Dr. Vardac was a native of Boston and graduated with a BA with honors from Harvard in 1935 and a Ph.D. in fine arts in 1941 from Yale School of Drama. In 1942 to 1943, he completed a crash course in Japanese Language at Colorado University which led to a commission in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant Commander. During WW II he served in a special intelligence unit in the Pacific decoding Japanese communications traffic.
