RE: [Leica] b.d. we hardly knew ye....

["Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com>]

Hey Brian,

I'm also a UM/CP graduate--class of 80 (and 83--masters/english; and
90--masters/comp.sci.).

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
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> 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