April 10, 2005

Foreign correspondent Roberts '33 dies

Influential diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. Roberts ‘33 has died at age 91, the Times reports. Roberts joined the Washington Post in 1949, and began covering diplomatic circles in 1953. He covered stories such as the Pentagon Papers, the death of Stalin, and Khrushchev’s 1959 tour of the United States.

After graduating from Amherst, Roberts worked for a variety of papers, and in the mid-1930s, he and fellow class of ‘33 member Alfred Friendly (who would later become a managing editor of the Post, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the namesake of the Alfred Friendly ‘33 Periodicals Reading Room at Frost Library) “toured Europe and America, taking odd jobs to make ends meet.”

Brian Meacham '97 | April 10, 2005 02:54 PM | Alumni

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