Raymond A. Schroth is the author of The American Journey of Eric Sevareid, a biography of one of North Dakota’s favorite sons and America’s greatest journalists. Published in 1995, Schroth’s biography details Sevareid’s upbringing in rural North Dakota and Minneapolis, his hiring by Edward R. Murrow, his long career with CBS, and his retirement years. For nearly two decades, Sevareid’s raw, High Plains voice on the CBS Evening News came close to representing a kind of national conscience. He was one of the original “Murrow Boys.”
Schroth is a professor of humanities at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as a Jesuit priest and a journalist. He has taught or served as dean at five Jesuit colleges and universities, plus New York University graduate school and Brooklyn College. He is the author of eight books, including The American Jesuits: A History and Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader’s Journey through the Christian Classics. He has also written more than 300 articles and reviews on politics, religion, and the media, which have appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and Newsday. He is the media columnist for the National Catholic Reporter.
To hear a recording of Schroth’s public lecture, sponsored by Read North Dakota and delivered at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck on November 12, 2009, go to http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio/hear-it-now?post=16376.
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