Vedic Horoscope for Sutherland, Tom

Scottish-American Dean of Agriculture at the American University at Beirut who was taken hostage by terrorists in the mid-East hostage crisis. He studied agriculture in Scotland before immigrating to the U.S. in 1954 where he taught courses at the Colorado State University in livestock. In the mid-'70s, he and his wife Jean went to Ethiopia as advisors on how to boost meat production. Recruited by the American University at Beirut in 1980, family man Sutherland (wife Jean, born 1934, daughters Ann, born 1959, Kit, born 1960, and Joan, born 1964) did not accept the position until 1983, using the three year interval to weigh the singularly risky career decision. Caroline Gerard quotes B.C. He was born at home in a small hamlet, Stonehouse Farm, Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, Scotland.