The Foreign Service Journal, March 2016

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2016 71 AFSA NEWS FINANCIAL AID SCHOLAR BIOS Najee Agu Son of Edward and Wanda Agu. Recipient of the Harriet P. Culley Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, the Edith K. and Wilbur J. Carr Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Omar Sykes Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Old Dominion University. Anandan Amirthanayagam Son of Indran and Ruthann Amirthanayagam. Recipient of the Harry A. Havens Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Naomi Pekmezian Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Brown University. Barbara Armstrong Daughter of Alina and John Armstrong. Recipient of the Linda K. Fitzgerald Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending King’s College London. Salma Badeh Daughter of Lul Abdalle and Mohamed Badeh Farah. Recipient of the Adolph Dubs Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship, the Oliver Bishop Harriman Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Brockman M. Moore Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending University of Texas at Arlington. Samater Badeh Son of Lul Abdalle and Mohamed Badeh Farah. Recipient of the Louise Holscher Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Gertrude Stewart Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending University of North Texas. Daniel Blankenship Son of June and Robert Blankenship. Recipient of the Ruth Nay Skiles and Victor H. Skiles Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending George Mason University. Jeffrey Carlson Son of Mark and Melinda Carlson. Recipient of the Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Wheaton College, Illinois. Sarah Carlson Daughter of Mark and Melinda Carlson. Recipient of the James Bolard More Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Naomi Pekmezian Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Wheaton College, Illinois. William Cassilly Son of Michael and Traci Cassilly. Recipient of the Linda K. Fitzgerald Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Heyward G. Hill Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending University of Mary Washington. Allison Childers Daughter of Julie and William Childers. Recipient of the Associates of the Foreign Service Worldwide Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Liberty University. Caleb Childers Son of Julie and William Childers. Recipient of the Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Liberty University. Dylan Childers Son of Julie and William Childers. Recipient of the Heyward G. Hill Memorial/ DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Liberty University. Kirsten Christensen Daughter of Casey and Margie Christensen. Recipient of the Albert E. Carter Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship and the Dorothy Osborne and Theodore Xanthaky Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Florida State University. Clarissa Crawford Daughter of Brian and Elizabeth Crawford. Recipient of the Virginia Thurgood Bingham Memorial/DACOR Bacon House Foundation Financial Aid Scholarship and the Naomi Pekmezian Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship. Attending Erasmus University (The Netherlands). Everett K. and Clara C. Melby Memorial Financial Aid Scholarship Everett Melby had a 27-year career as a Foreign Service officer from 1947 to 1974 with the Department of State. He met Clara while working at the World Council of Churches, and they married in 1944. Mr. Melby’s overseas assign- ments included Bern, Athens, Bonn, Georgetown, Frankfurt, Port-au-Prince and Quebec. Clara accompanied her husband at all posts and raised four children. She spoke Dutch, French, German and English fluently. The couple’s children and colleagues established the AFSA scholarship in 2003 when Mr. Melby passed away. Each year since then, Eric D.K. Melby—the couple’s son and an AFSA scholarship recipient himself in the late 1960s—has contributed to his parents’ scholarship.