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Agency Mourns Passing of Linda Morse
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In Memoriam
Abdullah Abder Rahim Ahmad Arjan, 65, died Dec. 19,
2005, in Amman, Jordan. Arjan, a senior project management
specialist and environmental officer, retired from USAID in
2000 after 23 years of service. He managed more than 20 major
development projects worth about $300 million, and focused
on water and environmental activities that supported Jordan’s
peace treaty with Israel. Arjan’s technical expertise
and political sensitivity on these issues contributed significantly
to the political and development objectives of the United
States in Jordan.
Juanita Jenkins, 77, died Dec. 23, 2005, in Washington,
D.C. Jenkins began her career as a secretary at what would
become USAID in 1955 and retired from the Agency’s Asia
and Near East bureau in 1986. She applied her skills and professionalism
not only to her own assignments, but to training other secretarial
staff. One example of her dedication was during the 1968 riots
in Washington. She lived on a street where homes had been
set on fire and no public services were available. Still,
she walked to work to get the job done and keep the office
functioning.
Agency Mourns Passing of Linda Morse
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Linda Morse
Mark Holmfeld, USAID |
In talking to Linda Morse’s family members and friends,
and reading their email recollections, Joyce Holfeld discovered
something she hadn’t known about the woman she considered
her best friend: many others considered Morse their best friend,
too.
“What a legacy,” said Holfeld, who worked with
Morse in USAID/Morocco and in the Global Health bureau, for
which she served for two years as senior deputy assistant
administrator until her retirement in May.
Morse, who was 55, died Jan. 1 in Arlington, Va, several
days after suffering a massive heart attack. She had spent
30 years at USAID, hopscotching the globe and improving lives
from Haiti to India to Morocco.
“For those of us who had the good luck to work closely
with Linda, the work was but a point of entry to deep friendship,”
said Walter North, deputy assistant administrator for the
Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination. “Her integrity,
good judgment, humor, wisdom, and generosity of spirit challenged
all of us to rededicate ourselves to the work, to each other,
and to the best in life.”
Morse joined USAID in 1976 as a public health advisor in
USAID/Haiti, working on nutrition and food aid programs. In
the early 1980s, she became chief of health and nutrition
in the Latin America and the Caribbean bureau, and later moved
on to be deputy director of USAID/Haiti. In 1988, she became
the deputy director of USAID/Morocco.
In 1991, she was a deputy assistant administrator for the
Asia and Near East bureau, and in 1995 became mission director
in India. In 2000, she became senior deputy assistant administrator
for the Europe and Eurasia bureau, and in 2003 started in
Global Health.
She returned to the Agency last year to accept the Administrator’s
Distinguished Career Service Award, the Agency’s highest
employee honor.
Her accomplishments were lengthy. During her final post,
Morse directed USAID’s global health strategies and $1.6
billion in health assistance. She also led negotiations within
the administration and members of Congress on allocating HIV/AIDS
resources for more than 50 countries where USAID implemented
prevention and treatment programs.
Holfeld, who is now a public health consultant, got to know
Morse when they worked together in Morocco. Her recollections
mirror those of Morse’s other former colleagues: a keen
intellect, willingness to innovate, and fun-loving spirit.
Many also remember Morse for making mentoring a priority.
“She understood what it meant to be a professional
woman and helped other women to ‘show their stuff’
and take their place alongside their male colleagues,”
said Holfeld, who was quick to add that Morse’s mentoring
extended to male colleagues as well.
Morse’s humanitarian work also happened outside of
business hours. When she left India, for example, she established
the Bal Panchayat Trust to support educational activities
for street kids.
“Her ‘un-random acts of kindness’ to colleagues
and for the poor were many and were often transformative,”
said North, who followed Morse as the India mission director.
Donations to honor Morse’s memory are being collected
for the Bal Panchayat Trust, an organization she established
to provide educational assistance to children in India. Checks
should be made payable to Agudas Achim Congregation; the memo
line should include “RDF-Linda Morse Memorial Fund.”
The mailing address is Linda Morse Memorial Fund, P.O. Box
7655, Arlington, Va. 22207.
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