The Foreign Service Journal, March 2017

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2017 65 AFSA NEWS 3. Anandan Amirthanaya- gam— recipient of the Linda K. Fitzgerald Memorial Scholar- ship and the John Campbell White Scholarship. He is attending Brown University. 4. Adriana Arancibia Tejada— recipient of the Turner C. Cameron Jr. Memo- rial Scholarship and the John M. and Anna B. Steeves Memorial Scholarship. She is attending Manhattan School of Music. 5. Sagal Badeh —recipient of the Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Memorial Scholar- ship and the Omar Sykes Memorial Scholarship. She is attendingWest Coast Univer- sity. 6. Tess Bliss— recipient of the Brockman C. and Mar- cia Martin Moore Memorial Scholarship and the Naomi Pekmezian Memorial Scholar- ship. She is attending Virginia Commonwealth University. 7. Jacqueline Burdan— recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation/Heyward G. Hill Memorial Scholarship. She is attending John Cabot University, Italy. 8. Jeffrey Carlson— recipient of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation/Heyward G. Hill Memorial Scholarship. He is attendingWheaton College. 9. Sarah Carlson— recipient of the James Bolard More Memorial Scholarship and the George Shultz Scholarship. She is attendingWheaton College. 10. Allison Childers— recipi- ent of the Norton Bell Scholar- ship and the Suzanne Marie Collins Memorial Scholar- ship. She is attending Liberty University. 11. Dylan Childers— recipi- ent of theWilliam Benton Memorial Scholarship and the Robert and Evelyn Curtis Memorial Scholarship. He is attending Liberty University. 12. Kirsten Christensen— recipient of the Linda K. Fitzgerald Memorial Scholar- ship and the Rozanne L. (Roz) Ridgway Scholarship. She is attending Florida State University. 13. Kobe Collins— recipient of the Fallen Diplomats in Libya Scholarship and the Harry A. Havens Memorial Scholar- ship. He is attending Colorado State University. 14. Laila Covington— recipi- ent of the Gertrude Stewart Memorial Scholarship and the Dorothy Osborne and Theodore Xanthaky Memorial Scholarship. She is attending Northern Virginia Community College. 15. Clarissa Crawford— recipient of the Marc Gross- man and Mildred Patterson Scholarship and the Edith K. andWilbur J. Carr Memorial Scholarship. She is attending Erasmus University, Rotter- dam. 16. Randall Crawford— recipi- ent of the John and Hope Rog- ers Bastek Memorial Scholar- ship, the Louis C. Boochever Memorial Scholarship and the DACOR Bacon House Founda- tion/Harriet C. Thurgood Memorial Scholarship. He is attending the University of Hawaii. 17. Winston Crawford— recipient of the Philip C. Habib Memorial Scholarship and the Elbert G. and Naomi M. Mathews Perpetual Memorial Scholarship Elbert G. Mathews, accompanied by his wife, Naomi M. Mathews, served for 37 years in the Foreign Service in five countries on three continents. He was U.S. ambassador to Liberia in 1959 and U.S. ambassador to Nigeria from 1964 to 1969. Naomi Mathews served as the AAFSW president from 1970 to 1972 and participated in AAFSW’s oral history program. The Mathews’ estate established this scholarship in 2002. The couple had no children of their own, but many who knew themwere not surprised by their generous gift to promote the education of Foreign Service children. Thank you so much for making my college costs more affordable with this scholarship. I would not be where I am today without generous donors like you. —Stephen Feldmayer, Junior, West Chester University Recipients of the 2016-2017 AFSA Financial Aid Scholarships. See numbered list for the name of each recipient, their school and the named award they received. ALL IMAGESCOURTESYOFTHEIRSUBJECTS