46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003

EXPRESSING THE CONDOLENCES OF THE SENATE UPON THE DEATH OF HENRY TREWHITT.

WHEREAS, Henry "Hank" Trewhitt was a world-renowned journalist whose career included coverage of the construction of the Berlin wall to the fall of a president in the Watergate scandal, and from the birth of a thermonuclear bomb at Los Alamos to the Vietnam war; and

WHEREAS, Henry Trewhitt joined the university of New Mexico journalism department in 1989 and continued to coach writers at the student newspaper, the Daily Lobo, until his death at his Albuquerque home in January 2003; and

WHEREAS, Henry Trewhitt began his storied career in journalism in 1949 as a member of the first journalism class at the university of New Mexico; and

WHEREAS, Henry Trewhitt's career included service at The Santa Fe New Mexican, the Chattanooga Times, the Baltimore Sun, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report; and

WHEREAS, at the age of twenty-five, Henry Trewhitt became the youngest person to be awarded a Nieman fellowship to Harvard university; and

WHEREAS, Henry Trewhitt was universally admired by his co-workers, colleagues and students;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the senate's prayers and condolences be extended to the family of Henry "Hank" Trewhitt; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the family of Mr. Trewhitt.