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Posted 09/20/02
Author and journalist David Shipler, a 1964 graduate and member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, will deliver remarks at Dartmouth's 2002 Convocation, which will officially open the College's 233rd year on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Dartmouth President James Wright will deliver the main address and Student Body President Janos Marton '04 will also speak. The event, which marks the opening of the academic year, is particularly important for members of the incoming class-this year the class of 2006-for whom it is an integral part of Dartmouth's extensive first-year orientation experience.
Convocation will begin at 11 a.m., in Leede Arena, and will be followed by the traditional Community Cookout hosted by President Wright and Susan DeBevoise Wright, from noon to 2:00 p.m., on Tuck Mall (Thayer Dining Hall in the event of rain).
Shipler, a widely recognized authority on foreign affairs, received a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his book: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (published in 1986 and updated in 2002). The book explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. His PBS documentary titled "Arab and Jew" won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism. Shipler served as its executive producer, writer and narrator, as well as for a second film, "Arab and Jew: Return to the Promised Land," which was broadcast on PBS last month.
Beginning in 1973, Shipler's work as a New York Times correspondent took him to Saigon, from where he covered South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Burma. He later served as The Times ' Bureau Chief in Moscow and Jerusalem, and as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Bureau until 1988.
From 1984 to 1985 Shipler was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and from 1988 to 1990 a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His book A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America , was published in 1997. That same year he was invited by President Clinton to participate in the first town meeting on race in Akron, Ohio.
Shipler's many honors include awards from the American Political Science Association and the New York Newspaper Guild. He was a co-recipient, with Thomas Friedman, of the 1983 George Polk Award for his coverage of the war in Lebanon. His best-selling book Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (published in 1983 and updated in 1989) received the 1983 Overseas Press Club Award for best foreign affairs book of the year. Shipler is currently completing a book on the working poor.
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