News Release Date:
Friday, Mar 10, 2006
WALLA
WALLA, Wash.-- The Wall Street Journal’s senior correspondent for South Asia will
discuss the impact that recent economic developments in China and India
could have on the people of Walla
Walla when he visits the Whitman campus Wednesday,
March 29.
Peter
Wonacott, a 1989 graduate of Whitman College, will present “Two Billion People Aspiring:
On the Ground in Asia’s Two New Economic Giants, China
and India”
at 7 p.m. in Maxey Auditorium, near Otis and Boyer. Wonacott will describe Asia’s growing economy, profile some of the resultant winners
and losers, and discuss the global impact of the region’s economic
transformation. His talk is sponsored by the Annual Robert R. Hosokawa ’40
Lecture endowment and is free and open to the public.
After
graduating with a major in English and a minor in history, Wonacott taught
English in Chongquing, China, as part of the Whitman in China program.
He later completed a master of arts degree in Asian Studies at the University of Oregon
and post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins Center
in Nanjing, China,
and began reporting for the Dow Jones Newswires in China in 1994. In 1999 he started
work for The Wall Street Journal, and in 2005 he moved to New
Delhi, India, to
become the Journal’s senior correspondent for South Asia.
The Hosokawa Lecture honors Robert R. Hosokawa, a 1940 Whitman
graduate who enjoyed a long career in journalism, corporate
communications and education. After graduating from Whitman with honors
in English, Hosokawa was considering law school when he and other
Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps at the start of
World War II. He and his wife were allowed to leave their internment
camp in Idaho after one of his former Whitman professors found him a
job with a weekly newspaper in Independence, Missouri.
Hosokawa
is now retired and living in Florida. His son, David Hosokawa, created
the endowment that finances annual journalism awards and brings
distinguished journalists to the campus for lectures and workshops.
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CONTACT: Lenel Parish, Whitman College
News Service, (509) 527-5156
Email: parishlj@whitman.edu
