found: Washington post WWW site, viewed July 13, 2017(S. Allen Counter, a Harvard scientist best known for championing the achievements of African American explorer Matthew Henson and for traveling to Greenland, where he found descendants of Henson and fellow polar explorer Robert E. Peary, died July 12 [2017]; he was 73; Dr. Counter, a neurobiologist, joined the Harvard faculty in 1970 and later became a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School; also the longtime director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations; in his academic work, Dr. Counter branched into ethnographic studies of African descendants around the world and produced award-winning documentaries about isolated populations of former slaves in Ecuador and Suriname; Samuel Allen Counter Jr. was born July 8, 1944, in Americus, Ga.; Dr. Counter graduated in 1965 from Tennessee State University, a historically black institution, and five years later received a doctorate in neurobiology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland; later obtained another doctorate, in medical science, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm; in 1981, Dr. Counter was named the first director of the Harvard Foundation, which conducts programs for the university's students and faculty on cross-cultural and international understanding; remained director of the foundation, and a member of the medical school faculty, until his death)
