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Données personnelles Frederick G. (Frederick "Ted" G.) "Ted" Vosburgh 

• Le surnom est Ted.
• Il est né le 16 septembre 1904 dans Johnstown, Fulton County, New York.Source 5
• Il est décédé le 16 février 2005 dans Shady Grove, Fairfax County, Virginia, il avait 100 ans.Les sources 6, 7, 8
• Un enfant de John R. Vosburgh et Alice R. Baker
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Frederick G. (Frederick "Ted" G.) "Ted" Vosburgh

(1) Il est marié avec Doris E. Kennedy.

Ils se sont mariés le 2 janvier 1929 à Elisabeth, New Jersey, il avait 24 ans.Source 9

Enfant(s):

1. (Ne pas publique)
2. Alan F. Vosburgh  1931-1999

Le couple est divorcé.

(2) Il est marié avec Valerie M. Paterson.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1949, il avait 44 ans.

Notes par Frederick G. (Frederick "Ted" G.) "Ted" Vosburgh

"I did have a wonderful meeting with [Fred, called] Ted, at the National Geographic.  He and his wife took us to lunch at the Press Club and I gave him the idea for the National  Geography Bee."
Email message from his great-niece, Diane Vosburgh Halvorson, Subject: Re: Vosburgh, Date: 1/2/2011, From: (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX).com
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Source Citation: Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Journalists. By William H. Taft. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. (EncTwCJ)
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Frederick G. Vosburgh
Scrupulous editor of the 'National Geographic'
Friday, 4 March 2005
Frederick G. Vosburgh worked for The National Geographic Magazine for 37 years, starting as an aide to the assistant editor, and ending as Editor, as well as Vice-President of the National Geographic Society. Despite his advancing years, he kept an interested and increasingly concerned eye on current events; a few days before his 100th birthday, he made it clear to his many loved ones that he would not welcome a congratulatory message from President George W. Bush.

Frederick George ("Ted") Vosburgh, writer and editor: born Johnstown, New York 16 September 1904; staff, The National Geographic Magazine 1933-42, 1945-70, Assistant Editor 1951-57, Associate Editor 1957-67, Editor 1967-70; married 1929 Doris Kennedy (died 1986; one son, and one son deceased; marriage dissolved 1948), 1949 Valerie Paterson (died 1997); died Rockville, Maryland 16 February 2005.

Frederick G. Vosburgh worked for The National Geographic Magazine for 37 years, starting as an aide to the assistant editor, and ending as Editor, as well as Vice-President of the National Geographic Society. Despite his advancing years, he kept an interested and increasingly concerned eye on current events; a few days before his 100th birthday, he made it clear to his many loved ones that he would not welcome a congratulatory message from President George W. Bush.

My father, Frederick George Vosburgh, was born in Johnstown in Upstate New York. His mother was a strict Methodist, his father a salesman whose successful inventions included a rubber mushroom-shaped bicycle-tyre plug. Baby Frederick looked so like a teddy bear to his father that he was dubbed "Ted", a nickname he carried for a century.

At 15, after winning a $5 prize in an essay contest sponsored by American Boy Magazine, he was emboldened to create and edit a high-school paper, The Purple and Gold, after the school's colours. "My contributions were more purple than gold," he wrote later, "but the prize and the paper seduced me forever by enabling me to see my own words in print." He was also the editor of the college paper when he attended Syracuse University.

Soon after graduating, he became a professional newspaperman, spending seven years with the Associated Press, first in New York and then in Washington, DC. The National Geographic Magazine was published in Washington, and in 1933 he applied for a job on its editorial staff. After a series of interview-cum-lunches, he was hired. ("I must have used the right fork," was his explanation.) Two years later his first article, "Wonders of the New Washington", was published. For the next seven years he wrote on such disparate subjects as Yellowstone National Park, new metallic alloys and the 17th-century navigator Henry Hudson.

"Reluctant to sit in civilian job while country fighting fateful war." With these words, my 37-year-old father applied to his magazine soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, requesting military leave of absence. With me, my younger brother and our mother as dependents, he would hardly have been called up, but he was eager to do his part.

He served, from captain to lieutenant-colonel (1942-45), in the Eighth and Ninth Army Air Forces in England and on the Continent soon after D-Day. For his service as an intelligence officer with the air cover for General George Patton's Third Army in the dash across France, the relief of Bastogne and the final push deep into Germany, he was awarded the Air Medal and the Bronze Star. He returned to his home and to the Geographic on 11 September 1945, five days before his 41st birthday.

Although no one else was involved, his marriage to my mother ended in divorce in 1948. The following year he had the good fortune to meet Valerie ("Pat") Paterson, a journalist who was born in England and raised in Canada. The marriage of Ted and Pat was a supremely happy one, lasting until my stepmother's death in 1997.

Robert M. Poole, in his book Explorers House: National Geographic and the world it made (2004), wrote: "Ted Vosburgh was the steady, decent man who scrutinised every headline, paragraph, phrase and semicolon written for the magazine; he made sure that no mistakes or vagaries of expression appeared in the journal."

Realising that a vital restrictive comma had been omitted from an article that had already gone to press, my father had it inserted, to the tune of $30,000. "It had to be done," he wrote to me, "but I did feel like one of those hard-nosed newspapermen in the movies who dash around yelling 'Stop the presses!' "

During his three years as Editor he published articles on such emerging topics as organic farming and computers. In December 1969 the Geographic made a giant leap for publishing; in addition to its 67-page cover story "First Explorers on the Moon - the Incredible Story of Apollo 11", the edition included "Sounds of the Space Age", a vinyl recording celebrating space travel "from Sputnik to Lunar Landing".

In 1970 he left the Geographic having reached the then compulsory retirement age. His final issue featured the magazine's first major article on saving the environment, "Pollution, Threat to Man's Only Home".

After the death of his cherished Pat, he tried to fill the vacuum by writing his autobiography, "The Century As I Saw It", which was completed on his 96th birthday. (Extracts appeared in the Geographic.) He also emulated his father by indulging in a little inventing: infuriated by squirrels stealing food from his beloved feathered friends, he constructed a feeder which took a bird's weight, but which sent a squirrel hurtling ignominiously to the ground. "The squirrel," he used to say, "is just a rat with a press agent."

For three years my father drove patients to hospitals for the Red Cross and for 10 years, until in his nineties, he took pleasure in delivering Meals on Wheels to what he called "old people". Most of these senior citizens were younger than he, but not nearly so young in heart.

Dick Vosburgh

SOURCE:  Obituary published in The Independent; ; found online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frederick-g-vosburgh-7558 77.html

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