Kathleen Teltsch, a reporter with the New York Times whose career spanned fifty years, died on Tuesday September 10th. She was 95. The child of Hungarian immigrants, Ms. Teltsch was raised in Brooklyn, New York and attended Hunter College. Ms. Teltsch began working for the New York Times while a student at the Columbia School of Journalism during World War II. After the war, she was assigned to cover the formation of the United Nations, beginning in San Francisco with the drafting of the UN Charter, its first convening in Lake Success in New York and eventually its relocation to its headquarters’ building in New York City. The United Nations was an important venue for the development of a new post-war, post-colonial order and mechanisms to not only promote the peaceful resolution of disputes between nations but address global problems such as child malnutrition and disease. Ms. Teltsch interviewed and covered countless world leaders and dignitaries from Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev to US Ambassadors Andrew Young, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and George Bush. Ms. Teltsch was also an adjunct professor at Columbia teaching courses in international reporting and wrote two books about the UN, one a children’s book and the other, Cross Currents At Turtle Bay, a history of the UN’s first 25 years. She was also a party to a successful lawsuit against the New York Times by women reporters based on gender discrimination which led to a variety of reforms in the hiring, promotional and compensation practices of the Times. Ms. Teltsch subsequently covered foundations and corporate philanthropy. She is survived by her two children, Adam and Amy, son-in-law Michael Schmidt, and four grandchildren, Alex, Andrea, Rebecca and Sandra. Services will be private. Donations in her name would be welcome to UNICEF and ASPCA. Arrangements are under the care of Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.