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Walter H. Breen
Walter H. Breen (September 5, 1928 – April 27, 1993) was an American writer and convicted child sex offender. He is known among coin collectors for writing ''Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins''. "Breen numbers", from his encyclopedia, are widely used to attribute varieties of coins. He is also known for activity in the science fiction fan community and for his writings in defense of pederasty.
==Early life==
Breen was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Walter Henry Breen and Mary Helena (Nellie) Brown Mehl.〔State of Texas, Texas Department of Health, Birth Certificate #68982〕 He spent the first several years of his life in Texas with his parents.〔US Census 1930: Precinct 1, Brooks, Texas; Enumeration District 2, Page 10B〕 At the time they met, both of Walter's parents were married to other people and living next door to each other in Parkersburg, WV. Walter's father changed his name from Walter H. Green to Breen after abandoning his wife and children to run away with Walter's mother. Later in life, Breen persistently denied that they were his birth parents and claimed to have been adopted by them as a foundling child. In reminiscences he spoke of being raised in a variety of "institutional and foster settings."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Walter H. Breen )〕 The 1940 census shows young Breen living in a Catholic orphanage in West Virginia, with his (by then) divorced mother living as a housekeeper in a Catholic church rectory less than two miles away. Walter's father was by that time living with another woman in Chicago; for a while after their separation his mother resumed her maiden name and young Walter went by the name William Brown. Walter strove to distinguish himself academically from a young age, attending a Catholic high school in Wheeling, West Virginia, and continued excelling academically throughout his postsecondary education. After being declared unfit for service by the Army Air Force in April 1946, Breen was accepted that October with a recorded IQ of 144;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=On Mensa And Walter Breen'S Iq )〕 following a severe beating, he was honorably discharged that December. During his recovery, he read voluminously about rare coins and initiated correspondence with various members of the numismatics community, renewing his involvement in a hobby in which he had been actively engaged a few years earlier.〔 Alternatively, Breen claimed that a severe head injury suffered in a World War II plane crash led to the development of his photographic memory.
He received his B.A. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1952. He later claimed he finished four years of coursework in approximately ten months, concealing the fact that as a teenaged prodigy he had already completed two years at Georgetown University during World War II, followed by a brief stint at a small Catholic college in Texas. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, he took a position as an auction cataloger for the New Netherland Coin Company while concurrently enrolled in pre-med courses at Columbia University, where he became a protege of the controversial psychologist and numismatist William Herbert Sheldon. During this period, physicist Jack Sarfatti (who later sponsored guest workshops by Breen at meetings of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group at the Esalen Institute in 1976) alleges that Breen coordinated supposedly Sandia National Laboratories-funded parapsychological research studies of New York City gifted children (so-called "superkids," including Sarfatti and Robert Bashlow) in Sheldon's Constitutional Laboratory at Columbia Medical School from 1953 to 1956.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coming Soon )〕 The studies allegedly included immersion in New York science fiction fandom, a connection facilitated by Breen.〔 Although Sheldon encouraged Breen to attend medical school, he eventually distanced himself from the scientist, in part due to Sheldon's professed anti-Semitism.〔
Breen eventually enrolled in the sociology graduate program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he claimed to have researched "the Beat Generation groups on both coasts but also some of the very earliest hippies, finding out incidentally that some ideas that the bunch of us had developed in science fiction fandom had gotten into the hippie subculture and were being paraded around as their own inventions."〔 He received his M.A. in the sociology of music from the institution in 1966.
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