Marshall Update NEWS FOR FORMER MARSHALL SCHOLARS www.marshallscholarship.org Vol. 1, No. 1 Winter 2002

“On this historic occasion, I wish to thank Welcome the British Government for establishing the Marshall Scholarship Program in 1953 and for Welcome to the new-look Marshall Up- continuing to support it so generously over the date. This newsletter will replace the old up- past fifty years. As I stated when I was a date circulated with the biennial directory, and guest speaker at the George C. Marshall Lec- will include not only updates sent in by former ture Series in November of 1991, I believe Scholars, but also news reports about the ac- strongly in this program for two reasons. tivities of former Scholars and about the First, it fosters academic excellence among Scholarship more generally. We hope you American scholars who participate. Second, it like the new format, and look forward to your continually reinforces the strong ties between suggestions for future editions. I would like to the United States and the United Kingdom give special thanks to Kannon Shanmugam across all sectors of our societies. (’93), who volunteered to become editor of this newsletter and has done a terrific job of “The bonds that have developed as a result preparing the first issue. We owe him a large of this program continue the legacy that Gen- debt of thanks for his efforts. eral George C. Marshall began with the Mar- shall Plan after World War II. Devoting his Best wishes. life to public service, General Marshall was a man who personified the ‘citizen soldier.’ — Robert D. Kyle (’77) Having served as Army Chief of Staff during President World War II, and afterwards as Secretary of Marshall Scholars Association State, he drew upon his reputation and credi- bility to create one of the greatest war recov- ery plans the world has ever seen.

Powell Offers Thanks “In appreciation for this support, the United Kingdom established the Marshall To British Govern- Scholarship Program, which has provided generous financial assistance to more than a ment For Marshall thousand American scholars since its incep- tion in 1953. After completing their Marshall Program studies, many of these scholars have gone on to play an important role in their respective United States Secretary of State Colin L. fields: Ray Dolby, a Marshall Scholar in 1957, Powell has issued the following message on invented the Dolby sound system; Bruce Bab- the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bitt (1960) became the U.S. Secretary of the Marshall Scholarship Program: Interior; and Stephen Breyer (1959) is now serving as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Just as important, the friendships Marshall Schol- While mingling with Marshall Scholars ars developed while in the United Kingdom after the ceremony, the Prime Minister asked continue to strengthen the ties between our students how they were finding Britain, and countries. With more and more bright, aspir- teased them about making sure to study. “Not ing people applying for the Marshall Scholar- partying too much, I hope,” Blair playfully ship every year, I feel confident the program admonished. will continue to enrich both of our countries for many years to come.” Colin Powell remarked on the enduring significance of General Marshall, who, like Powell, went on to serve as Secretary of State Scholars Meet Blair, after a distinguished military career.

Powell at Ceremony “It is an interesting time to be abroad right now,” commented Jordan Wales, a scholar Thirty Marshall Scholars joined with Brit- from Delaware now studying at the University ish Prime Minister Tony Blair and Secretary of Edinburgh. “The British people have been of State Colin Powell in London on Dec. 11, very sympathetic and supportive. It was 2001, to commemorate the passage of three heartening to see the Prime Minister and Sec- months since the September 11 attacks. retary Powell speaking together about our shared sense of loss, as well as a joint com- In a ceremony in front of 10 Downing mitment to working together toward a foun- Street, Blair and Powell reiterated their sym- dation for future peace.” pathy for the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon three months ago. The two also pledged to continue the close cooperation that has characterized US-British relations in diplomatic and military efforts since the attacks.

During the brief ceremony that was at- tended by Prime Minister Blair, Secretary Powell, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and thirty Marshall Scholars, the band from the American School in London played patriotic songs, including The Star Spangled Banner. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ameri- Shortly afterwards, at a press conference in- can Secretary of State Colin Powell meet with side the Prime Minister’s residence, Mr. Blair the current Marshall Scholars to commemo- said, “I was pleased to be able to participate in rate the September 11 attacks. the short but moving ceremony to remember those who lost their lives on September 11 . . . in that ghastly and evil tragedy.”

The presence of the Marshall Scholars at the event underscored the continuation of a “special relationship” between Great Britain and the US, according to the Prime Minister.

2 “‘Let us now praise famous men,’ we are “Dr. Chris,” Beloved urged by the Book of Ecclesiastes, and the definition of fame first offered in this chapter ACU Head, Dies of the Old Testament would certainly cover General George C. Marshall. ‘Men renowned Dr. Anastasios “Chris” Christodoulou, for their power; Giving counsel by their un- who in his capacity as secretary-general of the derstanding . . . . Leaders of the people by Association of Commonwealth Universities their counsels, Wise and eloquent in their in- was known to a generation of Marshall Schol- structions.’ The career of this great soldier- ars, passed away in May of last year. He was statesman, the epitype of the American citi- 70. He served as secretary general of ACU zen, qualifies him for this Biblical Hall of from 1980 until his retirement in 1996. He Fame as a man of power and wisdom. leaves his wife, Joan, and four children. For tributes to “Dr. Chris,” go to www3.open.ac. “But one reason why I and others have so uk/events/2002530_59829_nr.doc. He will be admired him is for his qualities as a man and greatly missed by all of us who knew him. not solely for the chapters that he wrote into the history of his times. Read to the end of — Kannon Shanmugam (’93) these verses in Ecclesiastes and we are re- minded of those men ‘who have no memorial; who are perished, as though they have never Alumni Photographs been . . . . But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten . Available Online . . . Their memory shall remain forever, and their glory shall not be blotted out.’ Photographs of past year groups of Mar- shalls are now available on the Marshall “In speaking of George C. Marshall today, Scholarship website at the following address: I want therefore to suggest one or two things www.marshallscholarship.org/alumni.html. If we can learn about how to handle the prob- your year is missing, and you happen to have lems of our age from the way in which he a copy of your year group photo, please send a handled the problems of his, but I also want to copy to the current Marshall Scholarship As- focus on some lessons we can learn for our- sistant Secretary, Mary Denyer, at m.denyer selves from the way that General Marshall @acu.ac.uk. ‘ran the race’ as a man.

“If Marshall had retired at the end of the Patten Delivers Second World War we would have still had cause to celebrate an illustrious career. A Marshall Lecture military commander who rapidly built up America’s armed strength. A leader who man- On October 4, 2002, European Commis- aged with tact and authority, a glittering top sioner for External Relations The Rt. Hon. brass of allied commanders — men like Chris Patten, CH, delivered the George C. Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton and Mont- Marshall Lecture at Hudson’s Bay High gomery. He was hugely successful. In a School in Vancouver, Washington. The text written tribute when he stepped down the of the lecture follows: British Joint Chiefs of Staff quoted these lines of poetry:

3 take notice of them. In the case of Iraq, the Friend to truth! Of soul sincere, fact that Saddam Hussein has breached so In action faithful, and in honour clear; many UN resolutions has solidified world Who broke no promise, served no private end, opinion against him and holds out the possi- Who gained no title, and who lost no friend. bility of a broad measure of international sup- port for action to force Iraq at last to comply “He was soon recalled to duty — first as with its obligations under those resolutions. President Truman’s point man on China, as Marshall also played a key part in the creation war between the Nationalists and Communists of NATO. And it was NATO which not only tore the country apart, then as Secretary of helped save Western Europe from commu- State. nism but through its steadfastness helped free Eastern Europe just over a decade ago. Mar- “In that post he shaped the world in which shall was also clear on the benefits to Europe we have lived for the past 50 years and cer- of joining together in what is now the Euro- tainly helped to create the Europe in which I pean Union. A Union which has made a third grew up. European civil war literally inconceivable.

“As Secretary of State Marshall based his “As these examples show, his ideas are foreign policy on three principles. just as relevant today. I don’t believe it’s sen- sible or even possible to define the national “First, he believed in the absolute indis- interest without regard to the wider world. pensability of international cooperation to deal Remember those first pictures of the earth with global problems. He understood that this from space? I thought then that we would was a far more effective way of achieving never look at our planet in the same way American objectives than going it alone. He again. There’s no ejector module from space- was one of the creators of new systems of ship earth — well not yet anyway! It is true, of global governance that gave the world half a course, that the United States is the only su- century of unparalleled prosperity and — if perpower but the case for working within in- not always peace — certainly greater stability. ternational structures is, I believe, just as co- After the First World War Woodrow Wilson gent for you as it is for less powerful coun- had been instrumental in securing the estab- tries. As President Eisenhower once put it: lishment of the League of Nations. It did not ‘no nation’s security and well-being can be prove a success but George Marshall correctly lastingly achieved in isolation but only in ef- drew the conclusion that the international fective cooperation with fellow nations.’ community should improve on what had gone There are several reasons for this. before, rather than abandon the attempt alto- gether. So he played an important part in the “‘No man is an island entire unto himself creation of the United Nations. The UN has and therefore do not ask for whom the bell had a mixed record since but over the decades tolls, it tolls for thee,’ wrote one of England’s it has acquired a growing legitimacy and greatest poets, John Donne. In the modern moral force. And the current Secretary Gen- world the concept of the purely national has eral Kofi Annan has strengthened these devel- become harder and harder to define. An essay opments by the intelligent, tough minded and entitled ‘Who is us?’ published in the Harvard dignified way in which he has carried out his Business Review more than a decade ago ar- duties. UN resolutions may not always be gued, for example, that efforts to protect na- complied with but countries are obliged to tional industry through subsidies and tariffs

4 were increasingly self-defeating because na- sations. We may have ‘opinions of our own’ tional labels bore less and less relation to the at times but we are your staunchest allies. underlying economic realities. Such policies “The final reason why Marshall’s instinct tend to hurt your own consumers as well those for international cooperation was and is justi- of your companies who depend on imports for fied is that the multinational institutions that their own production. you helped to create are more than ever needed today if we are to enjoy a free and “There are many other reasons. Working prosperous world. We need, that is, a United with others is in your interest because, big as Nations; an International Monetary Fund; a you are, you cannot do everything yourselves. World Bank; a World Trade Organisation. For instance, the European Union has made These are the organisations which provide a and is making a substantial contribution to the structure for the civilised resolution of global essential task of post war reconstruction in disputes and a civilised approach to the new Afghanistan without which the military vic- global agenda. It is in the US national interest tory over the Taliban would be short lived. So that they should be strengthened. you need allies. They are not always comfort- able. As Winston Churchill remarked, ‘In “Yet the credibility and legitimacy of such working with allies, they sometimes develop institutions is under threat. Democratic le- opinions of their own.’ But they are necessary gitimacy is a fragile commodity, slow to build — opinions and all. and quick to destroy. At the international level it is especially problematic because the con- “Indeed it is precisely because you are the cept of a world society is not one towards biggest power that you need to work with oth- which people are naturally attracted by senti- ers. Your very strength inevitably, if unfairly, ment or tradition. Nationally, we have our provokes resentment and jealousy. So it is all flags, our anthems and our myths. At the in- the more necessary to avoid, if at all possible, ternational level, it is much harder to build going it alone in defiance of others. loyalty and legitimacy, and more tempting to throw brickbats. “Perhaps most fundamentally of all, glob- alisation along with the good which it has “If the US and the European Union do not produced has a darker side. I do not need to support these institutions and try to give them read the litany of horrors, from drugs traf- deep democratic roots, they will lose their ficking, which has become a bigger industry authority — and the world will be poorer for than iron or steel or cars; to climate change it. and environmental degradation with its impli- cations for poverty and security. From illegal “So Marshall was absolutely right about migration, to the spread of AIDS and other international cooperation. But his second communicable diseases. And of course ter- guiding principle was a broad understanding rorism with a global reach. As Kofi Annan of what constitutes power in the modern said, ‘Only concerted vigilance and co- world. Of course, he always recognised the operation among all states offers any real hope importance of military power to security. Not of denying terrorists their opportunities.’ surprisingly, he resisted too rapid a U.S. dis- Your country needs and is receiving the full armament after the Second World War. Un- support of the European Union in our joint der President Truman, he believed in dealing fight against Al Qaeda and other such organi- with Communism using a combination of military containment and economic and politi-

5 cal measures. But he also argued powerfully terms with the horrors of the Holocaust. Not a and persuasively against the ‘tragic misunder- very good prospect for investment, you might standing that a security policy is a war policy.’ have thought. Marshall thought differently. He recognised that power arises not just from He understood that a stable peaceful Europe economic strength but also from the strength was in America’s interest. It was economic of ideas. He emphasised: ‘the tremendous failure and political instability which had moral strength of the gospel of freedom and forced America into a World War and Amer- self-respect for the individual.’ That is just as ica wanted peace. And of course a prosperous true today as it was in his day. American Europe could be a strong trading partner for power is not just military. It is also based on the U.S. Modern Europeans owe a huge debt the strength of your technology, your culture to your country — to the brave soldiers who and your universities. And despite recent gave their lives on bloodstained Omaha Beach challenges from terrorists, it is our shared ide- so that our continent could be free certainly, als of democracy, the rule of law and due pro- but also to George Marshall who helped us off cess which are in the ascendant. our knees after the war was over. Our pros- perity, our rebirth from the depths of despair, “Marshall’s third principle was the im- we owe in no small measure to his statesman- portance of economic and social advance in ship. the fight for security. This was at the heart of the Marshall Plan for Europe: ‘our policy,’ he “That same farsighted generosity is needed said in his great commencement address at more than ever today. Poverty does not ex- Harvard in 1947, ‘is directed not against any cuse or cause violence and terrorism. But just country or doctrine but against hunger, pov- as in rich countries higher crime tends to be erty, desperation and chaos . . . Its purpose concentrated in places where there is poverty should be the revival of a working economy in and hopelessness, so rogue states, violence the world so as to permit the emergence of and terrorism tend to flourish where swamps political and social conditions in which free of misery and human degradation exist. It is institutions can exist.’ morally unacceptable — and politically and economically destabilising — that so many “On another occasion, he argued that millions of our people attempt to scratch out a ‘democratic principles don’t flourish on empty miserably inadequate existence from their stomachs . . . people turn to false promises of immediate surroundings. It cannot be right dictators because they are hopeless and any- that more than a billion of our fellow human thing promises something better than the mis- beings live on less than a dollar a day. Nor erable existence that they endure.’ that so many young children die of hunger, of diarrhoea caused by lack of access to clean “His policy worked triumphantly in water and of childhood diseases for lack of Europe. It was an astonishingly farsighted, access to vaccines. Even if, which we can generous and successful policy. In 1945 never do, we ignore the moral case for over- Europe was a bombed-out ruin living in year seas aid we have to recognise, as Marshall al- zero. Its economy was smashed and its insti- ways did that poverty is toxic. Aid pro- tutions had been destroyed. Millions of dis- grammes have not had a good enough record placed people were on the move looking for in alleviating poverty since the war, but that new homes. A generation of young men had is a reason for improving their effectiveness, been cut down in their prime. And people, not not abandoning our responsibilities. Govern- just in Germany, were having to come to ments in the developed world have a huge re-

6 sponsibility to do more to remove the stain on Give me your tired, your poor, all our consciences which is world poverty. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, And let’s never forget that one of the best The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. ways of doing so is to open up our markets to Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to the goods from poorer countries. me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. “As I said before, we can take personal lessons from Marshall’s career, not just politi- “Over the centuries you have opened that cal ones. golden door to freedom and opportunity for millions of people from all over the world and “The U.S.A. is above all a country of op- when I look around this room today what a portunity, and all of you have great opportu- rich harvest you have reaped. In Europe too nities ahead — greater than exist in any other often we have tried to throw up walls against country. But there is a price. You have to put those seeking a better life for their families. back into the community some of what you As a result the Old Continent is getting older. take out — otherwise the community loses the Your country knew better. I was my country’s bonds that hold it together, bonds of generos- last governor of the last colony of our former ity, understanding and duty. Many of you, empire, Hong Kong. It was a privilege to I’m sure will want to serve in the Peace Corps work with its people; a people teeming with or the U.S.A. Freedom Corps or help others in talent who created the most astonishing eco- different ways. President Bush’s father re- nomic success story ever known. All I had to ferred to the ‘thousand points of light’; the do was cut taxes every year and watch reve- countless acts of selflessness carried out by nues rise; a politician’s dream. Many years volunteers every day. Material success is not ago two young people left from Southern enough; doing things for yourself alone is not China for America. They had a son who lived enough. for many years in a housing project and worked in his father’s restaurant and grocery “Senator Russell said of Marshall, ‘Most store. He learned the importance of hard work men are slaves of their ambition. General and made it to one of your top universities, Marshall is the slave of his duties.’ Yale. Today that Chinese American is your governor. From Jamaica came two other “Why is that a particularly onerous chal- young people who settled in your country. lenge for you? They too had a son, Colin Powell, your Sec- retary of State, a man I respect as much as any “I said before that you live in a land of in- statesman I have ever met. So you are truly calculable opportunity — open, free, rich, blessed to be growing up in the U.S. But with blessed by nature, blessed by history and the those blessings comes a responsibility to live endeavours of past generations, blessed by up to your nation’s ideals and hand them on present power and might. ‘E pluribus unum, strengthened to generations to come. is your country’s motto inscribed on the presi- dential seal and you have been unswervingly “I’ve addressed groups of people of your true to it. Emma Lazarus’s wonderful poem age all over the world. Many have not had located on a plaque in the museum under the your good fortunes. Let me tell you about one Statue of Liberty describes perfectly the val- such group. It was about 15 years ago. I was ues which lie at the heart of your republic: Britain’s Minister for Overseas Development — our equivalent I guess of running USAID.

7 I was visiting Ethiopia — a country I’d visited chalk. Every young person who had matricu- many times during its famine years. But this lated in the camp was dragooned into teaching time the purpose of my visit was to see not in the school. I had taken two or three foot- Ethiopians but Sudanese. balls to present to these rather unusual pupils and they asked if I would present these small “The Sudanese were refugees from the ter- gifts at a meeting of the whole school and if I rible civil war raging even then between the would say a few words to them. Islamic north of their country and the Chris- tian south. We should perhaps remember that “Well, all 12,000 were drawn up in a great that war is still being fought all these years circle around me, and I stood on a box with a later despite the present — I hope successful megaphone and an interpreter and shouted a — efforts by the United States and the inter- few words of encouragement. At the end of national community to end it. my remarks, the head teacher who was a Lu- theran Pastor asked if they could say ‘thank “The Sudanese refugees that I was going you’ by singing the Lord’s Prayer in their own to visit were assembled in two camps on the language, Dinka. I smiled my agreement and edge of the Nile River flood plane in the they sang their hymn. And then, under the scrubland of Southwest Ethiopia. You had to broiling midday sun, they asked if they could be pretty desperate to seek refuge in those also sing to me a verse from Isaiah. It days in a country as poor as Ethiopia. Typi- sounded wonderful, though of course I had no cally these refugees from the Christian south idea what it was. I rather assumed they might had trekked for weeks across the parched be singing that passage about beating swords landscape of their country to find a haven into ploughshares. Anyway, I said goodbye from the war. The majority of them were and flew back to the capital of Ethiopia, Addis young men and boys who had left their Ababa. In the same plane that crashed a cou- schools with their classmates and had been led ple of weeks later, killing a distinguished on this terrible odyssey by older pupils. member of the U.S. congress and the officials who were with him. “It was indeed a terrifying journey and many died on the way — no food in their “Lying in bed that night, in the comfort- stomachs, armed groups hunting them down, able bungalow residence of the British Am- the African sun scorching overhead. I re- bassador to Ethiopia with the fans spinning member asking one young boy — he was slowly overhead, I noticed there was a Gideon about the same age as my teenage daughters at bible on my bedside table. I picked it up to the time — how he had managed to lead his find the passage whose chapter and verse I group of younger companions through the had been given in the book of Isaiah. I leafed countryside to security. How had they found through the pages and found the text. The the way? ‘It was quite simple,’ he replied young Sudanese who had experienced that matter-of-factly, ‘we just followed the dead journey from hell had been singing to me ‘the bodies.’ people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the “About 12,000 of those who had got to the shadow of death, upon them hath the light camps were of school age and the UNHCR shined.’ had organised some rudimentary schooling for them. They had built mud classrooms and “You have not lived in darkness, you have provided a few blackboards and pieces of lived in the light. The light shone on you

8 without you having to make that cruel passage Michael Aktipis, Northwestern University, through any valley of darkness. London School of Economics, International “But that puts an especially onerous bur- Relations den on you — the burden of duty to see that others who are not quite as lucky as you get Justin Anderson, Occidental College, their share of the light, get their chance of a Kings College London, War Studies marginally better life. Nicholas Baker, Worcester Polytechnic In- stitute, Liverpool John Moores University, “And don’t ever believe that you — a sin- Computer Games Technology gle individual — can’t make a difference. Unless you try to make a difference through Alexander Billioux, Northwestern State Uni- your own life, no one else’s life will change versity of Louisiana, University of Oxford, for the better. Progress depends on a thousand Molecular Medicine and a thousand more individual acts by often silent and unrecognised men and women. Sarah Catherine Blackmar, Auburn Univer- You can change the world. sity, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Aeronautical Engineering “One of my favourite novels, George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch,’ ends with these words Mark Bradshaw, University of Kansas, ‘the growing good of the world is partly de- London School of Economics, Cities, Space pendent on unhistoric acts; and that things are and Society not so ill with you and me as they might have David Brogan, Vanderbilt University, King's been, is half owing to the number who lived College London, Medical Imaging faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited Rachel Brule, Mount Holyoke College, tombs.’ University of Oxford, Forced Migration “So you may not grow up to be a General Annina Burns, Pennsylvania State Univer- and Statesman like George Marshall, memori- sity, University of Oxford, Comparative So- alised by lectures and monuments and chap- cial Policy ters in history books. But you can grow up to be a Citizen like George Marshall, certain that Tomas Carbonell, North Carolina State Uni- your righteousness will not be forgotten, that versity, University of Oxford, Economics for your memory will remain forever, and that Development your glory — an American citizen and a citi- Samidh Chakrabarti, MIT, University of zen of the world who has done his or her best Oxford, History of Science: Instruments, Mu- — will never be blotted out.” seums and Technology Samuel Charap, Amherst College, University 2003 Marshalls of Oxford, Russian and East European Studies Announced Lindsay Crawford, University of California, Davis, University of Oxford, International The 2003 Marshall Scholars have been Relations announced, and are as follows: Mark D'Agostino, University of Massachu- setts Boston, University of Nottingham, Pharmacology

9 Kiera Driansky, Yale University, University Bre Millard, United States Military Acad- of Cambridge, BioScience Enterprise emy, University of St Andrews, International Security Studies Fulton Christopher Eaglin, Morehouse College, University of Oxford, Development Vikram Mittal, California Institute of Tech- Studies nology, University of Oxford, Engineering Science David Foxe, MIT, University of Cambridge, History and Philosophy of Architecture Collin O'Mara, Dartmouth College, Univer- sity of Oxford, Philosophy, Politics and Eco- Nicholas Hartman, Pennsylvania State Uni- nomics versity, University of Cambridge, Biochemis- try Collin Raymond, Arizona State University, London School of Economics, Global Market Michael Hoffman, University of Texas at Economics Austin, University of Cambridge, Genetics James Rigby, University of Mississippi, Seth Johnston, United States Military Acad- University of Oxford, Environmental Geo- emy, University of Oxford, European Politics morphology and Society Carolyn Snyder, Amherst College, Univer- Cynthia Kinnan, University of Pittsburgh, sity of Oxford, Environmental Change and London School of Economics, Global Market Management Economics Eric Tucker, Brown University, University of Jessica Kirkpatrick, Occidental College, Oxford, Education Research Methodology University of Sheffield, Particle Astrophysics Nathaniel Van Valkenburgh, Stanford Uni- Christopher Richard Laumann, Harvard versity, University of Cambridge, World Ar- University, University of Edinburgh, Com- chaeology puter Science and Electronics Anna Vaninskaya, University of Denver, Eugenia Levenson, Harvard University, University of Oxford, English Literature University of Cambridge, Social Anthropol- ogy Paul Vronsky, University of Washington, University of Oxford, Economics Brian Lutz, Arizona State University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Kristina Weaver, Yale University, University Environmental Epidemiology and Policy of Cambridge, Social Anthropological Analy- sis Aaron MacLean, St John's College, Annapo- lis, University of Oxford, Oriental Studies and John Woodruff, University of Georgia, Lon- Classics don School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi- cine, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Bryan McClaughlin, Oklahoma State Uni- versity, University of Cambridge, Electronic Adam Zimbler, University of Pennsylvania, System Design University of Oxford, Politics

10 Class Notes 1958 John Blass continues to serve as a profes- 1954 sor of neurology, neuroscience, and medicine at Cornell Medical School. His e-mail address Carol Edler Baumann has published an is [email protected]. article, “Global Governance,” in the Winter 1999-2000 volume of the Wisconsin Academy Laurie Hoagland is the vice president and Review. She has recently traveled to Tibet, chief investment officer of Hewlett Nepal, Bhutan, Mexico, Alaska, and Canada. Foundation. He previously served as president and CEO of Stanford Management 1955 Company, Stanford University’s $10 billion investment and real estate organization. Tom Everhart was awarded the Foun- der’s Medal by the Institute of Electrical and 1959 Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in Toronto in June, and the Okawa Prize in Tokyo in No- Jim Bernhard recently returned from a vember. reunion in London of the University of Bir- mingham Guild Theatre Group. The gathering 1956 was organized by Michael Freeman, general manager of University College London's Richard Cooper continues to teach inter- Bloomsbury Theatre, and Ralph Wilton, re- national economics at Harvard University, and tired BBC producer. Attendees included Bar- has published a book (edited with Richard oness Doreen Massey, opera singer Dame Jo- Layard) entitled What the Future Holds (pub- sephine Barstow, theatrical directors Terry lished by MIT Press). A son, William Chen Hands and Peter James, actors Geoffrey Cooper, was born to Richard and Jin on June Hutchings, Bunny Reed, and Norman Comer, 18. and Shakespearean scholar John Russell Brown. Robert Faulkner continues to teach po- litical philosophy at Boston College. He is 1960 currently working on a book on political am- bition. Gordon Baker has passed away. Gary Hufbauer continues to be affiliated with the Institute for International Economics, a thinktank in Washington. His specialities are international trade, finance, tax, and sanc- tions. The Institute’s website is www.iie.com. He recently returned from a High Sierra camping trip with some Boy Scout friends, repeating a trip first made 50 years ago.

11 1961 wife, Ruth, who shared his years of study in Cambridge, continues to work as a biochemist Stanley Bates is serving as a visiting re- in the medical science program at Indiana. He search fellow at Harris-Manchester College, will take a sabbatical during 2003-04 and then Oxford University for Michelmas Term. return to his position in the Department of English. Lois Potter continues to teach at the Uni- versity of Delaware. She has just a published 1969 a book on the stage history of Othello in the University of Manchester Press’ Shakespeare Ellis Tinios is retiring as a lecturer at the in Performance series (published in the U.S. University of Leeds. by Palgrave). Frederick G. Whelan and his wife, 1962 Peggy, are “entering the empty nest phase” after their youngest child, Robbie, went off to Stuart Cohn is a law professor at the college at Johns Hopkins this fall. University of Florida. He recently completed a one-week, 11-nation workshop in Zimbabwe on Capital Market Development in Eastern 1970 and Southern Africa, sponsored by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Peter D. Kramer’s first novel, Spectacu- lar Happiness, is now available in paperback 1965 (published by Scribner). The novel draws on Peter’s experiences while studying literary Phil Straffin is teaching mathematics at theory at UCL on the Marshall Scholarship Beloit College. He is on sabbatical this year with Frank Kermode. and is currently updating his 1993 book Game Theory and Strategy. His new address is 413 Matthew H. Wikander has written a new Gay Street, Longmont, CO 80501. book, Fangs of Malice: Hypocrisy, Sincerity, and Acting (published by the University of Iowa Press). 1967 1975 Carl Cowen has stepped down from the headship of the Mathematics Department at Harold Hongju Koh continues to teach Purdue University. He is currently on sab- international law at Yale Law School. He has batical at the Mathematical Biosciences Insti- been elected an honorary fellow of Magdalen tute at the Ohio State University. He can con- College, Oxford, and taught at a human rights tinue to be reached at [email protected]. program there this summer. edu. His website is www.math.purdue.edu/ ~cowen. 1978

Scott R. Sanders continue to direct the Marilyn Booth is serving as a visiting as- Wells Scholars Program at Indiana University. sociate professor of comparative literature at His latest book, The Force of Spirit, came out Brown University for the 2002-03 academic in paperback from Beacon Press in 2001. His year. Her book May Her Likes Be Multiplied:

12 Biography and Gender Politics was published 1980 last year by the University of California Press. In addition, she has published a number of lit- Michael Pakaluk is spending a year at erary translations from the original Arabic Harvard as a visiting scholar while on leave over the last two years. Her e-mail address is from Clark. He can be reached at 27 Peabody [email protected], and she can be Terrace #31, Cambridge, MA 02138, reached at 401.863.3640 (W) and 617.868.8786. He now has eight children, 217.417.5296 (M). She recently had a visit most recently Joseph, age 2, and Nicholas, age from Susan Bianconi, who lives in New Ha- 1, with his second wife Catherine Ruth (nee ven, Conn. Hardy), a graduate student in economics at Harvard. His first wife, Ruth, passed away in Karl Brooks recently returned to the Uni- 1998 after a seven-year battle with cancer. versity of Kansas, where he teaches environ- Michael is currently writing an introduction to mental law, environmental history, legal his- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in the fall for tory, and the history of American environ- Cambridge University Press, and a commen- mental policy and thought, after spending a tary on Plato’s Phaedo. year as a Supreme Court Fellow in Washing- ton. While there, he assisted the federal judi- 1981 ciary in preparing an analytical history of fed- eral criminal sentencing since 1987, which is Richard Cordray is of counsel with the due to be published shortly by the U.S. Sen- law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. tencing Commission. He is currently working on his second book, a historical account of the Joanna (Yopie) Prins is associate profes- emergence of American environmental law sor of English and comparative literature at after World War II. His first book, on the the University of Michigan, where she spe- postwar controversy over hydroelectric dams cializes in nineteenth-century poetry and the in Hell’s Canyon on the Snake River in the reception of Greek literature. Her book, Vic- Pacific Northwest, will shortly be published torian Sappho (Princeton University Press), by the Univiversity of Washington Press. He received honorable mention from the Modern is divorced and has taken up running. His Language Association for an Outstanding First children, Jenni and Dylan, are in the eighth Book and the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for First and fifth grades, respectively. Book in Victorian Studies. She lives in Ann Arbor with Michael Daugherty and their 14- 1979 year-old daughter, Evelyn Prins Daugherty.

Jose Berrocal has passed away. 1982

John Hewko has joined the Washington D. Cameron Findlay continues to serve office of Baker & McKenzie after 12 years of as Deputy Secretary of Labor. practicing in Moscow. He recently took a yearlong sabbatical to teach at Georgetown Kimberly Marshall was recently pro- Law School and work as a visiting scholar at moted to full professor and given an endowed the Carnegie Endowment for International professorship in the School of Music at Ari- Peace. zona State University. She is also the Associ- ate Director for Graduate Studies. Her CD recording of the ASU organ, entitled Bach

13 Encounters Buxtehude, was released to critical Based Training in Visual Basic® .NET. His acclaim earlier this year and she made the website is www.vbtrain.net/bookindex.htm premiere recording of Chen Yi's organ con- certo with the Singapore Symphony in Octo- Deborah Yaffe covers state government ber. for the Gannett newspaper chain in New Jer- sey. Her (British) husband, Alastair Bellany, is 1984 an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University. Their children are David, six, and Raj Bhala is serving as the Associate Rachel, two. Her e-mail address is dyaffe@ Dean for International and Comparative Legal app.com. Studies at The George Washington University Law School. He is finishing a textbook enti- 1989 tled Trade and Development for Foundation Press. He, his wife Kara, and their daughter Melissa Lane continues to serve as a uni- Shera recently returned from Cambodia. versity lecturer in history and fellow of King's College at Cambridge. Her specialty is politi- Dawn DeWitt will be assuming responsi- cal philosophy and the history of ideas. Her bility as dean of the rural clinical school and latest book is Plato's Progeny: How Socrates associate dean of the school of medicine at the and Plato Still Captivate the Modern Mind University of Melbourne this spring. (published by Duckworth). Her husband, An- drew Lovett, is British and a composer. 1985 1990 Nathan Congdon remains on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine Paul Borgese has launched a new website (Department of Ophthalmology) and Public to promote his children’s books and recently Health (Department of International Health). released children's album, Even the Monkeys His research is in the area of international Fall Out of the Trees. The website is blindness prevention. He is also pursuing a www.paulborgese.com. second career as a fine arts photographer. His daughter, Amelia, is now two years old. Huy Tran has finished his residency in 1986 radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Ra- diology and is currently pursuing a fellowship Anne Applebaum continues to write in thoracic imaging. He and his wife have a regularly in both Britain and the United States. daughter, Evelyn, age 2. His wife is finishing Her “Foreigners” column appears more or less her residency in psychiatry at Washington weekly in Slate magazine. Her second book, University. Gulag: A History, is due to be published this spring. The book narrates the history of the 1991 Soviet concentration camp system and de- scribes daily life in the camps. Carlo Maley is currently a staff scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research 1987 Center in Seattle. He married Hyojoo Kang this past summer. Stuart Rachels was in at- Jeff Rhodes has published his latest book, tendance. His wife is a software engineer VBTrain.Net™: Creating Computer and Web

14 working on microwave LANs. His website is Kenneth W. Starr. With Judge Starr, he is www.fhcrc.org/science/phs/barretts/cmaley. representing Senator Mitch McConnell in his constitutional challenge to the recently en- 1993 acted campaign finance legislation. This summer, he served on a panel on attorney- Danielle Allen continues to serve as asso- client privilege at the annual North American ciate professor of classical languages and lit- Meeting of the British Commercial Bar Asso- eratures, politics, and the committee on social ciation in Prague. He is due to be married in thought at the University of Chicago. Her March to Victoria Reeves, whom he met while book, The World of Prometheus: The Politics on the Marshall. His e-mail address is of Punishing in Democratic Athens, was re- [email protected]. cently published by Princeton University Press. 1995

Dan Barouch has completed his clinical Marcus Ryu has co-founded Guidewire fellowship in infectious diseases and is now an Software, an enterprise software comapny instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical based in San Mateo, Cal. Guidewire is a School. He continues to be actively engaged venture-backed, 22-person startup. Prior to in AIDS vaccine research. He and his wife, that, he worked as a consultant with McKin- Fina, live in Boston. sey in New York, and as vice president of corporate strategy at Ariba, a software com- Jane Bocklage has joined the U.S. foreign pany in Silicon Valley. service and is currently serving in the U.S. embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. 1996

Josh Busby is currently in the Ph.D. pro- Jonathan Peck is currently a second-year gram in Government and International Rela- student at Columbia Law School, where he is tions at Georgetown University. His website a member of the Columbia Law Review. is www.georgetown.edu/users/busbyj. 1997 Nancy Lublin is engaged to be married to Jason Diaz in March. Victor Mair is spending the academic year at the University of Hong Kong. Michelle Mello continues to serve as an assistant professor of health policy at the Har- 1998 vard School of Public Health. Ien Cheng is on assignment with the Fi- Maria Sanchez has graduated from the nancial Times in London and will return to Boalt Hall School of Law and has joined the New York in the new year. law firm of Dewey Ballantine in New York as an associate. — compiled by Kannon Shanmugam (’93) and Gemma Weeks Kannon Shanmugam is an associate in the Appellate Litigation group of the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, where he works under former Independent Counsel

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