People Remembered: Graham Hovey

Graham Hovey, 94, a former correspondent in Europe and Africa, a university professor and winner of an OPC award, died February 20. He lived in a retirement community in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Hovey joined International News Service in Detroit in 1940 and during the war reported from Africa, Italy and France. In 1944, he became a foreign affairs reporter for AP in Washington and two years later joined the New Republic as an assistant editor for foreign affairs.

In 1947, Hovey entered graduate school and taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and then at the University of Wisconsin. He returned to journalism in 1956 with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, which appointed him its European correspondent based in London. In 1965, he joined The New York Times, where he wrote editorials on Europe, Africa and the Americas.

He retired from The Times in 1980 and then taught at the University of Michigan. His OPC award was for best press interpretation of foreign affairs.