FAVA/CA The Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean Action • 1311 Executive Center Drive • Suit 118 • Tallahassee, Florida 32301

EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COUNCIL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Lt. Gov. Wayne Mixson, Chair David A. Pasquarelli Hon. Claude Pepper Hon. Bill Chappell EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Hon. Dante Fascell Hon. Don Fuqua Charles Starcher, Jr., President Hon. Sam Gibbons Computer Marketing Services Hon. William Lehman 1984 Hon. Bill Young Phil Penninger, Vice-President Hon. Earl Hutto Office of the Governor Hon. E. Clay Shaw William Wayne McDaniel, Secretary Hon. Bill McCollum *As^tOn Office Department of Health & Rehabilitative Hon. Daniel A. Mica Services Hon. Michael Bilirakis Thomas Horkan, Treasurer Hon. Doyle Conner Hon. Ralph Turlington Department of Education Hon. George Firestone Glenda Nelson, Officer-at-Large Hon. J. Leander Shaw, Jr. Director, CARE Ambassador Loren E. Lawrence Robert Klobnak, Officer-at-Large Ambassador Robert Ryan DOCARE International/S.E.C.O.M. Mrs. Adele Graham Hon. Bob Martinez James T. Howell, M.P.H., M.D. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Dr. Barbara W. Newell AUGUST 1984 Services Hon. Herb Morgan Dr. Edward T. Foote, II Dr. E. T. York Dr. Georges Fauriol monthly highlights Dr. Anthony Maingot

BOARD MEMBERS

Ben Atkins David Pasquarelli, Executive Director, spoke to International Commerce, Hillsborough Co. Aviation Authority the Refugee Volunteer Steering Committee in James A. Barge, Ph.D. Orlando on August 31. The subject of his speech Department of Education Sarah Bowers was funding sources for refugee programs and Volunteer Jacksonville, Inc. Robert C. Bush FAVA/CA programs and services. O’Connor Management, Inc. Charles Lynn Coultas, Ph.D. Friends of Haiti Mike Baldwin, Haiti Liaison person on our staff, Mary Jim Everidge Business & Professional has been asked to serve on the Program Committee Women's Clubs of Florida, Inc. Ruth Foden of the Governor’s World Trade Conference to be Florida Nurses Association held in Tampa in the Spring of 1985. Miriam Frederick World Harvest for Christ Cathy Howell Tallahassee, Florida Dr. Jim Howell, Deputy Director of HRS and Charles Kidd, Ph.D. Florida A & M University FAVA/CA Executive Committee member, plans to participate Anthony Lefevre in the Governor's mission to Trinidad/Tobago, Florida Public Health Association Walter Livingstone Barbados, Dominica and Grenada in October. He will Dade Co. Dept, of Public Health Caroline L. L. MacLeod, M.D., M.P.H. participate as Chairman of the FAVA/CA Health and University of Miami Tropical Medicine Program Environment Committee. FAVA/CA Executive Director Suzanne Northcraft David Pasquarelli will also participate in this International Child Care Lynette P. Padmore, Ph.D. trip. Florida A & M University Rafael A. Penalver, Jr. Florida Commission on Hispanic Affairs A special committee has been appointed to coordinate Judy Perkin, Dr. P.H., R.D. Florida Public Health Association the state scholarship program for Caribbean and Latin James C. Penrod, M.D. American students which passed the Legislature last Children's Haiti Medical Mission Helen M. Icken Safa, Ph.D. session. The committee, to be based in Miami, will Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida include Dr. Henry Thomas, FAVA/CA Education Committee Mary E. Seay, M.D. Children's Haiti Medical Mission Chair(representing the voluntary sector); Pat Oliver, Agnes Smith Tallahassee, Florida Director of the Miami office of Caribbean/Central Jack Snyder American Action (representing the business community), Mission Possible Jerry Stambaugh the University of Miami, Florida International Haiti Hospital Fund Keith Starkey University, and will be Chaired by Miami Dade Community Agape Flights, Inc. College. Dr. Jose Abar, Florida Department of Education Charles Thomae, Jr. The International Round Table will staff this committee. This committee will identify Henry Thomas, Ph.D. Miami, Florida areas of support for the international stipend program Robert W. West Florida Mover’s & Warehouseman's and define areas for scholarships, etc. Association Tom Willey, Jr. World Relief Corporation Glenda Wood (over) Florida Department of Commerce

Telephone (904) 877-4705 • The Ad Hoc Steering Committee for the Federal Government's Proposal to Grant Scholarships for the Economically Disadvantaged Student from Latin America and the Caribbean held its first meeting in Tampa August 20th. Dr. Henry Thomas, FAVA/CA Education Committee Chair, David Pasquarelli and Mike Baldwin represented FAVA/CA at this initial meeting. The Committee will continue to monitor the legislation? collect additional information on the guidelines; and when federal regulations are drafted, the committee will prepare a proposal. The next meeting of this committee is tenta tively scheduled for November in Tampa.

• The FAVA/CA Executive Committee and committee chairs met in Tallahassee on August 23 to plan for the coming year. A workplan based on the newly approved budget was developed.

• New FAVA/CA Corporate Members:

Norwegian Caribbean Lines, Miami

• New FAVA/CA Organizational Members:

American International Container, Inc., Miami Jamaica Trade Commission, Miami Tropical Shipping, Riviera Beach