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 B. Levine went on to serve at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Japan. Elizabeth J. Billett 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. The Levine’s have four children: Janet L. Thal (1948), Samuel B. (1951), Michael A. (1954), and Elliott M. (1961).

Solomon B. Levine was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 10, 1920. Solomon Levine 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. Levine then began teaching at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana from 1949 to 1969. At the University of Illinois 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 B. Levine taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin Levine 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. Solomon B. Levine retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989 and was designated an Emeritus Professor of Business and Economics. Levine also held numerous visiting research and teaching positions at Universities around the world.

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