Greg Mortenson The Riddle
Who Greg Mortenson :
Greg Mortenson was born to Lutheran missionary parents in St. Cloud, Minnesota. His father, Dempsey, was the founder and development director of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania's first teaching hospital. His mother, Jerene, founded the International School Moshi. After a young childhood spent in Tanzania, East Africa, Mortenson and his family moved back to Minnesota in the early 1970s. After high school, Mortenson served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1975 to 1977 as a medic, receiving the Army Commendation Medal. After his discharge , He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1993.
Beginning of the crisis with "60 Minutes” :
A "60 Minutes” report Sunday alleging that bestselling author and education advocate Greg Mortenson may have lied in his memoir and made false claims about building schools is troubling news to many fans of Mr. Mortenson's work.
The CBS news program reported that some of the schools supposedly built by Mr. Mortenson – a globally known spokesperson for girls' education and author of the bestselling "Three Cups of Tea" – do not exist or were constructed by other organizations. It also questioned the veracity of parts of Mortenson’s personal story in his 2004 memoir.
The CBS news program reported that some of the schools supposedly built by Mr. Mortenson – a globally known spokesperson for girls' education and author of the bestselling "Three Cups of Tea" – do not exist or were constructed by other organizations. It also questioned the veracity of parts of Mortenson’s personal story in his 2004 memoir.
"Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson -- who has sold millions of copies of his best- , a three-time Nobel Prize nominee, recounted in the book how he was inspired to help establish schools, especially for girls in Pakistan, after he got lost while hiking there and stumbled upon the village of Korphe, where he was taken in and cared for by the villagers.
"Three Cups of Tea," tells the tale of this experience, and how his time with the villagers inspired him to return to the region to build a school for girls.
"As those of you who know me and have supported my work over the years will recognize, the story being framed by '60 Minutes' to air in a few hours today -- as far as we can tell -- paints a distorted picture using inaccurate information, innuendo and a microscopic focus on one year's (2009) IRS 990 financial, and a few points in the book 'Three Cups of Tea' that occurred almost 18 years ago," Mortenson wrote in the email today.
"The Board of Directors and I made the very difficult decision to not engage with '60 Minutes' on camera, after they attempted an eleventh hour aggressive approach to reach me, including an ambush in front of children at a book signing at a community service leadership convention in Atlanta," he wrote. "It was clear that the program's disrespectful approach would not result in a fair, balanced or objective representation of our work, my books or our vital mission."
"Three Cups of Tea," tells the tale of this experience, and how his time with the villagers inspired him to return to the region to build a school for girls.
"As those of you who know me and have supported my work over the years will recognize, the story being framed by '60 Minutes' to air in a few hours today -- as far as we can tell -- paints a distorted picture using inaccurate information, innuendo and a microscopic focus on one year's (2009) IRS 990 financial, and a few points in the book 'Three Cups of Tea' that occurred almost 18 years ago," Mortenson wrote in the email today.
"The Board of Directors and I made the very difficult decision to not engage with '60 Minutes' on camera, after they attempted an eleventh hour aggressive approach to reach me, including an ambush in front of children at a book signing at a community service leadership convention in Atlanta," he wrote. "It was clear that the program's disrespectful approach would not result in a fair, balanced or objective representation of our work, my books or our vital mission."
more info:
Greg Mortenson website : www.gregmortenson.com
Greg Mortenson in Wikipedia : www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea : www.threecupsoftea.com
Greg Mortenson blog : gregmortenson.blogspot.com
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