VISIT OF THE SECRETAR Y-GENERAL 15 Sept' 98/Rev6 TO

Thursday. 17 September 1998

Inn at Harvard 1201 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA; T.617-491-2222; F.617-864-2409

(Contact: RichardM. Hunt, University Marshal, Harvard University/617-495-5727 AlexHuppe, Director, Public Affairs, Harvard University/617-495-1585)

10:00-11:00 Tour of the Fogg Art Museum — James Cuno, Director

11:15-11:45 Mrs. Annan: Meet with F.' of. Carol Gilligan (Inn at Harvard Atrium)

11:45-12:15 Radio Interview - Chris Wolf, WGBH (Inn at Harvard)

12:30-1:45 Lunch Hosted by Professor Samuel Huntington [Small group -- Senators, political figures, CFIA Fellows; no speeches] (Upstairs at the Pudding, 10 Holyoke Street)

2:00-2:45 Meeting and Interview (to conclude New Yorker profile) with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., followed by brief tour of Du Bois Institute (Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street)

2:00-2:45 Mrs. Annan: Meet with Swedish students (Wadsworth House Parlor) [Bobbie Cardullo will meet her at 'Upstairs at the Pudding' and escort her to Wadsworth House]

2:45-3:10 [Open - stop at Inn at Harvard]

3:15-3:50 Meeting with Prof. S. Allen Counter and Undergraduates, Harvard Foundation (University Hall, 2nd Fir Faculty Room)

4:00-4:20 Meeting with Dr. Neil Rudenstine, President, Harvard University (Sanders Theatre Reception Room) [10 people]

4:30-5:30 Secretary-General Addresses Harvard Academy -- "The Politics of Globalization" Introduction by: Dr. Neil Rudenstine, President, Harvard University (Sanders Theater; Audience: 1,100)

5:45-6:00 Press Interview

6:15-6:30 Reception (Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street) 6:30-8:30 Dinner hosted by Professor Samuel Huntington and Marshal Richard M. Hunt (Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street) [100 people to attend]

9:00 ETD Boston USAir#6141 10:00 ETANY/LGA "Freedom of Information - A Universal Human Right"

Remarks by James H. Ottaway, Jr., chairman, World Press Freedom Committee

Closing Session, 51st Annual DPI/NGO Conference on "The 50th Anniversary of the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - From Words to Deeds"

At the United Nations, New York City, on September 16, 1998

Thanks - I first want to thank and congratulate Kensaku Hogen, Under-

Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information at the

United Nations, and his excellent staff, for organizing, opening and closing this important conference on the 50th anniversary of The Universal

Declaration of Human Rights.

And I thank the Under Secretary for giving me a few minutes of this closing session to speak as chairman of the World Press Freedom

Committee about the central importance of Article 19 of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights to all other human rights. It declares in very clear, unqualified language, that:

Article 19 - "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." (unquote)

It is the first and still the strongest statement by an international organization of the related universal freedoms of opinion, speech and publication without censorship, within every country and across all borders. By adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 50 years ago on Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations agreed to guarantee to all the world's citizens freedom of information and freedom of expression as universal birth rights, not gifts of government.

Words, Not Deeds - Unfortunately, as the title of this human rights conference suggests, the "words" of Article 19 guaranteeing freedom of information and expression have not led to "deeds" that created these precious freedoms in all countries. There is much work to be done before all people in all nations will enjoy the Article 19 freedoms called for 50 years ago. In its annual survey of press freedom around the world supervised by Leonard R. Sussman, the respected NGO Freedom House in New York

City found only one-third of the world's 187 nations actually have a free press; one-third are partly free, partly government controlled; one-third not free at all. But only 20% of the world's population lives in countries with a free press - only 20%.

My own NGO, the World Press Freedom Committee, and its 44 affiliated press freedom groups around the world, are constantly fighting many national governments and international organizations, which never stop censoring news, stopping the free flow of information within and across borders, and jailing journalists to silence free public policy debate and criticism of government - all to maintain their political power and control.

Basic Human Right - Why is Article 19 essential to all the other human rights guaranteed by The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Because free flow of information about basic human rights, uncensored reporting of violations of human rights, and uncensored criticism of individuals, governments and public policies that limit human rights, are essential to winning and maintaining all other human rights. A free press should be the greatest protector of human rights, but it is too often taken for granted or ignored when human rights are discussed.

Roosevelt Legacy - Not always. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a world founded on four essential freedoms: "The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second was freedom of religion. The third was freedom from want. The fourth was freedom from fear - everywhere in the world." Although FDR died before Dec. 10, 1948, his emphasis on freedom of speech and expression lived on in Article 19 written in part by his wife Eleanor Roosevelt who was chairwoman of the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in Paris 50 years ago.

Kofi Annan A Defender - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said a year ago that "If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. It is that simple." In a speech June 22,

1997 in Toronto, Canada, at a World Bank conference on Global Knowledge, Kofi Annan made one of the strongest statements for freedom

of information as essential to democracy and development ever made by a

UN Secretary General. He said, in part:

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the

premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

"We at the United Nations are convinced that information has a

great democratizing power waiting to be harnessed to our global struggle

for peace and development."

"Information and freedom are indivisible. The information

revolution is unthinkable without democracy, and true democracy is

unimaginable without freedom of information." (unquote)

I call that a powerful, clear and correct statement of some basic truths about fundamental human rights and the freedom of information

essential to protect those human rights. Words to Deeds - The UN Secretary General has moved on from those eloquent words to some very effective "deeds."

Kofi Annan in July personally took action to urge the Vietnamese government to release Doan Viet Hoat, brave editor of pro-democracy newsletters and statements from Communist government prisons he has endured for 19 of the last 22 years.

In a 1992 letter from prison published outside of Vietnam in countries enjoying a free press, Professor Hoat appealed to his Communist government "to release all political prisoners, and to implement political freedom, freedom of speech and press, and freedom of religion, and to organize genuinely free and fair elections..." (unquote)

The Secretary General brought the plight of Professor Hoat to the attention of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, who investigated the Hoat case through her Working Group on Arbitrary

Detention and her Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. After loud protests from the Committee to Protect Journalists,

Amnesty International, Asia Watch and the World Association of

Newspapers, it was announced on August 28 that Doan Viet Hoat would be released from prison with human rights activist Nguyen Dan Que and

5,200 other Vietnamese prisoners, in a general amnesty.

That is an excellent example of effective cooperation between the

United Nations and free press NGO's for free speech as a basic human right. It shows what can be done when we all work together for universal human rights on this 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights.

VISIT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL 15 Sept '98/Rev4 TO HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

Wednesday. 16 September 1998

3:30 ETDUNHQ

4:00 ETDNY/LGA [Charter flight to Amherst] 4:30 ETA Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee, MA [Greeted by Prof Emeritus Eqbal Ahmad; two Faculty members; reporter]

(Contact: Nancy Kelly, Executive Assistant to President, Hampshire College; T.413-559-5521)

4:55 ETA Hampshire College and meet with Platform Party (Rm G-13, Franklin Patterson Hall) Platform Party: Secretary-General; Hampshire College: Cora Weiss, Trustee Emerita; Blair Brown, Chairman of the Board; Gregory S. Prince, Jr., President; Aaron Berman, Dean of Faculty; Margaret Cerullo, Mark Feinstein, Michael Ford, Lynne Hanley, Mary Russo, Brian Schultz and Steven Weisler, Academic Deans; Tom Gerety, President, Amherst College; Gai Carpenter, Librarian, Mount Holyoke College; John Connolly, Provost, Smith College; David Scott, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts

5:00-6:00 Secretary-General to deliver Eqbal Ahmad Annual Lecture - "Knowledge and Civilization" Introduction by: Gregory S. Prince, Jr., President, Hampshire College (Library Lawn (tent), Hampshire College; Audience: 2500-3000)

6:00-6:10 Press Interview — Springfield Union News; Daily Hampshire Gazette; Associated Press; Springfield TV: Channel 22; Channel 40; NPR affiliate: WFCR; WAMC (Franklin Patterson Hall, Faculty Lounge)

6:10 Reception with Hampshire Trustees -- Receiving line: Secretary-General; President Gregory S. Prince, Jr.; Chairman Blair Brown; Prof. Eqbal Ahmad and Ms. Cora Weiss (Great Hall, National Yiddish Book Center; Attendees: 50)

6:30-7:30 Informal Buffet Dinner (Library, National Yiddish Book Center)

7:30 ETD Amherst, MA (By car) 9:00 ETA Cambridge, MA SEP- 4-98 FRI 1:42 PM HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE FAX NO. 4135595584 r.

GREGORY SMITH PRINCE, JR., PRESIDENT Office of the President Hampshire College Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 Phone: 413-582-5521 Fax: 413-582-5584

Gregory Smith Prince, Jr. is the fourth President of Hampshire College, a four-year, independent li.bcr.al ans college in Amherst, Massachusetts with an enrollment of 1100 students. Prince also ho/ds the positron of Professor in the School of Social Science, and leaches a course entitled "Conflict Resolution and Historical Analysis." Prior to becoming Hampshire's President in September 1989, Prince served for many years at Dartmouth College in a range of positions, in the Provost and Dean of Faculty Offices and as Adjunct Professor of History. His BA (magna cum laude), MPhil, and PhD, all in American Studies, are from ; as a doctoral student, he held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and an NDEA Title IV Fellowship. In addition, Prince is the recipient of an honorary degree from Amherst College. Among his numerous leadership roles in civic and community activities, President Prince served as Chairman of the Board of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts (AICUM) and was President of Five Colleges, Inc. He has served on boards as diverse as the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the Monlshire Museum of Natural Sciences, the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Yale-China Association, and the University Press of New England. He currently is serving on the board of directors of the Washington Campus, the National Inventive Thinking Association, Mass Ventures, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and the Nature Conservancy. Under Prince's leadership, Hampshire College has become the first college in the nation to offer matching funds to students who participate in President Clinton's National Service Program and who have been accepted at Hampshire. Prince's editorial explaining this program and suggesting that other colleges follow suit was published in newspapers across the country. Hampshire College admitted its first students in 1970. Now, as then, the campus is an intellectual community of unusual vitality, imagination, and strength. In carrying out the primary mission to graduate men and women with the skills and perspectives needed for responsible and creative participation in a complex world, Hampshire College has developed a distinctive form of education in which all students meet a set of rigorous requirements by negotiating a series of contracts with individual and teams of faculty. This creates an unusual degree of freedom, responsibility and accessibility and it requires, not just encourages, close student-faculty interaction. The self-initiated and individualized programs of study, generates a strong interdisciplinary curriculum, in wliich faculty and students leam to make connections across disciplines and to see the full complexity of problems, and the inclusion of critical inquiry at every stage of the student's work, focuses on gaining an understanding of both the multicultural nature of our world and the necessity of responsible leadership within it. Hampshire also has become a leader in the science education program for K-l 2 teachers and currently is facilitating the creation of the New England League for science activity-a consortium of major science museums and nature centers. President Prince is a native of Washington, DC. He is married to Toni Brewer Prince and has two children, Tata and Gregory. 73, VISIT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL 15 Sept '98/Rev6 TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Thursday. 17 September 1998

Inn at Harvard 1201 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA; T.617-491-2222; F.617-864-2409

(Contact: RichardM. Hunt, University Marshal, Harvard University/617-495-5727 AlexHuppe, Director, Public Affairs, Harvard University/617-495-1585)

10:00-11:00 Tour of the Fogg Art Museum — James Cuno, Director

11:15-11:45 Mrs. Annan: Meet with Prof. Carol Gilligan (Inn at Harvard Atrium)

11:45-12:15 Radio Interview - Chris Wolf, WGBH (Inn at Harvard)

12:30-1:45 Lunch Hosted by Professor Samuel Huntington [Small group -- Senators, political figures, CFIA Fellows; no speeches] (Upstairs at the Pudding, 10 Holyoke Street)

2:00-2:45 Meeting and Interview (to conclude New Yorker profile) with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., followed by brief tour of Du Bois Institute (Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street)

2:00-2:45 Mrs. Annan: Meet with Swedish students (Wadsworth House Parlor) [Bobbie Cardullo will meet her at 'Upstairs at the Pudding' and escort her to Wadsworth House]

2:45-3:10 [Open ~ stop at Inn at Harvard]

3:15-3:50 Meeting with Prof. S. Allen Counter and Undergraduates, Harvard Foundation (University Hall, 2nd Fir Faculty Room)

4:00-4:20 Meeting with Dr. Neil Rudenstine, President, Harvard University (Sanders Theatre Reception Room) [10 people]

4:30-5:30 Secretary-General Addresses Harvard Academy ~ "The Politics of Globalization" Introduction by: Dr. Neil Rudenstine, President, Harvard University (Sanders Theater; Audience: 1,100)

5:45-6:00 Press Interview

6:15-6:30 Reception (Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street) 6:30-8:30 Dinner hosted by Professor Samuel Huntington and Marshal Richard M. Hunt (Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street) [100 people to attend]

9:00 ETD Boston USAir#6141 10:00 ETANY/LGA SAMUEL P. HUNTTNGTQN January 1998

Samuel P. Humingtor is the Albert J. Weatherhcad III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Center for International Affairs, His newest, book, The Clash of Civiliiaiiota and the Remaking of World Order (Simon and Schuster) was published in the fell of 1996 and is being translated into 22 other languages. Born on April 18, 1927, in New York City, he received his B-A. from Yale University in 1946. his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948, and Us Ph,D- from Harvard in 1951. He taught at Harvard from 1950 through 1938, and then was Associate Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University from 1959 to 1962. when he returned to Harvard, he served as Chairman of the Harvard Department of Government from 1967 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1971. He became Associate Director of die Center for International Affairs in 1973 and was Director from 1978 to 1989. He became Director of ihe John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies in 1989, and Chairman of the Harvard Academy in 1996. During 1977 and 1978 he served at the While House as Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. In 1970 he was a founder of the quarterly journal, Foreign Policy, and was its co-editor until 1977.

He has been a Research Associate of the Brooking* Institution, a Faculty Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., «nd Senior Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He was a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association (1969-1971). the Vice President (1984-1935), and the President (1986-1987) of the Association, a member of the Presidential Task Force on International Development (1969-1970). a member of the Commission on United States-Latin American Relations (1974-1976), chairman of the Defense and Arms Control Study Group of the Democratic Advisory Council (1974-1976), and a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Tom Strategy (1986-1988), and member of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (1995-1997), Dr. Huntlngton is (he author or editor of over a dozen books and ninety scholarly articles. He has studied, taught, and written widely in three principal areas'. 1. Military politics, strategy, and civil-military relations, where his books include: The Soldier and the State; The Theory and Politics of Civil-Hilary Relations, 1957; The Common Defense: Strategy Programs in National Politics, 1961; Changing Pattern* of Military Politics (editor). 1962; The Strategic Imperative: New Policies for American Security (editor), 1982; Living mtft Nuclear Weapons (co-author), 1983; and Reorganizing America's Defense (co- editor), 1985. 2. American and comparative politics, where his books include: Political Power: USA/USSR (co-author), 1964; The Crisis of Democracy (co-author), 1975; American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony. 1981 (winner of the Association of American Publishers Seek! Science Award); and Global Dilemmas (co-editor), 1985.

3. Political development and the politics of less developed countries, wbere his books include: Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968; Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: The Dynamics of Established One-Pony Systems (co-editor), 1970; No Easy Choice: Political Participation in Developing Countries (eo-autbor), 197$; Underxtandbif Political Development (co-editor), 1986; and The Third Wave; Democraihujttion in the Late Twentieth Century, 1991 (winner of the Grawcmcyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order). HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.. grew up in Piedmont, West Virginia. He graduated summa cum lauds from Yale with a degree in history. He became a London correspondent for Time and received his Ph.O in English from Cambridge University. He has taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke and in now professor of English and chairman of the department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard. He writee extensively for such publications as The New York Times Book Review, and The New Yorker and has edited and contributed to a wide variety of scholarly booKs and journals. His books include Figures in Block; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism; for which he received an American Book Award; Loose Canons; the memoir Colored People; Tha Futura of foe Race (with Cornel Wast); and Thirteen WAUB of Loakina at a Black Man V .9-08-J 998 10:59AM FROM P. 1±>

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5. /U/en Counter, Dr.Med.Sc,, Ph*D,, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 16 Divinity Aw., Cambridge, MA.02138. Tel: (617)495-1527; Citizen: U.S.A.; Soc. Sec. 267-62-4755.(B,S. Term. U.;Ph.D. Case Western Reserve; Dr. Med. Sc. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden). NeurophysiologisL Dr. S. Allen Counter is Director of The Harvard Foundation of Harvard University and Associate Professor of Ncuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, He is also Neurophysiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his B.S. degree from Tennessee University, the Ph.D degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, and the Doctor of Medical Science Degree from the Karolinska-Nobel- Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Counter is a nacive of West Palm Beach, Florida Following post-doctoral studies in Neurobiplogy at Harvard, he joined the faculty of Biology (neurobiology) in 1972. After several years of teaching undergraduate biology (pre-med) courses, graduate, and medical students, and creating a new neurobiology course at Harvard (Biology 128-Advanced Neurobiology). Dr. Counter was promoted to Associate Professor of Biology, and in 1981 was appointed to the Neurology faculty of the Harvard Medical School. In 1989, he was the recipient of the distinguished NAACP Image Award, and in 1994 the National Medical Association Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Counter has served as visiting professor and scientific researcher for the past 20 years at the Karolinska -Nobel-Institute in Stockholm. As a neurophysiologist, he conducts both clinical and basic research studies on nerve and muscle phy^i-iogy, and ncurophysiological diagnosis of brain-damaged children and adults. Presently, his scientific research (at Harvard and in Sweden) focuses on the neurological effects of lead and mercury exposure, brainstem neurophysiology, and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and cochlea. In 1981, the President and Deans of Harvard University established the Harvard Foundation, an inter cultural agency. The purpose of this project is to improve racial understanding and the atmosphere of race relations at Harvard College and the University. President Derek C. Bok and Dean Henry Rosovsky appointed Dr. Counter Director of the Harvard Foundation. Today, the Foundation is a highly respected and firmly established program at Harvard, and represents a model for inter cultural relations which is currently being adopted by other universities throughout the country. Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Javier Perez De Cuellar, Secretaries General of the UN, Nobel Laureate, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Parliament Member, Mary Robinson, President oflreland, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico, Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, author Alex Haley, noted native American artist, R.C. Gorman, and baseball great Hank Aaron are among the many distinguished national and international figures who have participated in the Harvard Foundation's programs. Dr. Counter is also a professional explorer, and a member of the Explorers Club of New York. In 1971, while pursuing a second academic interest in African-American ethnography, Dr. Counter initiated scientific research and cultural studies among the indigenous people of the Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana) South American rain forest. His explorations led to over a decade of major articles on the little known rain forest descendants of 17th and 18th century African slaves, in a variety of international periodicals including Newsweek, Time, New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), as well as scientific journals. In addition, he produced an award-winning documentary on the culture of the Rain Forest African-American People entitled, "I Shall Moulder Before I Shall Be Taken," which has been shown on television and screen throughout the world (including Africa, where he took the film in 1980). His research work with the Rain Forest African-Americans, and his films on their tribal customs and heritage have been the subject of a 90 minute PBS special entitled,"I Sought My Brother," an ABC Television show called "Rebel Slaves* and a later PBS special called "Vanishing Tribe," In 1981 Dr. Counter co-authored (with David L. Evans) a book on his experiences with the South American Rain Forest People called / Sought My Brother, published by MIT Press. In 1993, Dr. S. Allen Counter

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initiated research studies in the Ecuadorian interior where he discovered a unique group of African- descended people living high in the Andes Mountains, in the little known village of Chota. Dr. Counter produced a documentary film on these descendants of 18th century slaves entitled. Lost Africans of the Andes.. From 1993 tol997, he has led medical teams into Che Ecuadorian Andes mountains to study the health problems of the indigenous children and to provide medical and educational service programs. He is presently working to reduce the severe lead and mercury poisoning found among the children in the ceramics glazing and gold mining areas of Ecuador. Dr. Counter has published extensively in both cultural and scientific journals, including National Geographic and Scientific American. He has appeared on local and national television in numerous programs ranging from children's science shows ("3 2 1 Contact" and "Spaces") to talk shows. He is especially interested in increasing the scientific literacy of young people. To this end he has presented talks and videos on science in education to elementary, junior high, and high school students throughout the metropolitan Boston area and the country. He has also lectured on scientific education and development to Fulbright Scholars, and in third world countries including, The Peoples Republic of China; Suriname, South America; and Togo, West Africa In addition to his scientific interests he continues to work- in the area of ethics in science and technology, nature conservation, and human rights at the international level. Dr. Counter is a member of the Advisory Councils of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health (appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services). Dr. Counter is also Vice President of the Massachusetts Society For The Prevention of Cruelly to Children. In 1986, Dr. Counter traveled K> the northernmost settlements in Greenland on a scientific mission and found the 80 year old Amer-Eskimo sons of North Pole discoverers Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson (fathered with Polar Eskimo women during the 1906 expedition). After bringing the existence of these men to international attention. Dr. Counter enabled them to fulfill their life-long dream of visiting the birth and resting places of their respective fathers and meeting their American relatives. Dr. Counter brought Anaukaq Henson and Kali Peary, and members of their families to the U.S.A. for their first visit on May 29, 1987. During their 11 day visit, dubbed the "North Pole Family Reunion," each son laid a wreath at his father's grave site and met his American relatives for the first time. They received numerous tributes, including a personal message from the President of the United States, a proclamation from the Mayor of Washington, D. C, declaring June 3, 1987 Matthew Henson Day, a Service of Welcome at Harvard's Memorial Church and New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church, and an honorary banquet hosted by the President of Harvard. Robert E. ?eary was buried with full honors in an impressive monument at Arlington National Cemetery in 1920. In contrast, Matthew A. Henson, master Arctic explorer mcst-loved by the Eskimos, was buried in 1955 in a simple grave at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, N.Y.C. In 1986, Dr. Counter petitioned the President of the 'Jnited States for permission to transfer the remains of Matthew A. Henson from Woodlawn Cemetery to their rightful place among other American heroes in Arlington National Cemetery. In October of 1987, the President granted Dr. Counter's request. Dr. Counter organized, planned, and coordinated the reinterment. On April 6,1988, the 79th Anniversary of the North Pole discovery, Matthew Henson and his wife Lucy Ross Henson were reinterred with full military honors and a fitting new monument next to Robert and Josephine Peary in Arlington National Cemetery. Dr. Tounter is the author and producer of a book and films on his work with the Henson-Peary Descendants entitled North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo and Welcome Home, Matthew Henson. Sample Recent Publications 1. Counter, S. A, and Evans, D.E. 1 Sought mv Brother: MIT Press 1981 (271p book) 2. Borg, E. and Counter, S.A. The Middle Ear Muscles SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN August 1989. 3. Counter, S. A. Neurobiological effects of extensive transcranial electromagnetic stimulation in an animal model. Electroenceph. Clin, Neurophysiol. 1993, 89: 341 - 348. 4. Counter, S.A., Aldskogius, H. and Borg, E. Cholera toxin B-HRP and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP tracing of tensor tympani muscle motor neurons and processes in rabbits. Acta Otolaryngol (Stock) 1993; 113: 43-47. 5. Counter S A, Borg E, Bredberg G, Linde G, Vamio, M. Electromagnetic stimulation of the auditory system of deaf patients. Acta Otolaryngol. 1994,114: 501-509. 9-e8-]998 11:01 AM FROM

6. Counter, S. A. North Pole Legacy: Black. White, and Eskimo f 1991. 220p.University of Massachusetts Press). 7. Counter S A, Canlon, B. Borg E, Aldskogius, H. Pattern of synaptophysin immunoreactivity in the efferent nerve terminals of guinea pigs. Neuroscience Letters 1997; 222: 199-203. 8. Counter SA, Olofsson A, Grahn H, Borg E. Magnetic resonance imaging acoustic noise: sound pressure and frequency analysis. J. Mag. Res. Imag. 1997. 9. Counter SA, Vahter M, Laurell G, Buchanan LH, Ortega F, Skerfving, S. High lead exposure and auditory sensory-neural function in Andean children. Environmental Health Perspectives 1997. 10. Counter SA, Buchanan LH, Ortega F, Laurell G. Normal auditory and cochlear function in extreme pediatric plumbism. Journal of Neurological Sciences 1997; 152: 85-92. 11. Counter SA, Buchanan LH, Laurell G, Ortega F. Blood mercury and auditory neuro-sensory responses in children and adults in the Nambijagold mining area of Ecuador. NeuroToxicology, 1998; 19: 185-196. Awards and Honors 1971: Recipient of the 1971 Young Scientist Award from ASHA (given for outstanding research in the area of hearing). 1975: Service Recognition Award from HEW Sec. HEW Caspar Weinberger for service on The National Advisory Mental Health Council (served as Council Member 1971-74). 1977: Recipient of the Cine Golden Eagle Award for excellence in documentary film production. 1977: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Award for Scientific Contributions 1983: Alpha Phi Alpha Award for Service to Mankind 1986: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Award for Scientific Achievement. 1990: Recipient of the Caribbean Independence International Organization Award ("For significant contributions in research related to the Maroons and other Freedom Fighters in the Caribbean). 1990: Vice President of the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children. 1990: Recipient of the National NAACP Image Award 1991: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation, Inc.

1992: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center, Greenfield, New Hampshire. 1992: Mary Hudson Onley Award from the Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement 1992: Recipient of the Honorary Doctorate in Intercultural Relations, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 1992 1992: Recipient of and award for contributions to improved race relations at Harvard University from President Derek C. Bok. 1995: Recipient of the Honorary Doctorate in Science, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, June 1995. 9-0&-1S9S 10:53AM FROM SENT BYJHarvard University : 9- 3-98 : 2:46PM ; President's 6ffic«- '.4

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Neil L. Rudenstine is president of Harvard University, Before assuming this position on July 1, 1991, he served for three years as executive vice president of die Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. During the two preceding decades, Rudenstine vims a faculty member and senior administrator At , A scholar of Renaissance literature, be was an associate professor and then a professor of English, He also held a series of administrative posts: dean of students (1968-72), dean, of the college (1972-77), and provost (1977-88). Previously, Ruderutffie served at Harvard from 1944 to 1968 as an instructor and then an assistant professor in the Department of English and and Language. Rudensrinc received his bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1956. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied for die next three years at New College, Oxford University, where he earned a second B.A. and an MA. In 1964, he was awarded a. Ph.D. in English from Harvard, where he was a Harvard Prize Fellow. He then joined the faculty at Harvard, and stayed until leaving for Princeton in 1968.

During this time, Rudensrine expanded his doctoral dissertation concerning Sir Philip Sidney into a book, entitled Sidney's Poetic Development, which was published in 1967. He was also co-editor of English Poetic Setir* Wyatt to Byron, published in. 1972, More recently, his collaboration with William G. Bowen on a study of graduate education in die arts and sciences at American research universities resulted in the volume entitled In Pursuit of the PhD. published in 1992. Rudenstine is an honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, as well as Provost Emeritus of Princeton University. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, tbe American Philosophical Society, and the Committee for Economic Development. Earlier, he served as a member of various advisory groups, including the National Commission on Preservation and Access, the Council on Library Resourees, and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Itadenstine has also served »a trustee of the College Entrance Examination Board and of the Wooster School in Dsftbury, -, of which he U a graduate. A native of Danbury (born on January 21,1933), Rudenafinr. is die son of Mae Esperito Rudensrinc and the late Hatty Bixdcnstine.

He is married to Angelica Zander Rudcnstine, an art historian, whom he met while he was at Oxford. She has been the curator of several major art exhibitions, including StNl fcSliHarvard University '. y- 3-V« : y:4/KM 1 Kresi

Ka&mir Makvicb for the National Gallery in Washington and the Merroplican Museum In New York, and Mondrian for the National Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, She has served on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Htie Arts In Boston (1360- 6S), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New Yoik (1973-81). She held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983-84, and in 1987-86 was adjunct professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Her two-volume catalogue of the Guggenheim's permanent collection of paintings was published in 1976. Addiuonafpublicationfr include Art of the Avait Gardf in Rusru; Selections fnrt* the George Cottakis Collection (1981); Peggy Guggenheim Collection (19&5); and Modem Painting, Drawing end Scufytur* from the CoSectioK ofBrxily ttnd Joseph Wtoer, Jr. (1958),

The Riidcnatincs have rhree childlten, Antooia, Nicholas, and Sonya.