State Magazine, July/August 2002

U N I T E D S T A T E S D E P A R T M E N T O F S T A T E

July–August 2002

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10 Mission of the Month: FranceForging a dynamic relationship at the oldest U.S. Mission.

14 Bureau of the Month: Legislative AffairsH is now at home on the Hill.

18 Center Renamed for ShultzDepartment honors statesman who championed FSI.

22 RetireesTake your pick: city life or country life.

24 Foggy Mountain ChanceryEmbassy officers in Honduras explore long-lost consulate.

26 WHA Junior Officers Take On New InitiativesJOs get nontraditional training experience.

31 Public Service Recognition WeekForeign Affairs DayThirteen Names Added to AFSA Memorial PlaqueAAFSW Volunteerism AwardsDistinguished Retirees Earn DG and DACOR CupsMexico Cultural Section Receives Prestigious Award

40 FSI’s Economics CourseStill rigorous after 36 years but more practical.

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D e p a r t m e n t o f S t a t e • U n i t e d S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a

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July–August 2002No. 459

C O L U M N S

2 From the Secretary

9 Direct from the D.G.

D E P A R T M E N T S

3 Letters to the Editor

4 In the News

42 Safety Scene

43 People Like You

44 State of the Arts

45 Appointments

47 Obituaries

48 Personnel Actions

On the CoverFormer Secretary George P. Shultz

unveils plaque bearing his name as Secretary Powell and Vice

President Cheney look on.Photo by Bob Kaiser

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Allan Chase from Reston, Va.,and Mary Jo Simons fromChevy Chase, Md., reminisceabout the good old dayswhen they were posted toMonrovia in 1950.

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FROM THE SECRETARYSECRETARY COLIN L. POWELL

Foreign Affairs Day (May 10, 2002) was a resounding success this year. Members of ourextended family from the Foreign and Civil Service packed the Dean Acheson auditori-um. I was especially pleased to see so many retirees come with their own families. More

than one grandparent had a grandchild in tow. We like to get our recruits young. We were all very much aware that we had last gathered for Foreign Affairs Day on Sept. 10,

2001, less than 24 hours before the terrorists struck. I told our retirees how proud I am of theway the men and women of the State Department have risen to the challenge of helpingPresident Bush marshal the global coalition against terrorism.

Together, we have helped the people of Afghanistan form an Interim Authority and worktoward establishing a representative government. We are leading the international effort to helpAfghanistan recover from years of deprivation and devastation. And beyond Afghanistan, we areworking with long-standing allies and forging new partnerships to pool intelligence resources,improve law enforcement, cut off terrorists’ financial bloodlines and disrupt their networks.

State Department retirees are contributing to our post-Sept. 11 efforts. A State Departmentveteran with 25 years of counterterrorism experience now helps safeguard our country againstchemical and biological attack. Another retiree applied his administrative know-how to help theDepartment respond to the many telephone calls from the public regarding travel safety andother consular matters in the aftermath of the attacks. Still another retiree became the first con-sular officer in Kabul following the reopening of our embassy.

The men and women of the State Department and their families truly serve on the front linesof the global campaign against terror—a reality brought home by the attack that claimed thelives of two members of our embassy family in Islamabad, Barbara Green and her daughterKristen Wormsley. At this year’s Foreign Affairs Day ceremony, we paid tribute to them and allthe others who have lost their lives in diplomatic service to our country.

Even as we play an instrumental role in helping President Bush conduct his global antiter-rorism campaign, we, the men and women of the State Department, also continue to advancehis broader foreign policy agenda. Every day, U.S. diplomats help free human potential by pro-moting political and economic reforms. We open growth-promoting trade and investmentopportunities. We work to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, end conflicts, com-bat HIV/AIDs and do so much more.

Our retirees support our vital mission of freedom, prosperity and peace in so many ways.They interest outstanding young people in foreign affairs and help us attract the best and thebrightest to careers in the Foreign and Civil Services. Our retirees help to educate the publicabout how the State Department promotes America’s interests and values around the world.And, by getting that message across to the American people, our retirees help to ensure that thededicated men and women of the State Department get the resources that they need.

Perhaps our retirees’ greatest contribution lies in the people whom they mentored andtrained. These new generations of State Department employees are their living legacy—one thatwill keep giving to our nation and the world long into the future.

Every day, our retirees prove that there is no such thing as a former member of our StateDepartment team. ■

Retirees Continue Their Contributions

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

On Spouse EmploymentYour article on spousal employ-

ment in the May issue contains suchstatements as “Energetic SpousesFind Work...,” “To [look for newwork opportunities] requires flexi-bility, creativity, self-confidence anda global network,” and “Networkingtakes initiative.”

These statements imply thatspouses without meaningful jobs orcareers are simply not energetic,inflexible, uncreative and lacking inself-confidence and initiative. This isunfair to family members who foryears have been met with sillybureaucracy, laughable compensa-tion and a total lack of respect.

Ironically, this article is simplymore proof of State’s attitude towardspouse employment issues. All ofthe problems are the spouse’s fault,not State’s.

Roger JohnsonVienna

FLO RespondsThe Family Liaison Office is acute-

ly aware of the problems faced byspouses looking for employmentoverseas, both inside the mission andon the local economy. Employmentadvocacy is a major issue for FLO.

We know the bureaucracy is astumbling block, but we are workingto improve compensation and buildrespect for the contributions em-ployed family members make in ourmission communities worldwide.

FLO’s employment team workshard to effect change and is commit-ted to finding viable solutions forfamily member employment issues.Examples include our FamilyMember Employment Report, theSpouse Employment AssistanceProgram and the EmploymentWorking Group, which meets weekly.

FLO staff members also briefambassadors, deputy chiefs of mis-

sion, admin. officers, human resourceofficers, junior officers and special-ists on spousal employment issues.We encourage all family members toshare their employment experiencevia e-mail at [email protected].

We are pleased to see spousalemployment on the front burner forboth Department managers andAFSA. We hope FLO’s advocacyefforts ultimately create more suc-cess scenarios for family memberswishing to work.

Judy Ikels Deputy DirectorFamily Liaison Office

Buckle UpThe author of the article on sport

utility vehicle safety in the May issueshould have mentioned the impor-tance of using seat belts to ensure

survival in a motorvehicle accidentinvolving an SUV.

I should know. Iwas one of thethree occupantsof the vehicle in a photo thataccompanied thearticle. All three of us were wear-ing seat belts when the vehiclerolled, smashing the windshield andcrushing the roof. Althoughimproved roof supports in our SUVprobably helped us avoid seriousinjury, our seat belts undoubtedlyhelped us escape the accident rela-tively unscathed.

Steve HublerRegional Refugee CoordinatorU.S. EmbassyAddis Ababa, Ethiopia

From the EditorWe combine our July and August issues to give you (and us) a break

from the monthly routine. We know that many of you vacation duringthis time and have packed plenty of paperbacks for the beach or moun-tains. We won’t try to compete.

When you do get around to reading this issue, you’ll find ample cover-age of Foreign Affairs Day and a look at junior officers taking on new ini-tiatives. There’s also a profile of a little-known office known as “H.” TheBureau of Legislative Affairs has literally taken to the Hill, as in CapitolHill, where a liaison office recently opened on the House side and anoth-er is planned on the Senate side. The Secretary, of course, is no stranger tothese parts, and he is a strong advocate of a State presence there.

There’s also a portrait of our mission in France, where BenjaminFranklin served as our first envoy. The renaming of the Department’straining center in Arlington, Va., for former Secretary of State George P.Shultz, our cover story, was quite an occasion. It attracted the VicePresident, five former Secretaries of State and two former Secretaries ofDefense. The new name is a fitting tribute to Mr. Shultz, who champi-oned the creation of the campus.

We hope you will find time to read your summer fare and us too.

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Foreign Service. He told enthusiastic students and offi-cials, “The world we look at is a world of many colors,many creeds, many faiths, and what we have to do to car-ry our value system out to the world is to show the worldall of the diversity that is America, that is the strength ofAmerica.”

Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert saidHoward will use the grant to fund a sum-mer institute for the study of internation-al affairs for students from Howard andother historically black colleges and uni-versities. The grant will also supportoverseas internships, online courses ininternational affairs and outreach to sec-ondary school students as well as fellowships for undergraduate and grad-uate students in international affairs.

The Department and Howard signedPrinciples of Cooperation in December2000 to increase the numbers of minori-ties who pursue Foreign Servicecareers.

Secretary Powell said the “diversityof our diplomats can help us make thecase all around the globe that the keysto a better future are vibrant, tolerant,democratic societies, societies wherecitizens are equal under the law, and inwhich their contributions are valued.”

Secretary Colin L. Powell announced a grant of $1 mil-lion to Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche Inter-national Affairs Center in a ceremony May 17 in the StateDepartment’s Treaty Room.

The grant, which represents funding earmarked byRep. Charles B. Rangel of New York state, supports theSecretary’s vision of a more diverse Department and

Howard University Receives $1 Million Grant

At the ceremony from left:Rep. Rangel, Secretary Powelland President Swygert

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Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies cele-brated their 10th anniversary on May 10 by hosting morethan 250 guests at Washington’s historic DACOR BaconHouse, home of Diplomatic and Consular Officers,Retired or DACOR.

The event highlighted achievements of gays and les-bians in the Department of State and the U.S. Agency forInternational Development. While acknowledging thatdiscrimination still exists, the employees celebrated theirprogress in ending hiring discrimination, obtaining pro-motions and easing restrictions on overseas assignmentswith their partners.

Keynote speaker James Hormel, the first openly gay U.S.ambassador, who served in Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001,was recognized for his contributions in furthering gay and

lesbian equality in thefederal government.

Among the public of-ficials present werethree assistant secretar-ies of State, USAID of-ficials, District councilmembers, former ad-ministration officials,prominent congression-al staff members andrepresentatives fromseveral national gayrights organizations andforeign embassies.

Ambassador James Hormel, left,accepts award from GLIFAA PresidentJames Theis. Photo by Mary Diaz

Gays, Lesbians Celebrate 10th Anniversary

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OBO Hosts Industry Day

OBO officials and private-sector representatives compare notes on construction and commissioning during OBO’s Industry Day.

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Overseas Buildings Operations’ first full-fledged Industry Day attracted more than 350representatives from 300 private-sector firms.

The April 5 gathering at the NationalAcademy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.,sought to expand the base of firms doing busi-ness with OBO. Participants came from 33states and the District of Columbia. They repre-sented a diverse cross section of industries,with slightly more than half the participantsfrom small firms.

OBO’s director and chief operating officer,Charles E. Williams, gave the keynote address.

The day offered individual and smallgroup consultations, models and displays,points of contact and handouts detailingOBO programs.

Information about Industry Day, includingthe keynote address, other briefings and a list of participants, can be found on the web athttp://obo.state.gov.

Participants listen to experts in real estate and property management in the NationalAcademy of Sciences’ Great Hall.


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The art museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, is filled with goldworks, religious artifacts, oriental rugs and paintings,among other pieces. When Peter Greenberg, a contractorfor Overseas Buildings Operations, visited the museumwhile installing energy-efficient lighting at the U.S.Embassy, he was impressed with the collection but notedthat the lighting was outdated and wasteful. Even worse,it was harmful to the artwork.

After completing his embassy work, Mr. Greenbergspoke with public affairs officer Sharon Hudson-Deanabout the museum’s poor lighting, and together, theydevised a plan to correct the problem.

The contractor offered his labor free of charge and materi-als at cost. The embassy budgeted $13,000 for the project andthe Open Society Georgia Foundation paid the remainder.

Volunteer Project Lights Up Georgian MuseumReturning high school exchange students from theFreedom Support Act Future Leaders ExchangeProgram volunteered their labor, and the embassy’sfacilities maintenance officer, Troy Thompson, providedscaffolding and ladders.

Together, the team replaced the existing fixtures andinstalled electronic ballasts that dim the lamps and thehighest quality tube guard lamps to eliminate harmfulultraviolet light. Museum employees can now dim theirnew, long-lasting lights to appropriate levels, reducinglighting energy consumption by 80 percent.

The team added new circuit breakers, cleaned lightreceptacles, installed ground rods and patched ceilings.They are also creating a CD-ROM guide to the museum’sholdings for the museum to sell.

Paula Piazzi Guimond, office management specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, center rear in sunglasses, hosted a Secretary’sDay luncheon in the chancery garden for all mission secretaries. Janice Jacobs, deputy chief of mission, center, in front of Ms. Piazzi Guimond,also attended the event.

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Center Boasts Special Equipment

The Bureau of Human Resources Office of EmployeeRelations officially opened its Center for Accommodationand Technology in May. The center is a prototype roomwith a variety of specialized computer equipment foremployees with disabilities.

Grant Green, under secretary for Management, attend-ed the opening, along with HR’s deputy assistant secre-tary, John Campbell.

The center, modeled after similar ones at theDepartments of Defense and Agriculture, complementsthe Americans with Disabilities Act in combating dis-crimination against disabled people and promotesemployment of persons with disabilities. The center willremain open indefinitely.

Patricia Pittarelli, manager of ER’s Work/Life Programsin the Bureau of Human Resources, travels whereveremployees need reasonable accommodations. She assesses

embassies for access,space needs andassistive technologyneeds, security tech-nical concerns andequipment emissionlevels. She also conducts disabilityawareness trainingwith embassy staff.The center will assisther in educatingsupervisors and em-ployees about theopportunities atState for accommo-dation. Employeescan examine equip-ment and supervi-sors can assess howthe equipment canimprove their per-formance.

Paul Schafer demonstrates equipment for Grant Green, under secretary forManagement.

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Calling All Books

The Associates of the American Foreign ServiceWorldwide needs your books for its BookFair 2002 tobe held in October in the Exhibit Hall of the Harry STruman Building.

All proceeds from the BookFair are used for chari-table donations and for advocacy on behalf of theForeign Service community.

The AAFSW would welcome donations for the ArtCorner and the Collector’s Corner, especially rarebooks, as well as stamps and coins.

In the Department, donations may be dropped offin the Book Room (B816 of the Truman Building)Monday through Friday from noon to 2 p.m. or byappointment; telephone (202) 223-5796. In theWashington area, pickups may be arranged by call-ing Virginia Jones at the same number.

Employees overseas may pouch donations to theAAFSW Book Room, B816, Harry S Truman Building.

If you’re moving or simply sorting things out,BookFair 2002 is there to help.

New U.S. Embassy Scheduled in BerlinBerlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, left, and U.S. Ambassador to GermanyDaniel Coats signed a memorandum of understanding May 3 at his-toric Pariser Platz, near the Brandenburg Gate. If approved by theU.S. Congress and German Parliament, the U.S. Embassy wouldreturn to Pariser Platz for the first time since 1941.


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Credit Union Awards ScholarshipsThe State Department Federal Credit Union’s board of

directors announced the winners of its 26th annual schol-arship competition. Since the program’s inception, thecredit union has awarded more than $120,000 in scholar-ships.

Students qualify to compete after completing 12 credithours at an accredited college or university, achieving a2.5 GPA, having a good standing on personal creditaccounts, and demonstrating financial need. This year’sscholarship competition winners are:

David Bilinovich, National UniversityTasha Campbell, Cornell UniversityClaudia Crowell, University of WashingtonPaulette Grady, University of the District of ColumbiaHelen Iwobi, University of the District of ColumbiaJehan Jones, George Washington UniversityJessica Lieberman, George Washington UniversityDelicia Mckenzie, Towson UniversityNune Pambukhchyan, George Washington UniversityDoris Robinson, Trinity CollegeEwa Skoczylas, California Institute of Integral StudiesCara Staley, University of Akron School of Law

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Got a Great Story? Then Tell It!State Department employees have great stories. They

can talk for hours about surviving evacuations, helpingAmericans in trouble, preparing for high-level visits andmaking a big or small difference somewhere in the world.But rarely do they get the opportunity to share their sto-ries with the public. Now is the chance.

To further its recruitment efforts, the DiplomaticReadiness Taskforce is collecting the best stories fromactive and retired Department employees, includingmembers of the Foreign Service and Civil Service,Foreign Service National employees and family mem-bers. They will consider the stories for recruitment publi-cations and posting on the web.

The task force is looking for stories that depict employ-ees’ and family members’ lifestyles—adventures andhardships. Stories must be true and should not exceed1,200 words. Submissions will be edited. Contributors areencouraged to submit photos with their stories.

Obviously, writing a story can be more difficult thantelling it. If you prefer, someone will write it for you. E-mail the essential details to Kelly Adams-Smith [email protected] or call (202) 647-3983. The storycollection project closes at the end of the summer. Sodon’t sit on those stories.

Foreign Service Institute Director Kathy Peterson, left, recognized adjunct faculty recently for their contributions. Among those honored werePaula Jakub, vice president, American Foreign Service Protective Association; Wanda Gerard, Diplomatic Security specialist; Daniel Webber,chief of policy, Office of Retirement; Kathleen Davis, coordinator, Orientation Division, FSI; and Ellen Shippy, dean, School of Professional andArea Studies.

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DIRECT FROM THE D.G.AMBASSADOR RUTH A. DAVIS

A Family Snapshot

Ihope all of you have had thechance to look over the results ofthe Employee Satisfaction andCommitment Survey. We sent it

out to all posts several weeks ago, butin case you haven’t seen it, it is State99200.

A number of things in the surveyjumped out at me. But before sharingthem with you, I want to thank all ofyou who participated. We made itavailable to all 16,000 members of ourpermanent U.S. work force—CivilService and Foreign Service—and aquarter of you took time to complete it.Experts on surveys such as this tell methat 25 percent is a much higher partic-ipation rate than organizations usuallyobtain on these voluntary surveys. They add that, withsuch a high rate of participation, there can be confidencein the survey results. Moreover, many of you did morethan put electronic checks on virtual boxes. You also pro-vided 667 single-spaced pages of narrative.

So what did I learn from the survey? On the plus side,it seems pretty clear that we have a work force that isstrongly motivated by public service and is not headingfor the exits. Seven out of ten of our employees say theyintend to work here for the long term.

You might also be surprised to learn that money isn’teverything to the women and men working in thisDepartment. Only 16 percent said “pay me more” whenasked what the Department could do to induce them tostay longer. I found these responses highly significantbecause they indicate that people who work here wantmore than anything else to do valuable work for theircountry and feel their contributions are recognized.

It was also clear that the fault lines between CivilService and Foreign Service and between Foreign Servicegeneralists and Foreign Service specialists are clearly vis-ible. The differences have existed since time immemorial,and while I believe we are making some inroads inchanging attitudes, obviously we need to keep trying.

Our Foreign Service specialists’ unhappiness requiresnot only our attention but the field’s as well. I hope sen-ior embassy leaders will pay closer attention.

Finally, I am concerned that almosthalf of all respondents believe that HRplays only a minor role in the assign-ment process and that more than 40percent of our employees believe thoseassignments are not based primarilyon merit.

So what do I do about it? Amongother things, the survey shows we areon the right track in our initiatives toimprove the quality of life for ouremployees. The survey also confirmedmy determination to improve our lead-ership and management skills. We con-tinue to need more than excellence inpolicy formulation if our work force isgoing to perform at its best and enjoyhigh morale.

I’ve been trying to get this last point across to all levelsof our senior service. It really is true that the DCommittee and the DCM Committee look at leadershipand management skills when considering people for sen-ior assignments and our Department leadership paysvery close attention to morale at our overseas posts.People who want to hold these responsible assignmentsneed to hone their leadership skills. To help them (andeveryone else), we devoted a lot of effort this past winterand spring to developing our program of leadership andmanagement training milestones. If nothing else, the sur-vey has validated the need for such training.

Intimately related to this is the need to move forwardwith our Diplomatic Readiness Initiative. We won’t beable to spare people for this (or other) training if weremain strapped for personnel. Growing the Departmentmeans enabling better performance at all levels. That’swhy we’re working so hard to prepare for and succeed inYear Two of the initiative.

The survey results also make it clear that managementneeds to improve customer service—find effective andimaginative ways to show all of our employees that theywork on a team that really means it when it says “OneTeam, One Mission.” And that we must develop pro-grams that pull Civil Service and Foreign Service culturescloser together.

Stay tuned. ■

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panning more than 200 years, from the

Battle of Yorktown to the Normandy landings

to the war on terrorism, French and

American diplomatic and military alliances have

forged a dynamic relationship. America’s first diplomatic

mission overseas began in Paris in 1778 with Benjamin

Franklin, continued under the guidance of Thomas

Jefferson, followed by James Monroe and remains today,

900 people strong in eight cities across “la Belle France.”

As the largest western European nation, France

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than any other country.Since Jefferson’s time,French culture has influ-enced American art, archi-tecture, cuisine, fashion, science and education. Per-haps it is what the Frenchcall that certain, “je ne saisquoi” that makes it the toptourist destination in theworld, drawing more than44 million visitors yearly,roughly 2 million of themU.S. citizens.

Fifty U.S. governmentagencies and offices are represented by the three U.S.missions in Paris: the U.S.Mission to France, the U.S.Mission to the Organizationfor Economic Cooperationand Development and theU.S. Observer Mission to theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization. The U.S. Mission to France, while based inParis, also represents U.S. interests through its two con-sulates, in Marseille and Strasbourg, as well as the fiveAmerican Presence Posts in Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon,Rennes and Toulouse.

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Candice Nancel, project coordinator,and Arnaud Dzialoszynski, deputyproject director, Overseas BuildingsOperations, review restoration docu-ments at the Talleyrand Building.

the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

Mission facilities include the beautiful HotelTalleyrand that was once owned by Prince CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand, Napoleon’s foreign minister.Legend has it that Talleyrand still haunts the buildingand a bullet hole in one of the elegant mirrors is offeredas proof. The story goes that while the building housed

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the Marshall Plan headquarters, a guard on duty wasstartled by the ghost and fired his weapon at the appari-tion. The bullet hole remains, as do countless other marksof France’s unique place in world history.

Since the end of World War II, France has emerged as asophisticated and diversified global player. The top 15export products for the United States and France are thesame in three key sectors: defense products, agriculturalgoods, and services. With bilateral trade at $45 billion peryear, embassy officers spend considerable time on trade-related issues. The recent elec-tions have demanded insightfulreporting from the political sec-tion that must monitor thesophisticated network of Frenchactors who are active in allinternational issues and take akeen interest in U.S. domesticpolicies as well.

The opening in the past fouryears of American Presence Posts(one officer supported by a fewForeign Service National em-ployees) has made importantinroads into the political, eco-nomic and cultural life of region-al France, while assisting residentAmericans with basic consularservices. At the APP in Bordeaux,the consul focuses on localdefense and agricultural indus-tries, while also supporting the 60U.S. companies that employ a

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regional workforce of morethan 10,000 employees. Publicaffairs, though integral to allmission work, is especiallyimportant at the APP inRennes, where the largestnewspaper in France, OuestFrance, is headquartered.

Supporting the publicaffairs mission in Africa is therole of African RegionalServices. Situated in Paris,ARS is a combination pub-lishing house and newsbureau. It sends U.S. expertsto speak in FrancophoneAfrica and has translatedmore than 1,300 books in thepast 40 years. Predicting whatmaterials might be needednext is the greatest challengeas publication often takes ayear to complete. A fewmonths before Sept. 11, ARStranslated and published a

book about Muslim communities in North America thatproved to be the right book at the right time.

The U.S. Mission to the Organization for EconomicCooperation and Development covers the waterfront ofnon-military security issues by the dozen agencies repre-sented there. In the past year, OECD members haveheard from First Lady Laura Bush, EPA SecretaryChristine Todd Whitman and Treasury Secretary PaulO’Neill, among others.

All is not work, however, in the country that reported-ly “works to live” not “lives towork.” Joie de vivre character-izes the sidewalk cafes, thesymphony concerts and thedazzling nightlife. A trip to thecountryside quickly rejuvenatesthe soul—with such historicsites as the royal chateau atFontainebleau (about an hour’sdrive from Paris), culinarydelights such as Chablis andChampagne wines (two hoursfrom Paris) and charming vil-lages to be discovered by high-speed trains that take you toevery corner of France within afew hours. Monday will comeall too soon, but there is alwaysnext weekend. ■

The author is a free-lance writerliving in Paris and the spouse of aU.S. Embassy employee.

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LegislativeAffairs

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As Marvin Gaye mightcroon, “What’s Goin’On?” The Department

is hiring again, the budgetis increasing, and there’seven a budget supplementand a new State Depart-ment Liaison Office on theHill.

Commonly known asH, the Bureau of Legis-lative Affairs, led by for-mer Marine Col. Paul V.Kelly, has taken the Hilland has no intention ofretreating. As one Depart-ment official complainedafter the long and gruelingfall congressional session,“I always thought it stoodfor Hell.”

Gone are the days oflimiting, controlling andspinning individual bu-reaus’ contacts with theHill. Today, H considersitself a facilitator, provid-ing guidance, strategy andadvice but not monopoliz-ing the action. They helprealize the Administra-tion’s foreign policy inter-ests on the Hill. Theydeliver the Secretary’spolicy team to make thecase, but they also fightfor the Department’s equi-ties by acting asDepartment agents inresponding to myriadrequests from membersand staff.

H is an unusual bureau.There are no missions orprograms, no external re-sponsibilities such aslicenses and reports. Witha relatively small staff of65, H’s sole objective is tofurther the Department’sand the Administration’slegislative agenda. Thecomposition is roughlyone-third each CivilService, Foreign Serviceand politically appointedH

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personnel. The bureaustructure is also atypicalwith recently restructuredHouse and Senate staffscharged with developingand executing strategieswith oversight commit-tees. The way the staffinteracts with the legisla-tive management officersassigned to individualbureaus gives the bureausa new level of service andsome additional clout.

What can H do for you?Do you want to see coldhard cash from yourbureau’s budget request?Does your ambassadorwant to engage some con-gressional members butfeels reluctant to do so?Need some informationbecause you have heard acongressional delegation,or Codel, is headed yourway? Has some congres-sional staff put a “hold”on your project’s fundingpending further clarifica-tion? Need help withstrategy on a particularpiece of legislation?

H does not performmiracles. It cannot ensurefull funding or smoothconsultations. Nor can Hguarantee legislation ormake your Codel disap-pear. But H can and willhelp with advice andefforts on your behalf.Your bureau’s legislativemanagement officer isyour first point of contactwith the legislativebranch. They will thenengage the House andSenate staffs to deal withyour particular problem inthe relevant committees.One thing is certain. Thesooner you engage H inyour congressional issues,the better. Often, peoplecall H after it is too late toinfluence the course ofevents.

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Steve McIlvaine, left, Colin Newmanand Christian Cullum head for the Hill.

H’s primary mission is to ensure that the foreign policypriorities of the President and the Secretary are reflectedthroughout the legislative process. The bureau forges com-mon ground between the executive and legislative branch-es by establishing broad professional working relationships

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with congressional committees thathave oversight responsibilities for for-eign affairs and State Departmentoperations.

Assistant Secretary Kelly has reor-ganized H to enhance the bureau’sability to engage congressional over-sight committees and the congres-sional leadership. Each of four func-tions—Senate affairs; House affairs;regional, global, and functionalaffairs; and legislative operationsand congressional support—is ledby a deputy assistant secretary andsupported by one or more directorsand a team of legislative manage-ment officers.

The office of Senate affairs isresponsible for the interaction withthe U.S. Senate and State’s oversightcommittees (Foreign Relations,Appropriations and respective sub-committees). Similarly, the office ofHouse affairs is responsible for theHouse International Relations andHouse Appropriations and subcom-

mittees. The office of Senate affairs also manages theDepartment’s nominations, confirmations and treaty rat-ification processes.

The office of regional, global, and functional affairs hastwo directors and a team of 19 legislative management offi-

H “troops” brief Deputy AssistantSecretary James Terry, center, aftera hard day on the Hill.

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Top five reasonsfor not getting

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your issue:

You actually enjoy that sinking feeling in the pit ofyour stomach that comes when you first realize thatyour program is about to get the congressional ax.

The truth is your program, now the target of a congressional “hold,” is a bad idea, after all, anddeserves the intense congressional scrutiny it’sreceiving.

You don’t have enough to do and you look forwardto satisfying the “certification” requirement in thatpending legislation and don’t much care about hav-ing it removed.

Your post really doesn’t need an ambassador whowill only eat up the representational money.

You secretly want Mr. Armitage to make thatdreaded phone call to your assistant secretary.

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cers. The team tracks and works legislation, keeps bureausinformed of congressional views, coordinates with theirHouse and Senate staff colleagues and then takes action onthe Hill. They also coordinate Hill appearances ofDepartment witnesses for foreign policy hearings.

The synergy of legislative management officers in allthree of these offices adds value to the Secretary’s agendaon the Hill. A sound congressional strategy ensures thatthose Department policies and programs can withstandscrutiny in the House and Senate and gathers therequired congressional constituencies to argue theDepartment’s cause during Hill deliberations.

Last, but certainly not least, the executive office has adirector and 23 employees who facilitate official foreigncongressional travel; respond to congressional communi-cations; oversee the Office of Management and Budgetclearance process; maintain records of hearings; and pro-vide basic administrative support. This office annuallyhandles some 1,500 pieces of legislation, 300 hearings,12,000 pieces of correspondence, 1,000 reports and notifi-cations, 20,000 inquiries and 2,000 congressional overseastravelers. The new Congressional Liaison Office is alsopart of the Executive Office.

How well is H performing? An article in a recentCongressional Quarterly Weekly commends SecretaryPowell for how hard he has worked “to develop a warmrelationship with both Republicans and Democrats onCapitol Hill, hearing out their concerns and seeking theircounsel at critical times.” The article also quotes a key Houseforeign policy aide that the Congress has “never had betterrelations with the State Department than we do now.” ■

The author is an employee in the Bureau of LegislativeAffairs.


C E N T E R R E N A M E D F O R

Former Secretary Shultz

Former Secretary of State George Shultzunveils the plaque bearing his name.Applauding, from left, are Secretary ofState Colin Powell, Vice President DickCheney and FSI Director KatherinePeterson.

Story by Matthew RyanPhotos by Bob Kaiser

It was truly a stately affair. There was Secretary of State Colin L. Powell hosting an

event with a pantheon of dignitaries, including the Vice

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Gathering before the ceremony, from left, are former Secretaries ofState Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger and George Shultz; VicePresident Dick Cheney; former Secretary of State MadeleineAlbright; Secretary of State Colin Powell; and former Secretary ofState Warren Christopher.

President, five former Secretaries of State and two formerSecretaries of Defense. The occasion was the renaming ofthe Department’s training center for one who had cham-pioned its creation.

The National Foreign Affairs Training Center, home ofthe Foreign Service Institute, was officially renamed the

Secretary Shultz observes core sample drilling at Arlington Hall during avisit to the construction site in November 1988.

Secretary Shultz reviews the proposed design with Under Secretary for ManagementRonald Speirs, FSI Director Brandon Grove and members of the architectural firmVVKF/MNitchell-Girugola.

George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Centerin January and the ceremony was held on May 29. FormerSecretary of State Shultz, who served under PresidentReagan, fought doubters, budgetary constraints and areluctant Congress to ensure its construction.

The dignitaries included, besides Mr. Shultz, formerSecretaries of State Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander M.Haig, Warren M. Christopher and Madeleine K. Albright;National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice; FederalReserve Chairman Alan Greenspan; and formerSecretaries of Defense Frank C. Carlucci and Caspar W.Weinberger.

The outdoor ceremony, officiated by FSI DirectorKatherine Peterson, was held under sunny skies andlooked like a college commencement. In a way it was.Only this commencement, instead of recognizing stu-dents’ achievements, applauded the accomplishments ofa statesman, mentor and grandfather.

Former Secretary Shultz was moved by the ceremony:“I see so many people here that I had the privilege ofserving with that I’m just blown away by this event. Itwas so wonderful that my grandchildren and childrencame. We’re just very, very thrilled.”

Secretary Powell praised Mr. Shultz’s leadershipinsights by citing a letter he received from the formerSecretary. “I am always amazed at the way people pre-sumed leaders in government focus almost exclusivelyon policy problems and their own ups and downs. Butleadership is about the people under your charge. A realleader is conscious of what kind of institutional qualityhe leaves behind.”

Secretary Powell declared that Mr. Shultz’s vision anddedication were responsible for the NFATC.

“It is not we who honor George Shultz by naming this center after him; rather it is George Shultz who hon-

ors us and all who pass through these hallsby lending his name to this facility,” theSecretary said.

The Foreign Service Institute has come along way from the townhouse it occupied onC Street in the District of Columbia and laterthe renovated parking garage in nearbyArlington, Va. The 72-acre campus opened atArlington Hall Station in 1993, a place with along history of education and governmentservice. From 1942 until 1989, it wasArlington Hall Station military base. Beforethat it was Arlington Hall Junior College foryoung women.

Renovations and restorations have recap-tured the beauty and preserved the southerncharm of the colonial revival college build-ing, built in 1927. It is now an integral part ofthe Shultz Center, housing the Leadershipand Management School, the TransitionCenter and the School of AppliedInformation and Technology. Future expan-sions, including one scheduled for comple-


NFATC’s inauguration, Oct. 13, 1993.

tion in 2006, will protect campus green space. A historiccore of 20 acres will remain undeveloped.

The rolling hills and serene location make the ShultzCenter ideal for concentrated learning, as well as a retreatfrom the urban capital. When it was a women’s college,

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Arlington Hall survived the Great Depression in part bybecoming a summer resort. For $3 a day, including allmeals, Washingtonians could escape the heat of the cityon the campus.

Arlington Hall was a center for army intelligence andintelligence support from 1942 until 1989, when those activ-ities were relocated to Fort Belvoir, Va. The property waslater transferred to the State Department to be transformedinto the NFATC campus. Today, the center conducts 400courses and trains more than 43,000 students annually for40 different government agencies. The NFATC offers videoteleconferencing, information technology training andmultimedia language labs. Scores of languages are offered,including Arabic, Farsi, French, Pashtu, Portugese, Tajikand Swahili. The Foreign Service Institute also offers semi-nars and provides instruction in leadership.

The May 29 event concluded with remarks by formerSecretary Shultz, who discussed the challenges of histenure, the importance of public diplomacy and the war onterrorism. He said the greatest challenge facing the UnitedStates today is the struggle for the hearts and minds of theworld’s people. Many still claim not to know the differencebetween a terrorist and a freedom fighter.

“Terrorists use random violence on as large a scale aspossible against civilian populations to make their pointsor get their way. Anyone who claims to be confused atthis point in history will have to face up to being knownas an apologist for terrorism,” Mr. Shultz said.

Invited guests, students and staff attendthe renaming ceremony on May 29, 2002.

Construction progresses on the NFATC campus in April 1992.

Properly trained diplomats are essential for meetingthe international challenges of the 21st century. “I salutethe members of the Foreign Service and this center forlearning the practice of diplomacy. We are lucky that youand your leaders are strong, experienced and wise. Youhave lots of work to do.”

The renaming ceremony was a deserving tribute to adistinguished statesman. Months of planning and exe-cution by FSI staff culminated in a stunning and inti-mate event. There were no caps and gowns, but therewas plenty of warmth and enthusiasm for the formersecretary. ■

The author, a graduate student at the University ofKentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and InternationalCommerce, is an intern at State Magazine.


Roger D. Counts III, Diplomatic Security, said, “I was pleased to seeall the former secretaries relating to each other. They all trulybelieve that having a state-of-the-art training facility like the ShultzCenter is something State’s needed for a long time.”

David Womble, general service officer trainee, said, “I appreciatedSecretary Shultz’s remarks. He didn’t just say thank you. He took thetime to give a policy speech, explaining his perspective on diploma-cy and the war on terror.”

Juliana Hamilton-Hodges, a new Foreign Service officer, said, “It wasimpressive and inspiring to see so many former Secretaries of Statetogether. They care so much about the Foreign Service and thatmeans a great deal to us.”

Gillian Stubblefield, wife of Foreign Service Officer LavirisStubblefield, said, “Secretary Shultz’s remarks on foreign policywere powerful, especially how he distinguished a terrorist from afreedom fighter.”

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Story and photos by Carl Goodman
The trains roll through Shenandoah Junction daily,their whistles blowing through the apple orchardsand fencerows of West Virginia’s panhandle. Ifyou listen closely, as Roger and Delores Forsythedo, you can tell which ones are carrying freightand those ferrying passengers.

The Forsythes, who are retired and in their early 60s, liveon 77-acre Tackley Farm not far from where they grew up.They purchased the 1840 brick farmhouse in 1975. TheGeorgian-style architecture has earned the farmhouse’slisting on the National Historic Register. The property isjust off of Route 9 and sits at the end of a tree-lined lane.

The Forsythes have leased most of the farm’s acreageto a neighbor who raises horses. The seven remainingacres Roger mows provide hay for the horses as well.Sadly, development is encroaching on three sides, threat-ening their pastoral view.

“It’s just a matter of time,” observed Roger Forsythe,who worked for the Navy and State Department beforeretiring from the Civil Service in 1988. He used to commuteto work by train. They may move eventually, but it won’tbe far. Their roots are in the panhandle, and for now theyare content to enjoy the horses grazing and running ontheir land.

Delores and Roger Forsythe enjoy their pastoral view.

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Ernest Johnston,who retired fromthe Foreign Servicein 1982, lives withhis wife Joan in an 1860 farmhousejust outside ofShepherdstown, W.Va., a quaint col-lege town whosehistoric downtownappears at first tobe a movie set.They enjoy the set-ting as well ascanoeing on Antie-tam Creek withtheir grandchildrenand exploring theCivil War battle-field. The only

problem is the winter snow that drifts and denies themaccess to the main road. He wonders out loud whether he’llbe able to plow it out 10 years from now when he’s 82.

Eighty miles east, in Washington, D.C., David and JudyShinn, also retired and in their early 60s, have sounds oftheir own—only they are city sounds: fire engines, policesirens, ambulances and traffic. Yet, they prefer theirurban digs to an earlier one in Fairfax City, Va., a com-mute that David Shinn said just got to be “too much.”

He retired from the Department in 2000 and is teachingat George Washington University. On a recent weekend,the Shinns greet neighbors outside their row house onCapitol Hill before heading to Eastern Market, whichdates from the 1850s. It’s where they shop on weekendsfor fresh-cut flowers, fruits and vegetables. For staples,they drive to a supermarket. Otherwise, the car staysmostly parked.

Their red brick row house is on a busy thoroughfareconnecting the city’s southeast and northeast. “You getused to it after awhile,” David Shinn said. They had con-sidered selling and moving out of the city in 1996 butdecided to stay. “If you want to stay engaged in interna-tional affairs, Washington is where you have to be,”observed Mr. Shinn. It’s also ideal for culture. The Shinnsare especially fond of the local theater.

Cecil S. “Cy” Richardson and his wife Pearl both grewup in New York City and had given some thought to mov-

Retirees Roger Forsythe, left, and ErnestJohnston chat in Shepherdstown, W.Va.

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Retiree “Cy” Richardson strolls near the Kennedy Center.

ing back there when he retired from the Foreign Service in1988. Today, they still live in an apartment in the northwestpart of Washington, D.C., which they find “manageable.”The Richardsons, who are in their late 70s, enjoy the city’sculture, too. “With senior citizen discounts for both ticketsand public transportation, it’s a real bonus,” he said.

Whatever the bonuses, the Washington area remainspopular with State retirees. Of the more than 14,000retired from the Foreign Service, approximately 6,000, orroughly 42 percent, live in the District, Maryland andVirginia. Beyond Washington, D.C., Florida andCalifornia are the most popular locations. The least pop-ular states for retirement are Alaska and the Dakotas,according to the Bureau of Resource Management.

Civil Service retirees from State number just over12,000, according to the U.S. Office of PersonnelManagement. While no geographic breakdown wasimmediately available from OPM, the percentage ofretirees remaining in the Washington area is thought tobe much higher than for the Foreign Service.

Although the precise number of retired Americans isdifficult to pin down, the 2000 Census reports that thenumber of Americans age 65 (the normal retirement age)and over is just under 35 million—an increase of 12 per-cent since the 1990 census.

Judy and David Shinn shop at Eastern Market on Capitol Hill.

With interstates intersecting and slicing through thecountryside, few retirees interviewed said they were farfrom shopping malls or urban centers. Many havereturned to their hometowns or home states. A number ofthose interviewed live near children and grandchildren.Many retirees said they continue to travel and to workpart-time.

The retirement literature is rife with the pros and consof city versus country retirement. Most experts on thesubject agree that retirement is more than a state. It is justas much a state of mind. ■

The author is editor of State Magazine.

Y O U R T O W NRetirees, tell us about your community and why

you chose to retire there. If possible, include a photo(or two) of your downtown or of a local icon and itssignificance. Please keep your profile brief (250–300words) and include the year you retired. You may e-mail text and photos to the editor at [email protected] or by conventional means (seemailing address on inside front cover of the maga-zine). Photos will be returned upon request.


Foggy MountainChancery

An Abandoned

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By Scott Heckman

From 1873 to 1917, U.S. consular officers inHonduras operated out of a mining campknown as El Rosario in the mountains highabove Tegucigalpa, site of the present-day U.S.Embassy. Clinging to an impossibly steep

mountainside overlooking the village of San Juancito, theconsulate was co-located with the main office of a large

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U.S. mining company. Now a ghost town, the camp ishome to stray chickens that roam the former office build-ing grounds, while vultures circle in thermal currentsabove the abandoned American community.

The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Co. beganbuilding the camp in the 1860s after silver and gold werediscovered in the mountains above San Juancito. Knownlocally as El Rosario, the company town was accessible onlyon foot or horseback. Tools, machinery and building mate-

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Embassy employees visit the former U.S. Consulate in El Rosario (front view). They are, from left,the author; Ramon Best, general services officer; Xeida Torres, telephone operator; and Jack Moore,systems manager.

rials were brought in (and silver andgold taken out) by mule train along adifficult, three-day overland trail tothe Gulf of Fonseca on the HonduranPacific coast. For many decades, ElRosario ranked as one of the world’stop silver-producing mines. The U.S.company finally ceased operations inHonduras in 1954.

Today, visitors can travel to ElRosario by car, but only after a bone-jarring ride up a narrow jeep trail,with sheer cliffs on one side and rockwalls on the other. The former con-sulate building still stands, alongwith the camp foreman’s house anda few other permanent structures.Some mining company buildings areoccupied by local squatters, othersremain abandoned. The originalmine and several lesser ones remainas well, including one that continuesmore than a mile through the moun-tain range and out the other side.

Farther up the trail from ElRosario is La Tigra National Park.The park opened in the 1960s onland donated to the government ofHonduras by the U.S. mining com-pany. La Tigra is a pristine cloud for-est where orchids and other plantsgrow on every branch, drawing

moisture from the clouds that sweep over themountaintops. A canopy of tropical hardwoodsreaches 100 feet into the air while huge fernpalms and other exotic foliage create a prehis-toric, Jurassic Park-type environment at groundlevel. The park has a number of waterfalls andseveral species of rare tropical birds.

Visitors to the national park often encounterabandoned mine tunnels, reminders of timeswhen a U.S. company owned the property andU.S. consular officers shared their remote,mountainside headquarters. ■

The author is the administrative officer at the U.S.Embassy in Tegucigalpa.


Coffee, Culture and Leadership

W H A J U N I O R O F F I C E R S T A K E O N N E W I N I T I A T I V E S

By Colette Marcellin

As home bureau to 330 junior officers or 30 percentof the worldwide junior officer pool, posts in theBureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs rely heavi-ly on JO contributions. It’s only natural, then, that

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Junior officers from 14 WHA posts attend a basic leadership training course

keen interest in JO development. Coffee talks, culturalprograms and leadership seminars are all part of manynew junior officer initiatives springing up in WHA posts.

Larger Posts, Unique OpportunitiesPosts with many different agencies offer junior officers a

unique opportunity to see the full scope of U.S. foreign

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policy during their tours. Bogota’s junior officers have cap-italized on their chance to learn about their mission’s 20different agencies by hosting weekly “coffee talks” withselected agency representatives. The sessions feature dis-cussions on money laundering, intelligence gathering,drug eradication, U.S. military operations and other topics.Of course, all sessions offer fine Colombian coffee.

“With such an active and diverse mission, it is a constantchallenge to keep everyone interested in and informed ofothers’ priorities,” says Barbara Moore, deputy chief of mis-sion. “There is no problem piquing theinterest of our JOs and these coffeetalks, organized at their initiative,have proven an excellent way forthem to stay up to date on the range ofU.S. engagement in Colombia.”

In Guatemala, JOs have comple-mented a formal DCM-junior officerbriefing and rotational program witha cultural program that encouragesthem to visit nontouristic parts of thecountry they wouldn’t normally see.They have visited squatter campsand city dumps; Peace Corps farmcooperatives and eco-tourism proj-ects; a medfly program facility andother projects sponsored by the U.S.Department of Agriculture andUSAID. JOs discover that theseevents help them make better con-sular decisions, improve their report-ing skills and increase their interac-tion with employees of other U.S.agencies in the country. DCM Steve

Vice Consul Rian Harris, svolunteers Michelle McN

McFarland is always lookingfor nontraditional trainingopportunities. Two JOs escortedGuatemala Command and StaffCollege students to the UnitedStates In the process, theylearned about U.S. and hostcountry military issues. Twoother Guatemala JOs served aselection observers in neighbor-ing Nicaragua.

Three years ago, Linda Watt,chargé at the U.S. Embassy inSanto Domingo, created a con-sular team-building committeeof junior officers and FSNs. Thecommittee addressed work-place concerns and developeda better work environmentwhile it improved services tothe public. The committee con-sists of five standing subcom-mittees—cultural, feedback,outreach, social and work-

place—each co-chaired by a JO and an FSN. In additionto sponsoring ongoing activities, the committee hosts anannual consular team-building day. This year’s session,titled “Scaling the Walls That Divide Us,” was a successin overcoming the organizational and hierarchical barri-ers that often block the flow of good ideas.

Santo Domingo supports JO development and job satis-faction in other ways. Under the post’s junior officer coun-try travel program, JOs visit areas throughout theDominican Republic, representing the embassy and report-

laidis and Emily Mestetsky,V studios after a videoconfer-


JO outing to Café Indio coffee farm in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

ing back to the post and to Washington about what theylearned. The travel enhances their experience while itbroadens the scope of the post’s reporting. Individual JOspropose and carry out research and other special projectsrelated to their cones. Santo Domingo has been a proponentof JO exchanges with other posts. Consular JOs trade placeswith counterparts in other missions in the region. Since theJOs switch both jobs and houses, there is little time lost inorientation. Each post funds its JO’s travel. Again, the ben-efits of these exchanges are not just for the JOs. Both receiv-ing and sending posts gain from the new perspectives theexchangees bring to their temporary posts.

Smaller Posts, Creative ProgramsThe U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain may have only six

JOs, but Port of Spain has been exporting its JO ideas toother posts and will be hosting a five-day leadershipseminar for junior officers that was developed by FSI andPort of Spain (see related article on the next page). Inaddition to sponsoring monthly JO leadership luncheswith discussions stimulated by local guest speakers,DCM David Stewart negotiated six free seats for JOs at aFranklin Covey Leadership Development Program inexchange for delivering the local keynote address.

The U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo’s enrichmentprogram has four segments: specific consular training onWednesday afternoons; exchange rotations and trips; oth-er section and agency presentations; and seminar atten-dance. Each JO enrichment segment has a different focusand is intended to hone management and leadership skillsto enhance career development. São Paulo JOs have par-ticipated in job exchanges, consultations and TDY cover-age of staffing gaps at other Brazilian posts and haveassisted other sections and agencies within São Paulo.

“My one-month TDY in the embassy’s front office inBrasilia gave me the chance to see firsthand the differ-ences between missions,” notes Tom Coleman, first tourJO. “Now I better understand the dynamics that existbetween them and the importance of working togethercountrywide to achieve common goals.”

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These enrichment programs give JOs greaterinsight into the Foreign Service and their ownroles within the mission and result in strongerteamwork and more innovation.

Andrew Parker, another DCM, encouragedGeorgetown’s JOs to divide Guyana into fourregions and take responsibility for each. The JOtakes the lead on a variety of activities for a region,including arranging ambassadorial visits, coordi-nating representational events and Americantown hall meetings, maintaining regional contacts,drafting briefing memos and reporting cables.

“Our JO program is a great way for me tostrengthen my organizational skills and step beyondmy regular duties,” says JO Judes Stellingwerf. “It isa welcome challenge to organize regional visits forthe ambassador, meet with local dignitaries andfocus on political and economic issues.”

The executive office in the Bureau of WesternHemisphere Affairs tries to promote its JO programs andbest practices by encouraging posts to share their ideaswith each other and by posting these programs in theBest Practices section of the bureau’s web site. Thisexchange of ideas is helping posts like Tegucigalpa andPanama develop their own programs.

Tegucigalpa started a program this January that tasks ajunior officer with developing an event for each month.Visits to coffee farms, Peace Corps sites and border cross-ings are planned for this year as well as brown bag lunch-es and a counter-narcotics event.

Panama’s new program consists of DCM-JO monthlymentoring sessions and JO-mission monthly luncheswhere JOs meet with senior mission leadership or guestsfrom the diplomatic corps or Panamanian government.Panama’s JOs also organized a “Lideres Jovenes” eveningwith up-and-coming leaders in Panama’s political parties.This event gave JOs a chance to expand their contacts andexchange ideas with Panamanian colleagues.

Although many posts take different paths to overalljunior officer development, the goal for all bureau postsremains the same: invest time and energy in junior offi-cers to bring short-term benefits to posts and long-termbenefits to the Department.

Steve McFarland, DCM in Guatemala, summarizes itbest. “I see three benefits in taking extra time and resourcesto train JOs at post,” he says. “First, it boosts the effective-ness and morale of the JOs during their first tours. TheForeign Service has invested enormous resources in gettinghighly qualified officers to our posts. We protect and add tothat investment by exposing these officers to as much of theForeign Service experience as we can. Second, we’re invest-ing in our future. When these JOs move up the ranks, wewant them to be as experienced as possible. Third, we canrepay the efforts of those outstanding leaders who workedto develop us when we were more junior.” ■

The author is a post management officer in the Bureau ofWestern Hemisphere Affairs.

Basic Training

J U N I O R O F F I C E R S L E A R N T H E F U N D A M E N TA L S O F L E A D E R S H I P I N P O R T O F S PA I N

By Bart Putney

Well removed from Washington and isolated inthe southern Caribbean, officers at the U.S.Embassy in Port of Spain, Trinidad and

Tobago, picked up clear signs in early 2001 that thingswere changing in the Department.

Secretary Powell’s speeches hammered on the needto develop tomorrow’s leaders and to give them theresources to succeed. The new Leadership andManagement School proposed mandatory training fornewly assigned office directors and section chiefs.Cables from Grant Green, under secretary forManagement, spoke of nurturing a new culture, onethat “encourages and rewards leadership and innova-tion at all levels.”

The signs were good. The Department brass wasfocused. It appeared they were serious and were goingto do something to invigorate management within State.

Upon further reflection, though, junior officers inPort of Spain asked if it was really the time to playinterested observers. Instead, they chose to see themessage coming from Washington more as a challengethan a promise. As one officer put it, “We are theDepartment.” They felt a responsibility to do whatthey could with the resources available to supportleadership and management development at theirown post.

The officers immediately enlisted the support ofDavid Stewart, their deputy chief of mission. He offeredguidance and his own perspectives on managementchallenges. The group also identified the availableresources. A retired business professor, the father of ajunior officer, was coming to post and was willing tooffer his insights. Business leaders, who were excellentembassy contacts, were likely to be willing to share theirideas about strong leadership. The JOs themselvesbrought a variety of experience from previous jobs thatcould enliven discussions. The officers decided to tapthese and other resources to develop a monthly “lead-ership lunch” series featuring guest speakers.

For more than a year, junior officers in Port of Spaingathered to discuss, among other topics, managing in aTrinidadian context, risk and responsibility in leader-ship, performance incentives and motivation. They wereable to negotiate free attendance at a Covey LeadershipSeminar in exchange for the chargé’s giving the keynoteaddress. They heard a former president of Trinidad andTobago give his perspectives on leadership.

While the program continued, the JOs discussed nextsteps and additional resources with the regional bureauand the Foreign Service Institute’s Leadership andManagement School. With the support of the bureau’sexecutive office and FSI, Port of Spain was able to hosta pilot overseas initiative in April to train first- and second-tour officers in basic leadership skills. Twenty-three officers from the Caribbean and Central Americacame to Trinidad for a week of intensive interaction.

“The fact that the bureau, the Leadership andManagement School and 14 posts were willing to con-tribute resources to the program,” Mr. Stewart said,“shows a growing commitment to leadership develop-ment. This training really represents an investment ata critical time. It is hitting these officers in stride, asthey take on those early challenges new FSOs face inmanaging overseas.”

The officers brought with them specific manage-ment challenges they had faced at their posts. Two FSItrainers provided the conceptual framework for theofficers to assess those experiences. U.S. AmbassadorRoy L. Austin opened the conference, focusing onSecretary Powell’s tenets of leadership and manage-ment. From the insights gained from their colleaguesand the trainers, participants developed their ownmost effective leadership approach. They also estab-lished connections with 22 other officers with whomthey could discuss future challenges, opportunities orideas on leadership and innovation in the newDepartment of State.

The author is a political officer in Port of Spain, Trinidadand Tobago.


C O R P O R A T E P L A C E M E N T P R O G R A M :

A Cable Car Named Opportunity

By Patty Hayes

As the State Department looks to the private sec-tor for ways to manage change, its CorporatePlacement Program is a wonderful opportuni-ty for Foreign Service officers to learn first-hand about their corporate colleagues.

As the first human resources officer from State selectedto participate in the program, I have worked for the pastyear with the San Francisco Bay Area Economic Forum, apublic-private partnership of business, government, uni-versity, labor and commu-nity leaders working tosupport the economicvitality and quality of lifein the Bay Area.

The area is rich in inno-vation—innovation re-flecting a highly skilled,diverse work force, astrong culture of entrepre-neurship that rewardsrisk-taking and collabora-tion between academiaand private industry.Research shows that com-panies succeed in the BayArea because they main-tain a flexible manage-ment system that takeschange in stride. As aresult, the region is an economic powerhousenationally and globally.

During my tour withthe forum, I have sur-veyed area business lead-ers about their innovativeemployment practices andorganized a forum to dis- Ph

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cuss the findings of a recent survey on Silicon Valleyimmigrant entrepreneurs and professionals who are keydrivers of the Bay Area’s high-tech industry. I have alsobeen updating the content of several programs on theforum’s web site and organizing public outreach eventson subjects as varied as biotechnology, aging and geneticdiseases—a testament to the scientific research that is acornerstone of the Bay Area economy.

The assignment has had its personal benefits as well.San Francisco is my hometown. I have always kept closeties with my family and friends in the Bay Area during

my Foreign Service career,but there’s no substitutefor being back home.

There are no downsidesto these opportunities.They recharge the batter-ies, provide excellenttraining and renew one’scommitment to publicservice. They also put aface on the ForeignService and encourageparticipants to tell theircommunities about theimportant work of theDepartment.

For more informationabout the Corporate Place-ment Program, contact JuneO’Connell in the Bureau ofHuman Resources at (202)647-4523. ■

The author, a ForeignService officer, returns toWashington, D.C., inSeptember to join the Officeof Recruitment, Exam-ination and Employment.

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Foreign Affairs Day Binds

State Family
By Dave Krecke
They came from as far away as France and Spain, from 21 states, including Washington,California and New Mexico, and from everyregion of the country.

Some, like Bill and Pat Kushlis, a retired tandem cou-ple, flew in from Albuquerque. Others, like Bruce Byersand his wife Ingrid or Ray King and his wife Ly, drovefrom the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

Still others, like Mary Jo Simons, 92, widow of formerambassador Tom Simons and mother of retired former

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ambassador Tom Jr., commuted from neighboringMaryland. Another 73 participants were only a shortdrive or a few Metro stops away in the District ofColumbia.

From wherever they came, Foreign Service and CivilService retirees attended the second annual ForeignAffairs Day in unprecedented numbers, packing theHarry S Truman Building’s 750-seat Dean AchesonAuditorium.

Ruth Whiteside, principal deputy assistant secretary inthe Bureau of Human Resources, welcomed participants

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to the event and introduced the keynotespeaker, Ambassador Francis X. Taylor. TheDepartment’s coordinator for counterterror-ism reminded those who might have forgottenthat the last Foreign Affairs Day had takenplace on Sept. 10, 2001. While attendees thatday were celebrating the accomplishments ofthe new administration and reviewing the for-eign affairs challenges that lay ahead, terror-ists had already launched their plot of deathand destruction that would, in a matter ofhours, reorder the civilized world’s agenda foryears to come.

Recounting the decisive moves the U.S. gov-ernment and its allies made in the wake of theSept. 11 attacks, Ambassador Taylor empha-sized the central role the Department played inbuilding the coalition that ended repressiveTaliban rule in Afghanistan and put al Qaedaterrorists on the run. After delivering his pre-pared remarks, the counterterrorism coordina-tor responded to questions from the audience.

The retirees took a brief break for coffee anddispersed for candid, one-hour briefings and

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AFSA Memorial PlaqueWe remember with heartfelt gratitude thirteen colleagues who have lost their lives in the line of duty while serving overseas.

Livingston Lord Satterthwaite Greenland 1959

William Dale FisherEthiopia 1961

Gustav Crane HertzVietnam 1967

Rose Marie OrlichNicaragua 1972

Thomas F. OlmstedCambodia 1975

Richard AitkenSudan 1981

Philip Robert HansonTogo 1981

James David Marill Cameroon 1986

Rebecca Lambert Roberts Israel 1987

Marie D. Burke United Kingdom 1989

Thomas P. Doubleday, Jr. Liberia 1993

James T. Lederman Egypt 1994

Barbara J. GreenPakistan 2002

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discussions with senior Department officials from theBureaus of Consular, Western Hemisphere, African andNear Eastern Affairs. Scores of employee-volunteers reg-istered and assisted guests throughout the day.

Returning to the auditorium, the audience was delight-ed to see a lively Director General Ruth A. Davis back atthe podium in her familiar role of introducing SecretaryColin L. Powell.

The Secretary welcomed the retirees to a reunion, hesaid, that “binds us all as one State Department family.”He shared his experiences during what he called “thelongest eight hours of my life,” when he learned of theattacks while on a trip to Peru and immediately returnedhome. The Secretary called the attacks a test of what weas a nation were made of.

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Impressed by the outstanding service ForeignService families serving abroad perform, Mrs.Susan Baker, wife of the former Secretary of StateJames A. Baker III, established this award in 1990.

On Foreign Affairs Day, AAFSW recognized sixdeserving individuals—one from each geographicbureau and one from Washington, D.C.—as volunteerswho made a remarkable difference in their communi-ties, both American and host country.

Eleanor Geiger, LimaEleanor Geiger work-

ed with the people ofHuancavelica, a remote,desolate Peruvian vil-lage, with the goal ofhelping them becomeself-sufficient in themodern world whileremaining faithful totheir traditions and cul-ture. A talented seam-stress, she identifiedways to market locally

crafted textiles. She sought to preserve traditional artwhile developing sources of income for the local arti-sans. A role model among Americans in Lima, Eleanorhas brought attention and assistance from the Limacommunity to the people of Huancavelica.

Carol Ayers, BucharestFor the past four and a

half years, Carol Ayershas devoted herselfunselfishly to improvingthe lives of hundreds ofneedy children and elder-ly people in Bucharestand throughout Romania.She has worked tirelessly

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and with tangible impact by volunteering her time,money and skills to improving the lives of Romania’spoor. Her most notable achievement was her lead rolein establishing the Pro Child Romania Federation, acommunity-based network of 20 independent organiza-tions involved in child welfare issues. She has been amagnet drawing in others to help the less fortunate.

Janice Schofield Skoog,Beijing

With abundant energyand imagination, JaniceSchofield Skoog contributedsuccessfully to the well-being of the American com-munity in Beijing whileimproving the lives ofnumerous Chinese children.Janice helped to establish

the U.S. Embassy Community Outreach Group, devel-oped its by-laws and recruited volunteers. Through sever-al major projects, which she conceived, the group securedcontributions of money, clothing and other articles forneedy children in Beijing. Janice also served on the boardsof the American Employees’ Association and of theInternational Newcomer Network with characteristicdrive, creativity and enthusiasm.

Edward Brown, IslamabadPersonifying the spirit

across America since thetragic events of Sept. 11,Ed Brown was instru-mental in maintainingthe quality of life at afront-line post during atime of crisis and theongoing war against ter-rorism. With local staffresources depleted be-cause of the evacuationof most embassy fami-lies, Ed assumed managerial responsibility for the largecommissary and recreation association and became theacting community liaison officer, performing both tasksmagnificently. In meeting its many urgent and importantresponsibilities, the post had to support, feed, house andentertain countless VIP visitors and temporary personnel

during a very tense, potentially dangerous period. Ed’sinnovative management and advocacy for the communi-ty contributed immeasurably to the spiritual and materi-al well-being of the embassy community.

Laurie “Sibo” Bopp,Gaborone

In a country ravagedby the HIV/AIDS crisis,Sibo Bopp has had a dra-matic impact on improv-ing the capabilities oflocal organizations andthrough her personalinvolvement upon thelives of the people theyserve. She has focused onthree institutions: ShiningStars, a day care center

for orphans and children of AIDS patients 300 milesfrom the capital; the Gaborone Women’s Shelter, ahaven for battered women; and the Holy CrossHospice, which cares for those dying of AIDS. Byshowing these organizations sources of assistance,grant application skills and sound institutional man-agement she has ensured their future viability.

Claire M. Bogosian, Washington, D.C.For seven years, Claire has provided leadership and

unflagging commitment to the details of AAFSW’sAward for Outstanding Volunteerism Overseas. She hasshown graceful efficiency in the review process and salu-tary wit under pressure. She has also shown great per-sonal sensitivity to the needs and concerns of the awardwinners and their fami-lies. Her hard work in theUnited States to ensureofficial recognition of out-standing volunteer contri-butions by members ofthe Foreign Service com-munity serving abroadreflects the personal serv-ice she has so selflesslygiven in her years as aForeign Service familymember at home andabroad.



“And we responded powerfully,” he said. “The coali-tion is holding.” He added that the nation’s U.N. andNATO allies are making solid contributions to the waragainst terrorism.

One of the most reassuring post-9/11 developments,the Secretary noted, has been the strengthening relation-

ship between the United States and Russia. He pointed toRussia’s cooperation in counterterrorism, the plannedreductions in ballistic missiles and even deeper cuts instrategic arms.

“Chickens,” the Secretary shouted, with a broad smileand an expression of feigned bewilderment. He explained

Princeton N. Lyman Awarded Director General’s Foreign Service Cup for 2002

Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman had a remark-able career in the Foreign Service, inspiring andmentoring younger officers in the Department ofState and the Agency for International Development.As assistant secretary for International Organi-zations, deputy assistant secretary for AfricanAffairs, director of U.S. refugee programs and U.S.Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, his wasone of the most diverse and distinguished ForeignService careers of his generation.

Since his retirement from the Foreign Service in1998, Mr. Lyman has continued to promote positiveU.S. engagement in foreign affairs. He is active at the

Aspen Institute, the Corporate Council on Africa andthe United States Institute for Peace. Besides sitting onthe boards of directors of several nongovernmentalorganizations, he continues to publish persuasivewritings on international issues.

Ambassador Lyman inspires young people throughhis teaching at the School of Foreign Service atGeorgetown University and through a busy scheduleof speaking engagements at universities throughoutthe United States. Even in retirement he pursues abusy, globe-trotting schedule leading delegations topromote democracy and observe elections.

In recognition of his distinguished Foreign Servicecareer and his contributions to the community sinceretirement, Ambassador Lyman was awarded the

Director General’s Cup for the Foreign Servicefor 2002.

John T. Sprott Awarded Director General’s Civil Service Cup for 2002

In recognition of his outstanding record ofachievement at the Department of State over a33-year career, Ambassador John T. Sprott wasawarded the Director General’s Civil ServiceCup for 2002.

Mr. Sprott served as U.S. Ambassador to theKingdom of Swaziland from 1994 through 1996.

He devoted most of his career at theDepartment to developing diplomatic talent atthe Foreign Service Institute, beginning in 1965with the first economics training curriculum, aprogram that continues to train economics offi-cers for all foreign affairs agencies. He served asdean of the School of Professional Studies andthen, for 13 years, as deputy director. While hewas dean of Professional Studies, he argued for

DG and DACOR Cups Awarded

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that the progress the two global powers are making can bemeasured best by the nature of their current conflicts.“Today,” the Secretary said, “we’re in a chicken crisis withRussia. While we were paying attention to other pressingmatters, Russia was becoming the world’s largest importerof U.S. chickens.” He said trade issues are becoming more

important between the two countries than arms issues,and that’s a positive development.

Secretary Powell observed that the Department’s rela-tionship with Congress has also improved dramatically.Congress has agreed to make up for long-standing fund-ing shortages and the Department, in turn, has proven to

the development of ConGen Rosslyn, a successful con-sular training program celebrating its 25th anniversarythis year.

The highlight of Mr. Sprott’s service was the contri-bution he made to the design, construction and reloca-tion of FSI to its current campus in the fall of 1993. Thatproject stands as a living memorial to everyone whotook this dream and made it a reality.

All those who work and study at the Foreign ServiceInstitute are the beneficiaries of his work. His influ-ence will be felt by generations of Departmentemployees in the service of the United States.

Willard A. De Pree Awarded DACOR’s Foreign Service Cup for 2002

Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, orDACOR, honored Willard De Pree with the organiza-tion’s Foreign Service Cup for 2002. His long and dis-tinguished Foreign Service career took him to Accraand Freetown in his earlier years as an “African hand.”

Willard A. De Pree is awarded DACOR’s Foreign Service Cup for 2002.

He later served five challenging years as thefirst U.S. Ambassador to newly independentMozambique. He was director of ManagementOperations during a critical period and went onto another difficult post, U.S. Ambassador toBangladesh. His expertise was put to good usein his final assignment as a senior inspector.

Ambassador De Pree’s service did not endwith his retirement in 1993. He continued toapply his many talents to support DACOR andthe American Foreign Service Association. Herepresented the best of DACOR as a key advis-er to its educational program, as a governor andas an enthusiastic participant in all its pro-grams. In AFSA, Bill De Pree served as interimpresident, as retiree vice president and as amember of a number of important task forces.He chaired a task force on work force plan-ning—ensuring that the Department hadenough employees to fill empty slots and tocover training and gaps in embassies. Many of

the recommendations of this task force were adoptedby Secretary Powell in the new “Readiness Plan” whenhe assumed office.

One of Bill De Pree’s most important recent accom-plishments was the inauguration of an Elderhostel pro-gram devoted to explaining the work of the ForeignService to the American public. In more than 50 one-week programs reaching an audience of 2,700 profes-sionals from 46 states, participants learned about theimportance of the Foreign Service and the need to con-vince their congressional representatives to fund theDepartment at a suitable level. Ambassador De Preeenvisions molding these voluntary supporters into a“Friends of the Foreign Service” advocacy group, build-ing a sorely needed constituency for the Department.

DACOR was pleased to award its Foreign ServiceCup to one of the nation’s most dedicated diplomats,who continues to play a role as a true advocate of theForeign Service.


Volunteers James Yorke, left, from AFSA and Carmen Cantor and ErikDoman from the Bureau of Human Resources review the programbefore assisting Foreign Affairs Day participants.


be a responsible steward of those increases by bringingembassy costs down 20 percent. The Department nowhas an office on the Hill on the House side and will openanother on the Senate side soon. He said Congress’s newattitude toward the Department could be summed up inthree words: “We trust you.”

Ending his remarks on alight note, the Secretary rec-ommended that his listenersvisit the Department’s webpage to get acquainted withFlat Stanley, who traveledwith him abroad, and MommaDuck, who brazenly chose aprotected corner of the HarryS Truman Building’s groundsto raise her brood.

Mette Beecroft, president ofAssociates of the AmericanForeign Service Worldwide, readthe names and profiled theaccomplishments of those select-ed to receive the Secretary’sAwards for Volunteerism for2002 (see accompanying side-bar). Secretary Powell presented

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one of the awards to Laurie “Sibo” Bopp,the only awardee present for the ceremony.

John K. Naland, president of theAmerican Foreign Service Association, offi-ciated at a somber ceremony adding 13new names to the plaque of Foreign Servicecolleagues who lost their lives in the line ofduty while serving overseas (see sidebarfor the list of names). A U.S. Armed Forcescolor guard presented the colors andSecretary Powell joined Janet Ballantyne,counselor of the U.S. Agency forInternational Development, in unveilingthe plaque and laying a wreath. SecretaryPowell concluded the ceremony by readinga message from President Bush.

Immediately following the plaque cer-emony, a second group of seminars fea-tured senior managers from theEuropean and Eurasian, East Asian andPacific, South Asian and PublicDiplomacy Bureaus.

Foreign Affairs Day ended with aluncheon in the Benjamin Franklin Roomhonoring three distinguished retired

employees—Princeton N. Lyman, John T. Sprott andWillard A. De Pree (see sidebar). ■

The author is a retired Foreign Service officer on the staff ofState Magazine.

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Cultural Section at U.S.Embassy in Mexico Earns

Prestigious Award

Each year, the Public Employees Roundtable, aWashington, D.C.-based educational coalition ofmore than 30 organizations representing gov-ernment employees and retirees, celebrates

Public Service Recognition Week. Its prestigious PublicService Excellence Awards go to deserving organizationsin eight categories.

This year, a panel of judges chaired by Robert J. O’Neill,president of the National Academy of Public Admin-istration, chose the cultural section of the U.S. Embassy inMexico City for the award in the international category.

As U.S. Embassies do worldwide, the cultural sectionin Mexico seeks ways to promote dialogue on bilateralconcerns and foster an overall atmosphere of mutualtrust and respect. The section also assists the host countrytoward democratization and free market goals. TheUnited States shares many issues with Mexico—narcoticsand law enforcement, migration, trade and environmen-tal problems—that aren’t easily solved in seminars orconferences. Yet, there is plenty of demand fromMexicans for information on how governments couldwork to improve accountability, transparency, effective-ness and community participation.

In response, the cultural section in the embassy’s pub-lic diplomacy office developed a four-year plan to workwith Mexicans on the fundamentals of good government,drawing on resources within the Department and leadingpublic administration organizations in the United States,such as the American Society of Public Administrationand the National Association of Schools of PublicAnalysis and Administration. They helped recruit speak-ers and consultants on the topics of personnel adminis-tration, strategic performance, evaluation, ethics andanticorruption. Mexican reformers were fascinated byU.S. efforts to reinvent government and were eager tofind valid models for their own system.

The cultural section used all the Department’s resourcesto program dozens of speakers during the four-year peri-od and arranged for Mexicans to meet U.S. counterpartson International Visitor and Voluntary Visitor programs.The Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico developed a

basic bookshelf of U.S. classic textbooks on public admin-istration to present to key Mexican universities and gov-ernment offices. Small grants were given to organizationsto focus on public administration approaches to differentproblems and an Educational Partnership grant supporteda long-term program of the U.S-Mexico Consortium ofPublic Administration Faculties. With public diplomacysupport, Mexicans attended and addressed key U.S. pro-fessional associations.

When President Vicente Fox took office, he immediate-ly announced his intention to create better governmentthrough a newly established Office of GovernmentInnovation and through a widespread effort to reducecorruption in all government ministries. Officials inresponsible offices sought out additional advice andassistance, even during the transition period, giving theembassy early working-level access to the new adminis-tration and its staff.

The cultural section, the award notes, played a key rolein establishing enduring relationships between Mexicanand U.S. practitioners and scholars, relationships thatwill benefit both countries in an ongoing exchange ofideas and practices.

The award-winning cultural section assembles on the chancery terracein Mexico City.

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ft, discusses trade issues with Lisa Fox, course director, and Barry Blenner,or.

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Derivatives. Dirty floats. Monopsony. Dollarization.When the Foreign Service Institute’s Economic and

Commercial Studies Program begins each September,most students have little knowledge of these terms. Just36 weeks later, much to their surprise, they are preparedto go head to head with professional economists, centralbankers and officials from the World Bank andInternational Monetary Fund. Educating Foreign Serviceofficers in today’s economic issues is one of the maingoals of the course.

In the 1960s, the Department realized it needed a cadreof officers trained in economics. Then, just as it doestoday, the Foreign Service was recruitinggeneralists—bright individuals flexibleenough to succeed in a variety of positionsin tough overseas environments. Eventhose officers who specialized in economicissues were not required to have had anyformal training in economics.

Yet their jobs required them to meet andnegotiate with well-trained host govern-ment finance ministers and central bankers,many of whom had earned graduatedegrees in economics from some of the topAmerican universities. To represent theUnited States effectively, Department offi-cials had to be well prepared.

In 1966, FSI offered the first Economic andCommercial Studies training course,designed to provide economic officers andcertain Civil Service employees with theskills needed to report on economic develop-ments and to engage professional economistsfrom host country ministries, think tanks andinternational financial institutions.

Over the years, the course developed areputation for being rigorous—a rigor

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required to achieve a high level of professional compe-tence in a short time period. This year’s students will tellyou the program lives up to its reputation. For ninemonths, students study and are tested on core economictheory in classes such as micro and macroeconomics, sta-tistics, trade, international finance and money and bank-ing. They also take 25 applied courses, covering suchissues as intellectual property rights, aviation, competitionpolicy, financial market innovations and trade dispute set-tlement. By the end of the academic year, students havecompleted coursework equivalent to a strong bachelor’sdegree in economics, with much of the work at the gradu-ate level.

But the course goes beyond traditional academic pro-grams in economics. Students learn economic theory, butthey also put that theory into practice. The curriculum in-

Jim Loi, left, and RichardBoly visit the New YorkStock Exchange.

cludes case studies and role-playing with students actingout situations similar to those they will encounter as em-bassy economic and commercial officers. They writecables, study negotiation strategy and learn state-of-the-art computer and briefing skills to illustrate and bolstertheir analytic arguments.

They spend several days in New York, meeting withofficials at the New York Stock Exchange, the FederalReserve Bank and the major investment houses. Studentsalso spend a week at the International Monetary FundInstitute, where they put together a macroeconomic stabi-lization package. At the end of the course, they have theopportunity to work for a U.S. company for a few weeksto try out their new skills in a corporate setting. In previ-ous years, students have completed these mini-internshipswith such companies as Boeing, Merck and MCI.

The students themselves make the course unique. Asmid-level Foreign Service officers, they bring impressiveinternational experience and professional confidence tolively, thought-provoking class discussions. The instruc-tors, whether tenured professors from local universities,Ph.D.s from the World Bank, researchers from economicthink tanks or managers from Fortune 500 corporations,all conclude that they learn as much from the students asthe students learn from them.

One of the strengths of the program is that its directorscontinually adapt it to meet the changing needs of theForeign Service. Lisa Fox, the course’s director, explains thatwhen she joined the staff in 1985, it was vastly different.

“The course was only six months long and was not at allfocused on the special needs of Foreign Service learners,”she observes. “By lengthening the course to nine months,dropping some of the more abstract subjects such aseconometrics and adding applied modules on issues suchas telecommunications and country data analysis, we havedesigned a program that gives these adult learners practi-cal skills they can use right away in the field.”

Both Ms. Fox and the program’s senior economist,Barry Blenner, keep in touch with graduates to improvethe course. Mr. Blenner confides that he receives e-mailseach week from former students posted overseas who aregrappling with complex economic issues.

“From these e-mails we get a good idea of where weare succeeding and where we need to improve thecourse,” he says.

In the quest to perfect the program, they sometimesvisit graduates at their overseas posts to get a firsthandlook at how their former students are putting theirknowledge to use.

Why should officers take the course? This year’s stu-dents are confident that the knowledge and professionalcontacts they have gained during the nine-month coursewill benefit them and the Foreign Service throughouttheir careers.

Chris Dunnett, a current student, compares the studyof economics to the study of foreign languages. “Just asthe Department officials need to know the languages ofthe countries to which they are posted, economic officersneed to know the language of central bankers and the

international financial community. This course helps eco-nomic and commercial officers become fluent in the spe-cialized language of their profession.” ■

The author is a student in the current Economic andCommercial Studies Program.

Coming to TermsDerivative: A financial instrument whose value isbased on an underlying asset.

Dirty Float: An exchange rate policy in which thevalue of the rate is mostly market determined, butin which there is some central bank intervention.

Monopsony: A market structure where there is a single buyer.

Dollarization: The formal or informal use of a foreigncurrency in domestic transactions.

Donn-Allen Titus and Chris DeAngelis at the New York StockExchange.


Making Swimming Safe for Toddlers

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Swimming pools and toddlers are a perilous combi-nation. Drowning was the leading cause of acciden-tal death for toddlers at foreign posts between 1989

and 1999. While there have been no drownings since1999, near drownings requiring resuscitation continue tooccur. Clearly, more needs to be done.

Toddlers’ physiological and developmental character-istics make them vulnerable to swimming pool injuries.They have proportionally larger heads and shorter legsthan older children and adults. So, when toddlers bendover near the side of a pool, they are more likely to fall inbecause their center of gravity is much higher on thebody than it is for older children and adults. Combinedwith a lack of coordination, no understanding of what ishappening and an inability to cry for help, a toddler whofalls into a pool can easily drown unnoticed.

Even if the toddlers are found quickly, their odds ofuntarnished survival are small if pulled from the bottomof a pool. A toddler’s window of resuscitation is onlyabout three minutes, compared with six minutes for old-er children and adults.

Another physiological difference that plays a critical rolewhen trying to revive toddlers who have been found in apool is their tongues. Due to size and location,a toddler’s tongue is a major obstacle toobtaining a clear airway for resuscitation. It isvitally important, therefore, that a rescuer cer-tified in CPR restart the breathing process atthe earliest possible moment to minimize therisk of permanent brain damage, even if thetoddler is still in the pool. Caregivers shouldlearn first aid and CPR for both toddlers andchildren because the lifesaving techniques aredramatically different than for adults.

While swimming lessons are fundamentalfor older children, they are not the solution toa toddler’s risks and may actually increase thelikelihood of drowning. Toddlers lack the psy-chological awareness and developmentalskills necessary to master water safety tech-niques such as survival flotation, energy con-servation swimming and safe poolside behav-ior. The American Academy of Pediatrics Pool barriers

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discourages swimming lessons for children until theyreach age five because they are not developmentally ready.Teaching a younger child to swim does not reduce thechild’s risk of drowning and may give parents a false senseof security. Furthermore, swimming programs reduce chil-dren’s fear of water and may unwittingly encourage tod-dlers to enter the water without supervision.

Swimming can still be a fun family activity. But familymembers must do their jobs. Drowning can be preventedonly if there is uninterrupted and dedicated adult supervi-sion of pools and adequate barriers. Barriers should com-pletely surround pools and be equipped with self-closing,self-latching and lockable gates. Parents should not bringtheir children to a pool that lacks these features.

A drowning or near drowning has never occurred at apost where there were adequate barriers and uninter-rupted adult supervision. With these precautions inplace, parents can feel secure and kids can be kids.

Any questions regarding swimming pool safety can bedirected to the author in the Office of Safety/Health andEnvironmental Management. The office’s Intranet Website at http://obo.state.gov/opssaf-shem contains manyreferences on swimming pool safety. ■

The author is an industrial hygienist in the Office ofSafety/Health and Environmental Management.

People Like YouPeople Like You

Mark McGovern sits atop theWienermobile outside the StateDepartment in the summer of 1995.

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parade of kindergartners singing, ‘Iwish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.’”

They made at least three tripsthrough Washington, D.C., that yearand got their “buns” touched up at aSilver Spring body shop each time.Wherever they went, the Wiener-mobile went with them. Mark soondiscovered that only the most intrepiddate was willing to drive to themovies in a Wienermobile.

After hotdogging for a year, he tooka similar job with Polaroid, travelingaround the country for six months in avehicle shaped like a Polaroid cameraand taking more than 50,000 Polaroidphotos. Later, he worked for theImmigration and NaturalizationService in Hawaii and Montreal. Hejoined the Department in 1999, serv-ing as a diplomatic courier for twoyears in Korea and one in Frankfurt.

By at least one measure, MarkMcGovern may be the most persistentand determined person in his 95-member class. He took the ForeignService exam a staggering eight timesbefore passing both the written andoral examinations. ■

—Dave Krecke

Mark McGovern may not be theonly hotdogger in the ForeignService, but the new Foreign

Service officer is almost certainly thefirst one qualified to drive the OscarMayer Wienermobile.

After graduating from college, heapplied to be an official “Hotdogger”and was one of 12 chosen fromamong hundreds of applicants toattend “Hotdog High” at OscarMayer’s corporate headquarters inMadison, Wis. After three weeks oftraining, he mastered the art of driv-ing and—what was more challeng-ing—parking the 27-foot-long, fiber-glass hotdog sandwiched betweentwo giant buns.

Linked to their peculiar vehicle fora year, Mark and a colleague donnedtheir bright, wiener-wear outfits andset out on a search for a new five- orsix-year-old to sing Oscar Mayer’sjingles in the company’s televisioncommercials.

“Not everyone would relish thejob,” says the unapologetic punster.“We hauled our buns across the coun-try from one supermarket parking lotto another, listening to an endless

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FSO Mark McGovern on break from the A-100course at FSI.


STATE OF THE ARTS

◆ Sept. 25 Paul Junior High Charter School Jazz Ensemble

◆ Oct. 9 Winner of the International Young Artist Piano Competition

◆ Oct. 23 Francesc de Paula Soler, the Poet of the Guitar

◆ Nov. 6 Memorial concert for composer Eugene Sheffres

Upcoming Calendar

Performances are on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Dean AchesonAuditorium,unless otherwise noted.

Art Series Offers Everything from Bach to Chopin

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The Foreign Affairs Recreation Association present-ed vocal performances and piano recitals during itsState of the Arts Cultural Series.

Peruvian tenor Jose Sacin offered a broad program,ranging from opera, lieder, operetta, art songs and orato-rios to Spanish zarzuela. Anastassia Ivanova, Mr. Sacin’sRussian wife and an internationally renowned pianist inher own right, accompanied him on the piano.

The talented couple began their performance withPeter Tchaikovsky’s “Kuda kuda” from Eugene Onegin.

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Anastassia Ivanova, pianist, accompanies her husband, tenor Jose Sacin.

ed a well-balanced piano recitalwith selections from early Baroquemusic through the Romantic periodto contemporary.

Mr. Dorsey’s musical growthwas evident by his self-assured-ness and sensitive expression.Especially challenging was the J.S.Bach “Partita No. 1 in B Flat Major,”which he performed beautifully.

Although his program was notin historical order, Mr. Dorsey’sdecision to end with Chopin’s“Scherzo” was more dramatic. ■

The author is a computer specialistin the Executive Secretariat.

Mr. Sacin’s splendidtenor voice was high-lighted by his wife’s pre-cise playing. They thensegued into Guiseppe’s“De Miei bollenti spriiti”from La Traviata. A minorkey selection, “Dicilen-cello Vuie,” by RodolfoFalvo, was their befittingencore.

Wayne Dorsey, back bypopular demand, present-

State’s own WaynDorsey playsselections by theclassical masters.

A P P O I N T M E N T S

U.S. Ambassador to the formerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia.Lawrence E. Butler of Maine, acareer member of the SeniorForeign Service, class of Counselor,is the new U.S. Ambassador to theformer Yugoslav Republic ofMacedonia. He was deputy chief ofmission at the U.S. Embassy inCopenhagen from 1999 to 2002 and

director for European Affairs at the National SecurityCouncil from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Butler was deputy chief ofmission at the U.S. Embassy in Dublin from 1996 to 1997and in Belgrade from 1994 to 1996, where he was chargéd’affaires for the first eight months of 1996. Since joiningthe Department in 1976, he has also served two tours inHelsinki and one each in Sofia and Brasilia. Mr. Butlerand his wife Linda have one son.

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Robert Patrick JohnFinn of New York, a career member of the Senior ForeignService, class of Counselor, is the new U.S. Ambassadorto Afghanistan. He was diplomat-in-residence and MunirErtegun visiting professor of Turkology at PrincetonUniversity from 2001 to 2002 and U.S. Ambassador toTajikistan from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Finn was deputy chief ofmission at the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb from 1995 to 1998and in Baku from 1992 to 1995. Since joining the ForeignService in 1978, he has also served four separate tours inTurkey and one in Lahore. A Peace Corps volunteer from1967 to 1969, he taught English at a Turkish high schooland university. He and his wife Helena, also a ForeignService officer, have one son.

U.S. Ambassador to the FederativeRepublic of Brazil. Donna JeanHrinak of Virginia, a career mem-ber of the Senior Foreign Service,class of Career-Minister, is the newU.S. Ambassador to the FederativeRepublic of Brazil. She was U.S.Ambassador to Venezuela from2000 to 2002, to Bolivia from 1997 to2000 and to the Dominican

Republic from 1994 to 1997. She was deputy assistant sec-retary for Caribbean and Mexican affairs in the Bureau ofInter-American Affairs from 1991 to 1994 and deputychief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa from1989 to 1991. After joining the Department in 1974, Ms.Hrinak also served tours in Caracas, São Paulo, Bogota,

Warsaw and Mexico City. She and her husband, GabinoM. Flores, have one son.

Designated Chief of Mission toBurma. Carmen Maria Martinez, acareer member of the SeniorForeign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, has been designatedchief of the U.S. Mission to Burma.She joined the Foreign Service in1980 and served her first tour inSão Paulo, a post she returned to asconsul general from 1999 to 2002.

She was deputy chief of mission in Maputo from 1997 to1999 and consul general in Barranquilla from 1993 to1994. She also served in Quito, Bangkok and Caracas. Sheand her husband, Victor Reimer, have one son.

U.S. Ambassador to Georgia.Richard M. Miles of SouthCarolina, a career member of theSenior Foreign Service, class ofMinister-Counselor, is the new U.S.Ambassador to Georgia. He wasU.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria from1999 to 2002 and chief of the U.S.Mission to Serbia-Montenegrofrom 1996 to 1999. Mr. Miles was

deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscowfrom 1993 to 1996 and chief of mission of the U.S.Embassy in Baku from 1992 to 1993. He was principalofficer at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin from 1991 to 1992and consul general in Leningrad from 1988 to 1991. Mr.Miles has also served two other tours in Belgrade and onein Oslo. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1967, he wasa noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Heand his wife Sharon have two children.

U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria.James W. Pardew of Arkansas, aretired U.S. Army officer, is the newU.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria. Hewas special adviser for SoutheastEurope in the Bureau of Europeanand Eurasian Affairs from 2001 to2002 and principal deputy specialadviser to the President andSecretary of State for democracy in

the Balkans from 1999 to 2001. From 1996 to 1999, Mr.


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Pardew was U.S. special representative for military stabi-lization in the Balkans. He was the Secretary of Defense’sspecial representative to the Bosnia peace negotiationsfrom 1994 to 1995 and directed the Balkan task force ofthe office of the Secretary of Defense from 1992 to 1995.He was vice director for intelligence of the Joint Staff inWashington, D.C., from 1992 to 1994 and director of for-eign intelligence and chief of current intelligence of theArmy General Staff from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Pardew servedtwo overseas tours with the U.S. Army in Germany andone each in Japan, Turkey, Somalia and Vietnam, wherehe earned two Bronze Stars and one Air Medal. He andhis wife Mary K. have three sons.

U.S. Commissioner to theInternational Joint Commission,United States and Canada. DennisL. Schornack of Michigan, specialadviser for strategic initiatives inthe office of the governor ofMichigan, is the new U.S.Commissioner to the InternationalJoint Commission, United Statesand Canada. He held the position

of special adviser for strategic initiatives since 1991 andwas a commissioner on the state’s Low-Level RadioactiveWaste Authority during the same period. Mr. Schornackchaired the Michigan Biologic Products Commissionfrom 1995 to 1999 and was a legislative assistant to theSenate majority leader of the Michigan State Senate from1984 to 1991. He is married to Linda K. McClune-Gobler.

U.S. Representative to theEconomic and Social Council ofthe United Nations with the rankof ambassador. Sichan Siv, a senioradviser to the InternationalRepublican Institute, is the newU.S. Representative to theEconomic and Social Council of theUnited Nations. He was a delegateto the 57th U.N. Commission on

Human Rights. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Siv served in theadministration of President George H.W. Bush as deputy

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assistant to the President for public liaison and in theDepartment as deputy assistant secretary for South AsianAffairs. He has also held positions in human services,international development, public relations and invest-ment management. Mr. Siv was born in Cambodia andresettled as a refugee in Wallingford, Conn., in 1976. Heis married to Martha Pattillo Siv.

U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg.Peter Terpeluk Jr. of Pennsylvania,managing partner of the AmericanContinental Group, a Washington,D.C.-based government relationsconsulting firm, is the new U.S.Ambassador to the Grand Duchy ofLuxembourg. He was the firm’smanaging partner from 1994 until heassumed his ambassadorial posi-

tion. He was president of Peter Terpeluk and Associatesfrom 1985 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1994. He wasmanaging director of SR Wojdak and Associates ofWashington, D.C., and Philadelphia from 1989 to 1993. Mr.Terpeluk was executive director of the Greater PhiladelphiaEconomic Development Corporation from 1984 to 1985. Hewas acting deputy administrator of the U.S. Small BusinessAdministration during 1983 and regional administrator ofthe Bala Cynwood, Pa., office from 1981 to 1984. He and hiswife Diane have two children.

O B I T U A R I E S

William E. Ball, 78, a retired memberof the Foreign Service, died Nov. 2of lung cancer in Venice, Fla. Hejoined the Department in 1964 andserved in East Pakistan, SaudiArabia, Germany, Yemen, India andIsrael before retiring in 1979. Heserved in the U.S. Army duringWorld War II, joined the U.S. AirForce in 1946 and retired from the

Air Force in 1964. Mr. Ball worked in the air attaché officesin Afghanistan from 1959 to 1961 and in Yugoslavia from1961 to 1964. He and his wife Alma were active in reset-tling Cambodian refugees in their community.

Mary Jean Breeland, 68, a retired Foreign Service secretary,died April 1 in Greensboro, N.C. She joined the ForeignService in 1963 and served in Baghdad, Madrid, Moscow,Asuncion, Caracas, West Berlin, Tokyo, Ankara,Washington, D.C., and Munich before retiring in 1988.

Edward L. Dorset, 84, a retired mem-ber of the Foreign Service, diedMarch 24 from chronic pulmonarydisease in Sarasota, Fla. After serv-ing in the U.S. Army in the Pacificduring World War II, he worked forthe Department of Defense as acivilian employee. He joined theState Department in 1965 and wasposted to Accra, Monrovia, Bonn

and Washington, D.C. After he retired in 1976, Mr. Dorsetaccompanied his wife, also in the Foreign Service, to herassignments in Morocco and Malta.

Dorothy Shaw Faust, 98, widow of Foreign Service officerJohn Bernard Faust, died Sept. 24 in Norman, Okla.Between 1929 and 1950, Mrs. Faust accompanied her hus-band on assignments to Argentina, Paraguay, France,Portugal, Chile and Lebanon. After her husband retired,Mrs. Faust served as an administrative assistant in theDepartment’s Miami Reception Center, meeting andhelping foreign visitors with their appointments.

Alma Rebecca Herman, 92, a retiredCivil Service employee, died March6 at her home in Titusville, Fla. Shejoined the Department in 1940 andserved much of her career as abudget analyst in the Bureau of FarEastern Affairs until she retired in1976.

Helen R. Levin, 90, a retired memberof the Foreign Service, died April 2from renal failure in Silver Spring,Md. Ms. Levin served in Germany,South Africa, the Philippines,Ghana, India, Barbados andWashington, D.C. Prior to her serv-ice with the Department, she waschief clerk at the Middletown, Pa.,Air Material Command.

Joseph Limprecht, 55, a careerForeign Service officer and U.S.Ambassador to Albania since 1999,died May 19 of a heart attack inAlbania. He joined the ForeignService in 1975 and was stationedin Washington and Bonn beforeserving at the U.S. Mission inBerlin from 1985 to 1988. From 1988to 1991 he directed anti-narcotics

operations at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. InWashington, he was deputy director of the office of Israeland Arab-Israeli affairs and served in what was then theBureau of Personnel. From 1996 to 1999 he was deputychief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent.

Alice L. Marty, 73, a retired ForeignService secretary and wife ofretired Foreign Service officer GusN. Marty, died May 27 in SpringHill, Fla. The couple met and mar-ried in Amman, Jordan, in May1959. She and her husband servedin Moscow, Helsinki, Addis Ababaand Ankara. Mrs. Marty retired in1984.


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Dorothy “D.J.” Miller, 76, a retiredmember of the Foreign Service andwidow of Foreign Service officerPaul Miller, died Feb. 22 from com-plications following a stroke shesuffered in Sarasota, Fla., onChristmas Eve. Mrs. Miller’s over-seas posts included Burma,Tunisia, South Africa, Russia,Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Yugo-

slavia, Liberia and the Philippines.

Teri C. Miller, 61, a retired CivilService employee, died May 10 oflung cancer in Longview, Texas. Sheworked in the Office of InternationalConferences in the Bureau of Inter-national Organizations as a travelofficer supporting official U.S. dele-gates to international conferences.She retired from the Department in1995 after 33 years of service.

Joanne L. Moot, 75, a retired ForeignService officer, died April 18 of can-cer in Bethesda, Md. She joined theForeign Service in 1952 and servedin Luxembourg. She also served inAthens, Bombay, Jakarta, Singa-pore, Nairobi, Mexico City, Tijuanaand Washington, D.C. Ms. Mootretired from the Department in1983.

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Harold Owens Perry, 90, a retiredForeign Service officer, died Feb. 16of complications from heart sur-gery. He served in World War IIand the Korean War as a U.S. Armyintelligence officer. From 1956 to1958, Mr. Perry directed the refugeerelief program in Tokyo. Afterreturning to the United States, heserved with the division of lan-

guage services in the Department.

Isabelle Pinard, 96, a retired memberof the Foreign Service, died inCharlottesville, Va., on April 18.She retired from the ForeignService after serving in Lima,Guatemala, Warsaw, Madrid, Bern,Ottawa, Frankfurt, Tokyo,Montreal and Lisbon.

Robert Randolph “Randy” Raven, 89, a retired ForeignService officer, died May 12 in Massachusetts of pul-monary embolus following surgery for a broken hip.Born in Shanghai, the son of a missionary’s daughter anda Shanghai businessman, he was a journalist for a Britishnewspaper. At the beginning of World War II, he leftChina for the United States, arriving in San Francisco theday after the attack on Pearl Harbor. During the war, heworked for the Office of War Information and at the endof the war joined the Department. He served in Rangoon,Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bangkokand Perth. He retired in 1971.

Foreign Service Retirements

PERSONNEL ACTIONS

Adams, William L.Bader, Jeffrey A.Bauer, Mary K.Benedicto, Kathryn S.Bialecki, Paul A.Binger, Lawrence E.Bradley Jr., Harry C.Dobbins Jr, James F.

Ford, John SeaburyHaas, DavidHarter, Dennis G.Hilts, Joseph A.Hurley, Paul F.Maertens, Thomas R.Miles, Richard M.Noziglia, Charles David

Parker, Sarah VirginiaParkhurst, RoseannRoberts, Douglas K.Skinner, Frank W.Talbot, Joseph P.Tello, John L.Tracy, Mary M.

Civil Service RetirementsBowden, Eugene C.Boyd, Marjorie E.Clemmer Jr., Dan O.Ellis, Lula J.Kim, Yang W.Kline, Paul B.Leach Jr., Carl Celester

May, Nancy CoreyRodriguez, Antonio

MiguezSchmidt, Virginia L.Strickland, Kenneth R.Talak, RonaldYoung, Gloria T.

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