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Promoted
Retired
Reassigned
Moved On
In Memoriam
Malaria Expert Mary Ettling Dies
Agency Officials Receive Afghanistan Honor
Workplace Seminars Foster Staff Harmony
Promoted
Maria E. Barron
Democracy Specialist
Sithara Batcha
IDI (Health/Pop. Nutrition Officer)
Alan Bellefeuille
Procurement Analyst
Aaron S. Brownell
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Alfred Buck
Accountant
Daniel A. Corle
Education Development Specialist
Marc L. Douglas
Program Analyst
Tye N. Ferrell
Democracy Specialist
Kurt A. Gainer
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Pamela Gee
Human Resources Specialist
Patricia G. Green
Secretary OA
Croshelle D. Harris
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
David Hatch
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Angela Hogg
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Linda S. Howey
Management & Program Analyst
Nikhil R. Jaisinghani
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Andrew R. Johnson
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Caprice Helene Johnson
Program Analyst
Suzanne H. Johnson
Procurement Analyst
Roopa H. Karia
Management & Program Analyst
Frederick D. Lang
Security Specialist
Wanda L. Lewis
Budget Analyst
Celida A. Malone
Knowledge Management Specialist
Michael R. Marx
Supervisory Disaster Operations Specialist
John P. McMahon
Supervisory Agriculture Development Officer
Alma L. McQueen
Financial Operations Specialist
Sheila Ann Miller
Accountant
Jennifer R. Nevin
International Cooperation Specialist
Miriam Onivogui
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Kofi Owusu Boakye
Financial Management Specialist
Portia R. Persley
Contract Specialist
Geeta Raj
International Cooperation Specialist
Christopher J. Ray
General Business Specialist
Danielle M. Reiff
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
John Riordan
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Christopher T. Runyan
Program Analyst
Nancy M. Shalala
General Development Officer
R. Christian Smith
IDI (Program/Project Development Officer)
Matthew Talbert
System Accountant
Brigitte A. Tolbert
Management Analyst
Patricia M. Wexel
Staff Accountant
Marcelle J. Wijesinghe
Procurement Analyst
Pamela R. Woodson
Secretary OA
Retired
Cecelia C. Barksdale
Cecelia Y. Burks
Gerald A. Cashion
Linda Cope
Lorraine Y. Johnson
Thomas L. McClanahan
Joseph J. Pastic
Reassigned
Christine Adamczyk
Egypt/HRH to DCHA/DG/CS
Cheryl A. Anderson
Eritrea/D to Haiti/PHN
Robert L. Arellano
Haiti/FM to COMP/FS
Felix N. Awantang
Senegal/HPN to WARP
Kenneth L. Barberi
Afghanistan/OAA to COMP/FS
Bradley Bessire
COMP/NE/OJT to CA/DM
Cathy J. Bowes
Angola to Pakistan/OD
Susan Bradley
DCHA/FFP/EP to DCHA/PPM
Caroline B. Brearley
O/S LANG TRNG to El Salvador/S01
Alvin A. Brown
OIG/A/FA to OIG/MCC/FA
Arthur W. Brown
COMP/LWOP to COMP/FS
Ronald Carlson
EGAT/UP to EGAT/PR/UP
Briera B. Dale
COMP/DRI to EGAT/AG/AM
Aman S. Djahanbani
COMP/FS to M/OAA/OD
Audrey M. Doman
E&E/MO/FS to LAC/SPO
Joe S. Duncan
EGAT/I&E/ES to EGAT/I&E
Edward P. Encarnacion
M/CFO/WFS to M/CFO/CAR
Laurel K. Fain
COMP/NE/OJT to CA/HP
Martin Fischer
COMP/FS to M/OAA/CAS
William F. Fuller
M/CFO/FPS to M/CFO/WFS
Anne C. Gaven
COMP/NE/OJT to RS Africa/SO3 HEA
Kent R. Hill
AA/E&E to AA/GH
Michael F. Hoebel
M/CFO/CAR to M/FM/CAR
Gilbert S. Jackson
EGAT/I&E/ES to EGAT/I&E/E
Andrew R. Johnson
COMP/NE/OJT to Honduras/DP
Sonya Y. Johnson
PPC/RA/SBI to GC/AMS
Margaret S. Kline
M/OAA/DCHA to Afghanistan/OAA
Marie C. Laurent
DCHA/FFP/PTD to COMP/FSLT
Jeffrey A. Lehrer
O/S LANG TRNG to El Salvador/S01
Jon Daniel Lindborg
Indonesia/OD to PHIL/D
Miguel A. Luina
COMP/FS to M/CFO/FPS
Yvette N. Malcioln
Madagascar/POP to COMP/FS
Jeanetta A. Marshall
M/CFO/FS to M/CFO/APC
Kevin D. McGlothlin
COMP/NE/OJT to Indonesia/OD
Mikaela S. Meredith
COMP/FS to USAID Rep/Yemen
John P. Nicholson
Egypt/FM to Afghanistan/OFM
Jonathan Palmer
M/OAA/GRO to Egypt/PROC
Anne Patterson
Indonesia/BHS to WB/Gaza
John Michael Phee
RIG/Manila to OIG/AIG/MCC
Leonel T. Pizarro
COMP/FS to M/OAA/DCHA
Curtis A. Reintsma
Africa/EA to Africa/SP
Thomas E. Rhodes
O/S LANG TRNG to Ecuador/SDE
John T. Rifenbark
EGAT/AG/ARPG to EGAT/AG/ATGO
Susan K. Riley
Haiti/EG to COMP/LWOP
Luis A. Rivera
COMP/NE/OJT to Peru/D
Rebecca J. Rohrer
Nepal/HFP to Jamaica-CAR/CRP
Kimberly A. Rosen
COMP/FS to EGAT/PR/MD
Mike E. Sarhan
Eritrea/D to USAID Rep/Yemen
Nancy M. Shalala
Iraq/HEO to Iraq/GO
Richard Steelman
ANE/IR to ANE/SAA
D. Ben Swartley
COMP/NE/OJT to Haiti/EG
Jessica R. Tulodo
Indonesia/DDG to EGAT/PR/UP
Nicole Ann Uzzle
M/IRM/CPFM to M/PMO/BEA
Kenneth Bruce Wiegand
Colombia to DROC
Joseph C. Williams
M/HR/TE to ANE/EAA
Terry Hill Williams
LPA/CL to AFR/EA
Francisco J. Zamora
GH/HIDN/ID to GH/HIDN/MCH
Moved On
Retta B. Burden
Juan E. Calvo
Roger Dale Carlson
Gilbert Collins
Paul R. Deuster
Daniel Y. Green
Mosi K. McCrary
Thomas F. Miller
Enger A. Muteteke
Carlos E. Pascual
Dale Pfeiffer
Lisa K. Povolni
Peter E. Schulleri
Willie D. Smith
Dianne Tsitsos
Susan M. Williams
In Memoriam
Boubacar Adamou, 44, died March 3 in Washington,
D.C. Adamou worked for USAID for more than 20 years, serving
during the past six years as the supervisory voucher examiner
in USAID/Guinea. He also had tours of duty at the missions
in Caucasus and Ivory Coast. He spent most of the beginning
of his USAID career working on financial management support
issues in his homeland at USAID/Niger before that mission
closed. Due to outstanding service, Adamou had recently been
awarded a Special Immigrant Visa to come to the United States
with his family. He arrived in the United States days before
his death.
Walter J. Sherwin, 74, died Jan. 18 in Bethesda, Md.
Sherwin joined USAID in 1965 and began his foreign assignments
in French-speaking West Africa—Upper Volta (now Burkina
Faso), Madagascar, and Senegal. He came back to Washington
for seven years before returning to Africa for work in Niger
and Guinea. In each of his country assignments, Sherwin worked
to coordinate and oversee projects dealing with forestry,
clean water, health, livestock, and agriculture. After retiring
from USAID in 1986, Sherwin did consulting work for private
groups working on overseas projects with the Agency. After
volunteering for many years with Reading for the Blind and
Dyslexic, which records textbooks for students in the United
States, Sherwin attempted to create a similar program in Senegal.
He had prepared a grant and met with Dakar education leaders
before becoming ill. Interested coworkers and friends have
said they will pursue the endeavor in his memory.
Ray Solem, 62, died Jan. 4 in Washington, D.C. A former
foreign service officer, Solem joined USAID in 1968 as an
international development intern and went on to serve in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil; Receife, Brazil; and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
He continued with the Agency as program analyst until retiring
in 1996. After his retirement, Solem renovated historic homes
in Georgetown and headed up his own real estate firm.
Malaria Expert Mary Ettling Dies
Mary Ettling, 57, died Feb. 25 in Seattle, Wash. A USAID
employee between 1998 and 2005, Ettling was an internationally
recognized scientist and malaria specialist who focused on
work in Africa.
“Mary Ettling was crafted out of precious metal with
a golden heart. She understood and loved Africa,” said
Dr. Aggrey J. Oloo of the World Health Organization (WHO),
Regional Office for Africa. Ettling’s USAID colleagues
and friends voiced similar views.
Wendy Benezerga of USAID/Madagascar, said: “Mary’s
first visit to Madagascar launched the U.S. government…into
the fight against malaria in this country and we continue
the good work she began here. In her memory we will redouble,
make that triple, our efforts to prevent and treat malaria,
saving women’s and children’s lives.”
Ettling graduated from Radcliffe College in 1970, in social
anthropology and Asian culture, before completing a master
of science degree at the Harvard School of Public Health.
She then went to Thailand and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer
and as principal investigator with the Thai Ministry of Health’s
malaria division. In 1988, Ettling returned to Harvard to
complete a Doctor of Science degree.
Over the next decade, she worked on battling malaria in
Vietnam, Malawi, Nepal, Zambia, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Ettling’s
expertise and approach to problem solving used methodologies
from the fields of epidemiology, economics, and behavioral
science as well as traditional malariology and vector control.
Ettling joined USAID in 1998 as the senior public health
advisor for infectious diseases and malaria in the Africa
bureau. Three years later she became the leader of the Malaria
Team within the Bureau for Global Health, a post she held
until retirement in 2005.
She also served as one of four malaria experts on the Technical
Review Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis,
and Malaria.
Dr. Antoine Kabore, director for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and
Malaria with WHO in Africa said, “We celebrate her legacy
of compassion, commitment, and competence and send our deepest
sympathy to her family for a great life given to the needs
of those who suffer, and a great gift received by a people
who will never forget what she did.”
John Paul Clark contributed to this article.
Agency Officials Receive Afghanistan Honor
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USAID’s James Griffith (left) and James Sarn (right)
show medals they received from the former king of Afghanistan
for their work on that country’s public health
sector. In the center is Dr. Faiz, USAID health program
management specialist.
Angela Lord, USAID
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Two USAID/Afghanistan health officers were awarded Afghanistan’s
highest civilian honor last month for their work in helping
develop the country’s public health sector.
James E. Sarn, USAID’s social sector reform office
director, and James L. Griffin, a senior health advisor, were
each presented the Mir Masjidi Khan’s medal by Mohammad
Zahir Shah, the former king of Afghanistan, during a Feb.
18 ceremony at the palace.
The awards honor their dedication and outstanding job performances.
A message from President Hamid Karzai also noted their major
roles in reconstructing the health sector, building health
clinics, and providing health services in 13 provinces.
“Jim Sarn and Jim Griffin are true professionals, and
this award recognizes the long hours of work and tireless
efforts they have put into the USAID/Afghanistan health program,”
said USAID/Afghanistan Mission Director Alonzo Fulgham. “Working
for two years far from their families, their work has provided
basic healthcare services, increased maternal and neonatal
care, and improved lives for thousands of Afghan families.
“The foundation for healthcare they have established,
and which is recognized by the award, will serve as a basis
for future improvements in the health of the Afghan people
for years to come.”
USAID has provided $50 million in grants to improve Afghanistan’s
public health system since the fall of the Taliban. Over 7
million people now have better access to health services and
about 340,000 people a month get health and counseling services
through the Ministry of Public Health. USAID programs have
also helped train thousands of doctors, nurses, midwives,
and other medical professionals.
Sarn’s office focuses on programs in health, education,
youth, and gender, with projects—including rehabilitation
and reconstruction of more than 900 schools and clinics—accommodating
nearly 300,000 students and serving 340,000 patients per month.
“Without the strong leadership of the minister of public
health, Dr. [Sayed Mohammid Amin] Fatimie, our collaborative
programs with the government of Afghanistan would not have
been able to achieve the current level of impact, particularly
the population coverage and the quality of services,”
he said.
Griffin, who oversees the mission’s healthcare work,
including health personnel training, basic health service
delivery, infectious disease surveillance, and hospital management,
added that the award was unexpected.
“This is a great honor for me. This award signifies
the great work done by my counterparts at the Ministry of
Public Health and the entire USAID/Afghanistan team—not
just me,” he said. “I could not do the work that
I do without dedicated people at the Ministry of Public Health
and the support and assistance of many people in the Afghanistan
mission.”
Workplace Seminars Foster Staff Harmony
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USAID’s Bishop Buckley, standing, makes a point
during a recent “Fostering Workplace Harmony”
seminar for workers in the Agency’s human resources
office.
Pat Adams, USAID
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Want to learn how to win an argument at work? Or why it seems
that men and women communicate so differently on the job?
Or just what your responsibilities are as an employee or supervisor
in helping maintain harmony in the office?
Since September 2005, USAID’s Office of the Agency
Counselor has been offering the seminar “Fostering Workplace
Harmony” to management and staff at Agency headquarters
in Washington and in missions overseas. Partner organizations
overseas can participate as well.
The program is designed to help bring work units closer
together, says Bishop Buckley, who leads the seminars and
has a long history of working on employee issues in and outside
of USAID.
The program has three primary goals:
- create opportunities for work units to explore the key
issues associated with workplace harmony and disharmony
- strengthen work unit cohesion
- put in place a plan to ensure the office maintains workplace
harmony after the sessions are over
“We are all facing increasing pressures to do more
work with fewer resources, while increasing our daily interactions
with colleagues and partners,” Buckley said. “We
face more stressful deadlines, workplace demands on our personal
time, and at the same time have to cope with the uncertainty
caused by shifting organizational structures and changing
priorities.”
USAID’s international and multicultural workforce presents
some unique challenges as well, he added.
Workplace conflict, by the way, is normal, says Buckley.
It’s when coworkers ignore conflict that serious problems
arise.
“When ignored, the conflict escalates and grows, almost
like a fungus, and it becomes contagious, spreading throughout
the office or workplace,” Buckley explained. “Ignoring
workplace conflict or disagreements will not make them go
away.”
Not every office manager that contacts the counselor’s
office for the seminar is having difficulties. For them, the
workshops are like “preventive maintenance” to ensure
workplace harmony during times of uncertainty, Buckley said.
The program has three stages. In the first, Buckley meets
with the mission director or the head of the office or bureau
to discuss the expectations for the seminar. He also conducts
15-minute pre-seminar interviews with managers and nonsupervisory
staff to be sure the information he presents during the seminar
is relevant to their organizational needs.
The second stage is the main event: a four-hour seminar
involving up to 25 people per session. The initial seminar
is for the management/supervisory team.
The final stage happens after the seminars end. Buckley
conducts consultation sessions for individuals from the main
group who ask for more advice and information. This is also
the stage where Buckley meets with the office heads to go
over specific suggestions they can use to improve the work
environment and maintain the momentum from the seminar.
David Ostermeyer, USAID’s deputy chief financial officer,
gives the seminar high marks. “Much like other management
theories that focus on positive reinforcement, ‘Fostering
Workplace Harmony’ uses real chips to reinforce the concept.
Everyone is encouraged to remember their chips on a daily
basis and provide thanks and reinforcing words to encourage
colleagues and build office morale,” he said.
“The sessions also introduce management theory to staff
so that they are aware that their managers are people too,
and therefore need their own reinforcement from bosses and
staff,” Ostermeyer added.
Vikki Carethers, a human resources assistant, says she came
away from her class enlightened. “It makes you aware
of the pitfalls supervisors and employees can fall into,”
she said. “I learned that communication in and of itself
is a fantastic tool, and that folks listen differently and
interpret differently.”
For more information about the seminars or to schedule a
session, contact Buckley at bbuckley@usaid.gov
or at 202-712-1963.
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