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Don Bohning
2002 Alumnus of the Year

Over the course of 36 years as a foreign correspondent for The Miami Herald, Don Bohning has reported from every independent country in the Western Hemisphere.

He has covered such world events as the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile, the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana and the U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama in the 1980s. He also reported on the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City and the Democratic National Convention in New York.

Bohning graduated from Wesleyan in 1955 and then served in the U.S. Army for two years. In 1959 he earned a bachelor's degree in foreign trade from the American Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix. He also did graduate work at the University of Miami.

He joined The Miami Herald staff in 1959 as a reporter in its Hollywood (Fla.) bureau and was promoted to bureau chief in 1962. In March of 1964 he was named to The Miami Herald's Latin America staff and became the newspaper's Latin America editor in 1967, holding the position until his retirement in 2000.

Bohning has contributed to various publications, including Saturday Review, Coronet, Progressive and Collier's Yearbook.

He is an award-winning journalist with a list of citations that includes the James Nelson Goodsell Award for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Florida International University's Latin America Caribbean Center. In 1987 he shared with other editors and reporters The Miami Herald Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He was also the winner of the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle award for best daily newspaper or wire service reporting for his coverage of Grenada, including the U.S. invasion.

Bohning is married to Gerry Morris '55. They have two grown children and live in Fort Lauderdale.