'95 Class News - Fall 2000

Fall 2000 Newsletter

Class Secretary:
Larry Hanauer, F'95
1701 16th Street, NW #220
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: lhanauer@bellatlantic.net
Class web page: http://rlt.freeservers.com/fletcher95.htm

Though we missed many of you, we had a great turnout at our FIFTH REUNION! About twenty classmates schmoozed, kibbitzed, and caught up at various events over the course of the weekend, including a clambake at Dean Galvin's house, a day in the bleachers at Fenway Park, dinner at John Harvard's, commencement, and Sunday brunch in Porter Square. In attendance were Mark Baker, James Coffey, Erin Conaton, Martha Bory Culver and husband Ken, Donna Demenus Dholakia with husband Sam and 10-month son Andrew, Jen Gergen and husband Lyle, Bjorn Gillsater, Larry Hanauer, Annika Hansen, Duncan Hollis, Andy Kennedy, Josh Lincoln, Phil Moremen and wife Mitra, Nami Numoto, Farah Pandith, R.D. Sahl, Keith Silver, and Joe Vorbach and family. To those who weren't able to attend, we missed you, but you can always check out the photos on the class web page….NEW Ph.D.'s! Several of our classmates received their doctorates at this year's commencement ceremony. They are: Anthony Chase, whose dissertation was entitled, "Islam and Human Rights, Clashing Normative Orders?" Having put the Ph.D. behind him, Anthony is now working on two books and gearing up for a job search. In the meantime, he is also consulting for WHO and serving as WHO's representative to Yemen on a joint UNDP-OHCHR-WHO program on strengthening human rights. Evelyn Farkas, who wrote on "U.S. Policy toward Partition: The U.S. Approach to Secessionist or Irredentist Movements in Ethiopia, Bosnia, and Iraq." Evelyn is still teaching at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. Josh Lincoln, whose dissertation focused on "The Effect of Federalism on Intergroup Relations in Multiethnic States: Evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia, 1960-1998." Yasmine Salaam, who examined "American Educated Saudi Technocrats: Agents of Social Change?" She and husband Kabir Arghandiwal also welcomed their first child, son Abutorab Amin Arghandiwal, who was born July 10. Bruno Wale, whose dissertation focused on "Securities Market Regulation in Cote d'Ivoire: A Law and Economics Perspective." On October 1, DOCTOR Annika Hansen, armed with her newly minted Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, will start as a research associate at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) looking into "The Role of Civilian Police in Peace Operations."

EUROPE

BJORN GILLSATER reports big changes in his life: He got engaged on March 21. He left the European Commission and the cushy Eurocrat life in May to move eastward to Vienna, where Clare is working. Bjorn will be a kept man until he figures out what to do, though he is planning to study some German start a job, perhaps in the private sector, in the fall. MARGUERITE ROY is working in Kosovo with the UN as one of the thirty Municipal Administrators (Mayors) for UNMIK (the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo). In February, SASHA ZAKHAROV started working for Alfa Bank (the biggest Russian private bank) on a brokerage side as institutional sales. Sasha is looking for Fletcherites and other good people to become investors in the Russian market. He escaped from the Russian winters in February on a trip to Indonesia and Singapore and a summer 2000 visit to his sister in Germany. Sasha's wife Larissa graduated from Russia's prestigious Academy of Diplomacy this summer.

ASIA / MIDDLE EAST

After working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan for several years, PO-HUI CHEN is work as the special assistant to the Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan. After taking a year of maternity leave to care for daughter Aiko, SONOKO KIYOTAKI-TAKAHASHI will return to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (formerly Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund) in August. The rumor mill has it that KARIM MAKDISI got married in July to Hala and jetted off for a honeymoon in Mexico. NAJM AKBAR, the deputy chief of mission at the Pakistani embassy in Beirut, is spending a lot of time in southern Lebanon these days.

LATIN AMERICA

FERNANDO GONZALEZ SAIFFE came to New York as part of the Mexican Delegation for the Non Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Conference Review at the UN in May, where he managed to get together with ELENA GALAITSI (Working at BCG), ANDREW BOVARNICK (who was in town from London) and VICTORIA FRANCIS (recently promoted to director in a public relations firm).

AFRICA

The big news from Africa is FLETCHER SAFARI 2000, which was organized by JULIE WERBEL, F'96. Trekking through Botswana and Zimbabwe with Julie in July were LARRY HANAUER; DIANE TAUSNER and new hubby Andries (see below); RACHEL GUGLIELMO, F'96, and beau Tim; and JEFF NEAL, F'96, who celebrated his last day in the Air Force around a campfire with the group and several hyenas (no kidding). DIANE TAUSNER married South African beau Andries De Klerk in a civil ceremony in Malawi on June 9. Attendees included the Speaker of Malawi's parliament. The U.S. leg of the World Wedding Tour will be on April 14, 2001, at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Before then, the happy couple will tour around Southern Africa for 6 to 8 weeks in July and August. (For photos of both the Fletcher safari and Diane's wedding, check out the class web page.) MAURA LYNCH wrote from London, where she noted that she was in the midst of yet another of her regular trips to mooch off of MARIA FARNON, that she will be going back to Eritrea in August to work for CRS there for three to six months. Unable to stay put, Maura has recently vacationed in Greece, Tunisia, Rome, London, and Puerto Rico, and she is planning a September trip to Nairobi, Zanzibar, and maybe the Seychelles. Who gets your frequent flier miles, Maura?

NORTH AMERICA

WEST OF THE APPALACHIANS:

MARC PARRISH has left Charles River Development in Boston for an Austin homecoming at the University of Texas's IT (computer programming) department in Austin. COL. JOHN KRUSE left NAVCENT headquarters in Bahrain this summer and moved with his family to Parris Island, SC. ROGER BATY gave up command of a CH-46 helicopter squadron in October 1999; did a short stint working future operations for Third Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) at MCAS Miramar, San Diego; and moved to Colorado Springs this summer to work at U.S. Space Command. CDR KEVIN HANEY is the Air Operations Officer on USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN-74). Along with the responsibility for the safe and efficient conduct of all flight operations around the aircraft carrier, he also gets to fly the F-14 Tomcat again. He spent the first half of the year on deployment passing through the Arabian Gulf, the western Pacific, the icy waters of the northern Pacific, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Port Klang, Malaysia. Son Patrick was 15 months old when the Stennis left for deployment in January.

BOSTON & NEW ENGLAND:

MARTHA BORY CULVER left Deloitte Consulting in March to join a small strategy consulting startup called Case Strategy, located in Portsmouth, NH. LARRY ROTHENBERG, entering into his last year at Harvard Law School, spent the summer working in the international trade practice at Dewey Ballantine in Washington and London. JOE VORBACH is still enjoying teaching at the US Coast Guard Academy. KYLE NICKERSON has signed on with Nortel Networks, where he is managing communications systems proposal projects from the company's Billerica, MA office.

NEW YORK:

This past Spring, PHIL MOREMEN started as an assistant professor at the new School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He is teaching public international law to undergrads and sustainable development, among other things, to grads. Phil is enjoying teaching and the opportunity to shape the development of a young program. Now, he notes, if he could only finish that pesky dissertation. JOHN AUERBACH is still at Arthur Andersen's Business Fraud group in New York, where he is busy on a number of international fraud cases (money laundering, embezzlement, intellectual property theft, etc.) He's also heading up our push to build a cyberfraud task force within the firm. DEBBIE ISSER took a leave of absence from Morrison and Foerster to work at the US Mission to the United Nations on the issue of U.S. arrears to the UN.

WASHINGTON:

DUNCAN HOLLIS continues to work as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the MARK "Call Me for Free Booze" BAKER has left the Department of Commerce for the private sector, where he is now Vice President for International Trade at the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. In other words, he hawks American liquor overseas. Party at Mark's! LEE CAPLAN graduated from Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law this May and will clerk for a judge in the Baltimore area. Partner-in-crime (and matrimony) CHRISTINA KOHN will spend her third year of law school at Georgetown. After wrapping up a three-year tour with the Department of Commerce in Uzbekistan, KEITH SILVER got into the Foreign Commercial Service (Commerce's foreign service) and is on his way, along with his wife Margarita and their new baby, to Argentina. CHRISTIAN HOUGEN has been promoted to Senior Evaluator at the GAO International Affairs and Trade team after completing two reports for Congress on foreign assistance to North Korea. He and his wife, Haiman, took a summer vacation in La Paz, Bolivia, where Christian graduated from high school 17 years ago. Daughter Helen begins seventh grade in the Fall. JENNIFER NORBERG left C/LAA last September and spent a few months working independently to develop a joint venture in the Dominican Republic that provides health information and medical triage services. Since then, she's been doing almost the same thing for FONEMED, which develops and operates medical call centers in Latin America and for the Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. In the small world category, LADEENE FREIMUTH ran into DUNCAN HOLLIS and his wife, Emily, at a July 4th reception at the Paris home of the U.S. ambassador to France. ANDY KENNEDY has a new job as Associate Editor at the Population Reference Bureau here in Washington. Finally, yours truly, LARRY HANAUER, wrapped up a year of working on U.S. policy toward Iraq and is now managing U.S. defense relations with Israel from his teeny little Pentagon office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Larry was recently elected as a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, asked to join the board of the American Jewish Committee's Washington Young Leadership Forum, and appointed to the Board of Advisors of Fletcher's Program on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization.

That's all for now. Send news to Larry at hanauerl@bellatlantic.net and stay in touch!
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