VETERAN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT KEYNOTES MEETING

Robert Mayer Evans, former foreign correspondent for CBS News who lived and worked in several dozen countries on five continents, will speak at the Cape Girardeau Executives Club Oct. 24.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at Drury Lodge.

Evans serves as the CBS News Bureau Chief in Moscow, covering the Soviet Union across Siberia to the Chinese border.

Shortly after Evans graduated from law school, Edward R. Murrow invited him to become special assistant to the director of the U.S. Information Agency. Evans represented Murrow at State Department policy briefings and at other meetings of foreign affairs departments.

Later he worked in the CBS News Washington bureau, covering the White House, Capital Hill, the State Department and the Pentagon.