Fletcher News Spring 2009

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FLETCHER NEWSVOLUME 30 NUMBER 2

FALL/WINTER 2008

Dean Bosworth talks about his role as special representative for North Korea policy.

A Voice of Optimism: humayun hamidzada, MAhA02

Fletcher reunion weekend 2009

COVER PHOTOGRAPHMichael Gross

PHOTOGRAPHSMichael Gross, Alonso Nichols, Joshi radin, John soares

EDITORleah s. Brady

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONSAlyssa AdreaniDevelopment Officer

Kathleen BobickStaff Assistant

leah s. BradyAssociate Director of Alumni Relations and Stewardship

Julia Motl loweDirector of The Fletcher Fund

Michael PreinerAssistant Director of The Fletcher Fund

Moira raffertyReunion Coordinator

Jennifer weingardenActing Director of Development and Alumni Relations

cynthia weymouthAdministrative Assistant

Special thanks to: sarah hahn, carrie Mccabe

FeAtUres

The Road to Korea - 4

Fletcher Today: Theo Yakah, F10 - 6

Use Your Future to Lay The Groundwork for Someone Else’s - 7

A Voice of Optimism - 8

Fletcher Reunion 2009 - 16

DePArtMeNts

Club News - 10

Club Contacts - 12

Recent Publications - 13

From the Fletcher Files - 15

Faculty Updates - 16

Class Notes - 18

In Memoriam - 38

DeAN’s cOrNer

As I write, the end-of-semester crush is upon us as students prepare to depart the Medford campus for all parts of the world, be it for a new job, an internship, or to return to their profession with diploma in hand.

this year we face a new reality: the landscape for jobs and internships is not what we have been accustomed to in recent years. with organizations in upheaval and making major adjustments due to the economic downturn, opportunities for employment are scarce. this is where the power of the Fletcher connection can be so aptly demonstrated to its newest members.

I encourage you, as leaders within your organizations, to open your doors to our recent graduates. Be it an informational interview, an internship, or full-time position, your support of members of the Fletcher family is more important than ever this year.

the economy is on everyone’s mind, and here at Fletcher we’ve adjusted the operating budget to account for a sharp decline in revenue from our

endowment. Our newer endowments are “under water,” and we are unable to draw from them until the value returns to the gift’s original dollar amount.

In response, faculty and staff have worked hard to reduce their budgets, consistent with three priorities articulated by President lawrence Bacow: 1) to preserve the quality of the Fletcher education and maintain the school’s full operational effectiveness, (2) to support the financial needs of our students, and (3) to preserve the jobs of our faculty and staff.

these are undeniably difficult times, but working together we will continue to build Fletcher’s excellence. I thank you for your ongoing support of Fletcher as we continue to prepare the world’s leaders.

sincerely,

stephen w. BosworthDean

Greetings,

I encourage you, as leaders within your organizations, to open your doors to our recent graduates. Be it an informational interview, an internship, or full-time position, your support of members of the Fletcher family is more important than ever this year.

stephen w. Bosworth

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the road to Korea By TaylOr mcNeil

Dean Stephen Bosworth talks about his new role as special

representative for North Korea policy. This story ran online March 2, 2009.

It originated in the March 4 edition of the Tufts Journal.

stephen w. Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher school of law and Diplomacy, has been named to the newly created position of special representative for North Korea policy by secretary of state hillary clinton and will soon be heading off for meetings in Korea, Japan, china, and russia.

As the new special representative, Bosworth is charged with addressing “the full range of concerns with respect to North Korea, including its nuclear ambitions and its proliferation of sensitive weapons technology, as well as its human rights and humanitarian problems,” clinton said when she introduced him to the press corps in washington, D.c., on February 26.

Bosworth, who will report to President Barack Obama and clinton, says that formal goals haven’t been set yet, but that he hopes to “re-establish dialogue with the North Koreans to ensure that all the countries of the region are operating from a base of common understanding and consensus.” he adds, “It’s particularly important for the U.s. that we maintain close agreement with south Korea and Japan, our two allies in the region.” he says he will be coordinating very closely with china as well.

Bosworth, who was U.s. ambassador to the republic of Korea from 1997 to 2000, will remain dean of the Fletcher school. “My commitment is for about a fourth to a third of my time with this new position,” he says. “In the first few weeks, as we get it started, it’s probably going to be a bit more than that, but that’s the basic outline.” he says he will be in washington for about a week every month, and will travel to Asia every six weeks or two months.

“It’s going to be a good deal of work, because I’ll continue doing what I’m doing here at the Fletcher school—we’ve got a lot going on,” says Bosworth, who has been dean since February 2001.“I’ve always considered that public service is a privilege, and

I’m thankful to the President and secretary for giving me the opportunity to do it again,” he says.

Bosworth joins two other special representatives newly appointed by clinton, George Mitchell for the Middle east and richard holbrook for Afghanistan and Pakistan. holbrook received an honorary degree from tufts in 1997.

Bosworth says his appointment came quickly. when he returned on February 8 from a private trip to Pyongyang with a group of

academics and former government officials for meetings at the foreign ministry, there was a message from clinton. less than three weeks later, he was in washington, meeting with Obama and clinton, his appointment having been finalized.

Before he could accept the position, though, he spoke with President lawrence s. Bacow and others at the university. “they’ve been very supportive and agreed I could do this,” Bosworth says.

“we are proud that secretary clinton has tapped Dean Bosworth for this delicate and important assignment,” says Bacow. “his selection speaks volumes about the respect he commands on the world stage generally and in Korea specifically. I have promised steve that we will do whatever we can to support his mission.”

Bosworth says he might be calling on others at the Fletcher school to provide expertise, such as those in the Program in International Negotiation and conflict resolution. “those people have not been dealing directly with North Korea, but [they are expert at] certain basic principles that I think are useful,” he says.

he also thinks that students might benefit from his work. “I would hope to use this, depending on time availability, as an opportunity to give Fletcher students some insight into the process—how these things work,” he says. “Obviously, for reasons of national security and confidentiality, I can’t go into the substance, but I don’t see any reason why I can’t talk to [students] about how the U.s. government approaches a problem like this.”

THE KOREAN CONNECTION

A career diplomat, Bosworth was ambassador to tunisia from 1979 to 1981 and to the Philippines from 1984 to 1987. After holding a number of state Department posts, he was named executive director of the Korean Peninsula energy Development Organization in 1995.

“this was the international organization that was set up under the U.s./North Korean-agreed framework in 1994,” Bosworth says, “and we were implementing that agreement, including beginning to construct two 1,000-megawatt light water nuclear reactors in North Korea, which was the quid

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for the quo of their halting and eventually dismantling their nuclear weapons program.”

the 1994 agreement fell apart in 2002, “and the North Koreans again started producing plutonium, and now have produced a good deal of that,” Bosworth says.

stephen Bosworth “will work closely with our allies and partners to convince North Korea to become a constructive part of the international community,” secretary of state hillary clinton said when she introduced him as the special representative for North Korea policy.

As part of his portfolio, Bosworth will be involved in the so-called six-Party talks, between North Korea, south Korea, the United states, china, Japan, and russia, though the day-to-day negotiator for the United states will be Ambassador sung Kim. “I’m hopeful that the talks will resume,” Bosworth says. “the extent of their fruition will depend on the policies and events. [the talks] have produced some results already, and it’s a question of building on those.”

One of the key players in the region is china. Asked how much influence the chinese government has on the rulers in

Pyongyang, Bosworth says it’s likely “they probably have a little more than they admit to, and somewhat less than we think.”

the trip Bosworth took to North Korea in early February seems to have been rather prescient, and maybe those connections he made will be helpful. “One would think that perhaps the fact that I’m not totally unfamiliar to them will help,” he says, “but I think you have to be very cautious about estimating the value of this kind of relationship in North Korea. It’s a very tightly controlled and highly calculated government with the same sort of view toward its policies.”

Bosworth reports that when he met with Obama, “he wished me well.” Asked how he feels entering the fray of international politics again, Bosworth says simply, “I’m enjoying it.”

Story written by Taylor McNeil, news editor in Tufts University’s Office of Publications.Photos by Michael Gross, courtesy of the State Department.


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Fletcher today: theo Yakah, F10

Growing up poor in Ghana, under a military regime, there

were certain things Theo Yakah took for granted

Growing up poor in Ghana, under a military regime, there were certain things theo Yakah took for granted: police brutality, hunger, insecurity, the impossibility of ever attending college. when his father died just as Yakah graduated from high school, he was more convinced than ever that life would be difficult—and that higher education was out of the question. he focused on the need to help support his family and found a job as an hIV-education coordinator at a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Ada, a small town at about 65 km east of the Ghanaian capital Accra.

Now a master’s degree candidate at the Fletcher school, Yakah looks back on those days with a mixture of wonder and hope—wonder because of the good fortune that has led him here, hope because of his determination to return to Ghana and help improve life there.

Yakah was working at the NGO when he was befriended by an American Peace corps volunteer who convinced him to apply to the University of Ghana and helped pay his first year’s tuition. later, because his friend encouraged him, he took the Gre and applied to graduate school at wake Forest University in North carolina. there, on a full scholarship, he learned about the Fletcher school, knowing instantly that he wanted to apply but realizing that he would be able to attend only if offered financial aid. the Board of Overseers scholarship—established during Beyond Boundaries: The Campaign for Tufts—made Fletcher a reality for Yakah. “when I learned from Fletcher that I received full aid, I couldn’t believe my luck,” he says. “I was just so grateful.”

As grateful as he was for his good fortune, he knew that luck should not be enough: “the only reason I’m at Fletcher is because I met one person who wanted to help me. that’s not how the world should be.” Yakah was fueled with a desire to help create new systems in Ghana, systems that would reward hard work no matter how fortunate, or unfortunate, anyone might be.

he remained uncertain about the avenues for change. Despite his positive feelings about the job he’d had, he was skeptical about western humanitarian aid organizations, questioning whether such groups can make a large-scale difference. “I thought that there were a few people with good intentions and good plans, but it was impossible for them to achieve real change. I worried it was all just rhetoric.”

It was hurst hannum’s class on human rights law that helped restore his optimism. Professor of International law at Fletcher

and a foremost scholar in international human rights law, hannum has served as counsel in cases before the european and Inter-American commissions on human rights and the United Nations; he also has been a member of the boards of several international human rights organizations. In his classes, he challenges students to shed their emotional prejudices about human rights work.

“Many students come in with unrealistic expectations about what human rights law can achieve,” hannum explains. “I engage them in a way that encourages more critical thinking.” At the same, he conveys a historical understanding of the successes in the human rights field. “Knowing what the constraints are doesn’t mean you have to accept them,” he says.

hannum’s particular mixture of realism and hope has been powerful for Yakah, who now wants to run for public office in Ghana and, among other things, try to foster meaningful conversation about human rights protections there. “Professor hannum took away the despair for me,” says Yakah. “he made me see that the struggle between ordinary people and state power is a long one, but any incremental way you can push back helps.”


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“My years at Fletcher were a time of tremendous growth—personally and

intellectually. My experiences there opened new options for me that I otherwise would

never have even been aware of,” says Mark Baker, F95. “The atmosphere and culture of

a school is what sets it apart; Fletcher was a great fit for me. As the world gets smaller

and we are all increasingly interconnected, the breadth of a Fletcher education is more

relevant and more important than ever.”

Mark Baker, F95

Mr. Baker received a full scholarship during his second year in the Fletcher school’s Master of Arts in law and Diplomacy (MAlD) program. he has included a bequest to Fletcher in his will in order to help future students benefit from the value of a Fletcher education. Mr. Baker says that his Fletcher experience laid the groundwork for his career in international trade; he falls back on those building blocks even today and hopes to provide that same opportunity for others.

“My Fletcher connections have become even more important over time. Now, 14 years later, those professional networking opportunities continue to advance my career.” Mr. Baker handles trade affairs and corporate relations for Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business.

For further information on how to incorporate Fletcher into your own estate plans and take part in the Beyond Boundaries campaign,

please contact Brooke Anderson, associate director of gift planning, at 1-888-748-8387 (toll-free) or 617-627-4975 (direct), or by email at

[email protected]. You can also visit our website at www.tufts.edu/giftplanning.

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A few days after the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, parishioners of an episcopal church north of Boston listened intently to Fletcher student and resident Afghan humayun hamidzada, MAhA02, who had been invited to provide a personal perspective of a country recently thrust into the spotlight.

Nearly eight years later, the spotlight on Afghanistan is brighter than ever, and humayun’s audience has grown exponentially. As the official spokesman for Afghan President, hamid Karzai, humayun’s voice is heard and his words are read in all corners of the world as he articulates a roadmap for Afghanistan’s progress in the face of serious challenges.

In his role, which includes heading up the Office of communications and the Office of the spokesperson for the President, humayun manages multiple projects daily, often traveling the region and the world with the president. Noting the importance of accurately and effectively expressing official policy and sentiment, humayun attends nearly every meeting with Karzai, and handles numerous media interviews—both national and international—on a daily basis.

“It’s a challenging and yet rewarding experience, being at the nerve center of politics, of everything that is happening here in Afghanistan,” humayun says. “I meet with members of the UN, european Union, the world Bank, and from the military side of things, NAtO and the coalition Forces.”

his schedule of meetings and interviews has only grown in recent months, as all eyes in the international community have turned to Afghanistan. Al Qaeda and taliban resurgence, coupled with troubling destabilization in its neighbor to the east, Pakistan, means that Kabul’s stance—often voiced through humayun to the world—is closely followed and examined by the international community. the Obama administration has declared Afghanistan to be the most critical military front for the U.s. and its allies as they seek to stifle the spread of militant groups, many of whom have sought a safe haven in the mountainous terrain near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

And now, as the country prepares for its elections in August 2009, humayun fields calls on a daily basis concerning the future of the country and whether the government can provide security to its people.

“Unfortunately, the security situation in certain parts of the country has deteriorated, mainly in the areas bordering Pakistan,” humayun adds. “Now people are asking us, ‘seven years down the road, with so much international support in building the Afghan state, why are you facing a resurgent taliban? why are you facing more security challenges?’”

“Of course, there is no easy answer for this,” he continues. “I tell them that we have made significant progress. I remind them of the millions of children who now go to school. Under the taliban, the schools were closed, and the girls stayed at home.”

humayun points also to the upgrades in the country’s transportation infrastructure, which, even though by standards of more developed nations seem small, have transformed the impoverished nation. “Afghanistan has been a very poor country since the outset, but now we have about 4,500 kilometers of roads and highways that connect provincial centers with districts, paved roads that connect the entire country. It’s unprecedented and historic.”

“eighty-five percent of our population now has access to some form of health services. Nobody has to go more than five kilometers to receive healthcare. we have made significant progress,” he says. Noting that the country had been virtually destroyed from nearly 30 years of wars, humayun takes these steps in the development of his nation to be momentous.

In the years since 9/11, Afghanistan has seen major changes in its government, one in which members of once warring factions now sit across the table from each other, working together to forge a stronger nation.

“Instead of shooting each other, people are transformed. they have become politicians,” he adds. “If you look at our parliament, you’ll see former communists, members of the Mujahidin, some of the former taliban, liberal leftists, all under one roof.”

In his daily work, the graduate of the dual Fletcher/Friedman school Master of Arts in humanitarian Assistance program provides messages of collaboration, of working together to build an Afghanistan that no longer makes international news for its setbacks, but rather for its strength in development. But, he’s the first to say that the nation’s future should reside in the hands of its people. that’s one of the reasons he feels so strongly about his own contribution to Afghanistan. “I owe a lot to Afghanistan, to its people,” he said.

Before taking on his current role, humayun spent three years working for New York University’s center on International cooperation, focusing on conflict prevention and peace-building. he then took the wealth of knowledge and experience he’d gained and returned to Afghanistan to establish the center for Policy and human Development at Kabul University, the first of its kind in the country.

“we are committed to continuing our effort in promoting good governance, fighting corruption and providing services to the Afghan people, the obligations we have as an elected government,” humayun said in a recent interview with AFP.

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Although life has taken him beyond the borders of Afghanistan, to Pakistan where he once lived as a refugee, and a half a world away to Medford, Massachusetts, humayun always knew he’d return to use the knowledge gained to better his country. But, his experience at tufts, and more specifically while a resident of Blakeley hall, has made an indelible mark on humayun.

“the communal aspect of the school is so unique,” said humayun. “You develop relationships so quickly between classmates. the sense of community is one of the strongest memories for me during my time at Fletcher.”

timing could not have been more of a factor for his integration into the Fletcher community. having arrived in september 2001, his presence would provide keen insight for those seeking a closer look at Afghanistan.

“I could feel that there was a lack of knowledge on the region, and also the history of Afghanistan,” he adds. “this was 2001. so much was forgotten. People weren’t sure from where Al

Qaeda had come, or the origins of the taliban. Or why the terrorists had converged in Afghanistan.”

eight years later, Afghanistan remains a country in the midst of change, a nation torn by warfare, struggling to develop in the face of enormous obstacles. But, humayun, like so many Afghans seeking solutions to these problems, holds on with a resolve that has been passed down through many generations of the Afghan people.

“the biggest challenge in the rebuilding of Afghanistan is making sure that it does not become another haven for terrorist groups,” says humayun. “we are on the right track. we are making progress. It is going to be difficult, but there are no shortcuts to a prosperous country. we are definitely moving in the right direction.”

In the face of such challenges, Afghanistan, its president and its people can rely on a voice of hope in humayun hamidzada.


clUB News

B UENOS AIRES

The Fletcher Club of Buenos Aires remains very active, working to

attract more students from Latin America into Fletcher. We recently

invited two prospective students from Argentina to a luncheon

that welcomed our club’s newest member: John Finn , F98, cultural

attaché of the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires and a classmate of one

of our founding members, Luis Rosales , F98. Luis is an international

political analyst and news anchor who appears nightly on one of

the capital’s most popular news shows. He also works with Dick

Morris advising presidential candidates throughout the region.

LOS ANGELES

“Geopolitical Implications of the Environmental Policies of the

New Presidential Administration” was the topic of discussion at the

Pacific Palisades home of Linda and Michael Rosen , F84, on February

28. Over forty Fletcher friends and alumni came from various parts

of Southern California to reconnect with each other and hear

from Professor William Moomaw. Cocktails, lively discussion and

a question-and-answer period followed Professor Moomaw’s talk.

Attendees also heard from Fletcher Development Committee

member Jono Rosen , F99, as he provided an update on Fletcher’s

Beyond Boundaries Campaign and recent achievements.

Grant Hosford , F97, looks forward to serving as the Fletcher club

contact for Southern California, and he welcomes Fletcher alumni

and friends to contact him.DUBAI

The Fletcher Club of Dubai hosted an alumni reception in January

in honor of the visiting delegation from the Sovereign Wealth

Fund Initiative of the new Center for Emerging Markets Enterprises

at Fletcher. In March, the club hosted an information session

reception and dinner for candidates applying for the Global Master

of Arts Program. The club invites all Fletcher professors and senior

administrators who plan to visit the Arab Gulf region in 2009 or

2010 to let us know well in advance, in order to prepare an alumni

gathering around their visit.

SHANGHAI

Bryan Stewart has replaced Ian McGuinn as the leader of the

Fletcher Club of Shanghai. Our thanks to Ian for everything, and

welcome, Bryan!

The Fletcher Club of Greece is happy to report that it gave

approximately US$5,000 to Fletcher, designated to the activities

of the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern

European Studies.

The club had scheduled an event with Dean Bosworth at the

MFA in Athens in December, but unfortunately had to cancel it

due to the riots that occurred there. Instead, the dean held an

informal discussion with everyone able to join him at the hotel.

The club would like to extend its thanks to the dean and his wife

Christine; Roger Milici, senior director of the office of development

and alumni relations; and Brian Lee, vice president for university

advancement. The club would also like to thank Kostas Karamanlis

(F00, member of the Board of Overseers) and Dimitris Keridis , F94,

F98, for their great efforts in making the dean’s visit as pleasant and

productive as possible.

Filippos Manoltzas , F06, Kallissa Apostolidis , F08, and Ioli

Christopoulou , F04, helped us a lot in preparing the MFA event, and

we look forward to their valuable assistance in our next initiatives.In other news, the club welcomed GMAP students for their mid-year

residency in Nafplio in January.

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WASHINGTON , DC

The Fletcher Club of DC hosted an event featuring former Assistant

Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Ambassador David Welch, F77,

on April 23. The club also entered a team of volunteers for the DC

Cares Servathon on May 2.

We are in the early stages of planning the annual summer picnic, and

we will be looking for people to volunteer to help plan the event. We

are also looking into securing tickets for the Fletcher community for

a DC United soccer game. Ideas or thoughts are welcome.

The club is preparing for elections for the board that will be

completed by May 15. Nominations were due by the end of April,

and the club planned to have a “Meet the Candidates” event for

candidates to speak and introduce themselves to the members.

Voting for the board will be online and will close on May 15.

In early March, Zaid A. Zaid, F99, became the interim co-chair of the

club. He succeeds Uzma Wahhab, F99, and serves along with Satish

Jha, the other co-chair. Zaid says he’s looking forward to planning

events in DC, where he currently works as a judicial law clerk for

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on the U.S. District Court for DC. He starts

as an associate in the DC office of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale &

Dorr this September. After graduating from Fletcher, Zaid joined

the Department of State and served in Tunis, Cairo, New York and

Baghdad. In 2004, he went Columbia Law School, and has been

clerking with federal judges since he graduated in 2007.

MOROCCO

Bangladeshi Ambassador Mosud Mannan , F89, reports that six

Fletcher alumni met this past February in Rabat at the Bangladesh

House for the first meeting of the Fletcher Club of Morocco. It was

decided to hold annual joint events with alumni from Harvard,

SAIS, Colombia, Prince Town and George Washington Universities.

Ambassador Mannan encourages any alumni of Fletcher and Tufts

moving to Morocco to be in touch!

SWIT zERLAND

In December, Edward and Marion Harroff-Tavel , F76, and Claudine

Tavel , F80, invited the Fletcher Club of Switzerland to their home in

Bellevue to celebrate the holiday season.

In January, the Swiss club held a reception and open forum called

“Global Strategic Challenges: Perspectives of Fletcher Graduates” at

the Permanent Mission of Hungary in Geneva, hosted by Levente

Szekely , F99 and the minister plenipotentiary and charge d-affaires

at the Mission. Most recently, Swiss club members and friends

listened to the the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra at the Salle des

Abeilles in March.

The Third Annual Fletcher Tea/Garden Party, hosted by Barbara

Geary-Truan , F90, and Philippe Truan , F89, was planned for May 9.

Lastly, on May 23 the Swiss club plans to join the Northwestern

University Club of Switzerland for a tour of the ICRC Museum.

KOSOVO

The Fletcher Club of Kosovo held a mini-reunion in October.

Pieter Feith , F70, Miranda Hochberg , F09, Iliriana Kacaniku , F04, Tom

Yazdgerdi , F90, Jill Jamieson , F92, and Scott Thayer , F79, were all in

attendance.

DHAKA

U.S. Ambassador Lauren Moriarty , F77, hosted a gathering of

Fletcher and Harvard alumni at her home in Dhaka in January.


cluB cONTacTsARMENIAArusyak Mirzakhanyan, [email protected]

ATLANTATim Holly, [email protected]

AUSTRALIAMelissa Conley Tyler, [email protected]

BANGKOKEkachai Chainuvati, [email protected]

BEIJINGStephane Grand, [email protected]

BERLINJan-Philipp Goertz, [email protected]

BOSTONMike O’Dougherty, [email protected]

BRUSSELSKatrina Destree, [email protected]

BUDAPESTAnita Orban, [email protected]

BUENOS AIRESCarlos St. James, GMAP [email protected]

CHICAGODaniela Abuzatoaie, [email protected]

CHILEAndres Montero, [email protected] Olave, [email protected]

COLOMBIAStella Cuevas, [email protected]

COPENHAGENNeeds new leadership…

[email protected]

DUBAIPaul Bagatelas, F87Christine Lauper Bagatelas, [email protected]

FLETCHER ALUMNI OF COLOR ASSOCIATIONBelinda Chiu, [email protected]

FLETCHER WOMEN’S NETWORKMarcia Greenberg, [email protected]

GREECEThomas Varvitsiotis, [email protected] Dimitriadis, [email protected]

HONG KONGDorothy Chan, [email protected] Eastman, GMAP [email protected]

HOUSTONDavid Hwa, [email protected]

KENYAAnne Angwenyi, [email protected] Chao, [email protected]

KOSOVOIliriana Kacaniku, [email protected]

LONDONAdina Postelnicu, GMAP [email protected]

LOS ANGELESGrant Hosford, [email protected]

MALAYSIAShah Azmi, [email protected]

MIAMIDaniel Ades, [email protected]

MIDDLE EAST ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONWalid Chamoun, [email protected]

MOROCCOMosud Mannan, [email protected]

NEPALRam Thapaliya, GMAP [email protected]

NEW YORKFarrinaz Cress, [email protected]

OREGONEdie Johnson Millar, [email protected]

PARISWilliam Holmberg, [email protected]

PHILADELPHIAThomas Heanue, [email protected]

PHILIPPINESCathy Hartigan-Go, [email protected]

ROMANIASinziana Frangeti, [email protected]

SAN DIEGOGeoffrey Pack, [email protected]

SAN FRANCISCOVladimir Todorovic, [email protected]

SãO PAULOPaulo Bilyk, [email protected]

SARAJEVOHaris Mesinovic, F00 [email protected]

SAUDI ARABIAJamil Al Dandany, [email protected]

SEATTLEJulie Bennion, [email protected]

SEOULJunsik Ahn, [email protected]

SHANGHAIBryan Stewart, [email protected]

SINGAPOREKim Odhner, [email protected]

SWITzERLANDMark Fisher, GMAP [email protected]

TOKYOMariko Noda, [email protected]

VIENNARainer Staub, [email protected] Tirone, [email protected]

WASHINGTON , DCUzma Wahhab, F02 [email protected]


receNt PUBlIcAtIONs

FACULTY

Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen Lutz (eds.), Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, forthcoming, June 2009)._______, “Conflict Resolution and Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries,” in Zartman, I.W., et al. (eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Resolution (San Francisco: Sage Publications, 2008).

Leila Fawaz , “Lebanon in the Late O ttoman Empire: Issues of Language and Identity,” in Mustafa Kacar and Zeynep Durukal (eds.), Societies, Cultures and Science in Historical Perspective: Essays in Honour of Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2006): Vol. I, 77–86._______ and Robert Ilbert, “Political Relations between City and State in the Colonial Period,” in Peter Sluglett (ed.), Social History of Cities in the Middle East 1750–1950 (Syracuse University Press, 2008): 141–153. _______, “The Soldiers in World War I in the Middle East,” in Ghislaine Alleaume and Michel Tuchscherer (eds.), Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée (in press).

John Hammock , F67, PhD71, Alissa S. Wilson, F05, and Ann Barham, Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid (Harvard University Press, 2008).

Alan K. Henrikson , “FDR and the ‘World-Wide Arena,’” in David B. Woolner, Warren F. Kimball, and David Reynolds, eds., FDR’s World: War, Peace, and Legacies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 35–61.

Laurent Jacque , “Anniversaire en demi-teinte pour l’euro,” Le Monde Diplomatique, February 2009.

______, “The euro: trouble ahead?” Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2009.

Sung-Yoon Lee , “Pyongyang Home Truths,” Wall Street Journal Asia, 13 February 2009 (op-ed)._______, “Patience is North Korea’s Virtue,” Asia Times, 19 December 2008 (op-ed)._______, “The 562nd Anniversary of the Invention of Hangeul,” The Korean American Press, 10 October 2008 (op-ed).

William Martel , “Formulating Victory and Implications for Policy,” Orbis, Vol. 52, No. 4, (fall 2008): 613–626._____, “Ban on Photographing Military Coffins Protected Grieving Families from Media,” U.S. News & World Report, 9 March 2009._____, “Fanatics Don’t Compromise,” USA Today, 29 October 2008 (op-ed).

Richard Schultz and Andrea Dew, Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat (Columbia University Press, 2006, reprint forthcoming fall 2009).

Alan Wachman , F84, “Old Thinking Dominates New Thinking,” China Security, Vol. 5 No. 1 (winter 2009): 71–77._______, “Don’t Forsake Mongolia,” Asia Policy, No. 7 (January 2009): 57–59.

ALUMNI

Charles D. Ameringer, F50, The Socialist Impulse: Latin America in the Twentieth Century (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009).

Ellen Frost , F67, Asia’s New Regionalism (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008). Also published in Singapore (National University Press) and New Delhi (Viva Books).

Ahmed Humayun , F08, “The Pakistan Problem: Success in FATA Depends on Aid to Civilians,” World Politics Review, 8 December 2008.

William S. F. Miles , F80, PhD83, My African Horse Problem (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).

Assaf Moghadam , F02, PhD07, The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Kingsley Moghalu , F92, Global Justice (Stanford University Press, 2008).

Evelyne Schmid , F08, “The Right to a Fair Trial in Times of Terrorism: A Method to Identify the Non-Derogable Aspects of Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” Göttingen Journal of International Law 1, No. 1 (2009): 29–44.

Natalie Parke , F08, and Morton Abramowitz, “Bashing Bashir,” The National Interest, 24 March 2009.

Yoon Jung Park , F91, A Matter of Honour: Being Chinese in South Africa (Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2008).

STUDENTS AND FELLOWS

Benedetta Berti , F07, PhD candidate, “Assessing the Role of Hezbollah in the Gaza War and Its Regional Impact,” The Jamestown Foundation, 3 March 2009 (op-ed)._______, “Iran Aims to Get Shanghaied,” On Line Opinion, 13 January 2009 (op-ed)._______, “Is the Window of Opportunity to Formulate a National Defense Strategy for Lebanon Closing?” World Security Network, 29 January 2009 (op-ed).

Joshua Gleiss , F05, PhD candidate, “The Hypocrisy of Columbia’s Israeli Divestment Campaign,” The Columbia Spectator, 9 March 2009 (op-ed).

Joshua Gross , F10, “The Right Way to Talk to Iran,” Christian Science Monitor, 9 March 2009 (op-ed)._______, “Why Obama Should Meet with Morales,” Foreign Policy In Focus, 26 January 2009 (op-ed).

Look for featured publications in the upcoming issues of Fletcher News. To submit a publication to be listed on Fletcher’s website, please email [email protected].


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the local bank and corner AtM are taken for granted in the United states. Not so in Africa, where relatively few people have access to financial services. In Kenya, the telecommunications firm safaricom has introduced a service called M-PesA to respond to a critical need. the service enables the transfer of money by mobile phone, otherwise known as mobile banking. Mobile banking gives secure access to financial transactions for people who are poor or isolated and who would otherwise not be able to fully take part in the economy. One-third of cell-phone users in Kenya now use the service to conduct their financial transactions.

“this is a big deal for a continent like Africa where nearly two-thirds of the population have no access to a basic bank account and keep their savings under the mattress,” says Nick wachira, F08, F10. wachira, pursuing a master’s degree in international business at Fletcher, has been researching the mobile-banking phenomenon in his native Kenya for a case study in microfinance.

A generous gift by thomas schmidheiny, h99, and his wife, suzanne, established Fletcher’s Master of International Business degree program and has enabled wachira to take his interest in technological development a step further. he has joined with Fletcher classmates to initiate a conference on regulation of mobile banking in Kenya this May. the “M-Banking 2009” conference hosted by the Fletcher’s center for emerging Market enterprises and the Kenya school of Monetary studies, which is owned by the central Bank of Kenya and the country’s Ministry of Finance, will focus on how to balance regulation and innovation in the emerging field of mobile money transfers in Kenya and around the world.

“I am optimistic that a combination of good political leadership and technology can be used to advance development in this part of the world,” wachira says.

wachira, a former managing editor of the Business Daily of Nairobi, says he was drawn to Fletcher because of its multidisciplinary approach to education. “this has allowed me to bridge my interest in business and international affairs, which I had been exposed to as a financial journalist.”

To add a sense of fleTcher’s hisTory to the halls of the renovated facility, photos and papers from the University archives have been reproduced and hung on the walls throughout the school. this project was inspired by the class of 2007 and led by Brian Neff, F07, in concert with the student Affairs Office and University Archivist. Now, a walk through Fletcher can also be a walk down memory lane!

FLETCHER STUDENTS ExPLORE “M-BANKING”

—lauren Katimsphoto credit: Alonso Nichols


FAcUltY UPDAtes

Quotes of Note“Whether it is the Middle East crisis,

climate change or the economic crisis,

what stands out about each of these is

the fact that the challenges are global

and require global responses. In no case

can any country, not even the most

powerful one, respond alone.”

-Former British Prime Minister and

current Representative of the Middle

East Diplomatic Quartet, Tony Blair, at the

Issam M. Fares Lecture at Tufts University,

“In societies where the rule of law is close

to non-existent and security forces are

neither effective nor trusted, small groups

of people willing to use violence can

create enough chaos and fear to force

everyone into making violent choices.”

-Academic Dean and Henry J. Leir

Professor of International Humanitarian

Studies Peter Uvin in his new book Life

After Violence: a People’s History of Burundi.

“The underlying motive here is to make

nonviolent transition to sustained

democratic rule more frequent, more

widespread, with less lives lost.”

-Fletcher Ph.D. candidate Patrick Meier,

F07, in an interview regarding the

Tufts course on digital democracy he

co-teaches with Josh Goldstein, F09.

“We believe his involvement will facilitate

high-level engagement with North Korea

and our other partners.”

-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham

Clinton, announcing Dean Stephen

Bosworth’s appointment to Special

Representative for North Korea Policy on

February 26.

Jenny C. Aker, F97Assistant Professor of Development economics

Nadim RouhanaProfessor of International Negotiation and conflict studies

Kelly Sims Gallagher, F00, F03Associate Professor of energy and environmental Policy

Larry WeissAdjunct Professor of Accounting

Staffing changes within Fletcher’s Development and Alumni Relations Office:we are pleased to announce that Jennifer weingarden is now Acting Director of Development and Alumni relations at Fletcher. roger Milici, senior Director of Development and Alumni relations, left Fletcher at the end of April. he accepted a wonderful position at Fordham University as Associate Vice President of Development and University relations.

Karel ZelenKa, f69, f70, f85, was among a small group of tufts alumni presented with the 2009 Distinguished service Award. this award recognizes alumni who have demonstrated outstanding service to tufts, their professions, or their communities. Dr. Zelenka and his family traveled from their home in Italy to the Medford campus for the awards ceremony, 4 April. Dr. Zelenka is the current Zimbabwe country representative for catholic relief services of Baltimore, and is an expert in development and international relief work. he has managed crs programs world-wide, focusing on assistance to the poor, major emergency response, respect for human dignity, justice, and peace.

NEW FACULT Y APPOINTMENTS


On 15-17 May 2009, the Fletcher school was honored to welcome back more than 200 alumni and guests for a weekend of celebration! Nine classes gathered for their official reunions, and were joined by several friends from other classes. Alumni came from around the world to enjoy a delicious clambake, Faculty lecture and state of the school presentations, and the company of the growing Fletcher community.

each year, the Fletcher school welcomes back more and more alumni for reunion weekend, which takes place in conjunction with Fletcher’s class Day and commencement ceremonies. the growing numbers prove that no matter where

you end up in the world, you can always return to Medford and feel right at home.

For more information, visit our reunion web pages at: fletcher.tufts.edu/alumni/reunions.shtml

Fall reunion 200910-11 september 2009class of 1959’s 50th reunion and classes of 1934-1958.

save the Date!spring reunion 201021-23 May 2010classes of 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, & 2005

Reunion Weekend 2009



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Eric Boehm reports that at only (nearly) 91, he and his sweetheart Judy will be married this June!

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Charles EdwardsP.O. Box 368Hyannis Port, MA 02647

1957

William [email protected]

Rob (Garth) Netheim reports from Australia that he feels the new government in Australia may lead to some positive changes, although it faces the same dismal economic outlook as the United States. Rob has a fourth edition coming out of his course book, with other contributors, on indigenous legal issues. He also reports that he will deliver a keynote address for a conference on indigenous government, to be held in Winnipeg, and will spend ten days in the Northern Territory with the Australian Diplomacy Training Program for Indigenous People from the Asia-Pacific region. (Rob, the class sends its compliments and thinks your schedule can only get more crowded with the work you do.) Iqbal Riza writes that he continues his work as a special adviser to the Secretary General in a pro bono capacity with a principal focus on the initiative for the Alliance of Civilizations. This was first sponsored by President Zapotero of Spain and PM Erdogan of Turkey. Iqbal works mainly with Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal and AofC High Representative. He has spent time recently visiting numerous countries including Spain. He also visits with grandchildren, two in Toronto and two who recently

moved from Beirut to Amman, Jordan.

1958

Dr. Suchati Chuthasmit , a former Ambassador for Thailand, was awarded in 2008 with a golden pin and a plaque in recognition of his distinguished services to the Thai Chamber of Commerce.

1962

Patrick [email protected]

Charlie Adams reports that he continues to be the Pro-Preceptor for the Poor Knights of Christ in North America. This job keeps him moving about the globe, to Esztergom, Hungary, where the General Chapter is located, and to Italy for the annual investiture. In his limited spare time, he is a substitute teacher in local schools. Malcolm Peck continues to work as a “seasonal” program officer at Meridian International Center, mostly from late winter to early fall with much of the rest of the year devoted to travel with his wife Aida. Most of Malcolm’s work is with the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, where he conceptualizes and implements professional study programs largely for visitors from the Islamic world, especially from the Middle East. Their son John graduated from the Southern California Institute of Architecture last September and, along with other members of his class, continues to look for employment. Malcolm’s most recent trip was a December tour of Christmas markets in Munich, Innsbruck, Freiburg, and Strasbourg. Fred Bergsten remains very active not only at his Peterson Institute for International Economics, but also on the basketball court. Fred scored 35 points, including five “threes” while leading the Institute’s team

to victory in its last game of the season. That’s not bad for a man approaching 68 when the other players are half his age. More important is that the Peterson Institute tied with the Brookings Institution as the “Top Think Tank in the World” after an extensive survey of 407 institutions by the Think Tank and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. The Institute also ranks second (to Brookings) as most outstanding “Policy-Oriented Public Policy Research Program.” Fred is rightfully proud of the Institute that he virtually created in 1981. Apart from running the Institute, he is a prolific author. His fortieth book, The External Sustainability of the U.S. Economy, is about to be published. Steve Goldstein , as Convenor of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, led a group of distinguished scholars to Taiwan in January. The focus of the group was cross-strait relations. The group met with the president of Taiwan, President Ma, who said that over the past seven-plus months, his government’s efforts to improve cross-strait relations have yielded concrete results. At the same time, the president told the group a foundation of mutual trust has been re-established between the U.S. and Japan. Peter Sellar still lives in West Virginia, but was able to escape the cold and snow for a three-week visit to Curacao. Betsy Parker Powell will continue her travels with an August trip to London and Paris. She is introducing her granddaughter to Europe. Fritz and Jane Gilbert spent February and March at their house in Vermont. Fritz suffered a fall, but is recovering and hopes to join his son’s family on the slopes during their visit. Georgia and Todd Stewart maintain a very active travel

schedule. Last November and December they visited the Galapagos and Peru. They spent seven hours hiking an Inca trail to Macchu Picchu, which they say lives up to its reputation. Earlier this year, they visited Egypt and Jordan. They have returned to Sun Valley, where they are pursuing their principal occupation of ski bumming for the remainder of the winter. We hope to see them in Washington this spring. Mary and Bob Houdek spent six weeks in the Western Cape of South Africa visiting their son Bill, an architect practicing in Cape Town. Bob’s waistline is a testament to all the vineyards they visited for une bouteille et dejuener. Back in Washington, Bob spends about ten days a month lecturing or conducting training courses on African subjects for the military commands and intelligence agencies. David Long continues to work on the second edition of his book on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also working on the translation of a book by King Farouk’s uncle about the Sudanese battalion that fought with the French to keep Emperor Maximilian in power in Mexico in the 1860s. Additionally, David lectures on the Middle East, Islam, and terrorism, does threat analyses, and serves as an expert witness, mostly for the defense in terrorism trials. Sandy Granzow , after completing her MFA in illustration in 2007, moved with her husband Jim to a townhouse community on the Hudson River in Hyde Park, NY. She is twelve miles from her daughter Julia and her family and is having a fabulous time with her grandchildren. Her son Spike’s movie, Where the Wild Things Are, will come out sometime in the fall. Carol Johnson Hurlburt is still busy with volunteer work as president of the Reston-Herndon branch of

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the American Association of University Women and director of the literacy volunteer project at the Washington National Cathedral. Her AAUW branch hosted five young Russian economists in the U.S. to observe the elections. Their highpoint was attending then-candidate Obama’s final rally in Manassas along with nearly 100,000 others.

1963

Ronald [email protected]

1964

Reunion 2009May 15–17

1965

Larry [email protected]

Arthur House recently left his job in Connecticut and has accepted a new position with the Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration. He is the director of communications, which involves internal and external communications and relations with the House and Senate. Gary Glenn continues to work on some education and environment projects in Hawaii with his long time colleague Jan Dill, F66. He supports his son who is now a junior at UCLA, having returned to college after spending some years as an actor in Los Angeles and NYC. Gary is also playing “first husband” to his wife of 47 years, who was recently elected president of the American Sociological Association, in addition to her full-time job as a faculty member at UC Berkeley. JoAnn Fagot Aviel taught a seminar on Transborder Relations in the Americas at the University of Piura in Peru as a visiting Fulbright professor in October and will be chairing a roundtable session on the

same topic at the International Studies Association meeting in Rio de Janeiro in July. She continues to teach international relations at San Francisco State University and is a coeditor of a book, The New Dynamics of Multilateralism. JoAnn’s daughter Rebecca is teaching law at the University of Denver, and her other daughter Sara is serving as the special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, after having served on the economic policy transition team for the Obama administration. Bolaji Akinyemi served on the Nigerian Presidential Electoral Reform Committee from August 2007 to November 2008. The mandate of this Committee was to produce a report on how to reform Nigeria’s notorious electoral system. Bolaji’s committee turned in a 22-volume report in November, and the nation’s cabinet has just produced a white paper setting out the government’s position, based on the committee’s recommendations. Bolaji reports the whole exercise was taxing but rewarding and fulfilling.

1968

Sally [email protected]

Keith Smith is teaching courses on Israeli and Palestinian politics at Dar Al-Kalima College in Bethlehem, Palestine, from February to May. Bruce Miller is the department chair for social studies at Fairfax County’s Adult Education Program, in Fairfax, VA. Finally, a number of Class of ‘68 alums gathered in Washington at Terry Deibel ’s home on October 10.

1969

Carolyn Setlow [email protected]


Jim Auer reports that the Consul General of Japan in Nashville, TN presented to him in December 2008 the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, conferred by the Emperor of Japan for furtherance of good U.S.-Japan relations. Jim adds modestly, “The Japanese are very kind to old people.” Congratulations, Jim! Patrick Connolly retired from the World Bank several years ago and together with Agnes, who also retired from Georgetown University, moved to Sonoma County in northern California, right in the middle of the beautiful wine country. Patrick took up painting about 20 years ago and says he could not be in a better place to indulge this passion. They are both active in their local World Affairs Council (and always looking for prominent Fletcher grads as speakers), as well as in the local art community. They stay in touch with Jack Evans, F67, and Dan Griset, F67, who are both in the area from time to time. Their son is now a very successful physician in Houston, with two great children; their daughter in New Canaan has another matched pair. Patrick says this keeps them active in the air ticket business. Having retired from the Foreign Service and spent some years setting up and developing international fundraising for Brown University, the IISS, and other organizations in Britain, George Lambrakis has settled in London with his wife Claude. He still runs the international relations and diplomacy program at Schiller International University, having also directed an American graduate school in Paris for a few years, and travels frequently to their house in France as well as elsewhere. He follows and sometimes comments on events in the Middle East, particularly Iran, where he was a witness to the 1979 revolution.

George and Claude are near their daughter Frederique, F90, who lives with her family in Brighton. Their grandchildren, two of Frederique’s and one of daughter Alexandra’s in Los Angeles, brighten their lives. George says unfortunately their house by the beach in lower Brittany claims them each summer, so reunions in the U.S. are difficult, though he does attend the annual Fletcher events in London every winter. He sends his best wishes for a successful reunion to the class of ‘69 this May. Carolyn Setlow (yours truly) just celebrated the first-year anniversary of her second marriage. She divides her time between New York, where she continues to work for GfK Custom Research, and Washington, CT, the home of her retired husband Andy. She is also celebrating the recent employment of her older son Alex, 24, while her younger son Daniel, 21, completes his studies in industrial design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Apart from her market research career, last year Carolyn launched a small executive and life coaching practice, helping others clarify their goals and fulfill their potential in work and in life. Jim Twaite took advantage of “a writer’s block for a moment” to tell his Fletcher classmates what he has been doing. He is a psychologist and statistician and taught for many years at Teachers College at Columbia, but for the last ten years or so he has been in private practice exclusively. He just co-authored his fifth book, titled Toxic Wealth: How the Culture of Affluence Can Make Us Miserable. Just before the book went to press, the publisher allowed him to squeeze in a very timely additional chapter on the difficulties affluent people have when they take a big loss! Apart from his work, Jim is married and


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has five grandchildren. He does a lot of fly fishing and hunting. He concludes, “I am still interested in politics, but still uncomfortable in suits. I have encouraged several clients of mine to attend Fletcher, and I am proud to say that they have done very well.” Dick Wyttenbach-Santos thought he was retired, from both the Navy and from the University of Guam. However, when a close friend was elected senator in the local Guam legislature, she asked him to help out. He became a part-time researcher/analyst and political advisor for her first term. He ultimately took on the full-time position of committee director for the Committee on the Guam Military Buildup and Homeland Security with oversight over the planned relocation of 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam. Dick says the work keeps him very busy. In addition, Dick’s grandson competed in the Beijing Olympics on Guam’s judo team, so they attended the opening ceremony and watched him compete. Last but certainly not least, Karel Zelenka has worked for Catholic Relief Services for over 22 years. He is currently the CRS Country Representative for Zimbabwe. His main responsibility is to clearly formulate CRS objectives and ensure their achievement by over 400 staff. The ever-changing situation in Zimbabwe requires a variety of quick and effective responses. Karel says they make a big difference, especially in children’s lives. He considers himself very lucky in that he has been blessed with a wonderful family, good health, an education at Fletcher, a personally rewarding job, and great friends. He acknowledges the support of his family, particularly his wife Moshira, who has had to act as a single mother when Karel has been on “unaccompanied posts,” taking excellent care of their sons

Karim, a freshman at American University in Washington, and Danny, a tenth grader at the American Overseas School of Rome. Finally, Karel was selected for the 2009 Distinguished Service Award by Tufts alumni and was scheduled to receive it in Medford in person. Congratulations, Karel. We are very proud of you.

1970

Mary [email protected]

Roger Wallace is entering his fifth year as vice president for government affairs for Pioneer Natural Resources. He thinks he has finally found job stability in his old age. He doesn’t have any plans for retirement; they have three “independent” children, none of whom are living independently. He just finished a stint as chair of the Inter-American Foundation, which supports sustainable grassroots development in the hemisphere, and he continues to serve on the board. He is also co-chair of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center, which has been very rewarding. He says President Obama’s election and the focus on climate change have upped his trips to DC, and he hopes to see some DC friends over the next few months. With his very active 83-year-old mother, he traveled to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana last September and will spend about three weeks in Bhutan and Rajasthan this October. He and his wife Mary keep their bucolic spirits alive with weekend trips to their farm in the Hill Country north of San Antonio. Charles Kovacs ’s media and insurance companies are doing very well in spite of the recession, or maybe because of it. In December he spoke in Poland at the Europe Turkey Forum on “The Economic

Potential of Turkey in the EU,” and in February he spoke in Kiev at the third Europe-Ukraine Forum on economic policy options for Ukraine. Somkiati Ariyapruchya continues to enjoy his second career as dean of the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies at Rangsit University in Bangkok, after his retirement from the Thai diplomatic service a few years ago. Larry Lotman was named interim chairman and CEO of Film and Music Entertainment, Inc., and its subsidiaries on the passing of the former chair. He will be producing a movie called Enter the Game this summer in Shreveport, Louisiana, with co-producer, writer and director Geno Poitier. It is about a young man overcoming a disastrous childhood in the foster care system. Besides that, he is still consulting with consumer, finance, and tech businesses. His son David, who many knew as quite the two-year-old troublemaker at Fletcher, is a world class pastry chef in Los Angeles. His daughter Leah has upped the grandchildren ante to four by having twins. Step-daughter Summer added another girl to raise the total number of grandkids to six. Larry’s youngest, La Donna, lives with him while pursuing her acting career. All goes well in the mountains of western North Carolina for Harry Petrequin . His three sons are all in various graduate schools. The oldest, John, at the University of California, will be doing a summer internship in China, which will help maintain the proficiency in Mandarin that he acquired during his previous two years there while teaching English. Harry is doing some teaching in local colleges and not wandering far from home. He has vowed not to look at his 401(k)s until the summer of 2010.

Mary Locke recently retired from the U.S. Senate staff where she was working with Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) as a senior professional on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Among other diverse and new activities, she has just finished redecorating the guest room. She and her husband Hans often host Fletcher classmates from out of town, so book early. Since retiring from the State Department Foreign Service, John Caswell has been teaching history at The Calverton School in Huntingtown, MD for the last six years. After teaching only U.S. history at the AP and regular levels the last few years, he returned to teaching modern world history this year and is designing a new AP European history course, which he will teach next year. He and his wife Wendy are very proud of their daughter Valerie, who entered Lycoming College as a freshman last fall. Chuck Wessner was enjoying good weather and tons of Sushi in Tokyo. He said he was there to talk to MEITI and NEDO officials about U.S. inoculation policy, before returning to DC later in the week. Lance Roberts moved his financial services operation from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. His oldest stepson, Linda’s boy Alex, graduated from Tufts in May with a degree in international relations and is now working for Tiger Airline in Singapore as their revenue analyst. He says he is another year older—has yet to figure out how to stop that, darn it. Greg Terry stepped down as chairman of Morgan Stanley in Southeast Asia at year’s end. He is now a senior advisor to the firm. On April 1, he joined the leading Australian law firm, Blake Dawson, as international partner in the Jakarta office. He and Anik will move to Jakarta permanently mid-year. On 2 December 2008, Anik had twin


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boys, Alexander James and Anthony Lindsay, making the gap in age between his oldest and youngest sons an even 40 years. Greg hopes to see everyone if their travels bring them to Indonesia. Mary Harris continues to enjoy sunny central California and will be traveling east in April to help begin the plans for the 40th reunion in May 2010 (and to see her sons and friends, of course!). Mary Locke will be coordinating the DC contingent, and they both hope to have a huge turnout! Let them know your thoughts!

1971

William [email protected]

From Washington, now the “financial capital of the U.S.,” Bill Hoffman and Marie (Kunz, F72) continue to be optimistic but over-occupied. Marie is working in a low-income clinic run by Bread for the City and is assisting with the public health aspects of two Central American water treatment plants with Engineers Without Borders. Bill continues lawyering in his economic sanctions and anti-money laundering practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell’s DC office. They joined Jess Ford and Jim McCarthy and their wives for a terrific French meal a couple of months ago. Bill also had the great pleasure of sharing beef and kidney pie (a true English lunch) with Andrei Vandoros in London several weeks ago. He says their enjoyment of these occasions demonstrates that, 39 years ago, Fletcher managed to put together a class of interesting, intelligent people who also know how to have fun! In February, Andrei also had dinner at a great Lebanese restaurant with Farrokh Jhabvala, F72, Michael Dobbs, F72, and Mian Zaheen, F73, to host Farrokh as he came

through from Mumbai on his way back to the U.S. Such a gathering would not have been complete without a phone call to Mark Nichols in New York. The same weekend, Andrei flew to New York to attend a Fletcher Board of Overseers meeting. He says despite the gloom of the overall economic situation, the School is coping remarkably well under the leadership of the dean and board chairman, Peter Ackerman. More than ever, Andrei says Fletcher needs and highly appreciates all financial help, however small, as most of it is channeled to helping incoming students with tuition costs. The meeting was crowned with the (then) unofficial news of Dean Bosworth’s appointment as the U.S. special representative to North Korea. Andrei met David Steel over a “decent glass” by the fireplace at the Royal Automobile Club to catch up on family news. He also met Usameh Jamali , “Fletcher Founding Father,” and his wife Maysoon for dinner in Chelsea together with Mian Zaheen, F73, to discuss the Middle East situation (what else!). Finally, Andrei reports that in September his daughter Eugenia started the Master in International Business program at Fletcher. He says she has another year and a half to go before joining the “rat race.” Doug Ayer writes from Lexington, Virginia, that he continues to teach two courses a semester in the International Studies Department at Virginia Military Institute. He enjoys the flexibility of this work and is not yet thinking about hanging it up. Several of his foreign service colleagues have retired in Lexington, and he recommends this course of action to anyone who is looking for a small town with an idyllic setting, with two colleges and a very active intellectual and cultural life. His daughter Betsy is now stage manager at the NYC Ballet,

after ten years of freelancing in theater production (opera and off-Broadway). His daughter Susan, having earned her master’s in mechanical engineering, is working for a solar energy start-up in Pasadena and watching certain items in the stimulus package with keen interest. Jean (Ulmer) Bailly and Henri-Claude have been living in Cambridge, MA for the past several years. They are partners in a limited liability company that invests in alternate energy companies. Barbara Crane is the executive vice president of Ipas, an international NGO focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights. In March, she joined a group of alumnae at Fletcher for a networking gathering to discuss world affairs and other areas of common interest. She spoke to the group on “The Obama Administration and Women’s Rights: Hopes and Realities.” She recently returned from Kenya, where she expects that the impact of the new administration will be felt not only because of the popularity of a President with Kenyan origins, but because of U.S. policies that will now put greater emphasis on women’s rights and women’s empowerment as a key determinant in economic growth and nation-building. On a personal level, she is looking forward to her son Russell’s graduation from New York University Law School in May and the nearly simultaneous birth of his son, her first grandson. Russell was married last August. Her Fletcher days long past, Christine Herbes-Sommers never got into the development or diplomacy fields and instead found a career as a PBS documentary producer. This year her company, Vital Pictures Inc., had the distinct honor of being awarded the

duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism for their four-part series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Thanks to Academic Dean Peter Uvin at Fletcher, they screened an episode of the series with his wife Susan as a co-presenter. Their next film, Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, will premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens next year and is already being featured in festivals around the country. Christine’s son Isaiah has left the nest and is flourishing as a handsome, talented, kind, and smart freshman at Washington University in St. Louis. Raising him has been her greatest joy. Christine says, “Kudos to all you Fletcherites who hew to the progressive political agenda—and for those of you in Washington, hope the next four (eight?) years bring you a breath of fresh air and many opportunities!” Mark Nichols has been busy this past year building his new business as a consultant to issuers of debt private placements. After more than 34 years working at Bank of America, he says he discovered an entrepreneurial gene that had lain dormant all this time! He had three engagements last year and has been retained by the largest media company in Australia and the world’s largest building products company to serve as their investor relations advisors for debt private placements. Most recently he has recruited a former colleague to join the firm as a senior advisor responsible for growing their ratings advisory business. Meanwhile, his partner Lowell is still running the British Airways North American call center operation in Jacksonville and has been named managing director of their subsidiary, Flytele. Mark hopes as many of his classmates as possible will try and make it to Talloires this year: «It’s a great spot for a


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long weekend of Fletcher-style activities: food, music, drink, lectures, food, drink, swimming, parasailing, food, drink—amidst the glory of the French alps and Lake Annecy.» Kathy O’Donnell says she is resurfacing after about 30 years. She lives in Manhattan and is senior vice president at the New York Academy of Medicine. She is also pursuing her fourth Master’s degree in anthropology at Columbia University (following degrees in business and public health, also from Columbia). She happily reconnected with Susan Watters and David Steel about a year ago. Their children have become friends and have even done some musical gigs together in New York! Kathy also spent some time in Rwanda doing pro bono consulting work on governance, financial management and organizational development for an HIV/AIDS treatment and research program. Elbio Rosselli is back in Montevideo, Uruguay, after a five-year tour that encompassed three years as ambassador in Brussels (to the EU and Belgium) and two years in New York as permanent representative to the UN. Last year, he worked as director general for international economic affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until December, when he was offered to switch over to director general for political affairs. He says he is having great fun in the new job, which he also finds quite challenging. He and Regina have been on their own for some time now, with the children quite grown up. They have become happy grandparents to Kieran, almost three, who lives in Canada where their daughter Alessandra has been since they left more than ten years ago. Their other two children, Alberto and Gabriela, live in Uruguay.

Bill Sargent writes from Ipswich, MA that his book, Just Seconds from the Ocean: Living on the Coast in the Wake of Katrina, came out last year. Sea Level Rising: The Chatham Story comes out next month. He says he finds people still buy books in recessions but they look for the cheaper ones! Ginger DaSilva leads the radio portion of a three-month skills refresher course in broadcast journalism for journalists from Africa and Asia, given by the Radio Netherlands Training Center. The theme of the course is conflict and social cohesion and it has attracted a very interesting mix of journalists: 29 in all from 18 countries. Ginger says the range of their experience is impressive, and she feels she learns as much from them as they learn from all the hoops she puts them through. Ginger is in regular contact with Fletcherites from earlier years who manage to pass through The Netherlands en route elsewhere. Gus Nasmith, F67, stopped over in February on his way to Delhi and Kathmandu, where he does volunteer support and consulting for the Blue Diamond Society, an impressive group that fights for the human rights of sexual minorities. Pam Jacklin, F67, who has worked with Ginger to set up a fund for women studying law in Sierra Leone, passed through last fall after a holiday in France and Morocco. Ginger writes that from time to time she sees Tony Kleitz, F67, who is in Paris at the OECD. Last year, she also reconnected with Mahmood Mamdani, F68, who gave an exciting and provocative lecture on Sudan in The Hague.

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Rick Kessler , PhD86, is now staff director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the U.S. House of Representatives. He calls this an exciting time to be in the foreign policy and national security field in Washington and says he is enjoying every minute of it.

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Motoo Konishi has been appointed country director for Central Asia at the World Bank. He will be based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Motoo was previously sector manager for transport in the Sustainable Development Department of the Europe and Central Asia Vice Presidency. We all congratulate Motoo on his appointment.

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Jason Hyland returned in June 2008 from a year in Iraq, where he served as provincial reconstruction team leader in Mosul. He is now the director of the Office of South Central European Affairs at the State Department in DC.

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Nicolai [email protected]

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Chrysantus Ache has been named UNHCR’s representative to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, effective in March. Chrysantus was previously directing UNHCR operations in Sudan.

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Nancy Anderson [email protected]


Yang Jiemian has been named president of the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. Adam Greshin was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. We congratulate Yang and Adam on these achievements! Fletcher Professor Alan Wachman is on leave this year to prepare a book manuscript concerning Mongolia’s national security since it became independent of the Soviet Union. In March, Alan interviewed former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, who was instrumental in advancing U.S. relations with Mongolia. Professor Orna Ben-Naftali is dean of the law school at The College of Management Academic Studies in Israel. Having spent a few years with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in NYC, she returned to Israel and to academic life. She is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of International Law and of the executive board of B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center of Human Rights in the Territories.

Alan Wachman with James A. Baker, III


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1985

Edith Johnson [email protected]

Rodrigo Palacios is the new general manager of Cerro Sombrero Holding, a Chilean conglomerate with investments in banking, machinery rental, vineyards and other agroindustrial businesses.

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Mark [email protected]

José Luis Mardones is the chairman of Banco del Estado, Chile’s largest bank.

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In Dubai, Christine Lauper Bagatelas and Paul Bagatelas hosted a reception for more than 20 Fletcher alumni from the Arab Gulf region. The reception honored the visiting delegation from Fletcher’s recently launched Sovereign Wealth Fund Initiative at the School’s new Center for Emerging Market Enterprises. In addition, Paul was recently appointed to the School’s Board of Overseers. Tom Casey has joined Lockheed Martin Readiness and Stability Operations as director of communications. RSO is a new company in the Lockheed Martin corporate family providing services to the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of State and international organizations both in the U.S. and overseas. Tom joined Lockheed Martin in August 2008 after a 20-year career in the State Department that concluded with an assignment as deputy spokesman and deputy assistant secretary for public affairs. He continues to live

in Silver Spring, MD with his son Brendan and daughter Morgan. After serving in the Republic of Korea’s Foreign Ministry as director for security and counter-terrorism and then as director for cultural cooperation, Chan-Buom Lee has been seconded to the Office of the President as director-general at the Council for Nation Branding. John Hennessey-Niland reports that he now works in The White House at the National Security Council as director for G-8/G-20 matters. According to John, he “will be the yak that helps the sherpa guide the President to these summits.” His wife Julie Hennessey-Niland, F87, and their two boys, Connor, 13, and Aidan, 12, are all doing well. Diana Munger Hechler is still busy running her boutique travel company, D. Tours Travel, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in May. Diana sends lots of families to Europe every year and does as much “research” as she can get away with! She sent one son to college this fall and still has a high school junior at home, as the empty nest approaches. Diana is still happily married to David and living in Larchmont, NY. Laurie MacNamara Hendrickson was recently promoted to principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. As a senior executive in Booz Allen’s Economic and Business Analysis team, she is working with colleagues across the firm on financial regulatory reform issues. Laurie also participated in a Booz Allen-hosted career panel during the annual Fletcher DC trip in February and sponsored several students during interviews with the firm. Laurie, her husband Bill, F88, and daughter Fiona live in Alexandria, VA. Pedro Moreno and his daughter launched the

Father and Daughter Alliance in India at the start of the year in collaboration with Deepalaya, an Indian NGO, and the O ffice of the Chief Minister of Delhi. FADA is an international movement of traditional fathers/family men mobilizing other fathers to enroll and keep their daughters in school. FADA also plans to work in Afghanistan, Benin, Guatemala and Yemen. David Schwartz is serving as general counsel to FADA. Jim Packard Winkler , corporate vice president of DAI, an international consulting firm, has lived in Hanoi, Vietnam, since March 2007, managing the Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative. He resides there with his wife, Mary Packard-Winkler, F88, who works on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs as a consultant for PACT Vietnam, and their youngest son Tyler, 10. Their oldest son Aaron, 21, who was born in Fletcher/Packard Hall, will graduate from UC San Diego in June and is interning in Senator Diane Feinstein’s San Diego office. Their middle son Jared, 19, is a freshman at Clark University. Ben Ziff is finishing up three years as the public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. He reports, “The Bolivarian Republic is an increasingly challenging and frustrating place to work, and there has been a puzzling lack of visits by my Fletcher brethren.” Ben, his wife, and their two daughters will be moving to Italy this summer where he will assume a somewhat different role as public affairs officer of the Embassy in Rome. He suspects he’ll be seeing more of our classmates in Rome than he has in Caracas! Ignacio “Matador” de la Vega is currently based in Spain and working as a senior professor at IE Business School, one of the top five business

schools in the world. He teaches entrepreneurship and strategic management at IE and in universities and schools all over Latin America, the U.S. and China. Ignacio is chairman of the board of the GEM consortium (65 countries involved) and is active in the investment and consulting industry. He is married to Carolina and is the proud father of three kids. He quit soccer and has avidly embraced golf, scuba diving and skiing.

Jim Packard Winkler and family - wife, Mary Packard-Winkler, and sons,Tyler, Jared and Aaron

Pedro Moreno with two fathers in Delhi, India during his trip to launch FADA, an international non-profit mobilizing fathers to enroll and keep their daughters in school.

1988

Thomas [email protected]

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Beatriz Boccalandro [email protected]


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grounds from Pakistan to serve as Research Director of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts, where he is examining the assumption that aid projects have a stabilization or security benefit (e.g., by “winning hearts and minds”) in counter-insurgency contexts. A number of us are not too far from Fletcher, in the DC metro area. As vice president, head of human resources at the American Red Cross, Uzma Burki oversees human resources for 20,000 employees, a staff of 227 and a budget of $23 million. Chris Gilson, married to Jean Meinhard Gilson , spends time recruiting for the U.S. Peace Corps as manager of the agency’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. Jean is vice president of marketing and strategy at DAI, an international development firm. If you keep up with the news, you likely already know that Ariel Cohen is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in charge of Russian, Eurasian and international energy security programs and that he has a book out, Kazakhstan: The Road to Independence. Phyllis Dininio helps USAID to promote democracy and good governance, focusing on anticorruption and post-conflict statebuilding as democracy and governance specialist at Management Systems International. As deputy division chief at the IMF, Cathy McAuliffe manages the division that oversees programs in Mali, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Gambia. David Saybolt prosecutes homicides as assistant U.S. attorney for the Office of the U.S. Attorney. Rhonda Shore is public affairs advisor/editor, Country Reports on Terrorism for the U.S. Department of State. Finally, I (Bea Boccalandro ) also live near DC and research, teach and consult with global

companies on corporate community involvement at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and am president of a small consulting firm, VeraWorks. Elsewhere on the U.S. East Coast, Farukh Amil is ambassador/deputy permanent representative for the Pakistan Mission to the UN in New York. Elisabet Rodriguez Dennehy is self-employed in Pittsburgh, where she does consulting work focusing on strategic training for women in leadership, communication, presence, and self-branding, and she is writing a book on managing women from diverse backgrounds that is due out at the end of the year. Further west in the U.S. are several classmates. Amy (Rauenhorst) Goldman is chairman and executive director of the GHR Foundation in Minneapolis, which promotes long-term transformative projects in higher education, healthcare and Catholic institutions. Linda (Wang) Kornguth is practicing family medicine in northern California. Stephan Crawford is at the U.S. Commercial Service in San Francisco, where he links clean technology firms with markets worldwide and helps small- and medium-sized firms manage risk and maintain international competitiveness in the face of climate change. He is also pursuing a Master’s degree in environmental sciences and management. In southern California, James Loewen oversees utility gas purchasing policies for the California Public Utilities Commission, designs furniture for Fathom Design and writes and records alternative, electroacoustic rock music for Love in Exile; Constance Boukidis is assistant attorney for the Law Offices of Richard J. Stall, Jr.; and Jeffrey Pack , UN Navy commanding officer,

Maritime Prepositioning Squadron Three, is responsible for a squadron of prepositioned ships that operate throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Several of our classmates are in Europe. From Ponta Delgada, Portugal, professor of political philosophy and European studies Carlos Amaral has published From the Sovereign State to the State of the Autonomies: Regionalism, Autonomy and Subsidiarity for a New Idea of the State. As senior human rights officer at the UN in Geneva, Mara Bustelo supports the work of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council. Rick Fitzpatrick is teaching history and theory of knowledge at the Bavarian International School in Haimhausen, Germany. Susanne Klemm is senior manager at Ernst & Young in Matran, Switzerland. As director at PRTM Management Consultants in Levallois Perret, France, Joseph Roussel provides management consulting to international companies. Elisabeth van Waay-Frey is professor for law and economics at Fachmittelschule Freiburg in Clarens, Switzerland. Finally, in Madrid, Harold Zappia is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. Elsewhere on the globe, Adam Ereli is U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Blair LaBarge is chief of the economic section at the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. Steve Liston is political counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Brazil, where he manages U.S.-Brazil relations across a whole range of issues, manages U.S. official and congressional visitors, and has even testified before Congress. Mosud Mannan was appointed Bangladesh’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco with concurrent accreditation to Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Stuart Spencer is

president of the accident and health worldwide division of AIG in Hong Kong. My apologies for limiting this update to professional life basics due to space limitations. Your responses to my survey indicate that we are hard working (100% employed), four times more likely to be married than not (81% versus 19%), and have an average of 1.8 children. Until next time, keep up the good work, enjoy the company of those you love, and keep in touch.

1990

Joy [email protected]

Jairo Hernandez has been appointed deputy ambassador of Costa Rica to the UN, where Costa Rica is on the Security Council for the remainder of 2009. Jairo moved to New York in March. He previously served in various positions in both the public and private sectors, including: director of the Office of the President of Costa Rica, international coordinator and deputy director of the Costa Rica Foundation of Sustainable Development, program officer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences and member of the board of directors of Cathay Financial Group, in addition to university teaching assignments. Tommy Heanue is living in Annville, PA. He says if any Fletcherites come through town, they should stop at the Allen Theater and ask, “Where’s Tommy?” They’ll be directed to his cookie factory. Now a single parent, Tommy and his daughters Giorgina, 14, and Giovanna, 12, own a cookie company called Giorgina and Giovanna’s Homemade Cookies. The mail-order business distributes homemade cookies to foreign college and university students unable to get a care package from home. Profits go to the girls’ college


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fund. Tommy continues to work in the software and historical renovation industries and is president of the Fletcher Club of Philadelphia. Bastienne Joerchel has been working for Alliance Sud, a Swiss alliance of development organizations, since 1999. She is in charge of North-South trade issues. She is living in Renens, Switzerland, with her husband and three boys (ages 6, 10, and 12). She is a member of her city’s local parliament and is engaged in some civil society activities. During the past winter holidays, Bastienne spent a week of intensive skiing with the family of Frederique Lambrakis-Haddad in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Frederique lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband Lawrence and their two children Sovanne, 8, and Raphael, 7. Frederique works as a child psychotherapist for children with serious emotional issues. Max Mejia, Jr. received a Ph.D. from Lund University in Sweden in May 2008. He is an assistant professor at the World Maritime University, where he has been teaching since 1998. WMU is a graduate school of the International Maritime Organization where mid-career maritime administrators from around the world study for a M.Sc. or a Ph.D. Max says the university is in “the cozy little city of Malmö” in the south of Sweden where he, his wife and their three children make their home. On a working visit to Jakarta in January, Joy Yamamoto , now on the Indonesia desk at the U.S. State Department, enjoyed dinner and long conversation with Kornel Soemardi . Kornel, who had been working as a vice president in a downstream oil and gas company, in March joined Indonesia’s national oil and gas company, Pertamina, as head of its Capital Market: Investor Relations Unit. Among his first-year goals: help take the state-owned company

public (without listing shares yet) by year’s end. Kornel and Joy were joined by Kornel’s wife Susi and Joy’s husband Ray for an excellent sampling of half a dozen Indonesian dishes, reaffirming Kornel’s reputation for gracious hospitality among other Fletcherites who have passed his way. A few months later, Kornel met up with another classmate, Mari Yamashita , who also had come to Jakarta on a work assignment. Travels related to Myanmar/Burma have taken Mari to almost all the ASEAN countries in the past year. She is completing her second year as senior political affairs officer and leader of the team covering South Asia and the Pacific at the UN. Mari’s family is still based in the U.S. Northeast, splitting their time between Vermont and New York. Her husband Christopher works as the Director of MRI at a hospital in Burlington and teaches medical school residents at the University of Vermont. Their son Niko is a second grader at the UN International School.

Jairo Hernandez, left, with Costa Rica’s President, Oscar Arias, after Jairo’s appointment as Deputy Ambassador to the UN.

Max Mejia, dressed for graduation ceremonies at Lund University in Sweden, where he received a Ph.D.

Tommy Heanue’s daughters, Giorgina and Giovanna

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Emma [email protected]

Emma Hodgson ’s move to Australia has quite literally been one huge journey and it is only now that she is feeling settled and enjoying this fabulous city and the Australian lifestyle. Her children Holly, Harry and Emily settled immediately and love their new world full of sport and fresh air and the sea. Emma and her husband Mike have both taken positions with KPMG . So news from around the world as follows: Ted and Alice Slayton-Clark are headed to Europe again imminently with their children Dylan and Hannah. They happily embraced being home in DC with both of them working but the time is ripe to move again. From Austin Wiehe we have news that he stays in touch with Tom Kennedy - he and his wife are based in DC also. Barbar Hashmi writes from Belgrade where he is based. He is in touch with Margit Frederich and her family and sends good wishes to all. News from Wendy Johnson-Vincent is that she is often in Australia and plans to move to Hobart some time in the near to medium term. Darlene Sambo is also in touch. She visited Australia recently as she was invited to the ANU Diplomatic Dialogues to present, followed by a family holiday. She is now in Geneva for a Board of Trustees meeting of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples having

been appointed by the SG this past February. Youry Petchenkine sends great news as follows: “Unless you know, my name fully changed a couple of years after Fletcher, and I am now a U.S. citizen. However, after Fletcher I went to the Kennedy School next door and ultimately stayed as a consultant to a law firm in Boston (then Hale and Dorr). By the time I was naturalized here, my first name Youry was changed to George (which is actually the same name), and Lambert was my grandmother’s name, more convenient in the U.S. My law office is nominally in D.C., because I litigate usually for international parties not requiring permanent stay in D.C., so my more or less regular home is in Winthrop, Mass., not that far from Medford.” Jennifer Wayne and her partner have established a venture called Energy Arts Alliance. They are “Evolution Consultants” who help adventurous people and organizations grow and make a bigger difference by becoming “Energy Heroes.” [website: energyartsalliance.wordpress.com] Peter Kessler is still in London and enjoying his life and work there very much. In the 18 years since graduation, Ned Hoyt has been keeping busy. After two years in New York City working on environment/trade issues in the context of NAFTA at the U.S. chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce, he joined Rick Adcock, F93, on a venture that morphed into a consulting firm, Econergy International. Econergy was acquired by GDF-Suez in October 2008, the global power/water/gas utility, and the reorganization that followed the acquisition meant that his area, leading sustainable development initiatives in the context of their corporate social responsibility


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group, was declared redundant, and Ned “got a pink slip.” He is now contemplating two offers, as well as possible gigs as an independent consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, companies, U.S. government, etc. Emma says, “Need some more news from more of us next time please - it is so great to still feel connected. I wish I could have gone to Talloires this year but now being across many seas from Europe it won’t happen. I plan to get back to London for a few weeks in September. Keep sending your news and I send my warmest wishes, thoughts and until next time.”

Ned Hoyt With wife Anne, Didi (9), Alex (6)

1992

Kristen Pendleton [email protected]

Kingsley Moghalu has moved on to new ventures in the private sector after working for the UN for 17 years on four continents, the last six as director of global partnerships at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva. He founded a consulting firm, Sogato Strategies S.A., with headquarters in Geneva. The firm advises on foreign investment and risk management, governance and development in emerging market countries. In addition, Kingsley’s second book, Global Justice, was published in paperback in 2008.

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Dorothy Zur [email protected]

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Larry [email protected]

For once, most of the news comes from folks in the United States. In March, Evelyn Farkas published an op-ed in the Boston Globe on Pakistan and nuclear proliferation. She recently served as the executive director of the congressionally-mandated WMD Terrorism Commission, which issued its highly publicized report at the beginning of 2009. Duncan Hollis earned tenure at Temple University School of Law, where he teaches international law. Matt Levitt is a prolific publisher from his perch as the director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he works alongside Senior Fellow Mike Jacobson, F96, and Farah Pandith . Marc Parrish biked from Houston to Austin (180 miles) in a National Multiple Sclerosis Society fundraiser in April. Josh Lincoln is a special assistant to the UN Secretary-General with responsibility for Africa and peacekeeping operations. Bjorn Gillsater is loving his job at UNICEF in New York. Sheba Crocker is chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg. Mark Baker is on the Victory Campaign Board of the Victory Fund, a national organization that works to elect LGBT candidates to public office. He traveled to three different

cities in South America to see Elton John concerts sponsored by his firm, Diageo. Ladeene Freimuth has moved back to DC from Israel and resumed her consulting practice on energy and climate change issues. But many of us are still galavanting around the world. Maura Lynch is chief of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator’s Support Office in Liberia until June. In January, she celebrated the Lunar New Year over dim sum in New York with Diane (Tausner) de Klerk , Donna (Demenus) Dholakia , Elena Galaitsi, F96, and Annika Hansen . Sasha Zakharov reports that he is still trading equities, this time at IFC Metropol, one of the leading local Russian brokerage houses. His wife Larissa is a dean at Moscow State Law Academy, and their daughter Anya, 7, started school this year. Stella Cuevas has helped establish the Fletcher Club of Colombia. Christian Hougen and his wife Haiman are in the second year of their Manila assignment, where Christian is chief of USAID’s office of economic development and governance. Finally, yours truly, Larry Hanauer , was pleased to see a number of classmates at Fletcher’s 75th Anniversary Gala in Washington. Erin Conaton , Felicia Swindells , Bjorn Gillsater , Josh Lincoln, Annika Hansen, and Larry all met for dinner on Capitol Hill before dancing the night away at the Library of Congress. Stay in touch!

1996

Karen [email protected]

Spring has sprung and Carlos Guzman Perry and his wife Lorelei Prevost, F00, just had their first baby, a wonderful little boy named Aden. Carlos is enjoying his role as chief operating officer of the Emerging Markets

Private Equity Association in Georgetown. This association is still growing in spite of the economy, which unfortunately means he continues to find himself on one too many airplanes. Rusty Barber has returned from Iraq and is now director of Iraq programs at the U.S. Institute for Peace in DC. He misses the winters of New England but is enjoying the change in political climate down in DC. Robin First Brandeis was in the private international legal world, working on cases involving political risk insurance and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, until 2003. She then did a short stint at Temple University in Philadelphia before joining the major gift fundraising team at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, working from her New Jersey home and covering the mid-Atlantic area. She was married in October 2005 to her husband Alan and now has two precious boys, Benjamin, 2, and Max, 7 months. After Max’s arrival, she left her job at St. Jude to be a stay at home mom, which is suiting her beautifully despite the sleep deprivation. Tamara Hochman has established strong roots in West Hartford, CT, now that she has been living there for ten years. She is an active board member of the Wintonbury Land Trust and finds it is an exciting mix of negotiating real estate transactions and hiking undeveloped land with a GPS, as well as building the land trust’s new website. She has a large family, with a fourth child on the way. She couldn’t make it to DC for the Gala and was upset to miss out on seeing classmates, but she did get in touch with Brian Casabianca, F97, and Craig Montgomery, F97! Look for her, and other Fletcherites, on Facebook.


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1997

Alexia [email protected]

The Class of 1997 is back. Enjoy finding out what your classmates are up to, and please write when you can. Starting in Europe, Martin Kotthaus, married since 2006 to Elisabeth, is still in Brussels working as the head of the press department of the German Permanent Representation to the EU. While he tries to sell German positions to the media, his wife is on the other side working in the energy department of the EU commission and suing the member states. All job stuff put aside, their lives are much more influenced by two lovely daughters, Clara (born in 2006) and Anna (born in 2008). Nearby in Geneva, Claudia Ibarguen is just getting settled into her new job with ILO-IPEC after four years in La Paz, Bolivia. She and husband Christian are enjoying their fun and beautiful daughters, Chiara, 3, and Camila, 1. Dimitri Vassilacos and his wife Sophia spend much of their time in constant amazement by the verbal and other achievements of their lovely Emma-Eleni. Dimitri also finds the time to manage the shipping finance division of the National Bank of Greece and participate actively in the local Fletcher club. Ghulam Isaczai has descended from the Himalayas of Nepal to the plains and bank of the Rhine river in Bonn, Germany. No, he is not working for Deutsche Post or Opel, but assumed a new position with the UN Volunteer Programme. Having spent 11 years in various countries in the developing world, Bonn is a big change for Ghulam, his wife and three girls (ages 9, 8, and 4). They are enjoying the city but miss the sunshine. And now to the US. There is a concentration of classmates

in DC, but the West Coast is getting active with a new Los Angeles Fletcher Club. Gabriella Rigg Herzog sends us a classic Fletcher-style love story. Married since 2007, she met her husband-to-be, Matthew Herzog, at a wine tasting party co-hosted by Fletcher friends James Perkaus, Camelia Mazard, and Evelyn Farkas, F97, at Jim’s Washington home. Laurent Guinand, F98, led guests through the wines. Both Gabriela and Matthew Herzog enjoy international careers—she as policy advisor at the Department of State managing corporate social responsibility policy and programs, and he as AVP for Trade Credit at QBE the Americas. Exemplifying the Fletcher tradition of embracing multiple disciplines, Malikah Rollins is back in graduate school to get a Master’s in social work after six years of teaching history and international politics to high school students. She hopes to be a high school counselor and family therapist, and one day wants to work in a school overseas. Malikah finished her first internship counseling soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She is very happy with her new career and five-year-old boy Miles, who is an energetic delight. Jeroen Cooreman, who is with the Belgium Embassy in DC, enjoys hosting Fletcher dinners and is delighted to welcome Richard Ponzio and Kuniko Ashizawa to the city. After a decade with the UN, Rick is transitioning to Washington, where he will start a new assignment in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. Kuniko will take leave from teaching at Oxford Brookes University as a visiting scholar at the East-West Center’s Washington office. Back from service in Afghanistan, Bob Cassidy has

been recently promoted to Colonel by the U.S. Army. Bob has been enjoying speaking at events; he recently delivered a speech at the Texas A&M Student Conference on National Affairs called, “The Future Prospects for Success in Afghanistan.” At the end of June, he will speak on a panel at the Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport. In July, he will report to the Naval War College for a year-long program on national security studies. Chris Samuel is in her fourth year with Save the Children in Connecticut and is still loving it. As director of alliance resource coordination, she works closely with Save the Children members in Europe and Asia to support programs around the world. On the personal front, Chris and her husband Frank moved to a new house about a year ago. Sara Mason Ader recently reconnected with the Fletcher community through the women’s alumnae babinec (gathering) held at Fletcher. She found the event most inspirational. She says the faces there were mostly new, but she came away with a stronger sense of the Fletcher community and was also amazed at the women she met and their accomplishments. Sara keeps busy doing a range of freelance writing and editing projects plus shuttling around her 5- and 7-year-old kids. Sara’s husband Jason Ader started a new job in the fall with William Blair & Co. He is working as an equity analyst covering communications equipment companies. Sara and Jason still see Boston area classmates such as Lisa Bozoyan Sebesta, Dana Stiffler and Jill Finger Gibson (who recently relocated from London). They also enjoyed a visit from Dan Rosen his lovely wife Lynn, who came

by from DC around the holidays. Scott Sheriff has taken a position as senior vice president with Wind Capital Group, a renewable energy company. A newly minted U.S. citizen, Scott lives with his wife Jamie and 6-year-old son William in St. Louis, MO. Tamara Dolgen, took the bold and exciting step of starting her own company, Good4YMarketing, consulting in the social enterprise and cause marketing field. She works with two clients, an organic food company and a nonprofit. Tamara now has two kids, Rose, 4, and Moises, 10 months. She is eager to connect more with Fletcherites and has joined the new Los Angeles Fletcher Club headed by Grant Hosford. 2008 was a whirlwind year for Grant and his family. He and his wife Stephanie adopted their daughter Naomi, 2½, from China in March, moved in April, and Stephanie gave birth to their daughter Samantha in May. Luckily, their 7-year-old son Ethan has adapted beautifully to having two little sisters. Grant enjoyed an impromptu Fletcher reunion in DC when he visited for the inauguration. Superbly hosted by Jeremie Waterman and his wife Rachel, Grant also saw Dan Rosen, David Bowker, Spencer Abbot, Paul Piquado and Mike Castellano while in DC (and lost all the cash on his person in a “friendly” poker game with these gentlemen). Felicia Wilkerson just returned from a spell away, her second deployment overseas to the Middle East. Her first big news is that she is getting married in June! She has been finishing up the last-minute items and making sure everything is ready. Her second big news is that she is making the transition from her current airframe, the CH-46E helicopter, to the MV-22 Osprey, the tilt rotor aircraft. She anticipates several more


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deployments—her fiancé is with the Marine Corps Special Ops with their SpecOps Advisory Group—so they’ll have some adventures forthcoming to be sure. They will be stateside for the remainder of the year and would love to attend any events in Raleigh/Charlotte or DC. Gayle Meyers Cooper writes from Israel where she has been settled since 2004. Gayle works for a local NGO called the Mosaica Center for Inter-Religious Cooperation. She married Hillel Cooper in Israel in 2007 in the presence of Fletcher alumni Melissa Crow, Ladeene Freimuth, and Christopher Johns. They welcomed their son Eitan Tzvi on November 15. Gayle has a warm cup of coffee waiting for all classmates who come through Jerusalem. Daniel Balsam rendezvous’d with Peter Piro, F94, in Gaienmae Park and the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. Daniel was on a brief eight-hour visit on his way home to Chicago from Bali, Indonesia, where he spent 11 days underwater exploring the biodiverse coral reefs of South Sulawesi Island. He has been working in Chicago since 2005 as a technical project manager in the managed hosting services group at CSC. Peter is working for KVH in Tokyo as a sales manager and lives with his wife Takako and daughter Erica. Back in the dot-com era, Peter, Daniel and Juan Carlos Pasquel, now married and living in Sao Paulo, all worked for the pioneer Internet services company Genuity in various locations. This past August, Daniel and Juan bumped into one another on an unplanned, serendipitous flight from Miami to Sao Paulo. Marko Velikonja is still at the State Department, working as an economic officer in Yerevan, Armenia. He and his wife are the proud parents of 6-year-old twin boys and a 17-month-old girl. As for yours truly, I am still

living in Paris and working to increase poor people’s access to finance. I had a tremendous time at the Fletcher Anniversary Gala in DC, and caught up with many classmates over a fine Belgium meal and then on the dance floor of the Library of Congress. Let me know if you are ever in Paris, stay connected, and please write.

Daniel Balsam and Peter Piro Harajuku Tokyo

Claudia Ibarguen and Family

Gabriella Rigg Wedding

Gayle Hillel

Resi wedding girls evening w Jeje, Theresa Glasmacher and Joachim Theile-Ochel wedding

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1998

T. Colum Garrity [email protected]

Many thanks to Carol Frausto for her years of service as Class Secretary. Going forward, Colum Garrity has kindly agreed to take on Secretary duties for the Class of 1998. After 16 months of living in London, Gwen Rehnborg and her family are finally on their way to Hong Kong in April. They were thrilled to have Sarah Kenny Rabasco recently visit them in London. Anthony Arroyo and his wife, Chartina, welcomed a beautiful girl into the world. Sienna Grace was born on December 31, 2007. She joins her brother Jacob, who will turn three in May. Chip and Valeria Laitinen and kids are living in Silver Spring, Maryland. Chip is in the State Department’s Office of Development Finance, and Valeria is teaching third grade in Fairfax County. They have been lucky to see Dayna Brown, Laurent Guinand and Sarah Kenny and their families as well as others recently at a DC happy hour.

You will find an interview of Stephane Grand on CCTV-F, the French channel of the official TV of the PRC, speaking to the business environment, in light of the meltdown elsewhere. Contact me directly if you would like the link. Jan-Philipp Goertz is still with Lufthansa as director of international affairs, posted in Berlin. He organizes three major civic projects, and all are connected to civic engagement and responsibility. He is a founding member of a foundation that is buying and building a major Catholic Center in Berlin, including the first 24-hour church in Germany, if not in Europe. They will work mostly with the poor and the homeless. He is also involved in a civic forum on values, which sponsors an education program for community leaders, on taking responsibility for their community. They organize major lectures of up to 500 people. The goal is to prepare Germany for a greater role in this area. He has also published a book called Conversations, a collection of photography and poetry. Phil Cummings and family have moved to Accra, Ghana, where he is the economic chief at the American Embassy starting his three-year tour. Sadie Okoko, F05, is also at the Embassy, as is GMAP grad Emil Stalis, F08. If in West Africa, give them a holler. Aaron Hellman and his wife Noemi have departed Havana, and are now serving at the U.S. Consulate in Munich, Germany, where he is the head of the consular section. He’ll be there until 2011. He most recently has had a chance to work with Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, F73, on the Munich Security Conference. Shengxing Ding is serving at the Chinese Embassy in Barbados as political counselor. News from Tomoko Yokoi is that she gave birth to her


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second child, Naomi Ronnow, in September. Her family continues to live in Switzerland. Hisham Elkoustaf is still in DC working with the Commercial Law Development Program. He has recently been promoted to senior counsel and manages commercial law reform programs in Morocco, Libya, Egypt, and Iraq. Hisham recently took part in the alumni of color career panel and was excited to see Zaid Zaid, F99 and Daniel Stewart, F00. He also stays in touch with Charles Davidson, F97, in Cairo and Mimi Alemayehou in Tunisia. Mimi is the U.S. executive director at the African Development Bank. When not traveling, Hisham enjoys his time with wife Dalia and their 18-month-old toddler Iman.

Sienna Grace, Anthony Arroyo’s daughter

Iman being her cute self

1999

Meg [email protected]


Don’t forget our 10th reunion coming up in May. The committee has been working

hard to make this a memorable event and hopes to see as many classmates there as possible. Astrid Wendlant writes from Paris that she’s planning on attending. Astrid works for Thomson Reuters. Sonja Bachmann is still with the UN but has changed from covering Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Mediterranean shores where she works on solving the complex conflict of Cyprus. Reunification talks are taking place under the auspices of the UN and Sonja shuttles once a month between New York and Cyprus. She says she has not yet met any Fletcherites on the island but is sure there are many. She too hopes to make it to Boston for the reunion. Zaid Zaid says that since the last update, he replaced Uzma Wahhab as the interim co-chair of the Fletcher Club of DC. He had lunch with her and Nahla Rajan, F01, right after President Obama’s inauguration. Zaid says he’s looking forward to planning events in DC, where he currently works as a judicial law clerk for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on the U.S. District Court for DC. He starts as an associate in the DC office of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr this September. After graduating from Fletcher, Zaid joined the Department of State and served in Tunis, Cairo, New York, and Baghdad. In 2004, he went Columbia Law School, and has been clerking with federal judges since he graduated in 2007. Carlisle Levine reports that she and Ricardo got married in a private ceremony in Boston in January. While they aren’t planning any large gatherings, they very much look forward to celebrating with Fletcher friends, especially at the reunion. Elizabeth Walker writes that she’s working in Washington as the VP of Programs for NGO Relief International.

Lashelle Roundtree says she’s officially ending her life of leisure of the last couple of years for a position at a strategic consulting company in Washington. She chose this particular firm because it is one of the few companies that doesn’t focus on contracting solely for government clients, but instead has a diverse portfolio of private sector companies. Lashelle had lunch with Tania Mastrapa last month, who was super busy with publishing and consulting. She has been invited as a guest speaker for a number of upcoming conferences, where she will be discussing post-sovietology studies, specifically property restitution, international adoption, and historical memory. Lashelle also reports that she has visited with Kofi Arkaah. and she’s been in touch with Michael Rauch, who is expecting a baby with wife Lauren. Oleg Kaganovich is also looking forward to seeing friends at the reunion. He says he’s departing for Paris after the festivities and would love to know who is there nowadays and what kind of advice folks might have on restaurants and things to do off the beaten path. Gregory Unruh’s new book Earth, Inc. will be published this summer. Greg is a professor of sustainable business and is currently the director of the Lincoln Center for Ethics at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in sunny Arizona. Ellen Shaw is in Washington where she and her husband Pranav live with their children Annika, 5, and Aidan, 2. Ellen is at the State Department, and Pranav is with Comcast. She says that Karin Chamberlain is planning to visit Washington soon and that she saw Penny Anderson recently. Penny is working for Mercy Corps as director of food security. Ellen also sees Eric Eversmann from

time to time as their daughters take the same ballet class. She was excited to see the most recent foreign policy ranking where Tufts/Fletcher was #4 behind Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and Harvard, but ahead of Columbia, Princeton, AU and GW. Daniel Sonder was promoted to cirector in Credit Suisse’s Global Fixed Income Structuring Group based in Sao Paulo. Daniel and Fabiana’s daughter Gabriela just started kindergarten last month and turns 2 in July. And last but not least, Martina Volpe and Barnaby Donlon are proud to announce the birth of their baby girl, Camilla Sylvia, born on January 17.

2000

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Mariana Lenkova and family have been in Moscow since September. They are enjoying life there and have extended their tours, so they will be there for two and a half more years. They would love visits from classmates. Chris Young descended from the ivory tower (he was a research director for a clean energy think-tank in New York), to labor in the basement of a sausage factory (helping to grind out energy regulations at an agency in DC). He is overwhelmed by the number of Fletcher folks in DC and looks forward to getting back in touch. Bruce Hamilton was installed as president of Fuelco, LLC, in January. Fuelco is a private joint venture wholly owned by AmerenUE, Luminant, and Pacific Gas & Electric. The company purchases nuclear fuel and manages the global fuel supply chain for its owners’ nuclear power plants in California, Missouri, and Texas. Ultimately, Fuelco provides enough uranium fuel assemblies to produce carbon-


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free electricity for five million American homes. Mike (F02) and Maria Clayton and their daughter Alisa welcomed baby Sonia Elena in July. All are happy and enjoying life in northern California. Silas Everett and wife Jeanne, F99 (fall semester), are enjoying their second year in Timor-Leste with their son, Taivan (2). When not hiking the lush mountains or snorkeling in the pristine blue sea, Jeanne is consulting for CARE Australia on an ADB-funded rural infrastructure project, and Silas is serving as Country Representative with The Asia Foundation. They recently spent a few enjoyable days with Nikki Sayres in Penang, Malaysia, at TAF’s annual representatives meeting. If other Fletcher alums in Timor-Leste are interested in getting together, they would love to meet up. Aida Mengitsu continues to live in Brooklyn, NY and works for UNOCHA as a humanitarian affairs officer. Aida recently had a second baby, Helena. Her older brother, Menelik, is 2½. Hannah Pierpont welcomed her second daughter Elsa Claire, who was born at home in Lexington, MA on February 23. Vigen Sargsyan is happy to share two news items that have marked the beginning of the new year. First, he was decorated by a decree of the President of France by Ordre National du Merit, a high state award of the French Republic for organization and coordination of the Year of Armenia in France. Second, the President of Armenia has signed a decree promoting Vigen to the position of deputy chief of his administration. He will preserve the portfolio he had as assistant to the president (foreign, security and defense policy), as well as get some more coordination functions within the administration. Stephanie Grepo returned to

her native NYC in March 2007 after working throughout the Balkans for seven years for the OSCE. She is now director of capacity building programs at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. Anna Balogh recently relocated to DC from Brussels. Before leaving Brussels, she ran into Paul Olivera, F02, in November at the Brussels train station as both were about to board the same Eurostar train to London where she spent time hanging with Wilma Suen, F98, PhD02. Anna received a job offer from the U.S. Foreign Service in Public Diplomacy in 2003, which was rescinded due to her diabetes. She has been fighting State’s policy of not hiring diabetics ever since and is hopeful it will be resolved sometime in the next year.

2001

Shantha [email protected]

The Class of 2001 had a rough start to this year, with the sad news that our dear classmate and friend Werner Jurinka passed away. Werner’s memorial in Washington was attended by more than 20 Fletcherites—some traveling from as far away as Tokyo—a testament to an incredible person who touched so many with his warm smile and Hawaiian style. A memorial website for Werner has now been created, so please submit your memories and photos:fletcher.tufts.edu/news/2009/03/WernerJurinka. Thanks to Leslie Kuechenmeister for her work to make this site happen. This year also brought some new additions to the Class of 2001 family. Coleen and Rob Gatehouse welcomed their second son Jack Nicol to the world on February 25. He joins brother Ben and his parents in Monterrey, Mexico, where Rob is serving his first tour with

the U.S. Foreign Service. Roy Adkins and Shannon Lawrence recently left Tunisia and moved to Baltimore for Roy’s new job as an Africa analyst at T. Rowe Price. Shannon is still working for International Rivers, but is enjoying maternity leave since the birth of their daughter Avery in February. Vera Zieman Garibaldi married Andrew Garibaldi in May 2008. Guests included Jana (Butland) McCarthy and Kelly Morgan. Vera and Andrew are excited to be back in the Boston area, where Vera now works for the same consulting company she worked for in DC. Vera is looking forward to catching up with Fletcher friends who are in the Boston area and was happy to see everyone at the Fletcher Gala in DC this past fall. Arturo Ramos has taken a job as director of business intelligence for Dewey & LeBoeuf and splits his time between New York and DC. Esteban Sacco now lives in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and is head of the UNOCHA office in North Kivu. Ursina Pleuss will soon move to The Hague and represent Switzerland with the European Police Agency Europol. After a number of years working oversees with UNHCR (in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and later in Georgia), Garine Hovsepian is now back in Canada working for Agriteam Canada as the project manager of a juvenile justice reform project in Ukraine. Those passing through Montreal, O ttawa, or even Kiev should not hesitate to give her a call! After a two-year posting at the Embassy of Viet Nam in London, Ngo Minh Nguyet recently moved to Vientiane, Lao PDR, where she is working at the Vietnamese Embassy in Vientiane as Second Secretary at the Political Section. Fletcher classmates are welcome to visit!

Vera Zieman Garibaldi’s wedding

2002

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2003

Brett [email protected]

Thanks to everyone for their submissions! Since moving home this past summer, Chris Burdick has moved over to the U.S. Treasury Department’s O fficer of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes as a policy advisor. His portfolio will include anti-money laundering and corruption issues in Eastern Europe. On November 19, David Abraham, Adam Hinds, Sara Malakoff, Judd Horn, Eleina Loizou, F05, Malini Goel and Oanh Nguyen joined Ben Sklaver at Legends Bar in New York for a fundraiser for ClearWater Initiative, a non-profit founded by Ben to provide clean water to conflict-affected communities in northern Uganda. Masha Rasner is now based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, heading the Internews Network office, running a variety of media projects in the country. Rachel Hudson reports that she and her husband have relocated from Switzerland to Sao Paulo so that she could take the regional treasurer position for Latin America at ADM. She knows that these are challenging economic times, but hopes that her classmates will be able to contribute to the 2009 Fletcher Fund. Please remember that every dollar counts!


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Brian Dusza is now in Ghana serving as director of USAID’s Economic Growth O ffice for the next two years. He feels bad given that this means that now there is no way Ghana will avoid the financial crisis. Aurelie Boukobza is happy to say that her new company, Be-linked, has launched. Its mission is to support the private sector in developing an innovative relationship with civil society, in order to create sustainable change. After having three children, Stefania Varnero is back in academia, working towards a Ph.D. in comparative literature. She received the most prestigious award granted by the Australian government as outstanding scholar. Stefania is also enjoying the rare and thrilling experience of hanging out with a Fletcherie down under: Susan Banki, of course! She says more Fletcheries are welcome in sunny Sydney! Noam Unger, Caroline Wadhams, F02, and young Silvan are pleased to announce the newest member of their family, Zev Jackson, who was born in January. Noam noted that the last couple months have been a period of adjustment. In addition to another son, he recently calculated that Holly Benner’s office at Brookings is 20 horizontal feet and 40 vertical feet away from his. He thought they were closer than that. Speaking of procreation, Heather Robert Coffman and her husband David are still in San Francisco and welcomed their daughter Naomi Rose on January 16. So far Naomi’s been a very good sleeper, and Mom and Dad are loving their new roles and all the learning that comes with parenthood. Heather plans to return to practicing education law in a few months, but is really enjoying mom-and-baby yoga and baby massage lessons right now.

Leo Kosinski and his wife Chika moved to Papa, Hungary, in January. Their oldest child started first grade in the new bilingual Hungarian school. They are struggling with their survival Hungarian skills. Leo is helping stand up a new multinational C-17 airlift wing. This strategic airlift consortium consists of 12 nations, so the operating environment is a bit like life at Fletcher. Papa Air Base is only 1½ hours from Vienna and 2 hours from Budapest, so if anyone is coming out to this part of Europe, please look them up. Steven Bayless left the Secretary of Transportation’s Office of Policy last October to become the director for telecommunications and vehicle-infrastructure integration at Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Beth Ahern will be on military leave from MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as a captain in the U.S. Navy.

2004

Brandon [email protected]


I hope to see all of you at our 5th reunion in May! Congrats to all the new parents. Ella Katherine was born to proud parents Mimi Netzer Lemay and her husband Joe Lemay on September 12. Arwa Abulhasan and her husband Ali Husain welcomed their baby girl Noor Ali into the world on September 24. According to Arwa, Noor is the first Kuwaiti to be born in Alaska. They are now living in the hot climate of Abu Dhabi. Craig Cohen and Naomi Zeff had a baby girl, Louisa Beth, on October 10. Naomi is planning to graduate from Georgetown’s business school this spring.

Craig is still at CSIS, where he is now vice president for research and programs. The new family is sad to miss everyone for reunion, but always welcomes Fletcher visitors to DC. Elin Suleymanov and his wife Lala welcomed daughter Emine Nurel into their family in January. Emine smiles at every mention of Fletcher. Ife Osaga had a very busy 2008. She sat for (and passed) the New York bar in February, had a baby boy, Hawi, in April, graduated from Columbia Law School in May with an LLM, and got admitted to the bar in July, on the same day as Brandon Edward Miller! To top it off, she got married in September to Edward Ondondo in Roselle, NJ. Some of the Fletcherites in attendance included Patty Hines, Anna Thompson-Quaye, Belinda Chiu, Jane Kembabazi, Huria Ogbamichael, Tega Shivute, Betty Awuor, Josephine Lukoma and Maina Muthee. Ife is currently working for the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank in DC. Phew! In other wedding news, John Greenwood got married to Jessica Palmer Greenwood in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, in May 2008 with a strong Fletcher contingent present (including Nadav Hazan, Mark Basile, Judy Dunbar, and Khadija Rejto). He later caught up with Oren Murphy and Ermina Sokou during his honeymoon in Thailand. John reports that he is still working in Latam structured debt for Citi and is looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. Chimp love! Two proud members of our orientation group, Camille Catenza and Ben Black got married on March 14 “in a super small ceremony.” Tomoko Shimazu moved from the World Food Programme headquarters in Rome to the Timor-Leste Country O ffice in September 2008. She recently

celebrated her wedding in Tokyo with Fletcher classmates. In addition to her work at the WFP, Tomoko reports that she also plays an important role as a “traditional” Japanese wife after work. Anna Thompson-Quaye married Ayikai Quaye on August 30 in Ellicott City, MD. They are now living in New York. Erin English will be getting married to Amanda Claire Edwards on September 5. Amanda is an ‘04 SAIS grad and is the current treasury attaché to Saudi Arabia. Erin will soon be the treasury attaché to Pakistan. He promises that this will be his last deployment to a war zone. In other news, Taryn Lesser is still in Geneva enjoying work with UNOHCHR. She has been very pleased to see old Fletcher friends when they’ve been in Geneva, including Stacy Heen, Hadley White, Susanna Campbell and Susan Banki, and is active with the Geneva chapter of the Fletcher Club of Switzerland. She went on mission to Botswana in March and is looking forward to coming to Boston in May for the reunion, with a quick trip to DC. Adam Day, back from Indonesia, is the senior portfolio and performance manager at Nike Foundation. He loves the job and living in Portland with his wife Kate and Nolan, 2½. Adam reports that he recently had beers with Caleb McClennen and Evan Pressman, F05, in NYC. Carol Pons recently met up with Sharon Squillace, Mimi Netzer Lemay and new daughter Ella, Reeta Alanko Petajisto with her new son Noah and Almasa Dozo. This Boston crew has been getting together for Fletcher brunches for the past five years.


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Mimi Netzer Lemay’s daughter Ella

Craig Cohen and Naomi Zeff’s daughter Louisa at 4.5 months

Camille Catenza and Ben Black’s wedding

Tomoko Shimazu’s wedding

Fletcher brunch: Carol Pons, Sharon Squillace, Mimi Netzer Lemay, Reeta Alanko Petajisto and Almasa Dozo with babies

Arwa Abdulhasa’s daughter Noor

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Alicia Eastman continues to travel throughout India, China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, investing her private equity fund, crossing paths regularly with Lindy Lek in Tokyo along the way and Tony Nash in Singapore. Tony is in increasing demand as a conference speaker, as he is one of few able to explain what is happening in this world in coherent economic terms. Kamal Ibrahim is traveling regularly to DC to explore ways to work with the new administration on human rights issues in Egypt. After being reappointed to the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority board by Governor Deval Patrick, Bill Papp went on to complete the Florida Iron Man last November along with his brother-in-law. Robert McMahon’s website (CFR.org) won an Emmy award last September for its Crisis Guide multimedia interactive on the Darfur tragedy. He is now shifting from covering the foreign policy aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign to a focus on Congress and foreign policy. But most importantly, he and his wife Elizabeth have been blessed with a second daughter, Anna, mighty of lung and spirit! Congrats from all of us! Mary Andrade’s daughter Veronica has left for Abu Dhabi, where she began work as the

corporate social responsibility officer at the Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority. Her own job at Next Era Energy in Florida is challenging; she is driving a $1 billion budget and running the largest renewable energy portfolio in the U.S. Ted Haack has moved to Kigali for six months. He is working as an advisor to the Access Project, focusing on improving the financing for Rwanda’s mutuelle programs, which provide insurance to individual subscribers. Lucy Abbott is on the move again, leaving the U.S. embassy in Liberia for Washington for a year of study at the National War College at Ft. McNair. Before leaving she attended an International Colloquium on Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Peace and Security in Monrovia. Monique Essed-Fernandes, director of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, helped set up meetings for Lucy at the colloquium. WEDO is a co-founder of the Global Gender and Climate Change Alliance together with UNDP, UNEP and IUCN and Monique will be in Bonn early April for the UNFCCC meeting. The networking traveler award goes to Steve Schmida this season, who managed to get together with Bob McMahon, Vanessa Ortiz and Urkaly Isaev while in DC. He then met up with Pablo Figueroa in Puerto Rico. Lila Ramos Shahani tells us she’s currently editing a graduate textbook on human development for Oxford/UNDP/Earthscan geared toward graduate students in economics and the social sciences. She continues to work on her Oxford dissertation. Siri Trang Khalsa was giving a lecture in Buenos Aires recently and had lunch with Carlos St. James, putting him in touch with a number of her Harvard classmates working on

renewable energies along the way. Meanwhile, Carlos keeps finding new ways to drop into casual conversation the fact that he was recently voted “Biofuels Personality of the Year” award by the readers of BiofuelsDigest.com for his work as the founder and president of the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber. Fred Pakis is all giddy because of his lovely daughter’s wedding. His Courtney wed Grady Sheldon, who is finishing up his second year at Duke’s MBA program. Well done, Dad! And to wrap up, Albertus Van Den Berg, aka Arjen, has moved to Beijing as the new counselor for political affairs at the Dutch embassy. The trip was delayed because of a loved one’s pancreatic cancer, which he is very happy to say was successfully operated on and removed.

2005

Victoria [email protected]

Greetings to all! Once again, there is much exciting news from the many corners of the globe for the class of ‘05. First, congratulations are in order to a number of our classmates on very happy marriage and birth announcements. Ben Mazzotta recently got engaged to Christiana Russ, a physician at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Ben writes, Christiana “didn’t go to Fletcher but she has worked in Guatemala, Guyana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda, so she fits right in at Fletcher parties. If any 2005ers find yourselves back in Boston, I’d love to introduce you.” Waidehi Gokhale continues to live and work in Toronto. Apart from the loooong winters, she says it’s a great city and welcomes Fletcher visits! She has been working as a program manager with a Soliya, an American NGO. She and Vasanthi Venkatesh continue


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to forge the Fletcher mafia of Toronto. The biggest and most exciting news, though, is that Waidehi and Steve welcomed their daughter into the world on December 23. Leela Uma was born in a hurry; three weeks early! Waidehi is juggling Leela and part-time work, which she says is exhausting but such fun. Congratulations are also due to Gabby Hermann, who gave birth to a daughter, Katya Rachael, last summer. More good news: Sharon Deutsch-Nadir gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Yoav, who came about seven weeks earlier than expected. Anna Tiedeman Irwin has put her organizational and marketing skills to use once again in hosting a phenomenal event in March: the 4th Annual Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament in Rockville MD. Twenty teams competed and raised close to $9,000 to benefit Boston’s Joslin Diabetes Center. Kevin McGeehan refereed and Fletcherites from around the world emailed to wish the event well and donate funds. There have been a number of career changes and moves. Back to brave the New England winters, Tom Sass has returned to Boston after two years in Hawaii with the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams and is teaching at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. Welcome back, Tom! Bryce Meeker recently founded a company called Agro Energia, a consulting firm that advises corporations on agribusiness and maritime acquisitions, procures agriculture equipment, brokers agriculture land lease agreements, and offers turn-key management solutions for agribusiness in the Ukraine. Bryce writes of both the challenges and opportunities of the financial current crisis. Despite 45% currency depreciation, low land prices combined with no corporate

income tax on agriculture producers makes Ukraine one of the cheapest places in the world to produce in an environment with adequate export infrastructure. Cara Carter Sechser left the State Department in the fall and has joined ORB as a research director. ORB is a London-based international survey research/polling company. She is working out of Charlottesville, VA, where her husband is an assistant professor of politics at UVA. Cara writes that it is wonderful that they are both finally living and working in the same town, although she does miss the DC Fletcher crowd and looks forward to catching up every month or so. Devadas Krishnadas sends his best from Singapore, where he leads the strategic planning unit overseeing the national social needs sector policy. Jane Wang has moved from Tokyo to New York and made a major career move since the last update. Last summer she left Hitachi to manage the strategic alliance with Microsoft for a SharePoint-related software company called AvePoint. Jane reports that she has recently moved into a new role with the “85 Broads community,” a global women’s network of 19,000 trailblazing women spanning cultures, career paths, and generations in 85 countries worldwide. She is excited to leverage her international relations and business expertise gained at Fletcher to serve this global community of extraordinary women of all stages in their lives and careers. She hopes Fletcher women will join and contribute their talents as part of the community. Recently married, Melissa Tritter Paschell is enjoying living in St. Gallen, Switzerland. “Besides eating fondue and betting on pig-races,” she is pursuing a Ph.D. in management with a focus on

sustainability, doing some part-time consulting work and helping develop a business school course on climate change. She misses her new husband Steve a lot, but is happy to be doing the Fletcher thing: living somewhere really random overseas. Starting in June she’ll be back in Boston again. Susanna Campbell is also currently in Switzerland, enjoying life with her husband in Bern, where she is working on her Ph.D. Also in academia, Everett Peachey is going to start a doctoral program in sociology, with a concentration in social demography, at the University of Michigan this fall. Tracy Garcia just got back from a fabulous trip to Patagonia, a recent hotspot for several of our classmates. The highlights included seeing a glacier called Perito Moreno, climbing Cerro Torre, and hiking around Mt. Fitz Roy. Shortly after she returned, Claire Sneed took a similar trip and now Katya Sienkiewicz and Dina Brick are there. In true Fletcher fashion, Tracy gave the ladies the inside scoop and all her tips on things to see and places to stay.

Gabby Hermann’s daughter, Katya

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Dirk [email protected]

This has been a busy year for GMAP I 2005. Thierry Regenass has been appointed director of the member association and development division of FIFA, the world soccer body. Hiyam Alfassam completed her MALD. Raffy Ardhaldijian is focusing on emerging market equity from Kuwait. Steven Borncamp’s company SOPOLEC organized and launched the Romania Green Building Council and established a seed fund for green building technology, products and service delivery in Romania and the surrounding region. The RoGBC has twenty-one founding members to date and held a promotional event on October 14 in Bucharest. Doug Smurr has launched a virtual law firm called World’s Law, Inc., with an angel round of financing and serves as the COO. Carolina Larriera has joined the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative as the head of their regional office for Latin America. Jane Kiragu’s consulting firm, Satima Consultants, is working with the Southern Sudan Anticorruption Commission and Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission. Roderick Brazier is the Cambodian country representative for the Asia Foundation and has had a daughter, Ines. Finally, I have been appointed a visiting fellow at Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future. Congratulations to all!


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Terri [email protected]

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Joshua [email protected]

The Class of 2006 has been busy in the past six months. To start, there are six new babies! Matt Nolan and his wife Julie joined the great Fletcher ‘06 Baby Boom to add a second son, Oliver, to their family. Marian Drake and her husband Mark Jensen welcomed a baby girl, Louisa Elin, on March 7. Adam Day went to work for the UN in Darfur last January, got engaged in Morocco in July, came back to work for the UN in New York in September, and had a baby girl in February. Laura Schlapkohl Johnson and her husband Shawn Johnson had a baby boy in October and named him Beckett William Story. Laura is in her second year of law school at the University of Iowa. John Davis, who recently accepted a position as a strategic consultant at Shaldor, Israel’s leading management consulting firm, and his wife Lital happily welcomed the birth of their first daughter, Tama. Abril, daughter of Juan Cruz Diaz and his wife Maria, was born in NYC on February 3. They are moving back to their home country, Argentina, in early May. Maria will work on field research for her dissertation, and Juan Cruz will keep working at the Council of the Americas based in Buenos Aires. Nicole David is a senior consultant in political marketing at Zimat /Central de Estrategias Políticas. She got engaged on her birthday in January in Las Vegas at the Paris Hotel. Nicole and her fiancé, Javier Perez-Rubio, will get married in Acapulco, Mexico, in January 2010. Nat Hoopes and Anika Binnendijk

have continued their journey down the I-95 corridor with a move to DC. Nat is working on economics policy for Senator Joe Lieberman while Anika finishes her dissertation, scouts out local climbing crags, and surfs usajobs.gov. Teitur Torkelsson is back in his home country, Iceland, fighting the collapse of the financial system with the mission to get the transport sector running on domestic and sustainable energy. His little company, FTO Sustainable Solutions, runs an annual international conference on the subject and has already been instrumental in introducing the first plug-in hybrid in the Nordic countries, the first ethanol fuel station in Iceland, and an agreement between the Icelandic government and Mitsubishi Japan on fleet testing of electric cars and development of a service network for such cars in Iceland. He lives in downtown Reykjavik with his girlfriend Sigga and Gulsi the cat, and they have almost finished renovating their flat to be able to receive many Fletcher visits on their volcanic island. Danielle Tully moved to Harlem with her husband Oye Carr and their two kids Ulysses, 6, and Pallas, 3. Danielle spends her weekdays working as an attorney with the National Security Project at the ACLU and her weekends working with her family at their new bike shop, MODSquad Cycles. Latika Ravi Signorelli is living in San Francisco with her new hubby. She and Gianluca Signorelli were married twice last year, in the Santa Cruz mountains and in Bangalore two months later. This year they are in wedding recovery mode, enjoying the sunshine and beauty of California. They enjoyed meeting up with Josh Newton and Sheila Chanani, F07, last year, and look forward to seeing more Fletcherites on the West Coast!

Ed Conant pinned on the rank of colonel last August. He is planning to move the whole family to Las Vegas this summer on a new military assignment. The family is sad to leave Virginia but excited to see the sights around the Southwest. Gillian Cull is living in New York. She’s still working for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations but has leapt out of the frying pan into the fire with a new job covering Somalia. Matthew McCaffree is working in DC for the Institute for Electric Efficiency, where he works with electric utilities to advance energy efficiency. He and Lilia Gerberg, F05, have moved into their new home in DC and are planning their wedding in September. Ned Spang’s baby boy Jonah has been an excellent excuse for Ned’s dissertation procrastination, along with a new job at MIT working on a green energy project in Portugal. He does still plan to graduate from Fletcher some day. Brian Doench got engaged to Alana Nicole Harrison, also a Tufts graduate, on December 30, after spending three years together—and apart—in Boston, San Francisco, Hilton Head Island, and Charleston, SC. They plan to tie the knot at a Virginia vineyard in the fall of 2010, where the hills roll and the wine is abundant. Maja Ilic is still in Geneva at UNHCR with a new job title: executive assistant to the director of the Bureau for Europe. She also now holds the title of the national champion of golf in Serbia. Clifford Shelton had his research and work on Chinese energy security published as a chapter in a book entitled, China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies. Clifford also took a few breaks from fighting the credit crunch in NYC and traveled to Argentina and Uruguay for the first time. Andrew Dixon is approaching the two-year mark

of living in Miami, and he still loves it. He recently began his own practice as a marketing communications consultant focusing on the Latin American market. He reminds everyone that all are invited to crash at his pad. Raven Smith left AIG Consumer Finance last fall after the financial crisis hit. She is now a project manager at Zurich Financial Services on a contract basis helping to launch micro-insurance programs globally until she begins her studies this fall at Harvard Business School. Kristen Rainey is currently spending the last semester of her Cornell MBA in Milan, Italy as an exchange student at SDA Bocconi. She has been enjoying the gelato, pesto and wine, while exploring career opportunities in Italy and Portland, Oregon.

Juan Cruz Diaz’s daughter

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Mariella [email protected]

The GMAP I Class of 2006 sends our best wishes to classmate Ellen Yount, husband Brad, and daughter Abigail, who were thrilled to welcome their new addition to the family, Stefan Coulter Johnson, born on January 23. Antonio Menendez and family have been living in Colombia for almost one year after leaving UN Headquarters in New York so as to be able to contribute to the UN’s mission, and in particular to the UN’s human rights work, directly in the field. Robbie Graham just published two articles: one about public diplomacy in the December 2008 edition of Frontline, the journal of the International Public Relations Association, and another about Alaska politics in the January 2009 edition of the academic journal, Political Communications Report. Robbie’s thesis research has also been selected for publication this spring in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and she will be presenting on the topic of public diplomacy at the International Communications Association annual conference in Chicago in late May. Robbie has also joined the board of advisors at Harvard’s Public Diplomacy Collaborative. The GMAP I 2006 class was very sad to hear about the passing of our friend and classmate, Paul Montle (see in memorium). For those of us who were able to go to the Fletcher 75th Anniversary Gala in Washington, DC, in O ctober 2008, we were happy to share a lovely dinner with Paul, who was in high spirits. We will miss him.

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James [email protected]

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Kathryn [email protected]

Back at Fletcher, Patrick Meier is working on his dissertation, which looks at the intersection between civil resistance and information communication technology in repressive environments. He’s been doing full-time consulting work over the past two years with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, where he has focused on conflict early warning, crisis mapping, and humanitarian technology. On the personal front, he’s still at Blakeley (probably setting a record) and recently participated in Africana Night. Also pursuing his Ph.D. at Fletcher, Geoffrey Gresh traveled with Prof. Andrew Hess to Erbil, Iraq, over winter break. The two of them were invited by the State Department under the Fulbright Program to teach two module courses at Salahaddin University in Erbil. Professor Hess lectured on the globalization of Southwest Asia and how current forces of rapid global change affect Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan today. Geoffrey’s module was an introduction to international security studies in a post-Cold War and post-9/11 world. They had the opportunity to meet with many Iraqi Kurdish government and education officials about the future of higher education in the region and how Fletcher could be of assistance with educational exchanges and capacity and skill building programs. They were also invited to Baghdad by the office of the vice president of Iraq, Tariq al-Hashimi, to further discussions about educational initiatives between Fletcher and various education and government agencies in Iraq.

Ethan Corbin and Leigh Nolan, F06, also Fletcher Ph.D. candidates, went to Iraqi Kurdistan on the same State Department program. Ethan spent February teaching in Dohuk while Leigh taught Suleymaniyah in March. Nearby in Boston, Zeba Kahn has been busy working for Ashoka’s Youth Venture, an incubator for young social entrepreneurs worldwide. She was very busy during the election season and founded Muslim-Americans for Obama, which focused on mobilizing Muslim-Americans to get out the vote for Barack Obama. Because of her efforts, she was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim Advancement and recently attended the first global Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference in Doha, Qatar. She also continues to work with The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, a non-profit that aims to help successfully resettle U.S.-affiliated Iraqis to the U.S. She would love to see folks! Shinjinee Chattopadhyay is finishing the second year of her Ph.D. program in finance and economics at Columbia Business School. She’s looking forward to getting started on her research this summer. Congratulations are in order for Mema A. Beye, who is getting married in December to Djeneba Sidibe. He and Djeneba met in Washington and have been dating for about a year. Mema is still with the International Finance Corporation as an operation analyst with the Doing Business project. Over the past two years he has been advising governments on implementing business environment reforms that reduce red tape for entrepreneurs. He has focused primarily on African countries but has also provided advisory services to leaders in the UAE,

Haiti and Indonesia. Mema is also at the final stage of launching the Alioune Blondin Beye scholarship for Peace and Leadership in Mali. This scholarship will cover the costs of tuition and school materials for ten Malian students at various levels of education from high school to university. Also in DC, Jonathan Reiber spent the last year volunteering for the Obama campaign and consulting for Ergo, an emerging market research and consultancy firm co-founded by the ever-versatile Evan Pressman, F05. Jonathan and Diveena are now settling into a cute house on Capitol Hill right next door, as it happens, to Conor Politz. Diveena is pursuing her interest in dance while continuing to work on South Africa’s public health challenges. They often see Neelam Patel, Dan Benaim, F06, Anika Binnendijk, F06, and Nat Hoopes, F06, as well as a small army of other ‘06 and ‘07 Fletchies. Jonathan also recently caught up with Steve Serra, who is working hard in New York and learning Arabic; he suggests keeping your eyes peeled for Shintaro Okamoto, who should be passing through DC in the spring. Over in South Asia, Kazuhiro Numasawa married Mariko on January 7, and he is extremely grateful for all of the kind wishes they received. He had small Fletcher reunions in Delhi with Paty Sosrodjojo in November and with Neeraj Doshi, F06, Chamsai Menasveta, F05, and Audrey Selian in February. Next door in Bangladesh, Muhammed Jabed was married shortly after graduation and he and his wife recently had a daughter. Congrats, Jabed! He is still working at the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry where he focuses on maritime issues between India and Myanmar. I frequently saw


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Jabed and Nermeen Shams, F08, while I was working at the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh this past fall and winter. They were both wonderful hosts, and we all enjoyed a Fletcher/KSG reunion hosted by Fletcher alumna Ambassador Lauren Moriarty and U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh James Moriarty. It was also great to see Ashirul Amin on his brief visit to Dhaka and be in touch with Farheen Kahn, F06, while there. Nearby in Afghanistan, Amanda Sim has been working with the International Rescue Committee as a child and youth protection and development coordinator since October. In a sunnier part of the world, Alice Wei is working for a start-up company called Water Standard that is focused on vessel-based desalination, while her husband Jason is working with Chevron’s Natural Gas Group. They started out in the California Bay Area after graduation, and after a short time in Houston, they are now living in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where they recently experienced the craziness of Carnival. They’ll be in Trinidad until the end of June if anyone is in the neighborhood! Abby Wood is at UC Berkeley, where she says she “still sometimes confuses Berkeley with Blakeley and is doing the Ph.D. thing.” She is eager to start working on her own corruption-fighting research agenda and says if anyone has any governance reforms in the pipelines (whether with your government or your consultancy or your IFI), and you need cheap (free?) labor on the evaluation, let her know a few months before the reform is announced. As the time for her fieldwork approaches she’d love to help out a fellow Fletcherite in the process! Since graduation, Sara Celiberti has been job hunting from home, working in London (living with lovely Lauren

Inouye, yeah!), job hunting in DC, working in Tel Aviv, and she has now moved to Ramallah. She’s happy that she managed to get back to the Middle East and is finally really studying Arabic at Bir Zeit University, but she’s “still very confused” about what kind of sector she wants to go into and is waiting for inspiration. Lauren is still in London working for Sindicatum Carbon Capital. In January, she went to Iceland and traveled around with Teitur Torkelson, F06, who is living in Reykjavik, and Dimitris Thomakos, F06, who was visiting from Greece. She looks forward to hearing from any other Fletcherites in the region! David Hermann has been selected to join the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Foreign Service Officer, starting in May. During his initial one-year training he will be based in Berlin. David reports that he and Muhammed Jabed tried to organize a Fletcher gathering in Berlin last August, but they were unfortunately unable to get enough people together, as many alumni have moved. Chris Canellakis recently joined the U.S. Foreign Service and will soon be off to Conakry, Guinea. Chris was recently in touch with Nick Kenney and Jason Conroy, who are both doing well. I’m joining Chris in the Foreign Service and am anxiously waiting to hear where my first posting will be.

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Geri [email protected]

Mara Caudill Gama-Lobo and her husband Mike had their first child, a boy named Morgan Cayes, born November. He’s named for Port Morgan, Haiti, where they were married, and for the town of Les Cayes, Haiti, where they met in the Peace Corps. Eric White and his wife Anne-Sophie welcomed their second

child, a baby girl named Margot, on December 20. She joins brother Vic. Mahmoud Haidar has been named chairman of the advisory board for the Middle East and Africa of the New Zealand economic development, investment and trade program called Beachheads. Raseema Alam, a policy advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, was selected by the Rotary Foundation as a World Peace Scholar. Starting in June 2009, she will study peace and conflict resolution at the University of Chulalongkorn in Bangkok. Rita Zaiceva, senior international business consultant at Serco North America, a global management services company, was selected as one of six members of Serco’s Future Leaders Group. She will participate in senior management meetings and provide analysis and feedback to top company executives on strategic initiatives and potential investments.

Kaz and Mariko

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Steve Kolbert was recently promoted to the director of FMS at the multifunctional information distribution system program office for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems

Center in San Diego. This office manages all Department of Defense-wide MIDS FMS procurements and U.S. Navy Advanced Tactical Data Links cases for 36 different countries and NATO agencies. Christian Cali returned from his second Iraq deployment in November and transitioned to the U.S. Foreign Service. Jeanine, Max, John and Christian will move to Manama, Bahrain in October for two years. Gonzalo Gonzales transitioned from his role as 1206 program coordinator at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to a new position as a country program manager at the Navy international programs office, where he will manage Navy FMS procurements for countries in the U.S. Southern Command. Anand Rao and his family are currently living in South Africa. Lloyd Jameson is living in Germany working with AFRICOM. He caught up with Sherif Nada and Rachel Asagbavi in Switzerland last June and with Valdis Bucens in Stuttgart, Germany, in December.

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Catherine [email protected]

A year has flown by! This time last year we were graduating, moving out, moving on. And since life goes on, here is a brief update from our classmates on where life has taken them in these past few months. First off, congratulations to Yuri Hatsuse and Mark Koenig, who became engaged in December and will be married in Kyoto in August. Best wishes to you both! Keeping the home fires burning in Boston, Stephen Campbell writes that he loved Fletcher so much that he decided to stay! He took a part-time job in October working for the School in the area of


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executive education. The job involves marketing, planning and managing non-degree programs for governments, corporations, NGOs and IGOs. He has also remained engaged in his research into combating ideological support for terrorism. Some of his friends say he is having difficulty moving on, but he just tells them he is having fun. We think the same, Stephen. Keep up the good work! Also in the Boston area are Carmen Arce-Bowen and Adria Chamberlain. Carmen continues her work at PPI/One Massachusetts, collaborating on a variety of civic engagement initiatives. She recently joined the board of Emerge Massachusetts, an organization that provides annual trainings to Democratic women considering running for office in the state and the board of Chelsea Collaborative, a grassroots community-based organization in Chelsea, MA. Adria is working for the general counsel of Financial Architects Partners, but is still looking for Boston-based opportunities in the fields of financial literacy, microfinance, human rights, and community development and governance. She was appointed by the mayor to the Medford Human Rights Commission and has been pleasantly astounded by the diversity and heart of local Medfordites. She says her sofa bed is always open to anyone who needs it! Noted for future reference. Reporting from the West Coast is Kathryn Birch, who is glad to say she just started a full-time job at Premier, Inc., a healthcare alliance organization of non-profit hospitals around the country focusing on improving quality and reducing costs for the health of communities. She, along with her husband Chris, who is in medical school at UC San Diego, lives in sunny San Diego and

says anyone is welcome to visit. Washington correspondent Corinne Onetto reports that she is still living in DC and enjoying the company of lots of Fletcherites. No doubt, with summer around the corner, the recently graduated Class of 2009 and those from the Class of 2010 there for work or study will be taken care of well. It seems like there are lots of couches and guest bedrooms waiting for visitors—though the one here in Berlin with me is gone as of June! As of mid-summer, I will be relocating back to the U.S., joining Corinne and the throngs of Fletcherites in DC. Until next time, I wish you all fulfilling work, safe travels, and good spirits.

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Kirsten [email protected]

The past months have found us all very busy. As usual, there have been re-locations, new jobs and new editions to GMAP families. Unfortunately, this year has also brought some very sad news. Paul Montle passed away in January. His family held a beautiful service at Goddard Chapel on the Tufts campus to celebrate and remember his life. Paul was dearly loved and will be missed. There is also much good news to report. The GMAP 2008 alumni are now honored to boast an ICC judge! Judge Joyce Aluoch was elected to the International Criminal Court at the beginning of this year. Receiving the greatest number of votes (100 of the 108 countries), her bid for the highly contested seat was overwhelmingly supported. The swearing in ceremony was March 11 and Judge Alouch will be moving to The Hague to start her nine-year term. Andrei Postelnicu has relocated from London to Bucharest to take on the post

of director of communications strategies on the staff of Mircea Geoana, the president of the Senate in the Parliament of Romania. Mr. Geoana, a former ambassador to the U.S. and foreign minister of Romania, is the chairman of Romania’s Social Democratic Party. He is due to run for the presidency of Romania in the fall. Andrei will be charged with designing and executing a media and communications strategy, including shaping and communicating campaign messages, with the goal of ensuring a victory in the elections which are set for the end of November. Mark Maloney would like to remind us all of the Boston World Partnership. BWP connects Bostonians worldwide with all of Boston’s resources. If anyone has an idea or program that might benefit from something that Boston offers, Mark and his organization can make that connection and facilitate success. On a more personal note, Jim Terrie and his wife Cathy welcomed their second son, Charlie, on February 21. The family now resides in Australia. Jim Watts and his wife Lucy are expecting their second child in September. Congratulations!

Judge Aluoch

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Ambassador wIllIAM D. Brewer, F47, died after a brief illness on 10 February 2009 in hingham, Massachusetts, at the age of 86. he was born in Middletown, connecticut. After attending the taft school in watertown, connecticut, he graduated from williams college in williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1943. After college, he served in the Office of war Information in washington, Dc, and then in the American Field service, c Platoon, 485th company, attached to the British 8th Army, seeing action at the rapido river and Monte cassino in Italy and also serving in Austria and India before mustering out in 1945. After attending the Fletcher school, Mr. Brewer briefly taught at williams college and Bowdoin college before joining the U.s. Foreign service in 1947. he served in Beirut, lebanon, where he met his wife, Alice Van ess, whom he married in 1949 in Basra, Iraq. he also served in Jidda, saudi Arabia, in Damascus, syria, in Kuwait, and in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Mr. Brewer was appointed ambassador to Mauritius from 1970 to 1973 and then served as ambassador to the sudan from 1973 to 1977. After retiring from the Foreign service in 1978, Mr. Brewer was appointed the stuart chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and world Affairs at Occidental college in Pasadena, california, where he taught and also chaired the Department of world Affairs until 1986. After retiring from teaching, Mr. Brewer and his wife moved to Falmouth, where they enjoyed a very active retirement until relocating to hingham in 2005. Mr. Brewer leaves his sister, Joan Brewer of Brunswick, Maine; two sons: John V.e. Brewer of short hills, New Jersey, and Daniel A. Brewer of hull, Massachusetts; five devoted grandchildren and a loving extended family.

lt. col., UsA (retired) JAMes w. DOON, Jr., F48, passed away on 18 August 2008 in Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of 86. Mr. Doon was born on June

22, 1922, in henniker, New hampshire. In 1947, he received his B.A. from the University of New hampshire. After attending the Fletcher school, Mr. Doon worked for the federal government for forty-two years beginning with the Department of state in 1949 and concluding with the Department of education as the branch chief of the Bureau of International education. he fought in world war II in europe with the 9th Armored Division, where he earned a Purple heart and a Bronze star. In 1950 he was recalled and served at Fort Knox, Kentucky. he was predeceased in 2002 by his wife of fifty years, Geraldine McKinsey. he was the devoted father of Michael Doon and Kathleen Glasebrook (Andy). he is also survived by one brother, one sister and four grandchildren.

w. KeIth eVerett, F81, passed away on 12 December 2008, in Gold Bar, washington, after a fishing accident. No further information was available at the time of printing.

werNer JUrINKA, F00, passed away after a sudden heart attack following a routine physical readiness test on 30 January 2009 in Naples, Italy, at the age of 45. capt. Jurinka was a high-ranking official with the U.s. Navy, serving as director of staff at the Allied Maritime command component in Naples. After graduating from Pennsylvania state University, he immediately joined the Navy. his first assignment was on the Uss New Jersey, a battleship. he served in various positions throughout the world, but was reportedly proudest of his command of the Uss Paul hamilton, a guided missile destroyer based in the Pacific.

At the Fletcher school, capt. Jurinka was known for wearing hawaiian shirts throughout the long Medford winters, a tribute to his long service in hawaii. he is survived by his wife, hannah, two daughters, Molly clarke and lily clarke, and son Austin Jurinka. A memorial service was expected at Arlington

National cemetery in Virginia. Please visit fletcher.tufts.edu/news/2009/03/wernerJurinka.

PAUl MONtle, A69 and GMAP student, passed away peacefully on 17 December in Panama city, Panama, where he was living. he had been hospitalized for liver and kidney complications when he developed a severe case of pneumonia. Mr. Montle was born on 28 August 1947 in Medford, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Arlington. he received his B.A. from tufts in 1969 and was an active alumnus of the University, serving on the tufts International Board of Overseers. Paul had a forty-year career as a successful entrepreneur and investor, primarily in the oil and gas industry. he created the Paul Montle Prize at tufts, which has awarded a tuition stipend for the past twenty-five years to outstanding tufts students who demonstrate entrepreneurial skills. he began the GMAP program at the Fletcher school in January 2006. while working to complete the program, he overlapped with the classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009. he was reportedly proud of his participation in the GMAP program and wished that he had been able to complete the program.

Mr. Montle also enjoyed traveling and took great pride in stepping foot on all seven continents with his beloved family. he was an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the wPO/49ers for many years in New england and texas. Paul is survived by his loving daughters, Alexis eaton of houston, texas, and Daphne Montle of Brookline, Massachusetts, and his sisters, Janice Montle of Del Mar, california,


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and Karen hirschmann of Pasadena, california. he was the beloved son of Joseph and Frances Montle of Falmouth, Massachusetts, who predeceased him. Paul’s unbounded optimism, witty sense of humor and deep love for his family and friends will be greatly missed.

NOrMAN w. reeD, Jr., F42, of Fort Pierce, Florida, died on 26 January 2009, at the age of 91. Mr. reed was born in toledo, Ohio, and moved to Fort Pierce in 1980 from Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to enlisting in the military, Mr. reed graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon college in Gambier, Ohio, with a B.A. in political science and received his M.A. from the Fletcher school in 1942. Mr. reed was a retired administrator with the environmental Protection Agency of the federal government. he was a veteran of world war II, serving in the U.s. Army and Army Air corps in the Pacific theater and was also a naval communications officer. During the Nixon administration, Mr. reed was appointed to the white house council on Aging. he was a member of st. Andrew’s episcopal church, where he served on the vestry as senior warden and as a delegate for the diocesan convention. survivors include his son, David reed of Orlando, Florida, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mr. reed was preceded in death by his wife, carol Dunn reed, in 2008.

Ambassador MAlcOlM “MAc” tOON, A37, F38, died on 12 February in Pinehurst, North carolina, at the age of 92. Mr. toon was a former U.s. Ambassador to the soviet Union, trustee emeritus of tufts University and member of the Fletcher Board of Overseers. A career diplomat specializing in soviet affairs, he was known as a blunt, forthright “hard liner” on soviet-American relations. the son of scottish immigrants, he was born in troy, New York, but grew up in Medford, Massachusetts. he graduated from tufts University in 1937 before attending the Fletcher school. his first job was as a

researcher for the National resources Planning Board, a planning agency established by President roosevelt. he prepared for the Foreign service examination just at the outbreak of world war II, when he joined the U.s. Navy and served on a Pt boat in the Pacific.

After military service during which he was awarded a Bronze star, Mr. toon received his first Foreign service posting to warsaw. he gradually climbed the ranks of the Foreign service following successive postings, mostly as a political officer, to Budapest, Moscow, rome, and Berlin. returning stateside, he served as special assistant to the director of east european Affairs before being posted to london and Moscow. Mr. toon later became director of the U.s.s.r. country desk and acting deputy assistant secretary at the state Department.

Mr. toon’s first appointment as ambassador was to czechoslovakia, followed by Yugoslavia, Israel, and the U.s.s.r. President Ford appointed him as ambassador but the soviets delayed their routine acceptance of him for two months to signify their disapproval of the appointment of a “hard liner.” As a further sign of disapproval, the soviets did not allow Mr. toon to deliver a Fourth of July speech citing the importance of human rights. he retired from the Foreign service after a long and successful career in 1979.

Mr. toon remained active in retirement. he served as co-chairman of the U.s./russian commission of POw/MIAs from 1992 to 1998. he was an active member of the American Foreign service Association, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the washington Institute of Foreign Affairs. he received honorary degrees from tufts University, Drexel University, Middlebury college, and the American college of switzerland. he was the recipient of two Department of state awards: the Distinguished honor Award and the superior honor Award, and the National Institute of social sciences Gold Medal.

he served on the tufts University Board of trustees from 1981 to 1987. A member of the Academic Affairs, Development and honorary Degree committees, he was elected trustee emeritus in 1987. In 1985 he served as the National chairman, tufts University campaign for tufts. he was an active member of Fletcher’s Board of Overseers for many years and a loyal supporter and benefactor of the school. Mr. toon met his wife elizabeth, a secretary, during world war II. they married in 1943 and had three children, Barbara, Alan, and Nancy. elizabeth died in 1996.

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