THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Friday, January 27, 1995 TAG: 9501270420
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George Harry Haselton, a retired Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve and a resident of Westminster-Canterbury of Virginia Beach, died Jan. 25, 1995.
Mr. Haselton was born in Chicago, Ill, Jan. 7, 1909, to George Harry Haselton Sr. and Angela Berg. He graduated from Lake View High School, Chicago, and Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., and spent the next five years with Marsh and McClennan Inc. in Chicago. Commissioned in the United States Naval Reserve in January of 1940, he served at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., and in Great Britain from early in 1941 with U.S. Naval Headquarters, Europe.
He was a member of the International Secretariat of the historic founding conference of the United Nations at San Francisco in April of 1945, and entered the Department of State in September of 1945 as a specialist on military and security affairs. In 1955 he became a career Foreign Service officer and served in Washington, Tokyo and Hamburg, retiring from the Foreign Service in 1965. He then taught international relations at Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, Mass. and tutored in American Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, England, where in 1971 he was elected a senior associate member of St. Antony's. He was an early advocate of Hospice and participated actively in Hanover, N.H., his residence prior to 1986, and Virginia Beach.
Mr. Haselton is survived by his wife, Mary Michelson Haselton, of the home address.
Memorial services will be held at Westminster-Canterbury, 3100 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach, on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow the service. Memorial contributions may be made to Atlantic University, P.O. Box 595, Virginia Beach, Va. 23451, or to the Fellowship Fund of Westminster-Canterbury. Arrangements are by Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Neck Chapel.
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