The Foreign Service Journal, September 2016

84 SEPTEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS The staff of The Foreign Service Journal would like to extend heartfelt thanks to outgoing Editorial Board member Duncan Walker and Governing Board Liaison Tricia Wingerter for their service to the FSJ and AFSA. Both left the Editorial Board in July. The FSJ Editorial Board works with Journal staff to draw up the editorial cal- endar each year and meets monthly to review all articles submitted for publication, accepting or rejecting each. We are pleased to announce that AFSA State Representative Lawrence Casselle has joined the Editorial Board as the new Outgoing Editorial Board member Duncan Walker, center, receives an AFSA coin from Chair Beth Payne, right and Foreign Service Journal Editor- in-Chief Shawn Dorman. AFSA/GEMMADVORAK CAL L FOR PHOTO SUBMI SS I ONS Have you ever made a snowman on the beach? Or left the presents under the…cactus? Many of our readers are or have been stationed around the globe and have experienced a variety of winter holiday and New Year celebrations. We invite you to submit photos of unusual ways to celebrate the winter holidays, wherever they may be. The best photos will be published in a future issue of The Foreign Service Journal . Please send your high res- olution photos to FSJ Associ- ate Editor Gemma Dvorak at dvorak@afsa.org. n ANNOUNCEMENT TLAQEPAQUE-SEDONA-CACTUS-CHRISTMAS-TREEVIAWWW.ARIZTRAVEL.COM SNOWYTHESANDMANVIAFORSAKENFOTOSONWWW.FLICKR.COM Editorial Board Hail and Farewell Governing Board liaison and that Randy Berry, currently special envoy for the human rights of LGBTI persons, will join the board as a regular member starting in October. We look forward to work- ing with them both. n —Susan B. Maitra, Managing Editor