fletcher news - spring/summer 2006

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Correction: We regret the

omission of Herbert Levin's

1933 Founders’ Club Associate

level gift from the Class of

1956 giving list in the fall 2005

edition of the Fletcher News.

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GMAP Turns Five – 4

The Danish Cartoon Controversy – 5Op-ed by Adil Najam

Lorenzo Vidinio: A Rising Star – 6By Te r r y A n n K n o p f

The Last Days of Ferdinand Marcos – 8Rosie Goldsmith of the BBC Interviews Former

U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth

D E PA RT M E N T S

Quotes of Note – 11

From the Fletcher Files – 11

VIP Visitors – 12

Club News – 13

Club Contacts – 14

Recent Publications – 15

Class Notes – 17

In Memoriam – 38

M I S C E L L A N Y

Dean Bosworth’s Visit to the Arabian Gulf – 37

Lorenzo Vidino is a first-year

MALD student at The Fletcher

School. His book Al Qaeda in

Europe, The New Battleground

of International Jihad.....

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The five year celebration

of GMAP, titled “First Five,”

was held in Washington, DC

October 14-15, 2005.

More than ninety of the

250 graduates of the

program attended.

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Dean Bosworth traveled to

the Arabian Gulf to visit

with Fletcher alumni

and friends

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FLETCHER NEWS

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DEAN‘S CORNER

Stephen W. Bosworth

Spring has arrived in Medford a bit early; but for those of you

who recall what it is like to live here, you will not be fooled into

thinking that spring will stay! April really is the cruelest month.I have just returned from a fascinating

three-week visit to the Arabian Gulf, wherewe met with many of our alumni and visitedold and new Fletcher friends. My wife, Chris,Roger Milici of the Office of Developmentand Alumni Relations, Prof. Richard Shultz,Prof. Andy Hess, Mrs. Bernadette Kelley-Leccese, Mr. Mian Zaheen (F’73), andMrs. Maha Kaddoura were all part of thedelegation for some or all of the visit. It wasevident to me after only a few days in theGulf that Prof. Hess and Bernie have donean outstanding job creating and sustainingrelationships and bridges with this importantregion of the world on behalf of Fletcher.The Hess/Bernie Fan Club is alive and well!

The coincidence of being in the Gulf, andspecifically in Dubai, just when the UnitedStates’ political process went into a frenzy offear and irrationality over the Dubai PortsWorld issue added an unexpected dimensionto our visit. This was not one of America’sfiner moments. Yet the experience dramati-cally underscored just how relevant andimportant Fletcher’s mission of preparingleaders with a global perspective really is intoday’s globalizing economy and our interde-pendent yet divided international community.

Fletcher by its very nature builds bridges. Weare constantly searching for new ideas abouthow to bridge political and cultural differ-ences, how to diffuse knowledge and how topromote greater international understanding.The times in which we live demand capableprofessionals in all fields who can navigatethe complex global environment with skill,sensitivity, and a strong moral compass.I should note with pride that the COO of DPWorld, Edward Bilkey (F’61), earned his MAand MALD from Fletcher.

I would also like to mention that Fletcher’sOffice of Development and Alumni Relationshas begun a new all-alumni e-mail advisorythat will provide regular updates about theSchool and our impressive world-wide alumninetwork. To be sure the Alumni Office hasyour current coordinates, please visit –http://fletcher.tufts.edu/alumni/update.shtmlor call +1.617.627.5440.

Your ongoing support of Fletcher and ourmission is greatly needed and appreciated.Thank you.

Global Master of Arts ProgramFive Year Celebration

The Global Master of Arts Program(GMAP) was launched in 2000 to mergeinnovative technology with the tradi-tional mission of the school. It bringsthe unique Fletcher experience to inter-national professionals who choose toremain at work as they pursue theirmaster’s degree. This yearlong graduateprogram combines three two-week resi-dency sessions with Internet-mediatedstudy and discussion to enable mid-career professionals to find better, moreinnovative solutions to global problems.

The first GMAP class began its open-ing residency in July 2000, followed in2004 by the launch of GMAP II, focus-ing on international security issues.GMAP I midyear residencies have beenheld in Costa Rica, Spain, Athens, Mex-ico, Singapore, and The Netherlands.GMAP II has its midyear residency inWashington, DC.

The five year celebration of GMAP,titled “First Five,” was held in Washing-ton, DC October 14-15, 2005. Morethan ninety of the 250 graduates of theprogram attended. The SingaporeEmbassy hosted an opening receptionand dinner, and Charles Dallara (F’75,F’86) graciously hosted six panels at theInstitute of International Finance. Thecelebration culminated in a gala dinnerat the German Embassy hosted byFletcher board member AmbassadorWolfgang Ischinger (F’73).

B OB BR AG A R (G M A P ’ 0 3 ) , C H A I RO F T HE F I RS T F I VE CO M M I T T E E,S HA RE D T HE F O LLO W I N G :

First Five brought GMAP graduatesand alumni from the larger Fletchercommunity together to discuss impor-tant international issues, enjoy eachother’s company, and celebrate beinga part of the GMAP and Fletchercommunity.

GMAP is a remarkable program. Myown class consisted of 38 members withchallenging and interesting jobs, across awide range of sectors: diplomats, govern-ment officials, NGO workers, lawyers,business people, and military officers.We hailed from 22 countries. Mostimportantly, we developed a tremendousbond, stemming from our commonpassion for intellectual exploration andthings international. At First Five, Ifound that every GMAP class sharedthe same experience and extraordinaryqualities. Many came great distances tojoin us – from Estonia, Greece, Mexico,Jamaica, China, and other far-flungplaces. We came for the same good stuffthat we got from GMAP: the thoughtfuldiscussion and camaraderie that cannotbe matched.

The weekend included six panelsdesigned to examine the present andprobe the future, staffed exclusively byGMAPers. The titles of the panels were:“The Rise of China,” “Paradigms inLeadership,” “Change in the MiddleEast,” “Does Europe Have Something toOffer the World?,” “No More Rwandas:Conflict in Africa,” and “Anti-poverty-What Comes After Microfinance?”

GMAPers are proud and active mem-bers of the Fletcher community; it wasparticularly inspiring and heartening tohave so many board members andalumni take part and contribute.

Bob Bragar (GMAP’03)C h a i r, First Five CommitteeGeneral Counsel,OikocreditThe Netherlands

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What had started off as a really bad joke by Danish newspa-per editors has now turned ugly and claimed over a hundredlives, nearly all Muslim. Indeed, it has brought to the foresome of the most disturbing undercurrents in the West as wellas in Muslim societies.

The cartoons have placed the spotlight on the most hideouscaricatures of what extremists on each side wish to see inthe other. If the purpose of these cartoons was to instigateviolence and thereby prove that Muslim societies are violenceprone, they seem to have served their purpose. But in theprocess, the cartoons – and more importantly the Westerndefense of the cartoons – have also given credence to the claimthat many in the West harbor a pervasive and deep-seatedhostility to all things Islamic.

Sadly, the way the issue is being framed in both the Westand in Muslim societies is only making things worse. It is dis-turbing that many Westerners have chosen to ignore the hatecontent of these cartoons. It is tragic that many Muslims havechosen to respond with vengeance rather than dialogue.

For the most part, the controversy has been portrayed as aclash between the “Western” value of freedom of speech andthe “Islamic” aversion to graphic depictions of the ProphetMuhammad. Fundamentalists on each side are gravitatingto this position because it serves to demonize the other anddepicts this controversy as one more front in the ongoingstruggle between Islam and the West.

Ordinary Muslims around the world are offended not somuch by the fact that the cartoons depicted their Prophet, asby how he was portrayed and by the hateful depiction ofIslam. The Danish editors knew exactly what the reactionwould be. If they did not, they should have. As Doonesburycreator Garry Trudeau has pointed out, “just because a societyhas almost unlimited freedom of expression doesn’t meanwe should ever stop thinking about its consequences in thereal world.”

But what has been most hurtful is that a depiction thatwould have been obviously racist if it was targeted againstAfrican-Americans, or anti-Semitic if it was targeted againstJews and would have been rightly condemned, was deemedacceptable in this case – seemingly because it was directedagainst Muslims.

Indeed, the immediate reaction from governments and mostpundits in the West seemed to condone, even endorse, the

message of the cartoons by camouflaging hate speech as freespeech. The issue here is not a lack of sensitivity to Muslimcustoms. This is about hypocrisy and a lack of commitmentto the professed Western values of tolerance and fair play.

True, many US newspapers have chosen not to print thecartoons. But by their own account, they did so more out offear of what these cartoons might trigger than actual disdain atthe hate speech that they stand for. Few, painfully few, actuallycame out and called the hate speech contained in the cartoonswhat it was.

As a Muslim, I find the reaction of my co-religionists evenmore disturbing. The extremists have again taken hold of thedebate and played into the hands of the instigators. In theearly days of the crisis I had hoped that cooler heads wouldprevail – that nonviolent protest, product boycotts, and aheated but meaningful dialogue would ensue.

Unfortunately, it was not to be. The violent fringe in Mus-lim countries has been able to capitalize on the intransigentreaction from the West. I, too, am offended by the indignity ofthe Danish cartoons. But defacing and burning flags, destroy-ing property, and physical attacks on individuals does notrestore my dignity. Vengeance is not justice; it only makesthings worse. And it has.

The question, of course, is what do we do now? Muslimleaders should continue to condemn the original cartoons butthey must be equally clear in condemning violence that is notonly unjustified, but un-Islamic. Governments, the media andintellectuals in Muslim countries need to stand clearly againstthe violent reactions in their own societies. For the most part,they have.

Political leaders, media outlets and intellectuals in the Westdo not need to – and should not – casually toss aside the valuethey place on free speech. No free society ever should. Butnor should they be negligent in recognizing hate speech whenthey see it. The general silence about the content of the car-toons sounds too much like an endorsement of their substance.This silence must be broken.

Adil Najam is an Associate Professor of InternationalNegotiation and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School.

Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre is not a prank. And there is nothing funny about

propagating offensive and hurtful ideas, even if it takes the form of cartoon drawings of

the Prophet Muhammad.

The Danish Cartoon Controversy:It’s About Hate Speech, Not Free Speech

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As the lights went down, the littlered light went on, with the floor mansignaling to the anchor they were on theair. The segment began with a videopackage showing Vice President RichardCheney and White House Press Secre-tary Scott McClellan delivering soundbites designed to show the Bush Admin-istration’s resolve.

But aside from the posturing, whatdid this latest development mean? Now,the cameras switched to the in-studioguest, a terrorism expert there to discusswhat it all meant. Lorenzo Vidino,knowledgeable, calm and measured, pro-ceeded to offer shrewd insights aboutthis latest development.

He said the tape might have beendesigned to boost the morale of terror-ists around the world. Asked if the tim-ing of the tape might be related to therecent U.S. air strikes on the Afghan-Pakistani border, Vidino was cautious. “Itcould be,” he said, before noting that thetape had surfaced less than a week afterthe air strikes and that it generally tooka good week to get a tape out to theworld. He mostly dismissed Bin Laden’soffer of a “truce” as “a PR move,” theo-rizing that it might be “part of a newcampaign to add a political dimension”to al Qaeda’s terrorist activities. And, henoted al Qaeda’s leadership had been“partially defeated” and was now “moreof a movement,” held together as agroup of “franchises” operating aroundthe world.

By all counts, it was an impressiveperformance by an impressive youngman. Lorenzo Vidino speaks four lan-guages (seven if you count what lan-guages he can read, including ancientGreek), has a law degree from the Uni-versity of Milan, and has testified beforethe U.S. Congress twice. He is also theauthor of an important new book calledAl Qaeda in Europe, The New Battle-ground of International Jihad, publishedby Prometheus Books. [He wrote thebook when he was the Deputy Directorfor The Investigative Project, a Washing-ton, D.C. counter-terrorism institute.]

Much in demand for TV appearances,Vidino has been on NBC, Fox News,MSNBC, CNN, al Jazeera and variouslocal outlets. His book was also promi-nently featured in a December 5 SpecialReport cover story in US News andWorld Report and has received mediaplay in outlets abroad, such as the Lon-don Sunday Telegraph. And, around thetime we caught up with him, he had justmade an appearance on Danish televi-sion station DR, the country’s mostwatched network, concerning a Danish-based terrorist. After his appearance, hewas contacted by the Danish govern-ment and now the Danish edition of hisbook will come out this summer.

Despite all this media attention, notethat Lorenzo Vidino is a first-year stu-dent at Fletcher and just turned 29 yearsof age in January.

Asked in a lengthy interview why hechose to concentrate on al Qaeda’s Euro-pean activities, Vidino replied that muchof the terrorism research and analysis todate centered on terrorism in regard tothe United States.

Citing the more recent attacks onLondon and Madrid, among others, hesaid:

“Practically nobody has analyzed thenetworks in Europe. Every attack carriedout by al Qaeda since 1993 (the year ofthe first World Trade Center attacks) hashad some kind of European link. For the9/11 attacks, for example, three of thefour pilots were recruited in Hamburg;most of the planning took place in Ger-many and Spain.”

Vidino said the number of radicalIslamists in Europe is daunting. “Accord-ing to local authorities, Germany hasbetween 30,000 to 40,000 knownIslamists. In England, intelligence agen-cies estimate that 3,000 local Muslimsreceived training in al Qaeda’s camps inAfghanistan,” he said.

While radical Islamic groups hadbeen growing throughout Europe overthe last 25 years, Vidino said the compo-sition of the networks had changed morerecently. “They are very extensive, verysophisticated and well organized,” hesaid. “But now al Qaeda has become alooser organization, and in certain casesthe groups operating on the ground inEurope have only ideological ties to al

It was another grim news day, with breaking news that Osama Bin Laden had released a

new audiotape, via al Jazeera, the Arab-language satellite network, pledging once again to

attack the United States, but oddly offering a truce. The public appetite for news was high

as “The Curtis Report,” airing on the New England Cable News, went on the air for its

nightly news show.

Lorenzo Vidino: A Rising Starat Fletcher…and he’s only 29

Al Qaeda in Europe

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Qaeda.” In other words, al Qaeda is nowmore homegrown -- more of series oflocal “franchises” around Europe sellingits product (i.e., terrorism) more exclu-sively, while carrying the company’sbrand name [al Qaeda].

Vidino cited two chilling examples ofthis homegrown terrorism: one, the2002 abduction and beheading of WallStreet Journal reporter Daniel Pearl; theother, in 2004, the murder of a promi-nent Dutch filmmaker named Theo VanGogh, a distant relative of the legendarypainter.

Nor did the assassinations necessarilyfall into the stereotypical view of terror-ists as impoverished and downtrodden.He noted Omar Saeed Sheikh came froma well-to-do family living in London.“Omar Sheikh, the guy who beheadedDaniel Pearl, was the son of a verywealthy Pakistani merchant; he attendedthe London School of Economics, wentto Bosnia to fight with the Muhajadeen,then went to Pakistan and joined a radi-cal group. In fact, he affected a charmingcockney accent to ingratiate himselfwith Western tourists whom he wouldthen kidnap.”

While Van Gogh’s assassination didnot receive the same media attentionthat Daniel Pearl’s murder did, it was noless brutal. Dutch Islamists had beenangered by a documentary by Van Goghthat had been very critical of radicalIslam and its mistreatment of women.

One unsuspecting morning, VanGogh was riding his bike through the

busy downtown streets of Amsterdamon his way to his production house. “ADutch-born Moroccan chased after himand shot him at least five times. Theattacker tried to behead Van Gogh with abutcher’s knife, while he pleaded for hislife.”

As recounted during the interviewand in his book, Vidino said the murder-ous assailant pinned a five-page letter toVan Gogh’s heart, a “Declaration of Waragainst the West.” “He was part of a cellof 40-50 people. Some of them are cur-rently on trial in Amsterdam, most ofthem are Dutch-born, some as young as16,” he said.

The good news, said Vidino, is that alQaeda does not presently have an exten-sive network in the United States. “Theyare not as widespread or as deep as theyare in Europe.” However, he also offereda sober warning that there is no fool-proof way of guarding against futureattacks. “Look at Israel,” he said, “Israelis a small country and has great security.Yet attacks happen almost every day.”

Lorenzo Vidino is a first-year MALDstudent at The Fletcher School. His bookAl Qaeda in Europe, The New Battle-ground of International Jihad is availableat www. a m a z o n . c o m .


Stephen W. Bosworth Reflects on theLast Days of Ferdinand Marcos

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Bosworth’s remarks are taken from alengthy telephone interview he did lastNovember with Rosie Goldsmith, a pre-senter/producer from the BBC. Portionsof the interview were later used in Feb-ruary for a two-part documentary series,“From Dictatorship to Democracy,”which aired on the BBC World Service,and for a program called "The People'sRevolution” which aired on the BBC’sdomestic service. Portions of the origi-nal interview are reprinted with the per-mission of the BBC.

S E T T I NG T HE STAG E :In the face of rampant government cor-ruption, political mismanagement byhis cronies, and bilking the treasury outof millions of dollars, Ferdinand Marcosand his powerful, lavish-spending wifeImelda were swept from power in 1986in the face of fraudulent elections andstreet demonstration, which became partof a huge popular uprising known as“people power.”A tense stalemateensued between Marcos’ supporters andthe opposition led by Corazon Aquino,the candidate who had been robbed of anelectoral victory. It ended only when thedictator, at the urging of the UnitedStates, fled his country and went intoexile in Hawaii, with Corazon Aquinoassuming the presidency.

A B I T T ER SW EET AN NI V ERS A RY:Alas, in what should have been amoment of jubilant celebration, the 20thanniversary of “people power” in thePhilippines was marked by politicalunrest, with troops patrolling the streets,

a police raid on a leading oppositionpaper in Manila, and President GloriaMacapagal Arroyo imposing a state ofemergency. In a bitter twist of irony,Corazon Aquino, the woman who hadled the Philippines to democracy 20years earlier, was on the streets again,rallying a crowd in hopes of deposingthe current president.

S TE P HEN B OS WO R T H ’S I N TE RV I E WW I TH TH E B B C :

B B C : How big a role did the Un i ted St ates play

in the eve nts leading up to 1986?

S W B : Our role was not as significant asboth sides would have liked… Our goalwas to try, over a period of years, start-ing with assassination of [chief opposi-tion leader] Benigno Aquino [in 1983],to make them create enough democraticspace within the country so the opposi-tion within the country could have alevel playing field as they contestedMarcos at the ballot box. And that was afairly consistent process over an 18month period.

B B C : In spite of Ma rco’s human ri g hts re co rd

and the excesses and at rocities that the

Un i ted St ates must have kn own abo u t, d i d

you co ntinue to suppo rt Ma rco s ?

S W B : We didn’t continue to supportMarcos – that was the government ofthe Philippines for better or worse, andwe didn’t think it was our role to over-throw that government. But we didbelieve that in our long-term interests

we should support the moderate demo-cratic forces in that country and we wereconfident that there were substantialnumbers of those forces. So we leanedon Marcos from the time I arrived inApril 1984 through the next 18 months… to allow the democratic opposition tooperate.

B B C : Why did the Un i ted St ates need

Fe rdinand Ma rco s ?

S W B : I wouldn’t say we needed Ferdi-nand Marcos per se. What we didn’twant was protracted instability in thePhilippines. Remember this was at theheight of the Cold War. We believed wewere in global competition with a pow-erful global adversary. We had two mili-tary bases in the Philippines consideredvital to our strategy of containment ofthe Soviet Union. No one was arguingthat we didn’t need those bases. Marcosunderstood that very well and played onour interests.

But after Benigno Aqino’s assassination,we realized that support for FerdinandMarcos was jeopardizing our long-terminterests in the Philippines. Thatrequired that we be seen by the majorityof Filipinos as supportive of the demo-cratic process.

B B C : Benigno Aquino was murd e red in 1983;

the People Power Revolution was in 1986.

Why did it take the Un i ted St ates three ye a r s

to act ?

S W B : It sometimes takes the United

On the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos,

Stephen W. Bosworth, United States Ambassador to the Philippines from 1984-1987,

reflects on his role in the tumultuous last days of Marcos and the triumph of the “people

power” uprising of 1986.

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States a very long time to act on any-thing. Our system of government iseffective, but not always efficient. Butthe context is important – not an excuse.We’d been out of Vietnam a decade.[There was] a strong view that weneeded a foothold in the Philippines.Marcos had it in his power to denythat to us if he wanted to.

B B C : Wh at was the tipping po i nt ?

S W B : The tipping point was the election.In 1985 [Marcos] called a snap electionafter we had been harassing him for overa year on the need for full transparencyand accountability for Aquinas’s murder.… A series of special envoys had comeout from the United States to meet him.And I was meeting with him about oncea week, making the same point over andover again. Finally under pressure – andbecause of his [poor] health – heannounced on American TV a snap elec-tion. That was in November and theelection took place in February ‘86.

Marcos thought he would win. He hadlost touch with his people… Also, hebelieved that if he didn’t win the electionlegitimately, he could, in effect, steal it.What he failed to comprehend were twothings: one, how much his mandate hadbeen eroded by human rights abusesand… the deteriorating economy – theFilipino people were hurting. He alsodiscovered that he had to run an electionin the glare of full global publicity andmedia. When he tried to ‘force’ the elec-tion he was sloppy and got caught… Itwas clear to all watching that he wascheating.

B B C : Tell us about the last three days of the

Ma rcos re g i m e ?

S W B : I knew there was a good deal ofunrest in the Filipino Armed Forces. Wehad learned of various plots in earliermonths… [including] a reform move-ment loyal to then- Defense Minister[Juan Ponce] Enrile. But we also knewthat [Gen. Fabian] Ver [Marcos’ cousinand former bodyguard] was plotting var-ious moves – so both sides knew and weknew. So after some consultation withWashington, I sent messages to both

sides and said: ‘The US knew they weredoing this and the other knew what theother was doing and they should stop!We would not support a governmentproduced by a coup nor would wesupport the coup.’ We tried to freeze-frame the situation.

In that time [period] Philip Habib wassent out from Washington – a veryblunt guy. We weren’t sure what wewere going to do, but he came out andwe paddled round [in] meeting withdozens of people within governmentand with the opposition – Cory[Aquino], etc.

He left on a Sunday afternoon. I wentback to the Embassy residence. I waswriting a cable to Washington reportingon our last meeting with Marcos. Whiledoing that, I got a phone call saying thatthe [Defense] Minister Enrile wanted totalk with me. Enrile had learned that Verwas out to arrest him and the reformedofficers… and he had gone into hiding…And he believed that he and EddieRamos were in imminent danger.

B B C : Did En rile and Ramos really be l i eve they

we re in danger?

S W B : Yes. They thought they would bekilled. Marcos had a long history ofresponding very aggressively to anyonetrying to challenge him. It began while[he] was in [his] early 20s [when he]murdered a political opponent of hisfather – shot him at an open windowwhile he was brushing his teeth. Marcos’proclivity for very direct action was wellestablished, so I don’t blame Enrile orRamos for being concerned about theirown safety.

B B C : The eve nts of 1986 have sometimes

been po rt rayed as either a bungled coup or

[in the case of] people powe r, a CIA plot?

S W B : When the Filipinos don’t under-stand why something happens, [they]usually [say] that it’s a CIA plot. Ihereby declare it was not! It ascribes tothe US government a level of under-standing and wisdom that simply doesnot exist. We didn’t know enough tomanipulate the situation. It was a situa-

tion with many moving parts. All wecould do was try to keep our eye onmajor principles. Three weeks before theelection, I had stated openly that the USwould work with whichever party wonthe elections. At that point Imelda triedto get me [declared] persona non grata…She had also personally contacted NancyReagan and tried to get me removed asAmbassador. Thankfully, [Secretary ofState] George Schulz and others under-stood that we were doing the right thingand beat back that initiative.

B B C : We re you surp rised at the large numbe r s

of people on the stre e t s ?

S W B : A large crowd of colleagues andwives had gathered at the U.S. Embassyon the Saturday night. We saw largenumbers of people gathered at EDSA. Ican’t say I was surprised, but it wasnoteworthy… You must remember thatin August of 1983 the streets were filledwith Filipinos as [Benigno] Aquino’sbody was marched round the city andcountry… So we were accustomed tolarge crowds.

B B C : The night of Fe b. 2 5 t h , the Ma rcos family

and aides left the Pa l a ce.Wh at role did the

Un i ted St ates play ?

S W B : We did it! I had been in touch withMarcos over that weekend, from Satur-day to Monday…under instructions thatI was delivering ultimatums. I told himwe did not want him to use force to sup-press this popular movement on thestreets.

B B C : Th at pre s s u re came from the Un i te d

St ate s,not just Ma rcos saying he wo u l d n’t ki l l

his be l oved pe o p l e ?

S W B : We knew there was column ofMarines moving north on EDSAtowards where Enrile and Ramos and[their] supporters were taking refuge. Idirectly told Marcos that any effort tosuppress this movement through the useof force would cause rupture in his rela-tions with the US. He was upset. ‘Youdon’t understand,’ he said: ‘This is arebellion – I must suppress it with force.’I said, ‘Not acceptable as far as we’reconcerned.’

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1 Amid widespread international condemnation of Marcos for holding fraudulent elections, Presi-dent Ronald Reagan, who had been a strong supporter of President Marcos, sent diplomat PhilipHabib to the Philippines to investigate. Habib’s advice was to abandon the Philippine president. Butwhile the situation continued to deteriorate, the Administration was initially reluctant to ask him tostep down.

2 After the presidential elections of 1986, in which Marcos claimed victory despite allegations oflarge-scale electoral fraud, Ramos and defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile supported Marcos’oppo-nent, Corazon Aquino. Their defection sparked the civilian “people power” movement that forcedMarcos into exile. During Aquino's presidency Ramos served as military chief of staff (1986–88) andsecretary of national defense (1988–91), and he suppressed several military coup attempts againsther government.

3 “people power” revolution was a mostly nonviolent mass demonstration in the Philippines. Fourdays of peaceful protests by millions of Filipinos in metropolitan Manila resulted in the overthrow ofMarco’s authoritarian regime and the installation of Corazon Aquino as president of the Republic.EDSA refers to Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, a main highway in Metro Manila and the main site ofthe demonstrations.

4 Clark Air Base is a former U.S. Air Force base on Luzon Island in the Philippines, about 40 milesnorthwest of Manila.

5 Ilocos Norte is best known as the home province of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

6 On Feb. 22, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, Vice-Chief of Staff Gen. Fidel [Eddie] Ramos, andseveral hundred troops loyal to them abruptly and unexpectedly broke with Marcos and barricadedthemselves in Camps Crame and Aguinaldo in Metro Manila.

Later, I told him and then [in a] pressrelease that we believed he could nolonger rule with any effectiveness andthat he should step aside. At that pointwe left him alone a few hours… Thenhe decided he should leave the palace…We said we would help him leave...

I was very concerned: what if somethingwent wrong? The palace stormed? Itwould have been a terrible outcome to aprocess which, so far, had been peaceful.We also had intelligence reports that thePresidential Guard had begun to desertand there was little security round thepalace… The president and his familywere in danger. So we told him wewould help him out...

He decided to leave by air, but asked fora boat to bring luggage and staff downriver. We landed the helicopters acrossthe river from the palace, ferried Marcosand family across the river, and thenthey went off to Clark Air Force Base.

B B C : Wh at we re the inte ntions of the Un i te d

St ates getting Ma rcos out? Imelda Ma rco s

said‘the Un i ted St ates ki d n a p ped the family

and [they] had no idea of what was going on.’

S W B : My milder rejoinder to that wouldbe – nonsense! They knew what wasgoing on. We did this at their request.We probably saved their lives by takingthem out. Another two hours in thepalace when the mob did get in…theywould all have been killed.

One point of uncertainty was whatwould happen after we got him out. Bythis time, we had recognized CorazonAquino as the new president... I askedher what she wanted us to do withMarcos. I knew we couldn’t keep himat Clark Air Force Base. He wanted togo to Ilocos.

I asked Corazon Aquino. She was sittingthere with Eddie Ramos, now her Chiefof Staff. Ramos was suggesting to herthat it would be a very bad thing. IfMarcos stayed in the country, he wouldcontinue to incite violent opposition toher new government. She said, ‘No, heshould leave.’ Then late evening, we hadreports that loyal forces [to Marcos]were moving close to the Camp. Sowith the support of Washington, weorganized them out. We also had con-cern that [Marcos] could have a militaryoperation mounted at Clark Air ForceBase with a nasty outcome. So, [Ferdi-nand and Imelda Marcos] were taken toGuam and then Hawaii.

B B C : Wh at do you feel loo king back 20

years late r ?

S W B : I feel a number of things. First,that we did the right thing. We listenedto the people as best we could and, in theend – February 1986 – we did what theywanted us to do. We did not try to propMarcos up against the will of his ownpeople. The Philippines is much betteroff as a result.

B B C : Now, w h at kind of shape is the

Philippines in tod ay? Are you disappo i nted?

S W B : Many Filipinos are disappointed. Ihave a deep emotional investment in thecountry – lots of friends there.… Theproblem with the Philippines is not thatdemocracy is not working…. They haveelections. [But] there is an area of gov-ernment beyond elections called gover-nance. How do you govern a countrywhich consists of 7,000 islands, 700 ofthem populated, 70 different dialects, nostrong sense of national unity, and aculture where loyalties and affiliationsare vertical and not horizontal? Thereare very few horizontal organizationsthat keep the place welded together….

Up until recently, I’ve been encouragedby the growth of economic middle class– much bigger than 20 years ago. I lookaround Manila and see evidence of thatmiddle class – I see malls, etc…. Unfor-tunately, I also see evidence of extremepoverty – great disparity of wealth andincome. The Philippines remains a veryfactionalized place.

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DEAN BOSWORTH RECEIVES JAPANESE IMPERIAL DECORATION…

On November 3rd, the Japanese Governmentannounced that Dean Stephen W. Bosworth hadbeen awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Goldand Silver Star for his contributions to the pro-motion of friendly relations between Japan andthe United States.

FLETCHER COLLABORATION WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONAs part of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s deepening collaboration

with the European Commission, Professor ALAN HENRIKSON was invited to serve asVisiting Professor at the European Commission Training Unit in Brussels November7-11, 2005. To a group of approximately thirty senior officials from various Com-mission Directorates, he taught a course dealing with the history, the mechanics, andthe mysteries of “The American Foreign Policy Making Process.” The officialsbecame directly engaged as “American” participants in a simulation exercise on ahypothesized Crisis in the Caucasus, followed by a written examination.

A more formal culminating event took place “virtually” on January 23, 2006,when a joint Fletcher School-European Commission Certificate Award Ceremony forsuccessful course participants was held by videoconference. The current EuropeanUnion Fellow at the Fletcher School, Ambassador MICHAEL LAKE, himself a Com-mission official who most recently served as Delegate of the European Commissionto South Africa, joined in conducting this transatlantic ceremony.

SAVE THE DATE…

AUSTIN B. FLETCHER SOCIETY INAUGURAL EVENTThe Fletcher School is pleased to announce the AUSTIN B. FLETCHER SOCIETY,

a new way to honor those who have remembered The School in their estate plans.Fletcher was created with a bequest from Dr. Austin Barclay Fletcher, a memberof Tufts’ Class of 1876, who donated $1 million towards the establishment andmaintenance of a school of law and diplomacy at Tufts.

The Austin B. Fletcher Society will hold its inaugural event:Tea with Dean Bosworth on Thursday, May 18.

Invitations to Austin B. Fletcher Society Members will follow soon by mail.

Members of the Austin B. Fletcher Society will be recognized in future donorreports. If you have not yet informed The Fletcher School of your estate gift andwould like to be recognized as a member of this Society, please contact:

Tara LewisAssociate DirectorOffice of Development and Alumni [email protected]+1.617.627.2720

Quotes of Note

“In dealing with terror groups andinsurgents and all these nonstateactors – they’re not open to contain-ment. It’s unclear whether you candeter them – maybe you can detersome of them – but we have to havethat arrow in our quiver.”— Ri c h a rd Sh u l t z ,Fl e tcher Pro fessor ofI nte rn ational Po l i t i c s, as quoted in theCh ristian Science Monito r,17 Ma rch 2006.

“As a member of government, Iknow that the decision to pull outtroops from Iraq has been contro-versial and seen as a divisive lineand a breach of trust and coopera-tion between Spain and the U.S.However, there was major opposi-tion from the Socialist party and theSpanish people to the U.S. decisionto enter Iraq. In his campaign, PrimeMinister Zapatero made a commit-ment to the Spanish people to with-draw our troops. When the Socialistparty won the elections, he had nochoice but to honor his word.”— Sp a i n’s Mi n i s ter of Ju s t i ce Juan Fe rnando Lo pezAguilar (F’88), s pe a king at Fl e tcher 3 Ma rc h , 2 0 0 6 .

“Muslim investment is bigger thanArab investment. If you’re Muslim,you start getting the message thatthis [the United States] is not a placethat welcomes my investment.”— Fl e tcher As s oc i ate Pro fessor of Inte rn at i o n a lNe g o t i ation and Di p l o m a cy, Adil Najam on the Dubai po rt securi ty issue as quoted in theCh i cago Tri b u n e, 26 Fe b ru a ry 2006.

“A model progressive Muslimcountry cannot show the worldthat it makes laws that discriminateagainst women and that allows itsreligious authorities to snatch awaythe body of a dead man from hisgrieving Hindu family.”— Zainah An war (F’86), a founder of Si s te r sin Is l a m , as quoted in the New York Ti m e s,19 Fe b ru a ry 2006.

“Hong Kong knows that througheach crisis, it has been able tobounce back. It knows that it has torun just to stand up because of thehigh level of competition.”— Anson Ch a n , Fo rmer Chief Se c re t a ry of theGove rn m e nt of Hong Ko n g, s pe a king at Fl e tc h e r,3 Fe b ru a ry 2006 as part of the Jean Mayer Gl o b a lCi t i zenship Le ct u re.

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Ted Koppel addressed anaudience of Tufts and Fletcher

students, faculty, and staff aspart of a distinguished panel

at Fletcher on 3 April 2006.This event was an Edward R.

Murrow Symposium entitled:What Would Murrow SeeNow? The U.S. Press and

the World.

Masuda Sultan, Co-Director,Women for Afghan Women,and author of My War atHome, spoke at Fletcher aspart of Enlightened Power:Are Women TransformingLeadership? This conferencewas hosted by The FletcherSchool 13 March 2006.

John L. Esposito, Professor ofReligion and International Affairsat Georgetown University spokeon American Foreign Policy andthe Future of the Muslim World:Autocrats, Democrats, Terrorists?as part of the Charles FrancisAdams Lecture Series at Fletcher,30 November 2005.

Hans Blix, former United Nations IAEA Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, visitedFletcher 21 October 2005, as part of a one-day conference, Non-proliferation ofweapons of Mass Destruction: Current Challenges and New Approaches.Theconference was co-sponsored by Fletcher and the American Academy ofDiplomacy.

Ted C. Sorensen, chief speechwriter and closeadviser to President John F. Kennedy delivered aCharles Francis Adams Lecture at Fletcher on 9February 2006.

Dr. Anson Chan, formerChief Secretary of theGovernment of Hong

Kong spoke at Fletcher, 3February 2006 as part of

the Jean Mayer GlobalCitizenship Lecture. Photo by Sarah Arkin (A'06)

F L E TCHE R CLUB OF BRUSSE LSIn Ja n u a ry, the Fl e tcher Club of Bru s s e l s we l comed a group of Fl e tc h e rand JFK School of Gove rn m e nt students with Pro f. Di m i t ris Ke ri d e s,t h rough Ha rva rd’s Ko k kalis Prog ram on So u t h e a s te rn and Ea s t - Ce nt ra lEu ro pe. The students visited NATO and seve ral EU Institutions. In Fe b-ru a ry, t h ey we l comed Ruth Ci t ri n ( F ’ 9 2 ) , near East analyst from the USSt ate De p t. In Ma rc h , t h ey joined seve ral other US Alumni As s oc i at i o n sin Belgium in a Su per Bowl night eve nt. New arri vals in Brussels includeRi c klef Be u t i n ( F ’ 0 1 ) , n ow at the Co m m i s s i o n , No rwin Schaeffe r ( F ’ 0 4 ) ,also at the Co m m i s s i o n , Ca rl - Michael Si m o n ( F ’ 0 2 ) , at Si d l ey Austin LLP.

F L E TCHE R CLUB OF BUENOS AIRESThe Cl u b’s expanding membership now includes 31 alumni in 13 co u n-t ries – all with a common passion for Arg e ntina and the re g i o n , and ad e s i re to stay co n n e cted to the Fl e tcher co m m u n i ty. The new club hasfound its first pro j e ct : helping a club member be come Pre s i d e nt of hisco u nt ry. Raphael Tro t m a n ( F ’ 0 2 ) , Me m ber of Pa rl i a m e nt of Gu ya n a ,has launched a new re fo rmist party – the Al l i a n ce for Change – and isrunning for Pre s i d e nt in the July ’06 national elect i o n s. The Clubhas arranged for Raphael to wo rk with U.S. po l i t i cal co n s u l t a nt s ; i su pd ating the new party’s we b s i te ; and has begun wo rking with Tu ftsUn i ve r s i ty’s micro f i n a n ce initiat i ve to set up a prog ram tailored toGu ya n a . Ra p h a e l’s polls place him as a serious co nte n d e r. Anyo n ei nte re s ted in lending a hand – or who has skills that may be neededby Raph in the coming months – please co nt a ct Ca rlos St. James( ca rl o s s t j a m e s @ ya h oo. co m ) .

F L E TCHE R CLUB OF SE OULThe Fl e tcher Club of Se o u l and the Ko rea Tu fts Al l i a n ce end-of-ye a rbanquet was a gre at succe s s, with a turnout of more than 40 Tu fts andFl e tcher alumni. The two groups hope this will be a stepping stone fo rbigger and more successful eve nts in the future.

Members of the Fletcher Club of Seoul and Korea Tufts Alliance: Former GeneralJae-Chang Kim (F’98, F’02, Fletcher Club President), Sae-hyun Paik (J’01), Eunji Lee(J’00), Mi-Yeon Lee (J’00), Dr. Jung-Hoon Lee (A’84, F’86, Korea Tufts AlliancePresident), Seung-hyun Lim (Tufts student), and Jung Park (A’01)

F L E TCHE R ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF WA S H I N G TO N , D C

Victoria Esser (F’99) and Laurent Guinand (F’98), with other Fletcher alumni in DCenjoyed a whiskey tasting at the Potomac Boat Club on February 9. The tasting washosted by Mark Baker (F’95) of Diageo.

F L E TCHE R CLUB OF PHILA D E L P H I A / P E N N S Y LVA N I AAfter going bankrupt in Arg e ntina when the co u nt ry melted down in2 0 0 1 , To m my Heanue (F’90) has re t u rned to the US to settle in He r s h eyPA , w h e re u pon he has re s t ru ct u red his Arg e ntine snack food business.To m my has also taken on the task of organizing Fl e tcher alumni inPe n n s y l va n i a . Ernie Wri g ht (F’94), fo rmer Club leader, has helped thet ra n s i t i o n . To m my looks fo rwa rd to sharing Fl e tcher ex pe ri e n ces atg at h e rings in Pi t t s b u rgh and Ph i l a d e l p h i a . If inte re s ted in gettingi nvo l ve d, please co nt a ct him at [email protected] m .

F L E TCHE R CLUB OF AT L A N TANew leadership is needed for the Fl e tcher Club of At l a nt a. Afters eve ral years acting as the pri m a ry alumni co nt a ct in Ge o rg i a , We n dyGu t i e rrez is relinquishing her role to spend time with her new baby !Ma ny thanks to We n dy for all that she has done for Fl e tc h e r. If you arei nte re s ted in re i nv i g o rating the Cl u b, please co nt a ct Leah Bra dy, atl e a h . b ra dy @ t u ft s. e d u.

F L E TCHE R CLUB OF OR EGONSusan Wi l l i a m s (F’00) and Michael Zw i rn (F’01) have re l ocated toWa s h i n g to n , DC and are no longer able to spe a rhead the Fl e tc h e rAlumni group in Ore g o n . Thanks to Susan and Michael! Th ey are eagerto have a new leader step up. If you are inte re s ted in org a n i z i n gFl e tcher alumni in Ore g o n , co nt a ct Leah Bra dy at leah.bra dy @ t u ft s. e d u.

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AT L A N TANeeds new leadership!Please email [email protected] ifinterested in taking on a leadership role.

BA N G KO KEkachai Chainuvati, (F’03)[email protected]

B E I J I N GStephane Grand (F’98)[email protected]

B E R L I NJan-Philipp Görtz (F’98)[email protected]

B O M BAYForming soon…

B O S TO NKatherine Sikora Nelson, (F’93)[email protected]

B RU S S E L SKatrina Destree (F’95)[email protected]

BU D A P E S TAnita Orban (F’01)[email protected]

BUENOS AIRE SCarlos St. James (GMAP’04)[email protected]

C H I CAG ODaniela Abuzatoaie (F’00)[email protected]

C H I L EAndres Montero (F’85)[email protected]

German Olave (F’97)[email protected]

CO P E N H AG E NGeoffrey Pack (F’89)[email protected]

D U BA IForming soon…

F L E TCHE R ALUMNI OF CO LO RA S S O C I AT I O NBelinda Chiu (F’04)[email protected]

G R E E C EMarilena Griva (F’02)[email protected]

Thomas Varvitsiotis (F’99)[email protected]

HONG KO N GDorothy [email protected]

Alicia [email protected]

H O U S TO NDavid Hwa (F’76)[email protected]

K E N YAAnne Angwenyi (F’02)[email protected]

Viviane Chao (F’02)[email protected]

KO S OVOIliriana Kacaniku (F '04)[email protected]

LO N D O NAlexandra Paton (F’01)[email protected]

LOS ANGE LESAdrineh Gregorian (F’04)[email protected]

Spencer Abbot (F’97)[email protected]

M A L AYS I AShah Azmi (F’86)[email protected]

M I A M IDaniel Ades (F’03)[email protected]

M IDDLE EAST ALUMNI ASSOCIAT I O NWalid Chamoun (F’00)[email protected]

N E W YO R KRaymond Linsenmayer (F’01)[email protected]

Deborah Eisenberg (F’03)[email protected]

O R E G O NNeeds new leadership!Please email [email protected] ifinterested in taking on a leadership role.

PA R I SJulien Naginski (F’93)[email protected]

Angela de Santiago (F’91)[email protected]

P H I L A D E L P H I AThomas Heanue (F’90)[email protected]

P H I L I P P I N E SCathy [email protected]

SAN FRA N C I S COVladimir Todorovic (F’01)[email protected]

SÃO PAU LOPaulo Bilyk (F’92)[email protected]

S E ATT L EJulie Bennion (F’01)[email protected]

S E O U LJunsik Ahn (F’00)[email protected]

S H A N G H A IMeredith Ludlow (F’03)[email protected]

S I N G A P O R EKim [email protected]

S W I T Z E R LA N DMauricio Cysne (F’93)[email protected]

TO K YOMariko Noda (F’90)[email protected]

V I E N N ARainer Staub (F’96)[email protected]

Jonathan Tirone (F’00)[email protected]

WA S H I N G TO N , D CVictoria Esser (F’99)T. Colum Garrity (F’98)[email protected]

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FAC U LT Y

Steven Block. “Maternal NutritionKnowledge versus Schooling asDeterminants of ChildMicronutrient Status.” OxfordEconomic Papers (forthcoming 2006).

Lawrence E. Harrison and JeromeKagan, ed. Developing Cultures:Essays on Cultural Change.Routledge, 2006.__ and Peter L. Berger, ed.Developing Cultures: Case Studies.Routledge, 2006.__.The Central Liberal Truth: HowPolitics Can Change a Culture andSave It From Itself. Oxford UniversityPress, 2006.__.“The Culture Club.” The NationalInterest no. 86 (spring 2006): 94-100.

Alan K. Henrikson. “NicheDiplomacy in the World PublicArena:The Global ‘Corners’ ofCanada and Norway.” In The NewPublic Diplomacy: Soft Power inInternational Relations, edited byJan Melissen. Pages 67-87.Basingstoke, U.K.: PalgraveMacmillan, 2005.

Brigadier General (Ret.) RussellHoward, James Forest, and JoanneMoore. Homeland Security andTerrorism. McGraw-Hill, 2006.__ and Reid L. Sawyer. Terrorism andCounterterrorism: Understanding theNew Security Environment, Readingsand Interpretations, Second Edition.McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005.__ and Reid L. Sawyer. DefeatingTerrorism Shaping the New SecurityEnvironment. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin,2004.

Ian Johnsone, ed. Annual Review ofGlobal Peace Operations. Boulder, CO:Lynne Rienner Pub., 2006.__.“The Plea of Necessity inInternational Legal Discourse:Humanitarian Intervention andCounter-Terrorism.” ColumbiaJournal of Transnational Law, vol. 43,no. 2 (2005): 337-388.__.“Discursive power in the UNSecurity Council.” Journal ofInterational Law and InternationalRelations, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2006).

Michael Klein. “Studying Texts: AGemara of the Israeli Economy,”Israel Economic Review, vol. 3, no. 1(August 2005): 121 – 147.__. “Dollarization and Trade,” Journalof International Money and Finance,vol. 24, no. 6, (October 2005): 935 –943.__ and Jay Shambaugh (F’96).“FixedExchange Rates and Trade.” Journalof International Economics (forth-coming).

Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, BerniceWing Yee Lee, and Adil Najam.”Desarrollo Sostenible: Cómosuperar las carencias de gobernanzade la globalización” in Diálogo sobreGobernabilidad, Globalización yDesarrollo, edited by Ramon TorrentMacau, Antoni Millet Abbd andAlberto Arce Suárez. Barcelona:Universitat de Barcelona, 2005.

Adil Najam. Philanthropy by thePakistani Diaspora in the USA.Islamabad:The Pakistan Center forPhilanthropy and the RockefellerFoundation, 2005.__. “Developing Countries andGlobal Environmental Governance:From Contestation to Participationto Engagement.” InternationalEnvironmental Agreements: Politics,Law and Economics, vol. 5, no. 3(2005): 303-321.__. “A Tale of Three Cities:Developing Countries in GlobalEnvironmental Negotiations.” InGlobal Challenges: Furthering theMultilateral Process for SustainableDevelopment, edited by AngelaChurie Kallhauge, Gunnar Sjöstedtand Elisabeth Correll. Pages 124-143.London: Greanleaf, 2005.__.“Why Environmental PoliticsLooks Different from the South.” InHandbook of Global EnvironmentalPolitics,edited by Peter Dauvergne.Pages 111-126. Cheltenham, UK:Edward Elgar Press, 2005.

George Norman and Joel P.Trachtman. “The CustomaryInternational Law Game.” AmericanJournal of International Law, vol. 99,no. 3 (2005): 541.

Jesawald W. Salacuse. LeadingLeaders: How to Manage Smart,Talented, Rich, and Powerful People.AMACOM, 2006.

Anna Seleny. The Political Economyof State-Society Relations in Hungaryand Poland: From Communism to theEuropean Union. New York:Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Richard H. Shultz and AndreaDew (F’03, Ph.D. candidate).Insurgents,Terrorists, and Militias: TheWarriors of Contemporary Combat.Columbia University Press, forth-coming 2006.

Marc Sommers. Islands ofEducation: Schooling, Civil War, andthe Southern Sudanese (1983-2004).Paris: International Institute forEducational Planning, UNESCO,2005.__. Fearing Africa’s Young Men:TheCase of Rwanda. Washington, DC:Conflict Prevention andReconstruction Unit Working PaperNo. 32, World Bank (2006).__. “In the Shadow of Genocide:Rwanda’s Youth Challenge.” InTroublemakers or Peacemakers? Youthand Post-Accord Peacebuilding,edited by Siobhán McEvoy-Levy.South Bend: University of NotreDame Press (forthcoming 2006).

Joel P. Tractman. “Unilateralism andMultilateralism in U.S. Human RightsLaws Affecting International Trade.”In International Trade and HumanRights: Foundations and ConceptualIssues, edited by Frederick Abbott,Christine Breining-Kaufmann andThomas Cottier. Univ of MichiganPress, 2006.__.“Global Cyberterrorism,Jurisdiction, and InternationalOrganization.” In The Law andEconomics of Cybersecurity, edited byMark Grady and Francesco Parisi.Cambridge University Press, 2005.__.“Comment on Prof. Polakiewicz,Alternatives to Treaty-Making andLaw-Making by Treaty and ExpertBodies in the Council of Europe.” InDevelopments of International Law inTreaty Making, edited by RudigerWolfrum and Volker Röben.Springer-Verlag Berlin and

Heidelberg GmbH & Co., 2005.__.“Jurisdiction in WTO DisputeSettlement.” In Key Issues in WTODispute Settlement, edited by RufusYerxa and Bruce Wilson. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005.__. “Negotiations on DomesticRegulation and Trade in Services(GATS Article VI): A Legal Analysis ofSelected Current Issues.” InReforming the World Trading System,edited by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann.Oxford University Press, 2005.__. Book Review: Conflict of Normsin Public International Law: How WTOLaw Relates to Other Rules ofInternational Law, by JoostPauwelyn. American Journal ofInternational Law 98 (2004): 855.

Moeed Yusuf and Adil Najam.“Kashmir: Identifying Elements of aSustainable Solution.” In SustainableDevelopment and Governance in theAge of Extremes. Edited bySustainable Development PolicyInstitute. Pakistan: SDPI and SamaEditorial and Publishing Services(SAMA), 2005.

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Peter Ackerman (F’69, F’76).“ARainbow of Revolutions.” TheEconomist, January 19, 2006.

Norman R. Bennett (F’56). ThatIndispensible Article: Brandy and PortWine. c.1650-1908. Universidad doPorto, 2005.

Michael Dobbs (F72, F’77).Churchill’s Triumph. Headline BookPublishing Ltd., 2005.

James R. Holmes (F’98, F’03).Theodore Roosevelt and World Order:Police Power in InternationalRelations. Potomac Books, Inc., 2006.

Natasha Leger (F’98). The Future ofHigher Education: A ScenarioEvaluation of Its Prospects andChallenges. Pakistan: DevelopmentPolicy Institute, 2006.

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William F. S. Miles (F’82).“ProfilingSoles.” The Boston Globe, 23September 2005.__. “Islamism in West Africa:Introduction” and “Conclusions”(Guest editor of special issue).African Studies Review vol. 47 no. 2(2004): 55-59 and 109-116.__. “Development, Not Diversion:Local versus External Perceptions ofthe Niger-Nigeria boundary.” Journalof Modern African Studies, vol. 43 no.2 (2005): 297-320.__.“Democracy withoutSovereignty: France’s Post-ColonialParadox.” The Brown Journal of WorldAffairs, vol. 11 no. 2 (2005): 223-234.__.“Destination: Paradise.” WilsonQuarterly 28 (Summer 2004): 12-20.__. “A Family's Progress inMauritius.” Contemporary Review,vol. 287 no. 1674 (July 2005): 43-46.__. “Carribbean Hybridity and theJews of Martinique.” In The JewishDiaspoa in Latin America and theCaribbean; Fragments of Memory,edited by Kristin Ruggiero. Brighton,U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2005.__. “Third World Views of theHolocaust.” Journal of GenocideResearch, vol. 6 no. 3 (2004): 371-393.

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu (F’93).Rowanda’s Genocide,The Politics ofGlobal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan,2005.

Vincent O’Neil. Murder in Exile. St.Martin's Minotaur, 2006.

Bill Richardson (F’71). BetweenWorlds:The Making of an AmericanLife. New York: Penguin Group, Inc.,2005.

Jonathan Rosen (F’ 99) andMichael Woronoff. “UnderstandingAnti-Dilution Provisions inConvertible Securities.” FordhamLaw Review 74 (October 2005).

Ibis Sanchez Serrano (F’04).“Success in Translational Research:lessons from the development ofbortezomib.” Nature Reviews DrugDiscovery 5 (February 2006): 107-114.

Kusuma Snitwongse (F’57, F’60)and W. Scott Thompson, editors.Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia.ISEAS, 2005.

Dirk Swart (GMAP 2005) and AdilNajam. “How the InternationalTrading System is Changing andWhy This May Not be Good forDeveloping Countries.” InSustainable Development andGovernance in the Age of Extremes,edited by Sustainable DevelopmentPolicy Institute (SDPI). Pakistan: SDPIand Sama Editorial and PublishingServices (SAMA), 2005.

Stan Taylor (F’61), Earl Fry andRobert S. Wood. America theVincible: US Foreign Policy for the 21stCentury. Boston: Pearson, 2004.__ and David Goldman.“IntelligenceReform: Will More Agencies, Money,and Personnel Help?” JournalIntelligence and National Security,vol.19 no. 3 (Autumn 2004): 416-435.__. “The Role of Intelligence inSecurity.” Chap. ContemporarySecurity Studies, edited by AlanCollins. Oxford University Press,2006.__ and Daniel Snow.“America’s ColdWar Spies:Why They Spied and HowThey Got

Abdulkader Thomas, (F’81), StellaCox, and Brian Kraty. StructuringIslamic FinanceTransactions. London:Euromoney, 2005.

Anthony Wanis-St. John (F’96,F’91).“Back Channel Negotiations:International Bargaining in theShadows.” Negotiation Journal, vol.22. no. 2 (2006).

S T U D E N TS AND FELLOWS

Brian H. Doench (MALD’06), CathyKarr-Colque, Matthew Auer (F’90),and Jan McAlpine.“Forest LawEnforcement and Governance:Resolve Needed from All Sides.”

Georgetown Public Policy Review, vol.11 no. 1 (Winter 2005-06)__.“Sustainable Forest ManagementRevisited: A Proposal for GlobalAction. Papers on InternationalEnvironmental Negotiations.”Program on Negotiation, Harvard LawSchool, vol. 15 (2006).

Geoffrey Gresh (MALD’06).“Coddling the Caucasus: Iran’sStrategic Relationship withAzerbaijan and Armenia.” CaucasianJournal of European Affairs, vol. 1, no.1 (Winter 2006).

Itamara V. Lochard (F’03, Ph.D. can-didate) and Richard Shultz.Understanding Internal Wars in the21st Centurty. UK: Routeledge Press,forthcoming winter 2006.

Theodore Tanoue (F’05, FletcherState Dept. Fellow).“Learning fromDayton.” Foreign Service Journal(November 2005): 51-55.

Lorenzo Vidino (MALD’06). AlQaeda in Europe: The NewBattleground of International Jihad.Prometheus Books, 2005.

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

Of our remaining classmates,some of us enjoy Assisted Living,all of us treasure our FletcherFellowship, and acknowledgethis year’s Holiday Greeting Cardshowing the Fletcher campusfestooned with snow; testamentto Fletcher’s current advances.

Class President Emeritus HaydnWilliams has received condo-lences from classmates and frommany friends worldwide, followingthe passing of Margaret lastNovember. He was visited by Hon.Shijuro Ogata (F’55) the thirdrecipient of the Class of 47’s 50thReunion Distinguished AlumnusAward at Convocation lastSeptember. At Convocationduring our 55th Reunion Haydnannounced our gift of whichhe has been a major donor.

Class President Bill Dale againmade the presentation of ourClass Gift at Convocation last Sep-tember. Bill is also a major donorfor our Class Gift. Following Con-vocation, he and Joy spent asemester at Cambridge: Joy tocomplete studies for her Doctor-ate in Divinity, Bill doing researchfor an article on Balance of Pay-ments and Debt Problems forpublication. Back in Bethesda, theirholiday celebrations includedChristmas cheer for their 22grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Bill and Joyrecently visited friends in Mexico.Bill will be meeting this springin Berlin with former SeniorAssociates of IMF.

Class Vice President Jean Shepardcontinues her volunteer service atthe Northfield Library. She main-tains her family home, with visitsfrom her son and two daughters,and her granddaughter. Class Sec-retary Charles Edwards manageswith Licia to winter at Sun CityCenter and summer at Hyannis

Port. Gimpy legs notwithstanding,he works out by swimming andtries (in vain) to keep up with theirseven grandchildren. His WorldWar II book An AFS Driver Remem-bers, can be reached by web:Google search “Charles P.Edwards.”

Last June, Bill Brewer moved to anassisted living facility. His son livesclose by. Following service inWWII, and his Fletcher residence,he entered State’s Arab languageprogram. His last post was Ambas-sador, Sudan. Sadly, last Februaryhe lost his wife following a longillness; he had been devoted acaregiver. We join in heartfeltcondolences.

Hazel (Herter) Fonetein, and hus-band Doug (F’48) are residents atthe Jefferson and enjoy fellowshipwith the Stoddarts. The Fontein’sdelightful daughter, Carol, and herfamily reside nearby. Hazel keepsin touch with Mary Slusser, who iscontinuing on assignment at theSmithsonian; her current researchconcerns Nepal.

Class Historian Jim Gould withAnne, maintain their spacioushome at Cotuit overlooking Nan-tucket Sound. He has publishedhistories of Cotuit, the Cape Air-port, and the Portuguese on CapeCod. He is an activist with theCape Cod UN Association; andtogether with Anne for the Barn-stable Town Conservancy. Lastyear he visited the OkavangoDelta Botswana and the Phinde inKwazulu Natal; then on to a whiteriver rafting trip down the beauti-ful Cataract portion of the Col-orado River. He continues to leadlocal history tours. In touch withclassmate Win Umbach of SilverSpring, Jim reported that Wincheerfully says “I cook and shopand keep struggling on…I takeone day at a time.” Jim received aNew Year’s card from RajasthanIndia with a personal note fromVikram, son of our late classmate,Hari Sharma.

Class Honeymooners Anne andBill “Mac” Johnson are proof thatold age is just a fiction. In additionto visiting the Cliffs of Moher, Ire-land, last summer, they also visitedSweden,“Scandinavian Paradise,”with 10 days of golf. After theirannual visit to Florida, this timeOcala, they will be joining a Gath-ering of the Clans in Brunswick,ME in August (Bill’s is the ClanMachachalans). And once again,next September, Bill will join long-time friend Sir Hugh Jones for twoweeks of golf in Devon and Corn-wall. It’s truly One World, especiallythanks to the “golf standard.”

Thanks to the miracles of modernsurgery, Jock Stoddart’s one“good” eye has been restored suffi-ciently to permit driving by day.It’s been “one-eyed Jock” at thewheel while he and Carol have vis-ited granddaughter Allesendraand others of her Auburn Univer-sity swimmers who had won twoNCAA championships. They were“beautiful, talented, career ori-ented young ladies who energizedthe visiting geriatrics.” Jock andCarol also enjoyed two weeks“sopping up sun and sun downer”in this year’s transition into theJefferson Retirement communityin Arlington, VA. The residents area congenial and eclectic bunchtogether with their fellow FletcherClassmates, Hazel and DougFontein.

Marie Sullivan’s Christmas greet-ings this year with Bill featured herphoto next to husband Bill, hisrecliner chair under a framed pic-ture on the wall. She wrote “Ours isa quiet life, but Bill is comfortablein his recliner and happy to havethat picture on the wall – hisdestroyer for 3 years during WWII,and I am happy to be with him.”They celebrate Christmas withfamily; a daughter lives close by.Both Marie and Bill served ourcountry in war and peace, Bill ris-ing to the highest ranks of the For-eign Service, Ambassador grade 1.Marie wrote of our Class:“Neverhad I been with a group of myown age as knowledgeable and

interesting.”Those of us at Haydn’stour of the WWII Memorial twoyears ago were delighted thatMarie was able to join, althoughBill had not been able to make it.All of us hold them both in ourhearts, and thanks.

Not even back surgery has slowedGregory Wolfe. He may be the lastalphabetically, but is in the firstrank of us ‘47 octogenarians forwhom our so-called “GoldenYears” can indeed be pure Gold! Iquote from Greg’s recent letter; hewrites “Mary Ann and I still embarkupon adventures that exercise ourlifelong commitment to interna-tional affairs. Last June we wereinvited by the US Embassy in Mon-tevideo to offer the keynoteaddress at the Ninth InternationalCongress of Economists and Pub-lic Administrators. It brought backmemories of my Fletcher PhD the-sis that dealt with the Ninth Inter-national Conference of AmericanStates. What a sea change in poli-cies and politics we deal withtoday. We revisited the spots we’veenjoyed in Holland, Germany, Aus-tria, the Czech Republic, Hungaryand Poland. Overall, we are metwith widespread expressions ofdoubt about the wisdom andquality of US leadership in ourcomplicated global epoch. We gotback home in time for visits to CAand roasted turkey with our chil-dren. Now we are preparing togreet spring 2006 as hosts of acruise on the Mediterranean forFlorida International University’sDepartment of International Rela-tions and Geography. It will raisefunds for much needed scholar-ships. After a few days rest inBarcelona where the cruise termi-nates, Mary Ann and I will make astop in England to visit dearfriends and former colleagues ofour Foreign Service days at their25 bedroom ‘cottage’ in Yorkshire.For all this globetrotting, my talkto Brandeis University Women inMiami region in March is titled ‘Inthe Gloaming.’”

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Gregory, truly a Renaissance Man,is former Florida International Uni-versity President and is alsoProfessor Emeritus, InternationalRelations Department. Togetherwith Mary Ann, they attend eventsscheduled at the University’s MaryAnn Wolfe Theater. They havefound safe haven at an attractiveretirement community in Aven-tura, not far from the FIU NorthCampus.

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Tom and Alice Pickering visitedIceland in July after seeing theirclassmates and friend EinarBenediktsson at their Fletcher50th Reunion. The President ofIceland Air gave them a specialtour of the south coast, whichincluded snowmobiling on oneof the Island’s four glaciers! Einarwould like to see more Fletcheralumni and students come to hisbeautiful country.

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Norman R. Bennett, emeritusprofessor of history at BostonUniversity, was present at therecent launching of his book, ThatIndispensible Article: Brandy andPort Wine. c.1650-1908, at the Casado Douro in Régua, Portugal, thecenter of the port wine region(see recent publications).

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William [email protected] Starbird was delighted togo to China this past summer withher daughter Ellen Starbird (F’86),as she and her family adopted a31/2 year-old girl.

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Patrick [email protected] we head toward our 45th ClassReunion (May, 2007) many of ourclassmates including yours trulyare becoming more deeplyentrenched in retirement and theopportunities that this offers. Themost adventurous at this point isTodd Stewart who, with his wifeGeorgia, is off to Europe at thebeginning of April for a six-month“grand tour for the geriatric set.”They begin in Munich, Todd’s firstForeign Service post where he willpurchase a used car, then willdrive through most of the conti-nent missing only the southernBalkans, Russia, Scandinavia, and avery few other countries. In lateSeptember they return to Munichin time for Oktoberfest, sell the carand fly back to God’s Country. Youcan follow their progress or lackthereof at the Stewart’s bloght t p : / / s tewa rt s ra m b l e. b l og s po t. co m .

Ernst Gemassmer reports that hehas decided to finally retire fromthe rat race of business and focuson personal travel, skiing, hiking,biking, and some volunteer work.Among his 2005 travels was a tripto Europe for a family get togetherto celebrate his mother’s 90thbirthday, followed by two weeks inItaly, including Sicily. He says thatgoing from northern Europe toSicily was like going back in timeseveral decades. In 2006, he isplanning to tour South America.

Sandy Granzow is setting out on anew career, studying for an MFAdegree at the School of Visual Artsin New York City. She is commut-ing from Washington.

Malcolm Peck retired from Merid-ian International Center at the endof 2003, but for the past two yearshe has returned as a “seasonal pro-gram officer” working from lateFebruary to early October. Merid-ian is an NGO with a State Depart-ment contract to plan andimplement three-week study toursfor individuals and groups thatparticipate in State’s InternationalVisitor Leadership Program. Someyears ago, Malcolm helped organ-ize a program for Afghan visitors,one of whom is now his country’spresident. Malcolm is putting thefinal touches to the second andmuch expanded edition of theHistorical Dictionary of the GulfArab States, first published in1996. On the more adventurousside, Malcolm set out to conquerMt. Adams in NH along with twoprep school classmates.With virtu-ally no conditioning, a 45-50pound backpack, they reached acabin at 4300 feet where theyspent three days and nights.Low temperatures and high windsprevented them from reachingthe peak on this expedition, whichmarked the 50th anniversary ofMalcolm’s first winter mountainclimb. Still, quite an accomplish-ment.

Fritz Gilbert spent ten days inJuba in the very south of theSudan (according to my Atlas) rep-resenting the American Friends ofthe Episcopal Church of Sudan atthe first full Synod of the EpiscopalChurch of Sudan in about 20years. Fritz is the Treasurer of theAmerican Friends organization.He also spent a week in Kampala,Uganda. He reports that the phys-ical accommodations were defi-nitely of the Peace Corps style, butthe people and conversationswere very interesting. Fritz andJane had to delay their Februarydeparture for VT as Jane was partof the Moussaoui jury pool. Shewas dismissed before the actualtrial, but witnessed some of Mous-saoui’s courtroom antics. Speak-ing of Sudan, John Yatescontinues as head of the US Dele-gation to the Inter-Sudanese Talkson Darfur, a task that has him shuf-fling between Stuttgart, where hiswife Mary is Political Adviser toEUCOM, and Abuja, Nigeria, site ofthe talks.

David Long is lecturing aroundthe country since his book on Cul-ture and Customs of Saudi Arabiacame out last summer. He findsthat there is far more interest inthe role of Saudi women thanthere is in terrorism, Islam, corrup-tion, absolute monarchy or any ofthe other subjects that one readsand hears in the media, particu-larly when there is a Saudi womanpresent to demonstrate personallythat they, he says, are tough asnails.

Charlie Adams remains deeplyinvolved in the Poor Knights ofChrist. The North American Chap-ter has been elevated from a dele-gation to a preceptory giving itadministrative and decision-mak-ing autonomy. Charlie has beenappointed Pro-Preceptor for NorthAmerica.

Allen Maxwell and wife Dorie con-tinue to split their time betweenIndiana and Florida, though hemade time to teach on Semesterat Sea where Castro spent four


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Alice and Tom Pickering in Iceland

hours meeting and speaking tothe students. Peter Sellar has hisfirst grandchild, a son named IanGeorge Sellar, and a new son-in-law. Ed Hoyt reports he and Terrynow have four grandchildren.Terry remains active as a psycho-analytic social worker.

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Ronald [email protected] March 10, at a ceremony at theancient city hall of Arendal, Nor-way, the Regional Governor forAust Agder, N. Sunde, awarded LeifChristoffersen the St. Olav’s Medalon behalf of King Harald the Fifthfor his services to Norway and theinternational community.

Barbara (Sundberg) Baudot isProfessor of International Rela-tions and Comparative Politics atSt. Anselm College, where she alsoserves as Coordinator, New Hamp-shire Institute of Politics Center forInternational Affairs. Dr. Baudothas served in many capacities atthe UN, has acted as an advisorand consultant to various interna-tional bodies concerned withproblems of the environment, andrecently has been engaged ininternational projects connectedwith the World Social Summit,specifically on the ethical and spir-itual dimensions of social develop-ment. In so doing, she is a founderand presently the coordinatorof the Triglav Circle, an NGOwith special consultative statuswith the UN (www.triglavcircleon-line.org). Her most recent book isCandles in the Dark: A new Spiritfor a Plural World.

Mike Sharples writes,“Dee and Icontinue to enjoy our island lifeon Siesta Key mid-way downFlorida’s west coast. Although thehurricane season has added awhole new dimension to our pasttwo summers, we have comethrough windblown but sparedany serious hardship. Having spenta working career living in five dif-ferent countries and visiting many

more courtesy of the DuPontCompany, we are pleased to beable to limit our excursions now tolocal boat cruising, Principia Col-lege trustee meetings, and familyvisits.”

Ron Glantz reports that the globalmacro hedge fund he co-foundedtwo years ago has become so suc-cessful that it has been closed tonew investors.

Julia (Graham) Lear attended the25th anniversary of VirginiaCornyn’s 40th birthday. Juliawrites that it was “A big fête,involving about 80 of Ginny’sfriends, colleagues, and admirers,was organized to salute her manycontributions to community life inRochester, NY. For the past 13years Ginny has headed Xerox’scorporate philanthropy. Ginnyadded,“It was very special havingmy Fletcher roommate here tohelp celebrate a wonderful mile-stone in life…a terrific celebra-tion.”

Steve Buck and Hala will be lec-turing on a cruise ship going tovisit classical ruins in Libya andTunisia in April. Among his otherassignments, Steve was OfficeDirector for North Africa at theState Department in the mid-90’s.Udol Boonprakob is Secretary-General of the Civil Service Com-mission of Thailand.

Jumana Dejany reports that she isretiring from the OPEC Fund after21 years of service. On behalf ofSudan’s President, H.E. the Ministerof Petroleum and MineralResources presented her with anaward,“In recognition of the valu-able services to the people ofSudan…during her distinguishedcareer at the Fund, which spanstwo decades…. It is a testimony toMs. Dejany’s dedication and com-mitment which went beyond thenormal call of duty that her serv-ices in furtherance of the develop-ment of Sudan are keenlyrecognized and genially treasuredby the Government.”

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Larry [email protected] Fagot Aviel hosted a gath-ering of Fletcher Alumni in the SanFrancisco Bay Area in her SanMateo home on Feb. 25, 2006. Inattendance were 1965 classmatesLarry Struve and Bill Wainwright,along with Fletcher alumni fromthe classes of 1951, 1957, 1961,1971, 1982, 1996, and 2004. LarryStruve gave a presentation on theClass of ‘65 Memoir Book, In theShadow of Camelot, which waswell received. He noted thatexcerpts from Camelot had beenprinted in the Fall/Winter 2005edition of the Book Review of theForeign Policy Association, whichhas been distributed to over 60World Affairs Councils throughoutthe United States. Jon Hartzellhad provided a copy of the bookto the Editor of the Book Review.Chris Beal reports that he pro-vided a copy of Camelot to BobSorenson, brother of Ted Sorenson(former speech writer for Presi-dent John F. Kennedy) in the Fall of2005, and he hoped the book hadsome influence in convincing theSorensons of the prestige andinfluence of the Fletcher Schoolnoted in Ted Sorenson’s address tothe Fletcher School on Feb. 9,2006.

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Sandy [email protected] Rieffel gets the prize for themost peripatetic, social, and prob-ably busy alum of the Class of1968. He provided the followingnews: In December 2005, Lex andwife Alaire visited with TerryMyers, currently serving as USAIDDirector in Moscow. He also sawTerry and his wife in DC whenTerry was struggling with Russianlanguage training. He’s probablyfluent by now. Roger Sullivan isnow fully retired from the WorldBank.

Curt Martin reports he was verydisappointed to miss the 35threunion, but proud of his daughterwho graduated that day fromHaverford. “What have I beendoing? Very happily marriednearly twenty-seven years, raisedone terrific daughter, taught Politi-cal Science at Merrimack collegefor thirty-two years, fifteen of it asDepartment Chair. My researchand writing have focused on case-writing (most recently Bush’s deci-sion to seek UN authority for waragainst Iraq) and nonproliferationissues (Iran and North Korea). I seeTerry Deibel and Lex Rieffel fromtime to time. We just had dinnerwith Lex and Alaire in DC last sum-mer. When time allows, I paintmarine landscapes or build shipmodels.” Peter Russell is retiredfrom J.P. Morgan Chase, and Lex isstill Chairman of the Board of AED,the DC-based development advi-sory firm, and looking after grand-children. Lex recently saw


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Jumana receiving her award Leif Christoffersen receiving theSt. Olav’s Medal

Maureen (Han) and HermanFranssen in connection with Lex’swork on Myanmar/Burma. NeelieMendenhall Small, ChristinaSchoux, Maureen and he also metin Washington last year. Lex isworking on a major project atBrookings, a study related tomilitary reform in Indonesia. His“minor” project is on overseasservice opportunities for Ameri-cans. You can read Lex’s fascinat-ing working paper, posted lastNovember, on the Brookings web-site, He is also teaching a graduatecourse on emerging marketsfinance at George WashingtonUniversity.

Fo rmer Ambassador Alan Mc Ke e i sre t i redand wo rking on declassifica-tion of St ate doc u m e nts and trave l-i n g. Ba r b a ra Po rte r re po rt s,“a fte r35 years of sales and marke t i n gpositions in te c h n o l ogy, i n fo rm a-tion serv i ces and consulting firm s(the last position being SVP of Ma r-keting for the largest healthca rei n fo rm ation co m p a ny in the US),we moved to our wate rf ro nt‘re t i re-m e nt’ home near Se attle where Ibegan the next phase of my lifej o u rn ey as a re a l to r. This is a gre ata rea for real estate inve s t i n g, if anyalums are inte re s te d.”

Steve Johnson is alive and well atTara Farm Tubrid, Kenmare, CountyKerry, Ireland. Vivian WitkindDavis is interim director of aresearch institute at the Ohio StateUniversity that does research onregulation of electricity, naturalgas, telecommunications, andwater supply. The youngest of herthree children is out of the nestand a freshman at Tufts. She istaking a course in internationalrelations this semester and think-ing of being a poli sci major. Sheis also taking Russian and will livein the Russian house next year.

Carmen Diana Deere assumedthe position of Director of theCenter for Latin American Studiesand Professor of Food andResource Economics and LatinAmerican Studies at the Universityof Florida in August 2004.

Jon Small recently returned froma trip to Cambodia and NewZealand. By the time you read this,your faithful Class Secretary willhave returned from South Amer-ica, where she expects to run intoclassmate Raul Vinuesa, andmaybe others. I have had a diffi-cult time staying retired andstarted a new job last summer asan administrative law judge in DC.No robes or gavel, but real hear-ings in a real courtroom and veryinteresting. When in the DC area,please come by or write me…

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Carolyn Setlow [email protected] King writes from Geneva,Switzerland,“In a nutshell, my wife(Maria Jesus) and I are retired aftera 42 year career in the StateDepartment and US Arms Control& Disarmament Agency. We areliving in Geneva, after havingspent 12 years at the US Missionhere doing arms control negotia-tions (Chemical Weapons Conven-tion, Comprehensive Nuclear TestBan).

Now that I'm retired, I'm busierthan when I was working fulltime.I teach at Webster University'sGeneva campus (InternationalRelations), and I'm the Director ofa non-profit organization calledthe Business Humanitarian Forum(www.bhforum.org), which worksto involve the private sector ineconomic development in post-conflict areas. I'm also the VP forPrograms of the MacJannet Foun-dation, a grant-making group thatfunds international scholarshipsbetween the US and Switzerland/France. My wife and I do a lot ofhiking and cross-country skiingand love being in this beautifulspot in the center of Europe. Weget back to the US frequently, andalso see a lot of Fletcher folks hereas well (we're only an hour awayfrom the Tufts University EuropeanCenter in Talloires, France).

Joe Strasser, a young Naval officerwhen he attended the FletcherSchool, retired at the grade of RearAdmiral, after 32 years in the Navy.His last Navy job was president ofthe Naval War College in Newport,RI. Joe and his wife Barbara havefour children, all grown and ontheir own, and six grandchildren,the most recent being twins bornlast November.

“Upon retirement,” Joe writes,“Iwent to Penn State University, firstas the Campus Executive Officer ofthe Penn State campus in DuBois,PA, and ultimately Dean of theCommonwealth College (whichwas made up of 12 campusesthroughout the state). In 2000, Bar-bara and I returned to Newport,where I currently serve as theExecutive Director of the NavalWar College Foundation.

Peter (Max) McSloy writes fromLondon that he retired from beingthe COO of Saloman Brotherswhen he was 50. He then took upvarious Chairmanship and DeputyChairmanship roles in quotedcompanies. Next, he was per-suaded to take on many mentor-ing roles with the most brilliantstudents of Cambridge and Oxford(as well as Winchester Collegewhich his son Nicholas attended,the oldest school in the world andthe highest ranking school inBritain). “I really enjoy this work;”writes Max;“the students are seri-ously smart, but have all the usualyoung person issues. The role iswhat some of them call guru; oth-ers appreciate the introductions tomovers & shakers not available tothem because of their social orethnic origins; others want to talkabout why their mother has justwalked out on their father.”

Max and Dee (a Magistrate in theFamily Court and the Youth Courtin London) have three kids:Alexandra is a consultant equineveterinary surgeon. A Marathonrunner and varsity polo player,Nicholas is an investment bankerspecializing in derivative trading,and a Varsity and National rower.

Francesca (17) is a fanatical poloplayer who wants to be a doctor.Max reports that he is in regularcontact with Ginger DaSilva (F’71)who lives in Amsterdam), SherryDorward, Sue (Doerner) Oliver,Chuck Lawson and Chip Prager.They and their partners will be theguests of Max and his wife Dee inthe South of France in July tocelebrate a “significant birthday.”

Nancy Tumavick completed twoyears as Associate Partner with theIBM Consulting Services Interna-tional Account in March this yearand is returning to USAID for a fewmonths to work on the Africatrade agenda.

Nancy lives in a suburb of Wash-ington, D.C. and remains active inFletcher School activities andAlumni Club. On 9/11/2004 mar-ried Dr. Gary Waxmonsky who isthe EPA Chief of Staff for Interna-tional Affairs. Younger daughterVictoria Sperling is a junior atTufts and spending a semester inParis. Older daughter AlexandraSperling is at University of Utahin their graduate program at theCenter for Middle Eastern Studiesafter three years at Oxford.

Anne Emerson is President ofthe Boston Museum Project(www.bostonmuseum.org). Afterworking in the arts at Boston Uni-versity during the 80’s, Anne wentto Harvard for a wonderful decadeas executive director of the Weath-erhead Center for InternationalAffairs. “My work with Bob Put-nam in that era led me to createan initiative to build a center forBoston history and civic dialoguewhich would be a catalyst forsocial change in the city andregion. We have recently beengiven a wonderful site next to theFanueil Hall Marketplace on thenew Rose Kennedy Greenway (for-merly the Big Dig) and are work-ing with architect Moshe Safdiewho has created an extraordinarydesign for a 125,000 square footbuilding. I am married to PeterAltman, artistic director of theKansas City Repertory Theatre and

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have two grown daughters whoare both artists. It’s been a won-derful life and I’m looking forwardto the next forty years. Would loveto hear from classmates ([email protected]).”

Jose Luis Fernandez is residing inthe Dominican Republic since Jan-uary 2, 2006. “I have a consularconsulting service – that is, coun-seling people on immigrant andnonimmigrant visa applications tothe US, completing visa forms, etc.As you may recall, I served in theUS Foreign Service from l969 untill978, in Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaicaand the Dominican Republic.”

Jose Luis writes that he is “verybusy and very happy.” He alsoplans to return to real estate (hisprofession in Naples, Florida,where he still has his activelicense) and other businesses.In his spare time, he writes poetrybooks and is working on abiography of an uncle who was afamous bandleader in New Yorkfor many years.

His daughter Raquel is 29, and has2 boys (now pregnant – withanother boy!!) She lives in Miami,works and is finishing her ER nurs-ing program. His son Juan, 28,lives north of Atlanta, and has 2daughters and a son. “I amdivorced but have adapted quitewell to that status (was marriedfrom 1972 until 2001!!)” Jose Luiscan be reached [email protected] .

Barbara Ford is Director, Morten-son Center for InternationalLibrary Programs and MortensonDistinguished Professor, Universityof Illinois Library at Urbana-Cham-paign. Her latest news is that shewas elected to the GoverningBoard of the International Federa-tion of Library Associations andInstitutions for a two-year term.

Alice Dress retired from the For-eign Service in late 2005, after 36years of US government service,the last twenty with the Depart-ment of State. “My most recent

assignment was as economiccounselor in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia– which is why I didn't make it theclass of 1969's 35th year reunion. Iam living in Washington, DC andwould enjoy hearing from Fletchercolleagues [email protected].”

Finally, yours truly (CarolynSetlow) thanks all of my aboveclassmates for sharing your news.Unlike many of our retired class-mates, I remain employed full-time, as Executive Vice Presidentof GfK NOP, a Manhattan-baseddivision of GfK, a global marketresearch company. In this role,I provide clients with consumerinsights in order to build brands,innovate, improve marketingeffectiveness and build customerloyalty.

On a more personal note, I havebecome a very happy “emptynester” this year. My husband of21 years and I parted companylast year, and my sons are both atcollege: Alex (21) is at AmherstCollege; Daniel (19) at Lehigh Uni-versity. And their mother is enjoy-ing her life in New York City andher newfound freedom! I am inregular contact with classmatePeter Ackerman, who chairsThe Fletcher School’s Board ofTrustees; and would love to hearfrom others of you.

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Reunion 2006May 19-21Douglass Ayers has been in retire-ment from CIA since 1994, but stillteaches international studies atVMI in Lexington, VA, where he hasbeen for over 10 years. DaughterBetsy, working in theater produc-tion in NYC, will be taking to theroad to stage manage a MozartOpera in Vienna this spring. Shelived in Vienna from age 7-10, so itshould be an interesting “home-coming” for her. Daughter Susan, a

mechanical engineer, is workingfor a defense contractor in Califor-nia but may return to grad schoolin the fall.

Mark Nichols continues to enjoyhis work doing cross-border debtprivate placements for Bank ofAmerica Securities. He completedthe first two Reg D private place-ments out of Greece last year.Mark thanks Andrei Vandoros forteaching him enough Greek to bedangerous. For some reasoneveryone at BofA now thinks hehas a special affinity for Greekclients! He managed one trip“down under” to help advance thecompany’s franchise in Australia.Several trips to London enabledhim to catch up with a fewFletcherites; as well as his annualsojourn to Talloires for the FletcherSymposium in June. This event hasbecome hard-coded in his calen-dar as a “must do” fun trip. Hewould love to see more of theClass of ‘71 take advantage of thiswonderful weekend of great food,wine, sparkling conversation andstimulating thought. For moreinformation on the Talloiresreunion, please contact [email protected] .

Mark still very much enjoys theopportunity to serve on the Boardof Overseers and is very proud ofthe progress Fletcher has madeover the last several years. He isactive, as well, as a Mentor to bothcurrent students as well as gradu-ates. He is particularly pleased tohave recruited an outstandingDickinson graduate to the Fletcherfamily this past year. While nolonger playing a formal role in theFletcher Club of New York, he hasbeen able to attend several recentevents and is very pleased withthe leadership efforts of ClubLeaders Raymond Linsenmayerand Deborah Eisenberg. He says:“Hope to see many of my class-mates at reunion this year. Hardto believe it was only 35 yearsago when I entered Fletcher asa 10-year old child prodigy...!”

Other than short stints at Law ofthe Sea Co n fe re n ces in Ge n eva ,Malta and Ca ra ca s, Bill Sa rg e ntfears he has been a Fl e tc h e rd ro po u t. I n s tead of having we l l -paid inte rn ational jobs, he hasbeen paid co n s i d e rably less help-ing to prod u ce films for the NOVAS c i e n ceseries and writing boo k son the env i ro n m e nt. He justre t u rned from New Orleans wherehe is writing about what manyconsider to be the first major disas-ter caused by global wa rm i n g. Th i swill be chronicled in his upco m i n gboo k , Writing Nat u ra l l y; a Me m o i rwhich will include brief passagesa bout his time at Fl e tc h e r.

Jess Ford is still with GAO but get-ting closer to retirement as soonas he can figure out what to dowith all the free time. He still has-n’t decided whether he will go tothe reunion in May. He will make adecision soon.

Emilio Sanchez-Santiago isFounder, Partner and ManagingDirector; Hispanic Financial Devel-opment LLC, Los Angeles, CA.

David G. Frantz is Director, ProjectFinance, OPIC, Washington, DC. Hisyounger son is graduating fromthe Naval Academy and enteringNavy pilot training the week fol-lowing the reunion, so unfortu-nately he won’t be able to make it.His older son is deputy generalcounsel for the Pennsylvania Dept.of Banking, and is still a director ofproject finance at the OverseasPrivate Investment Corp. in DCafter ten years. He still lives inAnnapolis, MD with his family.He extends his greetings to all!

Fred K. Green is still retired fromUS Army. He is Adjunct Professorof Int. Law at the University ofMissouri-Kansas City and EthicsOmbudsman for CartwrightInternational Van Lines.

Germany’s new ambassador toWashington is Klaus Scharioth.He took over in March from fellowFletcher alumnus, WolfgangIschinger (F’73). Ischinger will


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become Germany’s top diplomatat the Court of St. James inLondon after nearly five yearsin Washington.

Michael J. Vilbert is Principal atThe Brattle Group, Cambridge, MA.He was a 21-year-old 2nd LT in theAir Force at Fletcher after graduat-ing from the Air Force Academy inJune 1970. He completed a 22-year career in the AF as a fighterpilot and Professor of Manage-ment at the AF Academy. The AFsent him to the Wharton School toget a PhD in Finance so he couldteach at the Academy. Uponretirement from the AF, he movedto Boston to join a very small eco-nomic consulting firm called TheBrattle Group where he is nowpartner. When he joined the firm,there were about 20 people in oneoffice. They now have about 200people in five offices. He has oneson, 30. He hopes the reuniongoes well.

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Martha Kelley is still a Foreign Ser-vice Officer, now posted in Wash-ington, DC.

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Reunion 2006May 19-21President Lula of Brazil appointedH.E. Enrique RicardoLewandowski to be the newestJustice of the “Supremo TribunalFederal,” Brazil’s top court.Abdulkader Thomas in additionto publishing a new book, Struc-turing Islamic Finance Transac-tions (see recent publications) hasmoved with his family to Kuwaitwhere his business SHAPE™ Finan-cial Corp. has expanded.

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Greek Prime Minister Kostas Kara-manlis and fellow alum Raffi Hov-annisian, Armenia’s first Ministerof Foreign Affairs met at Karaman-lis’ offices in August to discuss afull agenda of issues.

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After completing his tour of dutyin The Hague, Netherlands as Min-ister and Consul General of theKorean Embassy, Yong Kyu Parkreturned to Seoul, Korea andassumed the post of Ambassadorat-large and visiting professor ofdiplomacy at the Graduate Schoolof International Studies as SogangUniversity in Seoul.

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Nancy Anderson SonesPlease visit the Club and ClassDirectory athttp://alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/TUFL/for Secretary contact informationCathy Yang wrote that after 9years on the technology beat forBusinessweek she has taken onthe challenge of covering the Fedand economic policy. She lives inthe DC area with her husband Kenand her son, Jeremy (5). During arecent trip to Belgium, MedgeReyes met up with Robert-JanSmits and his wife Monique.

Jeannie Gibson Sullivan writesthat she has been in the Bostonarea since leaving New York City in1987. In 1991, she married Bill Sul-livan and they have two sons, Con-nor (12) and Luke (10). They live inReading, MA. Jeannie works as afinancial advisor for a small firmlocated in Boston, called Back BayFinancial Group, where she doescomprehensive financial planningand investment management. Shehas a few clients who are livingoverseas (or non-US citizens livingin the US), which present a varietyof complex issues. She loves thejob and has been there 6 years.Last May, Mavis Bauman, KateFarnsworth and Edie Millar from

the class of 1985 stayed at Jean-nie’s house (conveniently 20 min-utes from Fletcher) and sheattended some of their reunionfestivities. Jeannie and several ofalums visited Jerry Rajkarnicar inNepal in 1987, and he popped upin the US a few times. She sawJon Kott and his wife Gini on avisit to the Seattle area in 2004.They live on Vashon Island. MarkDawson is the manager of amutual fund used by Jeannie’sfirm. She saw him at a conferencea few years back (he and Christinaalso live in the Seattle area). GailSmith founder of Cavell Group isnow advising Clearwire on theirEuropean activities.

Vijavat “Kit” Isarabhakdi hastaken up the position of Ministerand Deputy Permanent Represen-tative of Thailand to the UN Officein Geneva. He will actually beserving under another Fletcheralumnus, Ambassador ChaiyongSatjipanon (F’80), Thailand’s Per-manent Representative in Geneva.

As for your Class Secretary, we arein the throes of getting ready tosell our house in the Boston areaand move to Cincinnati as a resultof Proctor & Gamble’s purchase ofGillette. We’ve only been here twoyears and it already seems likehome. Oh well, on to new adven-tures in America’s heartland!

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Edith Johnson [email protected] Johnson Millar, your ClassSecretary, attended our 20thReunion in May 2005 and wroteup the Reunion Class Notes in thelast issue of Fletcher News.

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Mark [email protected] 2006May 19-21Zainah Anwar, a founder of Sistersin Islam, a women’s advocacygroup, was featured in the NewYork Times, Sunday Feb. 19, 2006.

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Joy [email protected] Calvo is still living in Miamiwith his wife, Annmarie, and theirtwo boys, Sebastian (7) and Christ-ian (2). After managing invest-ment funds for Franklin Templetonfor 11 years, Alex is launching hisown hedge fund business. He saysthat if any classmates have extracash they are willing to trust himwith, he would be happy to take it.

Anne Campbell retired from theAir Force in 2004, although she isnow teaching part time at the AirForce Academy as a civilianadjunct professor in the politicalscience department. That leavesher time to take some graduateseminary classes and to chauffeurher 9- and 12-year-old boys tolacrosse practices and games thatrange from Pueblo to Boulder, Col-orado. Her husband got out of theNavy 10 years ago and currentlytelecommutes.Jindra Cekan reports that she vis-ited Margaret Lewis (F’90) in Ohio,where Margaret is teaching anddoing mediation and dispute reso-lution. Jindra still is in Washing-ton, DC, consulting ondevelopment, food and HIV/AIDS.She returned recently from a tripto Niger for Lutheran World Reliefand ran into Michael Watt (F’91),who works for the organization inBaltimore.

John Cooper and his family fin-ished their second four-yearassignment in Europe in 2005, thistime in France. After four yearsbased in the Paris area as directorfor the worldwide sales and busi-ness development team for ValeoSwitches and Detection Systems,


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John was named the general man-ager for Valeo Automotive’s newjoint venture company in Shen-zhen, China. Unfortunately, John’swife, Martha, and their boys – Liam(13) and Kieran (11) – are back inMichigan, to where John is lookingto return in the near future, forobvious reasons: Commutingbetween Michigan and China canget old quickly. He would wel-come hearing from fellowFletcherites [email protected].

Stacy (Bernard) Davis representedthe US at a meeting in Geneva ofthe Mine Action Support Group,which includes 26 donor coun-tries. During her visit, Stacy wasable to have dinner with Barbara(Geary) (F’90) and Philippe Truan(F’89). This was the first time Stacyand Barbara had seen each othersince they graduated fromFletcher 15 years ago.

Carol Hills is still with “The World,”a daily international news pro-gram on public radio based inBoston and London. It is a co-pro-duction with the BBC World Ser-vice. Carol spent a few years inSeattle in the mid-1990s workingon another news program, butthen moved back to the Bostonarea in the summer of 1995 tohelp launch “The World.” She andher husband have two children, a41/2 -year-old son and a 1_ -year-old daughter. She did a fairamount of travel in the program’searly years, but says she’s now“pretty much home- and office-bound.”

Since leaving Washington, DC,more than seven years ago,Michelle Keene has been living inSan Francisco with her husbandand three boys, Michael (7), Maxi-milian (4), and Mattheus (2). Sherecently released a second editionof her book Babies by the Bay(Council Oak Books, 2005) and inher spare time works as a winebroker of Italian imports. She istaking advantage of her back-ground in diplomacy, as she worksclosely with the Italian consulate

getting boutique wines from Italyinto the US market. Michellereports that her boys have thetravel bug and have been toFrance and Italy a couple of times,but are always glad to return totheir beautiful city. Heading herway? Look her up [email protected].

After joining the State Depart-ment in 2003, Bill Lawrence (F’90,F’04) served as Iraq reconstructiondesk officer, for which he won twodepartment awards. Bill says hethen attended the field school inTunis to bone up on diplomaticArabic, only to return to Washing-ton and lose it again. In early 2005he navigated himself into a posi-tion as Tunisia and Libya desk offi-cer, but human resources hastracked him down and assignedhim to Canada.

As of March 2006, Charles Lee hasbeen living in Asia for exactly 10years. Based in Hong Kong since2000, he is now an editor at theEconomist Intelligence Unit (EIU),where he is part of a growingteam covering the China “bubble”– which he reports has replacedthe dotcom bubble as the motherof all bubbles. Dorothy Chan(F’03) is a colleague. Charles andhis wife, an analyst at a Frenchbank, welcomed a son last year,joining his adoring 5-year-old bigsister.Stephen Goodman randomlybumped into Marlies Bullus atCharles de Gaulle. They were bothin Paris for the weekend. He alsohad lunch with Maureen Rivaille.

Deidre Lo continues to work incommercial intelligence and inves-tigations. While she is based inLondon, the international natureof her work means she travelswidely, but so far has not run intoany Fletcherites. She is grateful tothe Fletcher and Tufts alumni inLondon who organize and inviteher to their events: “They alwayssound good and interesting, andone of these days I will actuallymake it to one.”

For the past four years, GeoffMerrill has been working for VolvoGroup as VP of government rela-tions and public affairs. As head ofthe office in Washington, DC, heinteracts with all parts of the USgovernment for the company’struck, bus, construction equip-ment, aerospace and marine divi-sions. He reports that each daythe job offers something new andchallenging and that it also can befun: he is helping to organize andrun the Volvo Ocean Racestopover in the US. The boats willdrop anchor in Baltimore, Annapo-lis and New York this spring, morethan five months into their eight-month voyage around the world.“As a sailor, I’m in heaven with thisassignment,” Geoff writes.

Ric Miranda has been a principalof Houlihan Valuation Advisors, abusiness valuation firm in SaltLake City, for two years and haslived in Salt Lake City for 10. Ric,his wife, Lisa, and daughterAlessandra (8) welcomed a newdaughter and sister, Gabriella, inSeptember 2005. Last year, Ric vis-ited Fletcher alums in Washington,DC, and New York City, includingMark Dow (F’90), John Delong(F’89), Paul Eckert (F’91) and JaneZimmerman (F’88). He would wel-come the chance to show Fletcheralums around Alta (40 ski days thisyear) and some of the best fly fish-ing and hiking in the West.Beth Persky played the role of thesecond research scientist in themovie Fun With Dick and Jane.She appears in the scene in whichTea Leoni volunteers for theresearch study.

Dan Satinsky continues to special-ize in Russian and Commonwealthof Independent States (CIS) proj-ects. He is the executive editor ofRussian Petroleum Investor andCaspian Investor, both journalsfocused on the energy sector inthe CIS. In addition, he is the edi-tor of The Buyer’s Guide to theRussian IT Outsourcing Industry,which will be published thisspring. He resides in Boston andserves as a board member of the

Boston Fletcher Alumni Club. Hewould be very pleased to hearfrom former classmates at [email protected].

Andy and Wendy (Sherwin) Swireremain based in Bethesda, Mary-land. Andy is a lobbyist and adirector of global governmentaffairs at Amgen, the world’slargest biotechnology companyfor the last five years. He travelsfrequently to Los Angeles and washappy to have dinner on his lastvisit there with former roommateTony Suh (F’90). Andy is also anavid singer, and his choir is record-ing its first CD. Wendy’s consultingpractice, called Swire Solutions,continues to expand (www.swires-olutions.com). She provides facili-tation, conflict resolution trainingand executive coaching servicesto large corporations, governmentand international organizations.She has enjoyed traveling over-seas to conduct training programsfor USAID. Wendy is also adjunctprofessor at Johns Hopkins Gradu-ate School of Management, teach-ing negotiation and conflictresolution. Andy and Wendy havetwo boys Sam (11) and Mattie (6),who keep them busy. Contrary torumors by Matt Auer (F’90), theSwires did not name their sonafter him. They have recently ren-ovated and doubled the size oftheir home so they have plenty ofspace now to host Fletcher class-mates and their families.

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Spring, Maryland. Through work,Dan has regular contact with fac-ulty and students at the TuftsSchool of Nutrition. Dan is runningan evaluation of school feeding inNorthern Uganda and doing somework on the effectiveness of foodaid in Ethiopia.

Sophie Huang is Director of afamily office in London calledFund Advisors.“Small company,nice people. I will be doing bothmarketing and looking at invest-ments on hedge funds and privateequity.” Alicia Lebrija Hirschfeldcontinues as Director of Educationand Training for FundaciónTelevisa in Mexico City.

Jill Jamieson continues as manag-ing director of Global Growth Part-ners, an international consultingfirm, concentrating primarily inprivatization and anti-corruptioninitiatives in developing countries.Jill started a charitable foundationlast year to raise money to beatAlzheimer’s.“Our first project was‘Memory Joggers’ and for the pur-pose of raising money and aware-ness, I ran the Chicago Marathon.I placed a whopping 19,000th outof 40,000, which really isn’t as badas it sounds, especially consideringthat in the critical 4 weeks prior tothe race, I had been sleeping onthe floor of a church in southernMississippi, while assisting Hurri-cane Katrina victims with the RedCross. In June or July, look for myfirst book Dishing Politics to bepublished.

Rohani Musa has been promotedto the post of Undersecretary ofthe International Division at theMinistry of Internal SecurityMalaysia in charge of policyformulation and co-coordinatingimplementation of Malaysia’s com-mitment to international conven-tions on international security andstrategic issues. Rohani also is thenational focal point for issues per-taining to transnational organizedcrimes and international securityboth at regional and multilateralfora. She met up with Dr. SuriyaChindawongse (F’91) in Hawaii in

October 2005 for the ASEANRegional Forum Meeting. Rohanihopes to meet up withFletcherites in New York in June2006 at the UN Review Conferenceon Small Arms and Light Weapons.

Amy Siegel is the director of mar-keting for the new Neurosciencegroup at Aspect Medical in New-ton, MA. She reports,“I’m veryexcited about moving from con-sulting to a company that actuallymakes something! And I am sureto have many electrodes placedon my head over the comingmonths!” Kathy Ward and hus-band Patrick happily announcethe safe arrival of Rebecca TheresaWard Piercey on February 26.Finally, Nicole “Nicci”Young con-tinues her work at The ExplorersClub in New York.

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Dorothy Zur Muhlen-Tomaszewskad o ro t hy. to m a s zews ki @ m a i l . d oc. g ovKingsley Moghalu was appointedby UN Secretary-General KofiAnnan as a member of the highlevel Redesign Panel on the UN’sInternal Justice System. This is animportant component of theongoing reform of the UN, andquite an honor that a Fletchergrad is playing a key role.

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Larry [email protected] of career transitions, publica-tions, and babies for the class of1995! Matt Levitt left the Wash-ington Institute for Near East Pol-icy to become Deputy AssistantSecretary for Intelligence andAnalysis at the Treasury Depart-ment. His book, HAMAS: Politics,Charity and Terror in the Service ofJihad (Yale University Press), wasreleased in April.

Sheba Crocker is serving asdeputy chief of staff to the UNSecretary-General’s special envoyfor tsunami relief, Bill Clinton. Sheremains a Senior Associate in Post-Conflict Reconstruction at theCenter for Strategic and Interna-tional studies (CSIS). This summer,Arnout Brouwers will leave his jobas Foreign Editor for “de Volk-skrant” newspaper in Amsterdamto become the paper’s Moscowcorrespondent.

After over a decade overseas,Maura Lynch moved back to theUS in April, where she has begunworking in New York on transitionand recovery issues for UNDP’sBureau for Crisis Prevention andRecovery (BCPR). In her last posi-tion, she served as UNOCHA’sGeneva-based Asia and Pacificdesk for natural disasters, whereshe handled the tsunami, theearthquake in Pakistan, and sev-eral landslides, cyclones, earth-quakes, and volcano eruptions.

Christian Hougen and his familyare transferring out of the USAIDmission in India. Christian is goingto the USAID mission in Baghdad(economic growth portfolio),daughter Helen is going to col-lege, and Haiman will work out ofInternational Finance Headquar-ters in Washington duringChristian’s year in Iraq. If anyFletcherites are working on Iraq,please send Christian a note. He’dlike to have a beer sometimeduring home leave this summer.If you are in Baghdad, be sure tosend him a note; he’ll look youup after he arrives([email protected]).

Karen (Hultgren) Bruce hasrelocated to Minneapolis withher husband Staven and childrenGrover and Adelaide. Karen hasbegun teaching the BradleyMethod of natural childbirth.In December, Elinor Sloan wasawarded tenure at CarletonUniversity in Ottawa, where sheteaches international securitystudies. In November shepublished her most recent book,

Security and Defence in theTerrorist Era. It’s good to be theboss! Ladeene Freimuth is settingup her own Washington-basedenergy & environmental consult-ing firm, building on business witha long-time client. In February, shehad drinks in Jerusalem with JulieWerbel, (F’96), who was workingon Palestinian security reform, andGayle Meyers (F’97), who worksfor the NGO Search for CommonGround.

Howard Sklamberg is an AssistantUS Attorney in DC in the fraud andpublic corruption section. He iscurrently prosecuting a caseinvolving bribes paid to recentlyresigned Congressman Randy“Duke” Cunningham (R-California).Previously, as a trial attorney in theJustice Department’s PublicIntegrity Section, he participatedin a case involving the removal ofclassified documents from theNational Archives by formerNational Security Advisor SandyBerger.

Evelyn Farkas caught up withCaptain Kerry Ingalls (F’94) on arecent trip to Kabul. Kerry is a spe-cial assistant to Lieutenant Gen-eral Eikenberry, the commander ofUS forces in Afghanistan, and Eve-lyn works for the Senate ArmedServices Committee. FernandoGonzalez-Saiffe is the MexicanEmbassy’s Liaison to the US Houseof Representatives in Washington,dealing mostly with immigrationreform issues. He recentlyco-published a book on Mexicanpositions regarding UN reform.The book, Las Naciones Unidas asus 60 años de Fundación:desafíos y perspectivas para elsiglo XXI, edited by the MexicanLower House of Congress and ElColegio de Mexico.

Marguerite Roy is in her secondyear of law school at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis and willstudy at Utrecht University in theNetherlands over the summer.Newly single Mark Baker finishedhis home renovation andpromptly put the house up for


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sale. He still works on interna-tional trade issues for Diageo.Stephan Berwick is doing busi-ness development at NorthropGrumman in suburban Washing-ton. Joel Rehnstrom continues tofind his work with the UN programon HIV/AIDS in China interestingand rewarding after three yearsin the country. He works andsocializes with David Dobrowolski(F’89). Joel’s wife, Eugenia Lizano,is on leave from the World TradeOrganization and keeping herselfbusy with short-term consultan-cies and Chinese language classes.Roger Baty continues working onhomeland defense budget andcapabilities processes at USNorthern Command in ColoradoSprings. He’s gone back to schoolfor a masters-level HomelandDefense Certificate at the Univer-sity of Colorado, which he willfinish this fall.

Cynthia “Cymie” Payne is the NewAssociate Director at University ofCalifornia, Berkeley School of Law’snew California Center for Environ-mental Law & Policy. She justspent six years at the UN Compen-sation Commission, where she wasa senior attorney responsible foran international team of lawyersand technical experts assessingclaims of damage to the environ-ment and public health from con-flict in the Persian Gulf.

Babies! Fiona (Wilson) Jeynesgreeted baby number two, Dun-can Fraser Jeynes, on December21. Duncan Hollis and his wifeEmily had baby number three, ArloReed Hollis, on March 5. Duncanteaches international law at Tem-ple University in Philadelphia,where he relived his Fletcher daysby coaching Temple’s Jessup MootCourt team to victory in theregional competition. Finally,yours truly, Larry Hanauer, wel-comed Carter Jackson (“C.J.”)Hanauer into the world on Janu-ary 13. When my wife, Julie,returns to work in April, I will takeeight weeks’ paternity leave frommy position at the House of Rep-resentatives Permanent Select

Committee on Intelligence. Theother members of our family – ayellow lab, two cats, and a rabbit –are adjusting well to the newaddition. Stay in touch!

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Reunion 2006May 19-21As always our class is moving andmultiplying…many are planningon attending our 10th yearreunion! (TEN YEARS already?!)Several classmates have movedback to the Boston-area…MaryRegan returned from Ecuador inearly 2005 and is now the Out-reach and Publications Managerfor the David Rockefeller Centerfor Latin American Studies(DRCLAS) at Harvard. She is man-aging a grant from the US Dept. ofEducation that designates DRCLASa National Resource Center onLatin American, and is marketingthe Center’s publications series.

Rusty Barber also returned toMassachusetts (Northampton)after finishing up a year-long stintin Vienna on the US delegation tothe Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe. As the del-egation member responsible forCentral Asia policy, he got a kickout of traveling around thatregion and working on post-revo-lution stability in Kyrgyzstan. He is

leaving the State Department,however, in order to be nearer tofamily and start up a sustainableenterprise project. While still inVienna, he received a wonderfulNew Year’s visit from HelenaCerna and her husband, David,now ensconced in Amsterdam. Helooks forward to reconnectingwith folks at reunion this summer.

DC is also a popular destination…Jen Evans Bilchick has been work-ing as a Middle East Analyst forthe Department of Defense inWashington, DC since shortly aftergraduation. She loves her job asshe is always learning new things,feels like her work is importantand is making a difference. Shealso enjoys the occasional travel,especially when it is to the MiddleEast. She married Ken Bilchick in1998 (we went to undergradtogether at Dartmouth), and theynow have two wonderful daugh-ters: Jessica (31/2) and Nicole (2).She works with or seesFletcherites, Ruth Citrin at theState Dept, Erin English, RandallBentley, Erin Conatin on the Hill.She used to see MarshallBillingslea (F’95) at the Pentagon,before he left for Europe.

Suzanne White is the Senior Advi-sor for Intelligence Requirementsand Resources at Department ofDefense, in the Office of the UnderSecretary of Defense for Intelli-gence. She works on the policyand oversight of funding for mili-tary intelligence activities. She(happily) returned to governmentlast year after spending two yearsas a strategic planner for GeneralDynamics Corporation. She andher husband, Dave Keyser, are alsothe proud parents of Jackson Gar-rett (11/2), who is constantly on themove and keeps them very busy.They moved into a new house inSeptember in the Glover Parkneighborhood of DC and lovebeing able to walk everywhere!Anthony Wanis-St. John (F’96,F’01) accepted an offer to join thefaculty at American University’sSchool of International Service, inthe division of International Peace

and Conflict Resolution, as of Sep-tember 2006. He’ll now join the DCFletcher Club! In May and June2006, he will co-teach Fletchersummer course in InternationalMediation with fellow alum, Dar-ren Kew (F’94, F’02). He just raninto Jin Joo, Maria Vardis, WendyGutierrez and Sara Ivry in NYC.He’ll help organize the ‘96 reunionwith Wendy Gutierrez and PedroMunoz. He taught in the FletcherMediation Practicum in November.Anthony continues to publish andwill soon publish a piece on theIran/EU negotiations and theKosovo negotiations. He is alsodeveloping an on-line executivenegotiation course with co-alumElie Farhat at Lebow College ofBusiness, Drexel University. Speak-ing of Elie Farhat, Elie and Jin HuiJoo married in July 2003 and werejoined by baby boy Elian Jang-UnFarhat on November 17, 2005.

Sunny California has beckonedErika de la Rosa and continues tobe home for Rhonda LongmoreGrund. Erika de la Rosa completedher PhD this past January at BU inLegal and Economic Latin Ameri-can Studies. She focused on sixMexican privatization cases inMexico (3 winners and 3 failed) todetermine what made them suc-ceed or fail. She moved to SanFrancisco – where she continuesto work with the Latin Americapractice of Bingham McCutchenLLP and will marry her long dis-tance sweetheart – Patrick Hen-nessy (total of 31 flights and200,256 miles combined) thissummer in Napa! “He had by thenspoken to my mom (in Spanish –he is more fluent now but then hehad to practice to make sure hesaid the right thing and also to tellher not to say anything to me).After spending 10 years in Boston,


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Larry Hanauer’s son Carter

Elias Farhat’s son, Elias Jang-Un Farhat

it was time to move on to nicerweather! I am settling in and look-ing forward to attending some ofthe events from the Fletcher Clubof San Francisco.” Rhonda joinedIngram Micro in September as theVice-President of Finance andBusiness Operations for theirWorldwide Technology organiza-tion. She is based in Southern Cal-ifornia and keeping busy with herfamily (husband Jon and two littlegirls Olivia (3) and Mia (almost 2),travel and her career. PhilipAquilino transferred from NewYork to San Francisco and is now aDirector in the Large Bank Super-vision Group at the FederalReserve Bank of San Francisco.

Tim House and Wendy Philleodid the reverse commute, theymoved from Palo Alto, CA toCharlottesville, VA in January 2005.They have a two-year-old girl anda baby boy due in late February.Wendy is a Program Officer atthe Hewlett Foundation for theEnvironment Program and Tim stillworks at TradeBeam, the Bay Areabased software firm helped start6 years ago.

Further south is Wendy Gutierrez.Wendy and her husband, JimCheeks, welcomed their first childon December 9, 2005. They had ahealthy little boy named Alex. Allis well for them in Atlanta; she islooking forward to catching upwith folks at our reunion this May.

And even further still is ChristianBarbero. After 5 years living inColombo, Sri Lanka, ChristianBarbero and his family movedto La Paz, Bolivia where he is cur-rently senior advisor on Conflictand La Paz portfolio coordinatorfor SNV (Dutch developmentcooperation). They are very happyin La Paz and urge any Fletcheritesto get contact them if by chancethey pass through the altitudecapital of the world. Christianand his wife

Claudia Ibarguen (F ‘97) areexpecting their first child (a girl) inApril.Their daughter will be born

in Bolivia instead of in Mexico orBuenos Aires.

Dana Francis has migrated north;she and her husband, Jose Santa-cana, are finishing up a three-yearposting at the US Embassy inYaounde, Cameroon. In August,they will move to Brussels, whereDana will be working on Africanand refugee issues at the US Mis-sion to the European Union, andJose will be working at the US Mis-sion to NATO. They are having lotsof fun with their son, Sam (3), whogoes to a French preschool andsoon will be correcting his par-ents’ French!

Congratulations to Vinny O’Neil,Ricarda Roos and Melisssa ConleyTyler. Vinny’s upcoming murdermystery book – Murder in Exile –won the St. Martin’s Press “MaliceDomestic” Best First TraditionalMystery Competition last year. Hehas already submitted the sequelto St. Martin’s. The first chapter ofhis book is available at www.vin-centhoneil.com. Ricarda Roos quither job at an international law firmlast year to follow her heart andwork in the field of human rights,democratization, and the rule-of-law. She moved to Bucharest onApril 1, where she will be estab-lishing and heading a rule-of-lawprogram for South East Europe(Romania, Bulgaria and WesternBalkans) sponsored by theKonrad-Adenauer-Foundation. Sheanxiously waits for the green lightfrom her doctoral thesis supervi-sor to defend her PhD. Melissa H.Conley Tyler was recentlyappointed Executive Director ofthe Australian Institute of Interna-tional Affairs and hopes that anyFletcher Faculty or alumni visitingAustralia will make contact withher. Daughter, Jocelyn, was born inSeptember 2005 and has been agorgeous, easy, very smiley baby.Gwendolen has settled in to beinga big sister very well and thewhole family is remarkably blissfulat the moment. She is really look-ing forward to the reunion and isencouraging people to come.

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Alexia [email protected] spot has been rather sparse inthe past few editions of ClassNotes, but we are in for a treat thistime. It was great to hear from somany classmates – many of whomare already planning for our 10year reunion next year! Mostnews is about changes – babies,moves, and new jobs. VoytekSiewierski however (happily)reports that he has the same wife,same kids. Oh, and after six yearsin Japan, he moved to London in2004 and works with NTTDocoMo. German Olave and hiswife Carola are enjoying their Ben-jamin (7), and were delighted tovisit with Dominique Steverlynckin December. German is an inde-pendent consultant in Negotiationand Strategic Planning and usesinnovative software that graphi-cally presents options that createvalue for all parties. MeighanHoward reports that she nowworks for a great non-profit andenjoys a much less stressful life,though she also manages to run asmall investment company on theside, do a lot of volunteer work,and engage in community gar-dening! Maureen Luna-Long isworking as a Senior Economistwith the US Government Account-ability Office (GAO) where shespecializes in evaluating US policyand programs in infrastructurefinancing. She is married to anOxbridge physicist cum director ofa software consultancy and has ason, Aidan (6), and a daughter, Tara(2). Chris Samuel has been withSave the Children for almost a yearworking out of their Connecticutheadquarters as senior managerfor International Alliance projects.She helps create and strengthennew STC members (including Italyand Australia). Chris lives in Fair-field with her husband, Frank. Fol-lowing a promotion to manager ofthe Shipping Division of theNational Bank of Greece, DimitriVassilacos is back in Greece sinceMay 2005 after 5 years in London.He spends most of his time on

ship finance, but also on wholesalecredit issues of wider interest.Family-wise, Dimitri and his wife,Sophia, immensely enjoy the com-pany of their daughter, Emma-Eleni (1). Claudia Ibarguen andChristian Barbero (F’96) are nowliving in La Paz, Bolivia whereChristian works with SNV. Theyvisited Ana Paola Barbosarecently on a trip to New York,where Ana Paola works with theMexican mission at the UN. Forthe past two years (and after 5years in Brazil), Sean Lieb hasbeen working with MetLife’s inter-national division doing a variety ofstrategic projects, such as integrat-ing acquisitions in Latin America,restructuring subsidiaries, andmanaging the company’s entryinto the Russian life insurancemarket. Bryan Tenney lives inNorthen Virgina with his wife,Astrik, and their two daughters,Jacqueline (31/2) and Catherine (1).He works as a Special Agent forthe Department of State in theOffice of the Inspector Generaland cases have taken him toEthiopia, South Africa, Ghana,Mozambique, and France. NathalieIshizuka has never written before,so we have almost 10 years tocatch up. After attending Berkeley,she left academia to gain newskills in business and newtechnologies to help her improvecommunicating models of mentalhealth and healthy living to thegeneral public. After starting ahigh tech communication com-pany, Nathalie is now writing andillustrating a health series for busyadults and kids. Her book, MomSays, Dad Says, Nat Says: Other islikely to be enjoyed by theFletcher international crowd whohave not always fit neatly into anyone category. Katrina DestreeCochran (F’95) couldn’t put itdown even though she received itthe night before leaving on holi-day to Goa, India. Nathalie will alsobe the godmother to Katrina’snew little arrival and third littleboy, Augustin. In the midst of allthis, Nathalie married Bruno Julienfrom Biarritz, France and had abeautiful son, Dimitri. Many


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Fletcherites attended her weddingin the South of France includingAugustin Escardino and NicoleMonter, Dominique Steverlynck,Rainer and Angelika Staub, MarkNguyen, and Dinah Koehler.…BABIES, ALL GIRLS! …TamarDolgen had a baby girl namedRose Abby. She lives in LA whereshe juggles motherhood and afull-time job working on market-ing with Warner. Lisa di RosaTiger and Sebastian Tigerrecently welcomed a new bundleof joy, Sabrina, who joins her bigsister Alexandra. John Furlow andhis wife Nancy are also proud par-ents of the beautiful Tessa. Andthe most recent arrival isKatharine (“Katie”), who was bornto Rebecca Kreis Strutton andhusband Darryl. Rebecca looksforward to spending the summerwith Katie and older brother, Will,while on maternity leave fromFreshfields. NEW JOBS… MarkNguyen has joined a new law firm,Bryan Cave LLP, and is now basedin LA. Scott Sheriff has acceptedan offer to become the controllerof ABB’s factory in Jefferson City,Missouri. He, wife Jamie and theirson William (3) will soon moveinto a new home (first house theyown!) in Columbia, MO. CameliaMazard is opening a new antitrustand international trade boutiquelaw firm called Doyle, Barlow &Mazard PLLC that will specialize inrisk arbitrage matters, mergersand acquisitions, and antidumpingmatters. Still with UNHCR, AnnaGreene will soon be returning toWashington, DC to head up theUNCHR Caribbean Unit, coveringasylum issues throughout theCaribbean, with a particularemphasis on the situation in Haitiand US interdiction policy. [Notefrom yours truly: I am happy tohave someone so competentworking on Haiti!] Anna looks for-ward to reacquainting herself withthe Fletcher crowd on the EastCoast. Lisa Silverman will soon beleaving beautiful Walla, Walla,Washington, where she hasenjoyed teaching for the past yearat Whitman College (and partak-ing of the wine in the area with

visiting friends like Yolanda Cos-sio). Lisa has accepted an Assis-tant Professor of History positionat the University of Wisconsin-Mil-wauke. PHDs…Ana MitrovicTrbovich completed her FletcherPhD in February 2006 and is nowteaching Negotiations and Euro-pean Integration in Belgrade, andchasing after her two sons, Marko(41/2) and Urosh (13/4). She cele-brated the successful defense ofher PhD in Boston with Women’sForum co-activists: Kristina Lyons,Elaine Papoulias, and KatieHamill. After three full years ofresearch and 20 disks of collectednotes, Andrew Harrod has written380 of the estimated 800/900pages of his dissertation on Aus-trian neutrality from 1955-2005.Thanks to all for writing, and let’sstay in touch leading up to thereunion.

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Carol-Monica Frausto1647 C Street, N.E.Washington, DC [email protected] the news fit to print…DavidPacheco is still trying to keep NYCsafe, working for the NYPD advis-ing the Police Commissioner onsecurity threats, both internationaland criminal, affecting the city. Hehasn’t run into many Fletchergrads in his line of work, especiallysince he has been visiting a lot ofprisons all over the US this pastyear...stay tuned, he’ll let us knowif he runs into anybody we know!Marilyn Odchimar-Gerlach was inDC last June from Germany tocover a news event and metRoquena Cookie Domingo andme, Carol-Monica Frausto, andseparately had coffee with Meg

Donovan (F’99), who is now withthe International Monetary Fund.Polly Laurelchild-Hertig is up toher eyebrows with this, that, andthe other thing…Her “family” hasexpanded to include 1 bunny, 2cats, and 2 horses – the horses livein their own “gated community” inBedford, while she still lives in herbig old Victorian on Broadway inSomerville.“All Fletcher pals arewarmly invited to go horsebackriding, and/or crash on my sofa ifvisiting town.” Workwise, she isDirector of Communications andDevelopment Director (part-time)for two small nonprofits based inthe Boston area, plus doing free-lance PR and stage-managing forthe arts community, plus runningan independent property-man-agement business…whew, andshe is still judging the JessupInternational Moot Court competi-tion every year. Lindy Cameron iscurrently enjoying a three monthholiday between her postings andthen off in June to Kabul for 18months as Head of DFID (UKDepartment for InternationalDevelopment’s Afghanistan office)Afghanistan. Andrea Wilczynski,after 11/2 years in Prague withVodafone (formerly Oskar Mobil,bought last summer), will be mov-ing to Madrid…She’ll start withEuropraxis Consulting in May,working mostly in their telecomvertical…So, she is busy now try-ing to wrap things up in Prague,and getting her Spanish up tospeed. Mike McErlean, a Colonel inthe Marines, has moved over tothe Secretary of the Navy’s Officein the Pentagon as Senior Marin.He will be working on departmentlevel strategic issues and programanalysis. He bumped into ToddChappell (F’99) in the hallwayrecently; he works downstairs atthe Department of Defense.“Lookslike Fletcher is taking over thePentagon. Please give a call ifyou’re in town!” NatashaNadazdin writes she is off toNairobi where she is being reas-signed to a new job with the UNWorld Food Programme. After hav-ing spent three last years in Romeworking on UN inter-agency

affairs, she is happy to acquiremuch more practical experience,and get closer to the end users oftheir humanitarian services. Shewill be an Emergency Officer,working with a team of colleaguesto provide food assistance todrought-affected populations inthe Northeast of Kenya…She ishoping to find out more aboutother Fletcherites in Nairobi. Jes-sica Lieberman finished her PhDin Political Science at GeorgeWashington University in January!Her dissertation is called:“GlobalMeans, Local Ends? A Case Studyof Transnational Human RightsNetworks in Jordan.” In February,she married William Jaffe who isan assistant attorney general in NYState, and Dia Warren (F’97)attended. Alessandra and LaurentGuinand welcomed the arrival oftheir son, Francesco, in January.Laurent writes,“he is already curi-ous about the world in a trueFletcherite fashion.” Nicole Mon-ter Escardino sent news as sheand Agustin Escardino have beenoff most people’s radar screen forthe past few months. They moved,bought a house in Brussels andare now challenged in jugglingthe remodeling with their jobs.Agustin leading his renewableenergy company into new adven-tures, and Nicole leading herclients at BCG through theiradventures…Their new homedoes however allow them to seeother Brussels Fletcherites likeNathalie Ishizuka (F’97), as well asthe Paris crowd Alexia Latortue(F’97), Yannick Mireur and CarloPozzi…Their daughter Isabel (2) isconquering the challenges of qua-trilingualism through songs shelearns at home and at her kinder-garden. Ari and Monique Nathan,currently serving abroad in“exotic”Tijuana, Mexico, welcomedidentical twin daughters, Lily Annand Clara Rose, to the world onJune 16, 2005. Their foreign lan-guage skills already surpass thoseof their father he states, which isfortunate as the family will bemoving to Bogota, Columbia in2006. Chip Laitinen and ValeriaScott Laitinen are in Bratislava,


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Slovakia with their two children,Maia and Will. Chip is an EconomicOfficer at the US Embassy-Bratislava. Valeria completed ateacher certification program lastyear and will be teaching secondgrade next year at the QualityInternational School. AngelaKachuyevski just completed herPhD, after making a major movefrom Boston to Philadelphia, shefeels for the first time in a coupleof years that she can actuallycatch her breath. Her husbandZhenya was offered a great oppor-tunity to move into a manage-ment position for his company.Her boys were accepted to a won-derful Friends school in Philadel-phia, and are adjusting very well.Sasha is in the Fourth grade andNiki is in First. Remie Roseman isstill at Citigroup, coming up on her6th year with the company. InJanuary, she took on a new role atthe Global Consumer Group sectorlevel, as a Vice President in theCustomer Franchise Management(CFM) group. Within CFM, she ismanaging investment-related ini-tiatives across the Global Con-sumer Group and Smith Barney.She writes it is,“Very challenging,very exciting – and I use what Ilearned in Salacuse’s Negotiationsclass every day!” Prior to joiningCFM, she spent the last 21/2 yearsmanaging a major strategic proj-ect for the Diners Club business, aspart of Citi Cards. On the personalfront, she got a chance to visitManisha Shahane in her new digsout in LA, who is busy establishingherself in the music scene there, aswell as taking on consulting proj-ects. She is also in touch withAndrea Wilczynski and her hus-band Cris, and with Nicole Byrns,who resides in New York with herhusband Lloyd. She also got achance to visit KelsangAukatsang, his partner, Kirsten,and cutie son, Kalden, out in SanFrancisco. Kelsang has an interest-ing job working for a truly fasci-nating photographer, and hasbeen traveling to Brazil a lotrecently. Finally, in personal news,Remie got engaged right afterThanksgiving to a wonderful man

she met in New York, Oliver. Shewrites,“My fiancé, who is German,surprised me during a trip toPuerto Rico. We’re getting marriedin New York later this year. I’vebeen taking German classes atDeutsches Haus at NYU for thepast few months and while I can’tsay much yet, I’m having fun withit.” Jan-Philipp Goetz recentlyreturned from ten amazing daystraveling from the Kilimanjaro toAlexandria and then back to hiswork in Berlin. Jamile Xible hadher third child last May. “Now Ihave Luis Caetano (51/2), EduardoHenrique (4) and Ana Teresa, mybaby. My husband Luis stayedhome with the boys for almostthree years, while I worked at theYankee Group as a Director ofGlobal Operations. Last year,before I had Ana, we decided toswitch places, so I left my job and

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Meg [email protected] (Wesseloh) Oster writes thatshe’s still with Monitor but hasmoved to the suburbs where sheis renovating an old Tudor housein Montclair, NJ. She, GabrielaVelasquez and Zeynep Ogut havea regular chance to catch up attheir international book club (7members, 7 nationalities, 7 jobsand 4 different religions). Imkehosted a pre-Christmas dinnernear Hamburg, for guests MarieTherese (Haddad) Gruebner andhusband Robert, and Vlada Tkachand husband Takashi with theiradorable Japanese looking,Ukrainian speaking daughter,Hana. Imke reports that Hana andher daughter, Viktoria (11/2), gotalong“smashingly”… Tim Swett

recently transferred from Interna-tional Rescue Committee’s Darfurprogram to Thailand where he willwork with Burmese migrants andrefugees until May. Former room-mate Gerrard Khan (F’00) helpedhim land the position. Tim andwife Isabelle welcomed a secondchild, Phoebe Marie-Magdalena,on December 26. Between con-tracts, the Swetts are usually inParis or Chicago and welcome vis-its from anyone in the area.... ArneRees will relocate to New York thisfall, after five years in Switzerland,to take up a position as VP forInternational Development atESPN. Wife Caroline (Barker) Reeswill remain in Geneva at theBritish Embassy to the UN and willfollow later.... Ellen Shaw writesfrom Washington that she’s stillwith the State Department in theOceans, Environment and ScienceBureau, covering Europe, the Mid-dle East, and Africa. HusbandPranav works as a project man-ager for Sprint and daughterAnnika, is 2. A second child is dueJuly 4... Joy Shiferaw is “happilymarried and still working for CAREInternational in Atlanta.” She andher husband recently returnedfrom Timbouctou, Mali achieving alife long dream to visit the distantland.... Susannah Cernojevich wasrecently promoted to Communica-tions Director (from press secre-tary) for US Representative LynnWoolsey (D-Petaluma), the firstmember of congress to introducelegislation calling for US troops towithdraw from Iraq. She recentlytraveled to New Zealand for herbrother’s wedding....Margaret(Scicluna) Rudin (F‘99) andhusband David welcomed a son,Chase Aaron Rudin, to their familyon June 6. They recently relocatedto Seattle where David is within-house counsel for Microsoft.Margaret resigned from her posi-tion as associate with Kaye ScholerLLP after six years with the inter-national trade group in order tobe a stay at home mother....Jen Leonard writes from DCwhere she works with the Interna-tional Crisis Group that she is nowengaged but has “no plans on

next steps.” She promises toupdate all those interested bypostcard! Jen saw a bunch offamiliar faces, including EricEversman, wife Lygeia and baby,when Jen Croft visited DC lastDecember (Eric is a technical advi-sor with CRS at their headquartersin Baltimore)... Jen also visited withJennifer Bayon and new husbandMehdi Drissi in Rome where theywill remain until at least 2008.Mehdi works for the FrenchEmbassy and Jennifer is with theUN World Food Programme.They’ve hosted quite a few visitorsincluding Tania Tesche and TobyWolfe (in town fromMoscow)...Lashelle Roundtree isliving in Cyprus where she worksfor the US Embassy. She enjoyswork and reports that she fre-quently runs into Fletcherites...Marilyn Odchimar Gerlach is stillwith AFX News in Frankfurt, Ger-many... Liana Lum lives in DC withhusband and new baby Sabina,who will be 3 in July... KarinChamberlain remains active withthe Fletcher Club of Boston. Shewrites that she spent two weeks inEgypt last June – pyramids, snor-keling in the Red Sea and hikingon Mt. Sinai in the middle of thenight in order to watch the sunrise. Former roommates AdrienneFitch-Frankel and Joy Shiferawhave both visited and Lee Foleywas in town last summer fromKenya. Karin also managed tocatch up with Jono Rosen (stillwith the same venture capital firmin LA) and family at the (David)Weissman’s last fall.“Next chal-lenge, passing the CFA Level Iexam” ...Dana Hollywood is in histhird year of law school under theArmy’s Funded Legal EducationProgram. After taking the bar inJuly he returns to the Army fulltime and will be posted to Korea.He hopes to return to the Penta-gon after that... Laurent Labaletteis in Geneva working for INGInvestment Management wherehe is in touch with Marc Hofstet-ter. He visited Zaid A. Zaid in NewYork and had a great time strollingaround Central Park in the snow...Joelle Jenny is now working for


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DFID and dividing time betweenLondon and the Middle East. InIraq she worked with fellowFletcherite Lindy Cameron, whohas moved on to become thehead of DFID Afghanistan.... YunjoKo worked as First Secretary forthe Korean Embassy in Washing-ton, DC for the last 3 years but wasjust assigned Counselor to theKorean Embassy in Baghdad....Sonja Bachmann has been inAfghanistan for 31/2 years, workingfor the UN mission (UNAMA) inKandahar on governance, aidcoordination and public adminis-tration support. “After the elec-tions we hope to consolidatedevelopment gains and reach outto the more remote and insecuredistricts especially in the South”.Sonja participated in a DPKO civilaffairs officers’ seminar recently inNY and had a wonderful timecatching up with Zeynep Ogut,Christof Kurz (in town for theweekend) and Letizia Rossano. InKandahar her USAID counterpartis John Patten (MAHA’01). Twomore Fletcherites work in Kabul(Penny Anderson and Tamas) andone is head of the Jalalabad fieldoffice (Hassan El Hag) so they areready to initiate a branch of theFletcher Club.... Noah Rubins (F’97)is still living in Paris with wifeMasha. Noah practices interna-tional arbitration at the Englishlaw firm Freshfields BruckhausDeringer. His book, InternationalInvestment, Political Risk andDispute Resolution, was publishedby Oceana Press in October 2005.Noah says he looks forward tohearing from classmates... LauraKirkpatrick is heading off tonegotiate for ECOSOC and ESCAPin Geneva this July and Bangkoksometime in 2007... BarnabyDonlon and Martina VolpeDonlon are still enjoying life inBrooklyn. Barnaby is a manage-ment consultant with Boston-based Palladium Group (formerlyBalanced Scorecard Collaborative),and Martina is with the Council onForeign Relations.They recentlywent on a fabulous ski trip to LakePlacid with Gabriela Velasquezand Chris Young....Noriko Uesugi

is back at work at the Ministry ofAgriculture, Forestry and Fisherieswhere she is in charge of foodlabeling. Noriko’s son turned fourlast September...Sara Woodringand husband have been in Ghanafor over a year where she worksfor the US Embassy and has beenable to do a lot of travel, includingtrips to Nambia, Botswana, Togo,Benin, France, and the UK.... RazyaKirmani lives in Surrey (UK) withhusband and children Lulu (2) andShiraz (9 months). Razya is a sen-ior analyst with an M&A Monitor inWimbledon... Roger Rigaud writesfrom Ankara where he serves asDeputy Consul at the US embassy.He’s been able to visit with GurcanOnol in Istanbul and also metZeynep Ogut’s parents... OverNew Year’s he hung out in Sara-jevo with Haris Mesinovic andMike Khambatta (and son)...ToshiSuzuki worked in Kazakhstan withJBIC where he helped establisha comprehensive strategicframework for the national oil andgas company (KazMunayGas)....Kuniko (Sakudo) Ogawa writesfrom Japan that she gave birth toa daughter, Erika, last year and istaking time off to enjoy life withher family... Isofumi Fukumoto isalso in Japan but has left NomuraResearch for a position with Sum-itomo Mitsui Banking Corporationwhere he provides M&A Advisoryservices... Dora Cheok took 2004off to do a “global walkabout”including stints in Singapore (tele-vision), Kabul (UNDP) and mostlately Jakarta where she preparedreports and oversaw communica-tions with OCHA (mainly tsunamirelief and recovery)... DanielaAbuzatoaie is program managerwith the Graham School of studiesat the University of Chicago...Matt Burton was last heard fromin Baghdad where he worked onconstitutional negotiations andcreated a US embassy programdesigned to make payments tocivilians injured in the conflict. He“had a chance to explore some ofthe Green Zone, including findingsome propagandistic ceilingmurals of the first Gulf War at theold Republic Guard headquarters,

riding around above the city in ablack-hawk helicopter to witnesspeople in Baghdad casting theirvote on the constitution.” Svet-lana Abramova writes that all iswell with her and husband Alex(F’00). Svetlana works for ADP Incin New Jersey as a MarketingDirector and Alex is a CFO of Eso-teric (division of LabCorp Inc).Daughter Elizabeth is almost 9and they have a son who is 31/2 .Mark Hannafin married Olga Rad-chenko in Kazakhstan on January14. And last but not least, KwangKim is in Jamaica with the OTFgroup and Anil Pandey is still inRaipur, India working on his start-up.... And I’m still with the IMF inWashington where there’s alwaysroom at the inn (in Alexandria) foranyone traveling through DC....Stay safe wherever this finds you.

Mark Hannafin marriedOlga Radchenko in Kazakhstan

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Laura Ró[email protected] Neisuler (formerlyLenkova), husband Peter, Alex (2)and Martin (6 months) are finish-ing up their tour in Dubai. After 5months in DC in October 2006,they will be heading out toSkopje, Macedonia, where bothMariana and Peter will work at theUS Embassy.

Valerie Leon is working at theInternational Committee of theRed Cross as coordinator ofEconomic Security Programsin Georgia (South Caucasus).Maria S. Clayton and MikeClayton (F’01) welcomed theirbaby daughter, Alisa Aurora, onFebruary 28, 2006. The Claytonslive in Davis, California.

Carla Haddad is in her fifth yearwith the International Committeeof the Red Cross. After assign-ments in Iraq, the Congo andEthiopia, she is now working atICRC headquarters in Geneva,where she is a press attachéecovering ICRC activities in Asiaand the Pacific.

Ingrida Berzins and Andris areproud parents of three children:Lucija (2001), Kaldis (2003) andDaris (2005). In August 2005, thefamily relocated to Riga, Latvia,where Andris is running the EMEAoperations for AeroScout, a wire-less location company. Ingrida gother JD from Penn Law in 2004 andis home with the children andpreparing to re-enter the workingworld later this year, probably inprivate legal practice. She wouldlove to hear from any friends pass-ing through Riga ([email protected]).

Robert Nalbandov is doing hisPhD in political Science, Interna-tional Relations Track at the Cen-tral European University inBudapest, Hungary. The topic ofhis thesis is “Success of foreigninterventions in intrastate ethnicconflict: unilateral versus multilat-eral actions.”

San Diego-based Dr. Jay ZengjunDong has been appointed to runan Asia Pacific business of BD Bio-sciences with Profit and Loss (P&L)responsibility, in addition to salesand marketing and people man-agement duties. BD Bioscience is adivision of Becton Dickinson, aFortune 500 company, a medicaltechnology and life science indus-try leader.

Judy (Renorah) Slater is living andworking in downtown Washing-ton, DC since she returned from aUSAID consulting project in theRepublic of Armenia in 2003. Sheis currently enrolled in a part-timeMBA program at Johns HopkinsUniversity, specializing in smallbusiness consulting. Her expectedgraduation date is January 2008.Judy enjoys catching up withclassmates at Fletcher alumni


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events and embassy functionsaround town and enjoys weekendhikes, theatre, and film festivals inher limited free time. Email her [email protected]

Daniele Riggio continues to workat NATO Headquarters in Brusselsas Information Officer, within thePublic Diplomacy Division ofNATO’s International Staff. FromOctober to December 2005, hewas deployed with NATO to Pak-istan, as part of the NATO DisasterRelief Mission, launched uponrequest from the Pakistani Gov-ernment after the earthquake inKashmir last October. In Brussels,Daniele hangs out with JamesMackey, also working at NATOHeadquarters. He likes Brussels,but misses real Italian foodterribly!

Yukimi Tachibana and her hus-band Jeffrey Marlough announcedthe birth or their first child, NaomiTachibana Marlough. She wasborn in New York City on SaturdayFebruary 11, 2006.

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Shantha [email protected]

Reunion 2006May 19-21The Fletcher Class of 2001 contin-ues to be successful in both theirprofessional and personal lives –as diplomats, special advisors andas proud parents! BibianaKacianova and Mustafa Popal,along with their 21/2 year old son,Gabriel/Jibril (aka GiGi), have set-tled into Foreign Service life in

Kuwait where Mustafa is serving atwo-year tour as Economic andConsular Officer. Bibiana is explor-ing consulting opportunities andcontinues to serve as managingmember of Café Bonaparte inGeorgetown, Washington, DC. InMarch, they joined other KuwaitiFletcher Alums in welcomingDean and Mrs. Bosworth on theirvisit to the country.

Brian Gibel will finish his currentposting working in the ConsularSection of the US Embassy inSeoul this summer, and will thenspend the next year studying atthe US State Department’s Koreanlanguage field school in Seoul inpreparation for a 3-year tour in thePolitical Section of the SeoulEmbassy. Sita Farrell, a ForeignService Officer, and her husband,Ron, are also based in Seoul, butwill return to Washington, DC inearly 2007 for training prior toSita’s next assignment as PoliticalOfficer in Moscow. Bisola Ojikutuhas been working as a PoliticalOfficer at the US Embassy inBrasilia, Brazil and will transferback to Washington in June, whereshe will begin working in theOperations Center in the ExecutiveSecretariat at the Departmentof State.

Pedro Huarte-Mendicoa recentlymoved to Washington, DC and isworking as Senior FinancialSpecialist in the Carbon FinanceUnit of the World Bank. He is alsofinishing an Executive MBA atInstituto de Empresa in Madrid.Vladimir Todorovic recentlybegan working on philanthropyfor Cisco Systems in San Jose,California. Shantha Rau started anew job as Senior Program Officerfor Rehabilitation International, anNGO in New York which promotesthe rights and inclusion of personswith disabilities worldwide.

After being ordained as a Buddhistmonk, Vit Silaon was seconded asa Counselor to the PermanentMission of Thailand to the WTOin Geneva, dealing with negotia-tions in the fields of trade & envi-

ronment, and trade & develop-ment. Vit and his wife Panitha areawaiting their first child in April.

Jaeson Rosenfeld recently movedfrom Guadalajara, Mexico to OakPark, Illinois where he and wifeDarby (married last summer)spent most of last year ploddingthrough construction dust in theirnew home. Darby is pregnant anddue with the first progeny (a boy)in July. He splits time between hisbobblehead business(www.whoopassenterprises.com)

and the McKinsey Global Institute(McKinsey’s Economics Researchthink tank). Sean Jackson and hiswife Corrie, living in Washington,DC, are also expecting a baby inJuly. Congratulations to OlgaSlavkina and her husband Sean,based in Brussels, Belgium, whohad a baby daughter, Alyssa, inNovember 2005. Congratulationsalso to Clay Norrbom andJen Eikren, living in London, whohad a little baby boy namedWerner in November. We hope tosee many Fletcherites from theClass of 2001 and their families atour reunion this May in Medford!

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Ben [email protected] Class of 2002 is taking care ofbusiness, or more accurately, theirbusinesses. Sandra Alvarez-Morphy and her husband Patriciorecently opened a small marketnear their home in Mexico City. Ofcourse, Sandra has plenty of timeto do this, as she is only jugglingmothering duties for an 18-monthold and work at a local NGO.Alexis Grabar is still working onthe child part, but already has twobusinesses based in London. Avo-lus is a transportation company,and AviaMedia Tech is a consult-ing firm.

Also entrepreneurial is DanaPressman, who has started herown broadband firm, Be Unlim-ited. The company is already start-ing to accumulate market share,and is working on further expan-sion. Richard Cooper (GMAP’02)can sneer at the others – his com-pany has been around for severalyears now. Richard now lives inBombay, and is looking forward tostarting a Fletcher Club there.

Speaking of mergers and acquisi-tions, several 2002 alums havebeen busy acquiring new jobs.Jan Hausotter is working in theSecurity Council Affairs Division atthe UN, where he reports seeing“quite a few Fletcherites” such asJill, Shantha Rau, and Ahsen.Lucky for those three, they aren’tincluded in the category of “hell ofa lot older Fletcher alumni,” whichJan uses for Shashi Tharoor (F’70,F’76). Someday this will be you,Jan. Speaking of hot places full ofsuffering and misery, John Moore


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Vit and Panitha Silaon

Jaeson and Darby Rosenfeld

is back in Iraq, this time as head ofthe IFES EVER project, a conflictresolution project that tracks elec-tion-related violence.

Cynthia Brady working on conflictof a different type, having movedover to USAID where she is thelead on natural resources and con-flict in the Office of Conflict Man-agement and Mitigation. Shereports several cells of the FletcherMafia, including operatives such asChris Pratt, Judy Dunbar (F’03),and Greg Nakano (F’01). On thedomestic front, Cynthia marriedher long time love interest JamieFalik in November, with TaraMcFeely as a bridesmaid. Speak-ing of Tara, she is back at BoozAllen Hamilton after a brief mater-nity leave following the birth ofher son Reider last March. Tara isbusy working on Homeland Secu-rity, where she frequently seesCindy Ray.

So many exotic locales, so littletime… Stevie Hamilton, is in Sara-jevo on a temporary assignment.He’s been known to hang outthere with Haris Mesinovic (F’00),a consultant for the World Bank,and Maja Marjanovic (F’05).Stevie specifically mentions thathe discusses life at Blakely Hallwith the Special Assistant to theAmbassador, Natasha Franceschi(F’00). A nation trying to re-inventitself after years of bloody civilwar… Blakely Hall… I think Isee the connection. The onlydifference is that Sarajevo doesn’thave to chop down its trees afterthey are invaded by urbanstarlings. (Remember that littleincident, anyone?) Stevie will bemoving along to Nairobi next,where he’ll be serving as the airattaché, no doubt with thecorresponding case.

Assaf Moghadam reports that heis winding up his dissertation, andhopes to submit it by August. Per-haps more accessible (and lighter)will be his forthcoming book,The Roots of Terrorism, due forpublication in May. On a recenttrip to Israel, Assaf met up with

Jason “Andy” Abell, (F’03), now atthe US Embassy in Israel, and wasinvited to give a talk at theEmbassy on suicide attacks.

Rebeca Sanchez de Tagle and herhusband Patrick White report thattheir daughter, Ana Sofia White,was born on January 31st. Rebecais a little bleary-eyed for lack ofsleep, but she is lucid enough toremind us all that the FletcherClass of 2002 reunion will be heldin good old Medford on May 18 -20, 2007. (It seems that we all maybe fitting into Jan’s category of“hell of a lot older Fletcher alumni”sooner than we think.) So markyour calendars, schedule your daysoff, and book your tickets. In thewords of Mi-Na Shin, it will be, youknow, totally awesome.

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Brett [email protected] you plan on traveling to Miamianytime soon, be sure to look upour newest Fletcher pilot, DanielAdes who is eager to fly anyonearound in a single-engine plane.Next stop: Fletcher Air! RachelCherry reminds people not toforget making their contributionto this year’s Fletcher Fund! Thusfar, our class has raised over $2,000from 10% of the class. The goalis $3,500 from 21% so we have aways to go. So, let’s make herhappy (and get her off my back)by making this year the first ofmany in which Fletcher 03’s meetboth dollar and participationtargets! The deadline to give isJune 30, 2006.

Cuong Nguyen moved toWashington last October to workat the Vietnamese Embassy asPress Attaché. He is expected toremain there through 2009 andwould love to meet anyFletcherites in or around the DCarea. Feel free to contact him [email protected]. Also, if anyone is travel-ing to Vietnam and is in need ofassistance in terms of informationor a visa, feel free to contact him.

Our own Nadia Crisan continuesto navigate her way and enjoy thepolicy world and diplomatic com-munity in Washington, DC. Shealso mentions the possibility shemay be off to Brussels next fall…

Nadia Isakson and her husbandare excited to announce that theironline retail shop has successfullylaunched and is now open forbusiness selling hand-paintedbatik silk scarves as well as a vari-ety of other products(http://www.nadiadaniel.com).

Andrea and Chap Godbey(GMAP’03) have acquired aFred, who seems pretty happyto be here. Kid pictures are athttp://www.aloha.com/~godbey/Fred if you’d like to take a look.They’re living in Bellevue,Nebraska for a year, then offto learn Arabic and someinternational work. Drop a noteat [email protected].

On September 25, 2005, JanaButland got married to RyanMcCarthy. They are currentlyliving out in sunny San Diego, CAwhere Jana is working doing for-eign exchange and internationalcash management for an internetsecurity company.

Beezie Dallas has recently beenawarded a year-long grant byUSAID to travel to Colombo,Sri Lanka. She will be servingas Director of the negotiationprogram which is part of the non-profit Public International Law andPolicy Group that provides probono legal assistance to post-con-

flict states. While abroad, she willbe helping the political partieswith their ongoing peace negotia-tions. She heads out this spring.

Since graduating, Joyce Sharonand her husband, Lior, have had2 boys, Eyal (2) and Ben (1).Currently, she is working at Fuld &Company, a competitive Intelli-gence firm in Cambridge, MA parttime and taking care of the kidsthe other half.

Colonel Alex Crowther has movedfrom United States Southern Com-mand in Miami where he was astrategist in the Strategic Plans &Policies Directorate (J5) to theUnited States Army Strategic Stud-ies Institute (the Army’s think tank)where he is a Research Professorof National Security Studies,specializing in the Western Hemi-sphere; insurgency and counterin-surgency; and Joint, Interagency,Intergovernmental and Multina-tional Operations. He and hisfamily now live at Carlisle Barracks,PA. Email him [email protected].

Zheng YU is currently servingas Desk Editor at the XinhuaNews Agency in Beijing.He can be reached [email protected].

Mikhail Mohammeddinov ishappy to announce the birth ofhis two twin sons, Fletcher andTufts, on 5 November 2005. Theboys have been named after theFletcher School and Tufts Univer-sity to commemorate their dad’swonderful experiences there.Of course, there is hope that theunconventional names will helpthe two boys receive scholarshipsfrom The Fletcher School whenthey grow up to follow the stepsof their father.

Amanda Kastello is happy toannounce her marriage to RobertDietrick on November 19, 2005, inMorristown, NJ. The coupleresides in Washington, DC whereAmanda is an associate at Vinson& Elkins, in the Government and


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International Procurement LawGroup and her husband is a litiga-tion associate at Duane Morris.For those interested in contactingAmanda, note that her last namehas changed!

Aurélie Boukobza continues towork for UNDP Morocco whereshe has been since June 2005. Sheis serving as Programme Associatein the Governance Unit. Email herat [email protected].

Elizabeth Uribe Diaz continues tolive in Atlanta where she is cur-rently working at the MexicanAmerican Business Chamber, asMembership Director. In July, sheand her husband Alberto are look-ing forward to celebrating theirwedding in Mexico.

Ace Gazis recently received hissecond Foreign Service assign-ment as an Econ/Commercial Offi-cer in San Salvador starting in thesummer of 2007. He is currentlyliving in Manila where we spentmost of the last 16 months doingimmigrant visas and six months inthe Econ section. He should beheading to DC this November forsix months of Spanish and somefunctional training before movingto San Salvador and can bereached at [email protected].

Kelly Smith recently left BoozAllen and is currently a ProgramManager/Sr. Systems Engineer fora defense contractor called Zel-

tech. He specializes in InformationAssurance,Visualization, and com-mand & control, and received hisCertified Information SystemsSecurity Professional (CISSP)accreditation. During his free time,Kelly has been doing a lot of realestate investing, founding andbuilding the Fletcher Alumni ofColor Association, and politicalaction.

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Brandon Millerb ra n d o n e dwa rd m i l l e r @ g m a i l . co mNew jobs, spouses, and babies!First, congratulations to the newparents! Mehlaqa Samdani gavebirth to a baby daughter, ImanFatima Durrani, on November 2,2005. Mehlaqa continues to workat the Council on Foreign Rela-tions. Tamas Kovacs and his wifeEdit gave birth to a baby boy and“potential Fletcher student andFletcher soccer player” Aron,“aproud dual citizen of the Republicof Hungary and of the UnitedStates of America.” Edit will bedefending her PhD thesis in Celland Molecular Biology at theBoston University Medical Schoolgraduating this May, and Tamaswill complete his term at the Hun-garian Consulate in Boston at thesame time, after which they will beheading to Europe.In weddings, Arwa Abulhasanmarried Ali Dashti, a Kuwaiti petro-leum engineer who works for BP

Alaska. Several Fletcherites werein attendance. Toshi Yoshiharaand Susan (Fink) Yoshihara gotmarried. “After three years as

Fletcher friends and classmates,we fell in love while celebratingsuccessful dissertation defenses. Inattendance at our 9 July 2005wedding in LA were our Fletcherfriends Jon Rosenwasser and JimHolmes (groomsmen), as well as

Krisztian Orban, Anita Gambos,Karen Coppock, Susan Banki, andGuillermo Pinczuk. Toshi is teach-ing strategy at the Air War College

and Susan is teaching nationalsecurity decision making at theNaval War College in Newport, RI.“We are moving to New York inMay where Susan will be ExecutiveVP of C-FAM, a small human rightsnon-profit working at the UN,while Toshi continues to teach.”Jon Rosenwasser married JenniferZwilling last November in Colum-bus, Ohio. They are now living inWashington, DC. Jon writes thathe “…recently left Booz AllenHamilton, where I had been sup-porting clients in the Office of theSecretary of Defense and the JointChiefs of Staff, to accept a postingin the intelligence community.”

Mimi (Netzer) Lemay married JoeLemay on August 20, 2005. “Cor-nelia Jesse was one of my brides-maids! We live in Cambridge andJoe is finishing up his last semes-ter at Sloan, MIT and I’m workingas the Program Manager of aWorkforce Development Educa-tion Center for aspiring nurses.”

Arousiak Mirzakhanian reports “Amatch made in Medford!” Shemarried Dr. Ara Barsam, an Officerwith the US Embassy in Armenia.Many Tufts/ Fletcher alums were inattendance. Arousiak also writesthat Armenia’s Fletcher alumni –


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Amanda Kastello’s wedding

Tamas Kovacs and his wife Edit’sbaby Aron

Arwa Abulhasan and Ali Dasht

Toshi Yoshihara andSusan (Fink) Yoshihara

Jon Rosenwasser marriedJennifer Zwilling in November

over 50 young professionals repre-senting all spheres of governmentservice – are looking forward tothe visit of Dean Bosworth andProfessor Henrikson in May whenthey will officially launch theFletcher Club of Yerevan.

In job news, from Africa, SarahBailey moved to the DemocraticRepublic of Congo to work as anEmergency Program Manager inEastern DRC with CRS. PhilipShelter Jones is working in the UNMission in Sudan, Office of theDeputy SRSG on Military-PoliticalIssues and Darfur Planning. SashaChanoff writes that he has beenbusy since graduation launching ahumanitarian organization,Mapendo International(www.mapendo.org), with the mis-sion to identify, rescue and protectrefugees in Africa who fall throughthe cracks of humanitarian aidefforts. “We just finished buildingour new offices and medical clinicin Nairobi.” Chama Bousserghiniis working as a Chargée d’Affairesfor a Moroccan investment bank-ing firm, BMCE Capital, which doesM&A/IPO advisory and projectfinance. She is also a contributorto the Economist Intelligence Unitfor Morocco. Anne-Kristin Treiber

is also in Morocco working in theUN Development Fund forWomen’s North Africa office, focus-ing on human rights and gover-nance issues. Joey Renert spent10 months in Banda Aceh, Indone-sia to work on tsunami relief withUN’s World Food Programme.Upon his return, his wife, TrishaOng, joined the Foreign Serviceand the whole family will be head-ing to Lusaka, Zambia for the nexttwo years. Tomoko Hayashi isworking at the Ministry of Healthin Malawi as a technical advisor.While she “loves” Malawi, she willbe leaving soon to begin workingfor the UN World Food Program.

The DC crew is keeping busy.Erin English is now working at theTreasury Department; returning toIraq (Baghdad) for three monthsthis spring. Santiago AlviraLacayo was promoted to therank of Minister Counselor andappointed as Deputy Chief of Mis-sion of the Embassy of Nicaraguato the US. He will be gettingmarried this May in Managua,Nicaragua. After nearly six yearsin the defense community,Jacqueline Geissinger has

recently taken a position with theControl Risks Group, an interna-tional business risk consultancy,where she will be doing politicalrisk analysis and crisis and securitymanagement. Hannah Fairbank isworking for USAID as a Biodiver-sity Specialist in the Office of Nat-ural Resources Management. “Ihave a busy travel schedule visit-ing USAID funded activities andproviding technical support toUSAID offices.” Ding Nolasco

recently arrived in Washington DCto assume office as Minister andConsul General at the Embassy ofthe Philippines. Hadley White hasswitched from the Department ofHomeland Security team to theGlobal Health team at Booz Allen.She is working on projects rang-ing from the National Cancer Insti-tute to USAID. Katherine Gupmanwrites “In February of 2005, myhusband (Alexander ‘Sasha’Gupman, F’02) and I welcomedour daughter, Sophia, into theworld! After a wonderful year athome, I have gone back to thegrindstone as a Project Managerfor the American Institute ofArchitects. I can be reached [email protected].

Elsewhere: Stacy Heen is workingin negotiation and conflictmanagement with CMPartnersin Boston. “The work thus far hasbeen terrific, with both privateand public sector clients, and mypassport has gotten a lot of newstamps recently (Singapore, Dubai,Ethiopia).” Nichola Minott willbegin the Fletcher PhD program infall 2006. Takeomi Yamamoto isinvolved in various political issuesin the UN Security Council as apolitical officer in the PermanentMission of Japan to the UN. He isenjoying his life in Manhattan, butwill likely to go back to Tokyo bythe end of 2006.

In Europe, Jonas Hagmann isworking for DCAF in Geneva, atransatlantic intergovernmentalresearch institute, working ondemocratic security sector gover-nance. He is also in the secondyear of his PhD program at theGraduate Institute of InternationalStudies. April Rinne continues towork in international financial lawin London with a focus on cross-border microfinancings. In 2005she traveled throughout Europeand Latin America for both workand pleasure. “This year travelswill include Turkey and the MiddleEast, and then a transition backto the SF Bay Area.” PS – Shespent 4 months traveling in SouthAmerica and Patagonia (not South

Africa as mistakenly reported in2004!). Jose Urrutia is back inMadrid, working in “the interestingsector of brand strategy.” RohamAlvandi is now living in England,continuing his graduate studiesin international relations at St.Antony’s College, University ofOxford. Raphael Carland has beenworking with Provincial Recon-struction Teams in Afghanistan,working with the Governor andthe newly elected provinciallegislature. Laura Wilkinson(MAHA’04) is working for the Inter-national Organization for Migra-tion in Afghanistan. She is thehead of the Mazar-I-Sharif officethat helps with the developmentof infrastructure and communitystabilization.Claire Sneed departed her jobwith OSCE in Macedonia in Octo-ber to take a job with Mercy Corpsas the Chief of Party for a USAIDfunded economic developmentprogram in Kyrgyzstan.

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Carlos St. [email protected]

Phil Asherman has been pro-moted to President and CEO atChicago Bridge & Iron Corp. – acompany with operations in 60countries and 11,000 employees.Robert McMahon is now DeputyEditor of the web site for theCouncil on Foreign Relations. He isediting, writing and assigning abig portion of the foreign policybriefing articles on their website.And yes, that is his article on non-proliferation you can read in theFletcher Forum of World Affairs.Ted Haack recently took his lastexam at NYU and now also has anMBA. Yusuf Hassan has movedback home to Kenya with a newjob: Deputy Global Coordinator forIRIN, the leading UN humanitariannews service, headquartered inNairobi. IRIN has over 100 editors,writers and reporters in Africa, Asiaand the Middle East and mostlyworks in conflict or disaster-stricken countries, mainly focusing


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Mimi Lemay and Joe Lemay

Arousiak Mirzakhanian married Dr. Ara Barsam

on neglected or forgotten human-itarian crises. After 25 years atTexas Instruments, Zak Karamallyhas accepted the post of Vice Pres-ident of International Trade atanother Dallas, Texas Fortune 500company: Affiliated Computer Ser-vices, aka ACS. Pablo Figueroahas been appointed President ofthe International Trade Committeeof the Puerto Rico Chamber ofCommerce. David Seamon hasbeen asked by USAID to teach“best practices in economic devel-opment” to selected municipalitiesin South Africa and now flies outthere on a quarterly basis. On hislast trip he came across SteveSchmida who was there on sepa-rate business and they managedto get together for dinner andremembered the good ol’ days!Tony Nash recently had dinnerwith Alicia Eastman in Singapore.Alicia is jet-setting everywhere: afew weeks ago she was in five UScities in six days. Mary Andrade istraveling as much, too, as she isresponsible for all Difficult Coun-tries. Lila Shahani reports that sheis preparing for her “big disserta-tion defense” but very excitedbecause she is breaking newground, academically speaking.Jason Climer has been called backto Iraq for at least a year’s tour. Heis Operations Manager at CampFalluja, responsible for securityand planning convoys, amongother things.

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Victoria [email protected] Topal is in Seattle workingfor the National Bureau of AsianResearch. She wants visitors.Tracey Garcia writes that Monitorhas been working her hard butshe managed to get away just intime for Carnival in Brazil, whichwas beyond amazing.There was agroup of five that traveled belowthe equator and never lookedback! The shock came when theyhad to return to 32 degree Fahren-heit weather after spending twoweeks in 32 degree Celsiusweather…!

Chris Pearce was hired into CHFInternational’s Management Asso-ciate Program (MAP) in June 2005.CHF is a diverse internationaldevelopment organization whoseprograms, which are primarilyUSAID funded, range from AIDS toinfrastructure to handicrafts. TheMAP program prepares partici-pants for long-term internationalpostings by rotating themthrough the organization’s differ-ent departments at their head-quarters in DC. He completedrotations in the finance/account-ing and microfinance departmentsduring his first three months. Aneed then arose for a temporaryDirector of Finance & Administra-tion in CHF’s Romania office. Whilein Romania, he oversaw theannual audit, the documentationof key processes and the transitionof tasks to more empower juniorstaff and help them to handlegreater responsibilities. He willreturn to DC in the spring tocomplete his MAP rotations intwo more departments, Office ofGlobal Operations, and Office ofProposal Initiatives.

Angelos Ypsilantis is back to hiswork at the Ministry for ForeignAffairs of Greece. He is at the C4Department of Justice, Interior andSchengen Affairs, responsible forthe new system of control of theEU exterior borders. He travelsoften to Brussels and to other EUcapitals. Angelos enjoys beingback in Greece although hedoesn’t expect to stay for long.

Everett Peachey is currentlyworking for IREX (InternationalResearch & Exchanges Board) asan Educational Programs Managerin Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He admin-isters two educational programsfunded by the US Department ofState: the Edmund S. Muskie Grad-uate Fellowship (the programVugar Mammadov was on) andthe Eurasian Undergraduate pro-gram. Tajikistan is a small country,and Dushanbe is quite the provin-cial city, but, surprisingly or not,there are at least three otherFletcher alumni: Troy Etulian

(F’04), Thea (Maisuradze) Etulian(F’04), and Francisco Galinda-Velez!

Josh Gleis writes from Medford.He and other ‘05’ers are still atFletcher, working on our PhDs.“Wehave no friends anymore. Most ofus never did... So everythingseems to be status quo… I prettymuch stay in the “bunker/base-ment” Fares Research Center,studying for comps all day.” In allseriousness, things are great. Hereports lots of changes to theschool. Josh is working hard totake comps soon. He will likely bearound Medford-NYC-Middle Eastnext year, so if you’re around, lethim know.

Lauren Johnson just got engagedand will be marrying Mark in June!She is working at the World Bankin the microfinance department.It’s really interesting and the learn-ing curve is steep, which is great.

Julia Sable started a one-yearassignment at The Asia Founda-tion office in Bangladesh, mainlyworking on an elections programin the run-up to the national elec-tion early next year. She really likesit. Kevin McGeehan is working inDC as a Counterproliferation Ana-lyst at SAIC, which means he readsand writes all day long aboutWMDs. He and Anna Tiedemanorganized a charity dodgeballtournament to benefit the JoslinDiabetes Center in Boston.

Jane Wang writes from Hannover,Germany, where she just arrivedfor a huge annual IT expo calledCeBIT. She was exhibiting Hitachi’sbrand-new finger vein biometricstechnology, which uses the veinpatterns in your finger as your ID,for access to homes/offices, PCs,ATMs, car doors & engines! SinceOctober she’s been working ininternational marketing forHitachi’s finger vein biometricstechnology in Tokyo. It’s beengreat fun on the job, but also see-ing lots of Fletcher folks in Tokyo,including Akiko Sugimoto andJunichi Mori, and also folks like

John Byington and even Profes-sors Patrick Schena and JesseParker! Claire Topal’s coming inApril on business and they havegreat plans to eat udon and takewacky pirikura together. Fletcher-Hitachi collaboration has also kepther in the Fletcher loop. It turnsout that the Fletcher consultingclass is doing a project for themthis term, so they had some cur-rent Fletcher folks come to Japanfor research. Jane will be taking atrip to Boston in May to see theirfinal presentation! Please checkout her fun blog:http://zhenaji.blogspot.com

Huria Ogbamichael writeswith warm regards from sunnyKhartoum! She is AssociateReporting Officer with the UNMission in Sudan.

Yevgeny Berdensky reports all iswell in DC. He is still working forCongressman Weldon, but onMarch 8, he and the rest of theHouse are ready to graduateUkraine from the Jackson Vanikclause! His boss has been workingon this for many years, andYevgeny has been doing Ukrainianissues non-stop since he joinedthe office. This action will removethe last remaining obstacle keep-ing Ukraine from fully joining theworld community of nations, nowunimpeded by old Cold War lawsstill in effect against other formerSoviet States.

Melissa Tritter is in the CorporateSocial Responsibility field. Her full-time job is at HBS, where she’s co-authoring cases on microfinance,gender discrimination, overseasfactory conditions, environmentalsustainability, and all that Fletcher-y stuff. Part time she put togethera CSR news brief for the facultyand staff of the Boston CollegeCenter for Corporate Citizenship.Since graduation, she has been liv-ing with her boyfriend in Cam-bridgeport. He is still singing withthe Ambassachords as an “hon-orary” Fletcherite. She has man-aged to travel, both for work andfor fun.


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Juan Arellano spent the summerin Jordan working at the USEmbassy. Then he headed to DCfor training until January and thenwas sent to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.He’s working at the US consulatein Juarez and living in Mexico.Work is repetitive, but good. He’son the visa line interviewing peo-ple all day. Greg and he will behere for the next two years.

Jonas Hagmann writes:“So what’snew on my side? I just boardedthe class of ‘05. Before, there usedto be a typo on my diploma,where it read ‘04. And: I completedthe doctoral school here inGeneva, now steadily progressingon my PhD thesis in my secondyear back at IUHEI.”

Evan Pressman works as a con-sultant in the Global Political Riskpractice group of the GersonLehrman Group, the world’slargest primary research firm. Theyassess risk and forecast growthbased on political, economic, andsocial factors for corporate andinvestor clients in the energy,security, telecom, and banking sec-tors, to name a few. They justlaunched this practice last sum-mer, so it’s exciting to be a part ofthe growth of this business fromthe ground floor.

Alyssa Teach, after spending thesummer post-graduation at Arabicboot camp (Middlebury), movedto Jerusalem to work for Searchfor Common Ground. She is work-ing on paving the way for final sta-tus issues to be resolved(specifically, Jerusalem andrefugees) and also inadvertentlyhelped Hamas get elected by a“get out the vote” campaign. Shewent to a birthday party of afriend of a friend and the birthdaygirl happened to be a Fletcher ‘04,Anya!

Anna Tiedeman is living happilyin Georgetown working as a sen-ior account executive for Edelmanpublic relations. Evan Tracz is stillin Turkmenistan, working for theOSCE. On April 7th and 8th he will

be getting married to TavusBegenjova in the cities of Shatlyk(where she is from) and Mary (pro-nounced mar-EE) – each familythrows a wedding party, by Turk-men tradition. His parents and afew friends plan to make it out forthe festivities.

William Holmberg is living andworking in the City of Lights for 9months. He’ll never forget gradua-tion for many reasons; one wasthat hours after getting thedegree he was on a plane back toFrance to start day one of his newjob at 10am (4pm Boston time).He’s not proud to say he likely setthe record of going from degree inhand to welcome package/badgeand first assignment (about 12hours, and on another continent!)He hopes to see other classmateswhen they pass through (sawHannah, Jan heard from Sallafrom time to time as she’s in Fin-land now).

Susanna Campbell just moved toSan Diego, CA where herboyfriend has a new job withUCSD. She spends her days push-ing her PhD studying and researchforward. The blue sky and sun-shine provide good motivation!She hopes to take her first surfinglesson soon. Please be in touch ifyou are in this part of the country([email protected])!

Genhua Wang is eager to meet allthe fletcherites in Beijing, includ-ing you. He is also eager to knowabout their whereabouts aftergraduation, so he can meet themwhen traveling in the US. He isworking in the Department of Pol-icy Planning, Ministry of ForeignAffairs, PRC.

Marco Pfister is working for theSwiss embassy in Khartoum,Sudan on a part-time basis; he’s incharge of the human rights sec-tion. Since his part time salaryallows him to live full-time, he vol-unteers for a Sudanese NGO therest of the time, doing capacitybuilding in project managementand organisational development.

Both jobs are extremely interest-ing, extremely challenging, some-times extremely frustrating andsometimes extremely rewarding.He prefers the NGO work, because“I feel I am doing something use-ful and especially something sus-tainable.” He came to Sudanthinking that he would stay for 4months, then extended to 6, thento 15, and now he’ll stay for atleast 18 in total. He is in love withthis country, despite all the badthings (heat, dust, extremely lim-ited options to go out, etc.). Thepeople are the most welcoming inthe whole world.

Maitri Morarji, after spending afew months at the UN in theDepartment of PeacekeepingOperations, decided to return tothe NGO world and is now work-ing as Africa Program Officer atAmerican Jewish World Service inNew York. Stephanie Lindenbaumis also working there, but in a dif-ferent department. In Maitri’s firstmonth on the job she traveled toEthiopia to conduct site visits withour NGO partners on the ground.It was great to be out in the worldagain. She got married in earlyJanuary in Goa, India, at a weddingthat was well-attended by fellowFletcherites.

Tania Belisle-leclerc is still living inNew York, three blocks fromParker and Seiji, though has yet torun into them at the laundromat.She is keeping busy working atthe UN, in the Best Practices Sec-tion of the Department of Peace-keeping Operations. The highlightof her year thus far has been trav-eling to Goa, India, with a group ofFletcher folk (Waidehi, Annelena,Lilia, Ghazal, Dipali, Katya,myself...oh, and that guy Rahul) towatch a gorgeous Maitri Morarjitwice marry her cute and lovableVivek.

Vasanthi Venkatesh is a gluttonfor punishment and is now in lawschool – a very painful experience.It is offset by the fact that he is inan awesome city, Toronto – perfectfor Fletcherites (hint, hint).The

icing on the cake is, therefore,Waidehi (F’05) and her husbandSteve, who live there as well. Theyhave a great time doing the usualFletcher-y things. They also meetPriya Ghandhikota (F’03) on aregular basis. Vasanthi is alsoworking at a labour clinic thathandles cases for people with low-income, many of whom are immi-grants, and at an internationalhuman rights law clinic. The expe-rience is just amazing. Contact himif in Canada!

Summer spelled excitement forCorinne and Dan Preston as theyembarked on a round-the-worldtour 2005. 25,000+ miles andmany Fletcher meetings along theway added to an amazing experi-ence. All in all, they traveled to 8countries covering Australia/SouthPacific, Southern Asia, the MiddleEast, and Africa. Since, they havebeen living in New York City intheir cool, if weirdly constructed,loft in Brooklyn that has been dulybroken in by the Fletcher class of‘05. Dan has been employed atCitigroup since August with a fewother Fletcher alumni of yearspast. Corinne has found a farmore interesting job at ColumbiaUniversity as their head graphicdesigner in their department ofdevelopment and alumni rela-tions. He is also in the process ofbecoming a first time homeowneras they are about to close on anapartment in the northern tip ofManhattan. Reach Dan [email protected].

After graduation, ChristineSwitzer married her fiancé, AlexTheodoridis (who graduated fromthe Kennedy School last summer),on June 18th. They then drovecross-country to the San FranciscoBay Area. They are living in Berke-ley while Alex pursues his PhD inpolitical science. Christine wasworking as a consultant (telecom-muting) for the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank until Decem-ber; she was conducting an evalu-ation of an Innovation Program inLatin America. In January, shestarted a new job at UC Berkeley


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Extension (i.e. Continuing Educa-tion), managing their internationalprograms. She was then asked bythe dean to become the Directorof the Business & TechnologyPrograms department (where shehas been since the beginning ofMarch). She loves living in theBay Area but of course, misses herfriends and classmates who areon the East Coast and around theworld. Come on out to sunnyCalifornia and visit([email protected])!

Pam Valez wrote “David and I aredoing great. We decided to do a4-month trip in the Middle East,Europe and Canada, before set-tling down and having a real fam-ily. Fortunately, I was able to keepmy job at GDAE and I am workingonline from every place we go. Wetook off in December and went toIsrael. There, we lived in a kibbutzby the Sea of Galilee for a monthand a half, where David’s mothergrew up. In past visits, David hadworked as a beekeeper andbanana picker, but this time wewere mainly taking care of hisgrandmother, who is 92 years old.After Israel, we went to Egypt, Jor-dan,Turkey, Germany, France andItaly where we visited old friendsand family. We enjoyed verymuch seeing Gabby Hermann

and her husband Holger in Berlin,who received us very warmly. Weare finishing our trip in QuebecCity, where we will be until April.It has been so wonderful to seeso many interesting places andpeople.”

After eighteen months in Durham,North Carolina, Marcin Szajdareturned to Fletcher in January forthe last semester of the MALD, andbelieve it or not, he’s back in Blake-ley. In May he will graduate inconsecutive weekends from theKenan-Flagler Business School atthe University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, and from Fletcher. Oneweek after the Fletcher gradua-tion, he and fiancée Sara Beckerare getting married in the DukeUniversity Chapel. They willremain in Durham for the next

couple years as Sara completesher PhD studies in Child ClinicalPsychology at Duke. He has a fewexciting job leads in the Raleigh-Durham area and will let youknow how that turns out in thenext Alumni Notes. Please visitthem if you’re passing throughNC! Anna Mecagni is working asthe Protection Manger for IRC inBurundi. She started in Septemberand is really enjoying the experi-ence of living and learning abroad.

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Dirk [email protected] number of GMAP ’05 gradsmanaged to get together towelcome Nileema Noble as thenew UNDP Resident Representa-tive and UN Coordinator in thePhilippines. Ava Arcilla hosted adinner for Nileema and her hus-band Kayo, and Rachel Arenas atthe Tower Club of in Manila. Theytried to catch up with each other’s“lives” and realized we were all sobusy! Rachel is beginning to setup her campaign programs andstrategies in time for the May 2007elections as a candidate to thelower house in Pangasinan, aprovince to the north of MetroManila. Nileema has traveled to

Leyte province (of the recent land-slide tragedy) with the PhilippinePresident, and has been constantlyoccupied with her duties andresponsibilities at hand.

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Terri [email protected]

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Marcin Szajda and fiancée Sara Becker

During a three-week period in late February and early March, DeanBosworth traveled to the Arabian Gulf to visit with Fletcher alumniand friends in this important region of the world. He was joined inhis travels by wife, Christine Bosworth, Roger Milici of the Office ofDevelopment and Alumni Relations, Prof. Richard Shultz, Prof. AndyHess, Mrs. Bernadette Kelley-Leccese, Mr. Mian Zaheen (F’73), and Mrs.Maha Kaddoura.

Dean Bosworth and Professor Richard Shultz visit with Sheikh Mohammed binZayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates.

(Left) Dean Bosworth with Fletcher alumni William T. Monrow (F’73),US Ambassador to Bahrain, and Ghazi Abdul-Jawad (F’72), President andCEO of the Arab Banking Corporation.


(Above) Dean Bosworth and fellow Fletcher visitors were welcomed toDubai at a reception graciously hosted by Paul and Christine Bagatelas(both F’87), on 28 February 2006.

DEAN BOSWORTH’S VISIT TO THE ARABIAN GULF

THETIS TOULIATOU REAVIS (F’50) passed away October 14,2005 in New York City, from complications following surgery.After graduating magna cum laude from Smith, Thetis went onto receive an M.A. in international law from The FletcherSchool. She and John W. Reavis, Jr. were married in 1956, andafter a few years in San Francisco, the couple moved back toNew York. After Fletcher she worked at the United Nations andVoice of America. In California, she was Assistant Director ofthe World Affairs Council of Northern California. Afterreturning to New York again, she was with the Foreign PolicyAssociation for 31 years, ending her service as VP for PublicAffairs. Upon retirement, Thetis found time for renewed inter-est in the Women’s City Club of New York, and served on theboards of UNIFEM (the United Nations Development Fund forWomen) and the Smith College Club of New York. Thetis’experiences in Geneva during her junior year abroad fromSmith, shortly after the end of World War II, played a forma-tive role in her decision to attend Fletcher and her 55-yearcareer devoted to foreign affairs education. Thetis is survivedby her daughter, attorney Helen Diana “Heidi” Reavis, andHeidi’s husband, Steven M. Engel, a documentary and featurefilm producer. Thetis was capable, practical, thoughtful, soft-spoken and outgoing. She leaves a host of family and friendswho sorely miss her. Those who wish to be in touch withThetis’ family may do so by email at [email protected] [email protected].

BRYCE W. HARLAND, ESQ. (F’55) passed away in New Zealandon January 19, 2006, after a long illness. He was a career officerin New Zealand’s diplomatic service, serving as the country’sfirst Ambassador to China. Additionally, he served as Represen-tative to the UN in New York from 1982-1985, was appointedNew Zealand High Commissioner to the UK, and Ambassadorto Ireland. He is survived by his wife, Anne Blackburn.

KLAUS-DIETER VON SCHUMANN (F’57) died in Belgium on June28, 2005 according to word from his family. He was born Sep-tember 19, 1932 in Dresden. No further information was avail-able at the time of this printing.

WILLHELM H. VAN DEN TOORN (F’60) died of cancer at hishome in Washington, DC on December 13, 2004. He was 66years old. A Capitol Hill community activist for many years,Willhelm received his undergraduate degree from Brown Uni-versity before attending The Fletcher School. He is survived byhis wife, Susan McCaffray van den Toorn, and daughter, Chris-ten van den Toorn, as well as by his sister and twin brother.

HAROLD J. SUTPHEN (F’64, F’67) passed away on December 5,2005. Capt. Sutphen attended Brown University on a NavyROTC scholarship before graduating from The Fletcher Schoolwith a doctorate in political science and international law. Hepursued a career as a navy surface officer and both establishedand commanded the NROTC unit at Hampton Roads in Nor-folk. His last tour of duty in the Navy was as Director of Navysailing, overseeing the Navy’s professional and recreationalsailing programs worldwide. He is survived by his wife, Helen,four children and grandchildren, as well as by a brother and sis-ter-in-law.

MADAM JUSTICE LYNN KING (F’68) died on March 18, 2005 inToronto, ON, Canada after a battle with breast cancer. Sheattended the University of Toronto and studied economics priorto her time at The Fletcher School. She then returned to theUniversity of Toronto to earn her law degree. Among hermany accomplishments, she was a partner in the first all-female law firm in Toronto, and was highly respected by allwho knew her. She is survived by her husband M.T. Kelly, twosons Jonah and Max, along with her mother, two siblings andtheir families.

JOHN “TONY” COLSON (F’74) passed away on November 11,2005. He was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Italy and spentthe last 27 years in Northern Virginia where he worked as anAnalyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency. He retired in2004. Tony is survived by his wife, Lorraine and his sisters,Patricia Ross, Kathleen Godden-Kent and Mary Colson.

KEITH HUNTER (F’75) passed away after a short illness, at hishome in Sunnyvale, CA. After graduating from Fletcher, heworked in Washington, D.C. for the federal government andlater moved back to California to work in the aerospace and ITindustries. Keith was known at Fletcher for his wit, smile,excellent manners, and especially for his Elvis impersonation.He will be greatly missed by his Fletcher friends and room-mates.

ANDREAS BRANDSTATTER (F’85) passed away after a suddenheart attack on January 7, 2006, at the age of 47. Mr. Brand-statter was a Child Protection Advisor with the UN Stabiliza-tion Mission in Haiti, where he returned for his second tour ofduty in August 2004. He worked for the UN for many years,holding posts in the Balkans, the Caribbean, Latin America, andAfrica in Sierra Leone. M r. Brandstatter is survived by his wife,H i l d a , a physician, and sons Mark, 8 , E r i c , 6 , and Nicolas 4.

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ROBERT C. AMERSON, a former Edward R. Murrow Fellow atThe Fletcher School, passed away at his home in Cape Cod Feb-ruary 25, 2006 after a brief illness. He was 80. Born and raisedin South Dakota, he served in WWII and graduated fromMacalester College in 1950 through the GI Bill. His talents inlanguages led him to the field of public relations, first for Gen-eral Mills, and then, in 1955, for the newly minted UnitedStates Information Service (USIS). During his 23-year diplo-matic career, he served in Caracas, Milan, Bologna, and twice inRome; Bogota, Washington, DC; and Madrid. He concluded hisUSIS career as the Edward R. Murrow Fellow at Fletcher. Uponhis retirement in 1978 he was an active member of World-Boston and also Executive Director of the International busi-ness Center of New England. He wrote extensively: HowDemocracy Triumphed Over Dictatorship: Public Diplomacy inVenezuela (The American University Press, 1995), From theHidewood: Memories of a Dakota Neighborhood (MinnesotaHistorical Society Press, 1996) and numerous articles, novels,short stories, and essays. Above all, he was a wonderful hus-band and father. Robert Amerson is survived by his wife of 53years, Nancy, and two daughters, Jane Kelly Amerson Lopezand Susan Robb Amerson Hartnett. He also has three grand-children and many nieces, nephews, friends and relativesaround the world.

JOHN H. SPENCER, Fletcher Professor of International Law andAfrican Affairs from 1960 until 1981, passed away on August25, 2005, at the age of 97. He very fondly remembered his stu-dents, friends, and colleagues from Fletcher throughout theyears.

PHYLLIS BERRY WEBBER died on May 24, 2005 at the age of 81.She is fondly remembered as the Registrar of The FletcherSchool, where she worked from 1974 to 1987. Phyllis is sur-vived by her children, Jonathan and Marki Webber, and grand-children Tawna, Chelsea, and Stephen. A memorial service washeld in Nashua, NH on June 4.


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