Kerr 's youth was spent in Lebanon , on and near the campus of the American University of Beirut , where his parents taught for forty years . His parents , Elsa Reckman and Stanley Kerr , were married in Marash , where they met while they were rescuing Armenian women and orphans after the Armenian Genocide . After the Marash Affair they moved to Beirut . There his father became the chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at AUB and his mother was Dean of Women . During World War II the family relocated to Princeton University in New Jersey . Following the war they returned to Beirut where Malcolm attended the American Community School at Beirut . Shortly thereafter , Malcolm went back alone to the US , where he graduated from high school at the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Malcolm H. Kerr