Joan Crawford was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts,Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s,Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States,but her films began losing money. By the end of the 1930s,she was labeled "box office poison".
American Foreign Service Association (AFSA),established in 1924,is the professional association of the United States Foreign Service. With over 15,000 dues-paying members,American Foreign Service Association represents 28,000 active and retired Foreign Service employees of the Department of State and Agency for International Development (AID),as well as smaller groups in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS),Foreign Commercial Service (FCS),and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Richard Bordeaux Parker was an American diplomat,who was as a Foreign Service Officer,and an expert on the Middle East. Parker served as Ambassador to Algeria,Lebanon and Morocco.
Ronald Eldredge Neumann is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (2005–2007),Bahrain (2001–2004) and Algeria (1994–1997). He is the son of former ambassador Robert G. Neumann and traveled extensively after college in Afghanistan while his father was ambassador there. Both he and his father served in diplomatic posts in Afghanistan:only one other father-and-son pair,John Adams and his son,John Quincy Adams,did the same;both Adamses served as Ministers to Britain. He pronounces his last name Newmann and his name is sometimes seen spelled that way.
Robert Bigger Oakley was an American diplomat whose 34-year career (1957–1991) as a Foreign Service Officer included appointments as United States Ambassador to Zaire,Somalia,and Pakistan and,in the early 1990s,as a special envoy during the American involvement in Somalia.
Genta Hawkins Holmes is an American foreign service officer who served as ambassador to Namibia and Australia. In addition,she has served as a "Diplomat-in-Residence" at the University of California,Davis.
Lowell Bruce Laingen was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Malta from 1977 to 1979. Laingen is best known for having been the most senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis,while serving as the chargéd'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Lucie Edwards is a Canadian diplomat,who worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs,Trade and Development from 1976 to 2009,as the high commissioner to India,South Africa,Kenya and permanent representative to the United Nations Environmental program. She founded the Global Issues Bureau and served as assistant deputy minister for Corporate Services in Ottawa.
Thomas David Boyatt is a former diplomat and United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978–80) and Colombia (1980–83). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He was held captive for six days in a Palestinian hijacking in the 1960s. He graduated from Wyoming High School in 1951. He continues to return to his former high school to speak to students during the Wyoming School Foundation Day.
George Walter Landau was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Paraguay,Chile,and Venezuela.
Nicholas Alexander Veliotes is a former United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Jordan (1978–81) and Egypt (1984–86). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
William Lacy Swing was a diplomat and former United States Ambassador,and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Under Secretary General. He was the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration until António Vitorino's appointment in 2018.
Morton Isaac Abramowitz is an American diplomat and former U.S. State Department official. Starting his overseas career in Taipei,Taiwan after joining the foreign service,he served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and Turkey and as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. He retired from the State Department with the rank of Career Ambassador. He then became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and founded the International Crisis Group.
Ruth A. Davis is an American diplomat. Davis served as the 24th director general of the United States Foreign Service. She is the first woman of color to be appointed as Director General of the Foreign Service and the first African-American Director of the Foreign Service Institute. In 2002,she became a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a Career Ambassador. She was the Chief of Staff of the Africa Bureau of the U.S. Department of State.
Mary Margaret Clark (1925–2003) was an American medical anthropologist who is credited with founding the sub-discipline of medical anthropology.
Margaret Constance Simms is a 21st century American economist whose work focuses on the economic well being of African Americans.
James Malone Theodore Rentschler was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who was Ambassador to Malta. He succeeded Joan M. Clark who was named Director General of the Foreign Service.
Jean Mary Wilkowski was the first woman to serve as an American ambassador to an African country,when she was posted to Zambia from 1972 until 1976.
Margaret Joan Giannini was an American physician and a specialist in assistive technology and rehabilitation. She was the first director of the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
