George Howard Jr. LAMBERT

George Lambert graduated from Central High School in Sioux City, Iowa and then from the University of Minnesota in 1951. He then earned a Diplôme supérieure in clinical psychology from the University of Paris in 1953 and studied Japanese at the Sorbonne. He joined the US Army in 1953 and served in Korea and Japan until November 1955. Lambert started competing in modern pentathlon while in the Army and also competed for the US in team épée fencing at the 1959 World Championships.

Lambert became an expert on Japanese culture and wrote a book on the topic in Japanese in 1964. During five years in Japan he was the principal on a television series on Fuji TV in 1963-64, the Foreign Journalists Report on Japan Social Problems. He later became a contract interpreter in French and Japanese for the US State Department, and worked for 10 years as chief translator for Lyonnaise des Eaux, a French environmental engineering company in Paris. Lambert retired to River Falls, Wisconsin and wrote a play, “A Season for Vivaldi,” which was staged at Theatre West in Hollywood in 2012.