Albert Ravenholt was an international correspondent who went on to have a distinguished career as an Asianist, covering the Communist takeover of mainland China, quizzing Mao and Ho Chi Minh about political philosophy, providing a farmer’s-eye perspective on the Green Revolution activities of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines—and, taking advantage of his farming background (he grew up in rural Wisconsin), establishing some of the Philippines’s most successful mango orchards and later the state of Washington’s most productive wine-grape vineyards. His wife, Marjorie, initiated, promoted and managed the Magsaysay Awards for political leadership throughout Asia and the Pacific.