Dexter D. Eure, Sr., completed 25 years of service atThe Boston Globe in 1989. He had started as an assistant to the manager of circulation in 1963 and five years later became an assistant to the editor for urban affairs. For two years he was the only Black American in Boston with a weekly column. Later he organized theGlobe's Community Relations Department to improve the paper's coverage of Black people, their viewpoints, and events in the Black community, becoming its first director. Eure was also the firstGlobe employee to join the paper's contributions committee, which became The Globe Foundation, in which he now serves as a director.