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Jacques-André Istel : ウィキペディア英語版 | Jacques-André Istel Jacques-André Istel (born 1929 in Paris, France) is a French-American recreational parachutist and investment banker〔(CLUI Newsletter )〕 and later in life, historian, widely responsible for popularizing parachuting in the United States. He is considered "the father of American skydiving."〔(Sports Innovator William H. Ottley Dies )〕 He founded a city in southeastern California, which he named Felicity, and it is here that he founded the Museum of History in Granite.〔http://historyingranite.org/〕 == Early life ==
Istel was born in France to Yvonne Istel, a prominent volunteer in both World War I and World War II,〔(New York Times Obituary )〕 and André Istel, an investment banker and diplomat, representing the de Gaulle government〔Speech by François Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States Consulat General of France, New York, March 15, 2013〕 at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference. He, his mother and siblings left France in 1940 to avoid the German invasion.〔Bartletti, Don. ("Desert monument captures history on stone." ) Los Angeles Times. April 16, 2008.〕 He attended The Stony Brook School, entering with barely any English, and graduated salutatorian of his class in 1945. He studied economics at Princeton University, graduating in 1949,〔(Princeton Class Notes )〕 and served in the U.S. Marines during the Korean War.〔Wilcox, Len. ''Desert Dancing: Exploring the Land, the People, the Legends of the California Desert.'' New Jersey: Hunter Publishing, 2000.〕 Istel earned the rank of Lt. Colonel.
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