On Friday, September 19, at 4:30 p.m. the Friends of the Academy Library will sponsor “A Conversation with author David Lamb, '58,” moderated by Jack Herney, Robert Shaw White Professor and Instructor in History, and Secretary of the Friends of the Academy Library. Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.

David Lamb's travels as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times have taken him to more than 120 countries and to all seven continents. He has covered the Vietnam War, the Iranian revolution, the overthrow of Idi Amin in Uganda, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the African famine and the Rwanda massacres, the Persian Gulf War, the popular uprising in Indonesia in 1998, the anarchy in East Timor in 1999, the war on terror in Afghanistan and many of the other major stories of the past two decades. He is the author of seven books.