The Foreign Service Journal, May 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MAY 2014 61 AFSA NEWS Helping do what’s best for you... Financial Analysis A Former State Department Employee Stationed Overseas Understands Unique Financial Situation of Foreign Service. Services Include: • Tax Preparation • Financial Analysis • Retirement Analysis • Lump Sum Retirement Options MARY CORNELIA GINN 10303 Greenwood Place Oakwood, Virginia 22124 Phone: (703) 938-0074 e-mail: mginn@ceteranetworks.com Registerd representative offering securities through Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity. Financial analysis and tax services offered through MCG Financial Planning. Each office is independently responsible for the services provided. On May 29, AFSA will present an event in collabora- tion with the association’s Professionalism and Ethics Committee. “The System of Professions and Profes- sionalism—Relevance to the Foreign Service” will look at the concept of professionalism and apply it to the realities of the Foreign Service. What is Foreign Service professionalism? What does it look like? Should these ideas be part of every Foreign Service employee’s training? Our speaker is Don Snider, emeritus professor of political science at West Point, from which he retired in 2008. He serves now as a senior fellow in the Cen- ter for the Army Profession and Ethic at West Point and as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Strate- gic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. Dr. Snider’s continuing research examines American civil- military relations, the identities and development of the U.S. Army officer, military professions and professional military ethics. He was research director and co-editor of The Future of the Army Profession (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Forging the Warrior’s Character (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2008). He also co-authored The Army’s Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict (U.S. Army War College, 2008) and was co-editor with Suzanne Nielsen of American Civil- Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in the New Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). This program takes place at AFSA headquarters, 2101 E St NW, and begins at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 29. Please RSVP to events@afsa.org. n May Event: The Foreign Service and Professionalism NEWS BRIEF NEWS BRIEF Save the Date and Donate: The 2014 AAFSW Art & BookFair The 2014 Art & BookFair of the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide will take place from Friday, Oct. 10, to Sunday, Oct. 19, in the Diplo- matic Exhibit Hall in the Harry S Truman building. The fair will feature books, jewelry, art, collect- ibles, stamps and coins from all over the world. Proceeds benefit Foreign Service families and the AAFSW Scholarship Fund. Donations of rare books, jewelry, art items, stamps and coins are now being accepted. To have your donations picked up, please call (202) 223- 5796 or email bookroom@aafsw.org . If you are interested in volunteering to help us out during this annual event, please contact AAFSW at (703) 820-5420 or visit www.aafsw.org. If you love books and exotic items, you won’t be disappointed! n