Harry F. YOUNG

YOUNG Harry F. Historian, Intelligence Officer Harry F. Young, 84, of Reston, Virginia, died on March 30, 2010. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Young graduated summa cum laude from the University of Toledo, and as John Martin Vincent Fellow in History received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He also attended Middlebury College foreign language schools for French and Russian. Young's career included 30 years of federal service with the USAAF, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State, where he received the Superior Honor Award "for a brilliant, original ... atlas of U.S. foreign relations." He also taught modern European history at Indiana University and historiography at Ohio University, where he was nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award. He taught German history in German at Stanford University's 1966 institute for U.S. German teachers and wrote the 1972 guide on German culture for the Northeast Conference in the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Young gave guest lectures at the University of Hamburg and took part in a discussion of nationalism on Austrian TV's Nachstudio. For several years, he was guest lecturer in history at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature at Castle Brunnenburg in the Italian Tyrol. He was the author of "Maximilian Harden: Censor Germaniae," "Prince Lichnowsky and the Great War," "Atlas of U.S. Foreign Relations," "Atlas of the Soviet Union," "The Misunderstanding of August 1, 1914," and "South Tyrol: New Approaches to an Old Problem," among other titles. Young was married for 38 years to Jane Cecelia White and remained close to her after their divorce. Mrs. Young died in 2006, and their son Alexander died in 2002. Young is survived by his sisters, Carolyn Massoni of Boise, Idaho, and Jean Martin of West Bloomfield, Michigan, as well as their children and grandchildren.