The Foreign Service Journal, May 2019

AFSA NEWS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 54 MAY 2019 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL The Foreign Service Journal Centennial Exhibit Opens— Happy Birthday, FSJ ! O n March 20, The Foreign Service Journal celebrated its 100th birthday with an event opening its centennial exhibit, “Defining Diplomacy for 100 Years,” at the U.S. Diplomacy Center. More than 130 guests attended the opening, includ- ing previous FSJ editors Steve Honley, Steve Dujack and Ann Luppi von Mehren; past AFSA presidents; current and past AFSA Governing Board members; current and past Editorial Board members, including current Chair Alexis Ludwig and previous chairs Judy Baroody, Amb. (ret.) Ed Marks, Amb. (ret.) Tony Quainton, Jim DeHart and Beth Payne; and more than a dozen retired ambassadors who have written for The Foreign Service Journal . The exhibit features images and excerpts from a century of the Journal . The outer panels, designed by AFSAOnline Communications Manager Jeff Lau, take the viewer on a walk through diplomatic history with striking images of FSJ covers through time. The inner panels dive into the texture and rich history of diplomacy, including large panels on the following top- ics: Frontline Diplomacy, The Career, Managing Diplomacy, The Changing Face of the Foreign Service, Voices of Note in the Journal , Foreign Service Families, Offbeat and Advertisements. AFSA/JOAQUINSOSA Former FSJ editors Steve Honley and Steven Dujack examining a panel. Attendees could view letters to the Journal and articles from former U.S. presidents and other high- level officials, as well as see articles by Julia Child and Margaret Mead. They were also able to read about the time the Journal accidentally published an image of a clas- sified document on its cover in February 1987. In her opening remarks, AFSA President Ambassador Barbara Stephenson said she was “thrilled and honored to be able to share this bold presentation of diplomatic history as told by those who were—and still are—there on the ground around the globe, on the front lines, managing America’s relationships with the rest of the world.” She thanked the U.S. Diplomacy Center for partner- ing with AFSA and the Journal to mark the 100th birthday of the FSJ , saying that the partnership “serves both our missions to help bring under- standing of diplomacy to the American public.” Amb. Stephenson noted that the Journal is the only publication that chronicles U.S. diplomatic history through the voices and per- spectives of its practitioners. “The Journal ’s tagline from the 1980s,‘the independent voice of the Foreign Service,’ still Editor-in-Chief Shawn Dorman with former Editorial Board Chair Jim DeHart. LISADEHART