RARE "Academic" Albert Parry Hand Written Note On 3X5 Card For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Academic" Albert Parry Hand Written Note On 3X5 Card. 

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Albert Parry (1901

– 1992) was a Russian-born academic and historian. Parry, born Victor

LeClerc in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, was

professor of Russian civilization and language at Colgate University. After

the Russian Revolution he

became a sailor in the Russian Merchant Marine and emigrated in 1921 to the

United States, settling in New York City's Greenwich Village. There he wrote for periodicals. At

the University of Chicago he

earned his PhD in history in 1938, taught there briefly and at Northwestern University.

He was editor of Consolidated Book Publishers during his in Chicago years and a

research director of radio broadcasts for the Chicago Sun. Parry founded Colgate University’s Russian

studies program, the first undergraduate program of its kind in America. In

1971, Parry retired from Colgate. He died in Los Angeles at age 91.