Retirement: Gerald Curtis (28)

Several times during my career at Columbia University, I was offered other employment opportunities. Each time I decided to stay at Columbia. In 1972, when I was an assistant professor, just before leaving for Tokyo for a parliamentary exchange program meeting, I received a letter from Henry Owen, director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, offering me a position there. I had been a consultant to the institute on their Japan-related programs and visited there regularly for about a year before receiving that letter.