The Foreign Service Journal, January 2008

A FSA is awarding $138,400 in undergraduate college need-based scholarships for the 2007- 2008 school year to 53 children of Foreign Service employees. In addition to the AFSAFinancial Aid Scholarships listed, AFSAadministers theDACOR Bacon House Scholarships as well as scholarships in the name of other organizations, such as the Associ- ates of the American Foreign ServiceWorldwide and the PublicMembers Associationof the Foreign Service. All these organizations provide valuable support to the scholarship program. AFSA also offers Academic and Art Merit Awards to recognize academic and art accomplishments of Foreign Service high school seniors. Under this pro- gram, AFSA awarded a total of $28,500 in 2007 to 25 students. These $1,500 one-time-only awards were bestowed inMay 2007, and the students were ac- knowledged in the July/August Foreign Service Journal. We are initiating a new tradition to honor AFSA financial aid scholarship recipients in the same way. Scholars are listed here with photos where available. The students are shown in alphabetical order, with all 2007-2008 Financial Aid Scholars Paul Armstrong — attending the University of St. Thomas. RecipientoftheDACORBacon House Foundation Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial Scholar- ship and the AFSA Clare H. TimberlakeMemorial Scholar- ship. David Bobb — attending St. Edward’sUniversity. Recipient of the AFSA Robert Woods BlissMemorialScholarship,the AFSARobertandEvelynCurtis Memorial Scholarship and the AFSA Ernest V. SiracusaMem- orial Scholarship. Anne Byrne — attending the University of Colorado. Recip- ient of the AFSA Landreth M. Harrison Memorial Scholar- ship and the AFSA Julius C. HolmesMemorialScholarship. Ryan Fennerty — attending Yale University. Recipient of theAFSAMarciaMartinMoore Memorial Scholarship and the AFSAJeffersonPattersonMem- orial Scholarship. DiegoFietz —attendingDrexel University. Recipient of the DACORBaconHouse Founda- tionHeywardG. Hill Memorial Scholarship. Quinn Dempsey — attending the College of Charleston. Recipient of the AFSAWilliam BentonMemorial Scholarship and the DACORBaconHouse Foundation Heyward G. Hill Scholarship. Zachary Dubel — attending Florida State University. RecipientoftheDACORBacon HouseFoundationHeywardG. Hill Memorial Scholarship. Caitlin Fennerty — attending St. John’s College. Recipient of the AFSADorothy Osborne andTheodoreXanthakyMem- orial Scholarship. Morgan Anderson — attend- ingLynnUniversity. Recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation Harriet C. Thur- good Memorial Scholarship. Financial Aid Scholarship Recipients AlexandraChristoff —attend- ing Seton Hill University. Recipient of the AFSA Selden ChapinMemorial Scholarship, the AFSA Susan Lowe Modi Memorial Scholarship and the AFSA Evelyn K. and Horace J. NickelsMemorial Scholarship. 66 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 8 A F S A N E W S