The Foreign Service Journal, December 2006

60 F OR E I GN S E R V I C E J OU R N A L / DE C EMB E R 2 0 0 6 A F S A N E W S AFSA NEWS BRIEFS Staff: Executive Director Susan Reardon: reardon@afsa.org Business Department Controller Steven Tipton: tipton@afsa.org Accounting Assistant Jon Reed: reed@afsa.org Labor Management General Counsel Sharon Papp: papps@state.gov Labor Management Attorney Zlatana Badrich: badrichz@state.gov Labor Management Specialist James Yorke: yorkej@state.gov Grievance Attorneys Neera Parikh: parikhna@state.gov and Charles Garten: gartenc@state.gov Office Manager Christine Warren: warrenc@state.gov USAID Senior Labor Management Adviser Douglas Broome: dbroome@usaid.gov USAID Office Manager Asgeir Sigfusson: asigfusson@usaid.gov Member Services Director Janet Hedrick: hedrick@afsa.org Representative Cory Nishi: nishi@afsa.org Web-site & Database Associate Sheng Zhao: zhao@afsa.org Administrative Assistant Ana Lopez: lopez@afsa.org Outreach Programs Retiree Liaison Bonnie Brown: brown@afsa.org Director of Communications Thomas Switzer: switzer@afsa.org Congressional Affairs Director Ian Houston: houston@afsa.org Executive Assistant to the President Austin Tracy: tracy@afsa.org Scholarship Director Lori Dec: dec@afsa.org Professional Issues Coordinator Barbara Berger: berger@afsa.org Elderhostel Coordinator Janice Bay: bay@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 AFSA E-MAIL: afsa@afsa.org FSJ: journal@afsa.org PRESIDENT: holmes@afsa.org STATE VP: kashkettsb@state.gov RETIREE VP: 42reuwash@earthlink.net USAID VP: fzamora@usaid.gov FCS VP: donald.businger@mail.doc.gov AFSA News Editor Shawn Dorman : dorman@afsa.org (202) 338-4045 x 503; Fax: (202) 338-8244 On the Web : www.afsa.org/news How to Contact Us: Governing Board: PRESIDENT: J. Anthony Holmes STATE VICE PRESIDENT: Steven Kashkett USAID VICE PRESIDENT: Francisco Zamora FCS VICE PRESIDENT: Donald Businger FAS VICE PRESIDENT: Vacant RETIREE VICE PRESIDENT: David Reuther SECRETARY: Tex Harris TREASURER: Andrew Winter STATE REPRESENTATIVES: Alan Misenheimer, Hugh Neighbour, Joyce Namde, Randy Steen, Daphne Titus, Andrew Young, Andrea Zomaszewicz and Sandy Robinson USAID REPRESENTATIVE: Mike Henning FCS REPRESENTATIVE: William Center FAS REPRESENTATIVE: Robert Curtis IBB REPRESENTATIVE: Al Pessin RETIREE REPRESENTATIVES: Leonard J. Baldyga, Roger Dankert, Larry Lesser and Gilbert Sheinbaum Two Names Approved for Memorial Plaque At the October AFSA Governing Board meeting, the board approved the recommendation from the Awards and Plaque Committee to add two names to the AFSA Memorial Plaques in the State Department’s C Street lobby: Margaret Alexander and Doris Knittle. Margaret Alexander, an FSO with USAID, was killed on Sept. 23, 2006, in a helicopter crash in Nepal. She was the deputy director of the USAID mission in Nepal. (See In Memory, page 80.) Also killed in the crash was Foreign Service National Dr. Bijnan Acharya, who had worked for USAID/Nepal since 1999. He served as the environment and forestry program specialist. Doris Knittle was a Foreign Service nurse assigned to Kabul when she was found murdered in her home there in August 1970. Recently obtained documentation confirms that the circumstances of her death met the criteria for inclusion on the plaque: that she was killed “in the line of duty.” News from the AFSA Board Life in the Foreign Service BY BRIAN AGGELER I n October, Al Pessin of the International Broadcasting Board was appointed to fill the IBB representative position on the AFSA Governing Board. That position was left open when Sheldon Daitch resigned from the board in June to take an assignment to Morocco. The board welcomed two new State representatives this September. Sandy Robinson, who joined the Foreign Service in 1984, is a management officer currently serving as executive director in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Andrea Tomaszewicz, who joined the Foreign Service in 2001, is an economic officer currently serving on the Iraq desk in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. They replaced James Roseli who resigned June 30 for an assignment to Embassy Baghdad, and Brad Bell, who resigned Aug. 27 for an assignment inVienna as the U.S. liaison to the U.N. Special Envoy for the Future Status of Kosovo.