This is typed translation, with explanation, of the grades earned by Borais T. Pahkovsky at the Simpheropol Gymnasium. The explanation and typed copy was prepared by Frank M. Mohler. Boris Theodore Pashkovsky (Boris Pash) was a graduate of Springfield College, Class of 1924. Originally born in California, he went to Russia through his father who was a Russian Orthodox Priest. During the Russian Revolution, he served in the white movement navy in the Black Sea. Pash taught at the Hollywood High School in Los Angeles from 1924 until 1940. During World War II he was the chief of county intelligence at the IX Corps area headquarters at the Presidio of San Francisco, head of the Alsos mission in Europe to investigate German Nuclear Energy project, and was called upon to investigate suspected Soviet espionage at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. After the war, Pash served in various military intelligence positions, including serving under General MacArthur as Liaison Officer during the negotiations of the future of the Japanese Orthodox Church. Later, he went on to become the chief of European and USSR Division of the Quartermaster Technological Intelligence Agency. He was inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1988.
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