The Foreign Service Journal, March 2015

60 MARCH 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS The award will definitely assist me in covering my college expenses. I hope to make my scholarship donor proud by taking full advantage of my education. –Alana Perera David Sydney Son of Dawn Lewis-Johnson and Roger Sydney. Recipient of John Foster Dulles Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, Harriet Winsar Isom Financial Aid Scholarship and George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending The University of Texas at Dallas. Antigone Valen Daughter of Kelly and Stephen Valen. Recipient of Rozanne L. Ridgway Financial Aid Scholarship and Gertrude Stewart Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Princeton University. Alyssa VanGoethem Daughter of Kathy Rivard. Recipient of Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, Ruth Nay Skiles and Victor H. Skiles Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and John C. Whitehead Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Northern Michigan University. Christopher Volciak Son of Christopher and Sabrina Volciak. Recipient of Brockman M. Moore Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Lehigh University. Hannah Wolff Daughter of Eric and Kathleen Wolff. Recipient of Alice and John Hubler Annual Financial Aid Scholarship and Gertrude Stewart Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Hillsdale College. Jonathan Wolff Son of Eric and Kathleen Wolff. Recipient of Turner C. Cameron Jr. Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Arthur B. Emmons Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Hillsdale College. Timothy Wolff Son of Eric and Kathleen Wolff. Recipient of Clara C. and Everett K. Melby Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, George and Mattie Newman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and George Schultz Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Columbia International University. Christian Zehr Son of Dora and Wilbur Zehr. Recipient of Edith K. and Wilbur J. Carr Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Brockman M. Moore Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and Gertrude Stewart Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Currently attending Abilene Christian University. n It is people like my AFSA scholarship donors who inspire younger men and women to reach their goals. –Antigone “Tiggy”Valen Spotlight on Scholarship Donors Christopher and Eliza Van Hollen Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship Avery Smith, the recipient of the Christopher and Eliza Van Hollen Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, met with Representative Christopher Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Jan. 27, 2015, at his office on Capitol Hill. Christopher Van Hollen Sr., the congressman’s father, retired from his 28-year Foreign Service career in 1979. He was an authority on Southeast Asian affairs, and served as U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka in 1972. After his death in 2013, his family (with contributions from many friends) established a perpetual AFSA scholarship in his name. Rep. Van Hollen and his sisters take an active interest in the AFSA Scholarship Program, and he hopes to meet with the recipients of his parents’ scholarship each year. Avery Smith is the second recipient of the AFSA Van Hol- len Scholarship, which provides need-based college aid to children of Foreign Service employees. AFSA/LORIDEC