The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2007

76 F OR E I GN S E R V I C E J OU R N A L / J U L Y - A UGU S T 2 0 0 7 A F S A N E W S retary of the Bureauof Consular Affairs. She also served as ambas- sador toMalta, and inBerlin, London, Belgrade andLuxembourg. Following her retirement from the Foreign Service, she has served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Senior Living Foundation, a position she has held since its inception in1988. She is also amember of theBoardofDirectors of theAmericanForeign Service Protective Association. Look for the interviewwithAmb. Clark onp. 49 of this issue. Please see the September issue of AFSANews for coverage of the awards cer- emony and profiles of all of the other award winners. AFSA would like to thank everyone who sent in a nomination or served on a panel this year. We place great importance on these awards, which serve to recognize the intellectual courage and out- standing achievements of our ForeignService colleagues. AFSAalso thanks the director general for co-sponsoring the annual awards ceremony, which is open to any employee wishing to attend. Congratulations to all winners and runners-up for this well- deserved recognition. Award Winners • Continued from page 69 Constructive Dissent Awards AFSA’s Constructive Dissent Awards recognize individu- als in the Foreign Service who have the courage to speak out andchallenge the systemfromwithin. Forover 30years,AFSA has been honoringmembers of the Foreign Service who have the intellectual courage to question the status quo and take a stand, nomatter the sensitivityof the issueor the consequences of their actions. Theydemonstrate thewillingness toquestion conventional wisdomand offer alternatives to current policy. Six strong nominations were received for the William R. Rivkin Award for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. The Rivkinfamily,which funds this award, decidedtopresent $2,500 to two separatewinners for demonstrating the courage tochal- lenge the systemonan issueofU.S. policy related to theirwork: • Ronald Capps , currently serving as an analyst in the Bureauof IntelligenceandResearch,was selected for challenging theU.S. government’s policies onpeacekeeping inDarfur and putting forward his proposals for more active U.S. involve- ment in preventing the genocide there in 2006. • MichaelP.Zorick , currently chair of theAfricanRegional Studies Program at the Foreign Service Institute, was select- ed for demonstrating courage by challenging U.S. policies in Somalia, while serving in Kenya. His astute analysis of the extremely complex socio-political situation has since proven to be correct. The runner-up for the Rivkin Award was Thomas C. Daniels , for his efforts to improveU.S. counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan, in spite of the fact that it meant challenging the accepted wisdom of an important program carried out by another agency. There were no winners this year in the other three cate- gories forConstructiveDissent: theTexHarrisAward for spe- cialists, the W. Averell Harriman Award for a junior officer and theChristianA.HerterAward for a Senior ForeignService officer. The fewnominations that were received in twoof the categories did not meet the criteria, according to the judges who reviewed them, and no nominations were received for the Herter Award. Outstanding Performance Awards These awards recognize exemplaryperformance and extra- ordinary contributions to professionalism, morale and effec- tiveness. This year’s winners are: • Margaret W. Baker , Embassy Tel Aviv, was selected as the winner of the Delavan Award, which recognizes extraor- dinarycontributions toeffectiveness, professionalismandmorale by an officemanagement specialist. The runner-up is Robyn Davis of Embassy Guatemala City. • Linda Lockwood , Embassy Pretoria, received the M. Juanita Guess Award for outstanding service as a communi- ty liaisonofficer assistingAmerican families serving at anover- seas post. The runner-up is Jennifer Mauldin of Consulate General Chennai. • JudithMarquardt , EmbassyYaounde, received theAvis Bohlen Award for her outstanding accomplishments in vol- unteer service to advance the interests of theUnitedStates and foster positive relations with both the American and foreign communities at post. The runner-up is GabrielaChristiansen of Embassy Guatemala City. AFSA honored two individuals with special awards of appreciation: • FayeBarnes , who is retiring froma position as the coor- dinator of customer service at the Office of Retirement. • Robert J.Wozniak , who is stepping down as chairman of theAFSAElectionCommittee, after almost a decade in that role.