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 James C. Faulkner
September 25, 2007
James C. Faulkner, 88, of 1611 Cold Spring Road, Sweetwood Continuing Care Community, died Tuesday at Sweet Brook Care Centers.
Born in Lola, Ky., on Aug. 6, 1919, son of Carl F. and Yvonne Barth LeThiec Faulkner, his father was an American who served with the British Army during World War I, and his mother was a French nurse during the war. He was raised in France until the outbreak of World War II, at which time he returned with his mother to the United States and attended Bowling Green College in Kentucky.
He received a Fulbright scholarship in 1952 and earned his doctorate, with honors, from Laval University in Quebec City.
An Army veteran of World War II, he served in the Asiatic-Pacific theater. After the war, he stayed in the Pacific and was involved in the founding of the University of Okinawa.
Mr. Faulkner was employed as a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for a year. From 1947 to 1961, he was a member of the faculty of the University of New Hampshire, working as an assistant state director of education and as a pioneer in developing the foreign language laboratory.
He was involved with the National Defense Education Institute and remained active in the military reserve until 1956, retiring as a captain and commanding officer of an intelligence group. He was the recipient of a key to Manchester, N.H., and of various awards from the French government. In 1962, he joined the staff of State University of New York at New Paltz, where he was instrumental in development instruction in foreign language and in creating the graduate program in French, German and Spanish. He was active with the department of education and introduced the teaching of Latin and Greek. He spent time in Ghana, Africa, and retired in 1985 to Blaruc le Vieux, Languadoc, France, where he spent 18 years before returning to the United States in 2004.
He was a member of American Legion Post 1 in Paris, and of AARP, New York State United Teachers and United University Professions.
Mr. Faulkner was divorced.
He leaves four sons, Carl James Faulkner of Williamstown, Eric Baird Faulkner of St. Augustine, Fla., Yonnik Munro Faulkner of Albany, N.Y., and Scott Anthony Faulkner of Harrisburg, Pa.; two daughters, Jacqueline Diane Anderson of Norco, Calif., and Michele Bernice Dollar of Albany; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for James C. Faulkner, who died Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, will be conducted tomorrow at 11 a.m. at FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, WEST CHAPEL, 521 West Main St., North Adams, by the Rev. Mark Burke, pastor of St. Patrick and St. Raphael's Parish in Williamstown.
Burial will take place at a later date, with full military honors at Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery.
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