. James O. Perry, trained a group of Peace Corps volunteers in Sierra Leone. In 1974, she led a special educational delegation to Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia. She lived in Kenya from 1974-1976, trained Peace Corps paramedical volunteers, lectured at the University of Nairobi and was a consultant to the US Information Service in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. In 1976, she was appointed Staff Development Officer at the UN Economic Commission for Africa. From 1982 until her appointment, Mrs. Perry was Chief of the Education and Human Resources Division in the Africa Bureau of the US Agency for International Development.
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