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NEWSLETTER Vol 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
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