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Queens University of Charlotte Welcomes Hodding Carter III
October 22, 2009 ~ 7 pm ~ Sykes Auditorium
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Hodding Carter III,
Journalist & Politician
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Hodding Carter III, journalist and politician best known for his role as assistant secretary of state in the Jimmy Carter administration, currently serves as University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at UNC Chapel Hill.
Previously, Carter served nearly eight years as president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Fla.. The Knight Foundation is a $2 billion organization concerned with economic and civic development in selected American communities and the furtherance of press freedom and improvement of press performance at home and abroad.
After graduating summa cum laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in 1957, Carter served two years as a U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant before returning to Greenville, MS and his family’s daily newspaper, Delta Democrat-Times, in 1959. While there, he won the National Professional Journalism Society Award for Editorial Writing in 1961, and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard for 1965-66. During his 18 year tenure at the paper, he served as reporter, managing editor and editor and associate publisher.
Carter became actively engaged with racial and political reform efforts in Mississippi in the mid-1960s. In 1968 he was co-chair of the biracial delegation that ousted the state’s all-white Democratic Party delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He worked in Lyndon Johnson’s presidential campaign in Washington in 1964, and Jimmy Carter’s campaign in Atlanta in 1976. Following Carter’s victory, he was named Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and a State Department spokesman.
After leaving his post in the government in 1980, Cater worked as an anchor, commentator, production company president and reporter for various media outlets including ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, NBC and PBS. During this time, he won four national Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award for best foreign documentary. He also wrote op-ed columns on a regular basis for various newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and has written two books and contributed to nine others.
Carter is married to Patricia Derian. Together they have seven children and 12 grandchildren.
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Norris & Kathryn Preyer Lecture Series
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Kathryn & Norris Preyer
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Dr. Norris Preyer is professor emeritus of history at Queens University of Charlotte. He came to Queens in 1957 and later was named the very prestigious Dana Professor of History and chair of the History Department. He is the author of two books (including Hezekiah Alexander and the Revolution in the Backcounty) and numerous articles in scholarly publications. His enthusiasm and love of his subject made him a favorite with students for more than 30 years until he retired in 1990.
Kathryn Preyer has also been very influential at Queens. She is the founder of Friends of the Library and a founding member of Friends of Music and Friends of Art. She received the distinguished Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Queens in 1974. Both Kathryn and Norris have been named Honorary Alumni by the Queens Alumni Association. They have two children: Norris, Jr., a physics professor, and Janet Preyer Nelson, a 1977 graduate of Queens and a loyal alumna.
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