The Foreign Service Journal, March 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2015 57 AFSA NEWS Anandan Amirthanayagam Son of Indran and Ruthann Amirthanayagam. Recipient of Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Gertrude Stewart Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Brown University. Katherine Arriola Daughter of Jacinta and Roinel Arriola. Recipient of Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending SUNY Buffalo State College. Helena Ball Daughter of David Ball and Mara Teckach. Recipient of Louis C. Boochever Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Naomi Pekmezian Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending CUNY Hunter College. Joseph Bills Son of Rebecca and Thomas Bills. Recipient of Evelyn K. and Horace J. Nickels Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and James Bolard More Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Brigham Young University. Alexandra Bliss Daughter of Mark Bliss and Kristin Rummel-Bliss. Recipient of Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide Financial Aid Scholarship, Louise Holscher Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Lawsuit Over the Movie “Missing” Scholarship. Currently attending Florida State College at Jacksonville. Niccolo Bluhm Son of Christina and Nathan Bluhm. Recipient of Charles C. and Janet K. Stelle Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Elizabeth M. and William E. Cole Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. James Chambers Son of Hyong and James Chambers. Recipient of Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending University of Tulsa. Caleb Childers Son of Julie and William Childers. Recipient of Albert E. Carter Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, Brockman M. Moore Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Naomi Pekmezian Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Liberty University. Dylan Childers Son of Julie and William Childers. Recipient of George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and John Campbell White Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Liberty University. Kirsten Christensen Daughter of Casey and Margie Christensen. Recipient of Jacq Bachman Siracusa Financial Aid Scholarship and C. Montagu and Frances M. Pigott Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Florida State University. Katherine Cooke- Caraway Daughter of Robin Cooke. Recipient of Adolph Dubs Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, Martin G. Patterson Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Omar Sykes Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Wesley College. Erika Cummings Daughter of Constance and David Cummings. Recipient of Edith K. andWilbur J. Carr Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Susan Lowe Modi Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending University of Oklahoma. Kristina Cummings Daughter of Constance and David Cummings. Recipient of Norton W. Bell Financial Aid Scholarship, Colonel Richard R. Hallock Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Colorado State University, Global Campus. Christopher DiCarlo Son of John and Mary DiCarlo. Recipient of Heyward G. Hill Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Dominican University of California. I’m very thankful for the AFSA money I received to pursue my dreams. I plan on taking full advantage of this gift I have been given. —Claire Gilbert Having some of my financial burden lifted by an AFSA scholarship is a great blessing. I switched schools eight times growing up. But traveling around the globe gave me an incredible understanding of different cultures, languages and ideas, and for that I am grateful. —Niccolo Bluhm