James McNaughton Hester

| birth_place = Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | education = Princeton University (BA)
Pembroke College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil) | spouse = }} James McNaughton Hester (April 19, 1924 – December 31, 2014) was an internationally recognized educator.

Hester was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He spent his boyhood at various stations to which his father, a United States Navy Chaplain, was assigned, including Hawaii and Samoa. In 1942, he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. After joining the United States Marine Corps' officer candidate program, he was trained to be a Japanese-language officer. He subsequently served in Japan in a civilian capacity as the civil information and education officer on the Fukuoka Military Government Team. Provided by Wikipedia