Summer 2003 - College of William and Mary

Government Update
NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY’S GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
Summer 2003
Greetings from Morton Hall:
T
hanks particularly to Associate Chair
Clay Clemens, Valerie Trovato, Barbara Finnochio, and other faculty
colleagues, we have avoided the total chaos
that most who know me expected when I
became chair in 2002. In fact, this has been
a very successful year for the Department.
This past May we graduated the largest number of majors in several years, over 165 (not
counting the IR and public policy students).
We welcomed three new tenure-track
fauclty members in the Fall: an Americanist,
Christine Nemacheck who studies the courts;
a comparativist, Paula Pickering who studies
Eastern Europe, especially the former Yugoslavia; and a political theorist, Simon Stow,
who, like most political theorists studies everything. We were also able to hire Paul
Manna, who just received his PhD from the
Unviersity of Wisconsin—Madison, and will
be starting this Fall. Paul specializes in American politics and public policy. We were also
very fortunate in having General Anthony
Zinni teach classes for us in both semesters.
These were extremely popular, and he has
agreed to return for a second year.
We also initiated a program of weekly
colloquia. Outside scholars and Department
faculty presented their research to an audience of colleagues and majors. Faculty-student research collaboration also remained
strong. Four students presented their research at professional political science meetings, and two others published research coauthored with William and Mary faculty.
This year also had a bittersweet dimension with the retirements of Don Baxter and
Alan Ward, who between them had nearly 75
years of service to the College. Don and Alan
have taught over 10,000 students during their
William and Mary tenure. Although they will
be difficult to replace, I know that they will
appreciate having a bit more free time (although Alan has graciously consented to
teach a course in the Fall, and we will try to
prevail on Don as well to teach at least the
occasional course). We wish them well.
The huge state budget cuts have also
made this year difficult. However, the College has done its best to protect the central
mission, and the generous contributions to
our Department through the Annual Fund
were particularly important
this year in allowing us to
bring in speakers, support faculty-student collaboration, and
put out this
newsletter—
among other
things. Due as
Ron Rapoport
well to your
own willingness to share information on
your activities, we have now published our
first seven alumni newsletters and also have
a wonderful website. Your support is both
crucial to the continued excellence of the
Department and much appreciated by both
students and faculty. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ron Rapoport
FYI: General Zinni in Morton
The Department is fortunate each year to have a few distinguished practitioners of politics or diplomacy speak in our classes. At times we are lucky
enough to have someone of that caliber teach for a whole semester. And when
we really win the lottery, a statesman of international renown chooses to become a visiting faculty member in Morton for a few years running.
This fall marks the third semester in which General Anthony Zinni will
hold his course on Ethics and American Foreign Policy, a joint venture between
the Reves Center for International Studies and the Government Department.
Demand among students for the fifteen person class is, as might be expected,
overwhelming. It is not just that undergraduates always enjoy hearing about
the world from someone with real-life experience; it is also that General Zinni–
an experienced instructor–is a dynamic lecturer and a candid, insightful discussion leader.
Given his professional credentials, General Zinni’s presence on campus
could not be more timely. He capped a distinguished Marine Corps career by
serving in the 1990s as Commander in Chief of the US Central Command, a
post held previously by General Norman Schwarzkopf and more recently by
General Tommy Franks. Later he undertook diplomatic missions on behalf of
President Bush to try and help defuse the Arab-Israeli dispute.
General Zinni’s expertise and insights on the politics of such volatile regions as Central Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the Middle East are in constant
demand, and he keeps a busy schedule of international travel, speaking engagements, and consulting. We are thus all the more fortunate that he also
finds time each week to sit down with undergraduates here in Morton.
Current Faculty Notes
James Bill’s courses on the Middle East
and Persian Gulf took on a special significance in light of world events this past year.
In addition his book published with Professor of Religion Emeritus John Williams—
Roman Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims: Prayer, Passion and Politics–went into a new paperback
edition with UNC Press.
In addition to his usual offerings in
Geography during the year, Brian Blouet
taught in the College’s summer 2003 Cambridge program.
On leave during the 2002-2003 academic year, T.J. Cheng has been busy crossing the Atlantic (not the Pacific). He gave a
talk on Asia’s new democracies at Oxford,
and will present a paper on religious organizations and democratic change in Asia at
the International Studies Association conference in Budapest. Cheng has also published a lead article in Journal of East Asian
Studies.
Clay Clemens has found another excuse
from not yet completing his biography of
Helmut Kohl by becoming the Department’s
Associate Chair this year, handling such exciting work as transfer credit requests, petitions for exemptions from requirements,
curriculum updates and the website. Competition for the job was fierce.
David Dessler was Director of Academic
Programs at the College’s Reves Center for
International Studies and will spend 200304 as visiting scholar there. He is also coauthoring A Guide to the Climate Change
Debate, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
In addition to his annual courses on
Congress and Public Policy, Larry Evans continues to organize one-credit classes with
policy practitioners from Washington, as well
as a seminar on career development held at
the College’s DC Office. His article “Herding Cats: Presidential Coalition Building in
the Senate” appears in Rivals for Power:
Congress and the President.
Along with his normal courses on Congress, John Gilmour has been helping assemble an oral history of the Clinton Administration run by the Miller Center at UVA:
Editorships
Three members of the Department have
held positions with top journals in their
fields. T.J. Cheng has been Editor-inChief of American Asian Review. Larry
Evans is Co-Editor of Legislative Studies
Quarterly (http://www.uiowa.edu/~lsq/).
And this semester, Sue Peterson will begin a stint as Associate Editor of Security
Studies (http://www.frankcass.com/jnls/
ss.htm).
so far he has taken part in interviews with
three former directors of the Office of Management and Budget and will next speak
with an ex-chair of the Council of Economic
Advisors. He has also been giving talks on
“performance measurement” as part of a
training seminar for state budget officials.
Over the past year, George Grayson’s
works on Mexico have appeared in
Commonweal, Orbis, National Interest and
Petroleum Economist. He has also published op-ed pieces in the Washington Post
and Baltimore Sun. His “An Analysis of the
July 6, 2003 Gubernatorial Elections in
Mexico” will be published by the Center for
Strategic & International Studies. He was
also an official observer of these contests.
In addition, he persists in trying to learn
German.
This fall, Chris Howard will link his
freshman seminar, Race and American Democracy, to the college’s Sharpe Community
Service program. His students will work in
small groups on projects of interest to local
organizations, tentatively on issues of minority achievement in the local schools. His
chapter on tax expenditures appeared in
The Tools of Government: A Guide to the
New Governance, from Oxford University
Press.
John McGlennon resumed normal
fulltime teaching this year, and found even
the increased number of papers and blue
books to be preferable to the administrative
responsibilities of chairing the department.
He also published a chapter on Virginia in
a new book, The 2000 Presidential Election
in the South. As President of the James City
County Transit Company, he presided over
the merger of William & Mary’s bus service
into the new Williamsburg Area Transport
system.
Stephen Ndegwa finished the first year
of his two-year stint with the World Bank
Young Professionals Program, where he
worked on both African and Asian programs.
Christine Nemacheck, who got her PhD
from George Washington University, joined
the Department in 2002-03 to teach Judicial
Politics, including a seminar on Federalism
and the Supreme Court. She delivered a
paper Congressional lobbying in the selection of Justices at the fall 2002 meeting of
the American Political Science Association.
For the second year in a row, Sue
Peterson was selected by students as the
Outstanding International Studies Faculty
Member. Her article on “Catastrophic Infectious Disease and National Security” is
appearing in the recent edition of Security
Studies.
Paula Pickering’s busy summer 2003 includes a workshop at the University of Wisconsin on post-communist states in Eastern
Europe and a collaborative project with an
undergraduate working on recent elections
in postwar Yugoslavia. In her free time, she
climbed Washington’s Mount Rainier.
Even while mired in the misery of
administrivia and budgeting during his first
year as department chair, Ron Rapoport has
continued spreading the joy of survey research methodology among undergrads in
his classes on polling. Moreover, he continues to work on his book about activists involved in maverick Ross Perot’s political
movement.
Simon Stow, awarded his PhD from UC
Berkeley in May 2002, started teaching political philosophy in the Department in 2002.
He has quickly become the funniest man in
Morton (just ask him).
Joel Schwartz has a new title in addition to being Director of the Charles Center he is now a Dean. His “Perspectives on
Citizenship and Community” freshman
seminar is now part of the Sharpe Program
curriculum. He is also presenting a paper
on “Leadership and Civic Education” at the
International Conference on Civic Education Research in New Orleans in November.
As always, the Department was grateful
for the assistance of several visiting or adjunct faculty in 2002-2003. Mike Tierney,
MA ‘88, covered several international relations classes and the research methods
course for all Honors students; he is also
organizing a workshop series sponsored by
Harvard University. Katherine Rahman
taught courses on International Law and
Organization, and also ran this year’s two
Washington Programs (on infectious diseases and national security in the fall and
on immigration policy in the spring). Emile
Lester again taught political philosophy,
while Sophie Hart continued her course on
Current Faculty Notes
East Asian Politics and Lynn Khadiagala covered African politics (Lynn has taken up a
position with the US State Department for
2003-04, while the others will remain with
the Department). Newcomers Glenn
Beamer, Josh Dunn and Octavius Pinkard
rounded out the list of visiting faculty.
Bob Archibald, Professor of Economics,
remains as director of the Thomas Jefferson
Program in Public Policy, where Former
Ambassador Bob Fritts can also be found.
Joel Schwartz continues at the Charles Center (see above).
As usual, departmental administrator
Valerie Trovato kept the Department running, ably assisted by Barbara Finocchio.
The Department bid a fond farewell to longtime secretary Tess Owens with a luncheon
at Le Yaca. After three years with Government, student assistant Meredith Viens
graduated, though Kristina Hofmann,
Nancy Jansen and Kristin Monaco remain
to help us all out.
FACULTY
ANAGRAMS
One of those nifty online anagram programs yields the following results for our
faculty:
Simon Stow
Moist Snow, Mist Swoon, or I’m Sow Snot
Christine Nemacheck
I’m A Thin Screech Neck
Paula Pickering
Algerian Pickup
C. Lawrence Evans
Cancel Rave News
Chris Howard
Whorish Card or Hi Crowd Rash
Reiss to State Department
Our colleague Reves Center Director and Dean of
International Studies Mitchell Reiss has been appointed
to a top post at the US Department of State—Director of
Policy Planning, a position held in the past by such notable figures as George Kennan and Paul Nitze. Dr. Reiss
received his BA from Williams College, an MA at the Tufts
University’s Fletcher School, a PhD from Oxford and a
law degree from Columbia. He has served previously in
government, including as special assistant on the National
Security Council and as consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Department of State,
Congressional Research Service and Los Alamos National
Laboratory. His professional work and publications have
focused heavily on nuclear non-proliferation policy, especially with regard to North
Korea. In his five years at Reves, he worked to increase foreign affairs internship opportunities and scholarships, expand the range of study abroad programs and support faculty teaching and research. The Department wishes Mitchell well in this important
work and hopes to see him back at the College in the future.
Sue Peterson
Renee Spouts, Serene Pouts, or Sue Top Sneer
Clay Clemens
Cancel ‘Em Sly or My Acne Cells
David Dessler
Devil Address or Saved Riddles
Alan Ward
A Land War
Ron Rapoport
Porno Raptor
2002-2003
Freshmen Seminars
Baxter
Bill
Clemens
Howard
Khadiagala
Pickering
Tierney
FACULTY BOOKS
1999-2002
James Bill, co-author, Politics in the
Middle East, 5th ed. (Longman, 2000)
James Bill [and John Williams], Roman
Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims: Prayer, Passion and
Politics (UNC Press)
Brian Blouet, Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century (Reaktion, 2001)
Brian Blouet [and Olwyn Blouet], Latin
America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and
Regional Survey (Wiley and Sons, 2001)
T. J. Cheng, ed., The Security Environment
in the Asia-Pacific (M.E. Sharpe, 2000)
Lawrence Evans, Leadership in Committee: A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate (Reissued 2001).
George Grayson, A Guide to the Leadership Elections of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party, the National Action Party, and the Democratic Revolutionary Party (Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2002).
George Grayson, A Guide to the 2001
Mexican State and Local Elections (Center for
Strategic and International Studies, 2001)
George Grayson, Mexico: Changing of the
Guard (Foreign Policy Association, 2001)
Stephen Ndegwa, editor, A Decade of Democracy in Africa [Special Issue of Journal of
Asian and African Studies]
Modern India
Power and Informal Politics
Leadership, Power and
Politics
Race and American
Democracy
Gender and the Law
Change in the Balkans
War and Democracy
2001-2002
Senior Seminars
Baxter
Government and Politics of
South Asia
Blouet
Geostrategic Thought
Dessler
Theories of the International
System
Dunn
Presidential Leadership
Khadiagala African Politics
Lester
Liberalism and its Critics
Lester
Religion and Democracy
McGlennon Politics of Metropolitan Areas
Nemacheck Federalism and the US
Supreme Court
Peterson
Domestic Politics of
International Diplomacy
Pickering
Democratization in
Eastern Europe
Rapoport
Public Opinion and Voting
Behavior
Stow
Politics and Literature
Ward
British Government and
Politic
Former Faculty Notes
RECOMMENDED
BOOKS AND WEBSITES
(*ALR stands for “at last report”)
For many years, students in Prof. Howard’s
class on the American welfare state have read more
about what hasn’t happened (i.e., national health
insurance) than what has (Medicaid and Medicare)
in health care. One reason was the remarkable lack
of good books analyzing the politics of Medicaid
or Medicare. Howard is therefore pleased to announce the publication of Jonathan Oberlander’s
book, The Political Life of Medicare (Chicago, 2003),
which he finds to be well-written, concise, and full
of counter-intuitive findings.
Professor Emeritus Bill Morrow recommends
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and
Abroad, by Fareed Zakaria (April 2003)
Reves Center Director Dean Mitchell Reiss calls
Samantha Powers’ A Problem from Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide the most depressing book he has
read lately.
Mike Tierney’s students found a series of essays by luminaries from the study of international
relations and U.S. Foreign Policy edited by G. John
Ikenberry— America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (Cornell 2002) accessible and informative. But something else on this reading list,
Huber and Shipan’s Deliberate Discretion: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy is recommended only for those with insomnia.
For students interested in Japanese and USJapan affairs, T.J. Cheng recommends a forum run
by NBAR (National Bureau of Asian Research),
calling it the best that he has run across. And any
one can subscribe to it free. Please visit http://
lists.nbr.org/japanforum/subscribe.
For graduates in metropolitan areas who want
to better understand how these regions are changing and how their fragmented government structures affect the political process, John McGlennon
recommends American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality (Brookings) by Myron Orfield, and Democracy in Suburbia (Princeton) by J. Eric Oliver. He
also suggests the third book in a series on Southern
politics by twin brother political scientists Earl and
Merle Black (seriously) entitled The Rise of Southern
Republicanism (Harvard).
A
lan Abramowitz teaches at Emory University
in Atlanta...Erich Ayisi has retired... Bart
Brown teaches at Chicago-Kent Law School
at the Illinois Institute of Technology...Eva Busza is
with the National Institute of Democracy in DC, and
travels widely–most recently to Indonesia, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Britain, Guatemala and Russia ...ALR Rick Damon was an attorney in Santa Cruz,
CA...Former Chair Jack Edwards is retired and continues to consult with local government....Martin
Farrell teaches at Ripon College...Anne Henderson
is now with the US Institute of Peace in DC offering
instruction in peacekeeping/conflict resolution...
Chonghan Kim is retired, but continues to attend
College events on Asian affairs...Dave Lewis now
teaches at Princeton and is working on his golf
game...George Lovell teaches at the University of
Washington...ALR Morris McCain resides in Boston,
works for the Social Security Administration and
offers courses at Northeastern...Bill Morrow is retired in Williamsburg, and does courses for the
Christopher Wren Association ...Louis Noisin
teaches at Christopher Newport...Bruce Rigelman
is an attorney with Bank One in Columbus
OH...Former chair James Roherty is retired and lives
in Oregon...Recently-retired Roger Smith lives in
town and, among other things, holds lectures for
the Christopher Wren Society....Jan de Weydenthal
does research for Radio Free Europe in
Prague...Paul Whiteley is at Essex University in Britain.
Many other faculty have held visiting appointments in the Department and we thought former
students might be interested in knowing their current activities: David Adams is with the Fulbright
Commission staff at the Council on International
Education in DC...Sally Baynard is on the Alexandria VA school board...Michael Clark directs the
U.S.-India Business Council in DC...Michael Cornfield is with George Washington University’s Graduate School for Political Management...Mick Cox is
a Professor at the University of Aberystwyth in
Wales...John Day is retired in Leicester,
England...Everett Dolman teaches at the School of
Advanced Airpower Studies at Maxwell Air Force
Base... ALR Manfred Ernst worked in finance in
NYC...John Forren teaches at Miami of Ohio...Scott
Gerber is at Ohio Northern University College of
Law...David Gordon is with the National Intelligence Council in Washington...Bill Hixon is teaching at the University of Memphis... Chris Kelly
works in the Williamsburg area...Mike Kenney
teaches at Britain’s Sheffield University...Lynn
Khadiagala will be doing an American Association
for the Advancement of Science fellowship at the
State Department...Joe Khechichian runs a consulting firm specializing in Arabian/Persian Gulf
politics...Mar y Kweit teaches at North
Dakota...David LeBlang teaches at the University
of Colorado...Michael Lessnoff is at the University
of Glasgow...Michael Leroy is at Wheaton College
in Illinois... Shirley Meeker is with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.. Jim Miclot is president of
Steidlmayer Software...Octavius Pinkard will be
teaching at Christopher Newport University... Jose
Peman worked in international banking in
Europe...Jacqui Pfeffer teaches at St. Johns College in Maryland...ALR Joe Miri was working on
environmental protection for the state of New
Jersey...Gary Mucciaroni teaches public policy at
Temple University in Philadelphia...Bill Murphy is
a DC political consultant and adjunct professor at
American University...Barbara Norrander teaches
at the University of Arizona...Jeff Poelvoorde is at
Converse College in SC...Staci Rhine is at
Wittenberg College in Ohio...Robert Rickards is
with the International University in Germany...Katri
Sieberg is at SUNY Binghamton...Avital Simhony
teaches political philosophy at Arizona State...Bob
Snyder teaches at Southwestern University in
Texas...Kent Tedin teaches at the University of
Houston...Frank Thames spent this past year at
Albion College in Michigan but takes up a position at Texas Tech this fall..Jim Yoho is at Wilkes
University in PA....Jeremy Zilber is now at NYC’s
Yeshiva University......Unfortunately, we have lost
track of Sharon Rives.
BAXTER-WARD RETIREMENT
O
n May 2, 2003, the Department had a
reception and dinner in honor of its
two longest- serving faculty members. Don
Baxter and Alan Ward both came to the College in 1967, and both retired from full-time
teaching this spring. The evening’s events
also included a slide show depicting highlights of the Baxter-Ward era, as well as toasts
in tribute to their service–and an opportunity for them to offer some reflections. In
addition the Department unveiled two
projects to be launched in their honor: a
Government Commons Room dedicated to
emeriti faculty , and a fund to support guest
lectureships by alumni (see page 5 for details).
Donald J. Baxter joined the faculty in
1967 after receiving his BA from California
State University at Sacramento, and his MA.
(1963) and PhD (1972) from Syracuse. As
the Department’s senior person in political
development and Southern Asia for three
decades, he shaped course offerings in these
areas, and carried a heavy burden of courses
and thesis supervision at both the graduate
and undergraduate levels. He taught a remarkably wide range of courses, in all areas
of political science. Reflecting the high esteem in which he is held by his academic
colleagues, Don was also called upon for
leadership. Within the Department, he
served as Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and head of the Departmental Evaluation Committee. In the College at large, he
chaired virtually every important committee,
and capped his record of service by being
elected President of the Faculty Assembly
from 1997-98.
Alan J. Ward received his BSc from the
London School of Economics, his MA from
the University of Connecticut (1960), and
his PhD (1967) from the London School of
Economics. He joined the faculty in 1967
after four years as Lecturer in Politics at the
University of Adelaide in Australia, and retired this year as Class of 1935 Professor of
Government. Alan’s research interests in the
constitutional politics of Ireland and AngloAmerican relations led to several books, beginning with Ireland and Anglo-American
Relations 1899-1921 (Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1969), The Easter Rising 1916:
Revolution and Irish Nationalism (1980),
Northern Ireland: Living With the Crisis
(Praeger 1987), and The Irish Constitutional
Tradition (Catholic University Press, 1994).
Within the Department, he also served as
Chair for six years and Director of Graduate Studies.
BAXTER-WARD VISITING SCHOLAR FUND
AND GOVERNMENT COMMONS ROOM
When thinking
about ways to
honor two retiring colleagues,
Don Baxter
and Alan Ward,
the Department kicked
around a number of ideas.
Our original
plan was to
Don Baxter
commission
two large statues—one of Don struggling
against a massive wave of bluebooks, the
other of Alan skewering a stack of term papers with an oversized red pen. Properly
done, these works would also have been a
fitting tribute to the academic profession.
Alas, the College only allows statues of
bewigged eighteenth century types. But we
are happy with the fallback plan(s)....
Baxter-Ward Visiting Scholar Fund:
Through the College’s Development Office,
the Department has established a new special gift fund to support a unique visiting
scholar program. Each fall and spring semester, the Department will invite an alumnus
to spend two to three days on campus to
meet and speak with current students.
Guests might discuss aspects of their own
current and past professional work, or provide career opportunities and advice. For-
Megan Owen
Barry Award
The Department extends its condolences to the family of Megan
Owen Barry, Class of 1994, who
died in 2003, and gratefully acknowledges a substantial gift
made by Stephen and Abby
Owen in memor y of their
daughter.This fund will be used
to honor and recognize a minimum of two students each year,
one in Government and one in
Public Policy. The award in
Government will be made to the
outstanding female student in
the graduating class.
mats could include presentations in classes,
participation in seminars, brown-bag
lunches, and/or lectures to a wider campus
audience. Visits would also be integrated
into courses. A committee under the Department Chair will identify and contact potential Visiting Scholars.
To fund that program initially, the Department is establishing a new account with
the College Development office. Alumni
who wish to help out may designate their
donation to the Baxter-Ward Visiting Scholar
Fund, through the University Development
office. There are two ways to do this, including sending a check to the Development
Office, The Fund for William and Mary, P.O.
Box 1693, Williamsburg, VA 23187or calling
866-448-3296 (in either case, specifically
designate the donation to the Baxter-Ward
Visiting Scholar Fund).
Government Commons Room: For
years the Department has sought to find a
better use for a small room euphemistically
called its “library,” but in reality a dingy closet
for unloved textbooks. Thanks in part to
prior support from alumni, this summer we
have carpeted and painted the room, and
will outfit it with something a bit better than
the College’s standard-issue prison-made furniture. Once completed, it will still serve as
a reading room for students, but also as a
more commodious place for them to scan
the paper or chat with classmates. In addi-
tion, the Department will
grace its walls
with photos of
each graduating class and of
emereti faculty,
including Don
and Alan. Any
contribution
through the
Fund for William and Mary
Alan Ward
(formerly the
Annual Fund) and designated for the Department will help out with this project
(among others). In addition, we would welcome in-kind contributions, namely the donation of any of several items on the Alumni
Society Gift Shop website at http://
www.alumnigiftshop.com/: Furniture or Gifts:
Captain’s chairs (4)
Gifts: Millington waste-basket (1)
Gifts: William and Mary marble lamp (1)
Books: Traditions photo book (1)
If you would like to make a purchase
for donation, please indicate so when ordering to avoid duplication (the Department is
registered with the Society) and to arrange
for the Department to pick the item up. Also
please notify us of your gift so that we may
acknowledge it. Gifts made in this way have
the same tax status as other contributions
to the College.
CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEPARTMENT
Many thanks to the generous alums or friends listed below for their donations (the
list is courtesy of the Development Office and is for the year ending in June 2003). As
noted in the Chairs’ letter (front page), these funds are invaluable supplements to enrich student programs. We welcome further contributions and thank you for your generosity.
The best way to contribute is to target your William and Mary Annual Fund donation to the Department, which you may request when approached during the drive or at
any other time of year by sending a check to the Development Office, College of William and Mary, Box 2795, Williamsburg VA, 23187-8795. Note on your check that it is for
the Government Department.
Bonnie Lee Benn
Christiane Therese Boardman
Cynthia Robin Boyles
Vincent Chia
Douglas Lutz Cummings
Bradley Colin Davis
Mark Edward Dennett
Jane Pusch Franks
Katherine Anne Gambrill Gentry
Kevin Lerue Gentry
Aaron Steven Goldsmith
Joseph Gumina
Fanny Pearre Hardey
Ashley Elizabeth Harwell
Stan M. Haynes
Johnelle Erin Hinkle
Joshua Jay Huffman
John O. Hummel
Mrs. Nancy H. Hummel
Susan Ward Jackson
Col. David M. Klinger, (Ret.)
Steven Edward Langan
Elizabeth Kay Leon
Mali Math
Elizabeth Johnson Matthews
Abigail Smith Miller
Bradford James Miller
Sridevi Nanjundaram
Sharon E. Pandak, Esq.
Amanda Erin Potter
Lori L. Pound
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rodger
Jonathan David Rogers
Mariko Sasage Sanchanta
Elizabeth Rebecca Stronge
Kristopher John Andrew Waldhauser
Gerald Rockford Weitz
A LUMNI N OTES
As always, all alums, and especially pre-1990 grads,
are strongly urged to drop us news by regular mail,
send an email (govt@wm.edu), or log onto the
Department website’s easy new Alumni Information Form. Since the Update is produced without
a large staff, we depend on you for information
(and apologize for any errors or outdated items).
And don’t think we only want to hear from those
in government-related fields—our major can be
applied in limitless ways, or not at all!
Also: please keep the College Alumni Society posted as to your current address, as we must
rely upon its records for fact-checking and mailing labels: contact the Society of the Alumni/
Alumni Records, College of William & Mary, Box
2100, Williamsburg VA 23187-2100 (email:
soarec@wm.edu). Also, urge any fellow alums who
are not listed here in this newsletter and/or who
say they don’t receive it to make sure they too are
in the Alumni Society databank.
Key: PP (Public Policy), IS (International
Studies), IR (International Relations), MPP
(Master’s in Public Policy), MPA (Master’s in Public Administration), UR (University of Richmond), UMich (University of Michigan), UPenn
(University of Pennsylvania), GWU (George Washington University), UVA (University of Virginia),
UMD (University of Maryland), UHI (University
of Hawaii), UNC (University of North Carolina),
USD (University of South Dakota). Perhaps you
should also imagine ALR—“at last report” in front
of each person’s name.
CLASSES OF 1945-74:
Jim Almond ‘71 is retiring from the VA
House of Delegates; he has been appointed to the
VA Circuit Court in Arlington...Murray Carroll ‘69
lives in Anacortes, WA with his wife, Dorothy,
where he researches the history of the American
west, particularly military history, and has won
awards for non-fiction short stories...John
Constance ‘72 is currently the Director of Congressional and Public Affairs at the National Archives in DC and for the past 30 years has served
in various capacities with the National Archives,
the Department of Education, and the Office of
Management and Budget...Benjamin Cooper ‘73
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is a Senior Vice President of Government Affairs
at Printing Industries of America...John H.
Harding’53 has published two books since retiring from dentistry...William Shore Robertson ‘61
is a mediator with the McCammon Group in
Richmond...Phil Sparks ‘69 is a Co-Founder and
Vice President of the Communications Consortium Media Center, a non-profit that works on strategic media campaigns for non-profits to influence public policy...Tom Steger ‘65 has had his
own private law practice since 1978...John Vile ‘73
is a Chair of the Political Science Department at
Middle Tennessee State Univ. and has published
a two-volume work that he edited, entitled “Great
American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia.”
CLASS OF 1975-79:
Pattie (Bagley) Schutte ‘79 is a court administrator in MO...Lu (Bowen) Desrosiers ‘79 works
for the Hemophilia Association of the Capital
Area and has four children (including a daughter at JMU)...Mark Colley ‘77 is with the DC law
firm Holland, Knight...Robert Duncan ‘79 has
been teaching adjunct in at the high-school and
community-college level in CA...David Engel ‘78
received a permanent appointment as the Hearing Office of Chief Administrative Law Judge for
the Office of Hearings and Appeals in
Tulsa...Sherry Jennings Frost ‘79 has two sons, Jack
and Rich, and lives in Raleigh, NC...Cynthia
Howell ‘78 is working at Accenture on a project
for the Air Force...Christopher Kelley ‘78 is managing partner of Twomey Latham Shea and Kelley
in NY and has been chairman of the East Hampton Democratic Committee for the last 20
years...David King ‘79 is a mental health counselor with the Coast Guard and is working on a
PhD...Greg Minjack ‘79 is with Public Strategies,
Inc. in DC...Sharon Pandak ‘75 is the County Attorney for Prince William County, VA...Skip
Parnell ‘78 has held seven Foreign Service posts,
most recently as chief administrative officer in
Ghana...Betsy (Page) Sigman ‘78 is teaching Management Information Systems and Decision Science at Georgetown...Gary Plaag ‘79 is a presentation and public speaking coach and is currently
enrolled as an MA in Communication at George
Mason...Kevin Quinley ‘77 is senior Vice President
at Medmarc Insurance Group; he has published
eight books and was named Director of the National Association of Insurance Litigation...Robert
Rigrish ‘78 is an attorney with Ford & Harrison
LLP in Atlanta; he married in April 2000...Janet
Sanderson ‘77 is the U.S. Ambassador to
Algeria...Storm Simenson ‘78 is with the U.S. Foreign Service...Janice A. Taylor ‘75 is a Justice of
the Supreme Court of the State of New York...Mike
Urbanski ‘78 is with the Roanoke law firm Woods,
Rogers, Hazelgrove...Bill Whitley ‘76 (see MA list).
CLASS OF 1980-84:
Wendy (Ball) Ailor ‘80 is the director of Global Research and Development for Wyeth
Research...Mark Alsobrook ‘81 is an attorney for
the US Department of Labor, Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board...Randolph Beales ‘82
is with the Richmond law firm Christian,
Barton...Matthew Bradley ‘83 is an Administrative
Judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission...Daniel Burnick ‘80 is a partner at
Sirote and Permutt, PC, specializing in labor and
employment law...Maura (Faughnan) Allen ‘80 is
senior VP, Latin America, for RADIUS, a global
corporate travel consortium...Clay Clemens ‘80 is
a Professor of Government at the College...Sergio
Galvis ‘80 is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP,
working in Corporate and Financial Project Finance in NY...Donna Lee (Harpster) Williams ‘81
is in her third term as Delaware Insurance Com-
missioner... David Káut ‘82 is an analyst for Legg
Mason Telecom Research...Sandra (Harton)
McCluskey, ‘81 owns a French café on Capitol Hill
and a catering company in Alexandria...John
Hassell ‘80 heads the DC office of Hewlett
Packard, managing its federal and state government relations...Doug Klein ‘84 is a lawyer at Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council and the
Head Wrestling Coach at Ida Crown Jewish
Academy...Steve Macedo ‘80 is a Professor of Government at Princeton...Renata Manzo ‘82 drafts
contracts for various clients of Hunton and Williams law firm...Scott McCleskey ‘84 is the Head
of Regulatory Policy for Virt-x, a pan-European
stock exchange in London, and is finishing his
MA in IR at Cambridge...Steve Owen ‘81 is the
Town Manager of Herndon, VA...Chris Phillips ‘81
is co- founder of the Society for Philosophical
Inquiry...Fred Rauscher ‘84 is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State...John Riley
‘81 works for Rep. Charles Stenholm in
DC...Christopher Wittmann ‘80 is the Advisor for
Peacekeeping Operations for the Office of Management and Reform, US Mission to the UN.
CLASS OF 1985-89:
Recently married Glenn Beamer ‘88 is now
teaching at the Blaustein School of Public Policy
at Rutgers...Jay Black III ‘87 is the Associate Vice
President of Investments at Davenport and Company LLC. He also is a an executive board member of VA’s River Country...Jery Bowers ‘89 is an
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Teacher
Certification and Summer Institutes in the Department of History at the Univ. of Illinois. He and
his wife, Kristy, had twins in March...Allison (Bell)
Royer ‘89 is serving her second term as a clerk in
Chester County, Pennsylvania while maintaining
a private law practice in suburban
Philadelphia...Patrick Cannon ‘86 teaches in the
Government Dept. at Cal State Sacramento...Doug
Clarke ‘89 is Director of Education at Applied Career Training, a NOVA career college...Matt
Dalbey ‘87 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Jackson
State Univ...Emily (Deck) Harrill ‘88 attends Univ.
of South Carolina School of Law...Kim
(DiDomenico) Duty ‘89 (IR) is a V.P. of Communications for the National Multi Housing Council and part-time winemaker at Far felu
Vineyards...Tim Duvall ‘88 is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Government and Politics at St.
John’s Univ...Anne Edgerton ‘87 works for Refugees International in DC and frequently travels to
the Congo...Patricia Elliot ‘87 (PP) is the Senior
Director of Environmental Health Policy for the
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
in DC...Christopher Fincher ‘87 is the Senior Vice
President of Wachovia Securities...Angela (Fogle)
Jacobs ‘87 works as a Certified Planner near
DC...recently married Martha Giffin ‘89 resides and
works in Sitka, Alaska...Vincent Haley ‘88 (IS)
joined the Gingrich Group as an account executive in March 2003...Paul Harrill ‘86 practices in
the litigation section of McNair Law Firm in Columbia, SC...Bill Hatchett ‘88 works as a Senior
Military Analyst for the CIA...Tim Hugo is Executive Director of Capnet, a lobbying firm for hightech in DC...Tom Jensen ‘85 is Public Affairs Manager for UPS...Mike Keller `88 is with the Foreign
Service in Cambodia...K. Page Kistler ‘87 is with
the Boston law firm Lee, Levine & Bowser...David
Koman ‘87 is a trial attorney for the US
Navy...Maggie (Margiotta) Melson ‘88 is with Episcopal High School in DC...Mark Maurer ‘88 works
for a community planning, environmental management and public policy consultant...Jim McCreedy
‘88 is a Member of Wiley, Malehorn & Sirota in
Morristown, NJ...Mark McMahon `88 is with Sapi-
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ent consultants in Munich Germany...Sherri Mylott
‘86 lives in VT and is Director of Development at
Bennington College...Paul Nardo ‘88 is the Chief
Policy and Communications Advisor for Delegate
William J. Howell, Speaker-Designate, VA House
of Delegates...Mark Osler ‘85 is an Assistant Professor of Law at Baylor...Jeryl Rose Phillips ‘89 works
in the City of Hampton Planning Department coordinating long-range, comprehensive planning...
Brien Poffenberger ‘87 is the Vice President of
Historic Restoration Specialists, Inc...Michael
Powell ‘85 chairs the Federal Communications
Commission...John Powers ‘89 is an archivist for
the National Archives and Records Administration,
dealing specifically with the Nixon Presidential
Materials...John Provo ‘89 is working on a Doctor
of Philosophy in Urban Studies at Portland State
Univ...Daniel Sachs ‘87 is an associate at Chasen &
Boscolo and edits DC’s Political Report
website...John Schad ‘87 is Director of Marketing/
Feature Films for Warner Brothers Home
Video...Alison Seyler ‘86 is the Vice President of
Caressa Shoes...Andy Shilling ‘88 is with Givando,
Shilling law firm in Chesapeake...Dan Smith ‘85
teaches Political Science at Northwest Missouri
State Univ...Jeff Spoeri ‘87 is Director of Development for the UMich School of Education...John
Squier ‘87 received his PhD from UMich and works
as a Program Officer for Russia and Ukraine at the
National Endowment for Democracy...Bill Stokes
‘87 is with the Merrimac Group in DC and chairs
the Washington Network Group...Ward Thomas ‘85
is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Holy
Cross...Mike Tierney `87 (see MA Alumni
list)...Lewis Douglas Walker ‘88 is the director of
client services for Tewksbury Capital Management
Ltd. and has been living in Bermuda since
1993...Shannon Watson ‘89 most recently served as
the VT State Director for the Gore-Lieberman
Presidential Campaign...Theresa Whelan ‘87 is the
Director of the Office of African Affairs...Naomi
Zauderer ‘88 works with the National Employment
Law Project in NYC.
Legal Defense Fund...Melissa (Rider) Carson lives
in Delaware and is the Senior HR Manager at
Accenture...Ted Rusch runs a dot.com for resort
properties...Frank Thames teaches political science
at Texas Tech...Chris Walters is Vice President of
Investments at Bank of America in Abingdon, VA.
CLASS OF 1992:
Joseph Beiras is an I.S. Manager at Caterpillar Inc. in Sanford, NC...Ashlen Cherry completed
her MPA at the Univ. of Southern California and
is now the Director of Privacy and Government
Affairs for Digital Impact...Nate Dugan is teaching at St. John’s in Annapolis and received the
Leo Strauss award for the best dissertation in
theory...Laura Flippin is Deputy Assistant US Attorney General...Matthew Gillen is a foreign service officer...John Graham splits his time between
positions as a pastor and a defense lawyer in
Marion and Chilhowie, VA...David Hawkins works
for the National Association of College Admission
Counseling as the Director of Public Policy...Eric
Kadel is an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell
LLP...Christian Klein is a senior associate with
Obadal and MacLeod in Alexandria...Brad Miller
is the Manager of Operations for the Charlotte
NC Area Transit System...Rob Perks has joined
the legislative staff of the Natural Resources Defense Council in DC...Lanier Saperstein is with
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP...Heather (Williams) Kadel and husband Eric (above) celebrated
the birth of their first child in August 2002.
CLASS OF 1990:
Claudia (Bellinger) Harworth is a sole practitioner attorney specializing in estate planning...
Jonathan Kurrle currently works as the Legislative
Director at the Association for Manufacturing Technology... Nicholas Lashutka is the Director of Government Relations at Ohio Business Roundtable...
Christopher Logan writes for CQ Homeland
Security...Kristi (LaCourse) Lynch is a Financial
Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond...
Thomas McInerney is a Program Legal Counsel
and Legal Advisor for the International Development Law Organization in Rome...Thea Sheridan
works for the NJ Assembly Republican Office...Mike
Wilder is the managing editor of the Times-News
in Burlington, NC.
CLASS OF 1993:
Heather Beiras is a science teacher at Community Partners Charter High School...Matt
Erickson is with Laguens, Hamburger & Stone, a
DC media and strategic consulting firm...Brian
Foster is the Town Manager for Altavista,
VA...Lukas Haynes (IR) is the program officer for
International Peace and Security in the
MacArthur Foundation’s Program on Global Security and Sustainability in Chicago...Vince
Indelicato, Jr. is a Corporate Training and Sales
Support Specialist for GOVS, Inc...Amy (Katancik)
Jordan worked for the SC state government after
finishing her MPA at USC and is now a stay-athome mom with her two children (ages 3 and
5)...Amanda Koman works for Congressman
Steven Rothman...Andrew Langer is Manager,
Regulatory Policy for the National Federation of
Independent Business in DC...recently engaged
Christopher Lloyd is the Vice President and Director of the Business Expansion Services at
McGuire Woods Consulting...Christy (Moseley)
Shiker is a zoning and land use attorney at Holland & Knight LLP in DC...Robert Penland is a
telecommunications specialist for the DEA at the
American Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand... William Ruger is studying for a PhD at Brandeis.
CLASS OF 1991:
Brian Engelhart is the Vice President and Director of Client Services for Tran Interactive Design Group, a marketing communications firm located in Falls Church. He and his wife Renee have
a two-year old daughter named Grace...Buzz
Hawley is the Director of Government Relations
and counsel for Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc.; he is
also a candidate for the Fairfax Co. Board of
Supervisors...Renee Johnson is the Senior Producer
at Digital Eclipse Software, Inc. in CA...Donald
Lynch is an Assistant General Council with Cavalier Telephone of Richmond...Julie McEvoy is a
practicing attorney in DC...Leila (McLaurin)
Beasley is the Associate Editor of Educational Leadership magazine...Andrew Morrison received his
MA in international affairs from GWU...Scott
Pasternack is an Associate Attorney for Earthjustice
CLASS OF 1994:
Matt Abbruzzese finished up his stint with
military intelligence and is at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins...
Emily Becker is teaching middle school in Healy,
AK...Debra Brosnihan (IR) has begun UVA nursing school...John Capati (IR) is in Budapest, Hungary, with American International Health
Alliance...Catherine Clifford had a baby in
2002...Withers (Covel) Hurley owns her own business, Online Health, Ltd...Tom Gill teaches at
Nansemond-Suffolk Academy...Myriam FizaziHawkins (see MA Alumni list)...David Ginsburg
manages market research for Choice Hotels
International...Derek Gottschall (IR) is the Vice
President for Institutional Block Trading for the
Bank of New York...Denzel Hankinson is at National
Economic Research Associates in DC...Kristen
(Loerzel) Larson is a project manager in
ThermoRetec’s information and management systems division in New Haven, CT...Grant Neely is
VA Gov. Mark Warner’s Special Assistant for
Policy...Megan (Peterson) Forbes is the English
Language Institute Cultural Immersion Coordinator at the Univ. of Florida...Don Purka (IR) is a
financial analyst with the Infrastructure-Energy
Group of the Asian Development Bank and is relocating to Manila...Georg Vanberg is a professor
at UNC.
CLASS OF 1995:
Joe Bates is a Senior Research analyst for the
Consumer Electronics Association...Jeffrey Bauer
is a law student at UR...Celia Carroll has just gotten her PhD...Jennifer Cozens currently works for
BAI, Inc. as a defense contractor in the Northern
VA area...Jodi Hevelone (IR) is a Federal Aviation
Administration Aviation Safety Inspector...Mary
Lehner works for the DC law firm Vinson, Elkins
and got married in 2002...Arslan Malik (IR) is with
the NYC law firm Milbank, Tweed ...Matthew
McGuire recently got married and teaches philosophy and government at James Madison High
School in Vienna, VA...Susann Miller is a Public
Affairs Associate for VoteHere, Inc, a tech company that makes election software...JoAnn
Naumann is an arabic linguist for US Army
Intelligence...After working for MD Democratic
candidates and organizations, Mike O’Connell is
now a retail analyst in Boulder, CO...Matt Pickelle
is an attorney with RIA in NYC...Miriam Rajkumar
is now a published author...Kevin Turner and his
wife Lisa (‘95) recently celebrated a birth in their
family...Paul Wellons (IR) is with the law firm
Jones, Day in Washington...Chris Wenk is with the
DC law firm Covington & Burling.
CLASS OF 1996:
Tara (Adams) Ragone is a law clerk for the
Honorable Robert Katzmann of the U. S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is expecting her second child...Melissa Bomberger got her
international studies MA at Pittsburgh...Hanna
Brilliant works for McGuire Woods Consulting
while attending George Mason Law School...
James Bullard is an assistant Commonwealth Attorney in Henrico County, VA...Chris Burdette is
working toward his PhD at UVA...Forest Christian
is serving as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge
Bernice Bouie Donald and has accepted a position as an attorney with the Department of
Justice’s Honor Program...Peter Coyne is with
Mellon Ventures in Los Angeles...Kathleen
Hanako Doherty is working in the Adoption Unit
of the Office of Children’s Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State...Melssia
Eliff completed her MS in Planning from Florida
State in 1998 and works as a Community Planner
for Hillsborough County FL... Sarita (Talwar)
Finnie (IR) is with Honeywell in Minneapolis...
Greg Galligan is the Democratic nominee in the
VA Senate election for the 39th District (Fairfax
and Prince William)... Kathryn Harness (PP) is
an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in
NYC...Scott Hodgdon received an MA in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins and is at UVA School of
Law...Jessica Jacobson has been spending the past
year and a half in rural Siberia as a David L. Boren
National Security Education Program Fellow. She
will return to Princeton soon to complete her MPA
in International Development.... Clarence Long
IV is a law clerk for the US Securities and Exchange Commission...Mark McLaughlin (IR) is
with White, Case law firm in DC...Kris Miler
teaches at the Univ. of Illinois... Jonelle Ocloo just
graduated from law school and is now working
with Advocates International...Sam Ozeck works
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for Venable LLP in the area of Banking and Financial Services...Matt Siano practices securities
law in NYC and got married in 2002...Noelle
Straub is the Senate reporter for The Hill newspaper in DC . . .Anne (Tarbox) Hall will be pursuing a grad degree in Education at UPenn...Brett
Thompson works as director of research for MO
Sen. James Talent...Robert “Bobbin” Tuleya is an
attorney with the SEC in DC...Greg Werkheiser is
with the law firm Piper, Marbury and directs the
Virginia Citizenship Institute...Robert Wone is
with the DC law firm Covington and Burling and
was married in June.
CLASS OF 1997:
Rebecca Alves is a an associate at Gibson,
Dunn law firm in LA’s Orange County office....Jen
(Bennett) Allen works for BBC America as the
Business Development Manager in Bethesda, MD
and got married in May 2002 to Michael
Allen...Dani Barbour is studying History at Oxford
in ‘03- 04...Jeff Boyer (PP) is living in Hampton,
VA...Billy Commons is at Arent Fox Kintner
Plotkin & Kahn in DC...Jessica (Earle) Taylor (PP)
married in December 2002; she is a special agent
for the Secret Service...Andrew Foos works for the
Public Affairs Council...Matthew Fogelson is at the
UMD Law School...Tim Garnett is at DFI, a DC
defense and business consultancy...Amy Gearing
currently works as an analyst for the Arbitron
Company located in Columbia, MD...Alex Gibby
coaches track at the College...Aaron Goldsmith is
an attorney with Bracewell & Patterson...Sarah
Hall got her law degree from GWU and is practicing law with Coudert Brothers in DC...Khang Hiu
graduated from Carnegie Mellon’s MBA Program
and is a management consultant for KPMG...
Karen Jupiter does development work for the
Museum of Science in Boston...Karen Jupiter (PP)
is the Manager of Development for America’s
Promise... Synta Keeling is a first year law student
at Washington College of Law at American
Univ...Eric Kross entered the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Spring 2002...Caroline
Mueller (IR) works for Nextel in DC...Michael
Osborne is an Associate Counsel for the US Dept.
of Government Affairs, Board of Veterans’ Appeals and wrote the published law review article
“Erecting Prejudice Into Legal Principle: Boy
Scouts of America v. James Dale”...Jennifer
Otterbein is working with a high-school youth
group and looking into teaching...Katherine
(Phillips) Carpenter (IR) graduated from UVA law
school in 2002 and is now an associate at
Troutman Sanders LLP in Richmond...Matt Reining is just starting at Yale School of Management...
Branden Ritchie is working as counsel to Rep. Bob
Goodlatte...Steve Rodger graduated from
Vanderbilt Law...Lauren Schmidt is with DC’s
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm...Matthew
Sheiffer (IS) is stationed in South Korea as a captain in an Army Aviation Support unit...Katherine
Sleeker is an attorney in Chicago...Richard Sulik
lives and works on the Island of Oahu, HI...after
graduating from UR Law, Dharmesh Vashee is
working as a law clerk for Judge Douglas Tice in
the US Bankruptcy Court in Richmond ...Miguel
Villarreal (IR) works at Cahill Gordon & Reindel,
LLP...Jamie Wallis is an entertainment journalist
for AP, handles style coverage for Playboy.com,
and is working for M. Shanken Communications...
Mikhail Zeldovich works for DC-based law firm
Dewey Ballantine…Tim Witcher is at UVA business school.
CLASS OF 1998:
Emily (Adams) Korff (IR) works for the
American International Health Alliance and travels frequently to the former USSR...Lise Adams
was the recipient of UVA Law’s 2003 Powell Fellowship and will be working for the DC Legal Aid
Society...Gazala Ashraf graduated from UR Law
and was working for Karamah: Muslim Women
Lawyers for Human Rights in DC in 2002...
Kendrick Ashton (IR) is doing a joint JD/MBA at
the Univ. of Chicago...Rebecca Asta graduated
from Tulane law...Mary Beth (Budnyk) Schweigert
had a son in June 2002 and is a feature writer for
the Lancaster New Era in Lancaster, PA...Amy
Brandt is the Manager of Government Affairs for
the American Waterways Operators and deals
mainly with the Coast Guard in regards to regulatory advocacy...Timothy Campbell is attending the
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris...Chad Carr
starts at Harvard Law School this fall...Catherine
Carroll is pursuing a JD/PhD at UMich...Charlotte
Chang (PP) works as a researcher for Barents
Group of KPMG Consulting, Inc....Peter Clark
(IR) served as a human rights monitor in Colombia with Peace Brigades International...Brian
Cohrs is a lieutenant, USMC, currently serving
with the R Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marines at
Camp Pendleton, CA...Brent Colburn is Director
of Research for the presidential campaign of
former VT Gov. Howard Dean...Gregory Cota is a
legislative assistant to Sen. Patrick Leahy...Alexis
Cox works as a production assistant and intern
coordinator for the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”
. . .Peter Coyne works on Long-Term Growth and
IT Services opportunities at Mellon Ventures in
LA ...Andrew Dickson (IR) will be in Taiwan for
the next few years with the Foreign Service...Mike
Diserio is with CSPAN in DC...Ryan Dolibois is at
YES college preparatory school in Houston...Emily
Fishbein is at George Washington Law School...T.
J. Fitzgerald (IS) married in 2003 and is headed
to Syria as a Fulbright Scholar...John Greenwood
(IR) is currently enrolled in Tufts’ Fletcher School
MA program in international affairs...Matt Guiney
is with Coudert Brothers LLP in NYC...Rian
(Harker) Harris is in the Foreign Service...Ian
Hart (PP) is the Webmaster at the Conservation
Law Foundation in Boston...Henry Johnson is an
Assistant Attorney General of AL...Kermit Kaleba
is at W&M law...Jennifer Lieb is in Princeton’s PhD
program...Angelique Lenoir is working for the City
of Hampton as a Neighborhood Grant Administrator... Dave Loewenstein is with Accenture in
DC...Tony Marques is studying for the priesthood
at Catholic Univ.’s Seminary in DC...Nicole
Maroulakos is a litigation associate with Dewey
Ballantine LLP in NY...Vivek Sankaran is an attorney with the Children’s Law Center in DC...Sean
Savage soon finishes his MA at Johns Hopkins’
SAIS...Mara (Pressman) Surridge is a 6th grade
teacher in Fairfax County...Claire Rice (PP) is with
Accenture Consulting in DC...Rachel Seher is
pursuing a PhD in Political Science at Yale...Lee
Shaw is with Rebuilding Together...Joe Sheerin is
with McGuire, Woods in Richmond...Abigal Sines
(IR) got her MA in Asian Studies from UHI and
is now a program assistant at the East-West Center in Honolulu...Brett Tillett recently married
Rebecca Nemerow ‘99 and is doing an MA in special education...Jason Torchinsky is with the Dept
of Justice....James Treglio is at USD law school and
is a Democratic Party Activist...Lori (Wentsel)
Blinde is doing advanced grad work at UCLA...
Leighanne (Wright) Erickson teaches in Port Angeles, WA...Jim Zucker is doing Teach for America
in Houston.
CLASS OF 1999:
Heath Bradford starts UR law school this
Fall...Kieran Brenner (IS) is finishing at Tufts’
Fletcher School this year...Reagan Clyne works for
SRA International, Inc., a Northern VA information technology firm, and is also an EMT with the
Annadale Volunteer Fire Dept...Brian Cohrs (IS)
is with the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton,
CA...Sebastian Csaki (IS) is doing his PhD at
Cambridge...Allison Foley attends law school at Suffolk Univ. in Boston...Jeff Geiger is the Director of
Constituent Services in the VA Office of the Lieutenant Governor...Mindy Gill (IS) currently works
for The Jamestown Foundation’s section on China
analysis...recently engaged Brett Keener works as
a financial analyst at CFS Associates in Paramus,
NJ...Matt Larsen is working towards his MA in
Church-State studies at Baylor...Walt Latham recently completed the MPP/JD program at
W&M...Susann Miller started her own political consulting firm in DC...Wendy Oleson (IR) is with the
US Army at Fort Benning and served in the Gulf
War...recently married Oz Parvaiz is with Capital
One in Richmond...Lori Pound graduated from
UR Law School and is a Senior Adjudication Analyst with the VA Dept of Health Professions... recently married Jess Powley is in her second year at
Georgetown Law School...Sara Rablin (IR) works
in information systems for Booz-Allen & Hamilton,
Inc...Kristen Rhode (IR) is doing her MA at the
London School of Economics... Dave Richelsoph
(IR) ended his term as a Foreign Service Officer
in New Delhi and is leaving for Norway after the
summer...Wilson Rickerson will soon begin his
Masters in Energy and Environmental Policy at
Delaware...Aaron Rosenberg is with the Commerce
Department’s International Trade Administration
in DC... Grainne Sibley is with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency...Tim Sprinkle (IS) works
for an education association in DC and teaches
part- time...Franz Steinherr is a law student at the
Univ. of Oxford and works for a British member of
Parliament...Mary Ellen Tsekos is a law student at
American Univ. and spent the summer in Greece
writing a report to the UN on Greece’s implementation of the Convention on Econ, Social, and
Cultural rights...Sara Yun is a Masters candidate at
Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
Steven Ziehm (IS) works at International BusinessGovernment Counselors in DC....Mark Zimmer
(IR) is a Foreign Service Officer and will leave for
China in Summer 2003.
CLASS OF 2000:
Shanan Alper is a graduate student at the
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley....
Allison Brown has been working for the VA State
Bar for the past two years...Ryan Casey is in the
Peace Corps and will be teaching English in
Russia...Kelley (Cawthorne) Shreffler is with Baker
and Daniels in DC...Andrea Coleman is with the
Orlando-Univ. of Central Florida Shakespeare
Festival...Susan Crane will be working at the
College’s DC Office this year...John Dane works
for Branch Banking & Trust in Richmond...Billy
Day works for the Daily Press of Hampton
Roads...William Donnelly (IR) is a commercial
underwriter for Nationwide Insurance in
Gainesville, FL...James Finn is a student at UNC
Law and recently interned in the US Dept of
Justice...Will Gomaa spent the summer in China
before starting law school at UVA...Betsy Haws is
leaving Brookings to attend law school at BYU in
Provo...Paul Helms is a judicial clerk for the Hon.
James H. Michael, Jr., in Charlottesville...Rebecca
Herbig attends T.C. Williams School of Law...
Elizabeth Jones works for CQ Press in DC...
Suzanne Keller is the Director for Outbound Programs with Alliance Abroad Group... Brooke
Leyerle (IS) is at Wisconsin veterinary school...
Dan Maloney works for The Kenesis Group, LLC
in DC...Donovan Maust (IR) will be starting medical school at Johns Hopkins in the fall...Peter
Nevin is with the marketing at Nantucket Nectars
in San Francisco...Marsh Pattie finished an M.Ed.
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in Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education
at UVA and is now the new Assistant Director of
Student Affairs at UVA’s Darden School of
Business...David Plummer is with the National
Imagery and Mapping Agency...Patricia Ripley is
a research assistant at the American Institutes for
Research in DC...Mike School is with Capital One
in Richmond and doing an MA in Education at
the College...Andrew Sedaca is working for First
Union National Bank as a Website Strategist...
Amandeep Sidhu is a consultant for the Federal
Defense Group American Management Systems,
Inc...Demian Smith leaves in August for a two-year
term as a Foreign Service Officer in New Delhi...
Marc Wear is at a legislative monitoring and issue
management firm in DC...Parker Wertz is a paralegal in NYC and starts at Tufts Fletcher School
this fall...Brandon West is in Army Officer Candidate School...Glen Westerback will be working for
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn in NYC in the fall of
2003...Drew Whelan is finishing at Villanova
Law...Tom Yehl heads High School and College
Ministry at St. Mark Catholic Church in Vienna,
VA...Nick Zweck is an associate to a federal court
judge in Adelaide, Australia.
CLASS OF 2001
Kelli Alces is in law school at the Univ. of
Illinois...Evan Ausband attends Wake Forest Law
School...Alex Crawford-Batt is working for the
DIA...Sarah Brewer is a student at UNC Law and
married Steve Lockett in August...John Broome
is with Accenture in DC...Anne Coleman works
for the Foreign Service in the Philippines...
Marielle Canter is a project coordinator in the
Energy and Mining Program of the Center for
Environmental Leadership in Business within
Conservation International... David Carter has left
W&M’s DC office to attend W&M Law...Sarah
Combs is with Anderson Consulting...Kevin Croke
is starting at the School of Advanced International
Studies in the Fall...Lauren Dawson is with DFI
Consulting in DC...Becky Di Muro is at Case Western Law...Ryan Done is at the Univ. of Utah Law
School...Dan Ehlke is working on his PhD in political science at Brown...Jesse Emch is with the
Close Up Foundation and getting an MEd...Vicky
Gaffney is at Accenture in DC...Erica Godwin is
at Columbus School of Law at Catholic Univ. and
will be working for Rep. Tom Davis in the fall...
Christina Hall has been working for the poor in
the Dominican Republic...Marcus Hill is at Wake
Forest Law...Christine Ho transferred to W&M
School of Law...Yuri Horwitz has been working
for the EPA...Elizabeth Ingram works with the
Milestone Group in DC...Beth Isaacs is working
for Sen. Paul Sarbanes...Jamie Jacobsen is attending the grad School of Education at the College...
Will Karangelen is at UR Law School...Laura
Keehner is with DC’s American Enterprise
Institute...Anjali Kharod attends Villanova Law...
Jamie Kris (IR) is a legal assistant for Hogan and
Hartson in DC...Daniel Perez- Lopez (IR) is working at the Urban Institute and performing immigration research...Tariq Louka is at law school at
W&M...Marie Lover n is with Accenture in
DC...Cheryl Malacane is a law student at the
Catholic Univ. of America...Meredith McBride
works for the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency and will be entering the Security Studies
Program at Georgetown... Joe Mejstrik is with
Accenture in DC...Sean Michaels is with the European Bank for Reconstruction aqnd Development in London …Chris Molino is with the US
Army...Lauren Morgan is at UR Law
School...Anneliese Munczinski (IR) is at Villanova
Law...Tony Mur ray is with the Army in
Germany...Julie Naranjo recently ran the Mayor’s
Midnight Sun Marathon in AK to support the Leu-
kemia and Lymphoma Society...Art Neill is the
Public Information Officer for the Office of the
Secretary of State in MD; he will be heading to
law school at Univ. of San Diego in the fall...Mayur
Patel (IR, PP) is working towards his JD/LLM in
international law at Duke...Amy Peters will be
teaching in Costa Rica in 2004...Ana Luisa Pinto
is serving her second year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala working with agricultural marketing... Jon Schenina is attending graduate school
at Harvard Univ...Dan Schy is at UR Law...Tracy
Selmer works as a staff assistant for a member of
the Fairfax Co. Board of Supervisors... Domenica
Sinisi-Karbid (IR) worked for Simpson Thacher
& Bartlett in 2002-03...Jennifer Sheap will attend
GWU’s Security Policy Studies program in
September...Jason Sibley recently married...
Simran Singh (IR) is at Univ. of Miami (FL) law
school...Steve Strosnider is at UVA Law...Sarita
(Talwar) Finnie (IR) is working as a Manager of
Strategic Planning for Honeywell International in
MN...IV Tench has been working at DC’s
Brookings Institution...Lt. Greg Tomlin is with the
US Army in Germany...Matt Webb (IR) attends
UR Law...Jay Whiteley (IS) is headed to the UMich
Ford School of Public Policy...Phi Wiseberg is a
Legal Assistant in DC at Jenner & Block.
CLASS OF 2002
Hunter Abell attends Gonzaga Univ. School
of Law...Ike Adams (IR) is in law school at
Vanderbilt...George Autry is a 2nd Lieutenant in
the US Army...Theresa Barbadoro attends
Georgetown Law...Mark Bass (PP) works at the
Dept. of Justice...Ryan Brick (IR) attended GWU’s
Elliott School of International Affairs in 200203...Karen Bruner (PP) starts medical school at
UVA in Fall 2003...Doug Bunch finished his graduate work at Harvard in higher ed administration
and will start W&M Law this fall...Samuel Calderon
is in the US military...John Castiglione (PP) works
for the Fund for Public Interest Research in
DC...Chris Condon is a Financial Administrator
with SAIC in Northern VA...Richard Cook attends
UVA Law...After a successful year as a graduate
assistant at Florida State, Matt Crispino was hired
as an assistant coach for Army’s swimming and
diving team...Michael Cutrone received a Master’s
in Political Economy from the Univ. of Essex and
is starting a PhD program in politics at Princeton...
Recently married Meg Ehrie is in law school at
Catholic Univ...Dan Fine works for the Sen. Judiciary Committee...Nate Foster works in the Biology Dept. at W&M...Kate Gallagher works for
PIRG in CA...Kelly Gastley is in law school at
W&M...Eric Ginsberg is studying for a PhD in
political science at UC-San Diego...Ashley Glacel
(PP) is pursuing an MA in Liberal Studies at New
School Univ...Mark Good is attending graduate
school at the Univ. of Durham for IR/Middle Eastern Studies...Paul Grieco (IR) is with the International Institute of Economics in DC...Elizabeth
Grimm has been working at the Federal Trade
Commission and will start in GWU’s Security
Policy Studies program this fall...Jason Grindel
(IR) is starting his second year at Univ. of Illinois
College of Law...Tami Hayford (IR) is a research
assistant for the Federal Reserve Board...Sean
Heuvel works for the Office of University Development at W&M while pursuing a Master’s in college administration at the School of Education;
he married Katey Cunningham ‘02 in June... Elizabeth Higgins is working for the Dept. of Justice,
Office of Consumer Litigation... Johnelle Hinkle
teaches Social Studies at Longfellow Middle
School in Falls Church...Diana Kelly (IR) lives and
works in the DC area... Thaddeus Kim is a Legal
Assistant/Paralegal specializing in Government
Contract Disputes/Procurement at Van Scoyoc
Kelly PLLC in DC...Pete Kunkel is working as a
Forensic Evidence Specialist for the Dept. of
Criminal Justice Services in Fairfax...Steven
Langan works in the analyst program with Merrill
Lynch Investment Managers... Komlan Lonergan
is a running back for the Schwabisch Hall Unicorns of the German Football League...Joe Massie
(IR) works for the Transportation Security Agency
in DC...Dan Maxey works for the Democratic
Governor’s Association... Christian McMurray is
a paralegal with Mason, Mason, Walker & Hedrick
in Newport News...Tom McSweeney is attending
Cornell Law for a JD/LLM...Mike Merrell attends
BYU Law...Patrick Miller is working for Teach for
America in Atlanta...Chris Mooney is working at
Davis Polk & Wardwell in NY...Travis Nels (IR)
starts Officer Training School for air battle management (USAF) in August...Margaret Newland
is in broadcast journalism in Raleigh...Scott
O’Brien is working on Rep. Tom Davis’s re-election campaign... Drew Paxton works for USAir in
DC...Alex Pyke has been working for Teach for
America... Channing Rich attends the Elliott
School for Foreign Affairs at GWU...Stewart
Robinette is pursuing a Master’s in higher ed at
Ohio State; he spent the summer in a related internship in England... Jon Rogers teaches and
coaches at Tabb High School in Yorktown and is
engaged to Shay Mocnik ‘02...Hillary Rollins
works for MLM Corporation in DC...James
Saxton-Ruiz (IR) is with USAir in DC...Ashleigh
Schuller will be attending law school in the
fall...Melissa Shoemaker (IR) is working in Serbia
for the summer; in the fall, she will continue work
on her MPP at W&M... Jonathan Strausberg is a
program associate for Hillel at Ohio State...Beth
Stronge attends Eastern VA Med School...Jessica
Trojak attends London School of Economics and
Political Science... Nik Tysiak is at American Univ.
Law...Ann Vaughan is in the Peace Corps in
Nicaragua...Kris Waldhauser is working as a regimental operations officer at Advanced Camp at
Fort Lewis...Reid Whitten (IR) was working in
Williamsburg; he will be spending 2004 in
France...Jessica Wright (IR) has been volunteering with Survivors’ Rights International.
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MASTERS PROGRAM ALUMNI NOTES
W
illiam Allred ‘89 is with Barrickman, Allred
& Young of Atlanta...Clarke Cagey BA ‘93/
MA ‘94 is with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services...Alan Calandro ‘89 is a section chief
and primary analyst for the Office of Fiscal Analysis in the CT state legislature...Ted Carmines ‘72
teaches political science at Indiana Univ...Carolyn
Castleberry ‘94 is an anchor for WAVY-TV 10 in
Norfolk, VA...Ben Cooper ‘74 is the Executive VP
for Public Affairs for the Graphic Arts Technical
Foundation/Printing Industries of America...Lori
Crawford ‘90 is a homemaker in Ft. Meade,
MD...Katherine Darke BA ‘92/MA ‘93 (PP) is a
Social Science Analyst at the National Institute of
Justice Office of Research and Evaluation, Violence and Victimization Division...John Dedrick
BA ‘86/MA ‘88 directs research at the Kettering
Foundation in Dayton...Mike DeWitt ‘83 is an assistant principal at C.D. Hylton High School in
Woodbridge, VA...Darby Dickerson BA ‘84/MA
‘85 is the Interim Univ. Vice President and Dean,
Professor of Law, and the Director of Research
and Writing at Stetson Univ. College of Law...Mark
Freeman ‘94 is the in-house counsel for litigation
at Key Bank of Cleveland and has a six-month-old
daughter...Paul Gough ‘80 is the Director of Policy
and Planning for the SD Board of Regents...Bob
Graboyes ‘82 is a Visiting Assistant Professor at
UR’s Robins School of Business and an Affiliate
Associate Professor at MCV...Michael Gresalfi ‘81
works for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and lectures at Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of
Engineering...Geoffrey Grodale ‘92 is an attorney
for Gardner, Carton, & Douglas in DC...David
Hawkins BA ‘92/MA ‘94 is Director of Govt. Relations at the National Association for College Admission Counseling in DC...Myriam FizaziHawkins BA ‘92/MA ‘94 works for America-Mideast Educational and Training Services...William
Allen Hazelton ‘70 teaches political science at
Miami Univ. in OH...Jonathan Kajeckas BA ‘89/
MA ‘94 works for the Co. of Sonoma, CA...Wayne
Knight ‘82 is Director of Corporate Development
for Primary Care Associated Medical Group in
CA...Grace Lessner ‘98 is Publicity Coordinator
for NH Public Television...Steve Lobb BA ‘94/MA
‘95 is doing his PhD in political science at
Yale...Chris Liptak ‘97 is working at the US Embassy in Rome...Rob Martin ‘95 is in UVA’s PhD
program...Ronald McLeod ‘90 is an accountant
for Capitol One in Richmond, VA...David Melding ‘89 is a Conservative member of the Welsh
Assembly and Chair of the Health and Social Services Committee...Alexander Monroe ‘69 is
Records Manager for the City of Richmond...
Michael Plichta ‘90 is with the FBI in Puerto
Rico...Jay Price ‘92 teaches public history at
Wichita State...John Rothgeb ‘72 is Paul Rejai Professor of Political Science at Miami (OH)... Carmine Scavo teaches political science at East Carolina Univ...Vincent Tanney ‘91 lives in Delanco,
NJ...Mike Tierney BA ‘87/MA ‘88 teaches in our
Dept. at W&M...John Tinkham ‘71 is the Secretary for the VA Social Sciences Association and
has retired as a professor of political science...Jim
Toner ‘73 is currently the Ambassador Holland
H. Coors Distinguished Visiting Chair of Character Development at the US Air Force Academy
and a professor at the US Air War College...
Katharine Traeger ‘80 lives in Sicklerville, NJ...Ron
Trojanowski ‘88 is a copy editor with the Indianapolis News...Robert Waddington ‘93 is living in
Harrogate, UK... Heather Lehr Wagner ‘89 continues to write for Chelsea House Publishers, most
recently producing a series on drug and alcohol
use...Jacqui Walpole ‘86 is home-schooling her
sons as part of Prince George’s Home Learning
Network in the DC area...Andy Waters BA ‘81/
MA ‘82 is a partner at Waters & Kraus, LLP of
Dallas...Stuart Weidie ‘02 works for Blossman Gas
Co. in Asheville, NC...Bill Whitley BA ‘76/MA’78
is the County Administrator for Gloucester, VA.
2003 Bloopers
I
t was a banner year for bloopers in students papers and tests. including the fa
miliar problems with place names, such
as the junior in European Politics who went
on at length about the new legislative assemblies of Scotland and “Whales.” Another
commented on the atmosphere of the now
“defunked” state of East Germany (in all
honesty, the place does still smell kind of
musty).
If geography offers a rich vein of bloopers, consider history. One student noted that
Britain’s royal family had “ruled for several
decades with only a few hiccups in their dynasty” (not that the Queen hasn’t had reason
to get blotto now and then). A student of US
Foreign Policy testified to the remarkable staying power of America’s Chief Executives: “During the Cuban missile crisis, President
Roosevelt sought the advice of his brother,
Teddy Roosevelt.” Others have revealed the
hitherto unknown facts that “the United States
and Britain fought the Boer War in 1812.”
One other historical tidbit we reprint with
some trepidation, but a freshman writing
about George Washington said it was not
merely his physical traits or integrity alone that
made him great, but the “copulation of these
attributes.” Father of our country indeed.
Just plain old English posed its challenges. One undergrad described a close
election contest in which the candidates were
running “neck-to-neck,” an intriguing or (depending) disturbing image. Another student
noted that America’s political leaders have
“exhumed confidence” about the economy–
though given recent market trends, perhaps
the dead should remain buried.
Students of international politics this
year voiced concern that the US anti-drug
war has not succeeded in stopping “cocoa
production” in Latin America (the result no
doubt being a glut of Swiss Miss on the streets
of our cities).
Back home, budding scholars have tried
to explain why so many Americans don’t
vote. One student in American Government
class who suggested that non-voters were
basically happy with the status quo put it vividly: “a general feeling of contentment seems
to be rocking the nation.”
Other items don’t quite fall in the
blooper category but do earn honorable
mention for, well, something. Perhaps lack
of ambition: when Clay Clemens began discussing the just-concluded Austrian election,
one student cheerfully blurted out in class
“Hey, I almost read a newspaper article about
that today!” In some cases an excess of ambition might be more apt: on page 1 of an 8page paper about black voter turnout, a student wrote, “To understand the problem, a
summary of black history within the United
States is necessary.”
And this one tells us everything we need
to know about why dictatorships ultimately
collapse: a student of political philosophy
defined democracy as “a form of government
in which you can have sex with anybody who
will let you.”
We had two winners in our annual misplaced modifier contest–it was a dead heat
between “First appearing in the San Francisco gay community, scientists and politicians initially believed that AIDS was strictly
a ‘gay’ disease,” and “After having been de-
clared a national security threat, President
Bush decided Iraq must stop its proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
And speaking of the Chief Executive,
we get the idea that many students would
definitely sympathize with him more if they
only knew that–as one student revealed—
“even his ability to speak English was severely
circumcised.” That’s got to hurt.
When asked to list an “essential means
of coercion used by government,” an
undergrad alluded to a whole new notion
of penal servitude by answering “Prisons:
sending individuals who commit crimes to
jail whether they want to go or not” (“Thanks
for the offer judge, but I’ll pass it up.”)
Not that this is a blooper, but at the end
of a recent exam, Chris Howard asked students the following question under the heading, Just Curious: “What is the very last thing
you want to hear a teacher say in class?” (a)
“Before I lecture today, I’d like to talk with
you a few minutes about …… Scientology,”
(b) “Our family vacation to the Poconos was
just great. Oooh, look, here’s a picture of
me getting out of the hot tub,” or (c) “Listen kids, if you want a friend, get a dog. I
don’t want your love, but I absolutely demand your respect.” The “winner,” hands
down, was B.
And finally, our annual award for the
most excellent in-class cell telephone comment comes from a Religion major: as the
teacher began passing out midterms, a panicky classmate punched at his cell and whispered urgently to an absent friend, who was
no doubt sleeping off a hangover back on
fraternity row, “Dude, the exam is NOW!!”
Before its Commencement ceremony, the Class of 2003 took time to remember Alex Reyno, a friend and classmate who died shortly before the end of spring semester.
Alex’s sister, brother-in- law and nephew accepted his diploma at the Wren Building.
Awards 2002-2003
Jesse Ferguson won the Depart-ment’s Warner Moss prize for
the outstanding thesis; his project, entitled “Perpetual Terror” earned
Highest Honors.
Thanks to the generosity of Annabelle Koenig-Niimo and the
late Laurie Johnston, the Department is able to honor a student with
outstanding potential for a foreign service career. This year the award
was shared by two non-majors, Raj Buck and Michelle Morgan.
Those chosen for Phi Beta Kappa in 2002-2003 included Government majors Wendy Begleiter, Jennifer Keister, Josh Riley, and
Valerie Schuster. Other PBK honorees included Marianna Kepka
(International Studies), as well as Paul Ring and Stephen Ng (Public Policy). Congratulations as well to Stephen for winning the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship.
At the main College ceremony, Government major Brent Turner
was named as a recipient of the Sullivan award, for which “nothing
is considered except the possession of characteristics of heart, mind,
and conduct as evince a spirit of love for and helpfulness to other
men and women.”
Finally, the Department nominates one student each year to an
exchange program to teach at the Royal Hospital School in Ipswich,
England. This year’s choice was Justin Ayars. Last year’s tutor, Jesse
Knight, enjoyed it so much that he is staying on for another year as well.
Senior Honors Theses
2002 -2003
Melanie Louise Biscoe (Evans), The Sounds of Silence: The Conditional
Nature of Congressional Deliberation on Environmental Issues
Jesse F. Ferguson (Tierney), Perpetual Terror
Jennifer Marie Keister (Baxter), “So You Say You Want a Revolution? “
Targeting Practices of Politically violent Non-Governmental Intrastate
Groups
Keith James Larson (Evans), The Senate Hold: An Analysis of Informal
Filibuster Threats in the U.S. Senate
Karalyn Deirdre Meany (Ward), How Credibility Impacts the Efficacy of
Economic Sanctions
Stephen Michael Ng (Evans), Bargaining between the Branches: Strategic Signals and Mixed Messages
Dipti Ramnarain (Baxter), Understanding the Factors which Contribute
to the Information Technology Industry in Developing Countries
Arthur Traldi (Lester), Ethics and Humanitarian Military Intervention:
A Neo-Rawlsian Response
Morton Turns Thirty!
R
ecently, while deep in the bowels of Swem Library, a faculty
member stumbled across the artistic masterpiece shown
below–an architect’s conception of the future Morton Hall,
c. 1968. It was much like discovering an old parchment with Christopher Wren’s original plan for St. Paul’s Cathedral, or L’Enfant’s own
blueprints for Washington DC, or Frank Lloyd Wright’s first sketches
of Falling Water. Well, the Department shrewdly hoodwinked Swem
out of this artistic find, and it now hangs proudly in our own East
Wing Gallery, the xerox room.
And this discovery comes just in time for Morton’s gala thirtieth
birthday celebration, scheduled for December 5, the last day of the
coming semester–the very date on which this edifice was dedicated
back in 1973. We will mark the day in style, with gifts for those faculty
who have been here during the building’s entire history (“Thirty years
in Morton and all I got was this lousy t- shirt”), and the launch of our
“buy a cinder block” campaign for alumni donations (for that idea we
have Government Secretary Valerie Trovato to thank).
Astonishingly, rumor has it that longterm College plans call for
Morton’s destruction and the erection of a new building along
Jamestown Road. But we give such
talk little credence. For one, the administration recently installed automatic self-flushing toilets and
touched up the lawn (see picture
)—major infrastructure investments that surely would not be undertaken for a building scheduled
to be demolished. And even if the
threat is serious, no doubt the
Williamsburg community’s active
historical preservationist lobby will rally to Morton’s defense.
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Several Government folks helped with this year’s Update: Chair Ron Rapoport and former chair John McGlennon, along with Professor Chris Howard;
Office Manager Valerie Trovato; Secretary Barbara Finocchio; and student assistants Kristin Monaco, Meredith Viens, Nancy Jansen, Kristina Hofmann
and above all summer assistant Jon Rogers. We are also very grateful to the Publications Office especially – graphic designer Sylvia Colston. Finally, our
gratitude to the Alumni Society Records Office, including Betsy Quinzio and Alzeonia Morton; William and Mary News editor David Williard; Charles
Center Associate Director Lisa Grimes, the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy and the Reves Center for International Studies; and Patty O’Neill
at the Development Office. Clay Clemens, Editor.
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