Mechanical engineer, business executive. His experiences as a civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Employment with the Procter and Gamble Company in the Philippines, 1941; pre-World War II social life in Manila; supplying the U.S. military with soap, shortening, and margarine; Japanese bombing of Nielson Field; initial incarceration by the Japanese, January, 1942; permanent incarceration at Santo Tomás University in Manila; internal organization and governance of the prison compound; personal procurement of food from outside the prison compound; camp recreation and entertainment; internal rules among internees; outside sources of money; construction of personal shanties within the prison compound; transfer to Los Baños, Manila, December, 1943; diet-related diseases; soap making; destruction of Manila and liberation by American troops, February, 1945.