Levine, Solomon Bernard.

During WWII Elizabeth J. Billett, as a WAVE, and Solomon B. Levine, as a Naval officer, attended the US Navy Japanese Language School from December 1942 to March 1944, then located at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Solomon went on to serve at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Japan and Elizabeth went on to serve in Washington DC where she translated documents. On December 24, 1943, Solomon B. Levine and Elizabeth J. Billett were married in Boulder, Colorado. Solomon B. Levine was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 10, 1920, he received his AB from Harvard in 1942 (magna cum laude), his MBA from Harvard in 1947 (with honors), and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. Solomon B. Levine's professional career began as a teaching assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1949. He taught at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana from 1949 to 1969 where he held various positions including, Research Associate with the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR), Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations and Asian Studies, Director of the Center for Asian Studies, and Chairman of the Center for International Comparative Studies. From 1969 to 1989, Solomon Levine taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he held the positions of Assistant to the Dean of International Studies and Programs, Director of the National Resource Center for East Asian Languages and Area Studies, Member of the East Asian Studies Program, Member of the Council for Japanese Studies, Participating Faculty Member of the Industrial Relations Research Institute, and as a Professor of Business and Economics. He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989 and was designated an Emeritus Professor of Business and Economics. Elizabeth J. Billett was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on June 7, 1922. She received her BS from Pennsylvania State University in 1942, a certificate from the Harvard-Radcliffe Business Program in 1947, and her MA from the University of Illinois in 1965. Elizabeth's professional career began as a Junior Chemist for the Food and Drug Administration from 1942 to 1945. After World War II, Mrs. Levine worked as the assistant director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Management Training Program from 1947 to 1948. From 1965 to 1969, she began working at the University of Illinois as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. Mrs. Levine worked as the Assistant to the Chairman in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from September 1969 to July 1987. Elizabeth J. Levine also held various part-time positions and is involved in various volunteer activities.