The Foreign Service Journal, November 2010

Make a CFC Pledge to #11759 and Support the AFSA Scholarship Fund Combined Federal Campaign materials now list the “AFSA Scholarship Fund” as “Foreign Service Youth Scholarships – AFSA.” Even though the name has changed, we are still the same organization with the same CFC number as in years past. The new name simply provides a better description of what we do. The AFSA Scholarship Fund provides high school seniors with acade- mic and art merit awards and confers need-based aid on undergradu- ate children of Foreign Service employees to defray college expenses. Keep your support within the Foreign Service community. Go to www.afsa.org/scholar/CFC11759.cfm for more information. Help AFSA Tell the Story of the Foreign Service Most readers will shortly receive in the mail our annual solicitation for donations to AFSA’s Legislative Action Fund. The LAF enables AFSA to advocate in Congress on behalf of our members, promoting legislation that is essential to strengthening the Foreign Service and American diplomacy. This includes securing overseas comparability pay, pushing for increased hiring for the foreign affairs agencies, and protecting and strengthening federal employee benefits and entitle- ments. Your support is crucial for us to carry on this fight, and we greatly appreciate your donations. In addition, November will bring the annual fundraising drive for the Fund for American Diplomacy. FAD is AFSA’s 501(c)(3) charita- ble organization, dedicated to educating the American public about the important work Foreign Service employees perform at home and abroad. The fund also supports AFSA’s memorial plaques program, dissent and performance awards, Speakers Bureau, Sinclaire Language Awards, AFSA/TLGminority intern program and many other worthy causes. Donations to the FAD are tax-deductible. We hope you will help AFSA continue to tell the story of the Foreign Service to nation- wide audiences. 62 F OR E I GN S E R V I C E J OU R N A L / NOV EMB E R 2 0 1 0 A F S A N E W S AFSA NEWS BRIEFS Life in the Foreign Service ■ BY BRIAN AGGELER Staff: Executive Director Ian Houston: houston@afsa.org Business Department Director of Finance Femi Oshobukola: oshobukola@afsa.org Controller Kalpna Srimal: srimal@afsa.org Assistant Controller Cory Nishi: cnishi@afsa.org Labor Management General Counsel Sharon Papp: papps@state.gov Deputy General Counsel Zlatana Badrich: badrichz@state.gov Labor Management Specialist James Yorke: yorkej@state.gov Senior Staff Attorney Neera Parikh: parikhna@state.gov Staff Attorney Michael Willats: willatsmr@state.gov Office Manager Christine Warren: warrenc@state.gov USAID Senior Labor Management Adviser Douglas Broome: dbroome@usaid.gov USAID Staff Assistant Patrick Bradley: bradley@afsa.org Member Services Member Services Director Janet Hedrick: hedrick@afsa.org Member Services Representative Richard Buscemi: buscemi@afsa.org Administrative Assistant and Office Manager Ana Lopez: lopez@afsa.org Communications, Marketing and Outreach Retiree Counseling & Legislation Coordinator Bonnie Brown: brown@afsa.org Director of Communications Thomas Switzer: switzer@afsa.org Legislative Director Casey Frary: frary@afsa.org Executive Assistant to the President Austin Tracy: tracy@afsa.org Scholarship Director Lori Dec: dec@afsa.org Scholarship Program Assistant Jonathan Crawford: crawford@afsa.org Road Scholar Administrator Bernard Alter: alter@afsa.org Marketing & Outreach Manager Asgeir Sigfusson: sigfusson@afsa.org Special Awards & Outreach Coordinator Perri Green: green@afsa.org AFSA HEADQUARTERS: (202) 338-4045; Fax: (202) 338-6820 STATE DEPARTMENT AFSA OFFICE: (202) 647-8160; Fax: (202) 647-0265 USAID AFSA OFFICE: (202) 712-1941; Fax: (202) 216-3710 FCS AFSA OFFICE: (202) 482-9088; Fax: (202) 482-9087 AFSA WEB SITE: www.afsa.org FSJ: journal@afsa.org PRESIDENT: johnson@afsa.org STATE VP: hirschdm@state.gov RETIREE VP: rghoudek@aol.com USAID VP: fzamora@usaid.gov FAS VP: henry.schmick@fas.usda.gov FCS VP: keith.curtis@mail.doc.gov AFSA News Editor Amy McKeever : mckeever@afsa.org (202) 338-4045, ext. 516; Fax: (202) 338-8244 On the Web : www.afsa.org/fsj and www.fsjournal.org How to Contact Us: Governing Board: PRESIDENT: Susan R. Johnson STATE VP: Daniel Hirsch USAID VP: Francisco Zamora FAS VP: Henry Schmick FCS VP: Keith Curtis RETIREE VP: Robert Houdek SECRETARY: F.A. “Tex” Harris TREASURER: Andrew Winter STATE REPS: Carleton Bulkin, Ako Cromwell, Mary Glantz, Mike Haughey, Les Hickman, Bruce Matthews, Joyce Namde, Lynn Nelson, Julia Stewart, Sharon White USAID REPS: Michael Henning, Glenn Rogers FCS REP: vacant FAS REP: Melinda Sallyards IBB REP: Al Pessin RETIREE REPS: Janice Bay, Robert (Bill) Farrand, Molly Williamson Ambassadors Make Creative Donations to AFSA Scholarships Ambassador Rozanne Ridgway recently added to the perpetual finan- cial aid scholarship she established in August 2009 in her name by making a donation that Emerson Electric Company will match. Amb. Ridgway is a member of Emerson’s board of directors. Amb. Marc Grossman has donated his author’s fee for a Speaking Out column he wrote for the October Foreign Service Journal to the Marc Grossman and Mildred Patterson Financial Aid Scholarship that he, his wife and his friends established in 2005. For more information on the AFSA Scholarship Program, contact Lori Dec at (202) 944-5504 or dec@afsa.org . Or visit our Web site at www.afsa.org/scholar.