Stephen G. Patten        

PROFESSION:  Journalist, Writer, Teacher

CURRENT POSITION:  Co-owner, Lee & Grant Company, an information and education company founded 1991

Editor, Lee & Grant International, subsidiary of  Lee & Grant Company providing following services:

 - News and analysis on the Middle East and south Asia

 - Iraqi Arabic, Pashto, English, other language training

 - Cultural training on the Middle East and south Asia

For more information go to:                                                             www.leeandgrantinternational.com.

CURRENT PROJECT:  Co-authoring a biography for publication 2012

EDUCATION: Coral Gables Senior High School, 1961

A.B. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1965

MILITARY: Captain, U.S. Marine Corps, served in the U.S. and Okinawa (mostly) and Vietnam (briefly) as a platoon commander, staff officer, general’s aide, 1965-1968

JOURNALISM: Currently reporting on Iraq, the Middle East, Afghanistan and south Asia for Lee & Grant.

Reported in the 1970’s and 1980’s for CBS News and U.S. News & World Report from Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, South Korea, India, El Salvador, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Israel. 

Notable interviews:

Most touching:  Mother Teresa, Beirut, Lebanon

Most political:  Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, New Delhi, India

Most ruthless:  Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge leader, along the Thai/Cambodian border

LECTURE CIRCUIT:  Speak on Islam, Iraq, the Middle East, Afghanistan  and south Asia, Vietnam POW’s

PUBLISHED WORK: Television and radio:  numerous Newspaper/magazine articles:  numerous Books:  40 business textbooks

Most recent textbook:  Learning Iraqi Arabic; 2010

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:  Arabic (Iraqi dialect), Farsi, Pashto, Thai, French

PERSONAL:  Marital status:   Singl

Hobbies: Jogging, Islamic studies

To all my classmates at Coral Gables High:

Hello to everyone and thank you for your great idea of a 50^th reunion of our class.  I have thought of you and our great alma mater often over the years and always with fondness and gratitude.  Our school gave us a wonderful education that I know has been invaluable to all of us in our lives and our careers. 

I wanted especially to thank you all for the friendship and kindness you extended to me during my time at Coral Gables High.  I was a latecomer, arriving in March 1960.  But you all made me feel welcome and the one year plus that I was lucky enough to be with you at our great school was the experience of a lifetime.  

Very best wishes for a terrific reunion blast.  Go, Cavaliers!!