The Foreign Service Journal, March 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2015 59 AFSA NEWS Jordan Palmer Son of Susan Baker and Paul Palmer. Recipient of Brockman M. Moore Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Lowell C. Pinkerton Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Texas Tech University. Paul Palmer Son of Susan Baker and Paul Palmer. Recipient of Philip C. Habib Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Walter K. Schwinn Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Graduated from University of Texas, Austin. Aidan Pazan Son of Michele Castagna and Stephen Pazan. Recipient of Anna B. and John M. Steeves Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Gertrude Stewart Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Ohio University. Alana Perera Daughter of Michele Balthazaar. Recipient of Rose Marie Asch Financial Aid Scholarship and Oliver Bishop Harriman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending California State University, Northridge. Tatiana Ravelomanana Daughter of Nadia Ravelomanana. Recipient of Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, David D. Newsom Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Ernest V. Siracusa Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Liberty University. Connor Rhodes Son of Nancy Rhodes. Recipient of Terence Flannery Annual Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Francesca Bufano Lapinski Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Virginia Commonwealth University. Andrea Salazar Daughter of Jose and Wendy Salazar. Recipient of Edith K. and Wilbur J. Carr Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Dorothy Osborne and Theodore Xanhaky Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending George Mason University. Ryan Sandor Son of Yvonne Sandor and Edwin Sellers. Recipient of Harry A. Havens Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Dalton V. Killion Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Cuyamaca College. Kathleen Saunders Daughter of Robert and Wendy Saunders. Recipient of Heyward G. Hill Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending University of New Mexico. This scholarship will be a great help in meeting my financial needs at my university. I hope to make AFSA proud. —Luke Howlett Spotlight on Scholarship Donors Amelia Smith Daughter of Matthew and Susan Smith. Recipient of Fallen U.S. Diplomats in Libya Financial Aid Scholarship, Prabhi G. Kavaler Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Avery Smith Son of Matthew and Susan Smith. Recipient of John and Hope Rogers Bastek Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, Kiang Fund for Excellence Financial Aid Scholarship and Christopher and Eliza Van Hollen Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Oberlin College. Madeline Strandemo Daughter of Guy and Kimberly Strandemo. Recipient of Heyward G. Hill Memorial/ DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending University of Minnesota. Thomas Strandemo Son of Guy and Kimberly Strandemo. Recipient of Heyward G. Hill Memorial/ DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Alice and John Hubler Annual Financial Aid Scholarship FSO Stephen Hubler, who was an AFSA scholarship recipient himself from 1979 to 1983 while attending the University of Southern California, established this scholarship to honor his parents. “My mother and my father set the example for me and my three brothers to serve others less fortunate than we were,” he says.