On Thursday, May 10, 2018, Ambassador of Azerbaijan Elin Suleymanov and Mrs. Suleymanov welcomed many AAFSW members and other guests to the Meridian House in Washington, DC for the presentation of the 2018 Heydar Aliyev Award to the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, 13th and 21st US Secretary of Defense. In Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev is considered…
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, many AAFSW members and volunteers gathered together at the beautiful home of Elaine, Ron, and Brian Neumann to share a scrumptious lunch offered by the AAFSW Board members and express our appreciation for one another and our volunteer efforts. After a brief AAFSW Board meeting, all of us joined…
“Repulse Monkey.” “Parting the Wild Horse’s Mane.” “Wave Hands Like Clouds.” “Golden Cockerel Stands on One Leg.” “Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail.” Such were the quaint and colorful names of some of the Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan) movements that Shunying and Alfredo Barela taught to 22 eager AAFSW members and friends on May 22 at the…
On Saturday, May 5, 2018 for its 11th year, Cultural Tourism DC hosted once again the “Around the World Embassy Tour,” part of Passport DC, a month-long celebration of worldwide cultures. Jan Du Plain, a member of the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW) and its Foreign-Born Spouses group, serves as the Embassy…
On Wednesday, May 16, 2018, many AAFSW members, including AAFSW President Joanna Athanasopoulos Owen, PhD, were invited by the Asian American Foreign Affairs Association (AAFAA) and the Office of Civil Rights (S/OCR) to celebrate the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a stimulating presentation by Yale Law Professor and renowned author Amy Chua…
On Friday, May 4th, Barbara Reioux, Patty Ryan and Mette Beecroft attended a Memorial Service for Philip Dorman, Lesley Dorman’s husband of well over 60 years. (Lesley was an AAFSW member for fifty years and served as its president for a record five years.) The first part of the service was held in the chapel…
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