Retired diplomat to speak at Longwood

William Bowdoin Jones, a retired career diplomat who served as U.S.
Ambassador to Haiti under President Carter, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 12, at
Longwood as part of International Awareness Week.

Ambassador Jones, currently the William A. Johns Professor of
Political Science and Ambassador in Residence at Hampden-Sydney College,
will speak on "National Interest and U.S. Foreign Policy" at 7 p.m. in
Wygal Auditorium. He is serving a second term on H-SC's Board of Trustees.

During his 22-year career as a Foreign Service officer, Jones was
the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti from 1977 to 1980; the United States Permanent
Representative to the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific
Organization (UNESCO) in Paris; and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
in Washington.

Following his retirement from the Foreign Service, he was appointed
staff director of the U.S. House of Representatives' Western Hemisphere
Sub-Committee. He is also an attorney, and he has been the Ambassador in
Residence at the University of Virginia and a Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Diplomacy and Law at Pepperdine University in his native
California.