Fulbright ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER Vol. XX Nos. 1 & 2 Winter 1997/Spring 1998
Fulbright Program to Help Bosnia FY '99 Budget Request $5 Million Increase Prepare for the 21st Century Proposed for
By Eric S. Howard (Germany 1989) Fulbright Program President Clinton's budget would Editor's Note: Eric Howard, a member of increase Fulbright Program funding the Fulbright Association's Board of from $94 million to $99 million for the Directorsand chairman of the associa next federal fiscal year, beginning on tion's Task Forceon Science and the October 1. The proposal would Environment, served last fall in Sarajevo restore some money to the Fulbright as an environmental specialist with the Program after a 25 percent decline U.S. Agency for International Develop since 1995, when Fulbright funding ment (USAID) Business Finance Office stood at $125 million. which providesfunds for reconstruction As the newsletter went to press, the and development of private businesses. Richard Kauzlarich, U.S. ambassadorto relevant subcommittees of the House Bosnia, and Eric S. Howard, at the cere and Senate Appropriations After five years of war following mony announcing the opening of Committees had begun to consider the breakup of the Socialist Federal Fulbright exchanges between Bosnia and the fiscal year 1999 budget request for Republic of Yugoslavia and the clos the United States. the United States Information Agency ing of the Fulbright Program with the (USIA), which includes funding for former Yugoslavia in 1992, Bosnia is infrastructure suffered great damage the Fulbright Program and other currently rebuilding its academic sys during the war. The campuses of the international exchanges. tem. As recognition of that move Universities of Sarajevo and Mostar Although the administration's bud ment, Fulbright exchanges between were on the front lines, and many get requested an additional $5 million Bosnia and the United States were university buildings were damaged. for Fulbright exchanges, it did not inaugurated in September 1997. Books, technical equipment, and sci significantly increase USIA's interna At the ceremony instituting the entific instruments were destroyed or tional educational and cultural exchanges, Richard Kauzlarich, U.S. looted. exchange line item, which covers the ambassador to Bosnia and As a result of shelling and mortar Fulbright Program and a number of Herzegovina, said, "I salute all of you attacks, part of the Scientific and other academic, professional, and citi who have made it possible for Bosnia Technical Faculty at the University of zen exchanges. Members of Congress to stand on the threshold of the 21st Sarajevo was destroyed. The univer have registered support for the century in celebrating a renewal of sity lost to a fire its herbarium collec (continued on page 22) academic growth as the 121st country tion, which included indigenous [currently] participating in the plants collected in the pre-industrial Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program." era. The upper -floor office of Prof. In This Issue Approximately 60 academics, gov Sulejman Redzic, a leading botanist Members Elect President, Directors ...... 2 ernment officials, and businessmen and president of the Society for Fulbright at Fifty Town Meetings ...... 3 attended the program held at the Environment Protection and Hotel Bosnia in downtown Sarajevo. Improvement of Bosnia and Institutional Member Fulbright Profiles ...... 4, 5 Ambassador Kauzlarich noted that Herzegovina, was also damaged. from 1964 until 1992 when the war While tangible items may be Institutional Member Roster ...... 6 began, more than 2,550 former replaced, Bosnia's greatest loss may Member Editorial ...... 7 Yugoslavian Fulbrighters crossed be the flight of talent . Thousands of Chapter Events & Activities ...... 8-10 miles of oceans to participate in the academics, students, and recent grad 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition ...... 11-13 unique cultural experience the uates left their homes and became Global Fulbright Network ...... 14,15 Fulbright program offers. One of them refugees who have now started new Alumni Achievements ...... 16-19 was Prof. Biljana Plavsic, the current lives in other parts of the world. International Education Task president of the Republic of Serbska. Many may not return to participate in Force Proposed ...... 23 Fulbright exchanges with Bosnia the reconstruction and rebirth of their are especially important because the native state. country's academic community and (continued on page 22) Fulbright Fulbright \ ~ '- !I ! . I \ T I O '\ The Fulbright ers' New slett er ------The Fulbrighters' Newslett er ' ,, "' ' '' '"'
1958, and a Ph .D. degree from correct balance among student, Members Elect President, Directors Columbia University in 1968. He was teacher and faculty grants, the report a Fulbright scholar to Germany in Town Meetings Proposed on calls for a slight increase in the num Hillcrest Hospital and president of 1961. ber of student grants, while maintain Hillcrest Radiology Associates in Dr. Anderson is a member of the Fulbright Program Report ing the current emphasis in the schol Cleveland . He earned his medical Association of Collegiate Schools of ar grant program on awards for degree from the Albert Einstein Architecture, the British Society for scholarship and lecturing. The College of Medicine in New York in Philosophy of Science, the College Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program 1960 and received a B.A. degree in Art Association, and the Society of received high praise in the report, chemistry from Case Western Architectural Historians. He serves which recognized teacher exchanges Reserve University in 1956. As a as a director of the Boston Society of as a "highly-leveraged effort [that] Fulbright scholar to Sweden in 1964, Architects. Previously, he has served pays huge benefits for the teachers he served as a fellow in radiology at on the Designer Selection Panel for involved , and through them for their the Karolinska Sjukhuset in the Massachusetts Port Authority, as students, schools, and communities ." Stockholm. His pioneering work in a commissioner of the Boston The report urges continuation of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging Landmarks Commission, and as a cooperative projects with private was recognized in 1982 with an director of the Boston Preservation business "based on mutual interest award from the Centre National de la Alliance. and guidelines for appropriate Recherche Scientifique in France. Ronald A. Crutcher is director of involvement." Other private sector A fellow of the American College of the School of Music and Marie and assistance sought to strengthen the Ronald J.Ross Radiology and a member of many Joseph D. Jamail, Sr. Regents profes program are broader incentives for medical societies, Dr. Ross has also sor at the University of Texas at faculty participation and a range of At the Fulbright Association's 20th been active in community, civic, and Austin. Dr. Crutcher received a doc institutional supports for Fulbright annual business meeting on October 2 philanthropic organizations, serving tor of musical arts degree from Yale United States Information Agency Director JosephDuffey , J. William Fulbright faculty grantees. in Washington, D.C., members elected as a trustee of the Meridia Health University. The recipient of a Foreign ScholarshipBoard Member Lee Williams, Fulbright Steering Committee Of particular interest to alumni are Ronald J. Ross to serve as president in System and of the Cleveland Clinic Fulbright award in 1972, he also stud Chairman William Friday, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright listen as recommendations to locate and ied in Germany with Siegfried Palm 1998. Association members also voted Foundation. Dr. Ross was founding President Clinton comments on the Fulbright at Fifty report. engage former Fulbrighters not cur to adopt the slate of board candidates chairman of the Board of Trustees of and Enrico Mainardi. As a Woodrow rently involved in alumni activities proposed by the 1997 Nominating Meridia Health Foundation and is a Wilson and Ford Foundation fellow, Recommendations made in Fulbright changing world and strongly endorsed and to create avenues to receive their Committee for the term Jan. 1, 1998, to past president of the Fulbright he studied with renowned cellist at Fifty: Meeting the Challengeof the what it terms the core Fulbright con counsel and support. As part of this Dec. 31, 2000. Newly elected to the Association's Northeast Ohio Aldo Parisot. Next Fifty Years, the report of a steer cepts of binationalism, open, merit outreach, members of the Fulbright Board of Directors are Stanford Chapter. He has been a director of ing committee convened to study the based competition, an emphasis on Association were sent a copy of Anderson, Ronald A. Crutcher, the Fulbright Association since 1994 Fulbright Program on its 50'h anniver excellence, and the promotion of Fulbright at Fifty last fall. R. Fenton-May, Richard 0 . Lundquist, and has served in a variety of leader sary, are serving as the focus of town mutual understanding . Steering Under the rubric of partnerships, Charles MacCormack, Roger M. ship roles. meetings that report sponsors hope Committee Chairman William Friday , the report recommends steps to Milgrim, and Niara Sudarkasa. will be held throughout the country. president emeritus of the University of strengthen private sector ownership Flavia Cigliano, Eric Howard, Stephen First-Term Directors A January 27 meeting convened by the North Carolina, presented the report and involvement in the Fulbright M. Johnson, Thomas J. Keil, Jesus Hawaii Chapter of the Fulbright last August to President Clinton in a Program. Administrators were asked Mendez, and Thomas L. Shillinglaw A registered architect and head of Association and moderated by White House ceremony attended by to explore opportunities for U.S. and were elected to serve a second term . the Architecture Department of the Caroline A. Matano Yang, a member Fulbright Association board member foreign foundation support of pro Massachusetts Institute of of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Sally Shelton-Colby. jects involving Fulbright grantees and Officers, Committee Heads Named Technology, Stanford Anderson Scholarship Board and former execu To meet demand for Fulbright ex "new combinations" of state and received a B.A. degree from the tive director of the Japan-United States changes in the post Cold War era, the local governments, business, educa At its February 7 meeting, the Board University of Minnesota in 1957, an Educational Commission , explored report advocates that U.S. govern tion, and civic groups which could of Directors approved the appoint M.A. degree in architecture from the the report's recommendations on ment funding for the Fulbright Pro serve as joint sponsors of grants and ment of Frederick G. Acker as vice University of California, Berkeley in incentives to encourage faculty partici gram administered by the United special activities. president, Flavia Cigliano as secretary, pation in the Fulbright Program. States Information Agency be re Town meetings in response to the and Howard P. Calhoun as treasurer . Fulbrightat Fifty affirmed the stored to at least $125 million annual report are expected to involve a vari Ronald A. Crutcher Named as committee chairpersons Fulbright Program as a vital force in ly. The committee proposed that the ety of organizations in a community were Flavia Cigliano, chapter devel advancing U.S. national interests in an Fulbright-Hays program adminis in order to build partnerships in sup opment; Frederick G. Acker , develop Dr. Crutcher made his Carnegie increasingly interdependent, rapidly tered by the U.S. Department of port of international exchange. The ment; Thomas L. Shillinglaw, legal Hall debut in March 1985. He is a Education receive funding at its 1995 National Humanities Center, which affairs; Jesus Mendez, membership; former member of the Cincinnati The F11/brighters'Newsletter is a public ation of level of $5.9 million. convened the steering committee of Stephen M. Johnson, nominating ; and Symphony and a founding member the Fulbright Association. Material for public a Also sought were more vigorous 19 prominent individuals who pre tion on the subjects of international exchange, Philip 0 . Geier, Fulbright Prize. of the Chanticleer Quartet. He tours international education , and alumni activities, as efforts to achieve funding parity from pared the report, has limited funding Robert S. Bowen and Kempton Dunn in this country and in Europe with well as news and reports of partner countri es and financially capable foreign govern for mini-grants to support the meet will serve as 1998 conference co the Klemperer Trio. He is president institut ions, should be sent to the Editor. ments. According to the report, the ings . For information on the mini chairmen. of Chamber Music America and Jane L. Anderson U.S. government should establish new grants, please contact Julie Taiber , Fulbright Association serves on boards of the Musical Arts 1130 17th St., N .W., Suite 310 binational Fulbright commissions Alliance for International Educational President Association (Cleveland Orchestra) , Washington, DC 20036 only with nations ready and able to and Cultural Exchange, 1828 L St., the College Music Society, the [email protected] contribute significantly to exchanges NW, Suite 901, Washington, DC Ronald J.Ross is director of the Copyright© 1998 and to administrative costs . 20036. (202) 293-6141 (tel.); (202) 293- Fulbright Association Department of Radiology at Meridia Stanford Anderson (continued on page 20) Weighing in on the question of the 6144 (fax); [email protected].
2 3 Fulbright Fulbri ght \ " ~ u f: I ,\ T I Editor's Note: Each issue of the newslet College Park campus the J.W. ter will highlight activities in support of Fulbright International Center, the Fulbright Program undertaken by according to university President several of our institutional members. A William E. Kirwan . Currently con completeroster of institutional members Institutional Members ceived as three new buildings adja appearson page six. Institutional mem cent to the historic Rossbourough Inn ber representativesare encouragedto al conference, recently taught a of anti-nuclear issues in New Zealand Faculty Club, the Fulbright Center contact the associationwith information course on African dance at American and, on a second Fulbright grant, the will feature an International Town on events and programs that they would University. relationship between the media and Hall, the Fulbright Resource Center, like to see coveredin future issues of the The university honored Rodger the government in Iceland. The last and both short- and long-term lodg newsletter. Streitmatter (Russia 1991, China Baylor University student to win a ing and dining facilities for interna 1994), professor of communications, Fulbright award was Beth Chandler tional guests and exchange scholars. American University, as its 1995 Scholar /Teacher of the (England 1993), a flute major. Under the direction of Harriet Washington, D.C. Year in recognition of his excellence In addition to Dr. Fridriksson, other Fulbright, the Fulbright International in teaching, his contributions to the Baylor faculty members who have Center is already collaborating with For the last 15 years American field of journalism history, and his recently received Fulbright awards faculty and researchers at the University has hosted the orientation service to the university. include Dean of the College of Arts University of Maryland on a number for the United States Information and Sciences Wallace Daniel, who of ongoing programs. Current Agency's Fulbright Teacher Exchange Baylor University, Waco, Texas spent last summer in Russia and in Fulbright International Center activi Program participants. The 1997 pro England conducting research on the ties include the Fulbright Enrichment gram provided an opportunity for A pair of Fulbright grants were church and society in post-commu Program funded by the United States more than 500 exchange teachers to awarded last year to a couple of nist Russia; Acting Dean of the Information Agency, which provides meet and receive intensive cross-cul quads, Baylor University reports. School of Education James visiting scholars from abroad resident tural training and information about Alison and Claire Hansen, two of the Williamson, who was co-director of a University of Miami President Edward T. Foote,a son-in-law of Senator Fulbright, and in the Washington, D.C., area special contemporary education and adminis Hansen quadruplets all of whom Fulbright group study trip to China GeorgeWashington University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg,at the J. William opportunities for learning and under trative issues. American University graduated from Baylor in spring last summer; Michael Johnson, assis Fulbright Hall on The George Washington University campus. standing American cultural and organized more than 300 events dur 1997, both received Fulbright grants, tant professor of art, who was a social life; a series of seminars on ing the orientation and provided marking the first time two Baylor stu senior Fulbright scholar at the anniversary of the Fulbright Program snow as a metaphor for both chaos "Foreign Policy for the Next child-care, meals, housing, and trans dents received Fulbright awards in Academy of Fine Art and Design in and also hosted the association's 12th and order. Century;" an experimental summer portation for participants. The univer the same year. Alison Hansen, who Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1995-96; and annual conference in 1989. program for high school students; sity also coordinated follow-up work majored in journalism and Spanish Christine Getz, assistant professor of Among George Washington University of Maryland, and a Fulbright International Center shops throughout the East Coast. In and received a Fulbright award to music history, who is currently in University faculty members who College Park site on the World Wide Web. 1993 American University was named Spain, is conducting a comparative Italy at the Universitd Cattolicain have received Fulbright awards, sev The University of Maryland College regional coordinator for the Middle study of journalism in the U.S. and Milan to study music patronage and eral have been honored recently for The University of Maryland Park supported the Fulbright Atlantic States. American University Spain. Claire Hansen, also a journal politics in sixteenth century Milan. their leadership and the quality of College Park reports that it now has Association's 19th annual conference has also hosted the Fulbright Pre ism major with minors in German their teaching and research . Robert more than 170 faculty members who in 1996 which celebrated the sot!, Academic Program, which offers visit and Spanish, is studying the media in The George Washington University, Caplan (India 1978), professor of psy have received Fulbright grants at anniversary of the Fulbright ing Fulbright students cross-cultural Vienna. Washington, D.C. chology and of psychiatry and behav some point in their careers. Over the Program, and the University of and computer training before they Alison and Claire credit the guid ioral sciences, achieved fellow status last decade the university has consis Maryland System co-sponsored the begin their graduate studies. ance of Lianne Fridriksson, Baylor As part of the commemoration of in the American Psychological tently placed among the top ten uni association's 15th annual conference. In 1995 American University served University's Fulbright Program the 50"' anniversary of the Fulbright Society in 1997 in recognition of sus versities in the number as co-sponsor of the Fulbright adviser, as a major ingredient of their Program in 1996, The George tained outstanding contributions to of foreign Fulbright Association's 18th annual conference success. Dr. Fridriksson, associate Washington University dedicated one the science of psychology. scholars it receives. in Washington, D.C., where universi professor of journalism, is a Fulbright of its residence halls to Senator J. The Carnegie Foundation for the These visiting scholars ty President Benjamin Ladner was alumna who studied media coverage William Fulbright, who graduated Advancement of Teaching named may spend time in resi recognized for his long-standing sup from the university's law school in James Oliver Horton (Germany 1988) dence at the port of international education. 1934 and also taught there. the 1996 District of Columbia International House Links between American University "It is indeed a privilege, as part of Professor of the Year. Dr. Horton, dormitory on campus, faculty members who are Fulbright our 175th anniversary, to celebrate the who is Benjamin Banneker professor interact with students in alumni and the Fulbright Association life and work of William Fulbright," of American studies and history, was the College Park are strong. Naima Prevots (Australia said President Stephen Joel selected in 1996 to chair the reestab International Scholars 1987), professor and director of the Trachtenberg. "His career in public lished National Park System Program, and give sem university's dance program, served service and higher education is spe Advisory Board. inars and workshops as a board member of the Fulbright cial. But beyond special was the Snow in America by Bernard about their countries in Association from 1990 to 1996 and establishment of the exchange pro Mergen (Mongolia 1996), a professor regular classes or in was the chairwoman of the associa grams for scholars that arguably of American civilization, was pub seminars. tion's 14th, 15th, and 16th annual made the world a better place." lished by the Smithsonian Institution Recently the Fulbright conferences. Akua Kouyate (Gambia The George Washington University Press. The book looks at a range of agenda at the Frank Schlesingerof the University of Maryland Archi 1992), who with her dance troupe Alison Hansen, Lianne Fridriksson,and co-sponsored the Fulbright topics such as the emergence of the University of Maryland tectural Collegereviewing sites for the new Fulbright Memory of African Culture per ClaireHansen at Baylor University, Association's 19"' annual conference skiing industry and its legacy of envi has been driven by the International Center building with Harriet Mayor formed at the association's 16th annu- Waco, Texas. in 1996 which celebrated the 50th ronmental problems and the use of decision to build on the Fulbright. 4 5 Fulbright Fulbri ght ,\ .~ ~ IJ C I ,\ T I o , The Fulbrighters' Newsletter '" "' ' ' " '" The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------Fulbright Association Institutional Members Message to Congress Don't Undervalue American University Keene State College University of Arkansas Arizona State University Kent State University University of California, Berkeley FulbrightExchanges Armand Hammer United World Louisiana State University University of California, Riverside College Lynchburg College University of Central Florida By AlisonGardy (Mexico 1988) Association for International Mercer University University of Connecticut Practical Training Editor's Note: Fulbright Association sciences, and the arts. Former Michigan State University University of Delaware member Alison Gardy is a freelance Fulbright recipients range from econ Barry University writer based in New York City. omist Milton Friedman to novelist Morehead State University University of Georgia Joseph Heller; Chairman and CEO of Baylor University What you are about to read may Bethlehem Steel Curtis H . Barnette to Nazareth College of Rochester University of Hawaii Boston University shock you, but statements such as the former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove; Oklahoma State University University of Houston-Downtown following are heard every day in orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel to Brigham Young University prestigious American universities: Under Secretary of State for Political Pace University University of Illinois at Urbana- Bryn Mawr College "Nehru is the President of Africa Affairs Thomas R. Pickering; and Champaign today," "Montenegro is a small South Librarian of Congress James Pennsylvania State University Buena Vista University American country," "The Spanish Billington to astronaut (and former Alison Gardy University of Kentucky Pine Manor College Civil War was a model for the Civil U.S. senator) Harrison Schmitt, not to Buffalo State College University of Maine at Orono War in the U.S.A.." mention numerous Nobel Prize win people sharpen their savvy . The Reed College California State University-Fresno Professors try not to flinch. Where ners in the sciences. "payback" on investment in interna University of Maryland to begin correcting sentences that Rice University The list goes on. The U.S. govern tional exchange may not be quantifi Carroll College, Helena, Mt. have almost as many factual errors as ment's investment in a formative and able or direct, but that is only because University of Miami St. John Fisher College they have words? Worse, professors challenging period of these individu its impact has such a far-reaching rip Case Western Reserve University University of Missouri-Kansas City know such blunders are common. als' education produced an ongoing ple effect in American society that it is St. Joseph's College of Maine Claremont Colleges Bright but undereducated. That is dividend for the entire country. impossible to measure. University of Nebraska at Lincoln San Diego State University the image American students project Still, members of Congress ask, Still, there are members of Congress The College of William & Mary to the world at a time when we can "What benefits does the country get who ask, "Why can't private money University of Notre Dame Smith College least afford to lose the global "educa from the Fulbright Program?" sponsor international exchange?" Cooper Union for the University of Portland tion race." Fulbright exchanges are not a luxu Certainly, some private money, Advancement of Science and Art Southeast Missouri State President Clinton's fiscal year 1999 ry. They afford participants an essen especially from leading foundations, University University of Scranton Dillard University budget-with its request to restore $5 tial reality check in a world that is has gone toward wise investments in Southeastern Louisiana State The University of the South million to the Fulbright Program changing faster than our perceptions international exchange. But these Drexel University University whose funding was slashed from $125 of it. The Fulbright Program pro dollars ebb and flow according to University of Tennessee million in 1995 to its current level of vides a rare shelter of space, time, changing priorities . The unchanging East Carolina University Southern Illinois University $94 million - is a step in the right and intense focus in which life-trans priority of the U.S. government, how University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Fairmont State College Carbondale direction. Still, the budget allocates forming experiences can occur. ever, is to produce citizens who can University of Wisconsin-Platteville less than $200 million, or one hun It is also good realpolitik. As infor survive, compete, and lead in the Ferris State University The Southwestern Baptist dredth of one percent of the total fed mal ambassadors of American cul world. That priority is high enough Theological Seminary Virginia Commonwealth Florida State University eral budget, for international educa ture, participants not only soak up to be a matter of policy, not just of University tional exchanges . knowledge about other countries, but changing commitment and whim. State University of New York at Fordham University Of that paltry sum, $99 million, or a also dispel negative myths about our Moreover, in the wake of recent Albany Wayne State College minuscule six thousandths of one per own. The Fulbright Program, espe huge immigration waves to our The George Washington University State University of New York Wayne State University cent of the federal budget, is slated for cially, contributes to the health of U.S. shores, we need worldly sophistica Georgetown University College at Oswego the tried -and -true Fulbright Program, foreign relations, since it depends on tion and diplomatic skills just to make Wesleyan University which, for over fifty years, has sent bilateral decision -making between the sense of our own neighbors two doors Humboldt State University State University of New York thousands of Americans abroad and United States and 130 partner nations. down the block. There is no place West Texas A&M University College at Potsdam brought thousands of international No matter how disgruntled those anymore for isolationist thinking in Hunter College Western Washington University scholars and experts to the United nations may feel about aspects of U.S. America . To turn our backs to the Texas A&M University Idaho State University States with the goal of increasing foreign policy, the Fulbright Program world is to turn our backs to ourselves . Widener University Texas Christian University authentic cross-cultural understand represents an unqualified good to For those members of Congress Indiana State University them. International exchange, in Wilberforce University ing, professional expertise, and a com who think that international Trinity University mon desire for world peace. other words, is excellent PR for the exchange can come on the cheap, that Indiana University of William Paterson University Fulbright grantees did not simply United States government. we can substitute a chat room on the Pennsylvania Troy State University Dothan have a good time (though most did!) But the benefits also come home . Internet for demonstration and Williams College Institute of International Education Tufts University on their exchanges . Upon returning, Teachers on Fulbright exchanges come debate in the classrooms, laborato Wright State University they reinvested the government's back to the United States to teach. ries, streets, and museums which Iowa State University University of Alabama at investment in them in their contribu Scientists bring new ideas. Artists Birmingham tions to business, government, the expand their repertoires. Business (continued on page 24) 6 7 Fulbright Fulbright A ~ S " C I \ T t O ~ The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------The Fulbrighters ' Newsletter ' '' "' ' · T' "' Chapter Events and Activities Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), center, with members of the Greater New York Chapter. From left Donnette Atiyah (England, 1955), James C. Baxter (Japan1973), Mary Nilles, (Belgium 1973, Yugoslavia 1974, Czech Republic 1991), Chapter President JeromeM. Ginsberg (South Korea 1992), Amy Champ (Zimbabwe 1995), and Doris Green (Gambiaand the Ivory Coast 1987). At its fall conference at Macalester day season with music, games, and From left, visiting Fulbright scholars College in St. Paul, the Minnesota holiday foods from different cultures. Arumadurage Silva from Sri Lanka, Chapter commemorated India's inde Zewdnesh and Amsel Melka from pendence. Jagdish Chandra Sharma, Clark Atlanta University's School of Lucretia L. Stoica receivesan honorary lifetime membership in the Fulbright Ethiopia, and Pierre Basquiat from Haiti At a winery tour in the Finger Lakes district of New York organized by the Central consul general of India in Chicago, International Affairs and Develop Association at the Northeast Ohio listen to Head Lady A/aura Pyle explain New York Chapter are from left, visiting Fulbright scholarsMiguel Latouchefrom delivered the opening remarks. T. U. ment and the North Georgia Chapter Chapter's biennial dinner. Indian customs at the Alabama Indian Venezuela and Nick Johnson from New Zealand; Shelly Ekhtiar; Fritz Rohrlich Mehta, retired chief justice of the cosponsored a lecture by Niara statewide pow wow. (Austria 1974); Chapter President Jennifer Ceriale (Hungary 1992, Germany 1997); Supreme Court of the Himachal State Sudarkasa (Benin 1982), president of guide James Newman; Mrs . Rohrlich;and Mrs. Newman. in India, spoke on the legacy of Lincoln University and newly elected who served 41 years at the Members of the Alabama Chapter Gandhi. President-elect Erika Vora director of the Fulbright Association. International Services Center of organized a tour for visiting University of Connecticut, spoke on Two members of Congress have (Taiwan 1986) served as master of cer Dr. Sudarkasa spoke on "Reflecting Cleveland, first as a staff member and Fulbrighters of the Alabama "From Anti politics to Goulash addressed visiting Fulbrighters and emonies. The conference concluded the Nation, Relating to the World: The later as executive director, for her Statewide American Indian Pow Democracy: Elite Politics and Civil Fulbright alumni at events sponsored with a performance by the Ragamala Case for Increased Diversity in the contributions to Cleveland's interna Wow in Montgomery, a celebration Society in Hungary ." by the Greater New York Chapter. Music and Dance Company and an Fulbright Program and U.S. Foreign tional affairs community. Ms. Stoica of Native American culture . Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY), the exhibition of Indian art. Policy." The Coca-Cola Company is now retired. She was presented Participants had a chance to speak former chairman of the House provided support for the program. with an honorary life membership in with Alabamians of Indian descent International Relations Committee's The National Capital Area Chapter the Fulbright Association at the din about history, music, and customs . Subcommittee on Asia and the held its annual holiday party in At its biennial dinner last ner, where chapter members also After the pow wow, the group toured Pacific, spoke on the congressional December at the International Student November, the Northeast Ohio welcomed 15 visiting Fulbrighters historic sites in Montgomery. outlook for exchange program fund House in Washington, D.C. Visiting Chapter honored Lucretia L. Stoica, staying in the region . Chapter members have elected ing. More recently, Rep. Nita M. Fulbright scholars and their families Emily Melvin (India 1981, 1983) presi Lowey (D-NY) spoke on the con joined alumni in celebrating the holi- USIA Supports Fulbright Enrichment Program Grants dent. Dr. Melvin teaches at Auburn gressional role in foreign policy, University. Also elected to the chap with particular emphasis on foreign The Academic Exchanges Division of the United States Information ter board were John Hafner (Greece aid issues. Rep. Lowey is a member Agency will make available a total of $25,000 for a grant competition exclu 1974, Indonesia 1984, Philippines of the House Appropriations sively for association chapters interested in providing educational and cul 1993) from Spring Hill College; Committee and sits on the Foreign tural enrichment programs for visiting Fulbright students, scholars and Edward Moseley (Mexico 1959), the Operations, Export Financing, and teachers in their areas. Grants will support programs that: University of Alabama; Janice Related Programs and the Labor, • enhance the exchange experience of visiting Fulbrighters Roberts (United Kingdom 1995), Health and Human Services, • strengthen the Fulbright network of alumni and visiting Fulbrighters Jefferson State Community College; Education and Related Agencies • use creatively association chapter resources and the expertise of individ E.L. Spencer (England 1953), the Subcommittees . The recently ual alumni to develop programs and activities that are unique to the Auburn Bank; Roger Taylor (France dedicated King Juan Carlos I of chapter's community and region 1980), the Bayer Corporation; and The Central Oklahoma Chapter's "A Spain Center at New York Uni For academic year 1997-98, the Alabama, Central New York, Central Yvonne Woods, the University of Taste of the West" event included a visit versity was the setting for both Oklahoma, Eastern Massachusetts, Indiana, Northern California, North West Alabama . to the Harn Homestead Museum. From events. Pari Rad, John Manion (Italy 1968), Carolina, North Georgia, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley, and South Florida left, visiting Fulbright scholarsIsaac The Greater New York Chapter has Rosalyn Haberkern (United Kingdom Chapters of the Fulbright Association received enrichment grants. For infor In December the Connecticut Sithole from South Africa, Phan Tam honored Immediate Past President 1994), and Ursula Franzgrote (USA mation on the 1998-99 competition, please contact Lisa Chapin, Director of Chapter hosted its annual reception from Vietnam, Abalo Adewui from Togo, Mary Nilles (Belgium 1973, 1956), members of the Northern Member and Chapter Services, Fulbright Association, 113017th St., NW, and brunch for visiting Fulbrighters and Xe Van Do from Vietnam with Yugoslavia 1974, Czech Republic California Chapter, at a reception host Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036. (202) 331-1590 (tel.); (202) 331-1979 (Fax); and alumni. Rudolf Tokes, professor Founding Chapter President Beverly 1991) by announcing a scholarship ed by Chapter President, Sonjia Redmond [email protected] (e-mail) . of political science emeritus, Pruett (India 1973, Pakistan 1985). award in her name. (Bahrain 1992). 8 9 Fulbri ght Fulbright A SS O L I I T I Brazil Germany 1985), and Marjorie White (Finland 1994). Back row from left, human. the numbers of Fulbright receptionfor the Fulbright Association 20th 1989), and JosephPatrouch (Austria 1988) aboard Morton Schagrin (China 1988), Rick Lundquist (Zimbabwe 1984, Sri Lanka Artists the world over are often con grants open to artists of all anniversary art exhibition at Meridian International the "Heritage of Miami." 1989, Latvia 1994), and Keith Henderson (Iran 1975). sidered the barometers of a society- types. Perhaps one day when Center. 11 Fulbright Fulbright ,, ,- ,- 0 (.. I ,\ T IO ' The Fulbrighters' Newsletter " "" '" "' •' The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------ with the painter John Piper and dis covered that his wife, Mfanwy, was working on the libretto to a new opera, which appeared while I was in England: Benjamin Britten's "Turn of the Screw." I was present at the reopening of the opera house in Florence and saw the four-power occupation of Vienna come to an end with the attendant flowering of the opera and the museums. My eyes and mind were opened; my horizons incredibly broadened. I returned in late summer 1955, to resume my teaching career. A very few years later I moved to Washington, D.C., to work at the Library of Congress and not long after met the legendary Senator Fulbright in the course of my work. We became acquainted, and I know that I thanked him for having been the architect of my maturity. But I doubt if he had any idea how pro Murugappa C. Madhavan (USA 1960, National Portrait Gallery Director Alan Fern (England 1954) addressesFulbright foundly my Fulbright experience had Philippines1987), professorof economics alumni and friends at the receptionfor the Fulbright Association 20th anniversary art molded my life. and directorof the Asian Studies Program exhibition at Meridian International Center. Only after a few years had passed Harriet Mayor Fulbright and the late Mel Carter (Netherlands 1986) beforehis paint at San Diego State University, and Robert did it occur to me that my getting a ing Taos Landscape(1996, acrylic and gold leaf, 30 x 24 inches). Forman (Mexico 1993), with his yarn Fulbright in the arts was remarkable. painting Journey (1996, 84 x 32 inches). National Portrait Gallery Director It might have been that the Fulbright fellowships would have been direct time under government auspices. meant to me and to applaud the cre world-by this unique venture into Reflects on Fulbright Exchanges ed only to those who were involved Nor should we forget the artists, ativity that has been encouraged and international intellectual enrichment. in areas obviously connected with musicians, performers, and writers liberated-to the great benefit of the foreign affairs-political science, eco who came here from abroad. By Editor's Note: Alan Fern (England noted, the other arts were encouraged nomics, international law. But 1950, the center of innovation was no 1954) is director of the National Portrait as well; we must not forget the many Senator Fulbright himself was a sub longer so clearly in Paris, and cultural Gallery. He spoke at the receptionhonor accomplished musicians, writers, and tle person of broad interests, so the excitement was found in many places ing Fulbright artists who had participat performers involved in the program. group that joined him in setting up besides Rome or London. New York, ed in the Fulbright Association 20th And, like me, there were art histori the program did not just take the Los Angeles, and many other places anniversary art exhibition held in ans, critics, and aestheticians, whose expected path. in between in America now became October 1997 in conjunction with grants supported the study of the Instead-as Harriet Fulbright has destinations for artists, scholars, and Meridian International Center in arts, not their creation. already pointed out-realizing that a critics. The bi-directional nature of Washington, D.C. I was particularly blessed in my powerful agent of international the Fulbright Program brought many mentor, the noted architectural histo understanding was to be found in the European and Asian grantees to This delightful exhibition has one rian, Nikolaus Pevsner, at the arts, they made it possible for people America, just as it enabled Americans major problem for me: most of the University of London. He not only in literature, music, and the visual to work and study abroad, and they grantees were so long after my time guided me through my research, arts to apply for Fulbright grants, and were equally energized. as a Fulbrighter that I feel my age introducing me to professors, librari the results were spectacular. Certainly, this must be true of the keenly! ans, and museum curators, but also Artists from the United States had artists whose work is shown here, I was myself a beneficiary of the arranged for me to write several arti been going abroad since the founding and of all the writers, musicians, crit Fulbright program in 1954, and it cles for publication. Through this of the nation to perfect their skills in ics, and performers who have passed changed my life. At the age of 23, I chain of introductions, I met the poet Europe and to expose themselves to through the program. I suppose it is was able to experience England and laureate of England, prominent the latest developments in their equally true of the economists, politi Europe at first hand and to meet peo painters, sculptors, and graphic fields. Copley and West painted in cal scientists, and international rela ple who would remain friends and artists, and even several people who England in the late 1700s; writers tions people, not to mention the sci colleagues for years afterwards. Most had been directly involved with the from Hawthorne to T.S. Eliot worked entists, and scores of others who have of all, I found a wealth of research 19th and early 20th century artists I overseas in later years; the quintes been the beneficiary of this broad, material on which I could draw for was studying, allowing me to feel sential American musician, Aaron generous, and far-sighted program decades after returning home. I have directly connected to William Morris, Copland, went to Paris to study with that has mutually enriched our coun no doubt that everyone here has had Camille and Lucien Pissarro, Edward Nadia Boulanger, to cite just a hand try and the rest of the world. the same experience. Johnston, and many others. ful of examples. But under the I am pleased to have this opportuni We celebrate visual artists this Every month, it seemed, I had a Fulbright Program, Americans went ty to express my appreciation publicly Joan Backes (Chile 1994) with her painting Fountain Flats (1997, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 evening. As Harriet Fulbright has new cultural adventure. I visited abroad to study and teach for the first for what the Fulbright Program has inches) and Harriet Mayor Fulbright. 12 13 Fulbright Fulbright A ~ S !I <: 1 ,\ T I ti \ The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------The Fulbrighters' Newsletter "' """ "" fied persons with managerial skills, engineering and architecture and reg ates selected in the competition . Global Fulbright Network the commission helped to develop a istrar of the college. Journalism Professor Jae-won Lee cre joint M.B.A. degree program between ated the biennial awards program Establishment of a national head Boulevard de l'Empereur, 4, of the State University of New York Cairo University and Georgia State Five scholars and artists annually when he worked for press operations quarters for the Fulbright Program in Keizerslaan, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. at Buffalo, also spoke. University (CSU). Classes for the receive the Order of Culture honor at the Seoul Olympics as part of his Canberra has been made possible by Fax, (02) 519 57 73. two-year program are taught jointly from the government of Japan, which Fulbright program research . Olympic the joint efforts of the governments of In 1997 the Chilean government by Cairo University and CSU faculty, also recognizes 10 scholars and artists media awards are given for work in Australia and of the United States Last June, U.S. Ambassador Sharon agreed to become an equal funding and students spend at least one as persons of cultural merit. Three the print media, in broadcast media, and the Australian National Wilkinson spoke on U.S. foreign poli partner with the United States in sup semester at the CSU campus. Fulbright alumni were among those and for photography . The top prize University. A $300,000 U.S. govern cy toward Africa to members of the porting Fulbright exchanges between so honored in 1997, as was a former in each category carries a $10,000 cash ment grant supported moving an newly formed Fulbright-Humphrey the two countries. Following this his Friends of the Fulbright member of the Japan-United States award . Dr. Lee, who teaches at Australian government building Alumni Club of Burkina Faso. The toric decision, the Fulbright Commission in Egypt, Inc., the pub Educational Commission. Cleveland State University, is presi given to the Australian-American 60-person audience included Commission for Educational lic affairs and development adjunct of Hirofumi Uzawa (Stanford dent of the Northeast Ohio Chapter Educational Foundation to a campus Fulbright-Humphrey Club officers Interchange between the U.S.A. and the commission, offers Edutours, University 1956) was conferred with of the Fulbright Association . site donated by the university. The and members, university faculty and Chile and the Chilean National educational and cultural group visits the Order of Culture for his achieve deal included the right to rent com students, jurists, economists, journal Commission of Scientific and to Egypt specially tailored to encour ments in economic theory. Among Last year the Malaysian Registrar of mercially any space in the new ists, community professionals, and Technological Research (CONICYT) age mutual understanding and his noted accomplishments are his Societies officially recognized the Fulbright House not required by the business representatives. negotiated a new cost-sharing agree increase knowledge about ancient study of the problems caused by Fulbright Alumni Association of foundation. Rental income will sup ment to support CONICYT students and modern Egypt. For information automobile pollution and by global Malaysia. The association will func port Fulbright scholarships . Victor Konrad, executive director of for doctoral dissertation research for contact Ms. Carrie Lynn Johnson. warming. Masatoshi Koshiba tion as a forum for members to More than 200 people attended the the Foundation for Educational nine-month periods in the United Her e-mail address is (University of Rochester 1953) also exchange ideas and will foster profes Foundation's annual Fulbright sym Exchange Between Canada and the States. [email protected]. Her mailing received the Order of Culture in sional development and social inter posium, which explored the theme of United States of America, and Mark address at the Friends is 1081 recognition of his achievements in action. Members will also be encour indigenous cultures in an interdepen Romoff, Canadian consul general in Al Ahram Weekly, Egypt's leading Corniche El Nil, Garden City, Cairo, nuclear physics and astrophysics. aged to contribute to national devel dent world. The meeting in Darwin Buffalo, spoke at a conference cele English language newspaper, the Egypt. Fax, (20-2) 355-0086. His work is on the forefront of opment by utilizing their expertise. brought together academics and par brating cultural exchange sponsored Mubarak Public Library, and the research on neutrinos . ticipants from indigenous groups and by the Western New York Chapter of Binational Commission for The first two Finnish Ministry for Recognized as persons of cultural The Uruguayan Fulbright Alumni remote communities. It received the Fulbright Association last fall. Educational and Cultural Exchange Foreign Affairs-Fulbright Center merit were Makoto Ooka (Oakland Association last year honored the publicity on radio, on television, and Referring to a U.S. Immigration and between the U.S.A. and the A.R.E. grantees to the Carter Center began University 1981) and Makoto Saito, a Bank of Boston Foundation and the in newspapers in Australia and on Naturalization Service plan toques are conducting a national campaign to their research in Atlanta last former commission member . Mr. Uruguayan Ministry of Education and radio in New Zealand and in North tion Canadian tourists on their way preserve the architectural and engi September. The new program with Ooka was honored for his contribu Culture for their contributions to the America. home from the U.S. by car, Dr. neering heritage of modern Egypt. the Carter Center is administered by tions as a poet and for his writings on Fulbright Program. U.S. Ambassador Konrad said that the border-crossing The initiative seeks to preserve what the Fulbright Center of the Finnish poetry. Mr. Saito was recognized for Christopher Dodd, a Fulbright alum The Western Australia Chapter of controversy signaled the need for still exists of European architecture in United States Educational his studies of U.S. domestic and inter nus, presented certificates of apprecia the Australian Fulbright Association neighboring countries to pay more Cairo by restoring and adapting over Commission. national affairs . tion to representatives of the ministry and the U.S. Consulate in Perth host attention to their relationship. Muriel 600 residential villas and buildings. and of the foundation at a ceremony ed a reception last year to welcome Moore, president of Buffalo State Recognizing a need to develop long In honor of the 50"' anniversary of The Korean-American Educational attended by more than 150 people. Genta Hawkins Holmes, the U.S. College, and Claude Welch (Ethiopia term institutional linkages to address the Fulbright Program in Greece, Commission celebrated the launch Ambassador Dodd also announced ambassador to Australia. Chapter 1993), distinguished service professor Egypt's growing demand for quali- Fulbright Association life member ing of the Olympic Media Awards cost-sharing agreements, including Chairman Don Smart gave the open John A. Koumoulides (Greece 1977 & program last September with a recep one in support of a new program for ing remarks, noting that about 4,000 1987) of Ball State University recently tion given in honor of the first laure- judges and lawyers . Australians and Americans have par presented a lecture on "Greece and the ticipated in the Fulbright Program. Greek Diaspora: the Greek-American Community at the Dawn of the The Commission for Educational Twenty-first Century and the Twilight Exchange Between the United States of the Twentieth." The lecture, spon of America, Belgium and sored by the United States Educa Luxembourg and the Fulbright tional Foundation in Greece, was Alumni Association in Belgium will held at the Municipal Cultural Center. celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Belgium and Prof. John Kelly was appointed Luxembourg on October 22, with a executive director of the Ireland dinner at the Chateau Sainte Anne in United States Commission for Brussels. On October 24, an academic Educational Exchange in October conference at the Palais des 1997. A professor of chemical engi Academies will conclude with a neering, he is a member of the reception. For information, U.S. Governing Body of University alumni are encouraged to contact Ms. College Dublin and of the Senate of Margaret Nicholson, executive direc the National University of Ireland. Jeremy Curtis, United States Information Service director in Korea (back row left), Jae tor of the commission. Her e-mail Prof. Kelly served as president of the won Lee (front row, left), and Ray Weisenborn (far right), executive director of the address is [email protected]. The Mark Romoff, consul general of Canada in Buffalo, addresses members of the Western Irish Fulbright Alumni Association Korean-American Educational Commission, with some of the laureatesof the Olympic mailing address is Royal Library, New York Chapter. and is former dean of the faculty of Media awards 1996 at the reception in Seoul given by the commission. 14 15 Fulbri ght Fulbri ght I ~ ~ " • I I I I " ' The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ' --"' ''' '"' The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------Fulbright Alumni Achievements Books & Greenwood Press has published The second edition of the text book New and SelectedPoems (1942-1997), America." (See page 13 for a photo of Soviet and American Psychology During Intervention with Infants and Toddlers a selection of poems from the work Mr. Forman' s yarn painting Publications World War II by Albert R. Gilgen At-risk and with Disabilities: A Team books and travel journals of "Journey.") (Ireland 1971), his wife Carol, and Approach by early childhood special John Tagliabue (Italy 1950, Japan Live Long, Die Fast: Playing the Russian psychologists Vera A education coordinator 1958, China 1984, Indonesia 1993) has This spring the Saeko Ichinohe Aging Game to Win (Fairview Press, Koltsova and Yuri N. Oleinik. The Sharon Raver-Lampman (Czech been published by the National Dance Company founded by Minneapolis) by John H. Bland, M.D. authors are the first to compare Republic 1993) will be pub lished by Poetry Foundation. Dr. Tagliabue is Saeko Ichinohe (U.S.A. 1968) will (Australia 1987) offers upbeat advice developments in psychology in the Prentice-Hall/Merrill Publishing Co. professor emeritus at Bates College. perform "Ying & Yang," a new work on staying healthy and active United States and Russia during the Dr. Raver-Lampman has also written which aims to promote awareness of throughout a lifetime. Dr. Bland, Second World War. The press has "Special Education in the Czech Francis Violich (Spain 1961, Asian culture and its artists, and professor emeritus at the University also published Post-Soviet Perspectives Republic: Where It Is and Where It Yugoslavia 1979) has written The "Part II: The Tale of Genji," a sequel of Vermont College of Medicine, is an on Russian Psychology by the same Would Like to Go" (The International Bridge to Dalmatia: A Searchfor the to the work which premiered in 1995. octogenarian who runs, skis, and authors. Journal of Special Education) and Meaning of Place (John Hopkins Ms. Ichinohe serves as the company's rides. "Programs for Children with University Press) about his California artistic director. Edward Hower (India 1986, 1990) Multiple Handicaps in the United origins and those of his immigrant "Patrol Police Officer Conflict has written his fifth novel, Queen of the States: What Does This Mean in the forebears on the Dalma tian Coast. The music ministry of St. Martin de Resolution Processes," an article by Silver Dollar, published by Permanent 1990s," (Specialni Pedagogika). Dr. Dr. Violich, professor emeritus of city Porres Parish in McKeesport, Pa., Christopher Cooper (Denmark 1996) Press last fall. His book of Indian folk Raver-Lampman teaches at Old planning and landscape architecture hosted an organ concert by published in the Journal of Criminal tales collected in Rajasthan-The Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. at the University of California, Father Charles Knoll (Germany Justice (Vol. 25, No. 2), examines the PomegranatePrincess-was published Berkeley makes use of Croatian 1962). Father Knoll, a member of the use of unconventional dispute resolu by Wayne State University Press. Mr. "Business Story is Better than Love: archival materials as well as extensive Saint Augustine Province of tion techniques available to police Hower teaches at Ithaca College in Gender, Economic Development, and field studies of town and villages in "The Letter P: The Story of Pulcinella," Capuchins, performed works by J.S. officers to address interpersonal dis New York. Nationalist Ideology in Tanzania," a the Dalmatian region. a video directed by Margaret Fisher (Italy Bach, Cesar Franck, and modern putes and achieve patrol objectives. chapter in the dissertation of 1981), with music by Robert Hughes composers. Dr. Cooper is assistant professor at EthicalIssues in the Communication Deborah S. Rubin (Tanzania 1980-82), Allan W. Wicker (Zimbabwe 1989, (Italy 1981). the State University of New York at Processby Fulbright Association life has been published in Women Out of Ghana 1993) has developed the Independence Jazz Reunion, the Potsdam. member J. Vernon Jens en (Burma Place: The Genderof Agency and the Race "Working in Ghana" home page Video Competition, Berkeley, Calif., band in which Fulbright Association 1961) was published last spring by of Nationality edited by Brackette (http://www.cgsweb.cgs.edu/ and fourth place in the 1997 SONY director and life member Anne Cooper-Chen (Japan 1992) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Williams. Dr. Rubin, associate profes -wickera/working.html) which con Visions of the U.S. Festival. The Richard 0. "Rick" Lundquist has written Mass Communication in Mahwah, N.J. Dr. Jensen is professor sor at the University of the Pacific, tains 30 narratives by Ghanians, in video, termed faux foreign, is in Italian (Zimbabwe 1984, Sri Lanka 1989, Japan (Iowa State University Press) in emeritus of speech-communication at Stockton, Calif., is currently an cluding a traditional healer, a market and Venetian dialects with English Latvia 1994) performs as trumpeter, collaboration with Miiko Kodama. the University of Minnesota. American Academy for the queen, a member of parliament, and a subtitles. has issued the album "Rekindling The book analyzes the history and Advancement of Science fellow in the fisherman. Dr. Wicker and his re The Dream" on the Conawago Label. contemporary roles of Japanese Patricia D. Mal oney (Ghana 1993- Office of Economic Growth at the U.S. search assistant began collecting the Fulbright Association life member The album features 16 songs ranging media. Ms. Cooper-Chen, a veteran 95) reviewed her experiences as a Agency for International Development. stories during his Fulbright appoint Leslie Friedman (India 1983) per from Dixieland to scat vocals and of Japanese newspaper journalism, Fulbright artist in Africa in the article ment at the Universi ty of Ghana, formed in the International Baltic classic jazz ballads. Dr. Lundquist is worked for Japan's English-language "Common Links" published in Topic: Neala Schleuning (Russia 1995) has Legon. Ballet Festival held in Riga, Latvia, professor emeritus of international daily Asahi Evening News. A Journal of the LiberalArts (#47) . A written To Have and To Hold: The where she was festival guest of and private enterprise at the State ceramic sculptor, Ms. Maloney is pro Meaning of Ownership in the United .. honor. She has also begun a collabo University of New York College at "Fulbright's Legacy: The World in fessor of art at Washington and States (Praeger Publishers). The book Exhibits & ration with Revathi Satyu, director of Fredonia and past president of the the Mind's Eye" by Raymond Cormier Jefferson College, Washington, Pa. examines forces shaping and chang Performances the Arathi School of Dance in Dallas, Western New York Chapter of the (Netherlands 1983, Spain 1992) was ing the human relationship with the to create dances utilizing classical Fulbright Association. published in InternationalEducator, The Danube: A River Basin in natural and made worlds. Dr. Indian and modern dance motifs. Dr . Vol. VI, #2, Winter 1997. Dr. Cormier Transition (Kluwer Academic Schleuning directs the Women's A 1997 exhibition of paintings by Friedman is artistic director of the The Galleria D' Arte Lucia Burgassi is visiting professor of French at Publishers) by Irene Lyons Murphy Center at Mankato State University. Pat Adams (France 1956) stressed Lively Foundation in San Francisco. in Florence mounted a solo exhibition Longwood (Va.) College. (Bulgaria 1990) examines ways to "visuality-that unique intelligibility of the works of Olga Moore address tensions to improve W.S. Gilbert: A ClassicalVictorian led by the eye". The paintings were The Bergen (N.J.) Museum of Art (Morocco 1986). The exhibition fea Fulbright Association life member economies and environmental man and His Theatre by Jane W. Stedman shown at the Zabriskie Gallery in held a retrospective exhibition of tured two series, "Cat's Cradle" and Deborah M. Figart (Western Europe agement in the Danube River Basin, (England 1973) was published last New York City. Ms. Adams current works by Robert Forman (Mexico "Unhinged," which explore motifs of 1989) has written Contesting the the former Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria . year by Oxford University Press in ly lives and paints in Vermont. 1992) last fall. His work and that of Moroccan and Tunisian carpets. Market: Pay Equity and the Politics Dr. Murphy is project direc tor affiliat both the United Kingdom and the Miguel Carrillo Montoya were also Professor Moore is acting chairperson of EconomicRestructuring (Wayne ed with the Center for Water United States. She has also written a The video The Letter P, The Story of featured last year in "Yarn Painting: of the art department at Rutgers State University Press). Dr. Figart is Resources at Colorado State long article on Gilbert for Oxford's Pulcinella, directed by A Cross Cultural Dialogue at the University. now conducting research on work University International School for New Dictionary of National Biography. Margaret Fisher (Italy 1981), with Brooklyn Museum" in conjunction ing-time issues in the European Water Resources and Associated Dr. Stedman is professor emerita at music by Robert Hughes (Italy 1981), with the exhibition "Converging Nedra Newby (England 1978) par Union. Programs. Roosevelt University, Chicago. won first prize at the 1997 Jewish Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish ticipated in the Organization of 16 17 Fulbright Fulbright \ ~ !> o l. I \T I n '\ The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------The Fulbrighters' Newsletter '''" ' ' ''' "' Honors & ber Barbara Peterson (Japan 1967, China 1988) as a distinguished alum Appointments na for her professional excellence and Introducing service to the community. Dr. The Indian Virological Society has Peterson, who received her Ph.D. in http:/ /www.fulbright.org named Meyer Chessin (USSR 1983, history at the university in 1978, also Bulgaria 1987) a fellow. Prof. Chessin received the University of Hawaii's The Fulbright Association is the author of Passing in Constantsa, Board of Regents' Excellence in invites you to visit its World based on his visits to Eastern Europe Teaching Award in 1993. She taught Wide Web site at http://www.ful and the former Soviet Union. Dr. at the University of Hawaii for 28 bright.org. The web site offers Chessin is professor emeritus of years, was founding president of the information for Fulbright alumni botany at the University of Montana. Hawaii Chapter of the Fulbright interested in developments Association, and is currently serving affecting Fulbright Program poli The J.M. Kaplan Foundation has another term as chapter president. cy and funding and on Fulbright awarded a grant to Douglas C. Comer Association events and pro (Thailand 1993) to support his analy Thomas L. Russell (India 1986) has grams. Consult the site for sis of radar data collected in 1994 on been appointed to the Board of national conference updates and the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Examiners of Madurai Kamaraj news on the J. William Fulbright space shuttle imaging radar project. University, India, and has also been Prize for International Dr. Comer manages the National Park elected to the National University Understanding. Information on Service's Applied Archeology Center Telecommunications Network association chapters and task in Silver Spring, Md. Advisory Board . Active in confer forces is also available. If you ences throughout the world, Dr. know alumni who are not cur "Yellow Unhinged" by Olga Moore. Mixed Media The Arab-American Bar Association Russell has compiled the fourth edi rently association members, have of Illinois has issued its Distinguished tion of The No Significant Difference them check out the web site for Service A ward to Phenomenonas Reported in 248 membership information. We Independent Artists' 1997 Salon develop a joint exhibition on "his tori Rodolphe J.A. de Seife (Morocco University of Hawaii Alumni ResearchReports, Summaries, and welcome your comments on the Show "Mass Mediums" at the cal parallels" between American and 1982) for creating and conducting a Association President Kent Tsukamoto Papers. He directs the Office of web site. If you would like to Westbeth Gallery in New York City. Russian photography from 1839 to comparative and international law presents BarbaraPeterson (Japan1967, Instructional Telecommunications at send comments on the web site Ms. Newby teaches art in New York 1939 using works from each institu study program in Agen, France. Prof. China 1988) with its 1997 Distinguished North Carolina State University or subscribe to the Fulbright City. tion's collections. Dr. Yates has de Seife teaches at Northern Illinois Alumni Award. Association's e-mail listserv, worked to estab lish the history of University College of Law. The distinguished authorities of the please let us know by sending an Fulbright Association life member photography in the Commonwealth University of Greifswald recently e-mail to [email protected]. Anton Rajer (Brazil 1986, Panama of Independent States. The German Parliament conferred selecte d Philip R. Harris (India 1962) named Karl-Ludwig Selig (Italy 1996) worked with Gilberto "Bet6" on Alfred de Zayas (Germany 1971) as chairman of the board . Dr. Harris 1950, the Netherlands 1959) Lewis to clean murals painted by the Plakette fiir Verdienste um das is founding editor of the journal Space Honorarprofessor. A life member of Lewis's famous father, Roberto, for Selbstbestimmungsrecht, an annual Governanceand has received the Space the Fulbright Association, Dr. Selig is University of Economic Studies, at the dining hall of the Panamanian honor in the name of the right to self Humanitarian Award. professor emeritus of Columbia the European Group for Organi Presidential Palace. Panamanian determination. Books by University. zational Studies in Budapest, and at President Ernesto Perez Balladares Dr. de Zayas on the subject of self Philip W. Hemily (France 1949-51) the International Decision Science chatted occassionally with the arti determination include Nemesis at has received the Award for Institute Conference in Sydney, sans as they worked on the murals Potsdam, The Wehrmacht War Crimes International Scientific Cooperation Lectures & Workshops Australia. depicting Panama's natural wonders. Bureau, and A Terrible Revenge: The of the American Association for the Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Advancement of Science in recogni Voice of America reporter Magda Fulbright Association life member Forty paintings and sculptures by Germans 1944-50. Dr. de Zayas is r tion of his contributions to interna Zalan interviewed Desi Kegl-Bognar and former director Naima Prevots William Swetcharnik (Spain 1987, senior human rights officer for the tional scientific research and engi (Nigeria 1973-76) about the (Australia 1987) presented American Honduras 1995) and United Nations Center for Human neering development over 50 years. Hollywood studio era for a radio pro University's Distinguished Faculty Sara Swetcharnik (Spain 1987) are Rights, Geneva, Switerzland. Mr. Hemily, a retired senior foreign gram that was broadcast in Europe Lecture in December 1997 on among the works on exhibition at the service officer, currently facilitates last year. Mr. Bognar is author of the "Eisenhower's Dance of Cultural U.S. Ambassador's residence in Deran Hanesian (USSR 1982) was collaboration in research, education, International Dictionary of Broadcasting Diplomacy." She has written a book Honduras. Curators from the Art in selected by the American Society of and capacity building as a consultant and Film. of the same title which examines Embassies Program selected the Engineering Education Middle and advisor to governmental and President Eisenhower's support for works to provide a visual experience Atlantic Section to receive its 1997 nongovernmental scientific and engi Laszlo A. Pook (Hungary 1995), the performing arts. Dr. Prevots of the cultural and artistic heritage of Distinguished Teaching Award in neering organizations. professor of management informa directs American University's dance the U.S. recognition of his outstanding tion systems at Metropolitan State program. achievements in engineering educa The University of Hawaii has recog College of Denver, presented semi Steven Yates (USSR 1991, Russia tion. Dr. Hanesian is professor of nized Fulbright Association life mem- nars last year at the Budapest 1995), curator of photography of the chemical engineering at the New Museum of Fine Arts of the Museum Anton Rajer (right) with Gilberto Jersey Institute of Technology. of New Mexico, is working with the "Bet6" Lewis working on the Roberto curator of photography at the Lewis murals in Panama's Presidential The United Societies in Space and National Museum on Red Square to Palace. the World-Space Bar Association have 18 19 Fulb r ight Fulbright A ,,; ~ O C I ,~ 'f I II ' The Fulbrighters ' Newsletter ------The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ' '' "' '' ''" ' President, Directors for International Training . He has Duke University in 1989, the Governor's Council on Drug and also served as a research fellow in Eric Howard spent 1989-90 on a Alcohol Abuse of the Commonwealth Elected foreign policy studies at The Fulbright fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been princi (continued from page 2) Brookings Institution and as assistant of Bonn, Germany, studying legal pal or co-principal investigator on to the dean of the International and economic mechanisms for control studies supported by the U.S. Bureau Eastman School of Music, Austin Fellows Program at Columbia of land use and regional development of Justice Statistics . Dr. Keil serves as Symphony Orchestra (Executive University. He taught Latin in Germany. He received his B.A. chairman of the Fulbright Committee), and the Cavani Quartet. American politics at the University of degree in environmental Association's Task Force on Eastern Director of operations development New Hampshire and was staff associ science/geology from Wesleyan and Central Europe and the New of The Coca-Cola Company, ate for the First National City Bank University, Middletown, Conn., in Independent States. R. Fenton-May received a Fulbright International Division in Venezuela. 1986. Associate professor of history grant in 1967 to study at the A partner at Paul, Hastings, Mr. Howard has served as a conser Jesus Mendez is assistant dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Janofsky & Walker in New York City, vation fellow at the World Wildlife School of Arts and Sciences and where he earned a Ph.D. degree in Roger M. Milgrim received his AB . Niara Sudarkasa Fund and is now an environmental chairman of the Department of chemical engineering . He received a degree cum laude from the University consultant based in Portland, Maine. Interdisciplinary Studies at Barry B.Sc. degree in chemical engineering Richard 0. "Rick" Lundquist of Pennsylvania and his L.L.B. and his He has recently worked on environ University in Miami, Fla. He from the University of Edinburgh, L.L.M. degrees from the New York Before her appointment at Lincoln, mental projects in Bosnia . He holds received a Fulbright junior research Scotland. Wharton School of Finance and University School of Law as first a Dr. Sudarkasa spent nearly 20 years at memberships in a number of environ award for study at the archives of the Commerce, Columbia University, and Root-Tilden scholar and then a Ford the University of Michigan in Ann mental and international organiza University of Buenos Aires, The George Washington University . Foundation fellow. He studied at the Arbor, where she was professor of tions, including the Environmental Argentina, in 1983. Dr. Lundquist has received the University of Paris School of Law as a anthropology and associate vice presi Law Institute and the Society for Dr. Mendez serves as president of Freedom Foundation's Leavey Fulbright scholar in 1962. dent for academic affairs, among other International Development. Mr. the Fulbright Association's South Award for Excellence in Private administrative posts. She is a widely Howard is chairman of the Fulbright Florida Chapter. He is a former Enterprise Education , the State published scholar who has received 17 Association's Task Force on Science member of the Board of Trustees of University of New York Chancellor's academic fellowships and awards, 13 and the Environment the Dade Heritage Trust, the Miami Award for Excellence in Teaching, honorary degrees, and over 65 civic Stephen M. Johnson is president Design Preservation League, and the and Business Person of the Year and professional honors. She holds and chief executive officer of Youth National Trust for Historic Special Award . He is former presi various board and commission for Understanding International Preservation . He received his Ph.D. dent of the Fulbright Association's appointments, including several made Exchange in Washington, D.C. Mr. degree in Latin American history Western New York Chapter and has by the president of the United States. Johnson received his undergraduate from the University of Texas at held a variety of corporate, profes degree from Northwestern University Austin in 1980 and his M.A. degree in sional, and civic directorships. Second-Term Directors and his law degree from Tulane history (1974) from the University of R. Fenton-May Charles Maccormack is president, University, following a year as a Miami at Coral Gables. chief executive officer, and member Flavia Cigliano is director of the Fulbright scholar in Venezuela. After graduating from Cornell Dr. Fenton-May has served as presi of the board of trustees of Save the Whistler House Museum of Art in Previously, he was president of College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) in 1967 dent, Coca-Cola China Ltd., Hong Children Federation, Inc. He gradu Roger M. Mi/grim Lowell, Mass. She earned a B.A. AmeriCares, an international relief with a B.A. degree in Russian lan Kong; vice president and technical ated from Middlebury College and degree cum laude in French literature organization, and president and gen guage, Thomas L. Shillinglaw manager, Coca-Cola Central Pacific received his master's and doctoral Mr. Milgrim is adjunct professor of from Emmanuel College in Boston. eral counsel of the Sun Exploration received a Fulbright grant to study at Ltd ., Hong Kong; and manager, cor degrees from Columbia University . law at New York University School of Ms. Cigliano taught French in the Company, an oil and gas exploration the Faculty of Law, University of porate quality assurance, among He was a Fulbright fellow at the Law and was director of N.Y.U. Acton-Boxborough Regional School company based in Evansville, Ind. Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He received an other posts at The Coca-Cola Universidad Central de Venezuela. School of Law Alumni . He served as District and then pursued graduate He has also served as a program rep M.A. degree in Russian and East Company . A member of the Institute Dr. MacCormack was formerly chairman of the Trade Secret studies in romance languages at the resentative for the Latin American European Studies (1971) and a J.D. of Food Technologists, the American president of World Learning, Inc. Committee, Patent, Trademark and University of California, Berkeley. Teaching Fellowship (LATF) degree (1972) from Stanford Institute of Chemical Engineers, Other posts held previously include Copyright Section of the American She was a Fulbright scholar to Programs in Chile, Colombia, and University. He was the accredited Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, the Hong vice president for programs at Save Bar Association and of the Patent and Universita di Catania (Sicily) where Venezuela and as director of Latin U.S.S.R. representative for Allis Kong Club, and the World Trade the Children Federation and director Trademark Committee, Antitrust she was affiliated with the American Operations for LATF. Chalmers Corp., resident in Moscow Club, he has received the University of the Masters Program in Inter Section of the New York State Bar Department of Anglo-American Professor of sociology and depart 1977-78. of Edinburgh/Royal Bank of Scotland national Administration at the School Association. He has served as a Studies. ment chairman, as well as Social Mr. Shillinglaw joined the legal Alumnus of the Year Award and the trustee of the Brooklyn Hospital and In 1992 Ms. Cigliano received an Science Division chairman at the department of Corning, Inc., where University of Wisconsin of the College of Wooster. M.B.A. degree from Simmons College University of Louisville, he became division counsel in 1983. Madison/College of Engineering The first woman to head Lincoln Graduate School of Management, Thomas J. Keil was senior Fulbright He is currently assistant general Distinguished Service Citation. University, the formerly all-male where she was awarded the William J. professor at the University of counsel for Corning, Inc. Mr. Professor emeritus of international institution chartered in 1854 as the Holmes Prize. She has written for Bucaresti, Romania, in 1991-92. He Shillinglaw has served as chairman and private enterprise at the State first African-American college in the Pleiades,a magazine for the arts north received his B.A. degree from King's and co-chairman of the American Bar University of New York College at United States, Niara Sudarkasa of Boston . She is a founding member College, Penn., and his M.A. and Association Committee on Soviet and Fredonia, Richard 0. "Rick" received her undergraduate educa and immediate past president of the Ph.D. degrees from Temple East European Law from 1982 to Lundquist has been an industry exec tion as an early entrant at Fisk Fulbright Association's Eastern University. 1990. He speaks both Russian and utive, entrepreneur, management con University and at Oberlin College Massachusetts Chapter. Dr. Keil has also served as assistant Serbo-Croatian. He is a member of sultant, and educator. A Fulbright and earned M.A. and Ph.D . degrees After receiving a master's of envi professor of sociology at Gettysburg the District of Columbia, Wisconsin, senior scholar in Zimbabwe (1984), Sri in anthropology from Columbia ronmental management degree from College and as a senior researcher for and New York Bars. Lanka (1989), and Latvia (1994), he University . She was a Fulbright earned degrees in business from the Charles Maccormack scholar in Benin in 1982. 20 21 Fulbright Fulbright The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ' " "" " "" Increase Proposed Benefits to the U.S. get request can help address this Interna tional Education Task Force Proposed (continuedfrom page 1) decline in participation levels, The proposed increase results from extending the Fulbright opportunity Fulbright Program, while seeking the Fulbright Program's success in to more outstanding participants . Members Asked for Expression of Interest specific answers about the rationale achieving the nation's long-term for the proposed increase. goals in public diplomacy and leader Public/Private Partnerships Editor'sNote: A leadershipgroup of 18 mation on education activities . The National Geographic Television; Jesus "The proposed increase is impor ship development over its 50 years of Fulbright Associationm embershas pro International Education Task Force Mendez (Argentina 1983), assistant tant for two reasons," said Thomas operation . U.S. citizens who have The Fulbright Program engages a posedthe formation of a taskforc e on inter Organizing Committee would have dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Farrell, vice president of exchange received Fulbright grants return to wide network of U.S. institutions of nationaleducation. To assessint erest by representation from the other Fulbright associate professor of history, Barry programs and regional services of the their country with enhanced skills, higher education; private, non-profit the membershipin that proposal,Jenny K. Association Task Forces as well. University, Miami ; Naima Prevots Institute of International Education, a deeper understandings of other cul international exchange organizations; Johnson(Nigeria 1977) , associateprofes Members of the leadership group of (Australia 1987), professor and chair non-profit organization which tures and of their own, and interna and Fulbright alumni and community sor, Universityof Maryland University the proposed task force on inter woman, Dance Department, American administers the Fulbright student tional connections which prove bene volunteers throughout the country . College and FulbrightAssociation board national education are Jenny K. University; Royce Radeline (England program on behalf of USIA. "The ficial to their local communities. The U.S. institutions and individuals par member has helpedprepare the following Johnson; Dino Caterini (Italy 1957), 1984), Arlington County public increase signals to partner nations, program's value to the U.S. was ticipating in the Fulbright Program article. retired United States Information schools; David G. Smith (France which support and fund Fulbright recently reaffirmed by an indepen constitute a resource for their local Agency foreign service officer; 1962), retired USIA foreign service exchanges, the administration's com dent study (see page three) which communities. Adequate funding lev All Fulbright Association members Dorothy Cavagnaro (Scotland 1982), officer; E.B. Smith (Japan 1954; USSR mitment to strengthen this nation's calls for restoring Fulbright Program els for Fulbright exchanges strength have in common an international professor emeritus, Northern Virginia 1976, 1982; Russia 1991), University of premier educational and cultural funding to the $125 million level. en this network which forms an educational experience, regardless of Community College; Arthur Dudden Maryland; Michael Szporer (France exchange activity . It also allows active constituency for U.S. engage discipline or country. A task force (Denmark 1959, Western Europe 1992) 1982, Yugoslavia 1985, USSR 1989), USIA to work on priority areas where Partner Government Cost-Sharing ment in world affairs. with a focus on international educa professor emeritus, Bryn Mawr Library of Congress; and Bill our exchange resources have seen tion would contribute to furthering College and founding president, Yurochko (Germany 1984), Fairfax significant, recent reductions : Africa, The Fulbright Program is the only Conclusion the association's mission of protect Fulbright Association; Don Deichman County public schools. Central America and the Caribbean, exchange program which enjoys ing and promoting the Fulbright (Peru 1977); Philip 0. Geier (France If you are interested in supporting Pacific Asia and China, and support extensive and consistent cost-sharing The modest increase the administra Progra m and strengthening interna 1977, Germany 1988), president, the formation of an International for U.S. Fulbright students, teachers, with foreign governments . tion has requested for the Fulbright tiona l educational exchange. Armand Hammer United World Education Task Force, please com and scholars . Increased Fulbright Significant funding cuts over the last Program would help insure that the The proposed task force will enable College and immediate past president, plete the following form and return it funding would permit USIA to target three years have threatened to erode government's 50-year investment in association members to exchange Fulbright Association; Glenn by April 30. As stipulated in the these areas while it and the U.S. the Fulbright Program's ability to Fulbright exchanges will continue to ideas on innovations such as distance Geelhoed (Mozambique 1996), profes Standing Rules on Task Forces, a min Agency for International leverage foreign government sup provide excellent returns to the com learn ing and new approaches to sor of surgery and international med imum of 100 members in good stand Development take advantage of large port. Several key allies of the United munities throughout the country teaching. It would call attention to ical education, The George ing must express interest in formation sums of money from Congress to States reduced their spending on which annually send and receive outs tanding Fulbright educators, Washington University; Muriel of a task force before the leadership meet critical needs in the New Fulbright exchanges after the U.S. cut Fulbright students, teachers, and inte rnational education initiatives of Hanson (England 1980), associate pro group may present a formal proposal Independent States which are not funds for Fulbright exchanges with scholars; will increase understanding Fulbr ight grantees worldwide, and fessor of speech and drama, Northern to the Fulbright Association Board of covered by Fulbright programs ." their countries . The proposed of the United States among foreign the Fulbright Program itself as a Virginia Community College ; Eric S. Directors . Please return information The Alliance for International increase will demonstrate to cooper leaders and publics; and will promote natio nal educational asset. The task Howard (Germany 1989), environ requested in the following form by Educational and Cultural Exchange, a ating foreign governments the seri our country's interests in prosperity force would add a major dimension mental consultant; David Johnson e-mail to [email protected]; by coalition of 60 nonprofit organiza ousness with which the U.S. govern and security through peaceful rela to association membership for educa (USSR 1978, India 1983, Thailand 1984, FAX to (202) 331-1979; or by mail to tions including the Fulbright ment regards the productive bina tionships with other nations. tion professionals. India 1986), professor, School of the national office. Association, strongly supports fund tional relationships which character The International Education Task Planning, University of Tennessee; ing the Fulbright Program at $99 mil ize Fulbright operations. The U.S. Bosnia Force would benefit the Fulbright Maka Larsen-Basse (Denmark 1957), lion while also advocating for a simi budget for Fulbright exchanges must Association membership and provide (continuedfrom page 1) r------, lar increase for professional and citi signal to foreign partners that the the association at-large with a num i' Name ______:' zen exchanges. According to the Fulbright Program is a U.S. priority But regeneration has begun, both ber of activities. The task force orga ' ' Alliance, a $210 million appropria and will be funded accordingly. The inside and out. Kew Garden in nizers propose the development of a :' Address ______i' ' ' tion, as opposed to the $199 million restoration of $5 million to the England initiated a fundraising drive task force homepage on the Fulbright !' City ______.State ___ Zip ____ !' exchange line item included in the Fulbright Program would be a posi to reestablish the botanical garden Association's web site. ' ' president's budget, would allow tive step in this process. behind the National Museum. Many The task force would also plan a ses i Telephone (W) ______(H) ------"FA X ______: ' ' increases for other exchange pro public and private sources have sion for the national conference and : E-mail address ______: grams similar to that proposed for the Leadership Development donated books and equipment. hold a meeting during the conference Fulbright Program. The U.S. government has committed to plan further activities. Proposals U.S. Congressional Representativ e and/or distri ct Since Congress is on a tight legisla The Fulbright Program has demon $182 million for municipal infrastruc from individual members to speak on Would you like to be on the Fulbright Association e-mail listser v? yes __ no _ tive schedule because of the fall elec strated its capacity to develop inter ture, which includes schools as well as appropriate education topics during tions, it is critical for all Fulbright national leaders in business, govern sewer plants, roads, bridges, and other the national conference would be I am interested in participating in a Fulbright Association International Education Task Force. I understand that responsibilities of task force membership include par Program alumni to contact their U.S. ment, education, public administra buildings. Funding for building recon accepted by the task force. The task ticipating in annual or other task force meetings; reporting relevant projects or other senators and representative as soon tion, the arts, and the professions. struction is coming from many sources force would publish a semi-annual information to include in the Association's database for task force meetings; provid as possible to register their support Recent funding cuts have meant that in Europe and from Saudi Arabia and report with pre-conference informa ing articles or other information for possible publication; serving as a speaker or for the proposed $5 million increase there are approximately 20 percent Indonesia, among other places. Now tion and post-conference summaries resource for chapter or other programs; paying an annual $5 task force fee; and main for the Fulbright Program. The fol fewer participants in the Fulbright in the window frames, plastic tarps of events and future plans . taining my association membership in good standing. [Please do not send $5 pay lowing points may be helpful in mak Program than there were in academic from the United Nations High The task force would also contact ment at this time.] ing the case for restoring $5 million year 1995-96. The additional $5 mil Commission on Refugees are slowly Fulbright Association chapters and the Signature for Fulbright exchanges. lion called for in the president's bud- being replaced by thermo-pane glass. association's other task forces for infor- L------J 22 23 Fulbright ",< ,< " i: I A T I" '\ The Fulbrighters' Newsletter ------ Message to Congress th (continued from page 7) NAFSA 50 Anniversary Conference bring knowledge to life, consider: the Scheduled for May Internet is abstract. There is no sub stitute for hands-on experience over NAFSA: Association of International Educators will celebrate 50 years of an extended period of time. Only in service to the international education and exchange community at its golden this way can participants truly broad anniversary conference May 24 through 29 in Washington, D.C. More than en and sharpen their views. Only by 5,000 participants from approximately 73 countries are expected to attend. living with their feet on another soil Approximately 250 organizations and academic institutions will be repre can they get exposure to the full reali sented at the conference exhibit hall. ty of a country, and not just the limit Fulbright Association Executive Director Jane L. Anderson will moderate a ed self-presentation of a relative few session on ways that Fulbright alumni share their experiences with thei r who communicate over the Internet. institutions and communities upon their return. Panel speakers will be The legislators who decide the fate Jennifer K. Ceriale (Hungary 1992, Germany 1997), global programs coordi of funding for the Fulbright Program nator at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and president of the might consider a couple of good old Central New York Chapter of the Fulbright Association; David N. Levin, American business adages: "Know senior program officer of the United States Information Agency; and Fran your clients," and "Your business is as Prolman Zimmerman (Israel 1984, India 1988), senior consultant of Research good as what you invest in it." A for Better Teaching. good businessman wou ld encourage The conference will focus on building global leadership and will address on-site learning in a foreign language fostering global competence among international educators, advocacy at the and the study of other cultures' mores . institutional level, and managing technological change. Since the end of the Cold War, the A NAFSA 50th Anniversary Honorary Committee, composed of interna world has opened up. That walls tional leaders in diverse fields and chaired by John Brademas, is planning have come down does not mean we other anniversary events. More information about 50t1,anniversary activities can relax and just see what happens will be available on NAFSA's web site (www .nafsa.org). next. On the contrary, the world For more information and conference registration instructions, contact today presents us with far more com NAFSA National Conference and Meetings Department, 1875 Connecticut plexity than the falsely simplified Ave ., NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20009-5728; (202) 939-3102 or (202) world of the Cold War era. Today, 462-4811 (tel); (202) 939-3115 or (202) 667-3419 (fax); [email protected], e our new global freedom makes it mail. essential that we understand what is really going on around us. For fiscal year 1999, let's hope legis lators join the President in restoring $5 million to the Fulbright Program. 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