The Foreign Service Journal, January 2007

58 F OR E I GN S E R V I C E J OU R N A L / J A NU A R Y 2 0 0 7 A F S A N E W S AFSA NEWS BRIEFS Staff: Executive Director Susan Reardon: reardon@afsa.org Business Department Controller Steven Tipton: tipton@afsa.org Accounting Assistant Jon Reed: reed@afsa.org Labor Management General Counsel Sharon Papp: papps@state.gov Labor Management Attorney Zlatana Badrich: badrichz@state.gov Labor Management Specialist James Yorke: yorkej@state.gov Grievance Attorneys Neera Parikh: parikhna@state.gov and Charles Garten: gartenc@state.gov Office Manager Christine Warren: warrenc@state.gov USAID Senior Labor Management Adviser Douglas Broome: dbroome@usaid.gov USAID Office Manager Asgeir Sigfusson: asigfusson@usaid.gov Member Services Director Janet Hedrick: hedrick@afsa.org Representative Cory Nishi: nishi@afsa.org Web-site & Database Associate Sheng Zhao: zhao@afsa.org Administrative Assistant Ana Lopez: lopez@afsa.org Outreach Programs Retiree Liaison Bonnie Brown: brown@afsa.org Director of Communications Thomas Switzer: switzer@afsa.org Congressional Affairs Director Ian Houston: houston@afsa.org Executive Assistant to the President Austin Tracy: tracy@afsa.org Scholarship Director Lori Dec: dec@afsa.org Professional Issues Coordinator Barbara Berger: berger@afsa.org Elderhostel Coordinator Janice Bay: bay@afsa.org AFSA HEADQUARTERS: (202) 338-4045; Fax: (202) 338-6820 STATE DEPARTMENT AFSA OFFICE: (202) 647-8160; Fax: (202) 647-0265 USAID AFSA OFFICE: (202) 712-1941; Fax: (202) 216-3710 FCS AFSA OFFICE: (202) 482-9088; Fax: (202) 482-9087 AFSA WEB SITE: www.afsa.org AFSA E-MAIL: afsa@afsa.org FSJ: journal@afsa.org PRESIDENT: holmes@afsa.org STATE VP: kashkettsb@state.gov RETIREE VP: 42reuwash@earthlink.net USAID VP: fzamora@usaid.gov FCS VP: donald.businger@mail.doc.gov AFSA News Editor Shawn Dorman : dorman@afsa.org (202) 338-4045 x 503; Fax: (202) 338-8244 On the Web : www.afsa.org/news How to Contact Us: Governing Board: PRESIDENT: J. Anthony Holmes STATE VICE PRESIDENT: Steven Kashkett USAID VICE PRESIDENT: Francisco Zamora FCS VICE PRESIDENT: Donald Businger FAS VICE PRESIDENT: Vacant RETIREE VICE PRESIDENT: David Reuther SECRETARY: Tex Harris TREASURER: Andrew Winter STATE REPRESENTATIVES: Alan Misenheimer, Hugh Neighbour, Joyce Namde, Randy Steen, Daphne Titus, Andrew Young, Andrea Zomaszewicz and Sandy Robinson USAID REPRESENTATIVE: Mike Henning FCS REPRESENTATIVE: William Center FAS REPRESENTATIVE: Robert Curtis IBB REPRESENTATIVE: Al Pessin RETIREE REPRESENTATIVES: Leonard J. Baldyga, Roger Dankert, Larry Lesser and Gilbert Sheinbaum Generous December Donations AFSA would like to recognize the following individuals who have made generous gifts to established scholarships in December. Jeff Rogers and his wife, Kathryn Beaumont, made a $1,000 donation to Jeff’s parents’ perpetual AFSA scholarship, the Adele Langston and William P. Rogers Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. The scholarship was established in December 2001 by friends and family of Langston and Rogers. Eric D. K. Melby made another $1,000 donation to his parents’ perpetual AFSA scholarship. The Clara C. and Everett K. Melby Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship was established by friends and family in 2003. Melby has made such a gift in December every year since 2004. Stephen Hubler, the pol-econ chief in Skopje, renewed an annual financial aid scholarship he established in 2005, and increased his donation to a $1,500 award. This scholarship will be bestowed in the 2007/2008 school year as the Carl Boyle Memorial Scholarship to honor his friend, a tireless worker in the labor rights movement who died of cancer in March 2006. AFSA hopes to offer the award to a Foreign Service undergraduate student pursuing labor rights/human rights as an area of study. AFSA Scholarship Fund Receives Generous Planned Gift Life in the Foreign Service BY BRIAN AGGELER T he AFSA Scholarship Fund received a $157,000 planned gift from the Charitable Remainder Trust of Brockman M. Moore, who passed away in 2005. These monies will be added to the perpetual scholarship Moore established in his wife’s name, the Marcia Martin Moore Financial Aid Scholarship, when she died in 1980. Mrs. Moore was a Foreign Service officer for 28 years and served in Guatemala, Japan, Italy, Vietnam, England, West Africa and Austria. She retired in 1976 following her last assignment, in the Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs. The couple had no children. For those active-duty or retired Foreign Service employees who would like to explore AFSA planned giving options or would like to know more about the AFSA college scholarship program, please contact AFSA Scholarship Director Lori Dec toll-free at 1 (800) 704-2372, ext. 504, or dec@afsa.org . Please also visit the AFSA scholarship Web page at www.afsa.org/scholar/ for further scholarship information.