April, 1999 
Oct., 1999
April, 2004
Diana Daniels
 
 Thirty-two years have flown by.  As you may have gathered, I am still at The Washington Post Company having been General Counsel and Secretary for the last ten years.  I started my law career with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City after Harvard Law School and a year in Edinburgh, Scotland at the University of Edinburgh.   A few years later I moved to Washington, DC to become Assistant General Counsel for the Washington Post newspaper.  Eleven months later I moved back to New York to become General Counsel of Newsweek.  Finally in 1988 I moved back to DC to become chief legal officer for the Post Company. 

My job and life continue to be filled with interesting endeavors and I am fully engaged in my not-for-profit activities as well.  I have taken on far too much because I have yet to figure out how to say "no" when a good cause comes along.   I am a trustee of Cornell University, the Center for the Study of the Presidency, the Inter-American Press Association, and the Appleseed Foundation.  I am also on the Nominating Committee for The DC Preservation League. 

 In 1995 I adopted a five-month old baby girl from China who is the light of my life.  Dana is an extremely happy, well-adjusted child who has the gift of making others smile whenever she is around.  Recently she underwent a successful operation to correct a hole in her heart and came through with flying colors.  I was more of wreck than she was.  I am now engaged in the unbelievable task of getting her into the "right" pre-K school.  It is harder than getting into Harvard. 

Still doing a tremendous amount of traveling.  Since the beginning of the year I have been to New York City numerous times, as well as Phoenix, Steamboat Springs, Hartford, Connecticut, Toronto, Ithaca and now will be off to Jamaica for a conference at the end of this week.  Over the last few years I have been to Uruguay, Chile, Canada, Argentina, Belgium, Panama, Costa Rica on a number of occasions.  May go to China in a month or so and later this summer for fun will go on an annual fishing trip to Montana near the place where I was born. 

My parents moved to California after Montclair and lived for many years in Sebastopol in the middle of an apple orchard.  I spent many years going out for long weekends and loving the semi-rural life.  My father died in 1996 and my mother moved to Portland, Oregon to be closer to my youngest brother who is a family practice physician.  My other brother, who also went to College High, is living in Hartford, Connecticut after many years overseas with Citibank.  He is the President of Travelers Life & Annuity. 

That's it in a nutshell. 

I can be reached at the Post, 1150 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20071 or 5152 Manning Place, NW, Washington, DC 20016. 

Kind regards. 

Diana Daniels 
(202) 334-6694 
danielsd@washpost.com 


October, 1999

Since you are looking for news from former CHSers...Here  is the latest from my end of things.  I have just returned from a two week trip to China where I adopted a second daughter, Daphne Lihuan Daniels.  She is nine months old and the picture of health and happiness.  My older daughter seems to be adjusting to the change in her status as sole empress of the universe to being co-empress of the universe reasonably well.  I do sometimes question my sanity, but this definitely feels right. 
All the best. 
Diana



April, 2004

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