Speaker to Discuss "Why I Love (and Hate) Politics"

Reg Henry, deputy editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will discuss "Why I Love (and Hate) Politics" Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.

Born in Sinapore, where his father managed the Reuters news agency, Henry moved to Australia as a small boy. He began his newspaper career at the Brisbane Courier-Mail, but was interrupted by service in Vietnam with the Australian Army. After moving to Britain in 1973, he worked for a small weekly newspaper before joining The Times of London as a sports writer. He joined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1978 as a copy editor and was promoted to an associate editor who wrote editorials, and then the city editor. In 1988 he became the editor of The Monterey County Herald in Calif., which was owned by the Post-Gazette's parent company. Returning to Pittsburgh in 1994, he served as the special projects editor and later rejoined the editorial page.

The event is sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta, an international sociology honor society established for junior and senior majors or those who have a minor in sociology and have at least a 3.25 overall grade point average.

Contact the Westminster College Political Science and Sociology Department at (724) 946-7253 for more information.

Reg Henry