front row, left to right: R. Maynard, J. Konner, J. Hoge, R. Christopher, M. Sovern, P. Kann; back row, left to right: M. Yarbrough, B. Osborne, G. Overholser, S. Bok, W. Rugaber, D. Laventhol, J. Risser, H. Vendler, C. Sitton, M. Greenfield, R. Baker, M. Gartner (absent from photo: Eugene Roberts)
Peter R. Kann is the former chairman of Dow Jones & Company and editorial director of Dow Jones’ publications.
In 1967, Mr. Kann became The Journal’s first resident reporter in Vietnam. From 1969 through 1975, he continued to cover the Vietnam War, as well as other events across Asia, as a roving reporter based in Hong Kong. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for distinguished reporting on international affairs for his coverage of the 1971 India-Pakistan War.
(Current biography as of March 2016)
(Courtesy of Medill/Northwestern)
Walter F. Rugaber (BSJ60) was president and publisher of the Roanoke Times & World News, which is now called The Roanoke Times, and also serves as president of Landmark Publishing Group, headquartered in Norfolk, Va.
Author Robert C. Christopher, Editor At Time, Newsweek
Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1992
By Kenan Heise
Robert C. Christopher, 68, an author and former editor at Time and Newsweek magazines, had been secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board and administrator of Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University since 1981. A resident of Old Lyme, Conn., he died of emphysema Sunday in Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, Conn.
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
By Bruce Lambert
August 19, 1993
Robert C. Maynard, a trailblazer for minority journalists who was the first black editor and owner of a major daily newspaper in the United States, died at his home in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday. He was 56.
He died of prostate cancer, a family spokesman said.
Sissela Bok, Senior Visiting Fellow, a writer and philosopher, received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology at the George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1970. She was formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University. The third edition of her book “Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life” (1978) was reissued in 1999 with a new preface.
