The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2015

86 JULY-AUGUST 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS NEWS BRIEF THE FORE I GN SERV I CE JOURNAL WELCOMES BETH PAYNE On May 6, the AFSAGoverning Board approved the appointment of Beth Payne to a two-year term as chair of the Foreign Service Journal Editorial Board. Beth entered the Foreign Service in 1993, and has been posted to India, Senegal, Iraq, Rwanda, Israel and Kuwait. Her current assignment is as associate dean of the School of Professional Studies at the Foreign Service Institute. She has been a member of the FSJ Editorial Board since 2012. AFSA is delighted at the opportunity to continue working with Beth in her new leadership position on the Editorial Board. n AMBASSADOR JOHNNY YOUNG TO DEL I VER ADA I R LECTURE Ambassador Johnny Young will deliver the 9th annual Adair Memorial Lecture on U.S. Diplomacy on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 3 p.m. at American Uni- versity’s Kaye Memorial Chapel. The public is welcome to attend this special event, which traditionally kicks off the fall semester at A.U.’s School of International Service. A career Foreign Service officer from 1967 to 2004, Johnny Young was ambassador to Sierra Leone, Togo, Bahrain and Slovenia. His other assignments included Madagascar, Guinea, Kenya, Qatar, Barbados, Jordan, the Netherlands and Washington, D.C. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Amb. Young became a private consultant, contractor and lecturer. He was appointed executive director of the Migration and Refugee Services Division of the United States Confer- ence of Catholic Bishops in 2004, a position he held until retiring in February. The Adair Lecture series is the result of a partnership between AFSA and A.U.’s School of International Service. The Marshall P. Adair Family has generously created a perpetual endowment to sustain the series, named in honor of their parents, Caroline and Ambassador Charles Adair. n NEWS BRIEF Results of AFSA’s 2015-2017 Governing Board Election and Bylaw Amendment The AFSA Committee on Elections is pleased to announce the results of the 2015-2017 AFSA Governing Board election and bylaw amend- ment. A total of 4,034 valid ballots were received (3,011 online and 1,023 paper). The following AFSA members have been elected: Board Officer Positions President: Barbara Stephenson Treasurer: Charles “Chuck” Ford Secretary: William “Bill” Haugh State Vice President: Angie Bryan USAID Vice President: Sharon Wayne FCS Vice President: Steve Morrison FAS Vice President: Mark Petry Retiree Vice President: Tom Boyatt Board Constituency Representatives State Representatives: Lawrence Casselle, John Dinkelman, Eric Geelan, Josh Glazeroff, Margaret “Nini” Hawthorne, Philip G. Laidlaw, Peter Neisuler, Erin O’Connor, Leah Pease, Samuel Thielman, Patricia Wingerter USAID Representatives: Jeff Cochrane, Lorraine Sherman FCS Representative: William Kutson FAS Representative: Corey Pickelsimer IBB Representative: To be determined in accordance with the AFSA Bylaws. APHIS Representative: Mark Prescott Retiree Representatives: Patricia Butenis, Dean Haas, John Limbert, Alphonse F. La Porta Bylaw Amendment The proposal to amend the bylaws to reduce the size of the AFSA Governing Board from 29 to 19 members—effective in the 2017 election cycle—was adopted in accordance with Article IX, Section 2 of the AFSA Bylaws, which requires affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the valid votes received. Total Votes Cast 3,720 Yes/Approve 3,216 (86%) No/Do Not Approve 504 (14%) Congratulations to all those who were elected, and to those who demonstrated their dedication to AFSA by declaring as candidates.