The Fulbrighters' Fulbright AT 'I tt A SSOCIATION ..Ly ews1,e er Celebrating 27 Years of Service to the Fulbright Program, 1977 2004 Volume XXV, No. 1 Winter 2004 Iraqi Fulbrighters Now in U.S. We're Back! Fulbright Program Reestablished in Iraq The Fulbrighters 'Newsletter Resumes Publication Thanks to Fulbright Association members who let us kr,ow they missed reading The Fulbrighters' Newsletter last year. Although we published the special edition of the newsletter on the 2003 Fulbright Prize, production of the regular _ 1..• ..1. ..-..­ newsletter was suspended while we Secretary of State Colin Powell with Iraqi Fulbrighters at a Feb. 2 meeting in devoted resources to implementing Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of State Photo by Michael Gross. our new online community and directory and our enhanced web site The U.S. Department of State has Fulbrighters will participate in at www.fulbright.org. reestablished the Fulbright program special pre-academic training For an overview of the with Iraq following a 14-year programs at Indiana University, membership benefits offered through suspension. The first group oflraqi University of Arizona, University the online community, please see the Fulbrighters, 23 students and two of California-Santa Cruz, and articles on pages four and nine. We scholars , arrived in the U.S . on Feb. University of Oregon to refine their hope that you enjoy this issue of the 1. The group participated in a English language skills, to learn newsletter, and we invite you to send week-long orientation in about the United States, its society, information for publication in future Washington, D.C., meeting with values, and institutions, and to be editions. We're glad to be back in State Department officials and introduced to U.S. academic your hands! • President Bush. culture. "Mee ting the 21st century "It was just like someone handing challenges that confront our you the keys of your future gates countries and our international and making you the only one in community will require an charge of your own promotion," In this Issue: unprecedented degree of wrote one of the Fulbrighters in an Members Elect President, Directors 2-3 cooperation among nations and e-mail message. "I am not going to Fulbright Program Advocacy 4 among leaders in every field," said miss this chance. I will make Institutional Members 5-8 Secretary of State Colin Powell, history. I will get a master's degree Currently Selected Fulbright Grantees speaking to the Iraqi Fulbrighters. and return to my country to teach Join Association 9 "As has been true in the past, I have and build a perfect generation." Web Site and Online Community no doubt that in the future, A nationwide recruitment Update 9 Fulbrighters like you, from across campaign was mounted to attract Members Receive Inaugural Harrison the globe, can be counted upon to qualified Iraqi applicants following H. Schmitt Leadership Award 10 serve your countries and to serve the October 2003 announcement of Upcoming Fulbright Association and the world that we all inhabit." the reestablishment of the Fulbright Chapter Events 10 The 19 men and six women will program with Iraq. Information and Global Fulbright Network 11 take master's level classes in fields applications were distributed Planned Giving Profile: such as public administration, law, through 18 provincial centers, on Linda H. Scanlan 12 journalism, English, public health, the Internet, and through Iraqi Fulbright Association Donors 13-15 and communications . Prior to universities. Nearly 400 Chapter Events and Activities 16-19 beginning their studies, the applications were received for 25 Alumni Achievements 20-24 (continued on page 24) Fulbright l . h l Fulbright '""' ,.,.,,o, The Fu brig ters News etter ------------------------------- --- ------ -- ----- -- ---- --The Fulbrighters Newsletter "'o',, "'" Studies. He earned his bachelor of cabinet (1982-85); and as deputy Members Elect President, Directors arts degree in history from mayor of Philadelphia (1985-87). Princeton University. Mr. Said was She also worked in municipal R. Fenton-May was elected by Alumnus of the Year Award and the author and noted speaker. He wrote a Fu lbright fellow at the Center for finance and private banking. members to serve as presid ent of the Univers ity of Wisconsin­ The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo in Fulbrig ht Association in 2004. Dr. Madison /College of Engineering Poland in 1998, and his work has 1994-95, where he completed Fenton -May has served on the Distinguished Service Citation. He been featured in The New York advanced language training in Association's board of directors serves as chairman of e*freightrac Times, The Washington Post, The Arabic literature. Mr. Said was law since 1998 and has been a leader in Holdings B.V., Eindhov en, Washington Times, Los Angeles clerk for Chief Judge Charles P. the Georgia Chapter of the Fulbright Netherlands; chairman of the North Times, and Wall Street Journal Sifton of the United States District Association, most recently as chapter American Development Committee Europe. A memb er of the Court for the Eastern District of president. of the University of Edinburgh ; and Washington Board of the Council on New York and served as a summer on the boards of the Anti-Prejudice Foreign Relations, he has also served associate with Milbank Tweed Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich Consort ium (Atlanta) and of L&D on the advisory board of the Had ley and McCloy. He has been Internationa l, a China-focused American Bar Association's Centra l an intern with the Columbia Human Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich is investment company. and East European Law Initiative . Rights Internship /Palestine Peace currently senior professor, National Mr. Brzezinski received his Project, an advocate for the Labor College of the George Meany Suzanne Eloise Siske! Board Class of 2005 bac helor's degree in Democracy and Workers' Rights Center for Labor Studies. government /political studies from Center, and a translator for the Formerly, as executive director and Currently the Ford Foundation's Directors elected for the tenn Dartmouth College and earned his United Nations Economic Scientific chief operating officer of the Black representative for Indonesia, Jan . 1, 2003 , to Dec. 31, 2005 , are law degree from the University of and Cultural Organization Leadership Forum for l O years, she Suzanne Eloise Siskel previously Mark Brzezinski and Wadie Said Virginia School of Law, where he (UNESCO). He is an author of conducted policy analysis, fund served as the Foundation's (first tenn) and Patti Rosenfeld, served as an editor of the Virginia several studies on the legal status of raising, and administration. Dr. representative for the Philippines Linda H. Scanlan, and Anthony Law Review. Mr. Brzezinski was a Palestinian refugees. Prior to Scruggs-Leftwich received her and as program officer for Rural Viscusi (second term). Fulbright scho lar at the Polish joining the Federal Public bachelor's degree in political Poverty and Resources in Jakarta. R. Fenton-May Constit utional Court. He earned his Defender's office, Mr. Said was a science, cum laude , from North She has lived and worked in doctorate in political science from litigation associate at Debevoise Carolina Central University and Indonesia throughout the past three Private investor R. Fen ton-May Oxford University. and Plimpton in New York City. then studied international decades, first as a Luce Scholar at was previously director of operations He is a member of the New York organizations and political science Airlangga University in East Java in development at The Coca-Cola State Bar. as a Fulbright fellow in Germany 1974-75 and later as a Fulbright Company, where he also served as ( 1955-56). She earned a master of scholar in 1983-84 for research on president, Coca-Cola China Ltd., Board Class of 2006 arts degree in public administration the island of Madura. Ms. Siske! Hong Kong; vice president and from the University of Minnesota 's was a social science advisor to technical manager, Coca-Co la Directors elected for the term Hubert H. Humphrey School of development projects in west Timor Central Pacific Ltd., Hong Kong; and Jan . l , 2004, to Dec. 31, 2006 , are Pub lic Affairs and a doctorate in and Flores islands in eastern manager, corporate quality Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich and city and regional planning from the Indonesia before joining the Ford assurance, among other research and Suzanne Eloise Siske ! (first term) University of Pennsylvania. She Foundation in Jakarta in 1990. administrative positions. Dr. and Miguel A. Bretos , Marilyn served as deputy assistant secretary Previous research projects took her Fenton-May received a Fulbright Mark F. Brzezinski Berg Callander, Todd Flynn, Alison of the U.S. Department of Housing to northeast Brazil, Andros Island grant in 1967 to study at the L. Gardy and Philip A. Odeen and Urban Development (HUD) in the Bahamas, and highland University of Wisconsin-Madison, A former director of Southeast and executive director of President Chiapas in the 1970s. She studied Wadie E. Said (second tenn). where he earned a doctoral degree in European affairs at the National Edward J. Blakely and Dolores Jimmy Carter's Urban and Regional social anthropology at Harvard and chemical engineering. He received Security Council at the White House, Rinke were re-elected to the board Policy Task Force (1977 -79); as The Johns Hopkins University and An assistant federal defender at his bachelor's degree in chemica l Mark F. Brzezinski is a partner in for a one year term from Jan. 1, New York State's housing is member of Phi Beta Kappa . • the office of the Federal Public engineering from the University of the Washington, D.C., office of the 2004, to Dec. 31, 2004 . commissioner in the governor 's Edinburgh, Scotland.