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Winter 2003 / VOLUME XVI NO. 1

SIPA Reaches Out Around the WorldSIPA Reaches Out Around the World

SIPAnews1From the Dean Learning Wisdom: Debate at SIPA

2Alumni Profile Cecile Brunswick: The Diplomacy of Art

3Alumni Forum WTC Town Meeting: Democracy Downtown

4-6Faculty Profiles

Jeffrey Sachs, Kenneth Prewitt, Joan Helpern, Richard Robb, David Nissen

7-8Student Profiles

James Lalremruata, Violeta Krasnic, Robert Seidman, Svetlana Pinzari

10SIPA Reaches Out Around the World

12Extending East: SIPA Travels to Asia

14On the Job Around the Globe

17Alumni News MPA Graduates Celebrate Their 10th Reunion

18Alumni News Letter from Jakarta

9 Picker Center News

19 Class Notes

21 Development News

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To live life at SIPA is tolive at the center of con-troversy. But, and youmay be surprised to readthis here, that is exactlyhow I think it should

be. Whether we deliberate about cur-riculum reform, argue about the meritsof economic policy in Manhattan orMongolia (and we have alumni in both places, and nearly everywhere inbetween, debating economic policyright now), discuss admissions criteriaor challenge the World Trade Organi-zation, we are a community not simplyof disinterested scholars but of deeplycommitted and passionate analysts andactivists. It is our dedication to theschooling of that passion and commit-ment which makes SIPA the magicplace it is.

I was reminded of this mostrecently as we began a debate here at SIPA, indeed, at universities acrossthe United States, about the merits ofthe campaign calling for universities todivest their holdings in firms that man-ufacture and supply weapons used byIsrael to maintain the occupation ofthe West Bank and Gaza. Debatebeing what it is, this conversation hasbeen heated, as proponents of divest-ment have voiced very pointed andharsh criticisms of Israeli governmentpolicy and opponents have drawn onarguments from national security tofree trade to condemn the campaign.

In permitting — indeed, encour-aging — students, faculty, and staff to debate this question, or any otherquestion of public policy, we at SIPAare fulfilling one of the fundamentalpurposes of a university, to provide an arena in which ideas are tested.

We often forget that there arethree elements in a good education.

The most familiar is learning, ofcourse, the transmission of a commu-nity’s received wisdom to new genera-tions. All SIPA students experiencethis, learning as they do from the workof their elders, and it allows each gen-eration to incorporate and build on thework of its predecessors. A good edu-cation also entails the creation of newknowledge through research. MostSIPA students are also familiar withthis, working on data sets, pouringover archives, designing surveys, par-ticipating in workshops with facultyand other researchers. Sometimes the product is a major scientific break-through — the kind of thing thatquickly becomes the received wisdomof the next generation. Usually it ismore modest — perhaps a new planfor managing a not-for-profit organi-zation’s social service delivery — butthis sort of invention is nonetheless apart of the creative impulse at the coreof true education.

There is a third vital element ofgenuine education, and that is therefinement of ideas, both received and new, through testing and debate.This constant, restless challenge to ourunderstanding of our world in whatJohn Stuart Mill called the “market-place of ideas” is not ordinarily listed aspart of the university’s curriculum, butit is an essential part of the translationof new knowledge into received wis-dom, indeed, of the conversion ofinformation into knowledge in the firstplace. Unlike the first two elements,this one does not have a formal venueor time slot on the university schedule.It may take place in the classroom, butit doesn’t have to. Indeed, it shouldinfuse the entire experience of life at aplace like SIPA. Any good class and allresearch require testing, critical analysis

and argument. But the habit of mindthat reflects an educated person is dis-criminating, thoughtful and demand-ing outside of class and beyond theresearch project as well.

A competent citizen takes seri-ously the responsibility to think reflec-tively, to examine questions carefully,to both treasure and to test thereceived wisdom of the community. In order to nurture this capacityamong our students at SIPA, we stead-fastly defend the notion of academicfreedom. There would be nothing todebate, no reason to question ourassumptions, to challenge received wisdom, to create new knowledge ifwe all agreed on everything. Fortu-nately, we do not. We provoke eachother to reflect on and refine ourbeliefs and our arguments and in theprocess we strengthen ourselves asindividuals and as a community. So,yes, dear readers, you may take excep-tion to some of the positions you seeor hear among the students and facultyat SIPA in the debate about divest-ment, and in many other forums.From my experience, there is no betterplace in the world than at Columbia,from the International Affairs Build-ing’s sixth floor coffee shop to thesteps of Low Library, for an animateddiscussion about issues of concern toour community. We hope that ourfriends and alumni, like today’s stu-dents, seized and treasured the oppor-tunity to test their ideas in this mostaccommodating of marketplaces. Andwe hope that they are all better citizensfor it, still committed and passionate,but discerning and wise as well.

F r o m t h e D e a n : L i s a A n d e r s o n

Learning Wisdom: Debate at SIPA

Walking into CecileBrunswick’s studio in the gar-ment district ofManhattan is likestepping through

the looking glass into Alice’s Wonder-land. Each door of the labyrinthinespace yields a new surprise — a boxyfoyer hung with black and white photos,a tiny anteroom warmly decorated withcinnamon-colored walls and whimsicalsculptures, and a long, narrow hallwaylined with large canvases wrapped inplastic like gifts waiting to be opened.

And at the very end of the path,the apartment unfolds into a brightlylit room with high ceilings and purewhite walls dressed with her paintings,whose signature style includes boldlines against backgrounds gentlywashed in color.

Brunswick, who graduated backin the days when SIPA was still SIA(the School of International Affairs),has shaped a career for herself as anartistic ambassador, using her paintingas an avenue for dialogue about inter-national affairs and understanding.

When she started at SIA, though,she dreamed of being a diplomat in theMiddle East, focusing on Arab-Israelirelations.

“Not a very good choice for awoman at that time,” said Brunswick,who was born in Belgium and came to the United States as a young child.

After graduation, she stayed inNew York, instead, and worked for the Foreign Policy Association, theIndonesian consulate, and as a speech-writer for the Afghan delegation to theUnited Nations.

At the UN, Brunswick spent somuch time with the diplomats she

worked for that “other diplomatsthought I was a member of theAfghani delegation, which amused me to no end,” she said.

A short while later, Brunswickmarried and moved to a “teeny tinytown” in western Pennsylvania, whereher only contact with internationalaffairs was through books borrowedfrom the local library. Instead of writ-ing speeches for diplomats as she haddone in New York, she penned lettersto the editor of the local paper offeringcommentary on current events.

“I didn’t know what I would do.There wasn’t anything I could use mydegree for,” she said.

Within a year and a half, she andher family had moved back to NewYork City, but instead of resuming her career in international affairs, shestarted down another path, photogra-

phy. She began working for a photoagency, and soon started taking herown pictures and building her ownbusiness.

After attending an intensive artworkshop in Assisi, Italy, where she“did nothing but paint,” Brunswickchanged course again and focused onthe fine arts.

“I use my paintings to express myfeelings about what I see and feel, andwhat is happening in my life,” she said.“It isn’t haphazard. It’s based on whatI’ve learned.”

Two years ago, during a trip toMorocco, she finally had an opportu-nity to merge her interest in art andinternational affairs, and to use herpaintings to raise awareness aboutother countries and cultures.

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A l u m n i P r o f i l e : C e c i l e B r u n s w i c k

The Diplomacy of Art

By Celeste Tarricone

Cecile Brunswick finds artistic inspiration in Morocco

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On Saturday, July 20th,2002, I had theopportunity to par-ticipate in somethingawesome: democracyin action. As some-

one who has spent most of her life in a thriving democracy (and enough time in fledgling democracies and non-democracies to know better), I am certain that we Americans take ourfreedom for granted on a daily basis.Perhaps that’s because most of us havenever known anything else. But I have,and that’s what inspired me to partici-pate in the town hall meeting to discussthe rebuilding of lower Manhattan.

Brief visits to Soviet Russia, Cuba,and Nicaragua and three years workingin Eurasia for NGOs that aim to fosterparticipatory democracy in the newlyindependent states of the former SovietUnion have blessed me with a deepappreciation for all the freedoms weenjoy. After years of watching otherswork to build better societies, to voicetheir opinions loudly enough for their(sometimes unwilling) governments tohear, I was presented with the opportu-nity to be a voice in the civil society ofmy own world. I was also presentedwith the responsibility to act on thatopportunity.

The town hall was nothing shortof extraordinary. I had witnessedcountless similar exercises in newdemocracies, but nothing can compareto what happened in New York Citythat day. More than 4,000 citizenscame together to make their voicesheard. More than 4,000 citizens werenot complacent about their civicresponsibility. We devoted an entireSaturday (a beautiful day in the middleof summer) to the rebuilding of our

city and, ultimately, to our belief indemocracy. We were addressed bymembers of the Lower ManhattanDevelopment Corporation (the organi-zation charged with heading up therebuilding effort), the Port Authority(the organization generally responsiblefor the World Trade Center), themayor’s office, and one of the victims’families associations. A brilliant facilita-tor walked us through a day of struc-tured discussion that covered topicsfrom our hopes and concerns aboutrebuilding downtown to reactions tothe six plans unveiled earlier that weekfor the WTC site and ideas on appro-priate settings for a memorial.

Using the latest technology (eachparticipant had a keypad to respond to multiple choice questions) we wereable to see results to simple questionsimmediately. A review of the demo-graphics of the participants showedthat the group was representative of theregion at large in terms of gender, age,income, race, and ethnicity. We alsolearned that: 9% of us were survivors of 9/11; 33% were at or near GroundZero on 9/11; 21% became displacedor unemployed as a result of 9/11; 6%were rescue or recovery workers; 23%live or lived in lower Manhattan; 41%work or worked in lower Manhattan.

For more involved questions, weheld small group discussions at tablesof up to 10 people: picture a room with over 400 small group discussionsoccurring simultaneously. Each tablehad a professional facilitator to assistwith the discussion, all of whom cameto New York on their own dime, inresponse to a call for volunteers overthe Internet. They came from all 50states and six foreign countries, includ-ing Afghanistan. The participants at my

table included: a Caucasian, handi-capped woman of about 50, who is aresident of lower Manhattan and headof a tenant organization in Battery ParkCity; an African-American woman whois a lawyer and whose two sons workedat the WTC (neither was hurt on9/11); an Arab man who worked atWindows on the World but was not at work on 9/11; a Caucasian womanin her 20’s who is a Ph.D. student insociology at Columbia and was thereprimarily to observe the process; andme (I was at Ground Zero on 9/11and am still displaced from my place ofwork.) The dynamic in the room wasphenomenal — everyone was focusedon the task at hand, was serious aboutdiscussion, and considerate of every-one’s opinions. Participants laughedand cried together, as the subject mat-ter warranted.

Each table was equipped with alaptop computer, hooked into a net-work. Responses were funneled to thenetwork and read by a team of analystswho summarized the results andposted them on large screens through-out the room about an hour after wesubmitted them. It was amazing notonly to receive such immediate feed-back but also to see such dramatictrends in the responses from through-out the room. Opinions were expressedon an array of issues — from a reviewof the six concept plans to a proposedmission statement for the memorial,the importance of restoring the skyline,and the need for affordable housing in the neighborhood. Due to an over-whelmingly negative response to the six concept plans, the planners agreedat the end of the day to re-think them.

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Democracy Downtown

By Erin Doyle, ’01

The town hall was

nothing short of

extraordinary....

More than 4,000

citizens came together

to make their voices

heard. More than

4,000 citizens were

not complacent about

their civic responsibility.

When Jeffrey Sachs gavehis first lectures atColumbia this fall,SIPA’s auditorium could

barely hold the throng of students who poured in. The eager audiencehad come to hear the scholar who hasserved as an advisor to governments all over the globe and has, on occasion,been called the “world’s most impor-tant economist.” They weren’t disap-pointed. Sachs’s forthright opinions onachieving sustainable development inthe 21st century left them with plentyto think about.

Sachs’s move from Harvard Uni-versity to Columbia last year and hismuch-publicized appointment asdirector of the Earth Institute was seenas something of a coup for Columbia.Sachs also serves as special advisor toUN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the United Nations’ MillenniumDevelopment Goals, an internationalplan for poverty alleviation thatincludes cutting extreme poverty byhalf and achieving universal primaryeducation throughout the world.Sachs says that his responsibilities atthe UN will complement his work at the Earth Institute, where many scientists are already working on waysto meet the Millennium goals. “Thefact that I personally have these tworesponsibilities, and, more importantly,that the United Nations agencies and the Earth Institute are workingtogether on this shared commitment,is extremely exciting and strongly pro-motes the shared objective,” he said.

Sachs does not mince wordswhen he talks about the progress onthe Millennium Development Goals.“If things are left as they are right now,we will not meet the Millennium goals,

we will not find the political will, andwe will have continued extreme suffer-ing of billions of people in the comingdecade,” he said. “But it is quite possi-ble not only to meet the goals from atechnical point of view but actually tofind the political organization and will to do that. I think that at criticalmoments like this we have to workespecially hard to try to turn thesepotential crises into a real positiveopportunity.”

Sachs, who is known for unortho-dox views about development, isequally candid when he discusses thecommitment resource-rich countriesmust make towards issues of sustain-able development. He is especiallyvocal about their role in the waragainst AIDS in Africa. “We got thetreasury secretary to Africa this spring.He went to hospitals and he went to the clinics and he was horrified bywhat he saw. I’m still waiting for thepolicy response to that. There is a littlebit of progress, but it is much too slow.It is not satisfactory at all. I won’t takeheart in it until the U.S. is really exer-cising the kind of leadership that it iscapable of exercising and that theworld needs it to exercise,” he said.

Sachs came to Columbia after along tenure at Harvard, where he wasdirector of the Centre for InternationalDevelopment and the Galen L. StoneProfessor for International Trade. Hehas acted as a consultant to organiza-tions such as the International Mone-tary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme, and has served as an economic advisor to governments onevery continent. “The things I havebeen able to see and learn in the past20 years of on-the-ground work in all

parts of the world for me suggest realsolutions to some of these great chal-lenges,” he said.

Besides heading the Earth Insti-tute, Sachs has appointments at SIPAand at the Graduate School of Arts andSciences. He is giving lectures all overthe university, meeting students andworking to get them involved with theEarth Institute. “I definitely plan todevote a lot of time to teaching. Butthis first year is teaching through visit-ing all parts of the university and giv-ing a lot of talks and lectures along theway,” he explained.

And how does Columbia com-pare to Harvard? “I love Harvard, I have to say. I spent 30 years there and didn’t imagine that I was notgoing to spend the next years of mycareer there. This came as a surprise,but I am finding Columbia and NewYork to be completely exhilarating.”

Anjali Cordeiro is a first-year MIA student concentrating in InternationalMedia and Communications and SouthAsian studies.

F a c u l t y P r o f i l e

Jeffrey Sachs

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By Anjali Cordeiro

Jeffrey Sachs

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When Professor KenPrewitt got a calloffering him theposition of director

of the United States CensusBureau, overseeing the 2000 pop-ulation survey, he was so surprised,he suggested several other peoplehe thought would be better suitedfor the job.

But once he began workingon the census, often hailed as thelargest peacetime mobilization inAmerica’s history, it became a “fas-cinating experience,” said Prewitt,who started his new appointmentat SIPA in January 2003.

Prewitt said he loved “watch-ing the civic participation in thecensus unfold in thousands ofcommunities across the country.”

Inside the nation’s capital,however, he got a different view.“Initially, I underestimated the wayin which partisanship would try totrump evidence and rational argu-ment,” Prewitt said. “In the uni-versity, we believe that facts arestubborn things, and that theyshould and will prevail. In partisanpolitics, facts are not stubborn butendlessly flexible.”

After leaving the CensusBureau, Prewitt served as dean ofthe graduate faculty at the NewSchool University before comingto SIPA. This semester he willteach two courses, one on the roleof race in census surveys aroundthe world, and another on thecomplex interaction between thesocial sciences and policy analysis.

Prewitt, who has done con-siderable research on the role private foundations play in policy

analysis and policy advocacy, hastwice served as president of theSocial Science Research Council,and as a board member of severalacademic and international organi-zations.

Prewitt said he is excited toengage SIPA students in discus-sions about how national measure-ment systems, such as a census,affect group identities and socialissues such as race relations. Withsuch a diverse international popu-lation, SIPA offers a great oppor-tunity to gather different perspec-tives, he said.

“This is the early tremor of anearthquake in how we understandrace and ethnicity… The public isill-prepared, and the policy processconfused. Perhaps SIPA is theplace to prepare the lesson plansfor the country.”

Fabiola Salata is a first-year dualdegree MIA/MBA student.

You will have to bevery direct, I ramble,” said JoanHelpern, founder of

the fashion house Joan & David,with a warm smile.

A native New Yorker who haslived all around the world, a socialpsychologist, a business entrepre-neur, a CEO and a fashion icon,Helpern joined the SIPA facultythis past fall as a co-professor withProfessor Hans Decker of the Inter-national Finance and Business (IFB)Internship Workshop.

She was attracted to the inter-national aspects of SIPA, which shelikens to a mini-United Nations,because she values mentoring somuch. She describes the studentsas “committed scholars from all ofthe world exchanging ideas, learn-ing new skills, getting to knoweach other, refining their thinking,and re-examining their issues.”

Although new to SIPA, shehas a Columbia Master of SocialPsychology and is currently a faculty advisor and mentor to the Business School’s LangEntreprenurial Studies Program.Helpern had always intended to stay in academia, and sheattended Harvard University to complete her doctorate insocial psychology.

Eventually Helpern left acad-emia to establish a successful fash-ion company, Joan & David, tar-geting intelligent business women.Ever since, she has been shatteringthe glass ceiling for women.

Helpern presently serves onHarvard’s JFK Women’s Leader-ship Board. She is the recipient of

over three dozen awards, fromdesign excellence to personalachievement, is a member of theCouncil of Fashion Directors ofAmerica, and is a co-founder of the Committee of 200, a forumdesigned to encourage and sup-port women entrepreneurs andcorporate executives.

She says her real mentorswere her mother and grand-mother, who taught her to neverbe satisfied. She recounts proudlythat her mother completed a dou-ble major in 1912 and her grand-mother established a successfulinsurance business in the 1800s.Like these women who inspiredher, Joan Helpern is pioneeringthe way for women and is nowbringing those skills to benefitSIPA students.

Christine Caralis is a second-yearMIA student concentrating in Inter-national Energy Management andPolicy.

F a c u l t y P r o f i l e

Ken Prewitt

By Fabiota Salata

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By Christine Caralis

Ken Prewitt Joan Helpern

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Joan Helpern

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Wearing black con-verse sneakers, anold polo shirt, andfaded black jeans,

Richard Robb hardly seems thecorporate type. While pursuing aPh.D. in economics at the Univer-sity of Chicago, Robb distin-guished himself as a serious acade-mic, conducting research withNobel Laureate Gary Becker onmanpower training programs.Currently, in his spare time, Robbmanages a hedge fund that tradesand invests in European asset-backed securities.

Robb’s obvious intellectualcuriosity and concern for socialpolicy may seem hard to squarewith his 16 years in corporatefinance. Although Robb won’tclaim he “wanted to help mankindthrough derivatives,” he deniesselling out. In Robb’s view, “soci-ety benefits from a banker whohelps underwrite a novel residen-tial mortgage bond (allowing fami-lies to buy homes) in the same waythat it benefits from a researcherwho devises more effective urbanpolicies.”

As a professor, Robb engagesstudents with his obvious love foreconomics and his liberal pragma-tism. He said the highlight of hisfirst year at SIPA was when his students developed an economicpolicy solution for increasing thesupply of AIDS vaccines to Africa.

In fact, thoughtful studentsand a collegial environment aretwo things that drew Robb toSIPA. “I have been struck by howearnest and pleasant everyone is,”he commented. “Students thank

me after my lectures. They apolo-gize when they do badly on exams.I have never seen anything like it.”Another draw to SIPA was theopportunity to devote more timeto his research interests.

Robb, who now teaches twocourses, Economics of Finance andInternational Capital Markets, inboth fall and spring semesters,offered a tip to his economics stu-dents: “Economics is a powerfulscience for understanding humanbehavior and public policy. If itwere easy, everyone would know it.You should expect to struggle.”

Tamala Montgomery is a second-yearMPA student concentrating inAdvanced Policy Analysis.

What’s uniqueabout our pro-gram is the con-centration on

the interaction between energypolicy, business, and economicdevelopment… which is appropri-ate for our location here at SIPA,”says David Nissen when describingthe Program in InternationalEnergy Management and Policy(IEMP).

Nissen became director ofIEMP this fall and has spent thelast few months solidifying theprogram’s graduate curriculumwhile settling in at the Center forEnergy, Marine Transportationand Public Policy.

That Nissen has worked inboth the public and private sectorsgives him a vantage point fromwhich to further develop theIEMP goal of getting “policymak-ers and business developers on thesame page.” He spent the last 12years as the “resident economist”for Poten & Partners, an energyconsulting firm, but also workedfor the federal government duringthe administrations of PresidentsNixon, Ford and Carter.

During his time at the FederalEnergy Administration, whicheventually became the Departmentof Energy, Nissen worked on thedevelopment of a national energypolicy, originally called “ProjectIndependence” by the NixonAdministration. “It was a veryexciting time of my life; we weretrying to bring some rationality toa very big problem,” Nissen said.

Nissen also worked forExxon’s Corporate Planning

Department and Chase Manhat-tan’s Corporate Lending Group.

This is not Nissen’s first acad-emic experience either. He hasbeen on the faculty at the RutgersSchool of Business and the RiceUniversity Department of Eco-nomics, and has a doctorate ineconomics from the University of California at Berkeley.

He hopes to take advantageof SIPA’s diverse offerings, includ-ing the finance and environmentalpolicy faculties, to address theenvironmental and infrastructuredevelopment issues that he consid-ers “core issues in energy policy.”

Mohammed Hadi is a second-yearMPA student concentrating in Mediaand Communications. Last summerhe interned at AFX News, a businessnewswire in New York.

F a c u l t y P r o f i l e

Richard Robb

By Mohammed Hadi

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By Tamala Montgomery

Richard Robb David Nissen

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David Nissen

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James Lalremruata, a politi-cal activist from Burma (alsoknown as Myanmar) is anMPA student at SIPA study-

ing international development andmanagement. James possesses adetermination to fight, throughnon-violent means, to restoredemocracy in Burma, which hedescribes as “one of the mostrepressive governments in theworld.”

Lalremruata’s politicalactivism dates back to the 8888movement (August 8, 1988), thenationwide uprising which wasbrutally repressed, calling for anend to military rule. In the 1990election, Aung San Suu Kyi, theGeneral Secretary of the NationalLeague for Democracy, won 82% of the national vote. However, thegovernment nullified the election. As Lalremruata attests, “It is stillthe will of the Burmese people thatpower be transferred to our electedgovernment.”

Lalremruata, a teenager at thetime, was part of an undergroundnetwork that assisted activists flee-ing into neighboring countries,and in 1992, he also left Burma forNew Dehli, India, where he

received political asylum as arefugee. This was the last time Lal-remruata saw his family.

While in India, Lalremruataco-founded the All Burma StudentLeague (ABSL), a non-violentmovement that believes in “peo-ple’s unity and strength” in estab-lishing a truly democratic govern-ment and “will leave no stoneunturned in its fight to remove thebloody military regime in Burma.”Lalremruata lobbied the Indiangovernment, international organi-zations, and political parties toappeal for the support of theBurmese people; he also launcheda number of political and socialawareness campaigns.

He left India to finish hisundergraduate degree at HartwickCollege in New York and thencame to SIPA to continue his stud-ies. After graduating this spring,Lalremruata will not return to hishomeland, as he would be forcedto acknowledge the military gov-ernment as the true and legitimategovernment of Burma. However,he will continue his struggle andthat of the Burmese people. Heconsiders the fight for democrati-zation as “do or die.”

He believes that, “The mostimportant part is keeping the spiritalive. If you lose your heart, youlose everything.”

Liz Leyne is a second-year MIA stu-dent concentrating in Economic andPolitical Development. Before comingto SIPA, she had a Fulbright Scholar-ship in Amman, Jordan, where sheresearched the role of women in thedemocratization process.

Violeta Krasnic is a prob-lem solver. She saw a cri-sis in her native country— violence against

women — and set up a women’scenter to help victims and put anend to the abuse. Before comingto SIPA, Krasnic, a first-year MIAstudent from Belgrade, Serbia, co-founded the AutonomousWomen’s Center Against SexualViolence in Belgrade in 1993.

“At that point, the rape ofMuslim women by Serbian men inBosnia was receiving lots of atten-tion,” said Krasnic, whose studiesat SIPA focus on human rights.“We knew Serbian women hadbeen raped, too, so we said, “Let’sgo find them.”

Krasnic established a hotlinefor victims of sexual violence, pro-vided one-on-one counseling, andformed self-help support groups to address the various needs of victims. The organization also provided legal help, healthcare,and economic support to women.At one point it had a theater,where the women would put onskits for one another.

“It was encouraging to seethat your support can help make

someone do something for them-selves,” Krasnic said.

While running the women’scenter, Krasnic worked with non-government organizations focusedon women’s issues, and, in 1997,helped organize the first Women’sHuman Rights Conference forCentral and Eastern Europe. Kras-nic also helped organize supportgroups, education sessions, andworked on media relations as shetraveled throughout Serbia.

Krasnic’s work with victims ofviolence started while she was astudent at Belgrade University,studying psychology. A domesticviolence hotline sought volunteers,and Krasnic offered her time. “Ihad these huge ideas of changingthe world, of changing theirworld,” she said.

Krasnic left the center andBelgrade in 1998 to continue herformal education. She finished herpsychology degree at Columbia’sSchool of General Studies in 2001,and then decided to continue herstudies at SIPA.

She expects to graduate withher MIA in December 2003, andsays she has no formal post-gradu-ation plans, but knows she wantsto work in the area of humanrights. The only way to securewomen’s safety is through empow-erment, she said, and she hopes to continue working on behalf ofwomen.

Sandra Kinne is a first-year MPA stu-dent concentrating in education pol-icy. Before coming to SIPA, she taughtfourth grade in Compton, California.

James Lalremruata Violeta Krasnic

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James Lalremruata

By Liz Leyne By Sandra Kinne

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Violeta Krasnic

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For Robert Seidman, SIPAhas provided a perspectivethat reaches well beyondhis days on Wall Street.

He is in his second year of theExecutive MPA program, attempt-ing to add something “more thanspreadsheets” to his resume.

“Wall Street has its own sub-culture,” Seidman says of his sixyears in the financial world. “I wassurrounded by so many smart peo-ple, and you never stand out withyour just-above-the-average smart-ness.” Wall Street culture also star-tled him with its own lingo andintensive interaction in the finan-cial market. “I needed a translatorfor the first six months.” Eventhough he made his way up thecorporate ladder in this field atmajor organizations such asLehman Brothers and GoldmanSachs, he was still drawn to politicsand the public sector.

He decided to leave the cor-porate world, and he is now work-ing at New York Governor GeorgePataki’s office. Seidman findsSIPA’s EMPA program so appeal-ing because it not only allows himto continue working, but he can

apply much of what he learns inthe classroom to his job.

“Here I am dealing with pub-lic-private partnership, to which I can apply a lot of my courseworkat SIPA,” Seidman says excitedly.He is enjoying learning about thevarious political, financial, andlegal aspects of working in thepublic sector.

SIPA also offers Seidman amuch broader perspective. BeforeSIPA, he had only limited expo-sure to international environmentsat his work, “since all their overseasoffices are only located in industri-alized countries.” But at SIPA,with nearly half of the studentscoming from places outside of theU.S., he is learning about coun-tries and cultures that he was neverexposed to in his Wall Street days.He is confident that SIPA is open-ing the door for him to a broaderworld.

Nori Akashi is a second-year MIAstudent concentrating in Interna-tional Media and Communications.Last summer she interned at CNN in Tokyo.

Studying at SIPA with students from aroundthe world has inspiredSvetlana Pinzari, former

vice-governor of the Bank ofMoldova, to promote governmentsupport of university education,particularly in the areas of eco-nomics and technology. Pinzari, a student in the Program in Economic Policy Management(PEPM) at SIPA, is studying forher MPA, focusing in macroeco-nomic policy management.

In 1991, Pinzari was workingin a small village bank whenMoldova gained its independencefrom the USSR. Moldova thencommenced the transition fromSoviet-style government to one ofits own design. During the past 10years, the Moldovan governmenthas revamped its entire economicsystem, often with the assistance ofshort-term training offered bymany international organizations.Pinzari attended the trainings andsteadily moved up the ranks fromthe village bank to vice-presidentof the commercial bank to the very prominent position of vice-governor.

Her willingness to learn andtry new things has helped heradvance in her career and led her toSIPA. “I benefit greatly from meet-ing people from the central banks ofdifferent countries such as Pakistan,Mongolia, Haiti, and China and discussing monetary policy and gov-ernment procedures. It helps me tolearn of the strengths and weak-nesses of different regimes.” Pinzarialso plans to promote a governmentprogram she learned of from a class-mate from Kazakhstan “to sendyoung people to university as ameans to invest in the future.”

She finds it very hard to com-pare studying at SIPA to her previ-ous university study in Moldova,pre-1991. At that time she onlystudied the socialist model of eco-nomics and says that “free discus-sion was not encouraged.” Pinzariappreciates the teaching style ofPEPM Director Francisco Rivera-Batiz, who encourages the studentsto analyze the weakness andstrength of policies.

The learning environment atSIPA does not leave her with verymuch free time, which is her onlyregret. Nonetheless, Pinzari findsthat after so many years of practicalexperience, it is good to be a studentagain. “I just remember that wherethere is a will there is a way!”

Jennifer Dudley is a first-year MPAstudent concentrating in Manage-ment and Institutional Analysis.

Robert Seidman

S t u d e n t P r o f i l e

Robert Seidman

By Jennifer DudleyBy Nori Akashi

S t u d e n t P r o f i l e

Svetlana Pinzari

Svetlana Pinzari

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Searching for Peace

By Rebecca Tunstall

After two years of plan-ning, the NorthernIreland Peace BuildersProgram was launchedthis semester. In thispilot program, 20 par-

ticipants (10 policemen, nine commu-nity workers, and one housing executiveworker) came from Northern Irelandand spent six weeks living, studying,working, and socializing together inNew York City. Through two weeks of classroom lectures and a four-weekinternship placement, the participantswere able to gain a broader under-standing of Northern Ireland’s prob-lems and to build relationships witheach other that would have been virtu-ally impossible in Northern Ireland.

The program was hosted bySIPA’s Picker Center and jointly orga-nized with Frank Costello, head ofCostello Associates, which is involvedin community development invest-ment in Ireland and the U.S. Duringthe first and the final weeks, studentsspent their days in the classroom focus-ing on topics as general as globalizationand as specific as the data gatheringsystem used by the New York PoliceDepartment. Supplemental speakersand activities throughout the programincluded: Lisa Anderson, dean ofSIPA; Senator George Mitchell, seniorresearch fellow at SIPA’s Center forInternational Conflict Resolution;Joseph Esposito, the chief of theNYPD; and visits to the InternationalInstitute on Conflict Resolution,Ground Zero, the United Nations,and the Federal Reserve.

Although it was a challenge formany of the participants to be back inan academic environment and to be sofar away from loved ones, both the

organizers and participants rated theprogram as a huge success. For manyparticipants, this was their first timevisiting the United States, or for thatmatter, leaving Northern Ireland.Coming to New York City and beingbased at Columbia gave them theopportunity to step back and seeNorthern Ireland’s problems in a big-ger context. “In short, our experienceat Columbia University allowed us tosee that the problems we face in ourday-to-day lives at home are no differ-ent, and perhaps lesser to some extent,than the problems many others face inNew York City,” said Ciaran McClean,a community worker from CountyTyrone.

Participants learned specific toolsand techniques to be applied in theircommunity work back home, and,most importantly, formed relationshipswith people whom they wouldn’t normally have acknowledged. StuartMullan, a community worker in WestBelfast, said that before this programhe had “little experience of workingconstructively alongside policemen

and had few personal relationshipswith local officers.”

Community workers and police-men who participated were intentionallychosen from the same communities,and organizers hope that the relation-ships formed at SIPA will continuewhen the participants return backhome. Relations between these twogroups have been strained, and theincreased understanding and knowl-edge gained by the participants, ideally,will increase their cooperation andeffectiveness as peace builders. BillEimicke, director of SIPA’s PickerCenter, said, “I think this program willmake a difference in Northern Ireland.I think if we can replicate it, it willmake an even bigger difference.”

Rebecca Tunstall is a first-year MIA student concentrating in InternationalEconomic Policy. Before coming to SIPA,she researched the political economy of LatinAmerica at the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies in Washington, D.C.

Community workers from Northern Ireland come together for the Picker Center’speace-building program

Picker centernews

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SIPA Reaches Out Around the World

By Christine Ostrowski

SIPA aims to promotean environment inwhich its graduates are able to excel in anincreasingly interde-pendent world. But this

feat cannot be achieved alone. Coop-eration and exchange with universitiesand institutions around the world leadto a more cosmopolitan and rewardingexperience, both for students and faculty members of international andpublic affairs.

One of the most popular andwell-established student exchanges isthe Sciences Po program. Studentsearn a dual degree from SIPA and the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris, spending one year in NewYork and the other in France. It is

a demanding program, in which students must not only take intensecourses in economics, political scienceand international affairs, but must doso in French and English.

“It was definitely a challenge,”says Rosa Ailabouni, an American stu-dent who spent her first year at SciencesPo, and is now at SIPA studying inter-national finance and business. “In addi-tion to having to overcome the languagebarrier, you’re also learning a differenteducational system. But that is alsowhat makes the program so unique.”

Assistant Dean MelissaPoueymirou, who heads the SciencesPo program at SIPA, describes the

program as a multidisciplinary educa-tion in international affairs. “The pro-gram works to prepare students for aglobal career in the private, nonprofitand public sectors,” she said. “Gradu-ates join a growing network of inter-nationally trained decision-makers andprofessionals.”

Ailabouni believes the SIPA/Sci-ences Po dual degree program is a wayfor students of international affairs toget two different perspectives on issuesfacing the world today.

“I think the students that partici-pate get a very well-rounded educa-tion, learning about different conflictsand putting forth resolutions,” she said.

She added, “There is no better pre-paration for working in the internationalarena than immersing oneself in it.”

One of the most recent additionsto SIPA’s exchange programs is an initiative with the London School of Economics (LSE). Similar to theSciences Po program, students will be able to earn a dual MPA degreefrom SIPA and LSE.

Judith Rees, deputy director ofLSE, believes the joint program willfoster students’ expertise in policymanagement and help them develop a unique skill set. “Our goal is toimprove the training of people goinginto the public sector to cope with critical problems in a complex world,”Rees said at the program launch inSeptember 2002.

If approved by the UniversitySenate, the dual-degree program willkick off next fall, sending its first groupof SIPA students to London, andreceiving LSE students from across the pond.

Turning to South America, theExternado program, run by the PickerCenter, is one of the most well estab-lished faculty exchanges at SIPA.Externado is one of the premier uni-versities in Bogotá, Colombia, with acurriculum that Director Bill Eimickesays “parallels SIPA’s MPA and MIAdegrees.”

The program began in the early1990’s, with faculty from Columbiatraveling to Externado to instruct stu-dents concentrating in internationalbusiness. Today, SIPA professors teachcompressed courses in a number ofsubjects ranging from management to accounting and finance.

“It enables us to bring the qualityof a SIPA education to people whootherwise wouldn’t be able to get it,”says Eimicke. “It has also enabled ourfaculty to learn about another impor-tant part of the world.”

Members of the SIPA facultyhave performed joint research with visiting scholars from Externado. As aresult of the program, SIPA has seen ahigh number of Colombian studentsdeciding to continue their educationin New York.

“The Externado program hasproved a huge success, both for thestudents and the faculty,” says Eim-icke.

Looking to the other side of theworld, the newest initiative is SIPA’spartnership with Renmin, a prominentuniversity in China. Robert Mundell, a Nobel Prize economist and SIPA

Cooperation and exchange with universities and institutions around the world

lead to a more cosmopolitan and rewarding experience.

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faculty member, is one of the initiatorsof the partnership.

Economic policy managers fromChina will come to Columbia and par-ticipate in the Program in EconomicPolicy Management (PEPM). At theend of the two-year program theyreceive a master’s of finance degreefrom Renmin.

Next fall, eight to 12 Renmin students will constitute the first class ofthe collaboration effort. In addition tostudent participation, faculty will alsobe involved in the venture. This springtwo or three SIPA economics facultywill travel to China to teach at Renmin.Dean Robin Lewis described the initia-tive as “a capacity-building project.”

Lewis said he is excited about theinitiative. “This is an important newcollaboration with a top Chinese university that promises to offer newopportunities for China’s future economic managers to receive world-class training,” says Lewis.

Finally, SIPA has taken a leadingrole in the launch of a new partnership,appropriately named Alliance, whichencompasses Columbia University as a whole in conjunction with a consor-

tium of schools in France, namelyEcole Polytechnique, La Sorbonne,and Sciences Po. These four institu-tions have come together in a commit-ment to interdisciplinary programssurrounding the issue of globalization.

“There exists a gap of under-standing between the U.S. and Europeon a number of different themesrelated to globalization,” says FrancisVerillaud, a vice president at SciencesPo. “We are attempting to close such a gap through forums and talks led by the participating education institu-tions.”

The consortium is looking toinvolve students, professors and pro-fessionals in working towards solutionsto the various gaps and problems thatexist. Stemming from these initialforums, the group hopes to developworkshops, joint courses, and researchprograms to work towards solutions.

“We don’t want to have a situa-tion in which we have a conferenceand examine all of these inconsistenciesbetween the two systems, and theneverybody goes home and forgetsabout it,” explains Pascal DeLisle, a visiting professor at SIPA from

Sciences Po and one of the organizersof the program. “We want to create a dynamic that encourages continuedpublic dialogue.”

The program held its first ventureon November 7-8 at SIPA on the topicof “Risk in the International System.”Possible themes for future meetingsinclude intellectual property and devel-opment and public utilities. The orga-nizers are planning to hold the nextmeeting in France this spring.

In this increasingly interdependentworld, SIPA is well prepared to meetthe challenges and needs of its studentsand faculty. However, there is no bet-ter way to train for leadership in theinterconnected world of the 21st cen-tury than by experiencing and learningfrom a different intellectual commu-nity and culture.

Christine Ostrowski, SIPA News editor, isa second-year MIA student concentratingin International Media and Communi-cations. Last summer she interned at CBSNews in London.

There is no better

way to train for

leadership in the

interconnected world

of the 21st century

than by experiencing

and learning from a

different intellectual

community and

culture.

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Extending East: SIPA Travels to Asia

By Choongo Moonga

SIPA has extended itspresence in Asia bylaunching a dualdegree program infinance and economicpolicy with Renmin

University in Beijing, China. AtRenmin’s invitation, Dean LisaAnderson traveled to Beijing in May to formally sign an agreementbetween the two schools. She wasjoined by Francisco Rivera-Batiz,the director of SIPA’s Program inEconomic Policy Management(PEPM), PEPM’s assistant director,Maya Haddow, and Economics Professor Robert Mundell.

The dual degree entails joint academic work between the Programin Economic Policy Managementand Renmin University, and is a cul-mination of long-standing coopera-tion between the two universities,Rivera-Batiz said.

“Professor Robert Mundell of the economics department andHong-yi Chen, a former Renminstudent who is now a doctoral can-didate in the Columbia economicsdepartment, have been instrumentalin getting the program imple-mented,” Rivera-Batiz said. Profes-sor Mundell, who has taught at Renmin in the past, strongly recom-mended the program, which beganformally in September of last year.

Dean Anderson is also enthusi-astic about the new program. “Weare committed not only to educatingthe future leaders of the world, butto strengthening the capacity ofother institutions devoted to thesame goal. In this wonderful collab-oration, we are accomplishing bothof these purposes.”

As part of the daylong festivi-ties, Dean Anderson was invited to deliver the Mundell Huang Da Lecture to an audience of Renminstudents, administrators, and severalSIPA alumni. Dean Anderson’s talkcovered the current contributions of social scientists to public policydevelopment and was followed by animpressive traditional dinner hostedby Renmin’s President Baocheng Ji.

Over the course of the three-day trip to Beijing, the dean was also able to meet a number of SIPAalumni including Guoqiang Chen’95, Yue Wang ’95, Steven Zhang’93, Michael Pettis ’81, SongzuoXiang ’01, and Victoria Zhou ’94.

About a dozen alumni joinedher for an informal breakfast, andseveral were able to accompany heron sightseeing excursions to the

Forbidden Palace, Tianamen Squareand the Great Wall. SIPA is espe-cially indebted to PEPM alumnusSongzuo Xiang ’01, who providedthe dean’s transportation and actedas a tour guide on all of her sidetrips. Special thanks are alsoextended to Hong-yi Chen, whoplanned all of the logistics for thetrip, including travel, accommoda-tions, scheduling with Renmin, andtouring.

As part of her May trip to Asia,Dean Anderson also visited Seoul,South Korea, to present a posthu-mous degree to the family of the late JooWon Park (MIA ’01), a SIPAstudent who died from wounds he sustained when his apartmentcaught fire in October 2001.

Park, then 25, was completinghis last semester as an Economic and

Dean Anderson forges partnership with Renmin University in Beijing

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Political Development (EPD) concentrator. A group of about 50 Columbia University alumniattended the reception, hosted byAnderson, where the posthumousaward was formally presented toPark’s family.

“The students appreciated thedean’s decision to honor the latestudent,” said Rodrick Dial, SIPA’sdirector of alumni relations, whoaccompanied the dean on the trip.

After dining privately withPark’s parents and sister on her firstnight in Seoul, the dean hosted adinner the second evening at theInterContinental Hotel for SIPAalumni in Seoul. Thirty-five SIPAgraduates attended, along with sev-eral newly-admitted SIPA studentswho were scheduled to begin theirstudies in the fall of 2002. Woo-TaikKim, the president of the ColumbiaUniversity Alumni Club of Korea,also attended the dinner and for-mally welcomed the dean to Koreawith several of his board members.

The dinner program includedthe dean’s presentation of Park’sdiploma to his family. In addition,Do-Hyung Kim ’99, who providedinvaluable help in scheduling the

dean’s trip and planning the dinner,used the gathering to introduce his idea of forming a SIPA AlumniAssociation in Korea. Kim’s sugges-tion was met with enthusiasm, andhe has since begun to organize a formal alumni association that willcooperate with Columbia’s Univer-sity-wide club.

Thanks to the great hospitalityof Park’s parents, his sister YeonjooPark, and his close friend, Young-ImCho ’02, the dean was able to tourmany of Seoul’s major sites duringthe short trip. Cho, who was also aleader of the SIPA group KoreaFocus, specifically made the trip toSeoul to help the dean and the Parkfamily.

Several months after the trip,SIPA was delighted to receive a gen-erous contribution on behalf of theColumbia University Alumni Clubof Korea. The gift is intended tosupport Korean student activities atSIPA and will be used to provide fel-lowship funds for a Korean studentand support for Korea Focus.

Choongo Moonga is a second-year MIAstudent, concentrating in InternationalEconomic Policy. Last summer he internedat the United Nations in New York.

Yue Wang, MIA ’95, Dean Lisa Anderson, Rodrick Dial, Maya Haddow, and Songzuo Xiang, MIA ’01, at the Great Wall of China

“We are committed not only to educating the future leaders of the world, but to

strengthening the capacity of other institutions devoted to the same goal. In this

wonderful collaboration, we are accomplishing both of these purposes.”

—Dean Lisa Anderson

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On the Job Around the Globe

By Anjali Cordeiro

Some work places areharder to reach thanothers. Last summerLeith Baker traveled by barge to get to hisinternship and returned

by helicopter. Working with theInternational Rescue Committee(IRC) in East Timor in the remoteOecussi district, which was burnt tothe ground in 1999, was probablymore challenging than most summerjobs. The Economic and PoliticalDevelopment concentrator was theIRC’s only international staff personin the district, and his post includedworking on developing proposals fornew projects. Baker said his summerwas extremely fulfilling “becauseworking with the IRC was some-thing I had always wanted to do”.

Like Baker, SIPA students trav-eled all over the globe this summerto get some hands-on experience intheir chosen professions. SunandaMane, a second-year MIA student,spent her summer interning with theUnited Nations Development Pro-gramme (UNDP) in Gharm, Tajik-istan. It was a summer spent largelyin remote areas far away from familyand friends, but one that allowed her to interact very closely with thepeople of Tajikistan. “I was surprisedhow much they knew about thecountry I come from, India,” saysMane. “I was particularly amusedwhen a huge strapping Pathan mancame up to me in one of the villagesand told me that he cries every timehe watches an Indian film,” sheadded, smiling.

Over the summer, Mane evalu-ated the credit component of theUNDP rehabilitation project in the

region, whichhad just com-pleted its fifthyear. “It waswonderful tobe exposed tothe UN systemand see how itworks. TheGharm regionwhere I washad been thecenter of civilwar. I was ableto speak toUNDP staff who had beenthere in the initialyears of the project. I spoke to com-manders who had been in the fore-front of the war. We talk aboutinfrastructure bottlenecks in class-rooms but in this region I saw it inreality,” said Mane, also an EPDconcentrator.

A lot of SIPA students do theirinternships abroad, and the schooloffers a special incentive for thosewho choose to do so. “We offeraround a hundred travel grants everyyear for those interning abroad.They cover up to 60 percent of thestudents’ travel to and from theplace of internship,” says KatarinaHolm-Didio, who is in charge offirst-year internships and recruitmentat SIPA’s Office of Career Services.“Last year OCS was able to increasethe number of internship listings,but we believe that, besides usingthe information put out by us, it isalso very profitable for students todo their own networking to findsomething that meets their specificrequirements.”

Many students are drawn tointernships outside of the UnitedStates. Zeeshan Amin, an MIA stu-dent concentrating in InternationalSecurity Policy (ISP), traveled toIslamabad, Pakistan, to spend hissummer with the Institute of Strate-gic Studies, a think-tank partiallyfunded by the government. Duringthe two months he spent there,Amin did research on the history ofAsian cooperation. “Thailand hadjust proposed the creation of a neworganization called Asian Coopera-tion Dialogue, so we were research-ing to see what potential such anorganization would have and if itcould be in Pakistan’s interest to joinit. I wrote a paper at the end of myresearch which will be published inthe institute’s journal,” says Amin.

His experiences outside theoffice were just as valuable as thework he did, Amin said. “Well,doing research was not somethingthat is new to me,” Amin shrugs,“What was more interesting,

Nori Akashi (left) with fellow CNN intern Rosa Lam, a student atUC Berkeley, at the network’s bureau in Tokyo

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though, was being able to spendtime in the city, getting to knowpeople and government systems.”

Other SIPA students chose todraw from the wealth of opportuni-ties that New York City has to offer.Second-year MPA student KarineJean Pierre spent her summer in theBig Apple, juggling two completelydifferent jobs simultaneously. Fornearly three months, she spent thefirst half of every week at the Officeof Environmental Coordination (a part of City Hall) and the secondhalf at the Institute for Transporta-tion and Development Policy(ITDP) working on its Africa pro-gram.

“At the office of EnvironmentalCoordination I focused on the issueof brown fields: contaminated piecesof land that the community nowwants to use. I focused on legisla-tion, wrote memos. While at ITDP I worked on the newsletter and didresearch on bike tours organized bythe Peace Corps in Africa to create

awareness about AIDS. Both were sodifferent: I got a taste of city govern-ment and of an international NGO.It was wonderful to be able to mixthem both up.”

Jean Pierre’s experiences inNew York were very different fromthose of Nori Akashi, an Interna-tional Media and Communicationsconcentrator who did an internshipwith CNN in Tokyo. Akashi says thatshe had a chance to try her hand ateverything from office managementto setting up studios for a shoot.“The bureau in Tokyo was small,with only four people. As a result,they depended a great deal oninterns, and I managed to learn a lot.I did a little bit of everything, fromproducing stories and editing totranslating from Japanese to Eng-lish.”

All in all, it was a productiveand interesting summer for SIPAstudents.

Anjali Cordeiro is a first-year MIA student concentrating in InternationalMedia and Communication and SouthAsian studies. Before coming to SIPA, she worked as a journalist in India.

Leith Baker had a rough commute to workthis summer

Election meeting to choose village representatives in Gharm, Tajikistan, where Sunanda Mane interned with the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme

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In the final session, we were asked aboutour experience at the town hall. Did we learnanything new? Did group discussions lead us tochange our minds on any aspect of the rebuild-ing effort? When asked how confident we werethat the city would listen to our voices, theresponse was generally negative (approximately10% very confident, 25% confident, 45% some-what confident, and 20% not confident). One ofthe planning representatives tried to suggest thatsuch a vote translated to 80% of the room believ-ing they would be listened to; he was heartilybooed.

Despite the cynicism of the crowd, the dayleft me feeling empowered. I was impressed witheverything about the day — from the facilitatorsto the technology, the questions asked, the waythe groups worked together, and the responsesof the planners and city representatives. In par-ticular, I was encouraged by the planners’ pledgeto hold more town halls as the process continuesand kick off each town hall with a report card, if that’s what it takes to prove to us that they arelistening. But most of all, I was proud of makingmy voice heard and honored to have the oppor-tunity to participate in an historic process, theresult of which will stand as a great symbol ofthe freedoms we Americans hold so dearly andtake, all too often, for granted.

On a tour of an old palace, she glimpseda courtyard that had been the only placewhere women were allowed to socialize andsit outdoors. “It shocked me into under-standing on an emotional level what it musthave been like for a woman,” she said.

The experience inspired her to create aseries of paintings called “Moroccan Enclo-sures,” in which she explored the idea ofhow people lived in the past and the stric-tures imposed on women. The paintingswere exhibited last fall at SIPA.

Over the last few years, Brunswick’sworks have been exhibited in locales rangingfrom New York to Slovenia, Tokyo toJerusalem. Instead of becoming “a diplomatwho would travel to all the glamorous capi-tals of the world,” as she once envisionedherself doing, she has become an artistwhose works do that.

Last summer, Brunswick was invited toMorocco for a three-week residency duringthe town of Asilah’s International Arts Festi-val. She became part of a delegation of artistswhose creations served as vehicles for dialogueabout international issues. The experiencefulfilled her long ago dream of working indiplomacy in an unexpected way.

“Essentially, it worked out in the end,”she said.

Sharing art and ideas with artists fromaround the world “was a wonderful experi-ence. The feeling of getting along with otherpeople, I found it was an easy thing to do,”she said.

Besides some of her paintings,Brunswick also left behind a replica of aTibetan prayer wheel that she made anddubbed a “peace wheel” for participants inthe program to sign. It was another personalact of artistic diplomacy, she said.

“If everybody thinks about peace andmakes up their mind that peace is somethingthey truly want, then maybe some day downthe line, we’ll have it.”

Celeste Tarricone, SIPA News assistant editor, is afirst-year MIA student concentrating in Interna-tional Media and Communications and Economicand Political Development. Before coming to SIPA,she worked as a journalist in Rhode Island andLatin America.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 (Cecile Brunswick)

Alumninews

Since the last issue of SIPA News, SIPA was pleased to hostthree events in our continuing Alumni Author Series.Please check your local bookstore or your online resource

to find these books.

Thursday, June 6, 2002

Jesse Larner ’02 presented a reading and discussion of Mount

Rushmore: An Icon Reconsidered. Thunders Mouth Press/Nation

Books: 2002.

Thursday, October 17, 2002Deborah Scroggins ’95 presented a reading and discussion withSIPA students of Emma’s War: A Story of Civil War in the Sudan.Pantheon: 2002.

Thursday, October 31, 2002Matthew Stevenson ’78presented a reading and discussion of Letters of Transit. Odysseus: 2001.

Please contact sipaalum@columbia.edu or call 212-854-8671 if you have a book you would like to present to an alumni or student audience.

SIPA Alumni Authors Series

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MPA Graduates Celebrate Their 10thReunion

In October, SIPA hosted the 10threunion for the MPA Class of 1992,one of the only 10-year reunionsthe school has ever sponsored.

The reunion was a tremendoussuccess and the brainchild of JamesLonergan, who has kept in touch withmany of his MPA classmates sincegraduation. “We shared commoninterests, and are a group of dedicatedpeople who wanted to make a differ-ence,” he said. “Some of my bestfriends are from the program.”

He and his reunion co-chair,Susan Smith, worked with the Office

of Alumni Relations throughout thesummer to plan the cocktail receptionand dinner, which was held at the Kel-logg Center at SIPA.

Over 30 of their approximately60 classmates were able to attend withtheir partners/spouses, and manymore alumni contributed to the 10-year reunion booklet, which pro-vides classmates with updated contactand personal information.

“It’s still exciting to be here,”saidDebbie Jabobs Levy, a tenant orga-nizer. “The 15th floor brings backmemories of anticipation, excitement

and accomplishment.”Joining Dean Anderson to wel-

come alumni were Steve Cohen andNancy Degnan, who have been involvedin the MPA program almost since itsinception. Many former students traveled from as far away as Caracas,Montreal and Honolulu for the event.

While SIPA does not have astrong tradition of holding classreunions, Rodrick Dial, the new director of alumni relations, is hopingto work with individual classes andprograms who are interested in orga-nizing a reunion.

Alumninews

Raphael Smith

Marc Andre Blanchardand Ken Miyamoto catchup on each other’s lives

Friends, family and formerclassmates gathered on October 4, 2002 to celebratethe full endowment of the

Raphael Smith Award Fund, and tohonor the memory of this exceptionalSIPA student. The award is given outevery year at commencement for thebest essay in Slant, SIPA’s studentmagazine.

Although the award was createdin 1995, this year marks a milestone.Last year $25,000 was raised, ensuringthat the award is fully endowed in per-petuity.

Smith, an IMC concentrator wholoved to travel, had worked for TheNew York Times during his secondsemester at SIPA and was on the edito-

rial board of Slant. In the summer afterhis first year, Smith died in an accidentwhile attempting to realize his dreamof retracing an extraordinary journeyundertaken by his stepfather, RobertE. Fulton Jr., who rode a motorcyclefrom Paris to Tokyo in 1932.

In their speeches, both DeanAnderson and Greg Dalton (MIA’94), a friend and former classmate,acknowledged the bittersweet natureof the occasion: both celebrating thismilestone and mourning the loss of an adventurous and compassionateindividual. Both Dalton and DeanAnderson also remembered Smith’slate mother, Anne Boireau Fulton,who had worked tirelessly to make the award possible.

Dalton, who was instrumental incarrying the project forward, said ofSmith, “He was one of those guys whohad a twinkle in his eye. His adventur-ism and spirit embodied the best ofSIPA, and we wanted to capture thatby recognizing exceptional travelreportage that embodies his spirit.”

Former classmates in attendanceincluded Michele Douglas Eleta (MIA’94), who traveled from Panama toattend the reception, and Hilary Dunst(MIA ’93), who remembered Smith’s“joyful spirit and expansive way ofthinking.”

Clara Perez is a first-year MIA student concentrating in International Media andCommunications.

Reception Celebrates Endowment ofAward In Memory of SIPA Student

By Clara Perez

Judy Salwen and BarbaraKeller enjoying an eveningon the 15th floor

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Alumninews

Letter From Jakarta

By Danielle Garbe ’01

Dear Family and Friends,On Saturday, October 12,

I was at a dinner party in Jakarta withEmbassy friends, including a securityofficer and the emergency duty officer.We were about to leave for a nightclubwhen their phones started ringing. Thenews of a bomb blast in Bali shockedus all, particularly as the magnitude ofthe damage and destruction becameapparent.

Many of our Embassy staff wereout of town over the holiday weekend,including a number of people vaca-tioning in Bali, my consul generalvacationing outside Jakarta, and mytwo consular colleagues attending aconference in Korea. That left thedeputy consul general and me duringthe hectic first 48 hours to coordinatethe American Citizen services fromJakarta with our Consulate in Surabayaand our Consular Agency in Bali. Thefirst day I did double duty helping theambassador and the deputy chief of themission, answering the phones as wellas trying to track down and assist theAmericans in Bali. I was up until 2 a.m.on Monday taking the call about thefirst dead American from the friendwho identified her body. We workedthe phones and the authorities for 24hours straight, convincing them torelease the body on a visual identifica-tion of the scar on her back and a fingerprint match. It was a logisticalmiracle and a relief that we were ableto provide this small comfort to thefamily —knowing they would havetheir daughter back when so manyothers were still in hospitals unidenti-fied.

Our consular officer in Surabaya,Tom Daniels, was the first to arrive in Bali on October 14. He began the

coordination efforts toidentify our presumeddead victims. Withinthe first three weeks,the Australian DisasterVictim Identificationteam had confirmedfive more Americanvictims through dentalrecords and just lastweek confirmed thelast victim through DNA testing. Tomwas there at the scene every day, walk-ing through the morgue to check forbodies, giving dental records to theteam, and making sure the odontolo-gists there had enough dental suppliesto keep making matches. I went out toBali on October 21 to assist his effortsand to work on the list of 45 missingAmericans. Over two weeks, I checkedhotels, airline manifests, and immigra-tion records to track down the individ-uals who had not called home yet totell family and friends that they wereokay (or whose family and friends had not yet called us to say they wereokay). Tom and I worked long hours,talking to the victims’ families almostevery day as we explained to themwhat we were doing to identify theirloved ones, treat the remains, and ship them and their belongings home.By the end of October, we reached the end of our tasks and were ready to return home ourselves.

I returned to Bali on November15 to participate in the Hindu cere-mony that would cleanse the islandand purify the souls of the victims, andwith the hope of doing some of myown mental purification. I found theisland awash in red, white, and bluesigns and T-shirts reading “Bali CintaDamai” or “Bali Loves Peace,” much

as our American cities were awash withred, white, and blue flags after Septem-ber 11. On the same day in New York,the families of September 11 openedthe private viewing platform at theWorld Trade Center to the families ofthe Bali bombings to participate in aHindu purification ceremony. Theyhad a procession down to Battery Park and threw flowers in the HudsonRiver as the sun set behind the Statueof Liberty.

Indonesia was at the top of myjob preferences when I received my bidlist on September 12, 2001, because I figured the world’s largest Muslimcountry would be an interesting placeto work. I certainly have not been dis-appointed. All it takes is dealing withone emergency to see that the work of protecting Americans overseas trulyis the primary mission of the ForeignService.

It has been incredibly rewarding,though heart-breaking and exhaust-ing, to do this work on behalf of theU.S. government and the families whoneed our assistance.

You are all in my thoughts andmissed very much.

Love,Danielle

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Classnotes

1969RICHARD FOSTER, MIA dfoster@brazilwatch.comDick is the publisher of threenewsletters dealing with pol-itics and economics in Braziland Argentina. The name of the company is BrazilWatch Publications, locatedin Bethesda, MD. The com-pany was started in 1984and the original publication,Brazil Watch, a fortnightlyanalytical report on Brazilfor businesses, enters its20th year in January. Dickalso teaches at MontgomeryCollege in Rockville, MD.

1972MELVYN J. SIMBURG, MIA msimburg@sksp.comMelvyn is a partner in Sim-burg, Ketter, Sheppard andPurdy LLP and has beenappointed to the faculty forthe seminar on “Layering inthe International Market,”which took place in Chilethis past August. Melvynchaired the Panel on Agencyand Distribution Agreements.

1975TOM GOODHUE, IFTom has just published thefirst biography ever writtenof the woman who startedthe world’s first dinosaurcraze, Curious Bones: MaryAnning and the Birth ofPaleontology. Tom is a rev-erend and the executivedirector of the Long IslandCouncil of Churches.

1978GEORGE MARSHALL WOR-THINGTON, MIA/MBA Worthworldtx@sprintmail.comGeorge has seen his con-sulting practice go fromstrength-to-strength sincerelocating his firm to Hous-ton a little over two yearsago. He currently has fourclients, with proposals outto other organizations withwhich he hopes to establishrelationships in the nearfuture. Among the serviceshe is providing to thesegroups are: strategic plan-ning/adaptive marketing;philanthropic marketing;event marketing; marketingnew services and venturecreation; and corporatesponsorships and cause-related marketing.

1981AUSTIN C. AMALU, MIAAustin is the senior regionaladministrator with the UNDepartment of Peacekeep-ing. He was recently inKisangani, DemocraticRepublic of Congo, withthe UN Security Council in an effort to broker peacein the ongoing war in thecountry.

1983RACHEL FOSTER, MPArachel.foster@ha.osd.milRachel was appointed direc-tor of financial managementand performance at theOffice of the Secretary ofDefense. For this positionRachel will get to use theskills and knowledge she has learned to help improvefinancial management of theprogram. She hopes to beable to make a differencefrom the inside.

1986FRED BURKE, MIA, JD ’87Fred.Burke@Bakernet.comFred and his wife, Tran ThiBich Loan, had their firstchild, a healthy baby girlnamed Mai Ly, on March8th (International Women’sDay) in Saigon, Vietnam.Fred is still working in Viet-nam as the managing partnerof the Ho Chi Minh Cityand Hanoi offices of theinternational law firm ofBaker & McKenzie. In his(increasingly rare) sparetime, he plays with a rockband called “DURIANDURIAN”.

DR. JOSEPH M. HENNING,MIA Dr. Henning has beenawarded a Fulbright Scholargrant to lecture at TohokuUniversity, Japan, where hewill teach courses on the his-tory of US-Japan relations.Dr. Henning is the author of the book Outposts of Civi-lization: Race, Religion andthe Formative Years of Amer-ican-Japanese Relations,which won the Stuart L.Bernath Book Prize by theSociety for Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations.

1987DOUGLAS CLIMAN, MIA ClimanDP@state.govDouglas left Buenos Aires to become the economiccounselor at the AmericanEmbassy in Islamabad.

PEDRO VASQUEZ-COLMENARES, MPA pvc@issste.gob.mx Last October, Pedro becamethe CFO for ISSSTE —Mexico’s Social SecurityAgency for the Public SectorEmployees. ISSSTE providespensions, health services,personal loans, cultural and

social activities, plus childrennursing, funerary servicesand home loans. Pedrojoined ISSSTE in order tohelp design a profoundfinancial reform for the orga-nization.

1988STEPHEN GAULL, MIA sgaull@hotmail.comStephen received an appoint-ment as an executive fellowat the Export-Import Bankof the United States, wherehe is originating structuredand project finance transac-tions, and advising on loanrestructurings in emergingmarket countries.

STEPHEN C. MERCADO,MIA stevemercado@erols.comStephen has written a historyof Japanese military intelli-gence, The Shadow Warriorsof Nakano: A History of theImperial Japanese Army’sElite Intelligence School(Dulles, VA: Brassey’s,2002).

1990PETER S. DUKLIS, JR., MIAduklis@hqda.army.milPeter and his wife, Elisabetta,welcomed their third child,Diego Stefano Duklis, onNovember 14, 2001. Diegojoins Derik (5 yrs) andAlexandra (4 yrs). Peter alsograduated from the USArmy War College in June2002 and received a Masterof Strategic Studies from thecollege.

JAMES HOLTJE, MIA James was recently namedmanager of leadership com-munications New York atSiemens. Prior to Siemens,James worked at WPP’sBrouillard Communications.

James will serve as managingeditor for all of Siemens’print and online publica-tions, and will also write arti-cles, executive speeches andother thought leadershippieces. He will also beresponsible for the directionand content of the SiemensCorporation intranet, as wellas a special web site, whichprovides the company’s topU.S. leaders with competi-tive information and a meansof sharing best practices.

HARRY ROBERT SULLIVAN,MIA harry_sullivan@yahoo.comHarry married Julia Mei onSeptember 15, 1999. At thetime, he was working asdirector of regional telecom-munications policy at theOffice of the U.S. TradeRepresentative. His respon-sibilities focused on workingwith U.S. industry to iden-tify barriers to trade intelecommunications tradeand negotiating with foreigncountries to address thoseissues. In July 2001, Harryand Julia left for Cameroon,where Harry is the chief ofthe U.S. Embassy’s com-bined political/economicsection; he is responsibleboth for relations withCameroon and EquatorialGuinea.

1991MARGARET FORGIONE, MPAMargaret was appointedManhattan Borough Com-missioner in February 2002.She is the agency advocatefor the delivery of trans-portation services in the borough and advises theCommissioner on all sensi-tive issues affecting trans-portation in the borough.

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1992LAURA HARWOOD, MPAlaura.harwood@erg.comLaura can’t believe it’s been10 years! She is currently living and working inArlington, VA, as an envi-ronmental policy analyst forERG. Laura provides techni-cal, communication, andevaluation support to a vari-ety of EPA programs includ-ing pollution prevention,compliance assistance, wastereduction and recycling, andperformance measurement.

MARC SELVERSTONE, MIAms9pc@virginia.eduMarc is an assistant professorat the University of Virginia,holding down a variety ofjobs, such as editing andannotating the KennedyWhite House Tapes as part ofthe Miller Center of PublicAffair’s Presidential Record-ings Project. In addition,Marc is the managing editorfor AmericanPresident.org, as well as co-editor of a printand online project to improvethe quality of standards-basedhistory education in Virginiahigh schools. Finally, he isteaching courses in the UVAhistory department on theCold War and U.S. Diplo-matic History. On the per-sonal side, Marc and his wifeBonnie had a son, Jake, onJune 14, 2001.

1993MICHAEL TATU-CASTLEN,MPA Michael was recentlyappointed executive vicepresident at Population Com-munications International.

LINDA DWORAK, MIA ldworak@gidc.orgOn August 17, Linda wasmarried to Juan Munoz.The couple lives and worksin Manhattan.

CARY KENNEDY, MPA carykennedy@earthlink.netIn the 2000 election cycle,Cary authored a ground-breaking state constitutionalamendment on PK-12 education funding that wasapproved by the voters ofColorado. After leaving herposition in the state budgetoffice under former governorRoy Romer, Cary authored a constitutional amendmentto guarantee specific fundinglevels for PK-12 education. Itis the largest funding measureever approved by the state’svoters. Cary lives in Denverand is married with two chil-dren, Kadin (12-23-97) andKyra (10-21-99). She currentlyworks for Educare Colorado,a nonprofit organization,advancing state policy toimprove the quality of child-care and early education.

ANNELIESE MAUCH, MIAamauch@yahoo.comAnneliese recently welcomeda new member into the family, Mia Hattie, bornSeptember 12, 2000.

1994MARIO AGUILAR Y MAYA,MIA Mario heads the Ministry ofFinance at the governmentof the Mexican state of Gua-najuato.

JAY CHAUDHURI, MIA CHAUDHURI@mail.jus.state.nc.usJay is currently serving asspecial counsel to NorthCarolina Attorney GeneralRoy Cooper, where he man-ages a number of policy ini-tiatives, particularly in thearea of education and juve-nile justice. Previously, Jayserved as Roy Cooper’s legislative counsel, when hewas State Senate MajorityLeader. Jay recently closedon a house in Raleigh, so he

invites fellow SIPA alums tocome and visit if they everget out of the New York-Washington axis.

GREG MARSHALL, MPA gregory.marshall@usdoj.govSince 1998, Greg has been liv-ing in the District of Colum-bia, where he works as anAssistant United States Attor-ney. Currently Greg prose-cutes cases in the Fraud andPublic Corruption Section ofthe U.S. Attorney’s Office,and has also served in theOffice’s Sex Offense andDomestic Violence, GeneralFelony, and Appellate Sections.Prior to joining the Office,Greg clerked for two years fora federal appellate judge inFlorida, and spent a year in private practice in New York.Greg earned a law degree in1993 from Cornell University.

SHERRILL STROSCHEIN, MIAstrosche@ohio.eduSherrill is an assistant profes-sor of Political Science atOhio University in Athens,Ohio. She teaches courses inthe areas of East EuropeanPolitics, Nationalism, Com-parative Politics, and Inter-national Relations. Sherrilloften travels to Boston tovisit her boyfriend, who cur-rently resides there.

1995KLAUS FAMIRA, MIA Klaus.famira@bmaa.gv.atKlaus will return to Belgiumafter three years in Rome,where he is currently finish-ing his dissertation on theintegration of Schengen inthe European Union.

1996ELIOT HIGHET, MIAEliot and her husband, WillyPatty, recently had a babyboy named Andrew Patty.

SHARON KAHN, MPA shkahn@hotmail.comOn May 1st, 2002, Sharonand her husband, Larry, welcomed into the worldtheir son, Jeremy Noah.

KATHERINE METRES, MIA kmmetres@hotmail.com.Katherine has been servingas second secretary for polit-ical affairs at the AmericanEmbassy to Italy sinceDecember 2001. Her port-folio includes the UN andinternational organizations,international organizedcrime, Sub-Saharan Africa,East Asia, and Latin Amer-ica. In February 2001, shecompleted a tour as consular,economic, and commercialsections chief at the Ameri-can Embassy Nouakchott, in Mauritania, West Africa.Katherine would love tohear from long-lost class-mates.

SARAH WHITE, MIA/MBAsarah_c_white@hotmail.comSarah is currently in theD.C. area working as asports producer. Sarah hasher own production com-pany called Big Water Pro-ductions and primarilyfocuses on extreme sportsproduction. She has been inthe sports industry sincegraduation, producing bothonline and for TV shows.On a personal note, Sarahwas married last summer inGreece.

1998CAROLINA AGUILERAAguileraC@aol.com Carolina had her first book,Our Heroes, published byPlaneta in August. The bookprofiles the Latino firemenwho died on September 11.This is the first time thatPlaneta, the largest of theSpanish language publishers,released a book in English.

The book is also available in Spanish, under the titleNuestros Héroes.

CLAUDE DEMERSclaude.demers@dfait-maeci.gc.caFor the past four yearsClaude has been working atthe Canadian Department ofForeign Affairs and Interna-tional Trade. Currently,Claude is second secretary at the Canadian Embassy inTokyo.

ALEX MARTINEZ, MPAAMartinez@uwnyc.orgAlex has recently embarkedon a new position with theUnited Way, where he isworking to help women andfamilies infected or affectedby AIDS. Although Alexdoes not do direct serviceprovision, he funds agenciesthat do the work.

TASARA MUZORORI, PEPM Since September 2001,Tasara has been employedby a company called TechfinResearch (Pvt) Ltd. in hishome country of Zimbabwe.The company carries outbusiness, economic andinvestment research for Zim-babwe and the SouthernAfrican Development Com-munity. Tasara maintainsthat the training he receivedat Columbia is invaluable tohis career and hopes one dayto enroll in an EconomicsPhD program at Columbia.

ADRIENNE SANDERS, MIA adrienne_sanders@yahoo.comAdrienne is currently areporter at the San FranciscoExaminer.

Laura Limonic is a second-year MIA student concentrat-ing in International EconomicPolicy.

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European Travel Log

By Brigette Bryant

The fall semester of 2002proved to be an excitingtime at the School ofInternational and PublicAffairs. As is her custom,the dean planned an

annual excursion “somewhere in theworld” to visit SIPA graduates. MexicoCity, Tokyo, Shanghai, Korea, Russia,and Hong Kong are just a few of theinternational destinations which havebeen a part of the dean’s recent travels.Six weeks into the semester, DeanAnderson traveled to London, wherewe had occasion to visit with a numberof SIPA graduates and also to celebratethe school’s new dual degree programwith the London School of Econom-ics. As luck would have it, I accompa-nied the dean to London and also tooka side trip to Paris to meet with gradu-ates in that beautiful city. Here is asnapshot of our trip to Europe:

Day 1 — James Rubin ’84 wasour first stop in London. As formerassistant secretary of state for publicaffairs in the Clinton Administrationand the State Department’s chiefspokesman under U.S. Secretary ofState Madeleine Albright, Rubinupdated us on his post-Washington,D.C. professional activities. Currently,he heads his own consulting firm inLondon. We also met with MalcolmStewart ’78 IF, ’79 MIA, managingdirector, Citicorp at Canary Wharf forlunch at Ubon and John Quitter ’67,’68, chairman, The Northern Partner-ship Limited and chairman, TheBritish-Icelandic Chamber of Com-merce for afternoon tea. Both alumnishared their student experiences whileat SIPA and their professional lives aspost-graduates. The dean ended her

day with the first of a series of meetingsat Human Rights Watch, an organiza-tion whose board she is a member of.

Day 2 — The second day of ourtrip was brimming with activities: thedean’s in London and mine in Paris.While the dean attended her morningboard meeting at Human RightsWatch, I flew to Paris to visit the Cen-tre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Strate-giques and to meet with three SIPAgraduates. My first meeting was withBruno Frydman ’80, former presidentof AMC Europe, followed by a visit toCentre d’Etudes Diplomatiques etStrategiques, where alumnus MichaelStrauss ’76 is working on his Ph.D. My last meeting of the day was withGiorgio Stock ’88, vice president,Global Licensing for Disney Publish-ing Worldwide. As I listened to thesemen and those I met the day beforediscuss their career paths, I wasreminded how incredibly preparedSIPA alumni are for any career paththey choose and struck by how eachone could — with a SIPA degree and awealth of experience — chart a newcourse in any professional direction.That really is the “beauty” of SIPA.

Back in London, the day wasmarked with an event in celebration ofSIPA’s new dual MPA degree programwith the London School of Economics(LSE). The program, which will beginin fall 2003, will give students theopportunity to study policymakingfrom a trans-atlantic perspective atleading institutions in two of theworld’s most international cities.

Day 3 — Michael Lehman ’71was our first SIPA meeting of the day,followed by an evening alumni recep-tion at the Kingsway Hall. The recep-

tion was well attended and provided anexcellent opportunity for SIPA gradu-ates to make connections not only witheach other but also to reconnect withthe school and Dean Anderson. Thedean delivered a report on SIPA’srecent developments, future plans, andactivities to a room of over 40 guests,which included Advisory Board Chair-man, A. Michael Hoffman, managingpartner of Palamon Partners, andboard member Jeanette S. Wagner,former vice chairman of Estee Lauder,and her husband, Paul Wagner, whowere in from New York City.

The evening concluded with aprivate dinner hosted by A. MichaelHoffman and John Quitter in the Ter-race Room at the RAC Club. Hoffmanand Quitter were joined by MercedesHoffman, Peter and Susan Arndt, both from the class of 1990, ArpadKrizsan ’94, Kevin Caulfield ’84, Elizabeth Katkin ’92, her husband,Richard Waryn, Michael Lehman ’72,Bronwen Manby ’92, Erich Stock ’88,Jeanette and Paul Wagner, and JianjunZhang ’95.

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Brigette Bryant with Michael J. Strauss, 1976 Inter-national Fellow, at the Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiqueset Strategiques in Paris

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SIPA received gifts fromalmost 1,100 alumni,friends, corporations andfoundations in 2001–02.Together the gifts totalapproximately $4.8 mil-lion. Below are the 356donors who gave $250 or more between July 1,2001, and June 30, 2002.Not listed are the 730donors who gave under$250, to whom we arevery grateful.

$1,000,000 and aboveThe Freeman Foundation

$500,000 – $999,999Gordon Gray, Jr.

$250,000 – $499,999Foundation for the Center for Energy,

W. Alton Jones Foundation, Incorporated

$100,000 – $249,999Carnegie Corporation of New York

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Korea Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Leonard RiggioThe Riggio Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Ukrainian Studies Fund, Incorporated

The World Bank

$50,000 – $99,999Anonymous Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr. & Dr. Camille Cosby

International Women’s Health Coalition

National Futures AssociationOlayan Charitable Trust Joan Schneeweiss Taipei Economic and CulturalOffice

Trace Foundation United States-Japan Foundation

Verizon Foundation Lan Yang ’96 and Bruno Z. Wu

$25,000 – $49,999Abdel Muhsen Al-Qattan Al-Qattan Charitable Trust American International Group, Incorporated

Banco Itau, S. A. Ambassador Donald Blinken & Vera Blinken

Blinken Foundation, Incorporated

Canadian Government Patricia M. Cloherty ’68Richard A. DebsThe Debs Foundation The Florence J. Gould Foundation

Mary W. Harriman Foundation A. Michael Hoffman ’73Harley L. Lippman ’79J.P. Morgan Chase & Company

Kathleen H. MortimerThe Kosciuszko Foundation,Incorporated

Leucadia National CorporationAmbrose Monell FoundationMerrill Lynch & Company, Incorporated

Smith Richardson Foundation,Incorporated

Juan A. & Mariana Sabater Jeffrey L. Schmidt ’79 IF & Cert.

Jeffrey L. Schmidt CharitableTrust

Jeanette S. Wagner

$10,000 – $24,999Shaler Adams FoundationAnonymousMina Schricker AtabaiPeter A. Berton ’56 Cert.Laszlo Z. Bito James L. Broadhead, Esq. ’63 IF & Sharon Broadhead

Olivia B. CarinoRobert Meade Chilstrom, Esq. ’69 & Buena Chilstrom

Ramzi A. DalloulSteven Aaron DenningAmbassador Edward ElsonEstee Lauder, Incorporated Fannie Mae Foundation Francis FinlayFrancis Finlay Foundation Genesis Ten Dr. Leslie Gruss & Brenda Gruss

Joseph Man-Kyung Ha ’71 Cert.

James HarmonThe Harmon Foundation Investcorp International, Incorporated

James E. Jordan ’71The Jordan Company LLC Walid H. KattanSaid T. KhouryNemir Kirdar James Leitner ’77 and Sandra Shahinian Leitner ’76

Brian C. Lippey ’78 & Jackie MacLeod

Peter Neill Marber ’87 & Andrea Marber

New York Mercantile Exchange

Vahid F. Noshirvani James D. Seymour ’61 Cert.Saudi Arabian Oil CompanySG Cowen Securities Corporation

Tahereh H. ShirvaniJoan E. Spero ’68Joseph S. SteinbergJoseph and Diane SteinbergCharitable TrustMalcolm J. Stewart ’79Henry M. StrageThe Alberta & Henry Strage Foundation

The Tinker Foundation Incorporated

Trans-Pacific Foundation, Incorporated

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLPVincent ViolaKathryn E. Wilbur Neal L. Wolkoff Alexander E. Zagoreos ’64David W. Zalaznick

$5,000 – $9,999The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Incorporated

Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kohn, PLLC

Atlantic Advisors, LLC Estate of the Most HonorableBapsy Marchioness of Winchester

Judith Brown ’71 IF & Michael Meyers

Centennial Foundation Dar Al Handasah Consultants Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson ’66

Lawrence D. GlaubingerRalph O. Hellmold ’64Joan Klitzman Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & MawGregory McLaughlin Meyers Charitable Family FundCharles S. MonatNew York Community Trust Mina Nikou Philanthropic Collaborative,Incorporated

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPJulie Lynn Rasmussen ’90William A. RyanKamal A. ShairScherman Foundation, Incorporated

Shearman & Sterling Claire C. Shipman ’94Shirvani Metallurgical Consulting

Abdul Majeed ShomanKen SunshineKen Sunshine Consulting, Incorporated

UBS Warburg Jens Ulltveit-Moe ’68Geraldine WangThe Richard C. Welden Foundation

Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation

$2,500 – $4,999Wilder K. Abbott ’61Anonymous Volodymyr O. Bazarko Michael H. Coles Coles Family Foundation Gregory R. Dalton ’94The William & Mary GreveFoundation, Incorporated James R. Helvey, III ’84John W. Kiser, IIIDonna L. Klitzman, M.D., F.C.C.P.

Robert I. Kopech ’77Claudette M. Mayer ’76Mehrangiz Nikou Shahnaz Nikou Oscar Capital Management, LLC

Mary A.H. Rumsey Foundation

$1,000 – $2,499Lisa Anderson ’76 Cert.Suzanne Bakken, R.N. Robin L. Berry ’78Patricia Bevacqua Donald M. Blinken The Boblink FoundationKim Christopher Bradley ’83Marcia Beth Burkey ’88Charles E. Cheever, III Leo M.F. Chirovsky Stephen F. Cohen ’69 Cert.Columbia University Club

of Washington DC, Inc. Courtroom Television

Network LLC Anne Cannon Cowles ’89Robert S. Diamond John William Dickey ’92W. Leslie Duffy, Esq. Walter A. Eberstadt Collen A. Edwards Peter D. Ehrenhaft ’57Elise D. Frick John A. Grammer, Jr. ’63Edgar C. Harrell ’72 Cert.The JKW FoundationHenry D. Kahn Lila J. Kalinich, M.D. Hisanori Kataoka ’98David A. Kay ’64Julia Grammer Kislevitz Melvyn N. Klein, Esq. ’65 IFPhilip Koether Philip Koether, Architects Pichon P. Y. & Vivien L. LohT. Dixon Long Dale A. Lucas James Luikart ’72Alex Machaskee Sophia G. McConnell Edward M. McNally, Esq. Stanislaw A. Milewski Sergio Millerman Daniel N. Mondrow, M.D. London Morawski The London & Mary

Morawski Charitable Foundation

Richard D. Parsons Henry M. Paulson Estate of Dasturgada Jal PavryPercy Parker Phillips ’97Pulmonary & Intensive Care

Specialists of New JerseyLincoln Rathnam Harland A. Riker, Jr. Judith O. Rubin

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Safra National Bank of New York

Springcreek Foundation-Dividend

Carol Gary Tatti ’82Elizabeth K. Valkenier ’51

Cert.Katrina Vanden Heuvel Margo Viscusi Wilford Welch

$500 – $999William Armstrong Pearl Berman Kenneth Herbert Blackman ’00Dinah K. Bodkin Patrick F. Bohan Matthew Penn Boyer ’94Cengiz Cagar ’78Cardiology Associates of New Brunswick

Central Jersey Oncology Center, P.A.

The Cleveland FoundationRichard Wayne Coffman Miriam Cohen Michael A. Coye ’79 IFDavid N. Dinkins Karin Falencki Gerald D. Fischbach Michael William Galligan ’84Ibrahim A. Gambari Richard N. Gardner Lawrence M. Gelb FoundationEsther Goldsmith ’96Joseph E. Gore Radmila Gorup John D. Greenwald, Esq. ’71 IF

Neal H. Harwood ’61Joseph Kindall Hurd, III ’94Horace P. Jen ’93George I. Karp, M.D. Lauren Jennifer Kelley ’84Thomas L. Kennedy Miodrag Kukrika Jane P. Laudon George M. Lazarus, M.D. ’69 IF

Nathan Leventhal, Esq. ’66 IFCara Londin Lorin Marsh, Ltd.The Love Foundation, Incorporated

William Kennedy Love ’90Herbert H. P. Ma Ann Wilbur MacKenzie Alan B. McDougall ’92Deborah Duff Milenkovitch Andrew J. Nathan M. Michael Ogan Ron Oppenheimer Scott Alan Otteman ’89Chang P’eng-Yuan Hugh Patrick Carol Jean Patterson ’76Peter J. Pettibone Polish American Congress of Western MA, Incorporated

Polish Student Organization of New York

Anthony C.E. Quainton Philip L. Schiffman, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Christopher William Smart ’89 Cert.

Edward Byron Smith ’70Matthew M. Stevenson ’78Steven T. Stokes Guillermo M. R. Strauss ’77David H. Taylor, Jr. Christos John Thomas ’90Miroslav M. Todorovich Joseph H. Trevisani ’88James Williamson Uehlinger ’92Desa V. Wakeman Gavin Conrad Wellington ’95Jayne S. Werner Sandra K. Wigler Chang Yu-Fa Madeleine H. Zelin Thomas David Zweifel ’96

$250 – $499Daniel Charles Altman ’96The Armstrong FoundationJohn L. Armstrong Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D. Maureen R. Berman ’73Kenneth Lawrence Blacklow ’93Amy E. Brenner ’94Rebecca Bromley ’70Donald D. Bronkema ’57 Cert.Pauline Ho Bynum Allen L. Byrum ’72Joan O. Camins ’73 IFLisa E. Cleary Philip A. Dabice ’77Carol M. Degener ’84Robert Laurence Direnzo ’94Jutta E. Dorscher-Kim ’87Gordon Epstein ’77Aurelius Fernandez ’59Robert Mark Finkel ’88Louise R. Firestone ’79Friends of Karen Klitzman Memorial Fund

The Foundation for Worker, Veteran, & Environmental Health

Larry S. Gage, Esq. ’71 IFEvans Gerakas ’59John M. Gorup Jennifer Greenstein Guy B. Gugliotta ’73Andrea M. Harangozo, M.D.Peter L. Harnik ’75Teresa Misty Hathaway ’89Svea Herbst-Bayliss ’88Christine L. Honnen ’91Hunter College of the City University of New York

Constance L. Hunter ’94Douglas R. Hunter ’73Douglas A. Hutt, M.D., F.C.C.P.

Nachamah Jacobovits Deborah Lee James ’81

Edward Van K. Jaycox, Jr. ’64Eva Cristina Jedruch Dale Knezevich Dushan R. Kosovich, M.D., P.C.

Steven H. Krawet Jeff Krevat Keiichiro Kubota ’00Richard H. Lawrence, III, Esq. ’77 IF

Beatriz Eugenia Leycegui Gardoqui ’90

John Joseph Lis ’96Charles B. McLane ’48 Cert.Milton W. Meyer ’49Amy L. Miller ’82Montamer CorporationCatherine Mulder ’81Mary Agnes O’Donnell ’95Ruth G. Ornelas ’81Richard B. Palmer ’55Lidia Paslawskyj Ratko Picuric John H. A. Quitter ’67 IFRadakovich Foundation Mildred Radakovich Robert D. Reischauer ’66Marvin M. Reiss ’87Glenda G. Rosenthal ’71 Cert.Indranil Sarkar ’01Ernst J. Schrader ’65Laurie Sherwen Louis V. Siracusano William T. Spadaro Alan Stern ’68LeAnn D. Tavtigian ’87Hui-Yu Caroline Ts’Ai The Wilf Family Education Foundation

Andrew W. Zimmerman, M.D. ’68 IF

Sidney Zirlin

There were 366 new indi-vidual donors to SIPA in2001–02. We would like to thank each of them fortheir first gift.

Abdel Muhsen Al-Qattan Simeon David Alder ’00Rosalind Alpert Veronica A. Alroy Eliza Chrystie Armstrong ’96John L. Armstrong William Armstrong Marilyn Iris Auerbach, Dr.PH., M.P.H.

Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D. Suzanne Bakken, R.N. R. J. Balcarek Zdzislaw Baran Gordon N. Bardos John Warren Barnhill Andrew Barros ’90Donna M. Batcho ’93Joan Beck Linda M. Ben-Zvi

Suzanne R. Bennison Arlynn Benson Elizabeth S. Berberich Lisa Berman Pearl Berman Michael H. Bernhard Jan Carol Berris Patricia Bevacqua Shadi Lal Bhatia Vladimir Bibic Dorothy J. Bieber David Lawrence Birnbaum ’98Laszlo Z. Bito Joan S. Blog Lawrence R. Boddy Dinah K. Bodkin Christopher K. Bowen Robert J. Brenner, M.D. Rebecca Bromley ’70Donald P. Brown Sonia Virginie Bujas ’92Pauline Ho Bynum Andrea Elizabeth Calise ’00Olivia B. Carino Victor Caroddo Carmen Anne Chan ’00Melan M. Chonich, Ph.D. Satinath Choudhary Nicholas A. Christakis Thomas John Christensen Jadwiga Chrusciel Mina Charlotte Chung ’00Andrew Z. Ciszek Lisa E. Cleary Natalie Greenan Coburn ’89Stephen F. Cohen ’69 Cert.David M. Colbert, Esq. Michael H. Coles Jerry Lewis Collins Vincent Michael Coluccio, Dr.William H. Cosby, Jr. Debra Craine Ian Keith Crooke ’00Edward J. Czerwinski Christopher Paul D’Andrea Gabriella A. B. Dahlstrom ’99Ramzi A. Dalloul Mary Catherine Dansky Joseph J. Darby ’57 Cert.Gurnam Das Ram Dass Natalie Newbern de La Giraudiere ’98

Richard A. Debs Deborah R. Deitcher Marilyn L. Deleon Steven Aaron Denning Paula Derrow Rosalind Devon Robert S. Diamond Robert Laurence Direnzo ’94Dimitrije Djordjevic Madeleine Dorval ’98W. Leslie Duffy, Esq. Goran Dukuic Hilary Dunst ’93Patrick Orr Dwyer ’00Walter A. Eberstadt Collen A. Edwards

Barry Emanuel Mariko Enomoto Will Lewis Evans ’97Andrea Fagin Denise Marie Faingar ’01Louis Gino Fava Betty I. Feder James A. Feldman Robert Mark Finkel ’88Francis Finlay Gerald D. Fischbach Kathryn Anne Fleury ’93Audrey L. Flumen Laura Ellen Forlano ’01Renee Claire Fox Carol Francis Scott Edward Fraser Rav Freidel Elise D. Frick Stephen Gerard Fromhart ’98Peter Gacs Ryszard Gajewski Martin Garbus Frances X. Gates Peter F. Geithner Robert J. Gellert Anne Margaret Geschardt ’87Susan Gillotti Eugene Ginewski Leslie Glanz Lawrence D. Glaubinger Laura Goldenberg Roslyn M. Goldstein Edward J. Grace Dierdra A. Gray ’97Gordon Gray, Jr. Stanislaw W. Grebski Astaire R. Greenberg Jennifer Greenstein Clark D. Griffith ’00Susan L. Groelly Rakesh Gupt Joseph T. Hapak Andrea M. Harangozo, M.D.James Harmon Mary Beth Hastings ’94Mark A. Hatsis David G. Hees Gladys Heitin Susan E. Heuman ’68 Cert.Michael Anthony Hillmeyer ’97Martin S. Himeles, Jr. Richard A. Hirsch Susie Hoffman, Ph.D., M.P.H.Douglas A. Hutt, M.D., F.C.C.P.

Richard A. Isay, M.D. Nachamah Jacobovits David M. Janas Christopher Janik Jelka J. Jankovic Danica Javanovic Eva Cristina Jedruch Luis Alberto Jimenez-McInnis ’97

Austin Denis Johnston ’89Christopher P. Jurkiewicz Jane R. Kahan Henry D. Kahn

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Marvin J. Kahn Anne Kamen Genesia Perlmutter Kamen Margrit Kaminsky Jonah Edmund Kaplan ’97George I. Karp, M.D. Elizabeth Lynn Katkin, Esq. ’92Walid H. Kattan David A. Kay ’64Laura Kenny Robert M. Kertzner, M.D. Said T. Khoury John W. Kiser, III Julia Grammer Kislevitz Bruce Klitzman Donna L. Klitzman, M.D., F.C.C.P.

Elliot S. Klitzman Jack Klitzman Joan Klitzman Mary Ann Klitzman Mona Klitzman Stephen H. Klitzman Philip Koether Lidia Kopernik Andrzej Korbonski Slawomir A. Korzan David & Ronda Kotelchuck Rebecca E. Kotkin Steven H. Krawet Jeff Krevat Ivan Kristoffy Regina Krzych Alan B. Kubarek Keiichiro Kubota ’00Vivian Kushner-Schwartz Magdale Linda Labbe ’96Surjit Lal Marc Andrew Landis Paul Algirdas Landsbergis, Ph.D.Jesse Gabriel Larner ’02John Lastavica Donald A. Lawniczak Molly Kinney Leonhardt ’93Herbert R. Levin Michael A. Levitt Sobner Lherisson ’97Hua-Yu Li Amy S. Loewenberg Cara Londin Laura Zenta Losciale-Malha ’00Marsha L. Love Xiaobo Lu Jeffrey S. Lubbers Dale A. Lucas Nancy J. Lucas Hal Alan Luftig James Luikart ’72Vic Lumovich Nasser A. Malik ’91Paul L. Mandel ’78 Cert.Joanne E. Mantell Paulina M. Marano Borivoje A. Markovic Grazyna Marmajewska Ruth E. Marmorstein Kathryn L. McCormack ’95Gregory McLaughlin Edward M. McNally, Esq.

Susan J. McQuade Michael Mennard Andrew J. Meyers ’87Beth S. Michelson ’97 IFBranislava Mijatovic Sergio Millerman Martha Mindlin Alexander John Miral ’01Philip P. Mitchell Hana Rebecca Miura ’91Eric Stacey Moen ’98Barbara Mogulescu Nazanien Monasebian ’92Charles S. Monat Daniel N. Mondrow, M.D. Marcia R. Mondschein Stephen Mooser London Morawski Paul Richard Newman ’00Mehrangiz Nikou Mina Nikou Shahnaz Nikou Vahid F. Noshirvani Tracey Ellen O’Connor ’94Ron Oppenheimer Jerzy A. Owczarek Chang P’eng-Yuan Prem Panther Richard D. Parsons Peter Pastor Henry M. Paulson John T. Pawlikowski Jed A. Perl Sophie M. Peters ’76 Cert.James Andrew Pickup ’91Ratko Picuric Murray Polner ’67 Cert.Vesna T. Popovich Frances Pritchett Bernard J. Purta Otto Quittner Steve Radakovich Irwin C. Radezky Alexander Radichevich Milan Radovich Adina Rakocevic, M.D. Lincoln Rathnam Jane Recant Catherine Rekai Larry & Freda Remmers Leonard Riggio Anne Barnard Roberts ’96Lynn F. Roberts Maria Rosenfeld Gabrielle Catherine Ross ’93Laura Rothenberg Elizabeth Dee Rubin ’95Judith O. Rubin Samuel Rutter William A. Ryan Ignatius R. Rzeznik Hardev Sahai George Samuel Samman ’00Indranil Sarkar ’01Rosalind Sarlin Halina T. Sasak Manabu Sasaki ’01Mariko Sato ’94Christine Savarese

Philip L. Schiffman, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Joan Schneeweiss Eric Schorr Caroline Paulus Schreder ’92Kamal A. Shair Laurie Sherwen Lu Shi-Chiang Tahereh H. Shirvani Abdul Majeed Shoman Joel Shufro Frank Joseph Shulman David C. Siegel Yael Simonson Amarjit Singh Joginder Singh Satnam Singh Louis V. Siracusano Robert Slocum Timothy Snyder William Vasilio Sotirovich William T. Spadaro Anita E. Spertus Stefan Stein, M.D. Zena Stein Susser Joseph S. Steinberg Ada Sterling Steven T. Stokes Ilene S. Stone Cheryl P. Sucher Marianne L. Sullivan ’93Jennifer Jaryi Sun ’97Ken Sunshine Mervyn Wilfred Susser George Swierbutowicz Eva Szabo Gustav O. Szabo Naoki Takyo ’98David H. Taylor, Jr. Christos John Thomas ’90Sara R. Throne Nathaniel L. Tindel, M.D. Denise Marie Tomasini ’99Kenneth Trell Amy Ullman Susan Unterberg John Karl Urda ’91Laura Vallone Vincent Viola Margo Viscusi Irma Wachtel Christopher T. Walker ’01Yi-Chia Wang ’00Robert E. Ward Stephanie Louise Watnick ’92Lisa Watson David Wechsler-Azen Richard S. Weinert Morton P. Weitzman Robert H. Weitzman, M.D. Barbara Wierzbianski Sandra K. Wigler Drenka Willen Ron Winchel, M.D. Nadine Rachelle Witkin ’95James L. Wolf Stephen L. Wolf Neal L. Wolkoff Arthur M.F. Yee

Jill Fishkin Yener ’93Chang Yu-Fa Alicia a Zadrozna-Fiszman Farwa Zafar ’84William D. Zeller Stanley R. Zimmerman, M.D.Warren Zimmerman Sidney Zirlin

Thirty-seven companiessupported SIPA throughtheir corporate matchinggift programs by matchingthe chartitable gifts oftheir employees, retirees orshareholders. We thankthem for their support.

Alliance Capital ManagementL.P.

Bank One FoundationDeutsche Bank Americas Foundation

EAI CorporationEnronExxonMobil FoundationFannie Mae FoundationFidelity FoundationFirst Data CorporationGE FundIBM International FoundationJ.P. Morgan Chase FoundationJefferies & Company, Incorporated

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

KPMG FoundationMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

The McGraw-Hill Companies Foundation, Incorporated

Moody’s CorporationThe Merck Company Foundation

Mitsubishi International Corporation

Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation, Incorporated

Metropolitan Life FoundationMotorola FoundationMutual of Omaha CompaniesNew York Life FoundationNIKE, IncorporatedNorthwestern Mutual Life Foundation, Incorporated

Organon, IncorporatedThe William Penn FoundationPfizer FoundationPhilip Morris Companies, Incorporated

The Pioneer Group, Incorporated

Reuters America, IncorporatedThe Sherwin-Williams Foundation

The Times Mirror FoundationUBS WarburgWells Fargo Foundation

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