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Greetings fellow alumni –
Commencement has come and gone, and we welcome over 6,000
new graduates to the alumni community! Even though the academic
year is over, the campus continues to hum with activity, with
a new residence hall nearing completion on F Street and Colonial
Inauguration starting in mid-June. Our immediate attention
turns to the night of June 7, 2006, when the GW Alumni Association
will host its Annual Meeting and the presentation of the 2006
Alumni Service Awards. READ
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2003 Grad Wins Florida Election
by 24 Votes
While many GW students dream of holding  elected
office, Jared Moskowitz, BA ’03,
has made that dream come true in record time. In an historic
election, 25-year-old Moskowitz was declared Parkland, Fla.,
city commissioner by a margin of only 24 votes. “Every
vote counts.” Moskowitz says, “We saw it in Gore
v Bush and it ’s
a lesson that was proved again in my own campaign.”
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| Mike Aigen, JD ’99,
was recently recognized as one of the top Dallas
lawyers under 40. He is a founding partner of Lackey Hershman
LLP, a national complex commercial litigation firm. |
Elizabeth
Berry, JD ’97, has been named head of Washington,
D.C. ’s new Department of the Environment. For more information
click here. |
Neville W.
Cramer’s 2004 book, Fixing the INSanity
– America’s Immigration Crisis, speaks to
the current national debate. Mr. Cramer, MAS ’79, served
more than 26 years as a law enforcement officer with the Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS). Click here
to learn more about the book. |
Tammy Duckworth,
MA ’92, a decorated war veteran who lost both
her legs while piloting a helicopter in Iraq, hopes to put
her devotion to public service to work in 2006 as the U.S.
Representative for Illinois (6th Congressional District).
For more information, click here. |
Phyllis Karas,
BAE ’65, is the co-author of the recent bestseller
Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life in Whitey Bulger’s
Irish Mob. For six months, Karas and Kevin Weeks, the
number-two man in Bulger ’s mob, communicated via speakerphone
to craft this raw account of mob violence. For more information,
click here. |
Liz McCartney,
MA ’05,
established The St. Bernard Project along with her fellow
volunteers after traveling to hard-hit St. Bernard Parish
in New Orleans in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The grassroots, non-profit project intends to provide vital
resources and support to families in that area. McCartney
will relocate to New Orleans from D.C. at the end of May.
For more information, visit
the Saint Bernard Project website. |
| Jocelyn Jones
Pickford, MEd ’04, was recently named as one
of 32 National Finalists for the 2006-2007 White House Fellows
Program. Fellows are nominated based on exemplary public service,
leadership skills, and professional experience. The White
House will announce the incoming class of White House Fellows
in June. Jones is a high school teacher in Arlington, Va.
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| Antiques shopping
consultant Macon (Clement) Riddle, BA ’62,
and optometrist Rebecca (VanNostrand) St. Jean, BS
’92, are both featured in Firestarters:
100 Job Profiles to Inspire Young Women published by
JIST publishing and written by Dale Salvaggio Bradshaw and
Kelly Beatty. |
If you would like to read more
class notes, or if you would like to enter one of your own,
visit the class
notes section of the GW Alumni Online Community. (If you
have not already registered, the site will guide you through
the process.) |
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Former Gov. Mark Warner poses in front
of his official portrait by fellow GW alumnus Bradley Stevens
as former first lady Lisa Collis looks on.
Photo Credit: www.fredericksburg.com
Fellow Alumnus Captures
Mark Warner on Canvas
When it came to having his official portrait painted, former
Virginia Governor Mark Warner, BA ’77,
turned to his friend and former classmate, Bradley Stevens,
MFA ’79.
A well-known artist who has painted for the White House and
the State Department, Stevens portrayed Warner in his most
familiar stance, albeit with a restrained smile. For now,
the portrait hangs in the Library of Virginia – once
renovations to the 200-year-old Virginia capitol building
are completed, the portrait will move to the building’s
third-floor rotunda. |
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