SPRING 1980 BOA MEETINGS

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The University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506 U.S.A.
[phone]
March 5, 1980
MEMO TO: Members of the Patterson School
Board of Advisors (BOA) and
Invited Special Guests
FROM: The Patterson School
Vincent Davis, Director
Patterson Chair Professor
of International Studies
RE: Spring 1980 BOA Meetings
It's that time again when we need to nail down a firm count on
those of you who will be able to join us for our Annual Spring BOA
Meetings. Preliminary information reaching us at this point indi-
cates a very good attendance by Board members and VIP special guests,
but now we need to confirm this with your detailed plans. For this
purpose, please fill out and return to us the enclosed reservations
sheet RIGHT AWAY!
Also enclosed, f.y.i., is a copy of our Fall 1979 newsletter with
a report on the Fall '79 BOA meetings from this past October.
As for the upcoming events, we will follow the usual format for our
Annual Spring BOA Meetings. The opener will be an informal buffet
dinner at the Davis home on Thursday evening, A ri 7Q. The first
"working session" will start at'9?00 a.m. on Friday morning, the
11th of April, in the R d Mile Rc_,~ at the Hilton Inn (with coffee,
juice and pastries provided). We will break at the Hilton in time
to get to Keeneland for our private buffet luncheon in the Lexington
Room high above the grandstands--and the races for the afternoon--
followed by a dinner session that evening back at the Hilton Inn.
On Saturday, April 12, the morning and afternoon sessions will be
held in the Board rooms, 18th Floor, Patterson Tower, on the Univer-
sity of Kentucky campus, starting at 9:00 a.m. We will adjourn on
Saturday in time for members and guests to catch departing flights
late that afternoon or early evening--although we will provide for
those who indicate that they wish to remain here over Saturday night.
We also provide all necessary local transportation (such as meeting
you on arrival at our airport) for all out-of-towners.
NOAA, by the way, has issued its long-range weather forecast hinting
at somewhat cooler and wetter possibilities for April, with daytime
highs averaging in the 50's. You might wish to pack accordingly.
If you need leave phone numbers with your office, the Davis home
is The Hilton Inn is [phone]. And use (606)
258-8233 for our Board rooms on Saturday, April 12. Hope to see you
here!
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Anniversary and Birthday Celebrated in December-
Patterson School Marked Its 20th Anniversary
by Honoring Dr. Van on His 85th Birthday
The basic elements of the Patterson
School's history will be known to most of
you reading this newsletter. But, as an in-
troduction to this story, we thought you
might appreciate a brief review.
As you will recall, Dr. James K. Patter-
son, the first president of the University
of Kentucky, served the institution in this
capacity for about 40 years, starting in
1865. He left a will stipulating that all of
his earthly possessions should be con-
verted into cash upon his death, and that
the money should be put into a trust
fund and left to grow for about 50 years.
At the expiration of that period, he
stipulated that the annual earnings should
from that date forward be used to sup-
port a new graduate school at the Univer-
sity to be named in honor of his late son.
Accordingly, the trust fund was establish-
ed in 1909, and the William Andrew Pat-
terson School of Diplomacy and Interna-
tional Commerce came into existence in
1959.
Dr. Van-Our First Director
The first Director of the Patterson
School was Dr. Amry Vandenbosch-or
simply "Dr. Van" as he has been affec-
tionately known to generations of stu-
dents. Born of Dutch immigrant ancestry
in Zeeland, Michigan, on December 14,
1894, he went to school initially at Calvin
College but eventually received both his
B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universi-
ty of Chicago.
Earlier he served with the A.E.F. in
France in World War I. Later, he served
in the U.S. Department of State in World
War II, including duties as a member of
the Secretariat of the famous United Na-
tions Conference in San Francisco in
1945.
Dr. Amry Vandenbosch
Dr. Van accepted a faculty appoint-
ment in political science at the University
of Kentucky in 1926, almost immediately
after receiving his Ph.D. (Chicago) in that
same year. His illustrious academic career
has been spent almost entirely at UK, ex-
cept for his work with the Department of
State during World War II, and occasional
visiting professorships at distinguished in-
stitutions including the University of Chi-
cago, Columbia University, Northwestern
University, the University of North Caro-
lina, and the Johns Hopkins University.
The author of numerous acclaimed
books and articles, he received many pres-
tigious research grants and other awards
over the years. He is, for example, the
only political scientist ever elected to
serve as president of both the Southern
Political Science Association and the Mid-
west Political Science Association. He re-
ceived many other honors from his peers,
such as election as the "Distinguished
Professor" at the University of Kentucky
in 1948-49, as well as honors from his
students and former students, including
prizes from the UK Alumni Association.
Serves as an Inspiration
Dr. Van served as the founding Direc-
tor of the Patterson School from 1959
until he reached the mandatory retire-
ment age at UK in 1965. However, he did
not discontinue his professional work or
his associations with the School at retire-
ment. Indeed, he has continued to re-
search and publish books and articles to
this day. His occasional visits to our Pat-
terson School offices are a source of on-
going education and inspiration for all of
our faculty, staff and students.
Accordingly, when we decided that
perhaps some sort of modest ceremony
would be appropriate in celebration of
the Patterson School's 20th anniversary
in 1979, a piece of serendipity provided
us with an immediate and obvious
scheme. Since December 1979 was also
the occasion for Dr. Van's 85th birthday,
we marked both the School's anniversary
and his birthday by conferring on him the
one and only Founding Father Award
that we will ever present. All of this took
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October 199 BOA MeetlYgs Featured. Many-Highlights
We are saved from the temptation to
toot our own horn concerning the annual
Fall meetings of our Patterson School
Board of Advisors (BOA) by the fact that
all participants have assured us that the
event was one of the best BOA gatherings
in recent years. The weather was once
again most cooperative in encouraging a
continuation of our tradition in holding
the annual Fall meetings at beautiful
Lake Cumberland Resort, approximately
100 miles south of Lexington.
The Keynote Panel
The following notable BOA members
constituted the keynote panel, looking at
problems pertaining to international mon-
ey.
Neil ALTER, Vice President in the
World Corporation Group at CITICORP,
focused on banking concerns. Dick
HOEFS, partner in Arthur Andersen,
Inc., looked at the eternal problem of
taxes, and speculated about the possibili-
ty of "VAT" legislation in the United
States in comparison to the way this kind
of taxing system has worked elsewhere.
Dewey DAANE, who just returned
from the annual meetings of the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund in
Belgrade, gave us his customary fall re-
port on the latest from the IBRD/IMF
deliberations. Dewey, as most will know,
is a former Governor of the Federal Re-
serve and is still veryactive in banking
and banking education. None of these
three BOA members was overly optimis-
tic, but none predicted that the U.S. eco-
nomy or the international economy was
in danger of immediate collapse.
Three participants looked at aspects of
international business. BOA member Tom
VEBLEN, recently named senior vice
president for the prominent Schnittker
Associates agricultural consulting firm in
Washington, gave us his latest optimistic
update on international agribusiness while
telling us that the term "agribusiness" has
been replaced by some new and more
fashionable term that none of us can re-
member. What we do remember is Tom's
optimism, and the reasons therefore.
Win BROWN, a notable young partner
in BOA member Steve POTTS' law firm,
stood in for Steve and gave us the recent
legal news pertaining to international
business. Special guest Michael GAD-
BAW, an attorney serving in the Office of
the Special Trade Representative in the
White House, gave us the latest on the
"Tokyo Round" legislation stemming
from GATT.
We were pleased to hear a special pre-
sentation from BOA charter member C.
Eric LINCOLN, distinguished professor
of the sociology of religion at Duke Uni-
versity, on the views held at this time by
black Americans particularly with refer-
ence to foreign policy issues.
SALT II Discussions
Three participants took a highly in-
formed look at SALT II. BOA member
John E. RALPH, major general in the
U.S. Air Force and a key member of the
SALT II negotiating team, told us how
the team had carried out its duties on a
daily basis. Special guest E. L. "Ted"
WARNER, lieutenant colonel in the U.S.
Air Force and a key advisor to the Chief
of Staff of the Air Force, gave us his per-
pectives as a recent U.S. military attache
serving in Moscow. New BOA member
Scott BRECKINRIDGE, serving in the
BOA seat earlier occupied with distinc-
tion by his late brother, Congressman
John Breckinridge, gave us his viewpoints
based on an honored career in the U.S.
intelligence community.
Faculty Members' Impressions
Three of our faculty members and one
notable visitor gave us their impressions
of the particular foreign policy problems
faced by smaller nations on the world
stage. Dan NELSON, our staff specialist
on (and frequent visitor to) the smaller
nations of Eastern Europe and the USSR,
gave us the picture as seen from those
Eastern European countries.
Maurice A. "Mickey" EAST, former
Associate Director of the Patterson
School, reported on his interesting 1978-
79 sabbatical year in Oslo where his re-
search included intensive contacts with
Norwegian foreign policy leaders. Peter
BOYCE, our visitor from the faculty of
the University of Queensland in Australia,
gave us the "Down Under" perspective.
And our Distinguished Visiting Diplomat
in Residence, Ambassador Kewal SINGH
from India, summarized the viewpoints
from the "Third World."
1980 BOA DATES
REMINDER: The dates for the Spring
1980 BOA meetings in Lexington are set
for April 10 - 12. All participants should
plan to arrive on Thursday afternoon or
evening, April 10. Working sessions will
conclude by 4:30 p.m., April 12, so that
everyone can get home sometime Saturday
evening. Advance reservation forms will be
mailed by mid-March. .
The Fall 1980 BOA meetings at Lake
Cumberland Resort have been scheduled
for September 18 - 21. Remember to cir-
cle those dates on your calendar. Please
note that these September dates are about
one month earlier than our usual fall meet-
ing dates.
Problems of the Super Powers
Three participants switched our atten-
tions to the problems as seen by the two
superpowers. Bob BOVEY, captain in the
U.S. Navy and a new BOA member, now
serving as The Military Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon,
shared insights with us from that vantage
point. Bob DEAN, a notable specialist on
the USSR at the RAND Corporation but
now serving as the Assistant National In-
telligence Officer on the Soviet Union at
the CIA, was a special guest who gave us
interesting dimensions based on his life-
long scholarly study of the USSR. Don
GREGG, now serving as the Intelligence
Liaison Specialist on the National Secu-
rity Council Staff in the White House,
talked about problems as seen from the
highest levels of the U.S. government.
Patterson School Celebrates 20th and Dr. Van's Birthday
place when we also honored our Decem-
ber 1979 graduates at the traditional end-
of-fall-semester holidays party. (See a
story on the new graduates elsewhere in
this newsletter.)
The accompanying photo was taken of
Dr. Van shortly after he had received the
large walnut and brass plaque, but one
very important person is not shown al-
though she was on hand. The fact of the
matter is that this award was really in-
tended for both Dr. Van and Mrs. Van,
because Mary Belle Vandenbosch has
been his grand partner and wife over all
of his distinguished years-including work
as the co-author of some of his publica-
tions.
Two other notables were with us at
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that happy occasion in December 1979,
to assist in rendering honors to Dr. and
Mrs. Van. One of these was Mr. Scott
Breckinridge, one of Dr. Van's students
at the University of Kentucky before
World War II and therefore prior to es-
tablishment of the Patterson School. Mr.
Breckinridge-bearer of a famous name
in the annals of public servants from Ken-
tucky, and himself recently retired after
an illustrious career in government service
-is now affiliated with the School in an
adjunct faculty capacity.
The other notable on hand was Am-
bassador Kewal Singh, the most eminent
person in the history of the Foreign Ser-
vice of India (that nation's envoy to 15
nations over his long career, culminating
with duties as the Indian Ambassador to
the United States and then to the Soviet
Union). Our readers of previous news-
letter issues may recall that Ambassador
Singh was a Distinguished Diplomat in
Residence on our faculty in Spring and
Fall 1979. We are now pleased to note a
very high probability that he will return
to us in this same capacity for the entire
1980-81 academic year.
In summary, then, December 1979
was in all respects a memorable time for
us, most of all in presenting our Founding
Father Award to Dr. Van, and now in
looking toward that time when we can
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the be-
ginning of his towering career in interna-
tional education.
Personal Reports of Students
The final, and in some respects the
most interesting event at the annual Fall
Meetings of the BOA, was the closing ses-
sion featuring short introductions and
personal reports from each of our Patter-
son School students. Even our staff and
faculty were surprised to learn about
some attractive new dimensions from our
students, such as the fact that several of
them do some creative (as opposed to
scholarly) writing "on the side," and two
of them may soon have novels in print.
Remarkably Talented Group
All in all, that final session with our
students reminded us once again what the
Patterson School is all about, which is to
assist in giving a remarkably talented
group of young people a last bit of formal
education before they venture forth into
exciting careers of their own.
AlumnG_News
NICOLE BARJONNET is employed as Assis-
tant Controller with the French subsidiary of
the Franklin Mint Corporation in Paris, France.
RANDY BOSTICK, presently serving with the
Peace Corps in Botswana, is Assistant Marketing
Advisor with the Botswana Enterprises Devel-
opment Unit in Francistown.
ALICIA SVEC BRITTLE has been teaching po-
litical science at Manchester Community Col-
lege for the past three years, and plans to con-
tinue study toward a doctoral degree starting in
the fall of 1980. She and her husband reside at
62 Nanel Drive, Glastonbury, Connecticut.
PAUL CARPENTER has joined the staff of
Fairbanks Weighing Division in the position of
Product Line Specialist. We are also delighted
to congratulate Paul and Connie on the birth of
a daughter, Jennifer Rose, on October 2. The
Carpenters are residing at 114 Main Street, St.
Johnsbury, Vermont 05819.
ROBERT CLARK has completed the training
program of Seydel International, an export
management firm based in Atlanta, and will
soon begin traveling as Seydel's Area Represen-
tative to the Far East. Bob's address: 6640
Akers Mill Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30339.
JACK GARDNER is a Research Staffer with
the Department of Community Affairs (Cabinet
Committee on Economic Development) in Har-
risburg, Pennsylvania. Jack's new address: 1927
Market Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17103.
JANE HARBISON served as Acting Director of
the University of Kentucky Office for Interna-
tional Programs during the fall 1979 semester.
STEVE HARBISON has been promoted to Leg-
islative Analyst on the Kentucky Legislative Re-
search Commission.
MICHAEL KRAMER attended business trips in
Acapulco and in Mexico City recently, and he
reported that business in his field remains good
notwithstanding a slowdown in the overall eco-
nomy. His firm specializes in large-scale audio
systems primarily for organizational and institu-
tional users, representing primarily the ALTEC
line. Mike has moved from the Bronx to the fol-
lowing address in lower Manhattan: Apt. 1003,
236 West 26th Street, New York, N.Y.10001.
LISA LANIER-KRIFT is enjoying her work for
a new newsletter, originating in Washington, en-
titled Africa Business and Economic Review.
JEFFREY and LINDA LUTH have announced
the birth of a son, Stuart Hanan, on December
3, 1979. Jeff is manager of the Credit Depart-
ment of Export Credit Corporation in New
York.
BRUCE REYNOLDS and Susan Flohr were
married September 8, 1979. Bruce is an eco-
nomist with USDA's Cooperative Service, and
the couple is residing at 2311 Pimmit Drive,
Falls Church, Virginia 22043.
KEITH SCHUETTE joined the staff of The
Center for Strategic and International Studies
at Georgetown University this fall. Early in his
work, Keith was assigned to work on the per-
sonal staff of General Alexander Haig, but he
has recently been re-assigned to the staff of
James Schlesinger.
BIRAT SIMHA and his wife, Sama, are the
proud parents of a baby girl named Shibani.
Birat and Sama, natives of Nepal, are living in
Lagos, Nigeria, where he is an executive with
the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP).
KEITH SKIDMORE is serving as Executive Of-
ficer of the 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Ca-
valry Regiment, stationed on the interzoned
boundary between East and West Germany.
Keith, who was recently promoted to the rank
of Major, returned to the States to wed Mary
Alice Thompson on December 1, 1979. The
couple departed for Germany December 8.
ALBERT STEIN recently completed the Credit
Analysis Training Program at Manufacturers
Hanover in New York, and continues to enjoy
his work in the International Department of the
bank.
JODY WOOS accepted a position in October as
Assistant Economist with the International
Economics Division of Marine Midland Bank in
New York.
LISA ZAHNISER has received a promotion to
Corporate Banking Officer with the Bank of
Montreal in New York.
Our December Graduates
We are pleased to announce that four stu-
dents successfully fulfilled degree requirements
for graduation in December 1979. Our warmest
congratulations go to Rich Feagin, Judy Guil-
liams Tapia, Beth Holt and Patricia Prendergast.
RICH FEAGIN who returned from a success-
ful U.S. Department of State internship in Swa-
ziland to complete his degree in the fall, is cur-
rently investigating employment opportunities
in international business management in either
the public or private sector.
JUDY GUILLIAMS TAPIA has joined her hus-
band, Patterson School alumnus Juan Francisco
"Pancho" Tapia Videla, in Detroit where they
are both engaged in further graduate studies in
Public Administration as part of additional pro-
fessional preparation for joint careers initially
involving work in either Costa Rica or his native
Chile.
BETH HOLT, whose career interests are in in-
ternational banking, is currently interviewing in
Illinois.
PATRICIA PRENDERGAST has returned to
the New York area where she is actively en-
gaged in the job search process and in arrange-
ments for her April wedding. Patricia, whose
major concentration at the Patterson School
was in agricultural economics, is interested in
working with an internationally-oriented agri-
cultural cooperative or with a public or private
organization involved in international develop-
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BOA Luncheon-m New York City highlights of Oar
A hastily scheduled trip to New York
City by Patterson School Director Vince
Davis in mid-December created an op-
portunity for an improvised luncheon
with several BOA members and friends.
BOA member Kirk PARRISH, Exec-
utive Vice President of the large SSC&B
international advertising firm (now one of
the Interpublic advertising companies),
hosted the event at his Knickerbocker
Club. Other BOA members included:
Neil ALTER, Vice President in the World
Corporation Group at CITICORP; Ronald
KRIEGER, Vice President for economic
research and publications at Chase Man-
hattan Bank; and Walter NOEL, Interna-
tional Vice President at Chemical Bank.
Recent Patterson School alumna Lisa
ZAHNISER, now an international officer
at Bank of Montreal, was the only one of
our alumni with whom we were able to
make contact at the last minute and who
was able to be with us.
We are most grateful to Kirk for crea-
ting this opportunity for some of us to
get together in Manhattan, although we
regretted that wretched weather, holiday
traffic, the last-minute circumstances and
other problems that prevented a larger
turnout.
BOA members unable to attend be-
cause of unexpected circumstances in-
cluded former U.S. Ambassador to Ni-
geria and now President of the African-
American Institute Don EASUM; and
Erik SUY, the Under Secretary General
and Legal Counsel at the United Nations.
Also prevented from attending because of
major activity at the UN surrounding the
current crises in the Middle East was our
longtime friend of the Patterson School,
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Don Mc-
HENRY.
News From Oir BOA Members
DONALD EASUM, formerly U.S. Ambassador
to Nigeria, has recently been named President
of the African-American Institute in New York,
the most prestigious and prominent private or-
ganization in the field of African-American re-
lationships.
RONALD KRIEGER, Vice President with
Chase Manhattan Bank, has taken an adjunct
position at Columbia University for 1979 - 80
as co-director of the Program in Business and
Economic Writing at the Graduate School of
Journalism.
PROFESSOR C. ERIC LINCOLN of the Duke
University Department of Religion presented a
major paper entitled "In the Wake of Bakke" at
a July conference in New York hosted by the
Rockefeller Foundation.
TOM C. VEBLEN, formerly Director of Food
and Agricultural Industries, SRI International
and Vice President, Cargill, Inc., has moved to
Washington, D.C., to join the firm of SCHNITT-
KER ASSOCIATES as Senior Vice President
with the primary responsibility for developing
a management consulting practice to comple-
ment the company's economic consulting and
commodity analysis services.
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We are pleased to welcome three new mem-
bers to our Patterson School Board of Advisors:
CAPTAIN ROBERT L. BOVEY, USN, an alum-
nus of the Naval Academy, holds the Ph.D.
from the John Hopkins University. A former
nuclear submarine skipper, Captain Bovey is
currently serving as The Military Assistant to
Secretary of Defense Harold Brown.
SCOTT BRECKINRIDGE earned his B.A. and
law degrees from the University of Kentucky.
He has recently retired after a distinguished
government career in the U.S. intelligence com-
munity with some 18 years service as an attor-
ney in the office of the Inspector General at the
.CIA. Mr. Breckinridge is one of only 13 senior
officials to have received two or more Distin-
Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
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Fall '79 Schedule
In addition to the Board of Advisors meet-
ings held at Lake Cumberland Resort, October
11 - 14, the following special events took place
last fall:
DR. ROSE L. HAYDEN, Deputy Director for
Latin America, The Peace Corps, delivered a
lecture entitled "Yanqui, Go Where? Old Slo-
gans and New Realities in U.S.-Latin American
Relationships," October 30.
CARY BLANKENSHIP, International Trade
Economist with the International Division,
Kentucky Department of Commerce, and a Pat-
terson School alumnus, presented a talk to Pat-
terson School staff and students on November
13 concerning his trip with the Kentucky Trade
Mission to Peking, Shanghai, central China and
Canton.
In conjunction with several University of
Kentucky departments and organizations, the
Patterson School co-sponsored:
RABBIE NAMALIU, Member, Papua-New
Guinea's delegation to the United Nations,
speaking on "The Foreign Policy Problems of a
Small New Nation: Papua New Guinea," No-
vember 5.
DR. JEROME GILLISON, Director, Center for
the Study of Soviet Jewish Immigration and
Resettlement, speaking on "Human Rights and
Emigration from the USSR," November 15.
DR. BLAIR RUBLE, Research Associate with
the Kerman Institute of the Woodrow Wilson
Center for Scholars, presenting a lecture enti-
tled "The Politics of Industrial Labor in the
USSR."
guished Intelligence Medals from the CIA.
WILLIAM L. FOWLER, an alumnus of Vander-
bilt University and the Harvard Business School,
has enjoyed a notable career in the electronics
industry. For many years an executive with
Texas Instruments, he is now President and
C.E.O. of ALTEC, Inc., one of the world's
leading manufacturers of large-scale audio sys-
tems.
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