Stacey B. Day

Stacey B. Day is an educator and doctor, born in London in 1927. During World War II he grew up in a small Cambridgeshire town - Chatteris - surounded then by airfields well known to American Airforce Veterans. After serving in the British Army he studied medicine in Dublin (Meath and Adelaide Hospitals) and graduated in 1955. In Dublin he wrote poetry and was influenced by James Joyce, evident later when in 1966 he wrote "Rosalita", a post-Ulysses Stream-of-Consciousness novella set in California during the Viet Nam War era, portraying the Hippie generational conflict of those days. In America he worked with Owen H. Wangensteen in Surgical Research at Minnesota (1955-60) from which came his "Idle Thoughts Of A Surgical Fellow". He has a distinct roving streak and has worked in Africa, India, South America, Japan, and China. In 1972, while at the Naval Arctic Research Center (Point Barrow, Alaska) he wrote "Tuluak and Amaulik" - Attitudes and Folk Lore on Death among the Eskimos. Whilst in West Africa he produced several Public Health films for Nigerian Television (NTVA) and Health Programs for radio. For "efforts to bring outstanding care to other nations" Dr Day was honored by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. He also received a W.H.O. Medal for his work in West Africa. In Japan his book on the Samurai, "Wisdom of Hagakure" has been acclaimed. He is the first Honorary foreign Member of the Hagakure Society. He lives part of each year in Prague with his wife Ivana Podvalova and continues to write biographical and cultural writings based on his wide travels. He enjoys the quiet of village life by the Labe river.