Summer 2000 - College of William and Mary

Government Update
NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY’S GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
Summer 2000
Greetings from Morton Hall:
This publication may not generate late-night parties and desperate calls to bookstores, as did the
fourth volume of the Harry Potter series, but we know that many of you have been eagerly awaiting the
fourth edition of Government Update. As in our three previous entries, in the following pages we attempt
to bring you the recent news of the William & Mary Government Department, recommendations for new
sources of ideas and information, and notes on the comings and goings of alumni who graduated with
degrees in Government, International Relations and Public Policy.
A special welcome to our most recent alums, members of the Class of 2000, who graduated on a
glorious May afternoon (moderate heat, low humidity) at our temporary venue of the Sunken Gardens.
We have our share of transitions to mention again this year: Professor William Morrow officially retired
on June 30, and Professor Roger Smith will retire at the end of the new academic year. Three of our
faculty, T. J. Cheng, Larry Evans, and our newsletter editor Clay Clemens earned promotion to Full
Professor this year, and Stephen Ndegwa was promoted to Associate Professor as well as receiving tenure.
Again this year, let me thank you for your support in so many ways. Thanks for keeping the news
coming for our updates with your e-mails, letters, phone calls and visits. Thanks for your generous support for the College, and especially for designating the Government Department to receive your annual
John McGlennon
gifts. We use these gifts to enhance the classes and facilities for our students, and you have allowed us to
do some wonderful things. And on a very personal note, thanks to my colleagues and former students
who totally surprised Ron Rapoport and me with a party to celebrate our combined 50 years of teaching at the College. Yikes!
Please keep the comments coming. This year, we’ve gotten a few fascinating essays from graduates, and we are now trying to decide the
very best way to make these insightful analyses available to a wider audience. If you’ve got some thoughts or an interesting experience to
relate which you think might be of interest to our graduates and current students, send them on. My best wishes for a successful year.
Sincerely,
John McGlennon
FYI: Trends in the Choice of Concentration
Last year’s Update printed some graphs on trends in grading,
which led many alums (okay, at least two) to inquire about patterns
in the selection of majors. The College’s Office of Institutional Research provided the following data, listing primary concentrations
in various departments and total number of bachelors degrees over
a quarter-century. Plainly, as with most departments, the number of
concentrators in Government has fluctuated over time—affected by
national trends, as well as establishment of new programs like International Studies, including International Relations, and Public Policy
(until the mid-1990s any majors in either were lumped under Interdisciplinary). Beyond that, we leave it up to you to draw any inferences from this table, relying on analytical skills finely honed during
years of political science training here in the Department....
Distribution of Bachelors Degrees
1975-2000
Government Department
Presidential Election Survey
Department
1977
Anthropology
19
Biology
115
Business
127
Chemistry
40
Computer Science
0
Economics
79
English
68
Government
52
History
79
International Studies
0
Mathematics
34
Philosophy
26
Physics
14
Psychology
67
Public Policy
0
Sociology
23
Total
992
1980
33
115
182
37
18
100
89
93
63
0
18
16
15
77
0
21
1057
1985
21
100
204
42
48
125
110
100
62
0
35
22
9
57
0
22
1140
1990
27
96
228
33
21
108
148
149
75
0
36
35
15
133
0
23
1343
1995
22
135
155
59
27
54
136
112
99
61
19
10
272
116
19
38
1264
2000
33
150
197
51
39
83
145
100
97
48
18
12
1
135
3
35
1382
William and Mary Government faculty have spent, all told, over
a century doing graduate study in political science and 350 years
of teaching the subject to America’s finest students. Based on
this expertise, who would be better prepared to predict the outcome of this fall’s presidential election? The Update’s editorial
board thus conducted a survey of Department members, asking them to forecast the share of popular vote and total electoral vote that candidates for the two major parties would receive November 2. Unlike spineless political scientists at other
top universities, our faculty were willing to put their reputations
on the line far in advance of an election, risking embarrassment in a publication sent to some four thousand former students, many of whom still remember their Government grades.
So, with no further ado, members of the Department officially
predict that this year’s presidential election will be won by (cont.)
Current Faculty Notes
After spending fall 1999 as a guest scholar
at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Assistant Professor Eva Busza returned this past
spring, teaching her course on Russian Politics
along with a new seminar on Women and Politics. She published an article on Russia’s army in
the journal Democratizatsiya and contributed to two
edited volumes, while giving talks on civil- military relations in formerly Communist Europe at,
among other places, the US State Department.
In even bigger news, she got married this summer and (after the honeymoon!) will be taking
leave in 2000-2001 to work on Russian/East European military issues at the National Democratic
Institute in Washington.
Don Baxter inaugurated the use of a
Microcase software package in his introductory
comparative politics course, helping students fulfill the Department’s computing proficiency requirement. Continuing a tradition that now
stretches back nearly a quarter century, students
in his course on the politics of developing countries made their annual whirlwind visit to the India, Thai and Filipino embassies in Washington—
all without major diplomatic incident.
Professor James Bill returned from leave in
1999-2000 to teach his course on Middle East politics and a new freshmen seminar on informal
power networks. This year saw the appearance of
a fifth edition of his Politics in the Middle East (coauthored with Robert Springborg), one of the
most widely-used texts on this region, put out as
part of the Longman series on comparative politics. In addition, Professor Bill maintained a busy
schedule of talks, especially on developments in
Iran. He and his wife Ann escaped the height of
Williamsburg’s summer heat at their cabin in the
cool north woods of Wisconsin—home of large
trout and mosquitos.
Brian Blouet spent the spring of 2000 on research leave at Oxford University, Britain’s version of William and Mary. While in Europe, he
guest lectured at University College Cork’s Geography Department, and presented a seminar for
faculty and graduate students.
In addition to co-editing a book on Asia-Pacific security, a major topic of international news
in recent months, Professor T.J. Cheng published
several articles on the political dimension of that
region’s economic developments. This past year
he gave talks at several American universities, as
well as in Asia and Latin America. Given his interest in the evolution of new democratic structures,
he teaches a seminar on comparative electoral systems along with his introduction to comparative
politics, a lecture class on international political
economy, and a senior seminar on Asia’s newlydeveloping economies.
Clay Clemens launched his freshmen seminar on political leadership in fall 1999 and offered
his old standards—European politics, European
integration and US Foreign Policy. Before he
could finish his manuscript about the achievements of Helmut Kohl, it was revealed that the
former German chancellor had been keeping
large secret slush funds: Professor Clemens is withholding publication of his book until some of
those funds can be transferred to his own accounts.
An interest in theoretical debates in the social sciences shapes both the teaching and scholarship of Associate Professor David Dessler. In
addition to offering his seminar on Theories of
the International System last fall, he published an
article on constructivism and positivism in The
Review of International Studies. He is spending calendar year 2000 on academic leave.
Professor Larry Evans continues to incorporate policy practitioners into his courses, especially
his Congress class, and would appreciate any suggestions or offers of help from interested alumni.
He also teaches Game Theory, which—in a display of intra-Morton ecumenicism—is cross-listed
with Economics. His three chapters/articles this
past year dealt with, respectively, legislative structure, congressional party leadership, and procedural rules in the US House. Currently he is interviewing Senate staff for a book about floor decision making, and researching linkages between
campaiging and governing in Congress.
Associate Professor John Gilmour was on
academic leave during 1999-2000, but will return
this fall to teach American Politics, complete with
the new computer skills module. His article “The
Powell Amendment Voting Cycle: An Obituary”
appeared this year in Legislative Studies Quarterly,
and he contributed a chapter on Congress to The
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences. Ever the contrarian, Professor Gilmour
will show in his next article that the Republican
strategy of closing down the government a few
years ago was less counterproductive than widely
assumed. For fun, he also spends two hours each
week at Academic Status Committee meetings,
hearing pleas for exemptions from requirements.
George Grayson was invited by both major
parties in Mexico to be an official observer for
July 2000’s presidential election, considered the
country’s fairest and freest ever (surely not a complete coincidence). His writings on Mexico appeared in The Wall Street Journal (June 2),
Commonweal (June 16), and Orbis (summer).
Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies published his “Guide to the 2000
Mexican Elections,” which he was so busy completing that it left no time to accept an invitation
to dine with outgoing President Zedillo—and, of
course, a hundred of his other closest friends. You
may have caught Professor Grayson’s appearance
on PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Chris Howard spent 1999-2000 researching
the politics of social policy in the American states,
supported by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the American Council of Learned
Societies. He presented initial findings at the
University of California, Berkeley in April, and will
make two more presentations at the APSA meeting. Howard’s old turf, tax expenditures, is still
proving fertile ground, and he expects chapters
in two different edited volumes within a year. He
is preparing a new freshman seminar, “Race and
American Democracy,” for the fall. As of June, his
son Stephen (age 4) is developing a craving for
all things Pokemon, and his daughter Julia (age
2 1/2) has trouble starting any morning without
a strawberry pop-tart.
In 1999-2000, Assistant Professor George
Lovell taught a new freshman seminar on “Law
and Society,” in addition to his regular courses
on the Judiciary and Civil Liberties. He is also starting a new project on how people learn about their
constitutional rights. In mid-summer 2000 he presented a paper at a conference in Miami Beach
and returned without a tan, demonstrating either
great dedication to scholarly work or the effectiveness of sun-block. The paper presented there
appeared this year in Constitutional Commentary.
Professor Lovell is also advisor to Government
honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha.
In addition to part of his traditional repertoire such as a course on Southern Politics and
his seminar on municipal government, Professor
John McGlennon this year taught a one-credit
course for students working at the Virginia General Assembly—this on top of chairing the Department. He contributed a primer on the 2000 Presidential campaign in Virginia to the PBS Newshour
webpage, an enterprise edited by Lee Banville, ‘95.
And is if that would not be enough to keep him
busy, he is on the Board of Supervisors for fastgrowing James-City County, the area around
Williamsburg.
William Morrow received
his PhD from the University of
Iowa and started his teaching
career at DePauw before coming to the College in 1971. For
nearly three decades, he has
taught courses on American
Politics, specializing in the
Bill Morrow
Presidency and Public Administration. Professor Morrow’s publications include books on congressional committees and
bureaucratic politics, as well as a text on American government that just appeared this year.
For nearly twenty years he has run the
College’s successful program to prepare Harry
S. Truman Scholarship applicants.
Academic year 1999-2000 marked the last
year of teaching for Professor Bill Morrow, but
he goes out in style having just published a comprehensive text-book on American Government
entitled A Republic If You Can Keep It—his title
drawn from Benjamin Franklin’s answer to an
onlooker’s query about what the Constitutional
Congress had produced. In addition, he taught a
new freshmen seminar entitled “The Governing
Crisis,” along with his Presidency class.
Stephen Ndegwa, recipient of an Alumni
Society teaching award, taught the Introduction
to Comparative Politics with a computing module and his course on African government, along
with seminars on Political Development and—new
this year—African Political Thought. During summer 2000, he will supervise the research of several undergraduates who, supported by funds
from the Reves Center Borgenicht Peace program
were in Africa examining social and economic
effects of Lake Victoria’s decline. Professor
Ndegwa received tenure this past fall, as well as
promotion to the rank of Associate Professor..
Sue Peterson introduced a course on International Relations and Film last fall as an excuse
to teach some of her favorite movies—Dr.
Strangelove, Out of Africa, Battle of Algiers—and that
international relations classic, Invasion of the Body
Snatchers. Her article with Chris Wenk, ’95 on institutions and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin
America will be published next year. Despite Ron
Rapoport’s repeated warnings that edited volumes
are a waste of time, she is slaving away on one
about domestic institutional reform. She also began a new project on the global politics of infectious disease. Sue’s most significant activity this
year, however, surrounded the arrival of her
daughter Norah. She notes that former students
will no doubt remember her as the warm, maternal type, so it was not surprising that she decided
to go on leave in the spring before leaving dirty
diapers and pureed green beans behind to teach
summer school.
Current Faculty Notes
Last fall, Professor Ron Rapoport was a guest
on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation, which
invited him to discuss the Reform Party of Ross
Perot (then Jesse Ventura, now Pat Buchanan).
Moreover, he testified before commissions of the
Republican and Democratic national committees,
set up to examine the presidential nomination
process—which now ends so long before fall’s
election that voters forget who is running. His
work appeared in two of the discipline’s top journals during 1999—the American Journal of Political
Science and the Journal of Politics. The bat mitzvah
of daughter Emmy was the most lavish and wellattended social event in Williamsburg since, well,
that of her sister Abby.
In his second decade as Director of the
Charles Center, Joel Schwartz and his Associate
Lisa Grimes preside over operations that now include a growing variety of undergraduate research
awards, the Monroe Scholarships, departmental
honors, interdisciplinary course offerings, faculty
course development grants and assistance with
national fellowships (unless you have been living
on Mars or are otherwise beyond contact with the
College, you know that two William and Mary students won Rhodes Scholarships last fall). In his
free time, Professor Schwartz umpires
Williamsburg Youth League baseball, where his
shoes get very dirty.
In his next to last year of fulltime teaching
after more than three decades at the College (see
the box), Professor Roger Smith offered everything from a new freshmen seminar on Politics
and Literature to introductory Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, and a
senior seminar on American Political Thought.
He is president of the Association of Genocide
Scholars and his publications on that topic appeared this past year in Peace and Conflict, as well
as an edited volume—Studies in Comparative Genocide—published in English and French.
Roger Smith’s
Retirement
Academic year 2000-2001 will be Professor Roger Smith’s last year at the College.
For over three decades, he has taught the
whole range of seminars and lectures on
political philosophy, covering thinkers from
Aristotle onward. His scholarship on the
politics of genocide has earned him worldwide recognition, awards and positions in
scholarly societies.
The Department will honor Professor
Smith sometime in the spring, 2001 semester and would be delighted to have alums
take part. If you would like to receive later
mailings about this event and/or would like
to have your best wishes conveyed to Roger
Smith in writing at the retirement dinner,
please drop Clay Clemens a note by email or
post right now while it is on your mind (contact information on last page).
Alan Ward spent spring 2000 (actually autumn “down under”) as Visiting Professor of
American Studies at Flinders University, in
Adelaide, South Australia, his fourth trip to teach
or conduct research there (he exchanged positions with Professor Donald DeBats). Ward taught
courses on U.S. Foreign Policy and the Presidency
in American Politics, and has continued research
and writing on Australian politics. In June he lectured in Perth, Western Australia, for the US State
Department on two of his interests, the presidential election of 2000 and the US role in the Northern Ireland peace process. He also spent a great
deal of time and money renewing his interests in
Australia’s art—to say nothing of its food (kangaroo included) and of course wine.
Due in part to the unusually large number
of faculty who received support for academic leave
in 1999-2000, the Department welcomed several
visiting or adjunct faculty. Jacqueline Pfeffer
taught political philosophy, including her specialization in classical Greek thought; she will be leaving to take a position at St. John’s in Annapolis.
Jeremy Zilber and Bill Hixon offered classes in
American politics; next year they will be teaching
at Dartmouth College and Lawrence University
in Wisconsin, respectively. Mike Tierney offered
an array of international relations courses, and
will do so again in 2000-2001. Katherine Rahman
likewise continues to teach IR courses in the Department, and has also taken over supervision of
the Washington Program, a task undertaken for
many years by former Ambassador Robert Fritts,
who remains affiliated with the Public Policy Program. Katri Sieberg taught comparative politics
and methodology; next year she will be doing
courses upstairs in Economics (her book Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime,
will be published by Springer Verlag this fall).
Sophia Hart presented her course on East Asia,
and will do so again next year. Former National
Security Council staffer William Hyland taught a
one credit class on Clinton era foreign policy last
fall, but will be moving back to Northern Virginia.
Making his second guest appearance here—the
previous one also in a US presidential election
year (1988)—Professor Donald Debats of Flinders
University in Adelaide Australia taught a the comparative politics of Australia, Canada, and the US,
as well as a seminar on “American Social Criticism.” The Department thanks all of its visiting
faculty and wishes those who will be leaving—professors Pfeffer, Zilber, Hixon, Hyland and
Debats—all the best. The Department continues
to rely heavily on its chief administrator, Valerie
Trovato, and secretary Tess Owens.
In April, the Department helped honor our
Economics colleague Professor David Finifter,
who stepped down as director and chief architect
of the College’s Thomas Jefferson Program in
Public Policy. He will remain active in the program, which will be headed on an interim basis
by Professor Bob Archibald of Economics, while
the search for a new fulltime director is conducted.
Another interdisciplinary program with
which Government works closely is the Reves Center for International Studies, and this year the
Department joined colleagues around campus in
welcoming its new director. Dr. Mitchell Reiss has
his MA from the Fletcher School, his PhD from
Oxford, and his law degree at Columbia. He has
extensive government experience, including as
Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor
at the White House and most recently in having
helped to start KEDO (the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization), and serving as
its Chief Negotiator and General Counsel.
Faculty Books, 1997-2000
James Bill, George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 1997)
James Bill, co-author, Politics in the Middle East
(Longman, 1999)
Brian Blouet, co-author, Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey (John Wiley, 1997)
T.J. Cheng, co-editor, Security Environment in the Asia
Pacific (M.E. Sharpe, 1999).
Clay Clemens, editor, NATO and the Quest for PostCold War Security (Macmillan, 1997)
Clay Clemens, co-editor, The Kohl Chancellorship
(Frank Cass, 1998)
George Grayson, A Guide to the 1997 Mexico City Election (Center for Strategic and International Studies,
1997)
George Grayson, Mexico: Corporatism to Pluralism?
(Harcourt-Brace, 1997)
George Grayson, Mexico’s Armed Forces: A Factbook
(Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1999)
George Grayson, Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches
East (University Press of America, 1999)
Christopher Howard, The Hidden Welfare State: Tax
Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States (Princeton
University Press, 1997). Paperback edition appeared in
1999.
William Morrow, A Republic If You Can Keep It
(Prentice-Hall, 1999)
William Hyland, Clinton’s World: Remaking American
Foreign Policy (Praeger, 1999)
Roger Smith, editor, Genocide: Essays Toward Understanding, Early Warning, and Prevention (Association of
Genocide Scholars, 1998)
Alan Ward, co-author, Degrees of Difference: Reshaping the University in Australia and the United States (Australian Center fir American Studies, 1998)
1999-2000
Freshmen Seminars
Baxter
Bill
Busza
Clemens
Lovell
Morrow
Pfeffer
Smith
Zilber
India and the Modern World
Power and Informal Politics
Women and Politics in a Comparative
Perspective
Leadership, Power and Politics
Law and Society
Governing Crisis in America.
Study of Political Thought
Politics and Literature
Myth and Reality in American Politics
1999-2000
Senior Seminars
Baxter
Government and Politics in South
Asia
Blouet
Geostrategic Thought
Cheng
Electoral Systems
Cheng
Political Economy of the Newly Industrializing Countries
Debats
Studies in American Social Criticism
Dessler
Theories of the International System
Evans
U. S. Congress
Grayson
Evolution of Mexico’s Political System
Lovell
Courts and Constitutional Change
McGlennon Politics of Metropolitan Areas
Morrow
Public Policy and Administration
Ndegwa
Politics of Development
Ndegwa
African Political Thought
Pfeffer
Contemporary Political Thought, Religion, and Education
Sieberg
Crime Pays! A Political Science and Economic Approach to Crime
Smith
American Political Thought
Smith
Human Destructiveness and Politics
Tierney
War and Democracy
Ward
British Government and Politics
Former Faculty Notes
(*ALR stands for “at last report”)
Alan Abramowitz teaches American
Politics at Emory University in Atlanta...Erich
Ayisi has retired...Bart Brown teaches at
Chicago-Kent Law School at the Illinois Institute of Technology...ALR Rick Damon was
an
attorney
in
Watsonville,
California...Professor Emeritus Jack
Edwards, former Dean and Department
Chair, was honored this year with the
Prentiss Award for his service to the College
and the Williamsburg area (he served for
more than two decades on the James City
County Board of Supervisors)....Martin
Farrell teaches at Ripon College...Anne
Henderson teaches at Gardner-Webb University in South Carolina...Chonghan Kim is
retired and living in Williamsburg...ALR
Morris McCain resides in Boston, works for
the Social Security Administration and offers courses occasionally at Northeastern
University...Louis Noisin teaches at Christopher Newport...ALR Bruce Riegelman practices law in Washington...Former chair James
Roherty is retired and lives in Oregon...Jan
de Weydenthal does research for Radio Free
Europe in Prague...Paul Whiteley is at the
Department of Politics at Sheffield University in England, but in 2001 will take a permanent position at the University of Essex.
Over the years, numerous 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 is director of the U.S.India Business Council in DC...Michael
Cornfield is assistant director of George
Washington University’s center for campaigns and election...Mick Cox is Professor
of Political Science at the University of
Aberystwyth in Wales...John Day is retired,
living in Leicester, England...Everett Dolman
teaches at Berry College in Rome, Georgia...
Manfred Ernst worked in finance in New
York...John Forren teaches Political Science
at Miami University in Ohio...Scott Gerber
is a freelance writer in Hampton...David
Gordon is with the National Intelligence
Council in Washington...Chris Kelly works
in the Williamsburg area...Mike Kenney
teaches at Sheffield University in
Britain...ALR Joe Khechichian was with the
Rand Corporation in California...Mary
Kweit teaches at North Dakoa...David
LeBlang teaches Political Science at the University of Colorado...Michael Lessnoff is at
the University of Glasgow...Michael Leroy
teaches Political Science at Wheaton College
in Illinois, and has developed a new course
software used here in the Department...ALR
Jose Peman worked in international banking in Europe...ALR Jim Miclot was teaching
at
Catholic
University
in
Washington...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 political consultant in Washington...Barbara Norrander
teaches political science at the University of
Arizona...Jeff Poelvoorde is at Converse
College in South Carolina...Staci Rhine is
with the Political Science Department at
Wittenberg College in Ohio...Avital Simhony
teaches political philosophy at Arizona
State...Bob Snyder teaches at Southwestern
University in Georgetown Texas...Kent Tedin
teaches political science at the University of
Houston...Jim Yoho teaches at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania...Unfortunately, we
still can not track down Robert Rickards,
Sharon Rives and Shirley Meeker.
Jack Edwards Honored
This spring the College honored Professor
of Government Emeritus Jack Edwards and longtime College supporter Lois Hornsby with the
Prentis Award. It is given to Williamsburg residents
whose civic involvement benefits both William and
Mary and the surrounding community. Professor
Edwards was recognized for his 28 years on the
James City County Board of Supervisors, as well
as for his service as president of the Virginia Association of Counties and the Virginia Municipal
League. In 1993, the Virginia Alliance for Public
Service awarded him its Distinguished Public Servant Award. But Government alumni, of course,
know Jack Edwards best for his decades as a
teacher and mentor, as well as his stints as Department chair and Dean of the Faculty. Despite
retiring in 1996, he continues to serve as a freshman advisor.
Recommended
Websites
http://www.isg-ags.org/
Roger Smith recommends the Association
of Genocide Scholars site, which alert concerned
citizens to atrocities around the world and attempts at preventive measures.
http://www.policyattitudes.org/
Mike Tierney turned up this website when
none of his colleagues could recommend a good
place to go for readily available, updated information on public opinion on foreign policy issues.
As of summer 2000, for example, it offered extensive studies of American attitudes toward globalization and another on Kosovo, both with
enough bar graphs and charts to satisfy even Ron
Rapoport.
http//www.vanishingvoter.org/
http//www.pollingreport.com
http//www.people-press.org/
http//www.portraitofamerica.com/
Speaking of Ron Rapoport, he recommends
this series of polling data sites: the first is a set of
weekly surveys of 1000 Americans run by Marvin
Kalb and Thomas Patterson and funded by the
Shorenstein Center at Harvard; the last is done
by Rasmussen Associates.
http://www.theonion.com/
For the fourth year running, this newsweekly
makes our list, and (as a result?) has become one
of America’s top websites. We offer it with the
familiar, obligatory disclaimer: log-on if—and
ONLY if—you are amused by irreverent satire.
Where else could you read a headline like “U.S.
Population at 13,462: ‘We Don’t Think Everyone
Turned in Census-Forms,’ Say Officials” (that story
went on to report that New York remains
America’s largest city with 664 recorded residents,
followed by Los Angeles at 657, Chicago at 329
and—in a surprise—Elkhart Indiana with 256.
And, reportedly, “No one lives in St. Louis”).
http://politicalgraveyard.com/
This unique site is for those interested in
dead politicians (the best kind of politician, in
many people’s opinion). It contains odd, vital stats
on deceased members of Congress, governors,
mayors, ranging from birthdates, birthplace, and
nicknames, to how they died, etc.
http://www.reaganhumormuseum.com/
Fans and even critics of former President
Reagan will enjoy this collection of his quips, available both in text form and in sound bytes with
RealAudio.
http://freespace.virgin.net/raving.loony/
For those who think British politics is too
stuffy (any member of the House of Lords), check
out the Monster Raving Loony Party homepage:
believe it or not this party (led by Screaming Lord
Sutch and Cat-Mandu) has run in most districts
every election for decades—and gets lots of votes!
http://www.sin.wm.edu/
This award-winning College website provides
lots of details about campus life at William and
Mary though, despite its suggestive title, nothing
here is particularly lurid: S.I.N. stands for Student
Information Network. Alums interested in keeping up with what’s going on here can log-on as
Guests.
Recommended
Books/Articles
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community. Robert Putnam (Simon &
Schuster, 2000). This is a book-length exposition
of the most well-known, and controversial, hypothesis advanced by a political scientist in the past
decade. It expands on work by Harvard’s Putnam,
based on data that he—if not his critics—believes
indicate a decline in the tendency of Americans
to interact in groups of any kind. His thesis suggests that this waning civic involvement erodes the
“social capital” vital to a democracy. Putnam answers criticism of his earlier articles, including
some concerning his data base. This work is long,
but elegantly written, and worth reading—even
folks inside the beltway are paying attention it,
which is unusual for a work of political science.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will
be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
Philip Gourevitch (Picador, 1999).
On a different note, Sue Peterson recommends this compelling account (now in paperback) of Rwanda’ brutal 1994 genocide.
Gourevitch himself seems at a loss to comprehend
what would drive one population to decimate
another, how it could be done so swiftly with such
primitive means—often by machete—and how the
rest of the world could respond so slowly. The
heart-wrenching narrative is typified by the title,
taken from a victim’s letter to the minister in
whose church his family had sought refuge—only
to find out that they would betrayed. The horror
is in a sense made all the more compelling by
Gourevitch’s elegant prose, and his anger.
The Ironies of Affirmative Action. John David
Skrentny (University of Chicago: 1996). Rather
than take sides on the issue, the author analyzes
the origins of affirmative action in employment.
Surprising as it seems now, white business leaders
and President Nixon were some of the key architects of programs in this areas, while white liberals and civil rights leaders were some of the early
opponents. The book combines shrewd insights
into the workings of courts and bureaucracies with
careful attention to ideas about color-blindness
and preferential treatment.
True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance. Michael Graetz and Jerry Mashaw (Yale
University Press: 1999). Chris Howard says this
book is, arguably, the first truly comprehensive
analysis of the American welfare state in over 50
years. Despite the title, its authors consider a variety of means-tested programs as well as social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. They elaborate reasons why and where government action is needed, document problems
with existing social programs, and recommend
changes. Their major proposals do not fit neatly
in established categories, for Mashaw is a liberal
and Graetz was a Treasury official in the Bush
administration. The book’s main weakness is lack
of political analysis indicating how their preferred
policies are going to be adopted.
Making Ends Meet. Kathryn Edin and Laura
Lein (Russel Sage: 1997). Chris Howard also recommends this volume. Its authors conducted indepth interviews with single mothers in Boston,
Charleston, Chicago, and San Antonio, trying to
determine where these families got money, and
where they spent it. The result is an eye-opening
portrait of the difficulties of living on welfare and
of working in low-wage jobs.
Internship Courses and
Endowment Fund Drive
In order to integrate valuable hands-on experience into its curriculum, the Department
helped launch two new one-credit classes this year.
John McGlennon offered a course for students
working at the Virginia General Assembly during
its spring session. Moreover, students who landed
a Public Affairs-related summer internship were
eligible to enroll in a class coordinated by Clay
Clemens, conducted in part on-line during JuneAugust, with presentations and a paper scheduled
for early in the fall semester. Students in the
course obtained internships on both sides of the
aisle in Capitol Hill, as well as at the State Department, the US Embassy in Ottawa, Virginia’s Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the
Pennsylvania Legislature, a congressional campaign, the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt
Germany, WTVR in Richmond, Lithuania’s Embassy in DC, the National Organization for
Women, the DC Public Defender’s Office, the
Energy Department, and the Justice Department—to name just a few.
The Department, among others, has been
looking for a way to ensure that undergrads do
not have to pass up such valuable experiences for
financial reasons (most summer internships are
unpaid and require foregoing employment that
may be vital to make ends meet). This year,
Mitchell Reiss of the Reves Center and Joel
Schwartz of the Charles Center made stipends
available to many enrolled in the above course.
But a longer term project is also in the works. In
conjunction with the Development Office’s Major Gifts Division, alums Laura Flippin (‘92) and
Jay Austin (‘89) are spearheading efforts to raise
an endowment that will guarantee future support
for students doing the Public Affairs internship
class. The final goal is $500,000, which obviously
sounds like (and is) a lot of money, but (given
the nature of endowments) we would need that
much in order to generate roughly $20,000 in stipends each year. To date, we have gifts/commitments of $272,000. Alumni who might be in a
position to help are welcome to contact Laura
(Lflippin@washdc.whitecase.com; 202-626-3668),
Jay (212-880-5000) or Clay Clemens
(cmclem@wm.edu; 757-221-3027).
As always, the Department thanks those alums who have passed on information about internships and encourages any other former students to do so by contacting Clay Clemens or John
McGlennon.
Government News
Several Government and International
Studies concentrators led William and
Mary’s Model United Nations team to this
year’s international competition in Athens,
Greece, where they won first place, beating
Oxford University in the final round. Adding insult to injury, here is our team posing
with a Union Jack stolen from its vanquished
foes (actually, in an ironic twist, William and
Mary represented Great Britain at the competition).
Some well-known guests lectured in the
Department this year, including former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Brookings
Institution politics expert Tom Mann.
Former Clinton aide-turned journalist
George Stephanopoulos spoke on campus.
Columnist David Broder will be here in the
fall, and we are also looking forward to guest
lectures by the College’s new chancellor,
Henry Kissinger.
A trans-Atlantic collaborative venture
entered its fourth year, as the Department
selected senior Demian Smith for the post
of Tutor at the Royal Hospital School near
London. Like his predecessors, he will spend
a year there as a residence hall counselor
and teach a course on American government.
In December, some fifty former students helped the Department surprise John
McGlennon and Ron Rapoport with a party
to mark their (combined) five decades of
service at the College. Festivities included a
slide show with pictures of they looked in
the 1970s, something that even many alums
who were not there can probably well remember.....
In October 1999, Don Baxter, T.J Cheng
and Katherine Rahman took students on the
fall Washington program, which examined
the Asian financial crisis. Students met with
officials of the U.S. State Department, several embassies, think tanks and the International Monetary Fund. The spring program
in DC dealt with war crimes tribunals.
Curriculum Notes
All students are now required to satisfy
a computing proficiency requirement within
their own concentration. In Government
that means either Research Methods I, Public Polling and Survey Analysis (taught by
Ron Rapoport) or specially-designed 4-credit
sections of either American Politics or Comparative Politics that use the microcase computing software. Students must show an ability to use computers for word processing,
searches and basic data analysis.
As a result of changes made in the past
few years, Government students wishing to
do an Honors thesis must now have a 3.0
overall GPA and a 3.3 in the Department;
moreover they must first take one of two
Research Methods courses.
Alumni Notes
Over eighty alums contacted us after receiving the 1999 Update, providing valuable information for this section. But we can always use more,
especially from pre-1990 grads. By the way, we
apologize in advance for any errors or outdated
information: please bear in mind that this is done
without benefit of a large staff and we depend on
alums to keep us accurate, so please stay in touch.
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!) You can
reach us by post or email (govt@wm.edu). Also,
check out the Alumni page on our Department
website, accessible after September 1: we hope to
have an on-line form allowing you to update us
more easily.
But also—please keep the College Alumni
Society posted as to your 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).
Encourage any fellow alums who are not listed in
this newsletter and/or are not receiving it to make
sure they are in the Alumni Society databank (it’s
free!).
Key: PP (Public Policy), IS (International
Studies), UR (University of Richmond), UMich
(University of Michigan), UPenn (University of
Pennsylvania), GWU (George Washington University). Perhaps you should also imagine ALR—
“at last report” in front of each person’s name.
CLASSES OF 1945-74:
Susan Absher ‘70 works for the EPA in DC...John
Black ‘62 is a United States Magistrate Judge in
Brownsville, Texas...Phil Essman ‘71 is president
of SBC International Business Development
....Larry Gilbert ‘72 is director of Teaching and
Learning Technologies for the University of Ne-
Stay in Touch
We would really like to know what
our former students are up to and have
several ways for you to get in touch or
keep in touch:
Mail:
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College of William and Mary
Williamsburg VA 23187-8795
Email: govt@wm.edu
Information sent to the above addresses will be shared with the entire
Department and unless you request
otherwise may appear in an upcoming
newsletter. If you would prefer to contact individual faculty, please address
your mail to them by name (for
emailers, the website lists all faculty
userid’s). Since we rely on its mailing
list for address labels, please keep the
College Alumni Society updated as to
your current whereabouts:
Mail: Society of the Alumni/Alumni Records
College of William & Mary, PO Box 2100
Williamsburg VA 23187-2100
Email soarec@wm.edu
vada, Reno...Douglas Hartwick ‘72 is State Department Country Director for Indonesia, Malaysia,
Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines...Bill
Moore ‘71 is on the Philippines Desk at the State
Department...John Roy ‘64 is President of
Campbell-Savona Central Schools in Campbell, NY
..Nancy (Taylor)Allen ‘68 works for Human Resources Management at the Gillette Company in
MD... ...June Neff Williams ‘45 has worked for several years with the Departments of Defense and
State, as well as CIA.
CLASS OF 1975-79:
Chuck Andreatta ‘78 is an analyst on the Treasury
Department’s Government Securities Regulations
Staff...Pattie (Bagley) Schutte is a court administrator in MO and recently welcomed newborn
daughter Margaret Emily ...Whitney Burns ‘78 is a
consultant on compliance with campaign finance
laws... Bruce Christman ‘77 does real estate law at
the Virginias firm Reed, Smith, Hazel &
Thomas...Mark Colley ‘77 is with the DC law firm
Holland, Knight...David Engel ‘78 is a US Administrative Law Judge in Tulsa, Oklahoma...Archie
Galloway ‘75 has held several military assignments
around the world, including defense affairs advisor to Senator Jeff Sessions...Russ Henn ‘78 is working for Trans Point as vice president of utility sales
in Kentucky...Steve Huebner ‘76 is Director of Materials Management for the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. in Winston- Salem...Andy Lark
‘79 is an attorney in NYC...Lance Leffler ‘79 is a
Certified Financial Planner with his own firm in
Washington state......Sheryl (Lukasik) Bass ‘78 lives
in Manassas, VA, with her husband and two children, where she participates in the volunteer organizations Lioness, PTA, League of Women Voters and is on the board of the Prince William Public Library...Greg Minjack ‘79 is with Sagamore
Associates in DC and was a campaign consultant
for moderate parties in Bosnia’s recent local
elections...Chip Mann ‘78 is with the Coalition
Against Bigger Trucks in DC... Lee Mumpower ‘78
(see MA Alumni list)...Jane (Pusch) Franks ‘75
works in investment banking with a specialty in
fixed income for GE Capital......Tom Rastetter ‘78
practices law in Oregon...Robert Rector ‘77 covers social policy research at the Heritage
Foundation...Donna (Robusto) Krache ‘78 lives in
Atlanta, is a contractor to CNN, and writes educational materials for high school teachers to use as
they apply current events to their curriculum...Jim
Segall ‘78 is a lawyer in Newport News...Jim
Shaffran ‘79 is a professional baritone opera and
concert soloist in the DC area...Betsy Page Sigman
‘78 works at Georgetown’s McDonough School of
Business teaching management...Storm Simenson
‘78 is in Singapore, his most recent post with the
Foreign Service...Jeff Tarkenton ‘78 is with the DC
law firm Womble, Carlyle & Sandridge....Mike
Urbanski ‘78 is with the Roanoke law firm Woods,
Rogers, Hazelgrove...After working for Prudential,
Carolyn (Testa) Rye ‘77 has moved back from NJ
to VA, where she is actively involved in community, school and church activities......Bill Whitley
‘76 (see MA list) is Gloucester County VA Administrator
CLASS OF 1980-84:
Susan Amato ‘81 is with 360 Communications in
Chicago...Todd Anderson ‘80 works with Circuit
City’s credit card division, First North American
National Bank...Arthur Appleton ‘80 works for the
law firm Lalive & Partners...Mary Sue (Busser)
Backus ‘81 is at W&M law...Randolph Beales ‘82 is
Virginia’s chief deputy attorney general...John
Bickel ‘84 teaches at Roosevelt High and
Chaminade University of Honolulu...Gary Bland
‘84 has received his PhD from Johns Hopkins
SAIS....Laura Brewer ‘82 is a real estate lawyer with
Mobil Corp. in Houston...Thomas Brooke ‘82 is
an Intellectual Property lawyer in DC and was
Northern VA campaign coordinator for John
McCain...Heidi Crapol ‘84 works in the community relations department for Phillip Morris in
Richmond...Tim Cross ‘84 is a Senior Planner for
York County...Linda Csellak ‘83 is an investment
manager at Special Assets in Hong Kong...John
Donnelly ‘83 is editor of Defense Week in
DC...Michael Flood ‘83 is Executive Director of the
Redwood Empire Food Bank in Northern
California...Scott Gerber ‘83 is a freelance writer
in Hampton...Paul Gough ‘80 lives in Pierre, SD
and is Director of Policy and Planning for the state
Board of Regents....John Hassell ‘80 is director of
state and local government affairs for Hewlett
Packard in CA...Stan Haynes ‘80 is with the Baltimore law firm Semmes, Bowen and Semmes
.......David Hirsch ‘81 has formed a new firm, van
Gils and Hirsch, P.C. and is an instructor at the
Northern VA Criminal Justice Training
Academy...Howard Kelin ‘80 is an attorney with
the Lancaster, PA firm Kegel, Kelin, Almy &
Grimm, focusing on business litigation and education law...John Kownack ‘81 is Assistant Director of Norfolk VA’s Department of Human Services.. Robin (Marsh) Clarke ‘83 and her husband
Victor, ‘83, own Central Lithographic Printing in
Lynchburg...Mike Meagher ‘84 is working for NJ
Governor Christie Whitman.. Steve Owen ‘81 is
Powhatan VA County Administrator.......Paula
Palmore ‘82 is Test Director for Vector Research
Programs software in Northern VA, where she lives
with her husband and son...Chris Phillips ‘81, cofounder of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry,
has authored two books on philosophy and does
volunteer work with at-risk kids...Fred Rauscher
‘84 teaches Philosophy at Michigan State University and just welcomed new born son Konrad...Jeff
Schlagenhauf ‘80 is a senior VP with McGuire
Woods Consulting in DC and on the College’s
BOV...Vivien (Schreffler) Sillmon ‘82 is a Systems
Analyst and Programmer with First Union Securities in Richmond...Julie (Zydron) Griggs ‘84 lives
in Charlotte, NC, where she is a partner in Smith,
Helms, Mullis, & Moore, specializing in estate planning and taxation.
CLASS OF 1985-89:
JoAnn Adrales ‘89 and her husband Colin are expecting their second child...Will Allison ‘86 lives
with his wife and son in Denver, where he is CO
assistant attorney general for natural
resources...Jay Austin ‘89 (IR) is a financial analyst at Philip Morris Management in New
York...Dave Berg ‘88 is a commodities trader on
the Chicago Merc...Jay Black ‘87 is an investment
executive with Davenport & Co...Jery Bowers ‘89
starts teaching at the Madeira School in McLean
VA this fall...Darren Bowie ‘89 is an Attorney for
the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Affairs, combating investment fraud...Chris Bright ‘87 completed
his PhD program in Cold War History at GWU this
May...Justice Marion (Mike) Chambers is Operations Officer with the 3rd Battalion of the 5th
Marine Regiment in San Diego ...Jennifer
McIntyre Ciccone ‘89 (IR) is a human resource
specialist for Matthews International, a manufacturing enterprise in Pittsburgh...Elizabeth
(Colucci) Mooz ‘89 is an attorney in
Alumni Notes
Richmond...Adrienne Cox ‘86 is an executive in
business development and marketing at
Microsoft’s MSN.com...John Dedrick ‘86 (see MA
Alumni list)...Richie Deloria ‘86 is Assistant
Commonwealth’s Attorney for Albemarle County
VA...Michael Dougherty ‘85 is an extension specialist/assistant professor for the Division of Community and Economic Development at West Virginia University...Mike Egge ‘88 is with Coke in
Atlanta…Patricia Elliott ‘87 is project manager for
the International City/County Management Association in DC....Mike Fetters ‘86 is director for marketing and communications at DC’s
Newseum...Angela (Fogle) Jacobs ‘87 has passed
her AICP is now a Certified Planner...Margie
Garber ‘89 is an attorney in Roanoke...Don Gaston
‘89 is a financial planner/advisor in CT...Peter
Glenshaw ‘86 is assistant director of the W.E.B.
DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research in
Massachusetts...Vaughan Gibson ‘88 is with the VA
law firm of Mays & Valentine...Vince Haley ‘88 is
with Brainstorm Ventures in California…Michiko
Hayhurst ‘89 teaches business at the University of
North Texas and runs an international management consultancy...Jim Harenchar works at Sears
Roebuck corporate office in Chicago..Kurt
Hellauer ‘88 is a Land Use Planner with the City
of Richmond....T.J Holland ‘89 is with the World
Bank Credit Union in DC...Christiane Ingeman ‘87
is currently teaching in North Carolina and married John Liam House ‘88 last May; he is completing his master’s while working at UNC Hospital as
an RN....Mike Keller ‘88 is with the Foreign Service in DC, working on trade and Mideast
issues...K. Page Kistler ‘87 is with the Boston law
firm Lee, Levine & Bowser...As director of development and public information for J. Sargeant
Reynolds Community College...Jack Lebowitz ‘89
is a Baltimore attorney...Elizabeth Littlefield ‘86
monitors developments in the General Assembly
affecting the College...Drew Lovell ‘87 has his own
law practice in West Palm Beach, Florida...Susan
Luby Luebehusen ‘85 has her own private practice specializing in estate planning and settlement
in Winchester...Maggie Margiotta ‘88 is Manager
of the American Council on Education Fellows
Program in DC......Mark Maurer ‘88 is a regulatory specialist for Pennsylvania Builder’s
Association...Jim McCreedy ‘88 is a partner at
Wiley, Malehorn & Sirota in NJ and has just celebrated the birth of his first-born twins in
September...Mark McMahon ‘88 works for American Management Systems in Frankfurt
Germany...Bryan Meals ‘88 is with the law firm
McGuire, Woods in Norfolk and chairs the Portsmouth VA Republican Party...Will Mennen ‘89 is a
partner in the law firm Porter, Mennen Associates
in Basking Ridge NJ...Kelly Metcalf-Meese ‘87 is
research coordinator of the College’s Public Policy
program...Mark Osler now teaches law at Baylor…
Jeryl Rose Phillips ‘89 is a Physical and Environmental Planner with the Hampton Roads Planning
District Commission in Chesapeake...Don Planty
‘88 is in Rome with the Vatican diplomatic
corps...Michael Powell ‘85 is a member of the Federal Communications Commission...Sean Reilly
‘89 lives in NYC, produces TV commercials, and is
making the transition into directing...Joe Romance ‘88 teaches political philosophy at Drew
University...Eric Rothberg ‘87 analyzes Central
Asian affairs at CIA...Steve Rosenberg ‘87 is an
Assistant City Attorney in Alexandria...Maria
Santucci ‘88 works with Deloitte consulting in East
Brunswick NJ, runs marathons—and got married
in 1999 ...Beth Shapiro ‘87 is an attorney with a
legal aid organization in Philadelphia...Andy Shilling ‘88 is an attorney at VA Beach’s Slipow,
Robusto & Kellam...Dan Smith ‘85 got his PhD
from Ruttgers and teaches Political Science at
Northwest Missouri State University...Claire Sproul
‘87 heads the upper school at University Liggett
School in Grosse Pointe MI..Bill Stokes ‘87 is with
the Merrimac Group in DC and chairs the Board
of Advisors of the Washington Network
Group...Todd Stottlemyer ‘85 is executive vice
president and chief financial and administrative
officer of BTG, Inc...Laura Stotz ‘89 is with DC’s
Republic Capital Group, a trade group specializing in Africa...Mike Tierney ‘87 (see MA Alumni
list)...Willeke Hoeke Van Brouwershaven ‘85 has
recently earned her Ph.D. in Public Administration at the University of Leiden... Marike van der
Veen Estepp ‘88 manages the corporate communications team for the systems group at Booz, Allen
& Hamilton consulting...Hugh Waters ‘85 is joining the International Health Department faculty
at Johns Hopkins...Rodney Willett ‘85 is as director of marketing and general counsel at VIPNet
in Richmond and on the W&M Annual Fund
Board...Drew Willison ‘88 works for Nevada Senator Reid and attends GWU law school...Micah
Yarbrough ‘86 is a Professor of Legal Methods at
Widener Law School in Delaware.
CLASS OF 1990:
Steve Bovino directs public relations for the Pittsburgh Penguins...Patricia Coll has done Education
courses and worked at the National Right to Life
Committee in DC.....Bruce Ensley works for Dominion Resources in Richmond as a senior financial analyst...Andy Herrick is James City County
Assistant County Attorney...Nick Lashutka is Associate Director of Legislation for the 15,000-member Ohio State Medical Association...Tom
McInerney is with a New York law firm...Kristi
LaCourse Lynch is a financial analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond...Steve Mack is a
financial analyst with Global TeleSystems Group
in McLean, VA...Duane Milne has received his PhD
from Delaware and teaches at Westchester State
College in PA..Doug Powell works for James City
County...Kathleen Radford is a Victims Services
Analyst with the VA Department of Criminal Justice Services...James “Jas” Short is a Portfolio
Manager and Vice President for Kempner Capital
Management in Galveston, Texas...Scott Strayer is
an Assistant Professor at St. Louis University’s Family Practice Residency...Ron Westfall is working for
Current Analysis, a high tech stock analysis firm
in Sterling, VA.
CLASS OF 1991:
David Cordeiro is the manager of Investor Relations & Government Affairs at Williams
Communications...Kat Darke (MA 93)...Keane
(Dabney) Kauders has been teaching high school
in Richmond and has moved to Charlotte NC with
husband Eric...Brad Davis teaches government in
the Fairfax County school system and is on the
DC area alumni chapter Board...Christie Drew is
studying geography at the University of
Washington...Steve Eubank is with J. Thompson
Shrader and Associates, a law firm in Amherst,
VA...Ginny Garnett runs her own promotions firm
in Moscow and got married in London this
May...Mike Graff is an attorney at McGuire, Woods
in Richmond...Eric Kauders has taken up the post
of Senior Counsel at Bank of America’s Private
Banking section in Charlotte NC...Frank Lynch
works with the Richmond law firm of McSweeney,
Burtch & Crump...Julia McEvoy is an associate at
Jones, Day in DC...Michael Molloy is completing
his PhD in political science at UC San
Diego...Michael Sozan is with the US Department
of Justice office of immigration review in Falls
Contributing to the Department
Many thanks to the generous alums or friends listed below for their donations, which have
over the past few years helped to pay for this newsletter, guest lecturers, and such purchases as the
Hotline—an electronic politics press clipping service available to our students.
The easiest 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.
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John Patrick Riley
Michael Lee Sturm
Craig T. Oliver
Elizabeth Scott Littlefield
Anne Shearer Kajeckas
Jonathan Kajeckas
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Withers Anne Covel
Alice Grace Givens
Maria Jennifer Pantina
Walter H. Preston
Olivia Shorter
Dana Ann Bomkamp
Amy O’Connor
Sridevi Nanjundaram
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Alumni Notes
Church...Frank Thames received his PhD in political science at Texas...Stacy Young works at
Baltimore’s Loyala College.
CLASS OF 1992:
Tracy Goldsmith Baetz is coordinator for the
Smithsonian’s Affiliations Program...Jonathan
Baron is working for the communications office
of US Senator Paul Coverdell...Billy Baxter is in
Litigation
at
Richmond’s
McGuire,
Woods....Edward “Boz” Bestic (IR) is with the Foreign Service....Reade Bush is preparing to go to
Physician’s Assistant school while working as an
ER Paramedic at GWU Hospital...Raxa Desai (IR)
is a federal attorney in Richmond...Shelley Emmel
is a manufacturing and supply chain consultant
for Oracle Waltham, MA...Laura Flippin is with the
law firm of White, Case in DC...Matthew Gillen is
a foreign service officer, most recently in
Bangladesh serving as the head of the non-immigrant visa unit...John Graham is a minister in Tennessee, living somewhere near Dollyworld...David
Hawkins (see MA Alumni list)...Jacques Herman
(IR) is with Republic National Bank in Buenos
Aries...Jill Holtzman is an attorney for Republican
National Committee in DC...Kim Hurst is with
Palmer, Cray corp....Wendy (Jaskowiak)
Chamberlain...Eric Kadel, Jr. works for Judge
Laurence Silberman on the US Court of Appeals,
DC Circuit; he will soon clerk for Supreme Court
Justice Thomas...Matt Kirsner works for Mays &
Valentine, LLP in the litigation department in
Richmond...Paulette Parker (see MA Alumni
list)...Rob Perks is National Field Director for
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)...Craig Phillips (IR) is with 20th Century Fox in sales and distribution...Jeff Stern completed his MPA at American University and is a
firefighter/paramedic in Arlington...Sarah Wesner
works at the multinational energy giant ENRON’s
Houston headquarters.
CLASS OF 1993:
Clarke Cagey (see MA Alumni list)...Celia Carroll
is studying political science at Emory
University...Justin Chamberlain is with Andersen
consulting in Minnesota...Roderick Cyr is teaching law and business courses in China...Haidy Ear
is finishing her Master’s in Conservation Biology
and Sustainable Development at the University of
Wisconsin...Matt Erickson is with Laguens, Hamburger & Stone, a DC media and strategic consulting firm....Vivek Hatti is with the business litigation department of Arter & Hadden in
Cleveland...Lukas Haynes (IR) is with the State
Department’s Policy Planning Staff and writes
speeches for Secretary Albright... Betsy Lazan is
attending library school at the UNC and an assistant in the Botany Library...Pat Lee is Assistant DA
in Plymouth County MA ...Mike Mitchell is the
Placement Coordinator for Baltimore Goodwill
Industries’ Welfare to Work Project...Christine
Moseley is a land use and zoning attorney in Dallas, TX, and will be married in May 2000...Joe Price
(PP) is with the litigation section of the DC law
firm Arent, Fox...Steve Watts is with the State
Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
CLASS OF 1994:
Brian Anderson works with I-64 Networks in St.
Louis...Kirsten Bornmann (IR) is Director of Corporate Development with an international business consulting firm in DC...Patrick Brandt is working on his PhD in political science at Indiana
University...Deb Brosnihan is doing graduate re-
search in India...Dan Chase (IR) is with the Foreign Service...Jaya Chimnani is in the Peace Corps
in the Dominican Republic...Sky Cline is a pastor
near Greensboro NC...Greg Crist works for
Ketchum Public Relations in DC, as an account
executive...Sarah Dickerson is a policy analyst for
the MD General Assembly’s Department of Legislative Services...Alison Felter (see MA Alumni
list)...Matt Fine is working for the FBI in
Philadelphia...Eric Fichte finished one tour with
the Foreign Service in Surinam and was scheduled
for a post in the UK...Alice Givens is an attorney
for First North American National Bank...Denzel
Hankinson is at National Economic Research Associates in DC...Ashley Harwell is an attorney at
McGuire, Woods in Richmond...Kevin
Kleinschmidt is with WingspanBank.com in
Wilmington DE....Steve Lobb (see MA Alumni
list)...David Long is at St. Christopher’s private
school in Richmond...Andrew Martin teaches political science at Washington University in St.
Louis...Grant Neely works for the VA House and
Senate Democratic caucuses...Daniel Newmark
(IR) is doing his MBA at UMich...Pat Northrop is
a litigation associate at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in
New York...Don Purka is a financial analyst for K
& M Engineering and Consulting Corp in
DC...Brian Smith is studying law at GWU and this
July married Caroline Mueller (‘97)...Jeremy
Snider (IR) works for Edison Electric
Institute...Pete Snyder works for a DC polling
group...Cheryl Stein is now living in Chapel Hill,
NC, after returning from two years in the Peace
Corps in Cote d’Ivoire...Anjanette Plichta Stinson
(PP) is working for McGuire, Woods in
Richmond....Kevin “K.T.” Turner is finishing his
MBA at GWU in DC...Georg Vanberg teaches political science at Florida State...Kirke Weaver works
for
Drinker,
Biddle
&
Reath
in
Philadelphia...Heather Webster (PP) is a chief financial officer in Maplewood, NJ...
CLASS OF 1995:
Brian Baker is at Northwestern law...Lee Banville
edits the PBS Newshour website...Joe Bates does
research and surveys at the DC area Blue Cross/
Blue Shield...Jennifer Cozens teaches Government
to Navy personnel on-board ships such as the US
Enterprise through Central Texas College’s Norfolk
branch...Katherine Deutsch is a corporate attorney
with the firm of Bracewell and Patterson in
Texas...Brady Gintert works for 3Com in New York
and was just married....Jay Hofmann is in
Columbia’s MBA program..Mary Lehner is at
Richmond’s McGuire, Woods law firm...Judy
Lorimer (PP) is with the education unit of WallaceReader’s Digest Foundation, dealing with grants
to public schools ...Joanna McCarthy is studying
law at GWU...Sri Nanjundaram (IR) is an analyst
with DC’s World Resources Institute... Jim Nyberg
is pursuing a Masters of Public Administration in
Health Care at NYU’s Wagner School of Public
Service...Alice-Ann (Rannenberg) Nyberg is a business systems analyst at AIG...Tara Salem is legislative assistant to Congressman Mark Foley....Andy
Tomlinson is pursuing his PhD in political science
at Ohio State...Mike Valverde is working at the Department of Justice (Immigration and Naturalization Service) and lives in Falls Church... Paul
Wellons (IR) is studying law at UVA...Chris Wenk
is in his final year at Stanford Law.
CLASS OF 1996:
Tara (Adams) Ragone is starting her third year at
NYU law.... Sue Baumann is with the Nassau County
NY district attorney’s office...Todd Anderson is
manager of the bankruptcy section at First North
American National Bank...Hanna Brilliant works
for Congressman Tom Davis...James Bullard is with
McGuire Woods law firm in Richmond...Chris
Burdette.is an analyst at the DC’s Heritage
Foundation...Jen Carney enrolled at Northwestern
Law School in 1998....Megan Christensen is a Team
Leader at Skadden, Arps working in the Tax and
Communications departments...Forest Christian
is entering his third year at UVA Law...Missy
(Bomberger) Deininger lives in Paris and is planning to start a Master’s program in French & Politics/Culture...Hanako Doherty is earning her
master’s degree in International Affairs at
GWU...Ashley Elkins (IR) is with the Golf Channel in Florida...Rebecca Finifter is a Juvenile Probation Officer in Hampton and a Court Appointed
Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer...Meredith
Genova (IR) is a Consultant Relations Assistant
with Sanford Bernstein investment research firm
in London...Natasa Goronja (IR) is with Women
for Women in her native Bosnia...Alan Grove is a
counselor for adults at Community Systems in
Arlington and for kids at Radel House in
MD...Glenn Guszkowski enters his third year at
Boston College law this fall...Kathryn Harness (PP)
is at Jones, Day in New York...Dan Hoppe is with
McGuire Woods law firm in Richmond...John
Kauffman finished law school at Stanford in 2000,
started with a firm in Seattle—and got
married...Susan Kendra works in Las
Vegas...Akram Khan has been at the Senate Republican Conference in DC...Kristina
Kreamer...Marietta Krebs traveled in Ecuador before enrolling in fall 1999 in the UMich School of
Public Health...James Little works in
Atlanta...Clarence Long is at UR law school ..Mark
McLaughlin (IR) is at UVA law school...Rachel
MacCleer y (IR) is at graduate school at
Princeton...Kris Miler is studying for a PhD in political science at UMich...Courtney Moser works
for the government in DC...Clare O’Grince is with
the CIA...Sam Ozeck is doing banking law with
Venable, Baetjer and Howard in DC...Jeremy
Pendergraft is at C&F Enterprises, an import firm
in Newport News....Mariuxi Romero is in a graduate business program at Glendale Arizona’s
Thunderbird Graduate School of International
Management...Matt Siano is an associate with the
Wall Street firm Seward & Kissel...Demetria Scott
is a foreign service officer, posted at last report in
Thailand....Noelle Straub enters Medill School of
Journalism at Northwestern University this
fall...Adam Sulkowski finished a joint MBA and law
degree at Boston College...Sarita Talwar (IR) is
getting her MBA at UVA...Anne Tarbox is teaching in the San Francisco Bay area...Russell Taylor
is going to grad school in Music management at
NYU this fall and one of his recent vocals hit #4 in
the Music Week Club Charts ..Brett Thompson got
his law degree at Washington University in St.
Louis and is working on Congressman Jim Talent’s
gubernatorial campaign...After receiving his
Vanderbilt law degree, Robert “Bobbin” Tuleya is
working at Huff, Pool & Mahoney in Virginia
Beach...Matthew Van Konynenberg (IR) is with
Marine Corps Intelligence...Greg Werkheiser finished his UVA law degree this year, works for a DC
firm and is executive director of the Virginia Citizenship Institute...Kelly Womble teaches art at
Fairfax County’s Holmes Middle School...Robert
Wone graduated from UPenn Law and is with DC’s
Covington & Burling...Stephanie Young worked
for KPMG in Spain and is now at an internet startup.
Alumni Notes
CLASS OF 1997:
Rebecca Alves starts her third year of law school
at the University of Arizona this fall...Leigh Archer
is at UR law school...Vanessa Atterbeary graduated
from Villanova University School of Law in
May...Dani Barbour works for a DC consulting firm
on environmental issues...Todd Barlow is at W&M
law....Jen Bennett works for Andersen Consulting
and lives in Arlington...Andrew Briant is at Find/
SVP consulting in New York...Kristen Campbell
(PP) works at Wit Sound View internet investment
bank in New York...Paul Chandler is Director of
Communications to Congressman Pete
Visclosky...Billy Commons is at W&M Law
School...Kira Companion is with an investment
advisory firm in Wilmington, NC...Michael
Costanza is a reporter at the Mystic River Press in
Connecticut...Marla Diaz spent summer 1999 in
Europe and is at Wake Forest law school....Matt
Fogelson is an environmental claims adjustor at
Travelers Property Casual in Baltimore....Tim
Garnett works at DFI, a DC defense and business
consultancy...Alex Gibby did his MA in Military
History at Old Dominion and starting fall 2000
will coach track at Stephen F. Austin University in
Texas..Janet Glover (IR) is with Volunteers in Vision in Tanzania...Aaron Goldsmith completed his
law degree at William and Mary in May...Jeff
Grynaviski is studying for his PhD in political science at Duke...Sarah Hall works for VA Congressman Jim Moran...LaTanya Harding works at
Hogan and Hartsen in DC... Lisa Harrison is an
intern at American University...Jen Jebo is with
DC’s Center for Naval Affairs and doing an MA at
Georgetown...Karen Jupiter is working for the
Boston Symphony Orchestra Annual
Fund...Stephanie Kaye is with the Peace Corps in
Ethiopia...Heather Keays is teaching English in
Korea...Synta Keeling is a program assistant for the
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
and plans on law school in 2001....Sarah Keim completed her MA at Wisconsin...Kristina Kloiber (IS)
is at Tulane Law School...Norihito Kodama works
at IBM...Eric Kross is at Campbell University Law
School and got married this summer...Tate Love
got is W&M law degree in May and is with a law
firm in Roanoke...Karla Lowe is pursuing her MD
at Eastern VA Medical School...Matt Lyon is with
the US Department of Health & Human
Services...Faith Markham is at New York’s Find/
SVP consulting firm...Jeff McDermott did his third
year of law at Georgetown in 1999-2000....Amy
McDowell is studying law at UR...Caroline Mueller
(IR) works in telecommunications in DC and this
summer married Brian Smith (‘94)...Mark Munoz
is a political associate for Staton & Hughes, a campaign consulting firm in San Francisco...Jonelle
Ocloo (IR) is at Yale Law School..After finishing
at Vanderbilt law, Ben Olive is with the Florida firm
of Gunster, Yoakley...Mike Osborne is at Catholic
University law in DC...John Pattisall is with the
internet firm Teetimes.com..Steve Rodger is at
Vanderbilt Law...Lola Rodriguez got her law degree from Dickinson...Greg Rotz lives in Seattle
and NYC, consults for Boeing and is an analyst for
Marakon Associates ...Amy Sander is a legislative
correspondent for VA Senator Chuck Robb and
in John Hopkins School of Public Health...Lauren
Schmidt finished UMich law this year and hiked
out west before starting work at DC’s Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher...Dara Schulman received her MA this
year and works for the Department of
Justice...Matthew Sheiffer is First Lieutenant in the
US Army at Ft. Lewis, Washington, and married
Heather Eweld ‘98 last year...Matt Snow is at UR
Law School...Jane Sibley has been working as a re-
search assistant at ICF Kaiser in Fairfax...Dave
Sobek got his PhD in political science at Penn
State...Christy Sylvester is with Andersen consulting in DC...Ben Taylor is attending W&M Law
School..Dharmesh Vashee is studying law at
UR...Miguel Villarreal got his law degree from the
University of Chicago (IR) and starts at NYC’s
Cahill, Gordon this fall...Jamie Wallis lives in the
other Williamsburg (in Brooklyn) and is a
freelance writer for Playboy.com...Tim Witcher is
VP of an internet startup, careerfair.com...Catherine
Young finished law school at Duke and will be
working in NYC..Mikhail Zeldovich is doing a joint
degree at Harvard Law and Tufts’ Fletcher School,
and worked this summer at the US Trade
Representative’s office in DC.
CLASS OF 1998:
Emily Adams (IS) works for a non-profit organization on health issues in the former USSR... Lise
Adams starts UVA law school this fall..Kendrick
Ashton (IR) worked for the Forbes Campaign in
DC, will attend University of Chicago law school,
and this summer married Mashea Mason...Chris
Anderson is pursuing a law degree at Syracuse
...Danelle Avery works in the Hill office of MD
Senator Barbara Mikulski doing medical policy
issues...Mary Beth Budnyk is a reporter for the
Lancaster New Era in PA...Brett Buick is a 2nd
Lieutenant in the US Army at Ft. Riley KS...Tim
Campbell (IR) works for Capital One in
Richmond...Catherine Carroll is pursuing a JD/
PhD at University of Michigan...Charlotte Chang
(IR) works at the Asian Cultural Council in Hong
Kong...Erin Clarke is an editor with Random
House and lives in un-colonial Williamsburg,
Brooklyn...Alexandra Coello is at the UR School
of Law...Brent Colburn got his Public Policy MA
at W&M this spring...Greg Cota works for Senator
Pat Leahy on the Senate Judiciary
Committee...Raquel Diago is a paralegal in
DC...Mark DiBella is doing Teach for America in
Houston, TX...Andrew Dickson (IR) goes to Damascus as a foreign service officer next year...Mike
Diserio is at a DC firm that monitors the media
industry..Ryan Dolibois is teaching in Houston,
TX, for Teach for America...Emily Fishbein worked
at a NYC law firm and now is a Peace Corps Agro/
Hunger Education volunteer for Niger...T.J.
Fitzgerald is pursuing a PhD in History at Harvard
University...Jennifer Flaningam is a consultant for
a government contractor...Clay Garret is at W&M
Law School...Mary Gay is working for Society of
American Military Engineers...Jennifer Glacel is
an assistant to Congressman Ike Skelton...John
Greenwood (IR) is in London with Merrill-Lynch
working on a joint venture with Shanghai
Bank...Matt Guiney is at Ruttgers law school...Jen
Harman is working for Young Life on an army base
in Germany...Ian Hart (PP) is an administrative
assistant at Boston’s Conservation Law Foundation
and recently published an article on National
Parks in Conservation Matters...Carole Hirsch is
doing a joint Public Policy and Law degree at
W&M...Sarah Hubbard is at NYU Law
School...Henry Johnson is at Tulane University Law
School...Kermit Kaleba has been doing communications for TIPS and will attend W&M law this
fall ...Bonney Kapp is moving to New York
City...Ashley Lare (PP) is a research assistant for
ICF Kaiser International, Inc...Becky Layde (IR)
worked at Freedom House in DC and then spent
several months in Australia...Molly Lehner is with
Capital One in Richmond...Angelique Lenoir is
working for Newport News Parks & Recreation
Department...Jennifer Lieb is a researcher at DC’s
Brookings Institution...Matt Long is pursuing his
Master’s in Diplomacy & International Commerce
at University of Kentucky...Tony Marques works on
Capitol Hill...Mike May worked on Capitol Hill and
is now in law school...Matt Mehler is doing graduate work at GWU...Crystal Montague is attending
UR Law School...John Morris works for Associated
Distributors in Williamsburg...Kristen Pagelsen is
pursuing her MEd at University of Virginia...Nicole
Panagopoulos is a development officer for the
Latin America and Carribean Science Department
of the Nature Conservancy...Alicia Phillips (IR) is
with the National Democratic Institute in
DC...Rodney Pratt (PP) is attending GWU Law
School...Mara Pressman is teaching middle school
in Northern VA...Jim Reilly (PP) is in New York at
Republic National Bank...Young Ju Rhee (IR) is
with the UN Development program in
Korea...Claire Rice (PP) is with Andersen Consulting in DC...Pat Rooney is pursuing a MPP at
AU...Carolyn Ruff is coordinator of a high school
women’s leadership program in DC...Gina Ruidera
attends W&M Law School...Mike Russano is at
NYU Law School...Lori Sandler is working for
Americorps in Boston...Vivek Sankaran is at UMich
Law School...Sean Savage works for J.P. Morgan
in New York ...Heather (Ewald) Sheiffer married
Matthew Sheiffer ‘97 last April...Rachel Seher is
pursuing a PhD in Political Science at Yale and
recently won a National Science Foundation
grant...Lee Shaw is working for Christmas in April,
a DC area charitable group...John Sheehan is at
the State Department...Joe Sheerin starts his third
year at UMich Law School this fall...Larry Sheffield
is at Pepperdine University Law School...Erin Shy
is with Andersen Consulting in DC...Karen
Silverberg is with the development department for
St. Jude’s Hospital in Boston...Kostas Skordas takes
grad courses and works in Admissions at Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond...Leticia
Smith is a legal assistant and is pursuing her 2nd
bachelor’s degree...Courtnee Snyder is with Capital One in Richmond...Leigh Taylor is attending
law school at George Mason...Jason Torchinsky
works for the Republican National Committee and
starts his third year at W&M Law School this
fall...Pepin Tuma works for JSI, a Boston software
company..Monica Vir is with American Management Systems in Germany...Geoff Waguespack
paralegaled at Winston & Strawn in Chicago...Lori
(Wentsel) Blinde finished her MA in English at
Kansas State...Kaniah Whitehorn is at American
University law school...James Zucker is a Lieutenant with the Army based in Friedberg Germany
and has done a tour in Kosovo.
Alums from the Class of 1998 sadly note the passing of their classmate, Shelley Adams. Shelley
was an outstanding student, selected to Phi Beta
Kappa in her senior year. Family and friends
have planted a tree along with a plaque in her
memory on the Washington Hall-side of her old
dorm, Jefferson. Shelley chose to be remembered through donations to the Child Cardiology Association Christmas Fund, 8318 Arlington Blvd., Suite 250, Fairfax VA 22031.
CLASS OF 1999:
Vivien Azer is at Catholic University Law
School...Sarah Bagley is in W&M’s Public Policy
MA program....Rachel Boyd is pursuing her MA
in Special Education at the College..Anne Boyle
was in Bosnia this summer and will do MA work in
Dublin at Trinity University....Heath Bradford
manages the Green Leafe in Williamsburg...Kieran
Alumni Notes
Brenner is paralegaling at Dewey, Ballantine in
DC...Brian Cohrs works for VA Senator Chuck
Robb, and has taken up sky-diving...Nekisa Cooper is Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at
UR...Rudy Costanzo is a journalist for Agence
France Press wire service...Michelle Craven is at
Georgetown Law...Sebastian Csaki (IS) finished his
MA at Cambridge....Chris DeMuth married Elizabeth Townsend this past year and is an analyst at
DC’s Swindler, Berlin...Allison Diefendorf is at
GWU Law School...Tim Dutterer is with Price
Waterhouse Coopers in northern VA…Jeff Geiger works for Congressman Owen Pickett in
DC....Mindy Gill works for the Laogi
Foundation...Chris Grab is at W&M Law...Nathan
Guest is paralegaling in DC....Jack Jebo is at UR
Law School...Brett Keener works for the President
of Sony Classical Records in NYC...Matt Larsen is
a research associate at ICF Kaiser in DC....Walt
Latham is doing his MA in Public Policy at
W&M...Greg Laux is working at the Department
of Justice in DC...Kevin Leonard is with SRA
International....Brooke Livingston is with Legislative Affairs at the federal Office of Management
and Budget...Cary Matthews is at Litton-TASC in
Chantilly VA....Mark Mayhugh is at Washington &
Lee Law School...Nicco Mele is internet communications specialist at Common Cause in
DC...Susan Miller is in the Department of Party
Affairs at the Democratic National Committee in
DC....Bill Molino is with TRW in DC...Molly
Nicholson is at UR Law School....Sergio Oehninger
is at GWU Law School....Matthew Oliveri is with
the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency in
DC....Oz Par vaiz is with Capital One in
Richmond...Richard Perry has been working for
Americorps in Chicago and starts law school at
University of Washington this fall...Carlos Polanco
works in the office of Senator John Kerry in
DC...Jess Powley works at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in DC...Kevin Pryor
(IR) is an analyst at Booz, Allen in DC....Liz Ratliff
is at UVA Law School....Maureen Ray is with BoozAllen...Kristen Rhode is with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in DC…Wilson
Rickerson is with a USAID/World Bank consulting firm that works on development, and where
“a good time is had by all”...Aaron Rosenberg is
doing his MA in Public Policy at the College...Josh
Saltzman worked for Congressman Pat Toomey in
DC but will be studying in Ireland starting this
fall...Ben Singer is at Cornell Law School....Carrie
Smith is doing her MA in Psychology at
W&M...Julie Sommer is a Marketing Rep with TAP
pharmaceuticals...Liz Speck is doing her JD at
W&M....Nate Stump is studying law at
UMich....Alicia Tio- Messina is with Arthur
Andersen’s Department of Government Services
in DC...Mary Ellen Tsekos is with the Academy for
Educational Development....Whitney Untiedt lives
in Hoboken NJ and is an editorial freelancer for
Details magazine...Rocky Weitz is at Harvard Law
and the Fletcher School, Tufts University..Chris
Welch...Mark Zimmer is a program analyst for ADI
Technology Corporation in Alexandria....Brian
Zotti is with Capital One.
Amy Napier won the Department’s Warner
Moss prize for the outstanding thesis; her
project, dealt with Margaret Thatcher’s dealings with the European Union and received
High 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 $1500 award went
to Alicia Boyd.
Those chosen for Phi Beta Kappa in 19992000 included Government majors Tim
Hudson, Jeanine Kiec, Stacy Hauf, Amy
Napier, and Christopher Reames, along with
Jennifer Wasson (PP) and Donovan Maust
(IR).
This year’s student Commencement speaker,
Jim Finn, was a Government concentrator.
IS major Donovan Maust, a Truman Scholar,
also received the College’s Carr Cupp for outstanding all- around achievement.
Recent Alumni
Scholarship Opportunities
IS concentrator Jessica Kehayes received a
Fulbright Scholarship.
The Roy R. Charles Center administers the William
and Mary nomination process for a number of national scholarship competitions, as well as resources
for applicants. Alumni eligible and interested in applying for such awards as the Fulbright and Luce Scholarships may wish to do so through the Center. Information is available by clicking on the “Scholarships”
link on the Charles Center’s website, www.wm.edu/
charlesctr. If you have questions, email Lisa Grimes at
lmgrim@wm.edu or call 757-221-2460.
Senior Honors Theses
1999-2000
Masters Program Alumni Notes
Carmine Scavo teaches at East Carolina
University...Ted Carmines teaches political science
at Indiana University...William Allen Hazleton b
teaches political science at Miami University in OH
and directs its international studies program...John
Tinkham ‘71 is busy with the World Affairs Council
and the Virginia Social Sciences Association in Virginia Beach...Jim Toner ‘73 is a professor of international relations and military ethics at the U.S. Air War
College in Alabama...Donald Hilbert ‘74 is with the
US Army in DC...Kevin Christiano teaches Sociology
at Notre Dame...Lee Mumpower ‘78 is Director of
the Educational Talent Search Program at
Tennessee’s Mountain Empire Community
College...Bill Whitley BA‘76/MA‘78 is Gloucester VA
county manager...Steve Macedo now teaches at
Princeton University...John Rothgeb teaches at international relations theory at Miami of Ohio...Cathy
Dunn ‘79 lives in Mystic, CT, and is National Account
Manager for Hubbell Premise Wiring...Paul Gough
‘80 is the director of for South Dakota’s Board of
Regents...Michael Gresalfi ‘81 is at Martin Corp. and
also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins
University...Mike DeWitt ‘83 teaches and coaches at
D.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge VA..Darby
Dickerson BA‘84/MA‘85 is an Associate Professor at
Stetson University College of Law in Florida...Jacqui
(Mart) Walpole ‘86 lives in DC’s Maryland suburbs
and is a public spokesperson for homeschooling...John Dedrick BA‘86/MA‘88 directs research at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton...Mike
Tierney BA‘87/MA‘88 teaches here in the
Department...Rahul Bhagat ‘88 is with Anz Grindlays
Bank in Calcutta...Alan Calandro ’89 works for the
nonpartisan fiscal office for the CT
legislature...Heather (Lehr) Wagner ‘89 works in pub-
Awards
1999-2000
lishing and now lives in Collegeville, PA...David Melding ‘89 lives in Cardiff, and is a Conservative member of the first Welsh Assembly...Chris Maloney ‘90 is
at Woods Academy in Bethesda, MD....Steve Lafalce
‘91 works at the Advisory Board in DC...Alaka Singh
‘92 received her PhD from Cambridge in development economics...David Hawkins BA‘92/MA‘94
works for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in DC...Myriam Fizazi-Hawkins BA‘92/
‘MA94 works for America-Middle East Educational
and Training Services...Paulette Parker BA‘92/MA‘95
works for a Williamsburg-area software firm...Shari
Mortimer ‘92 is finishing her PhD in political science
at UVA...Chris Tanner ‘92 is a lawyer in NC...Jay Price
‘92 received his PhD in Public History at Arizona and
teaches at Wichita State...Katherine Darke BA ‘91/
MA ‘93 (Public Policy) is a research assistant at the
Urban Institute and enjoys teaching aerobics parttime...Laura (Meredith) Heitland ‘93 lives in St.
Louis...Clarke Cagey BA‘93/MA‘94 is working for the
US Department of Health and Human
Services...Jonathan Kajeckas BA‘89/MA‘94 is Information Technology Senior Department Liaison at the
College...Rob Martin ‘95 is in UVA’s PhD
program...Steve Lobb BA‘94/MA‘95 is doing his PhD
in political science at Yale...Diana (Burghard) West
‘95 is working for the National Journal’s Cloakroom
Evangelist....Ridgeway Wise ‘95 is with the Foreign
Service...Paul Duckenfeld ‘95 works for the National
Imagery and Mapping Agency in DC...John Pierpan
‘96 is at UVA law school...Marcia Brandstedt works
for the Cleveland World Trade Organization...Chris
Liptak ‘97 is US naval attache at the Embassy in
Rome...Dan Dowd is studying for his PhD in political
science at Yale.
Alicia Boyd (Busza)
War Criminals in Bosnia:
An Obstacle to Peace
Camilla Chan (Ndegwa)
The Effect of Tobacco Tort
Litigation on Public Policy
Amy Napier (Clemens)
Margaret Thatcher’s Iron Will:
A Case Study in European Integration
and National Sovereignty
Philip Shaw (Ward)
One Nation:
an Australian Populist Response
Glen Westerback (Clemens)
Shadows of the Past: Gulf War
Decision-making and the Selection of
Historical Analogies
Class of 2000
For those who graduated this past May
and are wondering why there is no alumni
profile section on your class, don’t despair—
we usually wait a year until recent alums get
a chance to settle into post-Morton life. So
do keep us posted on your activities and we
will have a Class of 2000 section in next
summer’s Government Update.
Bloopers (cont.)
We never need to work hard on finding items for this section of the Update, because—without really knowing it—our students prove more helpful year after year.
First, of course, some wonderful bloopers come from simply inverting or omitting
letters. One student mentioned that her
paper would be “suing the web” (better
not—it has a good lawyer.). A second observed that America no longer faces a
“nuclear treat” (darn...we so like surprises).
Just as Spellcheck would not catch those mistakes, we suspect it even creates others—
such as an undergrad’s conclusion that his
course readings had raised certain “ligament” arguments.
Then there are the truly magnificent
malapropisms, often with deeper meanings
that the writer might never have intended.
One freshman, for instance, faulted Lyndon
Johnson for having tried to wage war and
solve poverty all in “one foul swoop.” Another worried about the “copulation of problems” in social policy, and another about
“espousal abuse.” A third felt that judges
should uphold “quality before the law” (who
says elitism is dead?). And then there was
the student who reported that soldiers in the
Boer War “fought garishly undercover” (did
their uniforms clash?).
Another student drew attention to “the
locust of [his] argument,” and another
seemed quite proud of a judicial politics
paper that had held “history’s watermark
cases” up to close scrutiny. And of course
there were the hardy perennials, like “for
all intensive purposes,” and “the fundamental tenant of democracy” (a variation on “the
fundamental tenants of justice”).
Bloopers aside, our favorites include
tortured metaphors, such as this opening
line: “When a law is born it is both naked
and without an identity [but] as it ages it is
clothed and through contacts and situations
develops a distinct personality.” We won’t
speculate what that student was really thinking about, but another plainly had food on
his mind when beginning his paper with
“Crime and punishment are percieved [sic]
to go together like the most classic combination of recent times, peanut butter and
jelly.” (Ah, freshmen...)
For whatever reason, political philosophy papers lend themselves to convoluted
prose, such as this comment: “A precursory
knowledge of reason is to be understood
before reasoning is to be
achieved...I do not necessarily argue
against reason, only that it is incorrect to
assume it unnecessary for the process of reasoning, or to the fact that it is worthy as a
source of knowledge within the social environment” (of course academics who write
like that get tenure....)
Say what you will, but students can be
ambitious, such as the one who promised to
demonstrate “that Rousseau would support
the resistance to modern western society. In
attempt [sic] to show [sic] this assertion, the
author will create a template for western
Graceful landscaping highlights Morton’s profile at all times of year.
Morton Hall: Architectural Landmark,
Or “How I learned to Stop Whining and Love Morton Hall”
Brent Colburn, BA 1998, MPP 2000
It is a debate that has raged eternal in the field of architecture: which takes precedence,
form or function? Is it better for a structure to meet the practical needs of its users in an
eloquently simple manner, or should a measure of usefulness be sacrificed for the sake of
art and the flourish of physical beauty?
On December 5, 1973 a building was dedicated here on the campus of The College of
William and Mary that served to silence those on both sides of the debate. Morton Hall
was designed by a firm of three architects (yes, it took three of them) who dared to think
outside the box by subjecting themselves to neither form nor function. These visionaries,
whose names are remembered only on a simple plaque just inside Morton’s front entrance, were brave enough to dare to make a building which was ugly and a real pain to
work and learn in. “A tall building in a ditch,” they said, “we will build a tall building in a
ditch.” And they did.
Windows where only the bottom third or so opens. Multiple “first floors”. The absence of
proper drainage around the building. Staircases that seem suck the life out of those walking up them. The simple form of cinder block. A very suspect elevator. Just enough natural light to tease the eye and highlight the drabness. These, and numerous other
groundbreaking concepts, were brought to the classroom in a way unparalleled before or
since. From where did such ideas spring? What muse could conjure such a combination
of ugliness and dysfunction? It may be worth noting that Morton Hall is rumored to have
been the firm’s first architectural contract not from the Department of Corrections.
Hints of the style embodied in Morton Hall can be seen throughout W&M’s “new” campus. The style, though, did not catch on in other academic settings, as architects continued to hold on to their antiquated views that a building should be functional, well built,
and at least a little pleasant on the eye.
So, as I close my six year stay at Morton Hall, I salute those who made this crumbling ivory
tower of scholarship possible. Your work will last through the ages, or at least until this
structure you placed upon the earth finally sinks into the soft ground upon which you set
it (perhaps not too long from now...). I will miss your masterpiece, your opus, your Morton
Hall. Of course, they say that even those imprisoned in Soviet Gulags for long enough
grew to miss their cells upon release
society and the technological achievements
it has developed.”
Just so we aren’t accused of picking on
our own majors (and to share any guilt by
association), we should note that Economics papers also offer a ripe selection—such
as one we received from upstairs that spoke
of 19th century Britain’s readiness to “reek
the benefits of capitalism.”
Finally, a blooper that would make any
teacher feel a bit old—the claim (for some
reason in a course evaluation) that “My
Sharona” was by The Ramones.
Oh well.... as one student opined,
“Today’s university education...is trying to
falsify the thought curriculum with facts.” To
quote Dave Barry, we could not make these
up....
Thanks
Several Government folks helped with this year’s Update: Chair John McGlennon; Professors Chris Howard and Sue Peterson; Office Manager Valerie Travato; Secretary Tess Owens; student assistant Tracey Snow; and alums Jason Torchinsky, Jess Powley and Laura Flippin. We are also very grateful to the Publications Office—above all Joe
Gilley, graphic designer Sylvia Colston, photographer Jim Gleason, and Program Support Technician Teri Edmundson. Finally, our gratitude to the Alumni Society, namely
Betsy Quinzio, Director of Alumni Records, and Matt Clayton at the Office of Institutional Research. Clay Clemens, Editor.
In Memoriam: As with all projects he undertook in several decades as Director of University Publications, the late Dean Olson devoted considerable time and creativity
to helping make past editions of this newsletter a success. He will be missed.
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Bill, James
Blouet, Brian
Busza, Eva
Cheng, T.J.
Clemens, Clay
Dessler, David
Edwards, Jack
Evans, Larry
Fritts, Robert
Gilmour, John
Grayson, George
Howard, Chris
Lovell, George
McGlennon, John
Chairman
Morrow, William
Ndegwa, Stephen
Peterson, Susan
Rahman, Katherine
Rapoport, Ronald
Tierney, Mike
Sieberg, Katri
Schwartz, Joel
Director, Charles Center
Smith, Roger
Ward, Alan
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