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Rudolph Halouk Daus
The author was born in Paris the issue of an American Beaux Arts educated entrepreneur with Jewish Rabbinical and French Catholic roots and an Ottoman Turkish princess, raised by an Ottoman nanny, ...view moreThe author was born in Paris the issue of an American Beaux Arts educated entrepreneur with Jewish Rabbinical and French Catholic roots and an Ottoman Turkish princess, raised by an Ottoman nanny, escaped German occupied France, thrust into a blue-collar parochial schools in mid-town Manhattan, New York.
The author’s circuitous and star-crossed life story leads through careers which seem like three life times. A naval career capped with command of two incredible ships and ship’s companies, a Destroyer Escort at age 33 and a Guided Missile Destroyer at 40, and shore duty as Program Sponsor of a new class of 60 Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigates. Over fourteen years, he managed 4 law firms, the last of which had offices in four cities, Washington, Chicago, Boston and Portland, Oregon.
His entrepreneurial ventures over a span of over twenty years led to adventures in America, Turkey, Japan and the Wild East of Central Asia.
He matriculated for a year at Fordham University in a liberal arts discipline before attending the US Naval Academy earning an engineering degree and a commission as Ensign, US Navy in 1956.
The author is enjoying retirement with his wife of 58 years whom he has known for 63 years. They live in the Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the Mount Vernon Estate area for the past 44 years. This is the author’s first book.view less