Walter Lord Society
“I am interested in the people who are caught in great events more than the events themselves.”
The Walter Lord ('39) Society is a dining group, primarily open to students of Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges. The society will discuss politics, public events, and life at Princeton over dinners in the Mathey private dining room two or three times a semester. Its host will be Evan Thomas, a Mathey Fellow, Editor-at Large at Newsweek, and Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence. The society honors Walter Lord '39 , an author ("Night to Remember," "Day of Infamy") who loved Princeton, loved talking about the events of the day, cared deeply about politics and history, but never took himself too seriously.
-Evan Thomas –editor, Newsweek
The Walter Lord ('39) Society is a dining group, primarily open to students of Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges. The society will discuss politics, public events, and life at Princeton over dinners in the Mathey private dining room two or three times a semester. Its host will be Evan Thomas, a Mathey Fellow, Editor-at Large at Newsweek, and Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence. The society honors Walter Lord '39 , an author ("Night to Remember," "Day of Infamy") who loved Princeton, loved talking about the events of the day, cared deeply about politics and history, but never took himself too seriously.
-Evan Thomas –editor, Newsweek
Further information about Walter Lord:
As a high school senior at Baltimore’s Gilman School, Walter Lord (1917-2002) won the Princeton-Gilman Alumni Cup for his speech about the Titanic. Nineteen years later, he published A Night to Remember, the most famous and widely read account of that ill-fated ship.
At Princeton, Lord concentrated in History, and his senior thesis was entitled “The Rise and Fall of the Collins Line.” After graduating in 1939, he enrolled at Yale Law School, interrupting his studies to join the Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor. During World War II, he was assigned in 1942 to the Office of Strategic Services as a code clerk in London. He was the agency's secretariat when the war ended in 1945. Afterwards, Lord returned to Yale where he earned a degree in law.
See the full Wikipedia article: Walter Lord
And the entry on the Baltimore Authors website:
His publications include:
A Night to Remember (N.Y.: Holt, 1955). The sinking of the Titanic (steamship).
Day of Infamy (N.Y.: Holt, 1957) Describes the events of December 7, 1941, before, during, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the reactions of the men who lived through the attack.
The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War (N.Y.: Harper, 1960). A history of the U.S. in the first decades of the 20th century.
A Time to Stand (N.Y.: Harper, 1961). The siege of the Alamo, Texas, 1836.
The Past that Would Not Die (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1965). James Meredith and the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi.
Incredible Victory . (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1967). The Battle of Midway Island, 1942.
The Dawn’s Early Light (N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1972) – A history of the campaigns of the War of 1812.
