About the Author

Home > Other tongues - Other flesh

George Hunt-Williamson served with the Army Air Corps during World War II as Radio Director for the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. He was a member of the AAFTTC Headquarters Staff. He received the Army Commendation Award from Brig. Gen. C. W. Lawrence for his outstanding record of service to the Air Force in Public Relations. He served as an instructor in Anthropology for the United States Armed Forces Institute, and was later appointed Lieutenant in the U. S. Infantry.

He attended Cornell College, Eastern New Mexico University, the University of Arizona, and took a special course at the University of Denver. He majored in anthropology with many courses in sociology, biology, philosophy and geology.

In 1948 he was awarded the coveted Gold Key for outstanding scientific research by the Illinois State Archaeological Society. He has spent a great deal of time doing field-work in Social Anthropology in the northern part of the United States, Mexico and Canada. He is an authority on Indian dances, music and ceremonial costuming. Several of his articles have appeared in scientific journals.

He is listed in the July, 1952 Supplement to "Who's Who In America", and his name appears in the latest editions of "Who Knows, And What", and "Who's Who in the West". He is included in Volume Twenty-Nine of "Who's Who In America", and also in "American. Men of Science".

He is co-author of The Saucers Speak! (A Documentary Report Of Interstellar Communication By Radiotelegraphy).

Mrs. Williamson, the former Betty Jane Hettler, is a chemist and an anthropologist, holding an A.S. degree from Grand Rapids Junior College; a B.S. degree from Eastern New Mexico University; and a B.A. degree from the University of Arizona. Both are members of the American Anthropological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.