The Foreign Service Journal, October 2015

58 OCTOBER 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS New Scholarship in Memory of FS Son The American Foreign Service Association announces estab- lishment of a new scholarship, the Joshua Lane-Holman McMackle Scholarship. The award is in memory of the late son of Tracy McMackle, a For- eign Service officer with the Foreign Agricultural Service and an AFSAmember. Joshua, himself the recipi- ent of an AFSA Financial Aid Scholarship in the 2009-2010 academic year, spent most of his life abroad living in Brus- sels, Bonn, Berlin, Moscow and Tokyo. He returned to the United States for his junior and senior years of high school. At the Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia, Joshua learned to fly Cessna aircraft and played on the varsity basketball team. As a student at Texas Southern University, he found it easier to say he was fromVirginia than explain his life as a globetrotting dependent, hence his nickname “V.A.” In April 2010, near the end of his freshman year in college, Joshua was attending a street party near campus when he was fatally shot. Joshua is also survived by his father, Bruce Ivan McMackle, and his sister, Mariah Syn- claire McMackle. AFSA Executive Director Ian Houston presents Tracy McMackle with a certificate of appreciation and an AFSA commemorative coin acknowledging establishment of the memorial scholarship in her son Joshua’s name. AFSA/LORIDEC AFSA 2015-2016 Scholarship Aid Tops a Quarter-Million Can a nonprofit associa- tion make a difference with $218,000? Ask any of the college-bound students who recently learned that they are the recipients of an American Foreign Service Association Financial Aid Scholarship, and they will tell you it can. This fall, the AFSA Scholarship Committee was pleased to bestow 64 scholarships on under- graduate children of Foreign Service employees for the 2015-2016 academic year. Awards ranged from $3,000 to $5,000. Checks totaling $108,000 The AFSA Scholarship Committee conferring $218,000 in scholarship aid on 64 undergraduate students for the 2015-2016 school year. From left: Thomas Smitham (State), AFSA Scholarship Director Lori Dec, Bess Zelle (State), Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn (Chair), Dr. Alia El Mohandes (USAID) and AFSA Scholarship Assistant Jonathon Crawford. Not pictured: Christine Strossman (FAS) and Barbara Farrar (FCS). AFSA/BRITTANYDELONG ABOUT AFSA SCHOLARSH I PS More than $4 million in aid has been awarded to 2,200 Foreign Service children over the last 25 years. No AFSA member- ship dues go to the AFSA Scholarship Program. Funding comes from a variety of sources: DACOR sponsors $40,000 through three endowed scholar- ships, and AAFSW provides $10,000 from its BookFair proceeds. Ad hoc donations to the scholarship fund supple- ment trust and annual scholarship gifts, as do con- tributions through the AFSA Scholarship Fund Annual Appeal and the Combined Federal Campaign. The largest portion of funding is drawn from the AFSA Scholarship Fund’s $7.4 million endowment, which has accrued from the establishment of more than 70 perpetual scholar- ships since 1926. In 2015, Tracy and her fam- ily established the scholarship in his name. The McMackle Scholarship is part of AFSA’s need-based Financial Aid Scholarship Pro- gram and will be awarded for the first time in the 2016-2017 academic year. n —Lori Dec, Scholarship Director Continued on page 59