Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Mejía (born April 27, 1918 in Medellín – died March 23, 2002 in Bogotá) was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as Colombia's Minister of National Education in two occasions, and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Gabriel Betancourt was born in Medellín on April 27, 1918 to Pedro Nolasco Adriano Betancur Toro and Mariana Mejía Arango as the youngest of 9 children. Betancourt was a member of the government of president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. He later became assistant director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was also head of the education
Howard M. Brier in book form. As a journalism professor and consultant, Brier had definite views on what makes good writing: Brier married Grace Kjelstad in 1930. The couple had two children, Nancy and Warren, both deceased. Howard continued to live in Seattle after Grace died in 1965, before he died at 66 in October 1969. A notable relative was brother Royce Brier, a longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Books— Magazine articles— Howard M. Brier Howard Maxwell Brier (born 20 March 1903, in River Falls, Wisconsin; d. Oct. 1969, Seattle, Washington) was an American fiction author who wrote primarily adventure and