Call to Duty: Outagamie County in World War II

Theodore Cloak

Cloak left his position as Professor of Drama at Lawrence College to manage a "Far Eastern" orientation course for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The two week course taught men how to work with resistance forces in China and the Dutch East Indies. The program ran from December 1944 to August 1945. The government replaced OSS with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947.

Theodore Cloak (third from left) stands next to instructors at Georgetown University  in Washington, circa 1944
Theodore Cloak (third from left) stands next to instructors at Georgetown University in Washington, circa 1944
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Theodore Cloak teaches class at Lawrence University, 1966
Theodore Cloak teaches class at Lawrence University, 1966

Courtesy of Lawrence University

Cloak taught drama at Lawrence from 1929 until his retirement in 1969. He founded the Lawrence theater department and co-founded Attic Theatre. He died at the age of 94 on October 27, 1998.

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