|
This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
WHERE IN THE WORLD...
In this section:
John Streufert, Robert Lester Receive Presidential
Rank Awards
Former Security Director Michael Flannery Succumbs
to Cancer
Reassigned
Promoted
Moved On
Retired
In Memoriam
John Streufert, Robert Lester Receive Presidential Rank
Awards
John Streufert, USAID’s director of information resources
management, received the 2004 Distinguished Executive Presidential
Rank Award for his supervision of the Agency’s computer
technology, which serves 8,000 employees worldwide.
Robert M. Lester, who retired as the Agency’s assistant
general counsel for legislation and policy, received the 2004
Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award.
The annual presidential rank awards recognize outstanding
leadership among the government’s 7,800 Senior Executive
Service, Senior Level, and Scientific Professional career
members. One percent of the designated employees may receive
the Distinguished Executive or Senior Professional Rank Award;
five percent may receive the Meritorious Executive or Senior
Professional Presidential Award.
The 2004 award recipients were announced in April.
Streufert’s technical team delivers technology support
to the Agency’s headquarters workforce and to 80 missions
around the world. Before joining USAID in 1998, he worked
for the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Navy in various
technology and budget positions.
Lester began his career with USAID in 1975 as a legal advisor
in Saigon, South Vietnam. He subsequently served in eastern
and southern Africa and, from 1979–2004, he worked in
the Office of the General Counsel for Legislation and Policy.
Former Security Director Michael Flannery Succumbs to Cancer
 |
|
Mike Flannery was director of USAID’s Office of
Security, 1987–2004, and popular with his colleagues.
|
Corbett Michael “Mike” Flannery was a hands-on
boss who looked after his people, a dynamic leader who charted
the reorganization of his office, and a walking encyclopedia
when it came to rock and roll movies.
Those are just a few of the things colleagues recalled about
USAID’s former director of the Office of Security.
Flannery, 60, died April 1 in Paducah, Ky., where he moved
after retiring from the Agency in August 2004. Flannery had
been diagnosed with colon cancer about two years before his
death.
“He was a true leader,” said Harry Manchester,
acting director for the Office of Security. “No matter
who you were here, he had a way of making you feel that you
were the most important person in the world. He was bigger
than life.”
He also had a keen sense of where the Agency was heading,
Manchester said.
Flannery was responsible for the direction, management,
and supervision of operational security programs that supported
USAID missions worldwide. He was also the principal advisor
to Administrator Andrew S. Natsios on security matters.
A retired U.S. Army officer and decorated Vietnam War veteran,
Flannery served more than 20 years in military intelligence
and special operations assignments throughout the world. That
service probably helped account for his leadership skills,
say Manchester and Randy Streufert, chief of the personnel
information and domestic security division.
After arriving at the Agency in 1987, Flannery started weekly
all-hands meetings for the security staff. He began programs
to honor employees of the week, month, and year; and he was
good at helping security officers move up the ranks.
“He definitely believed in investing in the employees,”
said Streufert. “He was big on recognition.”
But Flannery also made room for light moments, including
reporting his brushes with celebrity. He played a bit part
in the pilot for the 1970s cop show Hawaii Five-O, and once
sat in with the Beach Boys, playing the drums.
His fun streak and his people skills—he never forgot
a name, Manchester said—had a lot to do with his popularity.
Flannery’s wife, Patricia, was overwhelmed with the number
of condolences from her husband’s friends and colleagues
from around the world.
“There’s a little absence in our hearts,”
noted Manchester, sitting in a security office conference
room a stone’s throw away from a photo of a smiling Flannery.
Reassigned
Sandra Amin
M/HR/EM to AA/LAC
Sabinus F. Anaele
COMP/NE/OJT to Senegal/D
Douglas Balko
COMP/NE/OJT to Iraq/ODP
Kenneth L. Barberi
Ethiopia/D to Afghanistan/OD
P. Adriana Barel
COMP/NE/OJT to Namibia
Edward W. Birgells
COMP/FS/Reassign to Iraq/PO
Aleksandra Braginski
LAC/RSD to E&E/EA
John L. Brannaman
Caucasus to CA/DO
George H. Buzby
RIG/Pretoria to OIG/AIG/A
Anthony S. Chan
EGAT/EG to ANE/TS
Steven T. Cowper
Mali/MGT to Kenya/EXO
Thomas A. Dailey
M/HR/POD to USAID Rep/Cyprus
George Deikun
CA/DO to India/D
Victor De Leon Diaz
COMP/NE/OJT to Guatemala/EXO
Aman S. Djahanbani
Jordan/D to COMP/FS/Reassign
Elizabeth A. Drabant
Bolivia/HSOT to WB/Gaza
Matthew R. Drake
OIG/I/LAC-E&E to OIG/I/AFR-ANE
Maureen Dugan
Comp/Detail/Sup to E&E/EG
Christopher W. Edwards
Ukraine/PCS to USAID Rep/Sudan
Gardenia H. Franklin
RIG/Budapest to OIG/AIG/A
S. Elaine Grigsby Arnade
PPC/CDIE to Comp/Detail/Sup
G. Garrett Grigsby
AA/DCHA to A/AID
John P. Groarke
Egypt/D to Iraq/OD
James Gultry
COMP/NE/OJT to Ghana/FM
C.W.T. Hagelman III
AFR/SA to DCHA/CMM
Arnold J. Haiman
GC/EA to GC
William C. Hansen
COMP/NE/OJT to Indonesia/EXO
Peter W. Henderson
BHR/OFDA/OPS to DCHA/OFDA/OPS
Luis J. Hernandez
COMP/NE/OJT to Angola
Sean Huff
COMP/NE/OJT to Russia/PPD
Alan R. Hurdus
EGAT/NRM/W to COMP/LT TRNG
Deborah Ann Hymes
M/IRM/TSI to M/IRM/CPFM
Erik G. Janowsky
COMP/NE/OJT to Uganda/GD
Lee Jewell
RIG/Budapest to RIG/Dakar
Jeffery A. Lifur
COMP/NE/OJT to Afghanistan/OD
Drew W. Luten
GC to AA/E&E
Lisa Magno
COMP/NE/OJT to Guatemala/PDS
Emily Baldwin McPhie
DCHA/PVC ASHA/PPO to AFR/EA
Debra I. Mosel
Jordan/PM to Romania
Katherine Valdez Osborne
COMP/NE/OJT to Peru/PDP
Dana Ott
DCHA/PVC ASHA/PPO to AFR/SP
Anne Patterson
Indonesia/BHS to WB/Gaza
Glenn R. Rogers
EGAT/PAICO/PAMS to EGAT/EG
Michael G. Sampson
Nepal/EXO to USAID Rep/Sudan
Daniel Sanchez
COMP/NE/OJT to El Salv/SO3
David Schroder
ANE/EAA to WB/Gaza
Ivan J. Serpa
OIG/I/LAC-E&E to OIG/I/AFR-ANE
Robert M. Simmons
CA/DO to COMP/FSLT
Jason K. Singer
COMP/NE/OJT to Indonesia/EG
Susan M. Thomas
Phil/EXO to Iraq/EXO
Gene M. Villagran
COMP/NE/OJT to Caucasus
Pamela Wyville-Staples
COMP/LWOP to EGAT/WID
Promoted
James B. Ahn
Aurelia Stacie Albritton
Michelle A. Aldridge
Wanda Y. Andrews
David A. Atwood
Carol R. Becker
Jeffrey M. Borns
Robert Stephen Brent
Freda G. Brewton
Oliver C. Carduner
Sharon Lee Cromer
Leslie B. Curtin
Frances R. Davidson
Sonia L. Davis-Clemons
Francis A. Donovan
Dana P. Doo-Soghoian
Sukhminder Dosanjh
Beth P. Dunford
David E. Eckerson
Lennora D. Fendell
Vera M. Fields
Patrick Chilion Fine
Karen L. Freeman
William J. Garvelink
Earl W. Gast
Richard S. Greene
Awny A. Hakim
Parrie L. Henderson
Lavern Colletta Hollis
Walter M. Kindred Jr.
James R. Kirkland
Gary B. Linden
Dwayne A. Moore
Walter E. North
Deborah F. Oliver
Oludayo Onafowokan
Mary Catherine Ott
Carlos E. Pascual
Henderson M. Patrick
Carl Shakir Rahmaan
James H. Redder
Tim C. Riedler
Katrina R. Riley-Sawyer
Andrew B. Sisson
James T. Smith Jr.
Monica Stein Olson
Diana L. Swain
Shelia Jones Tolliver
Mai Tran T. Tran
Leon S. Waskin
Robert J. Wilson
Louise Berry Wise
Steven G. Wisecarver
Moved On
Jean Durette
Mark D. Ellis
LaVerne L. Horton
Suzanne H. Johnson
T. David Johnston
Lauren S. McLean
Carole S. Palma
Auburn Parker
Gia V.T. Parker
Kristine M. Rife
Charlotte S. Rupprecht
Douglas Sheldon
Linda E. Shovlain
Retired
Emmanuel Bruce Attah
Jeffory G. Boyer
Mary E. Brown
Paul R. Deuster
Richard M. Fraenkel
Thomas D. Hobgood
Joyce M. Holfeld
Roosevelt Holt Jr.
Patricia L. Jordan
Joseph F. Keady Jr.
Lowell E. Lynch
Paula S. Miller
Linda E. Morse
Emmy L. Simmons
Kiertisak Toh
Remedio M. Villanueva
Louise Berry Wise
Neil J. Woodruff
Roger Yochelson
Frank J. Young
In Memoriam
John David Blumgart, 80, died April 9 in Rockville,
Md. A retired economist, he started his career with the Agency
in 1960, working primarily on infrastructure projects such
as water purification plants and drainage systems. Blumgart
was stationed in Bolivia from 1965–68, where he survived
an airplane crash. He then served in Bangkok for two years.
His final assignment was chief of the Special Development
Projects Division in the Bureau for Africa’s Office of
Development Resources. After retiring from the Agency in 1982,
Blumgart worked as a consultant with several African nations,
assisting countries such as Rwanda and Zaire in their applications
for U.S. assistance. Blumgart received a master’s degree
in International Economics from Columbia University. He served
in the Army in World War II.
Zoe V. DeFonzo, 77, died April 24 in Olney, Md. A
former civil service officer, DeFonzo retired as a management
analyst with USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the
Caribbean in 1987, after more than 30 years with the Agency.
She also worked in the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination,
the Office of Human Resources, and the Office of International
Training.
George Dykes, 66, died April 2 in Alexandria, Va.
He retired from USAID Jan. 31 as a senior business specialist
in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade.
He had earlier worked in the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster
Assistance, serving in Croatia on the Bosnia Disaster Assistance
Response Team from 1992–95, followed by service in Bosnia
with Mercy USA from 1996–99, and in Washington from 1999–2001.
From 1989–1992, he was director of humanitarian assistance
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, working at the
Pentagon on the Afghan Relief program, earthquake response
in the Philippines, and other efforts.
Sadie Goodman, 88, died March 11 in West Bloomfield,
Mich. She was a secretary with the USAID from 1960–80.
In 1975, Goodman was evacuated from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon
as the North Vietnamese moved on the southern end of the country.
She received a Meritorious Honor Award for “outstanding
performance and unusual devotion to duty” for assisting
the evacuation of U.S. civilians and the embassy’s Vietnamese
employees. In 1980, she was again evacuated—this time
from Afghanistan. After retirement, Goodman worked with the
Afghan Relief Committee in Washington.
Jack Koteen, 85, died April 4 in Boca Raton, Fla.
He helped develop government and economic programs in Liberia,
Kenya, Nigeria, and several central African nations while
with USAID in the 1960s . In the late 1960s and early 1970s,
he helped develop health care and agricultural programs in
Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras. In 1974, he was appointed
the director of USAID’s former Office of Development
Administration. After Koteen retired from the Agency in 1975,
he worked as a government and private consultant, promoting
economic development in Central America. He also taught graduate
courses at the University of Maryland, Montgomery College,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School. Koteen
also served in the Army during World War II, and worked at
the State Department prior to joining USAID.
John Lowrie Malcolm, 84, died March 23, in McLean,
Va. Malcolm joined USAID in 1959 and served as a foreign service
officer in El Salvador and India, each for four years. In
1968 he joined the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture
Organization. He rejoined USAID in 1969 to work for the Bureau
for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade. He was an avid
bicycle rider with a strong interest in Asia.
Marc Stratton Scott, 63, died April 2 in Huddleston,
Va. Scott had worked with USAID since 1980, most recently
as a senior field advisor with the Office of Transition Initiatives
in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance.
Scott traveled to or lived in 45 countries while working for
the Peace Corps. He also served as a dean at Texas Tech University
and with the Credit Union National Association in Haiti.
Samuel Suber, 63, died March 14 in Takoma Park, Md.
Suber served in the Army from 1962–65. He began his career
with USAID in Washington in 1980 as a messenger, and moved
up through the ranks to become a purchasing agent at the time
of his retirement in 1998. An accomplished musician, Suber
sung with the Joy Bells as a young man and was a director
of choirs in the Washington area for decades.
Thurston Ferdinand “Tony” Teele, 70, died
March 21 in Washington, D.C. Teele founded Chemonics International,
USAID’s biggest contractor, which has programs in 95
countries worldwide. He began his career as a foreign service
officer and worked as an analyst with USAID in 1962. He later
focused his career on economic development. In Afghanistan,
he served as chief of party on the USAID mission’s industrial
development team. As agroindustrial advisor to the Agricultural
Development Bank, he assisted in the creation of the Afghan
Fertilizer Company and the design of a major USAID-funded
project that resulted in privatization of fertilizer distribution.
He served as chief of party and advisor to the Board of Investment
in Thailand for USAID/Thailand. For USAID/Liberia, he served
as an industrial economist for the Development Corporation.
He also served as an economic analyst for USAID’s Program
and Planning Office in the Bureau for Asia and the Near East.
Back to Top ^
|
RSS Feed for Recent HIV/AIDS WebSource Articles
