Post Editor, Newsweek Columnist Meg Greenfield Dies

By J.Y. Smith

Special to The Washington Post

Friday, May 14, 1999; Page A1

Meg Greenfield, 68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the editorial page of The Washington Post and a columnist for Newsweek magazine, died of cancer yesterday at her home in Washington.

Jack Driscoll was named editor of The Boston Globe in December of 1987.

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.

Joan Konner has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence and received her M.S. from Columbia.

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.

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“When you’re in a state of perplexity, sadness, gloom, elation, you look for a poem to match what you are feeling,” says Helen Vendler. She writes that “Poetry is analytic as well as expressive; it distinguishes, reconstructs, and redescribes what it discovers about the inner life. The poet accomplishes the analytic work of poetry chiefly by formal means.”

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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.

Jim Risser has distinguished himself as an investigative reporter, an environmental reporter and as a leader in efforts to improve the quality of modern journalism.

Prior to joining the Akron Beacon Journal, John Dotson was publisher of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo.

In prior positions, he was director of night operations at the Philadelphia Inquirer, transportation and circulation administration manager of the Philadelphia Daily News, and executive assistant to Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc., President Sam Keel. He also worked in several editorial departments of the Inquirer.