Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Brian, I'm also a UM/CP graduate--class of 80 (and 83--masters/english; and 90--masters/comp.sci.). Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Brian Reid > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 6:04 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Cc: reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] b.d. we hardly knew ye.... > > > B.D. Colen was the editor of the George Washington University student > newspaper while I was an undergraduate at the nearby University of > Maryland, in the late 1960's. He did some fabulous stuff about the > Vietnam war, and the GW student newspaper (was it "The Hatchet?") was > widely regarded as the best source in town for war and war-protest news. > (This in a town that contained the Washington Post). I > > He won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1984 when he was at > Newsday. I don't know his career path after the GW student newspaper > and before Newsday. He must once have written for the Washington Post, > because I remembered his name on the Post's articles about Karen Ann > Quinlan. As far as I know he's still at Newsday, though I'm not > exactly in their subscription area these days. > > I have vague memories of meeting him in the Spring of 1969 at some > protest march or other; I usually took my camera downtown in D.C. to > photograph such things. I believe he and I were in the same graduating > year (1970), but I was at U of M and he was at GW, 15 miles away. > > Brian Reid