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Boston Globe Columnist to Present March 4 Falmouth Forum
WOODS HOLE, MA - H.D.S. Greenway, columnist for the Boston Globe, will present a lecture titled "America in a Dangerous World" at the Marine Biological Laboratory's (MBL) Falmouth Forum on Friday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lillie Auditorium, MBL Street, Woods Hole. Greenway's presentation is sponsored by the Associates of the Marine Biological Laboratory and is free and open to the public.
Greenway was educated at Yale University and served in the U.S. Navy. After graduate study at Oxford, he began his career in journalism in the London Bureau of the Time-Life News Service in 1962. For the next ten years he reported from Washington, the United Nations, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Vientiane and Bangkok, covering events in Southeast Asia and the Indian sub continent. Greenway was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard from 1971 to 1972.
In 1972 he joined the Washington Post, and, after covering the State Department in Washington, became the Hong Kong bureau chief responsible for China. Greenway covered the end of the Indochina war from Phnom Penh and Saigon, and was sent to Jerusalem in 1996 reporting on Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iran.
In 1978 he joined the Boston Globe as its national and foreign editor, responsible for the national political campaigns of 1980, and 1984. He was tasked with establishing the Globe's overseas bureaus. Greenway's reporting assignments for the Globe included Beirut, Baghdad, Bosnia, Southeast Asia, China, South Africa and the Indian sub-continent. He was editor of the Globe's editorial page from 1993 until his retirement in 2000. He now writes a weekly foreign affairs column for the paper. Greenway has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Newsweek, The World Policy Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Chicago Sun Times and La Reppublica.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children's Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and are available until they sell out or until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1. All tickets are nonrefundable. For more information contact the MBL Communications Office at 508-289-7423.
The MBL Associates were founded in 1944 to provide an opportunity for friends of the Laboratory, both scientists and non-scientists, to support the MBL. Over the years the Associates have taken on a wide range of projects, including providing fellowships for young scientists, supporting the MBL/WHOI Library, renovating the Lillie Auditorium, and landscaping the Whitman-Loeb quadrangle on the Woods Hole campus. The Associates also help bring the work of the Laboratory to a broader public by sponsoring the Falmouth Forum Series and operating the MBL Gift Shop. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the Laboratory.
The final lecture in the 2004-2005 series will be held on Friday March 25, 2005. Connie Rogers, an author and book editor will present - Visiting the Family: Rare Primates of the World.”
The Marine Biological Laboratory is an independent scientific institution, founded in 1888, dedicated to improving the human condition through basic research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. MBL hosts research programs in cell and developmental biology, ecosystems studies, molecular biology and evolution, neurobiology, behavior, global infectious diseases and sensory physiology. Its intensive graduate-level educational program is renowned throughout the life sciences. The MBL is the oldest private marine laboratory in the western hemisphere.
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