Adolf A. Berle and in the expansion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944. After the war, Berle served as Ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946. In October 1945, two days after the deposition of president Getulio Vargas, Berle pledged for the freedom of the Brazilian communists who were being incarcerated by the government since the beginning of the month. He then returned to his academic career at Columbia. Berle was a founding member of the New York State Liberal Party, a breakaway faction of the American Labor Party,
Julie Vargas Julie Vargas Julie S. Vargas (born 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior. Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner, and serves as the President of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vargas is an officer of The International Society for Behaviorology. Vargas received a bachelors in music from Radcliffe College, a masters in music education from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh. She served as a faculty member at West Virginia University where she and her husband, Ernest A. Vargas, taught