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…
Dear Friends, It has been an amazing journey for me all these years that I have chaired the FBS Group. I have enjoyed immensely organizing cultural and social events for you: laughing and sharing happy and special moments with each one of you. I also shared your pain and cried with you in those difficult…
March 1st of 2018 was the FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the opening of the Family Liaison Office in the Department of State. Its establishment may well mark the only time that a volunteer organization (in this case the Association of American Foreign Service Women – AAFSW) succeeded in changing the structure of the State Department bureaucracy…
A member’s residence in Springfield, VA Saturday, June 9th at 6:00 p.m. AAFSW/FBS cordially invites you to a summer garden farewell and welcome party Every year as a tradition we say farewell to our Foreign Service friends departing to exotic and interesting countries around the globe and we welcome new ones arriving to…
AAFSW Has Been Officially Recognized as a Department of State Employee Organization On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, AAFSW President, Dr. Joanna Athanasopoulos Owen, along with some AAFSW Board members met with the Chief Labor Management Negotiator at the Department of State Bureau of Human Resources / Office of Policy Coordination and were formally informed that…
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