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Nelson Mandela’s Fulbright Prize Address Oct. 1 1993, Washington DC. The following are excerpts from a transcript of Mr. Mandela’s address. In July I turned 75. And a day or two Then there came a very devastating Significance of the prize the ideas for which you had fought before that, I met a young lady of comment on her part which will put And it is against the background that were alive, that our people outside about four or five years, and she asked into context the glowing remarks awards of this nature go to strengthen prison were on their feet and fighting me some pointed questions. She asked, which have been made here. When I the democratic forces in our country, back, that the national community “How old are you?” I said, “Well, I couldn’t tell her exactly when I was to strengthen men and women of had mobilized itself to isolate a regime can’t remember but I was born long, born, she said, “You are a foolish old vision. There are thousands of them which had through apartheid commit- long ago.”She said, “A year ago?” man, aren’t you?” in our country, and that is part of the ted a crime against humanity – those I said, “No, more than that.” “Two If any of us is credited with a vision, significance of us getting this Fulbright were glorious moments. When we years ago?” I said, “No longer than you must remember the remarks of Award. We accept it not as a gesture went through those harsh experiences that.”“But when were you born?” I that young lady. And if my remarks to an individual. It is a source of in a prison where all the wardens said, “Well I’ve told you I can’t remem- here confirm what the young lady said, tremendous inspiration, and courage, were white and where all blacks were ber, but it was a long time ago.” I hope you’ll not be as frank. I consider and hope, for one to be associated prisoners, a place of indescribable Then she suddenly switched and said, it a great honor to be standing before with such a prestigious award. But we brutality, it was through gestures of “Why did you go to jail?” I said, “I you today to receive the J. William know that the gesture is in support of this nature that we always knew that didn’t go there because I liked it, some Fulbright Prize for International Under- the men and women over the decades one day we would be back. people sent me there.” “Who?” I said, standing. I count it also a great privi- who have elected to stand on their feet “People who don’t like me.” “And how lege to be with you on the occasion of to fight back. And for those of us, who Generations of the World long did you remain there?” I said, the Fulbright Association’s 16th annual have spent a number of years behind And this prize, this award, is a source “Again I can’t remember but it was a conference. In expressing my heartfelt bars - you have to be behind bars to of tremendous inspiration, not only long time ago.” She again repeated, appreciation of the accolade bestowed appreciate the policy of a country be- to an individual, but to the men and “One year, two years?” And I said, on me, I am not unmindful of the re- cause it is there that the cruelty of men women right across the length and “No, I can’t remember.” sponsibilities one assumes. to men emerges – the knowledge that breadth of our country who decided

Have something newsworthy? Email [email protected] 1 On Oct. 1, 1993, Michael DeLucia (President, Fulbright Association Board of Directors) awarded the Fulbright Prize to .

to fight back, and to you, part of that to receive the Fulbright prize. The prize from family events) it was the best walked across the stage, grabbed the family, those men and women who recognized in particular Mr. Mandela’s day of my life. I was able to introduce sculpture by its throat with his right have chosen the world to be the the- commitment to the resolution of long- Mandela to the audience in the State hand, and hoisted it high above his ater of your efforts. We are thousands standing injustices in a peaceful and Department auditorium, and then I got head, giving us all a hideous grin of of miles away. Why should people of pluralistic way, Dr. Katz said. to sit next to him at the luncheon. triumph. The Coke President nearly the United States of America worry fainted, and so did I. At lunch he told about what is happening at the tip of Stanley N. Katz You may be amused by this memory me that he lifted weights on Robben the African continent? It is because we Director, Fulbright Association Board of that meal. I told Mandela that it Island to keep in shape. What a guy! now have produced at this generation Many of my fellow Fulbright alumni was a thrill and an honor to shake Nelson Mandela was a great man and men and women who are not satisfied might not know of Fulbright Associ- his hand, but I confessed that he was he will indeed be missed. We should with addressing and solving problems ation’s special relationship to Nelson the second of my personal heroes all be proud of the fact that our Associ- within the borders of their country, Mandela, the inaugural honoree of the whose hand I had shaken. “Who was ation was perhaps the first internation- who regard themselves as part of J. William Fulbright Prize for Interna- the other?” he asked. “An American al organization to honor Mandiba. humanity. I am very proud to be here tional Peace and Understanding. profession athlete, sir, and I don’t think today. I go home like a battery charged name would mean much to you.” “Try May he rest in peace. ready to carry out the work that desti- The memory of that event holds a me!” “Well, it was a baseball player ny has placed us. special place in my heart, since I was named Henry Aaron.” “You mean the founding Chair of the Selection Hammering Hank?” What a guy! “The Fulbright prize honored Mr. Committee for the Prize in 1993. Se- Mandela for his personal courage and lecting Mandela, who had just been I don’t know if we still give the hon- selfless determination to eliminate released from prison, as the first hon- oree the large bronze sculpture created racial and political barriers in South oree was pretty obvious. My memory by Sergio Dolfi, the Italian VP of Coca Africa and to focus international atten- is that it required practically no discus- Cola (the original sponsor of the Prize) tion to the divisive practices that have sion. We were thrilled when he agreed but when the President of Coca Cola, for so long been part of the daily lives to come to the States for the presenta- Mr. Isbel, presented Mandela with the of South Africans of all races,” said tion at the State Department, though sculpture, it was wheeled out on a cart. Stanley N. Katz, then president of the unreasonably surprised when the USG The President said that it weighed 60 American Council of Learned Societies and other groups took over his visit pounds and was too heavy to lift, but and chairman of the international to this country almost entirely. But that the company would have it crated committee that selected Mr. Mandela we had him for half a day, and (apart and shipped to . Mandela

2 Announcing the Fulbright–National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship Fulbright’s Outreach Team Introduction The Fulbright-National Geographic production has created unprecedented will offer training, mentorship, and Digital Storytelling Fellowship (Ful- opportunity for people from all guidance. Fellows will provide material bright-National Geographic) is a com- disciplines and backgrounds to share for a blog on the National Geographic ponent of the Fulbright U.S. Student their personal narratives with global website, on a regular and frequent Program. This program will support a audiences. Fulbright and National basis throughout their grant term. Fellow’s digital storytelling efforts on a Geographic are committed to helping This Fellowship will be launched on global issue or set of issues affecting individuals develop these storytelling December 17, 2013. The application Assistant Secretary of State for Educational citizens of both the United States and tools which serve as a powerful period will run off-cycle to February and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan and Vice another country or set of countries (up resource in building ties across cultures. 28, 2014. The selection process will be President of News and Editorial Services In addition to receiving traditional completed by June 2014, and fellows for National Geographic David Braun at to three countries). the signing for the Memorandum of Under- The wide variety of new media Fulbright benefits, Fulbright-National will depart for their host countries in standing to create the Fulbright-National Geographic Fellows will be paired September-October of 2014 for one Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship platforms, such as the Internet, blogs, with two Fulbright alumni. social media, and low-cost video with National Geographic editors who academic year. Resources• Fulbright – National Geographic Fellowship ECA Page • Application page for Fulbright-National Geographic Georgia Chapter From Civil War Battles to Urban Transformation – fall trip 2013 By Lee Pasackow ed into the barn to enjoy our meal. Stu- explore the city by foot were delighted It’s important for Fulbrighters to build dents really enjoyed the barn dancing to meet friendly locals along the way. social networks. The friendship is very with instruction. Surrounded by bales Some visited popular sites such as helpful for people away from their of hay, the students danced with each the Chattanooga Choo Choo and all home country other and the instructors laughed at managed to snap numerous photos • Broadened my knowledge- there was their missteps and surprised themselves and even some videos that were then not just a civil war but a war to fight with their newly acquired dancing skills. posted to Facebook. slavery and inequality Southern hospitality was the operative After lunch we headed to the Mocca- • I became more aware of the role that We arrived at Chickamauga and word of the evening as illustrated by sin Bend National Park to tour a special southern states played in the civil war. Chattanooga National Military Park the fact that the instructor only stopped trail that had just opened, commemo- It makes me understand more about just in time for the 10:00 caravan tour the dancing when informed that we rating the Cherokee Trail of Tears. We the place where I live now. with the ranger. At four stops in this must return to the city. could have mistaken the ranger for a • We got to walk on the same route vast 9000 acre park we heard details After breakfast at the hotel, students Broadway actor; he was so passionate of the sad evacuation of the Cherokee on two major battles of the American were eager to check out their Bike and animated. We walked through the people. Good way to experience history Civil War: the Battle of Chickamauga Chattanooga bicycles. We took two woods to the bend in the river at which by being at the proximity of the event and the Chattanooga Campaign. We vans north of the city to check out point the Native Americans boarded and imagine the situation then. enjoyed a picnic lunch on the grounds bikes near the river parks while other boats to cross the river, departing • This trip helped me broaden my un- and students viewed the overview film students retrieved their bikes from Tennessee and their native lands 175 derstanding of Americans world view, in groups. stations near the hotel. years ago. life style and culture After checking into our hotel in Chattanooga was quiet on a Sunday Students exchanged addresses and • Addressing the Civil War and the Na- Chattanooga, we had a short time to morning. Experienced and first-time cell phone numbers before boarding tive Americans …made me understand get settled. The vans were then loaded bikers easily formed groups with four the vans for the trip back to Atlanta the source of American ideals and up for our 1-hour drive north to the leaders to explore the city on two and Athens. Participants were from America’s role in the world today Tennessee Guest Ranch. The organizers wheels. We climbed up to the Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, wanted us to arrive while it was still “Walking Bridge,” one of the center- Argentina, Morocco, Tunisia, UK, Pana- light so the students could tour the pieces of Chattanooga’s urban renewal ma, , Russia, Romania, China, stables and enjoy the mountain vistas. and the second longest pedestrian Indonesia, Mozambique, , India, We were greeted by young students bridge in the nation. We explored the Colombia and Laos. on their horses and hot hors d’oeuvres art district while marveling at the nu- outside. The students put on a show merous sculptures throughout the city. Quotes from attendees in the ring highlighting the life of the Some dismounted to visit sites while • I had so much fun during the trip I cowboy over the decades. We lined up others took extended rides to arrive didn’t want to go home for our buffet dinner; then were escort- late for lunch! Students who chose to • Thank you for organizing this trip.

3 Presenting Fulbright Association Board of Directors Director - projects in new business development, State Department, Council for Inter- as Associate Provost at Gordon College Philip E. Rakita technology assessment and transfer, national Exchange of Scholars and is in Wenham, Massachusetts. During her Philip E. Rakita is a divestitures and acquisitions. He has a member of the American Chemical career, she has been deeply committed senior executive with worked and lived in , , the Society and the Robert Boyle Society to strengthening faculty scholarship more than thirty Netherlands, Russia, and the United of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. and promoting student research. years of international States and has extensive experience He holds Certificate #918 from the Williams has published one book and experience in the with multinational technical and cultur- Association of Consulting Chemists authored numerous articles and papers. chemical and related industries. For al interfaces within organizations. and Chemical Engineers. He serves on She is in high demand as a speaker eighteen years he held various man- Prior to his industrial career he was the Board of Directors of the Fulbright and is very active in the Council for agement positions in fine and specialty Professor of Chemistry at the University Association. Christian Colleges and Universities. She chemicals and plastics for the Elf Aqui- of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the In 1993, he co-founded Armour earned her B.A. and M.A. from South- taine Group, including over three years University of Minnesota, and Senior Associates, Ltd. and currently serves as ern Illinois University and her Ph.D. as European General Manager of the Fulbright Visiting Professor at Moscow Managing Director of the firm. from Iowa State University. Dr. Williams bio/fine division of M&T Chemicals (lat- State University (USSR). He also served Director - completed post-doctoral studies in er the CECA subsidiary of Elf Atochem) as a Grants Officer for the U.S. Environ- Herma Williams Higher Education and Policy at Harvard and two years as Director of Technology mental Protection Agency. Dr. Herma Williams University and was named a Kellogg for Akishima Chemical (Elf Atochem He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from is the former Pro- Foundation and Ford Foundation fellow. Japan) in Tokyo. He has served as CEO the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- vost and Vice Pres- As a Fulbright Scholar, she directed a of Syrgis Performance Products, LLC, a nology and is the author of over forty ident of Academic program designed to strengthen aca- privately held $50 million diversified papers and a book in the field of fine Affairs at Fresno demic excellence for students of color group of specialty chemical companies. chemicals and plastics. Pacific University from 2006 to 2010. at the University of the Western Cape He has lead numerous successful He has been a consultant to the U.S. Before going to California, she served and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Massachusetts Chapter Shares Thanksgiving A Particular American Holiday with Fulbright Students and Scholars

By Deborah Addis and Agnes Serenyi it up when he wrote hopefully, “I really Royce Anderson from the International Brookline Hills when suddenly half a As an American holiday, Thanksgiving look forward to experiencing the Ameri- Center in Worcester, worked tirelessly dozen wild turkeys appeared; we could has no rival. The mere thought of the can Thanksgiving!” until hosts were found for every hopeful not have scripted it better. Please keep us holiday evokes thoughts of family Luckily, Chun-Cheng had a happy Fulbright student. Linda personally on your list for next year.” reunions, ample food, giving thanks, Thanksgiving, and so did all the others hosted a family of five from Poland. From Despite the challenges and the effort turkeys, sharing. It is in the spirit of who signed up. The organizers arranged Plymouth, Massachusetts, Linda reported, that goes into this annual Massachusetts sharing and showcasing American to have 15 families host 45 students “I had a Polish family with us and it was Chapter event, the Chapter is committed culture that the Massachusetts Chapter from nearly 20 countries, including fantastic.” to upholding this tradition. “Next year began this event many years ago. This Turkey, China, the , Pakistan, Other hosts also cherished the experi- will be just as challenging,” said the year the event was, once again, a great Russia, Venezuela, France and Greece. ence. One host reported, “We so enjoyed Linda and Agnes, “and it will be just as success, due to the extraordinary efforts Linda Gregorio, in consultation with our guest, Bettina. She came by subway successful. But we don’t guarantee the of Linda Gregario and Agnes Serenyi, Agnes Serenyi and with help from and we walked down to meet her at wild turkeys.” board members of the Massachusetts Family: Sam Kauffmann (Uganda, 2004) Professor of Film, Boston University Students: Fazli Azeem (Pakistan, MassArt) & Chapter who organized the event. Fabienne Rudolph (Germany, Northeastern U.) Inevitably, finding the right number of Fulbright alums to serve as hosts for the large number of Fulbright students and visiting scholars interested in expe- riencing this special day in an American home, gets off to an ominous start. Besides finding hosts, there are many other challenges such as transportation and last minute schedule changes. At the same time, there is such enthusi- asm among visiting Fulbrighters who signed up at the Opening Reception in September and online that it makes dealing with those challenges easier. Chun-Ching, one Fulbrighter summed

4 Alumni Accomplishments Michael Forster Rothbart Would You Stay? The devastating nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl scattered radio- to understand why people refuse to leave Chernobyl and Fukushi- active fallout across 30 countries in Europe. Yet in the regions with ma despite the risks. With Forster Rothbart’s personal narrative worst contamination, the vast majority of people stayed, despite as guide, this stunning and provocative book blends photos, the potential danger. A generation later, after the 2011 tsunami interviews, maps, and audio recordings to help us weigh the true triggered disaster in a power plant that’s still leaking nuclear value of home. In the end, Forster Rothbart and the reader both waste, the people of Fukushima, Japan, are confronting the same confront the ultimate question: Would you stay? impossible questions about safety, security, and their future. In Would You Stay?, Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart tries

David Churchman David Churchman draws on the expe- them. It is arranged by “level” of conflict: individual, interpersonal, rience of two Fulbright grants in conflict community, organizational, intrastate, and interstate. It departs management (Cyprus and Ukraine), from this scheme at four points. Chapter 1, the most important twenty years of chairing a large graduate in the book given the number of contradictory theories in the degree program in conflict management literature, proposes six criteria for distinguishing good from bad (100-125 earned degrees awarded each theories. Chapter 2 describes analytical methods useful across a year), and a lifetime of reading within and wide range of conflicts. Chapters 5 and 6 consider intellectual and outside the academic literature. moral conflicts--topics social scientists tend to avoid despite their The book draws on two dozen academic disciplines to describe importance. Finally, Chapters 18 and 19 consider applying and over 100 theories that seek to explain a broad range of human advancing theory. aggression and conflicts and over 75 methods for managing

Jenny Lynn McNutt Flora Keshishian Senior Fulbright, Ivory Coast and Ph.D., Associate Professor Dept. of Rhetoric, Communica- Cameroon, 1993-4 tion and Theatre, St. John’s University “Why This World”, new paintings, sculpture Flora’s articles were published in two international journals: and drawings Galerie Witteveen, Witteveen Visual Arts Center, October 12, Vernissage Keshishian, F., & Haroutyunyan, L. (2013). Culture and Post-Soviet 4-6 pm, Exhibit - October 12- November 14 - Exhibit Extended. Transitions: A Pilot Study in the Republic of Armenia,” Internation- 16 Konijnenstraat (in the 9 districts area, Jordaan) al Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26, 369-392. For more information: Concurrent with the show at Witteveen a solo show of McNutt’s http://www.galeriewitteveen. drawings are on view at Wednesday’s West- Tetterode Drawing Keshishian, F. (2013). Culture and classroom communication: nl/2013/09/jenny-lynn- Exhibit, 158 Da Costakade. A pilot study in the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia. Journal of mcnutt-karl-nussbaum/ Intercultural Communication Research, 42(3), 253-274.

Evelyn Barish, Fulbright scholar (1962) and student in Belgium (1995) who Barish, a former teaching colleague of de Man’s, followed a wrote a book, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PAUL DE MAN was recently lengthy document trail and conducted nearly two hundred inter- featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle. views across five countries in Europe and America to form a better com/article/The-Many-Betrayals-of-Paul-de/142505/. picture of the respected professor worshipped for his erudite ideas A major work of investigative biography over two decades in and almost impenetrable lectures. What emerges is a kind of the making, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PAUL DE MAN (to be pub- academic grifter who was incapable of telling the truth yet always lished by Liveright in MARCH 2014) chronicles the remarkable one step ahead of detection, evading accusations of Nazi collabo- journey of an intellectual powerhouse who traversed the 20th ration, bigamy, blackmail, and forgery. century in Ripley-like manner. When Paul de Man died in 1983 THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PAUL DE MAN reads like a who’s who of he was heralded in a front page New York Times obituary as American post-war intellectual life as de Man slyly buried that du- a cultural giant, an esteemed philosopher and co-creator of bious career to devote his energies climbing the academic ladder Deconstruction, who—from his lofty perch at Yale— injected and forming (with Jacques Derrida) what would infamously be theory into university classrooms worldwide. But little known at known as Deconstruction: a literary movement that conveniently that time was just how de Man rose to that pinnacle of influ- eschewed narrative and biography. It is only fitting that Barish ence in the halls of academe. Artfully hidden from view was a gives us a thorough, accurate, and beautifully written account of a complex past that suggested a master chameleon who adapted man who tried to rewrite history. brilliantly to his surroundings: including Nazi occupation.

5 Alumni of the Month • Another pair of STEP-GTP students is already engaged in their training at Ben Gurion University’s public health program. Taylor’s wife, Kim Kronenberg, has joined the endeavor as BOARD OF DIRECTORS Associate Director. The Steering committee has the three presidents of universities, two Nobel Laureates, and other JOHN VOGEL luminaries. Dr. Taylor will be returning with his wife to the President region this year to advance STEP-GTP. For further information, PATRICIA A. KREBS please visit the website at: www.step-gtp.org MARY ELLEN SCHMIDER Stephen Cottrell On June 13, 1966 I was introduced to JOHN F. AUSURA war about 30 klicks south of Danang, Vietnam. For the nearly half century since, Treasurer Allen Taylor my life has been profoundly influenced MANFRED PHILIPP Dr. Allen Taylor has traveled the globe giving scientific by that introduction. The English novelist lectures about the biochemical processes that contribute to George Orwell best captured my young age-related eye diseases. But when he visited the new Al “bush” marine experience with his pene- BOARD MEMBERS Quds University campus in Abu Dis, the West Bank, he had trating words: ”If the war didn’t kill you it was bound to start JEROME M. COOPER more in mind than lecturing. Dr. Taylor was also there to foster you thinking.” KIM DAVID EGER the organization he started and directs, STEP-GTP (Science In 2006, I learned that an Arkansas senator had provided PAULINE M. EVEILLARD Training Encouraging Peace – Graduate Training Program). me a vehicle to put my “thinking” into action through the Dr. Taylor conceived of STEP-GTP while a Fulbright scholar U.S. Department of State Fulbright Scholarship program. Sen- KRISHNA GUHA in Israel. Deeply disturbed by the inability of governments to ator J. William Fulbright’s philosophy of beating the swords ROBERT W. HELM create a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of war into the plowshares of peace through international KEISUKE NAKAGAWA Taylor knew he had to act to create change on the ground. education exchange was the perfect goodness-of-fit for both H. ANDREA NEVES What was needed, he concluded, were interpersonal contact my past life and present career at Mississippi State University. EVERETTE PENN and dialogue, not closure and isolation. After meeting with Subsequently, I applied and was awarded my first Fulbright PHILIP RAKITA Israelis and Palestinians to see how he could help, Taylor grant. RAMESH RAMAKRISHNAN decided to start with what he knew best: science. “Science In late 2007 my scholarship took me to Mae Jo University knows no borders,” he said. “I have seen how people from ROBERT RUMINSKI (MJU) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In some surreal way it was a different cultures and worlds come together and bond when type of homecoming since I had spent months in that city as JOHN SARGENT confronting a common scientific challenge.” And so, Scientific a Peace Corps language trainee in 1972. My first impression HERMA WILLIAMS Training Encouraging Peace -- Graduate Training Program, or was how much Chiang Mai had grown. In large part, the GWENDOLYN WILLIS-DARPOH STEP-GTP, was born. When he returned home, he secured the city’s expansion was the underlying reason for my returning support of then Tufts University President, Larry Bacow, and 35 years on. My Fulbright project included providing lec- NATIONAL OFFICE then proceeded to get Ben Gurion (Israeli) and Al Quds (Pal- tures on the geography of urbanization and exploring with STEPHEN REILLY estinian) universities on board as well. These three academic MJU faculty core issues pertaining to Thai urban migration. facilities are STEP-GTP’s guiding institutions. Specifically, we collaborated on sustainability models that SHAZ AKRAM STEP-GTP is a unique person-to-person, cross-border sci- could enhance the quality of life for both the local Thai and ence-training program that will provide pairs of student fel- surrounding hill tribe communities. lows (one Israeli, one Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza) As an agricultural institution, MJU has had a long exchange KAMILLA HASSEN with advanced, critical medical and health science education. history with MSU. During my brief tenure, I was introduced to In addition to enhancing their scientific expertise, the program several Thai administrators and faculty who hold MSU degrees is designed to encourage the partners to become professional and a few students who had spent short stays at MSU study- colleagues. Beyond academic training, STEP-GTP will also ing horticulture. Both faculty and students were very patient assist the fellows with job searches at home in the Middle with my long forgotten Thai language skills and seemed very SHOW YOUR SUPPORT East, while encouraging them to remain mutually supportive impressed that I could remember anything after so long a after they complete their STEP-fellowship period and as they hiatus. Many of our breaks were spent helping me refresh my Please, contribute to build their professional lives as teachers, clinicians, or creators vocabulary. The students’ eagerness to learn English and my our Annual Appeal of new enterprises. struggle to remember Thai placed this gray-haired “farang” http://www.fulbright. Growing STEP-GTP has been difficult in the current political (Thai for foreigner) and his students on a somewhat level org/donations/ climate. But this year, STEP is proud to announce several playing field as we taught and learned from one another. accomplishments: Some of the students that MSU has hosted since my visit • We have leveraged donations so that, beginning this were faces whom I had met during those informal breaks. FOLLOW US ON semester, for every dollar we raise, participating academic In preparing this article many remembrances were stirred by institutions are contributing a dollar amount that is equal Twitter jottings from my well-worn journal. Through dog-eared pages or more. and penciled notes I was warmly reminded of late night chats Facebook • A pair of STEP-GTP fellows has been accepted to Ben over cool drinks with Thai colleagues about our different Gurion University to improve skills for diabetes care. Diabe- beliefs and how we acquired them. We often ended our eve- LinkedIn tes is in epidemic proportions in the region. nings agreeing that believing is a lot easier than thinking... • Two pairs of STEP-GTP students have been accepted but not as much fun! Mr. Orwell and Senator Fulbright would into the dental program at Hebrew University, Jerusalem Edition & Design DAYNA ALDERMAN be proud. and are beginning their studies this semester.

6 Fulbright Obituaries age of 95. A sergeant in the US Army Air Forces Born in Tehran in 1907, he was educated at from 1942-45, he received a BA, MA and PhD Darolfonoun School (Tehran). In 1929, he went from New York University. He was a Professor to France and studied Mathematics and Physics of English and the founder and Director of the at Nancy University in 1932. After obtaining Davis Center for the Performing Arts at the City post-graduate diplomas in Physics, Astronomy, College of New York, and a part-time guest and Higher Analysis, he obtained his doctorate professor at NYU. Along with three Fulbrights in 1936 from the Sorbonne (Doctor of Scienc- (England, Italy and Japan) and frequent contribu- es with “Mention tres honorable”) for basic tions to the Hemingway Society, he wrote, co-au- research on Mathematical Study of Brownian thored and edited over a dozen books of literary Motion. criticism and scholarship. His Reader’s Guide to Dr. Ghaffari lectured as a Research Associate Ernest Hemingway remains a widely used intro- at King’s College (London University), where duction to Hemingway’s work forty-one years he received his Ph.D. from the Mathematics after its initial publication. Much loved and Department on “Velocity-Correction Factors and respected by his family, students and friends, he the Hodograph Method in Gas Dynamics.” As a Dr. Edward H Bourque remained a constant source of scholarly gener- Fulbright Scholar, he worked at Harvard Univer- FAIRFIELD, Conn. - died Dec. 16. He was 88. osity and availability in retirement. In a long and sity as a Research Associate to lecture on Differ- Charles D'Souza illustrious career, he devoted himself to his voca- ential Equations and to continue his research on Dr. Bourque was the son of Raoul Bourque and tion with a passion and singularity that stamped Gas Dynamics. Annette Martel Bourque of Pawtucket, R.I. He itself on generations of students. He was a Research Associate in Mathematics received his Bachelor of Education degree from He is survived by his partner, Anne Saidman; at Princeton University, and at the Institute for Rhode Island College, Master of Liberal Arts from his daughter Valerie and son-in-law Daniel Advanced Study he worked in the early 1950s Middlebury College, and Doctor of Philosophy Auerbach; his son Stephen and daughter-in-law with Albert Einstein on the Unified Field Theory from Walden University. He was awarded a Mary; five grandchildren; and two great grand- of Gravitation and Electromagnetism. J. Robert Fulbright scholarship and taught in France after children. Oppenheimer, who headed the U.S. atom bomb service in World War II as a translator during the program during World War II, was director of the American occupation of Europe. Institute at the time and interviewed Ghaffari be- Dr. Bourque was a teacher and an adminis- fore the latter became a member of the Institute trator for districts in Rhode Island, New York, (Oppenheimer later befriended Ghaffari). and Connecticut. He also served as assistant He has lectured as a Professor of Mathematics superintendent of the Fairfield Public Schools. at American University in Washington, DC and He was president of Connecticut Association for at Tehran University, where he joined the Faculty Supervision and Curriculum Development (CAS- of Sciences and was appointed full Professor of CD). After his retirement he continued teaching Higher Analysis from 1941 to 1956. French and Latin at Notre Dame Catholic High In 1956, Ghaffari moved permanently to the School in Fairfield. U.S. to take up a position as a senior mathema- Dr. Bourque is survived by his daughters, Susan tician at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards. Rink and Michele (Ken) Jentzen; six grandchil- Part of his work there involved calculations of dren; five great grandchildren; and many friends. the motion of artificial satellites. He was predeceased by his parents; and sisters. In 1964, three years into the manned space program, he joined, as aerospace scientist, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center, where he studied the mathematical aspects of different optimization techniques involved in the Earth- Moon trajectory problems, and different analyt- ical methods for multiple midcourse maneuvers in interplanetary guidance. He later investigated the effects of solar radiation pressure on the Dr. Abolghassem Ghaffari Radio Astronomy Explorer Satellite Booms as Renowned scientist Dr. Abolghassem Ghaffari, well as the effects of General Relativity on the who had taught at Harvard and Princeton Uni- orbits of Artificial Earth Satellites. versities, died November 5, in Los Angeles. He He was awarded in Iran the Imperial Orders of was 106 years old. In the early part of his career, the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the he was Albert Einstein's colleague at the Insti- U.S. Special Apollo Achievement award (1969) at Arthur Waldhorn tute for Advanced Study at Princeton University a White House ceremony with President Nixon. Arthur Waldhorn, a noted Hemingway scholar, under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He has published more than 50 papers on Pure died in his home on December 9, 2013, at the On October 12th, he was honored at Harvard and Applied Mathematics in American, British, University for his lifetime achievements. 7 such artists as Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein received a Fulbright scholarship in 1949 to study could transform a soup can or a comic strip at the Sorbonne in Paris and then returned to into something displayed in a museum as Columbia as a professor. a work of art. After the Warhol show in 1964, Mr. Danto Starting in the 1960s, Mr. Danto wrote pursued a definition of art that could be applied hundreds of essays. He also taught at to both the Sistine Chapel and a Brillo box. He Columbia University. He often returned to the rejected the ancient Greek idea that art was most philosophical question: What exactly is art? imitation and the Renaissance ideal that art was In a 1964 essay about Warhol’s now-iconic re- defined by aesthetic pleasure. In “What Art Is,” productions of Brillo boxes, Mr. Danto wrote: Mr. Danto concluded that art was “the embodi- “Is this man some kind of Midas, turning what- and French, and Persian periodicals. In addition ment of an idea,” defined not by how it looked ever he touches into the gold of pure art? . . . to two textbooks, he is author of the mathe- but by what it had to say. Never mind that the Brillo box may not be good, matical book “The Hodograph Method in Gas Mr. Danto’s stature as a critic overshadowed his much less great art. The impressive thing is that Dynamics” (1950). early career as an artist. He was an accomplished it is art at all. But if it is, why not indiscernible In 2005, Ghaffari received the Distinguished printmaker whose woodcuts were exhibited at Brillo boxes that are in the stockroom? Or has Scholar award from the Association of Professors the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery the whole distinction between art and reality and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH) at of Art and elsewhere in the 1950s. broken down?” UCLA. In 2007, he received a proclamation from Mr. Danto’s first wife, Shirley Rovetch, died in In such essays as “The End of Art,” Mr. Danto former Beverly Hills mayor and current Goodwill 1978. Survivors include his wife of 33 years, noted the progression of styles in the 19th and Ambassador Jimmy Delshad acknowledging his Barbara Westman, and two daughters. 20th centuries— impressionism, modernism, Source: The Washington Post numerous lifetime achievements. He also re- abstract expressionism, pop art. After Warhol’s cently was appointed as a Hall of Fame inductee Brillo show at New York’s Stable Gallery in 1964, by SINA (Spirit of Noted Achievers) at Harvard art had reached its ultimate expression and be- University. He is survived by his wife, Mitra, and came a medium not of trends but of individuals. two daughters, Ida and Vida. “When I first wrote about this concept, I was somewhat depressed,” Mr. Danto later observed. “But now I have grown reconciled to the unlim- ited diversity of art. I marvel at the imaginative- ness of artists in finding ways to convey mean- ings by the most untraditional of means. The art world is a model of a pluralistic society in which all disfiguring barriers and boundaries have been thrown down.” Mr. Danto would be praised by the New York Times as “arguably the most consequential art critic” since Clement Greenberg, an influential critic who helped propel the abstract expression- ist movement. But Mr. Danto’s ideas were not universally accepted, and he frequently had to explain that art wasn’t dead, only art history. Rival critics such as Hilton Kramer, writing in 1987, described Mr. Danto’s views as one of Arthur C. Danto “those ingenious scenarios that are regularly Influential art critic, dies at 89. concocted to relieve the tedium of the seminar By Hillel Italie and — Associated Press, Pub- room and the philosophical colloquium.” lished: October 28 In “What Art Is,” published this year, Mr. Danto Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential responded that his goal “was to describe art” in philosopher and critic who championed Andy a way that did not fit “the conservative taste of Warhol and other avant-garde artists and up- most of the New York critics.” ended the study of art history by declaring that “That is to say, my role as a critic was to say the history of art was over, died Friday at his what the work was about — what it meant — home in New York. and then how it was worth it to explain this to Mr. Danto, art critic for the Nation from 1984 my readers,” he wrote. to 2009 and a professor emeritus at Columbia Mr. Danto’s books included “Encounters and University, died of heart failure at his Manhattan Reflections,” winner of a National Book Critics apartment, daughter Ginger Danto said. Circle prize in 1991, “Beyond the Brillo Box” and Starting in the 1960s, Mr. Danto, an academ- “After the End of Art.” ically trained philosopher, became central to Born in Ann Arbor and raised in Detroit, Mich- debates about art. He was initially troubled and igan, Danto studied art, history and philosophy then inspired by the rise of pop art and how at Wayne University and Columbia University. He

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