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In this section:
Reassigned
In Memoriam
Promoted
Retired
Moved On
Reassigned
Christine Adamczyk
Egypt/HRH to DCHA/DG/CS
Gerald Richard Andersen
COMP/FS/Reassign to EGAT/EG/EDFM
Cheryl A. Anderson
COMP/NE/OJT to Eritrea/D
Jeffrey M. Borns
DCHA/OFDA/DRM to AFR/EA
Carolyn B. Bryan
Fry to Iraq/PO
Katherine Crawford
GH/OHA/SPER to COMP/LWOP
Laurel K. Fain
COMP/NE/OJT to CA/HP
Gary F. Fuller
REDSO/ESA/FFP to USAID Rep/East Timor
Willard L. Grizzard
COMP/FS/Reassign to DCHA/PPM
Philip D. Horschler
OIG/A/PA to RIG/Pretoria
Lee Jewell
RIG/Budapest to RIG/Dakar
Melissa A. Jones
COMP/NE/OJT to Ethiopia/SSS
Lynn A. Keeys
COMP/LWOP to PPC/SPP/SRC
Erin A. Krasik
COMP/NE/OJT to Russia/DHRD
Jaroslaw J. Kryschtal
India/RCO to PPC/SPP/SRC
Sarah Ann Lynch
LAC/CAM to LAC/SA
Andrew M. Maxey
EGAT/PDAM to LAC/CAM
Steffi E. Meyer
Egypt/SCS/SCR to Egypt/PO
Kermit C. Moh
AA/LAC to Panama/PPEP
Charles S. Morgan
WB/Gaza to COMP/FS/Reassign
Linda E. Morse
AA/GH to COMP/FS/Reassign
Catherine N. Niarchos
Honduras/MDI to DCHA/DG/SAR
Walter E. North
India/DIR to AA/ANE
Sally Jo Patton
Haiti/PCPS to COMP/FS/Reassign
Robert S. Powers
COMP/NE/OJT to RS/Africa/PPD
Tim C. Riedler
GC/ENI to RSC/OD
Lauren K. Russell
COMP/NE/OJT to Russia/PPD
Laszlo F. Sagi
OIG/I/LAC-E&E to RIG/Pretoria
Brant A. Silvers
PPC/SPP/SPA to AFR/DP
Hermione R. Slaughter
M/FM/LM to M/FM/CAR
Donald R. Soules
LAC/SPM to LAC/SPO
Gloria D. Steele
AA/E&E to AA/GH
In Memoriam
David Charles Denman, 74, died Feb. 28 in Murrieta,
Calif. He spent 25 years with USAID in Vietnam, Colombia,
the Philippines, Washington, and, finally, Indonesia, where
he retired in 1991 as a population development officer. Denman
held a master’s degree in journalism from Wayne State
University. He was a sergeant in the Air Force and served
during the Korean War.
Sumner Gerard, 88, died Feb. 24 in Vero Beach, Fla.
He was named USAID’s mission director in Tunisia in 1970.
Four years later, he was appointed ambassador to Jamaica,
where he served until 1977. A graduate of Trinity College,
Cambridge University, Gerard served in the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps during World War II. Later, he became a cattle
rancher in Montana, where he was also a Republican legislator
from 1956 to 1960 and 1962 to 1966. In 1969, Gerard was appointed
a delegate to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Afterward, he moved to Florida to pursue his interest in maritime
affairs, becoming an adjunct professor of maritime archaeology
at the University of Miami.
Betty J. Healy, 84, died Oct. 22, 2004, in Albuquerque,
N.M. She was born in Oklahoma and settled in New Mexico before
joining the foreign service in the late 1960s. Healy served
overseas with USAID missions in Somalia, Turkey, Korea, Indonesia,
and Kenya. She also served on detail to the State Department
with the Foreign Service Grievance Board in Washington and
the U.S. Embassy in Romania. She retired in 1985 as a foreign
service secretary.
Promoted
John J. Abood
Susan Bradley
Bernadette G. Bundy
Marc L. Douglas
Robin Y. Galery Todd
Diane M. Howard
Sharon M. Jones-Taylor
Minhtam Le
Wanda Taylor
Retired
Peggy J. Brannon
Craig G. Buck
George M. Dykes III
James R. Ebbitt
Patricia R. Johnson
Joan C. Larcom
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EGAT’s Emmy Simmons is retiring from USAID in
April.
Chuck Patalive, USAID |
EGAT Chief Emmy Simmons Retires After 27 Years at Agency
“I gave it my best shot,” said Assistant Administrator
for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT) Emmy Simmons,
who retires in April after 27 years at USAID.
She has not yet figured out what kind of work to do next,
but is looking forward to a sailing trip in May with her husband
Roger, a retired USAID officer.
Simmons said her greatest accomplishments were working in
Mali in the mid-1980s and, more recently, her work while heading
the EGAT bureau.
In Mali, Simmons, representatives of other donors, and local
advisors persuaded the government to liberalize the cereal
market. Until that point, food prices were kept artificially
low for urban consumers at farmers’ expense. Crop prices
were so low, farmers had little incentive to produce surplus
for sale.
Reforms moved slowly at first because the government had
to be assured that its withdrawal from the market would not
lead to disaster, Simmons said. Assuring the government that
food aid would be available, if needed, helped move reforms
along.
Once plagued by famine, Mali now produces enough grain for
its own market and exports rice to neighboring Burkina Faso.
Simmons worked in several other field and Washington positions
since Mali, returning in 1997 to head the Global Bureau’s
Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development and,
in 2002, taking the helm of the new pillar bureau, EGAT. In
that role, she said she “tried to build connections across
disciplines.”
Simmons’ first international assignment in the early
1960s was with the Peace Corps as an English teacher in the
Philippines. She then went to Cornell University for a master’s
degree in agricultural economics. She later joined her husband
Roger—at the time a USAID contractor—in Nigeria
and then Liberia.
Simmons joined USAID in 1977, working with the Office of
Nutrition and then with the Bureau for Policy Planning and
Coordination. Her husband joined the Agency in 1980. Being
a tandem couple limited the jobs they could take.
Looking at the problems facing developing countries today,
Simmons thinks that the challenges they face are greater than
when she started her career.
But the growing interest among younger generations of Americans
in international development work encourages her and gives
her confidence that the United States will stay engaged in
the effort of promoting prosperity throughout the world, she
said.
Moved On
Kenneth Duckworth
Franklin F. Gunn
Barbara W. Hughes
Kimberly Hunter
T. David Johnston
N. Kumar Lakhavani
Eugene Lin
Barry James MacDonald
John Marshall
Raquel C. Powell
Jolyne Sanjak
Sandra Sanna
James P. Taylor
Roger P. Winter
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