Gregory Baum (1978-1979)

Gregory Baum was a Canadian priest and theologian in the Roman Catholic Church. He emigrated to Canada from England as a war refugee with his Jewish mother and Protestant father. In the 1960s, he was known for his works on ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, and the relationship between the Catholic Church and Jewish populations. Later in the decade, he attended the New York School for Social Theory and became a sociologist, specializing in social ethics and the sociology of religion.

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Pierre Emmanuel (1960-1961)

Pierre Emmanuel was a French poet, critic, and journalist. Pierre Emmanuel name was a pseudonym and his real name was Noël Mathieu. He was a professor of mathematics until 1943, when he joined the French resistance movement to the Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. From 1945 to 1949, he was head of the British Service and then the American Service for French radio and television. He was a visiting professor or lecturer at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and Manchester.

Laurens van der Post (1965-1966)

Laurens van der Post was a South African author, political advisor, explorer, and humanitarian. In 1925, he began working as a reporter with The Natal Advertiser and a year later co-founded a satirical magazine that was critical of imperialism. As a reporter at The Cape Times at the end of the decade, van der Post began to write more frequently against racist government policy in South Africa. His first novel, In a Province (1934), described the tragedy of racial divisions.

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