Next PDAA Lunch Program Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 DACOR Bacon House 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC Public Diplomacy Association of America Topic:

• Cash bar 12 noon VOA Director to Discuss Mandarin, Persian Programming & Women’s Voices, Reaching Refugees • Lunch 12:30 pm

• Speaker 1:00 pm Director Amanda Bennett Ky. She also served for three years as man- VOA will be PDAA's speaker at the aging editor/projects for in $35.00 members and Sep.16 luncheon kicking off the 2019-2020 Portland. Bennett served as a Wall Street guests, $42.00 non- program year. Bennett will discuss new Journal reporter for more than 20 years. A members VOA Mandarin and Persian programming as graduate of , she held nu-

Reservation deadline: well as VOA initiatives to reach refugees, merous posts at the Journal, including auto Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, include more women's voices in programs, industry reporter in in the late 70s 5:00 pm and undertake investigative reporting. and early 80s, Pentagon and State Depart- Bennett will also discuss challenges facing ment reporter, Beijing correspondent, man- To reserve, please return international agement editor/reporter, na- coupon on page 7, or journalists in the tional economics correspond- reserve online at age of dwindling ent and, finally, chief of the At- pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org/ press freedom lanta bureau until 1998, when and disinfor- she moved to The Oregonian. Future PDAA Events mation. Bennett shared the 1997 Aug. 31—Visit to Muse Amanda Ben- Pulitzer Prize for national re- Vineyard Canceled - we nett is a Pulitzer porting with her Journal col- will announce a new date. Prize-winning leagues, and in 2001 led a team Sep. 9—(noon) Town Hall on Future of PD Organiza- author, investiga- from The Oregonian to a Pulitz- tions (see front page of this tive journalist, and editor; she was named er for public service. Together with her hus- Newsletter). RSVP request- Director of the Voice of America in March band, Donald Graham, she is a co-founder ed. 2016. of TheDream.US, which provides college Also of Interest Through 2013, she was Executive Editor, scholarships to the children of undocument- Sep. 4—(10 a.m.) Public , where she created and ed immigrants. meeting of Advisory Com- ran a global team of investigative reporters The discussion will take place on Mon., mission on PD featuring A/S and editors. She was also co-founder of Sep. 16, from 12:00 to 2:00, at DACOR Ba- Michelle Guida: GWU El- Bloomberg News’ Women’s project and con House, 1801 F St., NW. To register, liott School, Room 602. was editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from please complete the form on page 7 of the June 2003 to November 2006; prior to that newsletter or register on-line at publicdiplo- Inside this issue was editor of the Herald-Leader in Lexington, macy.org. Deadline is Sep. 12.¤

President’s Notes………..….2 Future of Public Diplomacy Organizations Focus of Special Meeting Life after the Foreign Service 3 New PDAA Officers………..4 special roundtable discussion among mem- 6th Floor. bers of the Public Diplomacy Association of Lunch is included and admission is free; in PDAA Awards for Excellence A America, the Public Diplomacy Council, and oth- order to plan for the catering, please RSVP if you in Public Diplomacy…………4 er interested professionals has been set for plan to attend by e-mailing FirstMondayFo- In memoriam ...... 4, 5, 6, 7 Mon., Sep. 9, 2019, at noon. It will focus on the [email protected]. past, present, and future of organizations fo- In anticipation of the Sep. 9 discussion, PDAA Form…………...... ….…. …..7 cused on Public Diplomacy. has posted an overview of Public Diplomacy The special meeting will take place at noon at Organizations prepared by Alan Heil, a member George Washington University’s Elliott School of PDAA and PDC. The overview is on the Lindner Family Common, 1957 E Street St. NW, PDAA website., pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org.¤

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Membership Dues Increase President’s Notes uled for Monday, Sept. 9, to examine the question of “The Past, Present The PDAA board has voted to was honored to be asked to serve and Future of the Public Diplomacy raise membership dues for those I as the President of the Public Di- Organizations.” I urge you to attend living in the greater Washington, plomacy Association of America and offer your thoughts and ideas on DC, area to $50 annually. Dues (PDAA). A compelling reason I had how PDAA and PDC can be more for those living elsewhere will for accepting was that it would allow closely aligned. The town hall will be remain at $35 per year. (The me to work with 12 Board members held at the GWU Elliott School, 1957 Washington, DC, area includes whose careers in the foreign service E Street NW, Lindner Commons on the adjacent MD and VA coun- and civil service involved promoting the Sixth Floor. Alan Heil, former ties, plus the ring of counties one the national interest of the United deputy director of the Voice of Ameri- layer out, e.g., Loudoun and Sates through understanding, inform- ca, who is a member of both organi- Prince William in Virginia or ing, and influencing foreign attitudes. zations, examines the future of the Howard, Frederick, and Anne My predecessor Ambassador Cyn- two organizations in an article you Arundel in Maryland. Those who PDAA President Janice Brambilla thia Efird is a tough act to follow. can read on our website. I think you live even further out but regular- Under Cynthia’s exceptional leader- will find it interesting and informative. ly attend PDAA and First Mon- ship, PDAA membership grew, and day events are asked to pay at we enjoyed a multitude of exciting A listing of Board members and the $50 rate. and informative programs on im- contact information is included on the This increase goes into ef- portant issues of the day. back page of this newsletter. Please share with us your ideas and recom- fect September 1, so those who “All of us on the The first offering in our 2019- mendations for both new and existing have not yet paid 2019 dues may 2020 luncheon program is coming PDAA activities. We also welcome want to do so now. Board have up on Mon., Sept. 16, when Amanda feedback on the program luncheons, PDAA faces cost increases Bennett, Director of the Voice of First Monday programs, and the that it must cover to keep its America, will be the speaker. Joan been thinking annual awards luncheon at admin@ budget balanced. The Board also Mower, our new Chair of Programs publicdiplomacy.org. recognizes that members living in about the future who arranged this program, and Speaking of our Board of Direc- the DC area have more oppor- Greta Morris, Deputy Program tors, you’ll note that we have elected tunities to benefit from PDAA Chair, would welcome your sugges- of PDAA.” Pat Kushlis as our first “beyond-the- programs than do those further tions for topics and speakers to fea- beltway” member. Pat, a long-time away, particularly the First Mon- ture in upcoming programs. Please PDAA member, is based in New day events held jointly with PDC send your ideas to their email ad- Mexico. Her appointment is part of and the U. of Southern California dresses: [email protected] and an outreach effort to identify the (that are free to attendees but [email protected]. interests of members who do not live are subsidized by the sponsoring All of us on the Board have been in the immediate Washington, D.C., organizations). thinking about the future of PDAA. area. The Board strives to mini- Recognizing the areas of overlap and mize cost increases. For exam- I hope everyone is enjoying a ple, the organization opted for a cooperation with the Public Diploma- wonderful summer. We look forward less elaborate menu at the DA- cy Council (PDC) has led us to con- to seeing you on Sept. 9 for the town sider even further integration of the COR Speaker Luncheons, in lieu hall and Sept. 16 for the luncheon of raising participation fees. The two organizations. A working group, program. Mark your calendars for Board is also discussing new composed of members from both the additional programs coming up organizations, has begun looking into fundraising ideas for the annual PDAA Board Member Pat Kushlis. on Nov. 18, Feb. 24, and Apr. 20. possibilities, including forming a new PDAA awards. (This year, gener- Pat is our first “beyond-the- organization. Warm regards, ous member donations to the beltway” member of the Board. awards fund topped $2,300 – To examine these possibilities Jan thanks to everyone who gave!) further, a town hall meeting is sched-

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By Sally Grooms Cowal program to be called UNAIDS. Peter Piot, a Cuba Policy Foundation to persuade the pril, 1995. I retired. I’d moved Belgian medical doctor, virologist, and the discov- American people that the Cuban embargo, a back to Mexico City into a pent- erer of the Ebola virus, was looking for a Depu- remnant of the Cold War, should be ended A house apartment in a beautiful Art ty. He wanted someone who knew the UN in favor of a policy restoring diplomatic Deco building in the newly gentrified Conde- system and the US Government, since US fund- relations, trade, and commerce between the sa neighborhood. I looked forward to settling ing was going to be about 25% of the total for two countries. After 9/11, the wind went out into a quiet but active retirement, imagining the new agency. He offered me the job. I ac- of the sails for normalization, and I felt that myself mastering the art of Mexican cooking, cepted, and by November, the puppy and I were nothing was going to move forward in the serving on some non-profit boards, and living in Geneva. next few years. Unfortunately, that proved spending summers in Cape Cod where we to be correct, although finally in the Obama had a family house on a pond. Tony Cowal I spent four years in the role. I talked to the Administration, diplomatic relations were and I had met 10 years earlier while I was Pope about condoms, and to Nelson Mandela resumed. serving as Minister-Counselor for Public when we arranged for him to speak at the Affairs at the US Embassy in Mexico, and he World Economic Forum in Davos and warn the For the last 17 years I have been mainly was an American businessman who had attendees that if they didn’t do something about professionally focused on the health of wom- been living there since 1970. We married in AIDS in Africa they could forget about develop- en and girls in low- and middle-income coun- Mexico in 1987, and then two years later he ment in Africa. I attended Princess Di’s funeral tries. I spent 11 years as a senior vice presi- dutifully followed me to Washington, where I to represent her work on HIV. We managed to dent at Population Services International and was unexpectedly thrust into the role of get the disease on the world’s agenda, and for the last six years I’ve been the head of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Mexi- today many more people are living longer lives global programs at the American Cancer co and the Caribbean, followed by serving as with AIDS thanks to more effective drugs and Society. Today more women die from cervi- Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. But the many more have never been infected because of cal cancer than for all causes of maternal deal was always the deal: when I finished the work we did in prevention. mortality. By 2040, just around the corner, it with the Ambassadorial assignment, we were is estimated that there will be 29 million going back to Mexico, where he could re- new cases of cancer per year, 70% of them sume his career. in developing countries where access to treatment is low to non-existent. We’re May 18, 1995. Tony died of a heart at- working to change that paradigm with bet- tack. With the varnish still sticky on the ter access to treatment, prevention, and floors of the renovated penthouse, I wan- patient services. I am working on cancer dered about in a haze, having lost both of because, like the exploding AIDS crisis in the my north stars, career and spouse, in the 1990’s, I see crippling disease and the eco- space of a single month. I traded the sticky nomic burden it puts on families and com- floors for long, solitary walks on the Cape munities as a social problem that leads to Cod Seashore and stayed there with my 5- instability and requires a solution. In my month-old Bouvier des Flandres puppy until heart I also believe that where you live the fall winds whipping off the Atlantic jolted shouldn’t determine if you live. me from my reverie and sent me back to Mexico City. My musings about the future As if working 12 hours a day and travelling had finally coalesced around the idea that 25% of the time isn’t enough, my husband our real enemies were not other nations (this Robert Muse and I own and operate a vine- especially seemed true in the post-Cold War yard, winery, and tasting room in the Shen- euphoria) but poverty, underdevelopment, andoah Valley of Virginia, called Muse Vine- and disease. I wondered whether there was When the tide began to turn on AIDS, I had yards. The same Bouvier puppy who accom- a role for me on this battle-ground. worked my way out of a job! I left UNAIDS in panied me on my journey to a post-foreign 1999 and became the President and CEO of service life got us there when he claimed I served as Counselor for Political Affairs at Youth for Understanding (YFU), a high school that the small Georgetown town house the US Mission to the UN in New York in international exchange program that I had first where we moved in 2002 upon marrying the mid-1980’s and appreciated the role been acquainted with as the USIA Director of Robert was too cramped for his 98-pound played by the specialized agencies (WHO, the President’s Youth Exchange Initiative in the body and he needed a place in the country UNICEF, UNDP, etc.) quite distinct from the Reagan Administration. When the five-year-old to romp. We established the vineyard in political machinations of the UN itself, with Cuban rafter boy, Elián González, his father, 2005 and have been winning national its General Assembly and Security Council. step-mother, and six of his classmates from the awards since 2015, when our Bordeaux- By pure coincidence, in the fall of 1995, a primary school he attended in Cuba pitched up style blend won the Virginia Governor’s Cup. new joint and cosponsored UN program was on my YFU doorstep for a six-week stay while Weekends generally find me there when I being created to deal with the exploding the US courts decided whether Elián’s Miami am not roaming the globe from Africa, to (and explosive) HIV/AIDS epidemic. Knowing relatives could file an asylum claim on his behalf Europe, to the Middle East on American absolutely nothing about AIDS except what I to keep him in the United States or he could be Cancer Society business. Come visit! The had read in the newspapers, I was intro- taken back to Cuba by his father, my life and tasting room is open from Thursday through duced to the Executive Director of the new job changed again. I left YFU and started the Monday every week, all year around.¤

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New PDAA Officers and Directors Announced

anice Brambilla is PDAA’s new Mexico. agement, Organizational Analysis/ President. She succeeded Am- Continuing directors include Strategic Planning, Executive Per- J bassador Cynthia Efird, who Cynthia Efird (President Emerita), formance and Compensation, held the office for the past three Bill Wanlund (Board Secretary), Policy/Program Development and years. Mary Jeffers (Board Treasurer), Implementation, and Budget/ Joel Fischman is the new Vice Michael Korff (Communications Financial Management. Her work President, succeeding Tania Committee coordinator and took her to assignments through- Chomiak-Salvi. PDAA Editor), Claude Porsella out the Public Diplomacy commu- Other new members of the (Member News Editor), Tom nity, including positions with the Board of Directors include Judy Miller (Deputy Chair of the Voice of America, International Baroody, who will chair the Awards Committee), and Ambas- Broadcasting Bureau, Broadcasting Awards Committee; Joan Mow- sador Greta Morris (President Board of Governors, United Natella Svistunova, PAO, US er, who chairs the Program Com- Emerita and Deputy Chair of the States Information Agency, and Embassy Belmopan, received a mittee; Domenick DiPasquale, Program Committee). Department of State. PDAA Award for Achievement who will serve on the Awards To contact officers and Board in Public Diplomacy at this Committee; and Jarek Anders, NEW PRESIDENT members, write to admin@public year’s PDAA awards brunch. who will serve on the Program Jan Brambilla served for over diplomacy.org.¤ She received the award for an Committee. 25 years in senior executive posi- innovative plan to combat gen- Pat Kushlis joins the Board tions in Foreign Service and Civil der violence. She designed a and serves as head of National Service Human Resources Man- successful media campaign to Outreach; she is based in New create an anti-violence label for a cooking sauce. (Photo: Alan Kotok) PDAA Honors Outstanding Public Diplomacy Initiatives

•Chris Hodges, reative programming, strong PAO, Consulate leadership skills, and innova- Jerusalem (now Ctive solutions to pressing social needs the Palestinian characterize the work of the four Affairs Unit, Em- recipients of this year’s PDAA Awards bassy Jerusalem, for Achievement in Public Diplomacy. Israel); At the May 5 PDAA awards cere- •Niles Cole, mony, held again this year at the CAO, Embassy Army and Navy Club, outgoing PDAA Kampala, Uganda. President Cynthia Efird noted that a Complete record 26 nominations had been details on the submitted for the 2019 awards. 2019 award are The four winners were: available on the Natella Svistunova, PAO, Embassy Belmopan, Belize, •Natella Svistunova, PAO, Embas- PDAA website.¤ received an award for her work on combatting gender- sy Belmopan, Belize; based violence. Pictured: Anne O’Leary, a mentor; •Debra Toribiong, Public Diploma- Adirenne Galanek, former Chargé in Belize; Shirin Bukha- cy Specialist, Embassy Koror, Palau; ri, a former colleague in Tashkent; Svistunova; WHA DAS Jon Piechowski; Amb. Cynthia Efird. (Photo: Alan Kotok)

bia University, he then pursued City, the romance continued IN MEMORIAM a Master’s degree in political through twice daily missives, science and began his doctoral and by December 1957, Birn studies in international rela- finally convinced Jacqueline to Claude Porsella, PDAA Member Richard Birn, a retired USIA tions. Birn studied at the Uni- cross the ocean, cello in hand. officer, passed away March 23 versity of Paris–Institut d'études They married at New York’s News Editor, compiles material at a care center in Bethesda. politiques (Sciences Po) under a Temple Emanu-El on March 6, on the comings and goings of He was 88. The cause was Fulbright fellowship co- 1958. Birn’s plans to become a PDAA members and notable pneumonia, said his daughter, sponsored by France’s Ministry diplomat were put on hold for personalities in public diploma- Anne-Emmanuelle. Born in of Foreign Affairs. It was there, four years so that Jacqueline cy. You can contact him at New York on Dec. 12, 1930, at a Mardi Gras party, that he could obtain U.S. citizenship Birn received a degree in liber- met Jacqueline Mendels, a cel- (then a requirement for spous- [email protected]. al arts (specializing in English) list and chemistry graduate. es). In the meantime, he (Photo: Alan Kotok) from Yale in 1952. At Colum- Upon his return to New York (Continued on page 5)

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(Continued from page 4) the first to broadcast the news inside various high-level positions, including the Soviet Union of Stalin’s death and President of the Foreign Policy Associa- worked as a New York City school- the subsequent political turmoil. Critch- tion in New York. Curran settled in teacher, and she as a researcher at the low held various positions at Radio Lib- Benzie County, Michigan, and was an New York Academy of Medicine until erty for 20 years, writing a book about active member of a number of organiza- they welcomed their first child, Daniel. his experience, An Insider's Story of Cold tions. In his oral history, Curran said I On Oct. 20, 1962, Birn was sworn in as War Broadcasting. He continued his ca- think the survival of the human spirit and a USIA Foreign Service Officer. In 1963, reer with USIA in Washington as the people able to talk to one another and deal he was appointed a junior consular of- chief of Soviet and Eastern European with one another was a great influence on ficer at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, research from 1972 to 1976. His final my feeling that almost any human problem where daughter Anne-Emmanuelle was position from 1976 to 1985 was planning can be overcome if people of reason and born. His other assignments included and research officer with the Board for intelligence can get together, particularly Hong Kong, Malta, and Mexico City. Birn International Broadcasting, which over- younger people. was a policy officer at Voice of America saw the financing and operation of Radio from 1978 to 1987, earning a USIA Ca- Liberty and Radio Free Europe. After Lisa Harshbarger, died March 24 in reer Achievement Award. Following his retirement, he continued his work as a Stuart, Florida, at age 59. Born in Bloom- retirement, Birn worked as a substitute fellow with ’s Russian ington, Ind., she was a graduate of Man- teacher for the Fairfax County public Research Center (now the Davis Center chester College and received her Ph.D. schools. See appreciation by Michael for Russian and Eurasian Studies). From in linguistics from Indiana University. In Schneider) his vantage point as a Cold War veteran, 1985, she taught writing and speaking Critchlow’s expertise and insights was skills in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a job Teresa Collins Carroll, age 79, died sought after in the post-Cold War era. that led her to accept two Fulbright jun- June 10 after a battle with Alzheimer's ior lecturer positions, an English Lan- disease. She was born Aug. 20, 1939, in Robert “Ted” Theodore Curran, guage Fellow assignment, and eventually Washington, DC, to a family of more 87, died peacefully in his sleep on July 10 in 2001 a Foreign Service position as a than six generations of Washingtonians. in Traverse City, MI. Born in Brooklyn regional English Language Officer. Harsh- Carroll had a 31-year career with USIA, on Dec. 21, 1931, he graduated from barger served in Washington, Uzbeki- rising from an entry-level clerical posi- Haverford College in 1953 with a B.A. in stan, Ukraine, Hungary, and the Philip- tion to Director of the USIA Office of History and Russian and from Columbia pines, and in the English Language Pro- Official Correspondence. In that role, University in 1955 with an M.A. in Rus- gram Office at the Foreign Service Insti- she supervised the Agency's official cor- sian history. Curran worked briefly in tute prior to her retirement in 2013. respondence with the White House, IBM’s professional management program State Department, and Congress, as well before joining the Foreign Service in Philomena Jurey, 91, a former White as other important public and private 1955. His diplomatic career led to post- House correspondent for the Voice of institutions. After her retirement from ings in Washington and around the America, passed away July 26 in Hills- government service, Carroll accompa- world in Germany, Lebanon, Jordan, dale, Pa., from vascular dementia. A na- nied her husband for a tour at the U. S. Yemen, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Moroc- tive of Newcastle, Pa., she received a Embassy in Guatemala. Upon returning co. His varied experiences abroad in- B.A. in journalism at the University of to the United States, she volunteered for cluded hosting Louis Armstrong in Ger- Missouri in 1949. Jurey worked as a re- a broad range of civic activities. A resi- many in 1957; having King Hussein’s porter for various daily papers in Virginia dent of the Goodwin House Alexandria bodyguard help him change a flat tire in and Ohio, where she met her future for more than 13 years, Carroll partici- the Jericho Valley; escorting Lady Bird husband, Jack Jurey, who became the pated in many social activities and pro- Johnson through the 1967 Montreal news editor and editorialist for WTOP- grams. World Expo; welcoming the Apollo 11 TV in Washington. Jurey began her illus- crew in Mexico City in 1969; teaching trious career with VOA in 1961, steadily James (Jim) Critchlow, a Radio Liber- President Nixon how to give an ‘abrazo’ rising to higher positions. She became ty pioneer and Soviet expert, died July 7 to the president of Mexico; helping guide VOA’s White House correspondent in at his home in Newburyport, MA. A Henry Kissinger on a tour of Afghanistan 1974, covering Presidents Nixon, Ford, 1948 graduate of MIT, Critchlow studied in 1976; picking up the American hostag- and Reagan. The Washington Post wrote Russian at Georgetown University 1950- es from Iran in Algeria with President that when she accompanied President 1951 in preparation for his role estab- Carter in 1981; hosting President Reagan to , Jurey was the media lishing Radio Liberty, the U.S. radio sta- George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush in celebrity the Chinese officials wanted to tion broadcasting from Germany to the 1983 in Morocco; and playing a midnight meet. In 1988, she was named Editor-in- Soviet Union. On its fifth day on the air, round of golf with the King of Moroc- Chief of the VOA newsroom. Jurey with minimal transmission expertise and co. In 1984 Curran retired from the wrote three books and was the recipient no confirmation that its transmissions Foreign Service with the rank of Career of several awards, among them USIA’s were being received, Radio Liberty was Minister. Following retirement, he held (Continued on page 6)

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(Continued from page 5) served in the U.S. Army. He then worked in Washington, with the State Department Superior Honor Award for outstanding and later USIA, and also studied at the Art achievement and the University of Mis- Students’ League in New York. Miller was souri Honor Medal for Distinguished Ser- a specialist in international exhibi- vice in Journalism. She was commended tions, developing and organizing exhibi- for “her dedication to objective and unfet- tions and trade fairs for circulation in the tered journalism in the public interest, and her Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Africa. careful and thorough coverage of the White Based in Vienna, he managed USIA exhibi- House and the Presidency for the world.” tions in Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ro- mania, Hungary, and East Germany. Be- Eugene “Gene” Paul Kopp, who yond his expertise in international exhib- served twice as Deputy Director of USIA its, Miller was also an artist, craftsman, and (1973-1977 and 1989-1992) and then as collector in his own right. After his retire- Acting Director in 1976-1977, died May ment, he accompanied his wife Cynthia 13 of cardiac arrest. Kopp had previously Fraser Miller and their son Alexandre to served as Deputy General Counsel of her assignments in Vienna, Berlin, Bonn, USIA from 1969 to 1971; Assistant Direc- and Rome. tor for Administration in 1972; and acting General Counsel and Congressional Liai- Frederic S. “Tony” Sprainger son in 1972. Kopp also served as a con- Martin Manning with fellow IIP librarians. Mabbatt III died February 9 in Sun Val- sultant to the National Security Council. Seated: Lynne Scheib; Standing: Vivian ley, Id., where he had retired after twenty (See remembrance by Ambassador Jock Stahl, Anita Green, Joan Taylor; Back: years in the Foreign Service. Born in 1932, Shirley). Martin Manning. Martin Manning’s passing he studied international relations at San was noted in the March issue of the Diego State University, served in the Ma- Robert J. “Bud” Korengold, a 1964 Newsletter. An Appreciation by John Jasik rine Corps, and worked for the Conven- Nieman Fellow who served as a foreign of Marty’s life is on the PDAA website. tion and Visitors Bureau and the San Die- correspondent in Europe before transi- (photo courtesy of Lynne Scheib) go Zoo before joining USIA in 1963. His tioning to a career in diplomacy, passed overseas posts included Jordan, Sudan, away March 15 in Vernon, Normandy, For that work, he received USIA’s Distin- Brazil, Tanzania, Indonesia, and the Neth- France. He was 89. Born in 1929, Koren- guished Honor Award in 1986. In 1988, he erlands. He wrote a book about his expe- gold was a native of Minneapolis. He received a Presidential Award for Sus- rience, On the Front Lines of the Cold War: served in the U.S. Navy for four years tained Superior Accomplishment in the The Adventures of an American Foreign Ser- during the Korean War era before start- field of foreign policy. In 1994, the French vice Family. “It is clear from his writing that ing his career as a journalist. In 1957, he government named him a Chevalier he experienced joy, fear, and satisfaction joined UPI, working for it in Paris, Lon- (member) of the Ordre des Palmes acadé- during the era of Cold War tensions with don, Geneva, and Moscow, where he met miques, which recognizes distinguished the Soviet Union,” his publisher noted. Lee Harvey Oswald, who years later as- academic and cultural figures, for “services Mabbatt retired in 1985, and with his wife sassinated President Kennedy. In 1963, rendered to French culture.” France also Jean moved to Idaho, where he main- Korengold spent one year in Boston as a named him a Chevalier in its Order of Arts tained an avid interest and involvement in Nieman Fellow. He returned to Moscow and Letters. Korengold was inducted into foreign affairs while spending more time as Newsweek’s bureau chief before moving Medill’s Hall of Achievement in 2006. Fol- satisfying another passion, fly fishing. to London. In 1973 Korengold joined lowing his retirement from diplomacy in USIA, serving as the editor for the maga- 1994, he spent four years as the adminis- Gordon Wallace Murchie died March zines Economic Impact and Horizons U.S.A. trator of the Musée d’Art Américain in 16. He was born in San Diego. During his In 1977, he transitioned to a career in Giverny, France. He lived in Normandy 35 years with USIA and USAID, he lived in diplomacy, first working as a press officer and for many years wrote about French the Philippines, Thailand, and Costa Rica. and then as a counselor for public affairs culture and being an expatriate living in Murchie served throughout Africa, Asia, at U.S. embassies around Europe, including France for the American website bonjour- Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Brussels, Belgrade, London, and Paris. In paris.com. (See appreciation by Miller Middle East. He received Superior Service 1985, he served as the coordinator for Crouch) awards from both agencies, and the Order USIA press support of President Reagan’s of the White Elephant from the Royal visit to Europe and, later that year, was Robert Eugene Miller died June 25 at Thai government. During his 35-year post- the White House coordinator of public his home in Indianapolis following a long retirement career, Murchie and his wife diplomacy for the meeting between Presi- struggle with ALS. He was born Oct. 12, Anita joined delegations to the People’s dent Reagan and Soviet General Secretary 1931, in Newton, Ill. Following his school- Republic of China, South Africa, and Aus- Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit. ing in Newton and in Indianapolis, Miller (Continued on page 7)

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(Continued from page 6) in 1969 when he was assigned by USIA University of Minnesota, where he met to the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Roma- Lois Ostrander, whom he married in tralia. He became an executive in the nia. While there, he promoted American 1954. He served in Korea with the U.S. wine industry, especially in Virginia, music as a forum for engaging the Roma- Army and then attended Columbia Uni- where he resided. Murchie helped create nian people. When the American jazz- versity, where he earned an M.A. in Rus- the Congressional Wine Caucus and rock band Blood Sweat & Tears visited sian Studies in 1959. That year, he joined received several awards, including the Romania in 1970, Romanian officials USIA, working as a Foreign Service of- American Wine Society Award of Merit, sought to shut down a performance; ficer for more than 35 years. Verner and a commemorative bronze bust of Lewis successfully negotiated with com- witnessed and participated in numerous George Washington bestowed by Mount munist officials to allow the concert tour historic events. He was present at the Vernon. to continue. Lewis's primary foreign poli- famous 1959 Moscow “Kitchen Debate” cy interest was Africa, where he served between Nixon and Khrushchev, Ambassador Arthur Winston Lew- in Zambia, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. In 1979, and served as spokesman at the historic is, age 92, passed away peacefully Janu- he was appointed USIA’s Director of 1969 Moscow SALT treaty negotiations. ary 10 in Wilmette, Ill. He was born July African Affairs. In 1983, President Verner was in Kabul during the 1973 1, 1926, in New York City. A student at Reagan nominated him as U.S. Ambassa- coup in Afghanistan; was in Moscow Dartmouth College, Lewis left to enlist dor to Sierra Leone, where he served during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster; and in the Navy in 1943 and served for 23 until his retirement in 1986. In subse- witnessed from the East German side years until 1966, when he joined USIA. quent years, Lewis continued to pro- the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in With the support of the Ford Founda- mote international political and econom- November 1989. Verner was a world- tion, Lewis created an expanded minori- ic development in Africa. He moved to class philatelist, exhibiting throughout ty recruitment program for USIA in Wilmette in 2016 to be closer to his the world his collection of covers of the 1967, targeting African American, Latino, daughter, Dale, son-in-law, granddaugh- Czech Legions in Siberia during World and Native American students enrolled ter and two of his five great grandchil- War I and earning numerous awards. ¤ in universities around the nation. The dren. program brought students to Washing- Please send obituaries and Apprecia- ton for expanded training in history, Jaroslav John “Jerry” Verner, age 87, tions to Member News Editor Claude language, and international affairs as passed away peacefully in his sleep at his Porsella [email protected]. preparation for successfully completing home in Bethesda July 12. Verner was For suggestions on what to include, see Obi- tuaries: Memories of You on the PDAA web- the Foreign Service entrance exam. Lew- born in Minneapolis June 18, 1932. He site. is began his own foreign service career grew up in St. Paul and attended the PDAA September 16, 2019, Luncheon Program DACOR Bacon House, 1801 F Street, NW, Washington, DC

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