The Foreign Service Journal, January 2009

A FSA takes pride in awarding $151,300 in un- dergraduate need-based scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year to 69 children of Foreign Service employees. In addition to the AFSA Financial Aid Scholarships listed, AFSA administers the DACOR Bacon House Scholarships and also awards scholarships in cooperation with other or- ganizations, such as the Associates of the American Foreign ServiceWorldwide (AAFSW) and the Pub- lic Members Association of the Foreign Service. These organizations, along with many individual donors, provide valuable support to the scholarship program. Financial aid winners are listed below in alpha- betical order, along with the name of the university the student attends and the name of the scholar- ship(s) the student is receiving. Those students who didn’t submit a photo are listed at the end. The AFSA Merit Awards, a separate category from the need-based awards listed in this issue, to- 2008-2009 Financial Aid Scholars Brian Archabal — attending the Unversity of Texas-Austin. Recipient of the AFSA Janet K. and Charles C. Stelle Memorial Scholarship. Paul Armstrong — attending the University of St. Thomas. Recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Heyward G. Hill Memorial Scholarship. Jonathan Bates — attending Central Connecticut State University. Recipient of the AFSA John and Hope Rogers Bastek Memorial Scholarship, the AFSA Francesca Bufano Lapinski Memorial Scholarship and the AFSA Dorothy Osborne and Theodore Xanthaky Memorial Scholarship. Quinn Dempsey — attending Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Heyward G. Hill Memorial Scholarship. Andrew Deulus — attending Virginia Commonwealth University. Recipient of the Public Members of the Foreign Service Scholarship. Lindsay Daniels — attending Macalester College. Recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial Scholarship. Fiona Davidson — attending the National University of Ireland at Galway. Recipient of the AFSA Clare H. Timberlake Memorial Scholarship. Dylan Dempsey — attending Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Heyward G. Hill Memorial Scholarship. Financial Aid Scholarship Recipients Elise Bliss — attending George Mason University. Recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Heyward G. Hill Memorial Scholarship. 60 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 9 A F S A N E W S