Richard Smith:  

After Austin High, I joined the US Army, for 1 year in Army Language School, the remaining time in Germany, where I was in Military Intelligence, using my German from AHS and my Russian from ALS. I came home to Austin in 1956, and had several jobs: letter carrier, telephone central office equipment installer, construction electrician apprentice, milkman, etc. In 1959, I registered at UT, graduating in 1961 with a BA in Linguistics, and in 1962 with an MA. Then I had a job in Morocco, teaching and running the language lab for the US Air Force. In 1963, I was awarded a Fulbright Lecturing Grant in Pamplona Spain, which was renewed for a second year. In 1965, I was awarded another Fulbright grant in Baghdad, Iraq. I bought a Renault station wagon in Spain for $90 and drove it all the way from Pamplona to Baghdad, where I lived until the 6-day war in 1967. I left on the third day of the war for Iran, then drove back to Spain and flew back to the US. I got a job in New York, as (eventually) Senior Technical Translator for GE, which I worked at for about 12 years. In 1979, I started my own translation agency on 5th Avenue, Richard E. Smith Associates. In '87, I got ...Expand for more