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Clements M. Maureen Caruso, CIC □ Worker’s Compensation Phone (202] 872-0060 Fa* (202) 466-9064 Telex 64514 President Executive Vice President □ Major Medical/Disability Cable Clements/Washington AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION Getting Serious About Training Governing Board President. WILLIAM A. KIRBY State Vice President: JOSEPH H. MELROSE JR. AID Vice President: CAREY COULTER USIA Vice President: RAZV'iGOR BAZALA It’s June and the annual migration is starting. Hundreds of us are on the move Retiree Vice President: CHARLES A. SCHMITZ from one assignment to another and some of us are even going to-training. Secretary: CATHERINE BARRY Treasurer: ANNE WOODS PATTERSON We wonder how many are starting a training program with great reluctance, State Representatives: PAULA BOYD because the job they really wanted didn’t come through. We also wonder how JONATHAN FARRAR ROBERT PERKY many weren’t able to get training at all, even though the department says they SUE SAARNIO need it for promotion. In short, we’re wondering about the state of training in AID Representatives: WILLIAM D. MCKINNEY JAMES DEMPSEY the Foreign Service. USIA Representative: LAI REN HALE Retired Representatives: PATRICIA M. BYRNE This seems a particularly appropriate time to wonder. The U.S. agenda in DANIEL NEWBERRY the post-Cold War era, with its new focus on global issues and its renewed DONALD R. NORLAND stress on global competitiveness, requires a Foreign Service equipped with new DAVID SCHNEIDER Staff skills and fortified with new knowledge. That need is only reinforced by con¬ Executive Director. SUSAN REARDON tinuing advances in technology that affect the way we communicate, manage Business Department Controller. CATHY FREGELETTE our facilities, and relate to one another in our workplaces. Office Manager: JUDY SHINN The timing is right also because in just a few months the quaint old Foreign Accounting Assistant: SHEREE E. BEANE Administrative Assistant: DIANNA 1)1 NBRACK Service Institute will transform itself into the National Foreign Affairs Training Executive Assistant: LIZ ALLAN Center. FSI Director Larry Taylor is telling anyone who will listen (or who reads Legal Services tl us month’s State magazine) that this will be more than just a physical relocation Legal Counsel: SHARON PAPP Staff Attorney. COLLEEN FALLON to i 35-acre, state-of-the-art facility. Indeed, there are already exciting changes Lent Clerks. EDWIN GANIA under way at FSI in both curricula and management, with the promise of more. PATRICIA A. MALONE Member Services Ft reign Service training is on the way to becoming a treat instead of a treatment. Duvctoi: JAMES YORKE How can we exploit this opportunity? First, it is crucial in this era of scarce Representatives. DEBORAH M. LEAHY JULIE SMITHLINE resources that top-level management at the foreign affairs agencies maintain a DEREK TERRELL sustained focus on the issue. Even straight-lining training resources while in¬ Membership Director: JANET L. HEDRICK creasing training demands will lead to a loss of quality that we can no longer Representative: NORAJANE Mel NITRE afford. The Foreign Service is people, and those people must be as well pre¬ Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON pared as possible for the challenges they face. Retiree Liaison: WARD THOMPSON Second, there should be even closer coordination among FSI management Congressional Liaison - RICK WEISS and the offices responsible for assignments, career development and allocation Scholarship Coordinator. MICHAEL DAI LEY of resources. An employee cannot be told that training is a prerequisite for ca¬ Speakers Bun’au and International Associates: GIL KULICK reer advancement, only to discover that it is unavailable. In fact, for training Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER to be viewed throughout the service as a welcome part of a career rather than The American Foreign Service Association, founded in 192 i. as an unavoidable interruption, the linkage between time spent in training and is the professional association of the Foreign Service and the official representative of all Foreign Service employees in the a successful career should be clearly understood from the beginning. Department of State, and the United States Information Agency and the Agency for International Development under The real challenge is to change the status of training in our Foreign Service the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active or Retired membership in AFSA is open to all current or retired culture by moving toward career tracks for both generalists and specialists in employees of the U.S. foreign affairs agencies. Associate membership is open to persons having an interest in or close w hich training is rewarded as well as rewarding. With a new policy agenda to association with the Foreign Service. Annual dues: Active Members—$85-188; Retired Members—$-15-62; Associate challenge us and a new facility to energize us, now is the time to start. Members—$45. All AFSA members are members of the Foreign Service Club. Please note: AFSA dues and Legislative Action Fund donations may be deductible as an ordinary and -William A. Kirby necessary business expense for federal income tax purposes. Scholarship and AFSA Fund donations are deductible as charitable contributions. AMERICAN FOREION SERVICE ASSOCIATION. 2101 E Street NW. Washington. D.C. 20037. Executive offices, membership, professional issues, scholarship programs, insurance pro¬ grams, JOURNAL offices: (202) 338-4045. 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