Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 10 2002 — C7 aft USU By U8U Madia Relations fl: In March 1985 Terry Anderson was chief Middle East correspondent H for the Associated Press statiooed in Beirut Lebanon One morning on his way to work radical Shiite gunmen stopped his car in the street ordered Anderson out and took him hostage Anderson spent the next seven years as a prisoner to international political terrorism during Lebanon's Moody civil war He was cImhmmI ' blindfolded beaten and every day expected to be killed Anderson comes to Utah State University March 18 to deliver a Media & Society Lecture sponsored by the Utah State Journalism and Communication Department: The tide of his talk is “Threats to World Press Freedom: A Conversation with Terry Anderson” The event begins at noon in the ‘ USU Taggart Student Center Ballroom It is free and the public is invited to attend: !' l U A' 4 'fl iin 1 l i m :ir l Hj P San Francisco Chronicle - My earliest travel hero was not Marco Polo or Lowell or even Sir Edmund Hillary He was a short chub- fellow with by hairy feet Name of Baggins Baggins trilo- The Lord of i ! pipe-smold- i any-Thom- ng ’ son has been a teacher columnist radio host and activist on behalf of people who need help In addition to his work with the Com- mittee to protect Journalists Ander-son is of the Vietnam Children’s Fund which builds ' schools in Vietnam and Middle East and Islam "I think founder and Americans need to pay more attendirector of the Jenco Foundation tion to what’s happening around the which works with the people of world how people in Pakistan or Appalachia Anderson has taught at the ColumMalaysia or Zimbabwe perceive us” he said "If nothing else Sept bia Graduate School of Journalism 11 showed us how little we underand at the E W Scripps School of stand the global village” Journalism at Ohio University He Anderson 54 was a journalist for graduated from Iowa State Universimore than 25 years working in Asia ty and served with the Marines in and Africa before the Associated Vietnam Press assigned him to the Middle Anderson’s docuEast in 1983 His memmentary “Return to the Den of the oir “Den of Lions” chronicles his Lions” about his return to Lebanon seven years as a hostage in Lebanon and that country’s recovery from 16 "Time” magazine said it “belongs on years of war will be shown at USU the shelf of classics about surviving before and after Anderson's lecture For further details contact the degradation with dignity and even humor” USU Journalism and Communica- Since his release in 1992 Ander- tion department at 2 b the-Ring- s ' the dank tunnels of the Misty Mountains through the dark and spooky Mirkwood forest post die Hall of the Elven ‘ cul-de-s- ac ur award-winni- RivendeU-lik- e tJi Yosemite Are you looking for some titles to inspire a lifelong love of travel in your children? Any book with a map in the front is a good place to start For specific suggestions I asked Elaine Petrocelli owner of the Book Passage book- store in Corte Madera Calif Here’s what she and her staff recommended: “Minou” by Mindy Bing- - ham illustrated by Itoko Maeno for ages 8 “Minou” said Petrocelli “is a charming kitten who is sud- denly alone in Paris Minou will take you on a pictorial tour of Paris There are beauti- fully drawn maps and draw- ings of all the Paris sights 3-- Val- ley to our own Mount Doom the summit of 14496- - foot Mount Whitney the highest peak in the lower 48 states It was every bit fire adventure I’d yearned fra1 We didn't encounter any ores or but we did stare down some hungry bears Dragons and evil wizards left us alone but we dodged lightning bolts high on a mountain pass And when I finally stood atop the lofty summit of Mount Whitney exhausted enthralled and already scanning die horizon for my next adventure a lifelong traveler was bom ft took Tolkien to bring it to ' full flower but the first seeds ' of wanderlust had been plant-ed even earlier by my father who read me bedtime stories hs ring-wrait- 8e ’ v Tolkien's beloved book The Howard ph°to Lord of the Rings” ': Tuesday March 12 2002 Saturday March 1L 2002 - Antonio Italy Potnpa-Bak- fi j Description of Photo SILVER MEDAl Tlth Van CUbum I International Piano Competition Share the Gold i c s s ' iih fl : r" - r: 1 aa :foe llth Van album International Plane and Sflver Medal winners from this GoM Now ( : i Wi : ' f Hearwhat VmCiiburn heard summer r fothdworM’sntpreariglouaplanoOwmpetition “ V I i 't fheb award winning i All performances at 7$0 pnC Kent Concert ' A: Ommtt AdmWon Tlds$5) Recttals are free to students pfall ages' however chili Information A Wj' I ! w2-jE£uS- ffoUagsof Humanities Arts and 33 T " v 51 i i p Sk i h’' v ng 1 797-329- ’ ' co-ch- air best-selli- ng from “The Wizard of Oz” “Dr Doolittle” and “Treasure Island” These I realize now were all travelogues disguised Smaug the dragon At some point along this journey I — like I suspect a lot of young readers — felt my first sharp pangs of wan- dodust the yearning to see the wider world that lay beyond my suburban That yearning grew into an almost unbearable ache a few years later as I joined Frodo Gandalf and foe others on their expedition across Middle Earth to Rivendell foe Moria mines sylvan Lofolorien the great citadel of Minas Tirith foe dark tower of Barad-Dand finally Mount Doom Long before Frodo entered Mordor the Land of Shadow I had resolved to undertake an epic journey of my own And I actually pulled it off At the age of 15 without really knowing What we were get-- 9 tins ourselves intbra fiiend ' and I shouldered heavy backpacks and set out on the John Muir TVail a mountain path that winds 211 miles from ‘I JRR talk-sho- w : X e" from a cat’s-ey- e view It’s a gentle story that talks about the ways we can take care of ourselves even in strange places” as yel-Fro- do - i and Daniel Pearl do and thousands of others whose names we don’t know is essential to freedom” Pease added that the terrorist attacks of Sept 11 took the country by surprise in part because 6f Ameri- cans’ lack of knowledge about the ‘ co-ch- air protestations to the Contrary by author JJUL Tolkien) But to me the trilogy and its pre-quel “The Hobbit” have always been more than thing travel books — spell- binding accounts of epic journeys through worlds of wonder I still have the lowed paperback copy of “The Hobbit” I first read when I was 10 or 11 with its ByJohnFlinn i the Committee to Protect Journalists which monitors attacks on the press around the world and works to free reporters from prison early March Anderson Will accompany a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists on a trip to Siberia in an effort to free a Russian reporter who has been jailed by the government there for four years According to the Committee attacks on editors and reporters worldwide are up sharply this year with a record number of journalists killed b the line of duty “What we fail to remember is that journalists’ duty around the world is to get information to us about what is happening in places we can’t go" said Pease "We are dependent on those people for our knowledge of people and cultures not like us Without their work which is so often deadly dangerous we as individuals and we as a nation can’t make informed judgments The work that people like Terry Anderson that inspire youngsters to wander Hooks V Anderson’s appearance at Utah State University pomes 17 years almost to the day ffter his abduction in BeirutAnd becomes to USU just one month after the kidnaping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan ended with Pearl's videotaped murder by his captors "What Terry Anderson went through as a hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s and how he not only sur-vived that ordeal but grew from it is unimaginaMe” said Tted Pease head ofUSU’s Journalism and Communication Department "What is even harder for me to imagine is Mr ' Anderson’s reactions to the kidnaping and murder of Danny Pearl liiat could have been him” Part of Anderson's response to Pearl’s kidnaping and murder he said in a telephone conversation last week from his home in southeastern Ohio was to redouble his efforts to work on behalf of jailed and threatened journalists worldwide Anderson is honorary of t ' y ' in ' “Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea” by Gk ria and Ted Rand ages “Here’s a fascinating beauti- fully illustrated true story of four 19th century children twho lived aboard a ' ed sailing ship that carried cargo all over the world” “Madlenka’’ by Peter Sis ages 8 “Madlenka has lived on the same New York City block since she was bom But her friends are from every- where We meet foe French baker the Indian news vendor 5-- 10 ' four-mas- 4-- the Italian ice-crea- m man the German lady who sits by her window the Latin American greengrocer and the Asian shopkeeper A trip around Madlenka’s block is an introduction to a trip around the world “Tibet: Through the Red Box” by Peter Sis ages 9- - adult “Inside an old red box Peter Sis finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the 1950s We join Sis as accidental travelers trekking through Tibet This gorgeous adventure book puts a place in your hands and your heart” “Journey to the River Sea” by Eva Ibbotson illus- ' trated by Kevin Hawkes ages “In a grand adventure story the heroine Maia must leave her home in London to stay with unknown relatives on a plantation near the Ama- zon She has a grand time meeting new friends and deal- ing with her very odd rela- far-aw- ay 9-- 14 fives- |