Laurence and Everett Parker Pope papers

Everett Parker Pope (Class of 1941) was born on July 16, 1919, in Massachusetts. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1941 and enlisted in the US Marine Corps. During his enlistment, he was a member of the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines and led the machine gun platoon during the battle at Guadalcanal. In September 1944, he took part in the Peleliu campaign, for which he received the Medal of Honor and Purple Heart in 1945. After leaving military service, he was a banker. He and his wife, Eleanor Hawkins, had two sons, Laurence Everett II and Ralph H. Pope. Everett Pope was active on Bowdoin’s governing boards and established the Pope Scholarship Fund in the 1980s and the Haldane Cup. He died in Bath, Maine, in 2009.

Laurence “Larry” Everett Pope II (Class of 1967) was born on September 24, 1945, in Connecticut. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1967. He was a member of the Peace Corps during the Vietnam War. He began his diplomatic career in 1969 as a consular officer at the American embassy in Saigon, Vietnam. Fluent in Arabic by the 1980s, he served as the deputy chief of mission in Bahrain and director for Northern Gulf Affairs in Iran and Iraq. From 1993 to 1996, Laurence Pope served as the US Ambassador to Chad. He received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service. Pope was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be the ambassador to Kuwait; however, the appointment was denied by Congress in 2000 and his official diplomatic career was ended. He published works on the letters of François de Callières as well as his father’s service in the marines. Unpublished writings include his work on the Irish-born Jacobite, Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738). Laurence Pope died in 2020.