NE Vol. XIX No. 4 Vaclav Havel, President of the , Receives 1997 Fulbright Prize for International Understanding he Fulbright Association awarded the 1997 J. William Fulbright TPrize for International Understanding to Vaclav Havel, presi­ dent of the Czech Republic, on Oct . 3 at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State. The prize, which carries a $50,000 cash award, is made possible by a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. (continuedon page 12) Fulbright Association President Philip 0. Geierawards the Fulbright Prize to 1997 laureate Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic. President Havel is applaudedby Secretaryof State Madeleine Albright upon receiptof the Fulbright prize.

Neville Isdell, senior vice president and president, GreaterEurope Group, The Coca-ColaCompany, presents the statue "Tribute" to President Havel.

President Havel; James T. Laney, chairman of the 1997 J. William Fulbright Prize Selection Committee and former U.S. ambassadorto Korea;Donald R. Greene,president of The Coca-ColaFoundation; and Dr. Geier.

Dr. Geierand Secretaryof State Albright congratulatePresident Havel. 2 U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Pa s Tribute to President V ilclav Havel

1ank you very much. What a tremen­ Czech people intervened and sent him up dous pleasure it is for me to be here at the river to the presidential palace . We are T:this particular ceremony today, for all giving Vaclav Havel a prize because we are the reasons that you all can imagine, and the beneficiary of his wonderful crimes. some of which I will state. Because his nation and his neighbors are Dr. Geier, thank you very much for your free, we too are free; free now from the icy introduction and, President Havel, it is grip of the Cold War, free now to bring the wonderful to have you here. Mr. Isdell, it world together around basic principles of is very good that you are here for this very democracy, open markets, law, and peace. special occasion which you are making But we do not honor Vaclav Havel sim­ possible. Director Duffey. Distinguished ply for his role in bringing down the Berlin guests. Wall; even more, we honor him for what he Welcome to the State Department. It has helped to build in its place . The con­ gives me great pleasure that you have crete and barbed wire that once impris­ made our home yours on this wonderful oned and suffocated Central Europe has occasion. I am so very glad that the been supplanted by the brick and mortar Fulbright Association has bestowed this of democratic institutions, elected assem­ year's prize on President Havel. I am hap­ blies, accountable leaders, and laws that py because he is a man with whom I feel a respect human rights and give civil society special sense of kinship. room to breathe . These changes are a I think there are a lot of people who may product of political choices, yes, but also of think that I have known President Havel moral choices. And it is your journey, forever, but I didn't know him until I President Havel, for moral leadership in arrived in in January 1990. At that one historical era to political responsibility stage, my good friend, Jiri Dienstbier was in another that we honor today. foreign minister and he said, "Would you Indeed, we honor you for showing us like to meet President Havel?" that it's not only possible to combine these I said, "Of course I would." qualities, but necessary. As Senator Secretaryof State MadeleineAlbright I had gone heading up a delegation of Fulbright was famous for understanding, the National Democratic Institute to look at leaders are judged not by their power but drinking Coca-Cola. It requires taking how we could help in the first elections, by their use of power. It is Vaclav Havel's responsibility for the freedom and security and I had taken with me a book that my use of power that we applaud today. of others. That is what the Czech Republic father had written on 20th century After Vaclav Havel was elected presi­ will do as a full member of the NATO . President Havel had been dent, he said, "Destiny has played a Alliance. That is what the Czech soldiers told that there was an American delegation strange joke on me, as if it were telling me, are doing today in Bosnia . coming. As I handed him my father's 'Since you think you're so smart, now is President Havel, you were right to book, he said, "I know who you are. your chance to show everyone you have remind us some years ago that the war in You're Mrs. Fulbright." ever criticized the right way to do things."' Bosnia was waged against our values, And I said, "No, I'm Mrs . Albright." Vaclav, don't worry so much. Your coun­ against our vision of what Europe should And so began a great friendship. try has restored its democratic tradition become, and I am so happy that we are We began our lives, this wonderful man and built a modern market economy . Soon now defending our values and vision and I, in the same land with many of the it will be a member of NATO and the together. same hopes. And though the European Union. Through its achieve­ Once, leaders of nations came to Prague circumstances of my life carried me far ments and your eloquent voice, it has lifted to offer the young Czech democracy reas­ from the trials Vaclav Havel endured, our hearts and given hope to all those still surance, encouragement, and support. somehow the mysterious currents of fate striving for freedom . As we say in Now, thanks in no small part to you, have brought us together as friends and Washington, that's good enough for gov­ President Havel, others can look to your our countries together as partners in a way ernment work. nation's example, encouragement, and that neither of us could ever have imag­ Let me also suggest to you today that the help as well. You are a pathfinder and so is ined. Czech Republic's journey mirrors your the Czech Republic and the road you are We are giving him a prize because, for own, for it too is traveling a road from blazing . The road we are traveling togeth­ many years, he was considered by the moral leadership to political responsibility. er leads us as far as our common aspira­ authorities of his country and their bosses The Czech Republic is rejoining the com­ tions will take us and as far as the frontiers elsewhere to be the most dangerous kind munity of democratic nations we used to of freedom will reach. of criminal. That's right. Vaclav Havel was call the West. As President Havel knows, As all of you know, I was born in a serial truth-teller, a recidivist champion belonging to the democratic family Czechoslovakia, but for many years it was of human rights, a man who so stubbornly requires more than membership in institu­ not a source of pride. Once President Havel stuck to his principles that he resisted tions, much more than cultural affinity, took over, I was very proud to be born every effort at rehabilitation until the even more, I dare say in this company, than Czech . Congratulations, Mr. President.

3 Vaclav Havel

orn in Prague on October 5, 1936, into January to May, 1989. His longest prison helped lay the foundation for the family of a prominent business- term lasted from 1979 to 1983. After his Czechoslovakia's new foreign policy. After Bman, Vaclav Havel completed his release in March 1983, Vaclav Havel wrote the June 1992 parliamentary elections, when primary schooling in 1951. His three of his major plays-Largo Desolato it began to be clear that the federation was "bourgeois" background limited his educa- (1984), Temptation (1985), and Slum Clear- headed for dissolution, Vaclav Havel tional options, and he worked as a chemical ance (1987). As part of his continuing resis- resigned from the federal presidency on laboratory technician while attending tance to Communist rule, he also was July 20. On January 26, 1993, he was elected evening classes at a college preparatory active in the Czechoslovak samizdat press . the first president of the Czech Republic . school, graduating in 1954. Vaclav Havel's plays have been From 1955 to 1957, he studie~:a~t :th:e~------77 performed around the world, and Economics Faculty of the Czech his books have been translated Technical University in , into many languages . Books in Prague . After finishing his . · n English include Letters to Olga; compulsory military service, rrr.,. rruf6riafit.9l.ssociatW Disturbing the Peace;Open Letters: Vaclav Havel worked as a "L ru:-J · V Selected Writings 1965-1990; stagehand at the ABC .. ..f to present Selected Plays by Vaclav Havel; Theater in Prague. In 1960, is prouu Summer Meditations; and he began working at Prague's TowardsCivil Society. Theater on the Balustrade Among his many honors are (Divadlo Na Zabradl0, first as rtineJ.n ,1 ,.; rr.;am«u(6rialit Priz. e the Obie Award (USA, 1968, a stagehand and later as an • VV ..,t,U.- ) V 1970); State Prize for European assistant director and • {al --,.1,.r.staruftt1fl Literature (, 1968); Prix dramaturge. The Theater on for In-1-ernationa·uru-u:- . V Plaisir du Theatre (, the Balustrade produced his '--1 1981); the Erasmus of first plays, most notably The Rotterdam Prize (, Garden Party (1963), his first ma- to 1986); Olaf Palme Prize jor international success. (, 1989); Ordre des From 1962 to 1966, Vaclav Arts et Lettres (France, 1989); Havel studied dramaturgy at the % [ the Peace Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 'Viacl{av ave Book Trade (1989); Grande Prague. He was active in the Croix de la Legion democratization and renewal of d'Honneur (France, 1990); culture during the era of reforms . ,.{ r.,. Czecfi~pub fie Franklin D. Roosevelt Four known as the Prague Spring, PresufentOJ tru:- Freedoms Medal (USA, which ended with the Warsaw 1990); Council of Europe Pact invasion in August 1968. Medal (1990); Vaclav Havel actively opposed Octo6er3, 199 7 w.Averell Harriman the invasion and the resulting hard- Democracy Award (USA, line Communist policies. His work 1991); Sonning Prize was banned in Czechoslovakia in In recoanitionof (, 1991); Inter- 1969. He moved from Prague to the O nationaler Karlspreis country and concentrated on his fi,;C contri6utionsto (Aachen, , 1991); writing, also working for a time as a w __..f: honorary membership in laborer in a brewery . He continued { --f,.r,stanutng the Royal British Legion his activities against the Communist jurtru:-rtngr.,. . mu.,__,' a.-,..._n uruu:- (1991); Athinai Prize of regim e, including hosting concerts of {es the Onassis Foundation banned music in his country cottage . amongpeop (Greece, 1993); Theodor In 1975, he wrote an open letter to -1 Huess Preis (Germany, President Gustav Husak, criticizing 1993); Indira Gandhi the government. Prize (India, 1994); In 1977, Vaclav Havel became a co- L Philadelphia Liberty Medal (USA 1994); and founder and one of the first three Order of the Bath (1996). spokesmen of the Charter 77 human In November 1989, Vaclav Havel became Vaclav Havel has been awarded hon.- rights initiative. He was also a member of one of the leaders of the Civic Forum orary academic degrees from institutions the Committee for the Defense of the opposition movement, which helped bring such as York University, Toronto, Canada; Unjustly Prosecuted, which was founded by about the end of Communist rule. Le Mirail University, Toulouse, France; a group of Charter 77 signatories. From On December 29, 1989, Vaclav Havel was Columbia University, USA; Hebrew 1978 to 1979, he was under house arrest. In elected president of Czechoslovakia. The University, Jerusalem, Israel; Bayreuth 1978, Vaclav Havel wrote one of his most new, freely elected parliament re-elected University, Bayreuth, Germany; Charles influential essays, "The Power of the him on July 5, 1990, for a two-year term. As University, Prague, the Czech Republic; Powerless." President of the Czech and Slovak Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ; Vaclav Havel was incarcerated several Federative Republic, he established new Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, ; and times for his beliefs, the last time from relationships with many world leaders and Stanford and Harvard Universities, USA.

4 \ Fulbright Prize Address Vticlav Havel Speaks to Fulbrighters

ddly enough I still remember the interest with which, Oalmost 30 years ago, I read the book The Arrogance of Power by Senator James William Fulbright. I don't know how many people in the United States found the book to their liking, and how many didn't, or how the book was received here. What struck me-a young man liv­ ing under communist rule but knowing his own mind-was the openness with which the book identified the fundamental dilem­ ma of American foreign policy as it appeared then. According to Senator Fulbright, the dilemma consisted of this: should the great American responsibility to the Neville Isdell,senior vice-president and president,Greater Europe Group, The Coca-ColaCompany, and Philip world, commensurate with the size, 0 . Geier,president, the FulbrightAssociation, listen as PresidentHavel delivershis FulbrightPrize address. strength, and advanced civilization of the U.S.A., assume the form of an spirit are, or rather what this country every attempt at helping something arrogant, insensitive, and sometimes should or could be and what role it good is rewarded with ingratitude. even coercive, export of its values should play in today's world. The Evil Empire has been defeated, and interests into the whole world, I do hope that from me, a person the Good has prevailed: so why take and by doing so, should America coming from a small country, it will the trouble and invest further and play the role of a global policeman; not be seen as a manifestation of the further billions of dollars in the or should this responsibility be of a "arrogance of power" if I use this military? more modest kind, merely offering occasion, so closely connected with an example or sober assistance where Senator Fulbright's name, to try to Isolationism it is requested, while maximally answer Senator Fulbright's American respecting the "otherness" of others question from a non-American, and Isolationism has a long tradition in and living with them on good terms, thus more distant, perspective. modern American history; it has thus unwittingly, as it were-if they I wonder how this traditional returned in many waves and in dif­ seem inhuman to America-human­ American dilemma is perceived ferent forms. Its current form, I izing them? today by U.S. citizens who are not particularly interested in American history and even less in American American Identity foreign policy. It seems to me that in this book It is highly probable that many of Senator Fulbright touched upon a them have been overwhelmed by theme that reaches far beyond the the feeling that since the main question of what kind of foreign poli­ threats looming over America and cy America should pursue. He the whole world, the Soviet Empire touched upon the very question of and communism, have collapsed, American identity. Or is this not one the danger of another world war way of asking the same question that breaking out can be crossed off the citizens of this country have been list of potential risks. Consequently, asking since the 19th century: what America should pay more attention is America? Yes, to ask the questions to itself and to its own problems posed by Senator Fulbright means de and should not get too involved in ASSOC!.\ T !O N facto to ask what America and its the large and intricate world where

5 assume, is the one I have just world-either positive, as in the case described, and it is as dangerous of a discovery of a new drug in a for America as any of the previous California laboratory, or negative, as forms: never in modern times has in the case of the explosion of a isolationism protected America nuclear reactor in a Ukrainian village . from whatever the danger may We are living at a time when have been; instead, it has always humankind can face all the threats been responsible for delayed looming over it only if we, by which I engagement at a time when confla­ mean each of us, manage to revive, gration was already ablaze and was with new energy and ethos, a sense beginning to pose a vital threat, of responsibility for the world as a which eventually meant that whole . It goes without saying that Americans had to pay for their ini­ this must include responsibility for tial lack of interest or reluctance a its long-term future, too. Under thousand times more than they those circumstances, to think only of would have paid, had they become oneself is suicidal for all-the power­ politically and militarily engaged at ful and the weak, the large and the the very beginning or, if possible, small alike. even before. They had to pay for their short-sightedness not only American Responsibility with much larger expenditures but with innumerable lives unnecessar­ I am convinced that for these two ily wasted. reasons, that is the general and the It has often been said that the very fundamental on the one hand, West and democracy have won the and the specifically American on the Cold War and that what is at stake other, America today-perhaps more now is for them to win the peace, than ever before-must assume its too. Eight years after the collapse that America stands for is in many share of responsibility for the world. of communism I am deeply respects more difficult than in previ­ For America to close itself off would convinced that this task is going to be ous times. But that is not the main be impossible, for merely technologi­ much more difficult to accomplish. reason why I am speaking against cal reasons, but even if it tried to do The threats looming over the world isolationism. That reason is different: so, this would be the worst course it today are to the threat of communism we are entering a world in which it could take for the planet and for as metastasis is to an isolated tumor: makes less and less sense to focus on itself . while previously the enemy faced by individual interests only, because this Although it may appear different, the free world was sole and apparent, is a world of a single global civiliza­ what is at stake today is exactly what armed to the teeth with weapons tion which makes us all participants was at stake at the time of Senator known to us and quite predictable, in one common Destiny. Whatever Fulbright, in other words, how today-after the disintegration of the happens anywhere may, in one way America should bear this responsibil­ bipolar world, and to a large extent or another, have an immediate ity. as an aftermath of its existence-the impact upon the Fate of the whole I believe that for the rest of the world is covered with innumerable world contemporary America is an dangers that are extremely diverse, almost symbolic concentration of all decentralized, and yet intertwined, We are entering a world in the good and the bad of our civiliza­ and hard to predict. To respond to tion-ranging from the fantastic these by quickly creating different which it makes less and less development of science and technolo­ new defense systems is truly more sense to focus on individual gy generating more welfare and the demanding than to continue the arms profundity of civil liberty and race with a more or less sclerotic interests only, because this is strength of democratic institutions, to superpower. a world of a single global the blind cult of perpetual economic To sum up: isolationism is short­ growth and never-ending consump­ sighted primarily in terms of the very civilization which makes us tion, no matter how detrimental to interests of America . It has, simply, all participants in one the environment, the dictates of never paid off and this is all the more materialism, consumerism and true now, when-as I have tried to common Destiny. advertising, the voiding of human indicate-the defense of the values uniqueness and its replacement by

6 side of the good, without this siding the reasons that I have indicated and being motivated by one's own power that, as you may believe, I could or economic interests and thus bear­ develop, specify, and illustrate for ing witness to its own hypocrisy . To hours on end. promote all manifestations of toler­ Let me quote just one example that ance and understanding among is fairly topical, and, as far as I know, nations and religious worlds, to is often discussed in American politi­ enhance all kinds of international cal circles and media. cooperation and regional integration geared towards general benefit, to NATO Enlargement create space for a wise attitude towards Nature and Earth, an atti­ What I have in mind is the enlarge­ tude that sees a human being as their ment of the North Atlantic Alliance. I integral part, not as their master, am told that there are a lot of people owner, or wanton exploiter. here in this country who maintain As for security matters, I believe that NATO enlargement makes no that in extreme cases that are beyond sense. Why, they say, should we any doubt, the U.S.A., while enjoying enlarge our defense alliance-on top the general support of freedom-lov­ of that, by taking in countries that ing people and peace-loving demo­ were part of the Communist Empire cratic states, must have the strength until recently, and therefore, remain to intervene with force-that is by somewhat suspicious-at a time military means, against apparent evil. when the West is not facing any seri­ the uniformity of the round-the-clock The U.S.A. cannot and must not give ous threats? Furthermore, NATO noise of TV banality. up this obligation, which is a very enlargement might allegedly be For these reasons, the way in which specific and extreme manifestation of resented by a certain large ­ America will assume its responsibili­ its responsibility for the world. Asian state, which for some reason is ty for the world should embody In the course of the Cold War, afraid of the Alliance, and it would those premises which alone have a America came to understand this, cost taxpayers money that could oth­ chance of saving this civilization as a though historians may argue about erwise be saved or better spent. whole: this way should be imbued the situations in which it tested its with new spirituality, a new ethos competence, or the means it and new ethics, hence exactly with employed. the things that should be adopted by However, that is not what matters all cultures, all spheres of civilization, now. What matters now is some­ and all nations of today's world as a thing different, more important, condition of their very survival. almost a matter of principle . It seems to me that after all the Respect for uotherness" good and bad experiences America has had in the 20th century it should What does this mean in concrete eventually understand what its terms? A number of things. For enlightened parts have understood example: deep respect for everything for a long time: that the most effec­ that in today's multi polar and multi­ tive, most ethical, and in the end, cultural world constitutes also the least expensive way of "otherness," a respect resulting from dealing with these challenges is by profound understanding of the posi­ investing all its intellectual poten­ tive values inherent in the other tial and a significant share of its worlds. At the same time, the material strength into what I call courage to step out of the world of "security prevention." Of course, pragmatic power considerations and to predict conflicts and to avert to defend-non-violently-truth and them is usually more difficult than justice wherever they are violated, to engage in them and often even regardless of whether this could put more difficult than to win them. the most profitable commercial con­ However, it is a way one thou­ tracts at risk. To be always on the sand times more meaningful-for

7 This way of thinking-after what assume, and we have gone through in the 20th regardless of century, in the course of which more whether they than 200 million people have died in would befall us in wars and in concentration camps-is, three or in 15 in my opinion, extremely naive, years, could cost short-sighted, even dangerous. us all much more Europe is a strange continent. than the two Today's civilization was born there World Wars but so were two World Wars. It is a Europe has continent which has always constitut­ "donated" to us ed and still constitutes one entity­ in this century. though culturally, ethnically, and After a long peri­ economically immensely diverse. For od of hesitation, the first time in its history, this entity the West took a has a chance to establish its internal major step to order on the principle of cooperation avoid such a and equality of the large and the threat in Madrid small, the strong and the weak, on not long ago. We shared democratic values. This is will all pay for also a chance, once and for all, to put this step. Any an end to the export of wars and judicious person, coercion and to become an example however, must PresidentHavel receivescongratulations on his Fulbright Prize address of peaceful collaboration. Should admit that such from Secretaryof State Albright. Europe miss this chance, we might be expenditure is heading for a new global catastrophe, worth it. Has it not been established These dreamers, who are often at much graver than the previous ones. beyond doubt that even the most the margin of society, despite the fact For reasons I have described, this costly preventive security is cheaper that many of their books are world time the forces of freedom would not than the cheapest war? Well, such an bestsellers, will find their way to the be facing one totalitarian enemy: this investment will hardly generate any place they belong, among the politi­ could be a strange war of all against return in the next elections, but it will cians, only if the very spirit of politics all, a war with no clear-cut fronts, a be all the more appreciated by gener­ changes in the way I have been talk­ war that would be difficult to distin­ ations to come. ing about, towards deeper responsi­ guish from terrorism, organized bility for the world. crime, and other kinds of civilization For the sake of my country, for the crime, a war into which the whole Has it not been established sake of the whole world, and for the world would be dragged by a num­ beyond doubt that even the sake of America itself, that is said to ber of indirect and hidden means. I be a country of unlimited opportuni­ don't mean to scare you, but anybody most costly preventive ties, I wish that it be among the first with a little bit of imagination and security is cheaper than the to set out on this journey. A journey some knowledge of what has-until leading to a genuine, profound recently-been going on, for exam­ cheapest war? interest respecting infinity and ple, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, must eternity, an interest in all that tran­ understand that this is not empty scends the borders of space and talk. Future Generations time within which we are destined If the ongoing process of European This brings me back to the begin­ to live. integration were unable to enhance ning of my argument: who thinks Dear friends, allow me, in conclu­ its security dimension, if it were to today about future generations? sion, to express my admiration for stop at the gates of NATO, the only Who is concerned about what people Senator James William Fulbright's functional defense alliance in Europe, will eat, drink, breathe in 100 years, Program, which, I believe, has for 50 it would probably come to a halt. where they will get energy when years been pursuing the direction And I would like to assure all there are twice as many people living that I would like the whole of Americans who still have their on this planet as today? Only an ide­ America to pursue: towards unos­ doubts that the unfortunate conse­ alist, a dreamer, a genuinely spiritual tenta tious and non-violent promotion quences of such coming to a halt, person who, they say, is not modern of the spirit of freedom and responsi­ regardless of what form they would enough. bility.

8 Scenes from the 1997 Fulbright Prize Events

Keith Geiger,director, Office of AcademicPrograms, United States InformationAgency, con­ Harriet Mayor Fulbright and President Havel sharea gratulates PresidentHavel. Dr. Geierand DagmarHavlova, President Havel's wife, lookon . moment at the award ceremonyreception .

Mrs. Havel; Anton Amon, FulbrightAssociation officer, member of the 1997 Senator CharlesS. Robb (Va.) greets AmbassadorLaney (right) and Mr. FulbrightPrize SelectionCommittee, and seniorvice president, The Coca-Cola Hurford. Company;President Havel; Dr. Geier;and John B. Hurford,Fu lbright Association directoremeritus and chairmanof the Fulbright Association'sPrize Committee.

Fulbright Association Board of Directors Frederick G. Acker • Anton Amon • Robert S. Bowen • Flavia Cigliano • Howard P. Colhoun • Kempton Dunn • Earl H. Fry• Philip 0. Geier• Charles H. Harff • Eric S. Howard• Jenny K. Johnson• Stephen M. Johnson• Thomas J. Keil • Lily Diaz Kommonen • Mary C. McEniry • Jesu.s Mendez • Takashi Okagaki • Riorden Roett • Ronald J. Ross• Sally A. Shelton-Colby• Thomas L. Shillinglaw • David G. Smith• Maxine S. Thomas

9 The Fulbright Program Association in the Czech Republic Accepts By Hanka Ripkova, executive director, J. William Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange in the Czech Republic Major Gift

ince 1991, when the Fulbright their colleagues from the Faculties of oren W. Hershey, an officer and direc­ Program in the Czech Republic joined Education at Masaryk University in Brno tor of the Fulbright Association from SCzech reformers in the work of trans­ and at in Prague with L1989 through 1994 and a former presi­ forming a political, economic, and social courses in methodology of Teaching dent of the National Capital Area Chapter, system emerging from 40 years of totalitar­ English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). To wrote to the association immediately fol­ ian control, the Fulbright exchange has provide the opportunity to study American lowing the recent 1997 Fulbright Prize brought more than 150 to the literature with a U.S. professor to the award ceremony and 20th annual confer­ United States and almost 200 Americans to largest number of students possible, ence lauding the accomplishments of the the Czech Republic. Marshall Toman commutes between uni­ association and making a contribution of Although the board of the Fulbright versities in two Czech cities. Roger Klein $25,000 to support operations. Mr. Commission in the Czech Republic reviews came to participate in curriculum develop­ Hershey indicated that he will make its priorities every year, the overall stress ment and lecturing in two relatively new equivalent gifts each year through 2000. on fields of study that were under heavy fields in the Czech Republic: environmen­ Mr. Hershey, an attorney in private prac­ political influence during the decades tal law and securities law, both critical tice in Washington, D.C., recently renewed behind the Iron Curtain remains the cor­ disciplines at this time in the development the spirit of his Fulbright experience with a nerstone of the U.S.-Czech Fulbright of the Czech Republic's legal system. mid-career sabbatical at the Georgetown exchange. It would be too optimistic to The reform of the country's health care Foreign Service School as a Fellow of the link the many successes in curriculum system is being hotly debated, and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. change in the Czech Republic's universities timing of Robert McLean's course in health Mr. Hershey received a one -year and high schools exclusively to the influ­ care management at Palacky University in Fulbright grant to India in 1968. Since ence of the Fulbright Program, but Olomouc is ideal. Susan Ewing, teaching 1988, he has provided leadership and sup­ Fulbrighters have made a significant con­ at the Academy of Applied Arts at the port for a variety of major association mile­ tribution to these changes. Department of Metal and Jewelry, and stones, including the Fulbright Prize, the A system cannot be transformed Michael Murphy, conducting fetal kidney 12th annual conference, which he chaired, overnight, and the transformation of a research at the Academy of Sciences in development of the chapter system, and system which continues to replicate itself Prague, are enjoying mutually beneficial association-wide strategic planning. by means of an educational system that is cooperation with their hosts in their A life member of the association, Mr. only partially reformed remains a formida­ respective and very diverse fields. We Hershey is also active in the political and ble challenge. The ability to break this have learned from the three American high civic life of the greater Washington, D.C., reproductive cycle at several junctures is school teachers and their Czech partners in area, serving on the Board of Trustees of one of the reasons for the Fulbright suc­ the United States that adaptation to their WETA, the PBS affiliate broadcaster, and as cess. Through the Teacher Exchange new tasks remains a challenge. None of chairman of three private foundations. Program, scholarships for graduate stud­ them has, however, indicated that it is not ies, and awards for research and lecturing, worth the effort to step directly into the the Fulbright Program penetrates the sys­ shoes of their partners in a new home, job, tem at many levels . and country . grantees here, but thanks to the power of Americans do not come here to be role Some U.S. students have chosen fields in increasing e-mail connections, we are models for their Czech colleagues, but the which the Czech Republic's preeminence is beginning to read stories from our Czech different approaches to education and to well recognized. Dana Schnirch is study­ grantees about classrooms in the United life in society which they embody often ing glass art, Heather Frost, chemistry, and States. We look forward to their return and give Czechs a good basis for a fresh, critical Sierra Stoneberg, biological sciences . to hearing their accounts in person as they approach to their own methods of research, Others have found the transformation of discuss their experiences and the changes teaching and lecturing, or studying. The our system a good example for practical they have undergone . great potential of the Czech grantees, experiment. Caroline Vanderkar is exam­ These myriad examples of just a single which made their selection possible, has ining the privatization process in agricul­ year's Fulbright exchange illustrate the invariably been increased by their ture, Peter Swartz is investigating the rich experience the program brings to the Fulbright experience . The Czech Fulbright nation's restitution laws, and James Kilian United States, the Czech Republic, and Alumni Association, founded in 1996, com­ is researching the use of public space in their binational and personal relationships . prises a group of leading professionals in a Prague. Laura Davies, who teaches at the The program itself changes each year-as wide spectrum of fields, many of whom school for deaf children in Olomouc, is the grantees change-but the impact of the have been the catalysts of new develop­ practicing mutual understanding through exchange is always enormous. Witnessing ment in their respective professions. sign language at the Department of Special the visible benefits of Fulbright exchanges The Czech Republic is hosting several Pedagogy. year after year, we are proud to be part of U.S. Fulbright scholars this year. Craig At this writing, we have more informa­ this "modest program with an immodest Machado and Irene Thomas are helping tion about the work of the American aim," which brings so much to so many.

10 Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel Receives 1997 Fulbright Prize (continued from page 1) "In the long process of ending commu­ For nearly two decades, playwright Vaclav Havel was born in Prague on nist rule and ushering in democracy in his Vaclav Havel rallied public support for October 5, 1936. After studying at the country, Vaclav Havel has promoted liber­ democracy and social change in Czech Technical University and serving ty and human dignity worldwide," said Czechoslovakia. He wrote open letters to two years of compulsory military service, James T. Laney, former U.S. ambassador to the government, focused his literary works he studied drama and graduated from the Korea and chairman of the international on civil society and liberty, and created a Academy of Performing Arts in 1967. A prize selection committee convened by the human rights manifesto called Charter 77. prolific playwright and author, President Fulbright Association. "Scholar, diplomat, In 1989, Mr. Havel was unanimously elect­ Havel has published more than 20 literary and leader of his country, Vaclav Havel is a ed spokesman of the Civic Forum opposi­ works which have been performed around man of great courage and vision. His elo­ tion movement, which brought about the the world. He has received 14 honorary quence and his utter fearlessness gave end of communist rule in the country. Mr. degrees from universities in eight coun­ hope to millions in a time of despair." Havel's leadership of the peaceful 1989 tries, among many other awards for both The Fulbright Association created the "Velvet Revolution" resulted in the rise of his literary and political accomplishments. J. William Fulbright Prize for International democracy. The Fulbright Association is a private, Understanding in 1993 to recognize indi­ On December 29, 1989, Vaclav Havel was nonprofit organization that supports and viduals who have made extraordinary con­ elected president of Czechoslovakia. In promotes the Fulbright Program, the inter­ tributions toward bringing peoples, cul­ 1990, he was re-elected president by the national educational and cultural exchange tures, or nations to greater understanding new parliament, but resigned the position initiative created in 1946 through legislation of others. The prize was awarded to South in 1992 when it became clear Czechoslo­ sponsored by the late Senator J. William African President Nelson Mandela in 1993, vakia would be split. He became the first Fulbright of Arkansas. The Fulbright former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1994, president of the Czech Republic on Association also runs educational and cul­ former Austrian Federal Chancellor Franz January 26, 1993. tural programs for foreign Fulbright schol­ Vranitzky in 1995, and former Philippines Serving on the committee that selected ars during their U.S. stay, linking them with President Corazon C. Aquino in 1996. President Havel for the 1997 Fulbright U.S. Fulbright alumni. There are 29 local "President Havel has become a symbol Prize were Ambassador James T. Laney; chapters of the Fulbright Association in the of the vast human potential for positive Anton Amon, a Fulbright Association United States, and the association collabo­ transformation of societies," said Philip 0. director and senior vice president, The rates with more than 50 Fulbright alumni Geier, president of the Fulbright Associ­ Coca-Cola Company; Gudmund Hemes, organizations in other countries. ation's Board of Directors and president of minister of health, ; Geza Since 1949, there have been more than Armand Hammer United World College. Jeszenszky, member of the Hungarian par­ 200,000 participants in the Fulbright "Over recent years, he has unleashed the liament and president, Hungarian Atlantic Program throughout the world. momentum of democracy to improve the Council; and Sir Ronald Wilson, president, This year, the Fulbright Association cele­ well-being of the Czech Republic and its Human Rights and Equal Opportunity brates the 20th anniversary of its founding citizens by defending human rights, Commission, Australia. Dr. Amon, and the fifth anniversary of the Fulbright strengthening the economy, and most Minister Hemes, Dr. Jeszenszky, and Sir Prize. recently, promoting NATO expansion to Ronald Wilson are all past recipients of include the Czech Republic." Fulbright awards.

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11 Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel Receives 1997 Fulbright Prize (continued from page 1) "In the long process of ending commu­ For nearly two decades, playwright Vaclav Havel was born in Prague on nist rule and ushering in democracy in his Vaclav Havel rallied public support for October 5, 1936. After studying at the country, Vaclav Havel has promoted liber­ democracy and social change in Czech Technical University and serving ty and human dignity worldwide," said Czechoslovakia. He wrote open letters to two years of compulsory military service, James T. Laney, former U.S. ambassador to the government, focused his literary works he studied drama and graduated from the Korea and chairman of the international on civil society and liberty, and created a Academy of Performing Arts in 1967. A prize selection committee convened by the human rights manifesto called Charter 77. prolific playwright and author, President Fulbright Association. "Scholar, diplomat, In 1989, Mr. Havel was unanimously elect­ Havel has published more than 20 literary and leader of his country, Vaclav Havel is a ed spokesman of the Civic Forum opposi­ works which have been performed around man of great courage and vision. His elo­ tion movement, which brought about the the world. He has received 14 honorary quence and his utter fearlessness gave end of communist rule in the country. Mr. degrees from universities in eight coun­ hope to millions in a time of despair." Havel's leadership of the peaceful 1989 tries, among many other awards for both The Fulbright Association created the "Velvet Revolution" resulted in the rise of his literary and political accomplishments. J. William Fulbright Prize for International democracy. The Fulbright Association is a private, Understanding in 1993 to recognize indi­ On December 29, 1989, Vaclav Havel was nonprofit organization that supports and viduals who have made extraordinary con­ elected president of Czechoslovakia. In promotes the Fulbright Program, the inter­ tributions toward bringing peoples, cul­ 1990, he was re-elected president by the national educational and cultural exchange tures, or nations to greater understanding new parliament, but resigned the position initiative created in 1946 through legislation of others. The prize was awarded to South in 1992 when it became clear Czechoslo­ sponsored by the late Senator J. William African President Nelson Mandela in 1993, vakia would be split. He became the first Fulbright of Arkansas. The Fulbright former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1994, president of the Czech Republic on Association also runs educational and cul­ former Austrian Federal Chancellor Franz January 26, 1993. tural programs for foreign Fulbright schol­ Vranitzky in 1995, and former Philippines Serving on the committee that selected ars during their U.S. stay, linking them with President Corazon C. Aquino in 1996. President Havel for the 1997 Fulbright U.S. Fulbright alumni. There are 29 local "President Havel has become a symbol Prize were Ambassador James T. Laney; chapters of the Fulbright Association in the of the vast human potential for positive Anton Amon, a Fulbright Association United States, and the association collabo­ transformation of societies," said Philip 0. director and senior vice president, The rates with more than 50 Fulbright alumni Geier, president of the Fulbright Associ­ Coca-Cola Company; Gudmund Hemes, organizations in other countries. ation's Board of Directors and president of minister of health, Norway; Geza Since 1949, there have been more than Armand Hammer United World College. Jeszenszky, member of the Hungarian par­ 200,000 participants in the Fulbright "Over recent years, he has unleashed the liament and president, Hungarian Atlantic Program throughout the world. momentum of democracy to improve the Council; and Sir Ronald Wilson, president, This year, the Fulbright Association cele­ well-being of the Czech Republic and its Human Rights and Equal Opportunity brates the 20th anniversary of its founding citizens by defending human rights, Commission, Australia. Dr. Amon, and the fifth anniversary of the Fulbright strengthening the economy, and most Minister Hemes, Dr. Jeszenszky, and Sir Prize. recently, promoting NATO expansion to Ronald Wilson are all past recipients of include the Czech Republic." Fulbright awards.

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