Roderick Gillies oral history interview

1980-03-18

Gillies, Roderick; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Roderick Gillies conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 18, 1980. Roderick McLeod Gillies (1910-1985), the son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Nakhon, Lom Pom, Thailand, and moved to the United States in 1919. He grew up in North Carolina and Ohio and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1933. Gillies received his law degree from Columbus University in 1939. From 1942 to 1947, Gillies worked with the Anti-Trust and Cartels Division in Tokyo. He worked with the Office of Price Administration, which set prices for goods and services in occupied Japan. He returned to the U.S. in 1961 and worked in the Army Department and the Commerce Department. He received the Commerce's bronze and silver medals. Gillies died at age 75 from cancer. 

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; Virginia; Centreville

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:40:00 (audio cassette; mp3); Transcript: 32 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087542