BOSTER, FINISHING NEW TRAINING, WILL BE U.S. DIPLOMAT IN MEXICO CITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100440018-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: June 5, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Boster, Finishing 1 'eit
Training, Will Be U. 5:
Diplomat in . M exico City
-A Mount Unior Culloge gr
taste in 19t1 F rid h:. will complete
special training In the U. S: State
Department's Senior. Seminar in
Foreign Relations as the latest
step in a cola ful career.
Davis Eugene Roster, son of
Mrs. Arthur Heamck of Beloit,
will graduate with 21 others in
Washington, D. C.
The Seminar--described by the
State Department as the most
advanced training program In
foreign affairs offered by the
State Department"-hag lasted
gram consisted of frequent trips
.hand political and economic prob-
n Nat
ed
,...
Tour
---
Roster, former deputy director
recently returned from a tour of
Teemed with the. Western Security
Isponso ed by the State Depart-
ment. .
The Seminar is comprised of
Sanitized - Approved For Relea
State Department experts stn So-
viet Union, the Middle East, Af-
ric;t and latin America. Includ-
ed in the group are 13 high rank-
ing . officers and one member of
the Central Intelligence Agency+
Mill ' 6te 6a Aletdee
Following his annual two-week
ronimitment w i t h the United
States Naval Resefve, the.41-year-
iiPYaR+jr Hiomat, who speaks
fluent Russian and Spanish, will
he assigned this summer to the
Mexico City American Embassy.
Roster, who served with the U.S.
Navy from 1.942-47, holds the ratlk
of coin mindt!r in the USNR.
, Since joining the foiign service
branch of the State Department In
1417. Roster's rise has been me-,
teoric.
From 1917-49. he served as at-'
lathe wi h the American Emhas
xy in Moscow. He was Soviet,
Union desk officer of the State'
Department, 1949-54 and was as
signed to the. Japanese Peace Con- t
ferencr in San Francisco In 1951.:
Duting 1954-58, Boater was the;
second secretary of the American;
Eumbaxsy in Bonn, Germany and.
from 1938,"? he was a staff as-;
sistam to Secretary of $ t a t e
Christian A. Herter.
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Signifying the distinction it tamed by Roster is the fact that
In the newly published edition of
Who's Who in America for 1962-4,.
Boater's name is listed.
While a student at Mount Union
College, he was active in student
affairs. and in his senior. year he
Students in American Colleges and
Universities.
He and his wtfe, the former
Mary Shilts, aim a 1942 graduate
of Mount Unbto, have five chil?
dren, Davis Ilugene. Jr., J a 111 s
Elizabeth, RwibIre A n n e an
twins, James bnd Thomas. Davis
Eugene Is a '.jtmtew? At Western ~
u.,A..,., 'nu.
of Mr, and W. D. Ships of
Hudson.
h1V
ifamily home :Ys at Falls Church,
.English teac:i
Ohio pit
xeOlk~
years a Latin and
Sebring Md(lnr
His father, the
, t.i*ht In tl.'
syratem ' he 40
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