Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XXVIII, Organization and Management of Foreign Policy
190. Memorandum From the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Personnel (Laise) to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (Moose)1
SUBJECT
- Special EEO Recruitment Effort
As you requested, I have had a small working group prepare a description of how the Special Recruitment Effort would operate, including guidelines for the twelve or so recruiters we would put on the campuses for ten days from mid- to late April (Tab 1), and proposed itineraries (Tab 2). I have a list of those men and women, minorities and non-minorities, who would be best suited to the particular task at hand, and as soon as I have your approval for the recruitment plans, [Page 748] I will enlist them for the effort. We are prepared to move quickly, since the recruiters must start planning no later than April 11, and be en route by April 14 or 15.
The Special Recruitment Effort, with the necessary follow-on to it, highlights the importance of establishing a permanent recruitment officer position. Also, I am considering the feasibility of using Foreign Service Day (April 22) to enlist our retired employees in our recruitment plans, and this too would require careful coordination on a continuing basis by the Department.
SPECIAL RECRUITMENT EFFORT
Goals: The Special Recruitment Effort is one of the actions planned by the Affirmative Action Task Force to respond to the Administration’s commitment to bringing more women and minorities into Government, and to demonstrate the Department’s own commitment to increasing the numbers of women and minorities at the professional level in both the Foreign Service and the Civil Service. It is also a step toward establishing on a long term basis a recruitment network of people on campuses and in community affairs, who would be our talent scouts in the coming years. They would encourage bright young minorities and women to take an interest in the field of international affairs in general, and to consider the Department and the Foreign Service as an attractive and rewarding career option in particular. The network will have to be active and concerned in order to meet our over-all goal; a change in the racial and sex composition of the professional levels of the Department and the Foreign Service.
Description: Initial contact point for recruiters will be the career counseling office. Recruiters would be available for a group meeting with students and for a meeting with the career counselor if requested, but that would not be the primary purpose of the visit. Through the career counselor, recruiters would be directed to and would set up meetings with minority and women professors (“role models”), particularly those in the traditional Foreign Service disciplines (history, government, international relations and foreign affairs, economics, government, business and public administration, journalism and communication). They should meet when possible with deans of minority student affairs and deans of women affairs. They should seek the advice of those they approach as to other valuable contacts (for example with off-campus organizations such as the Urban League or on-campus organizations of minority or female students). Recruiters will have to display imagination and ingenuity in searching out the individuals who will be most useful to the recruitment effort. Former participants [Page 749] in the Scholar-Diplomat Program2 (recruiters will have their names) could be of important assistance not only because they might be enlisted in the recruitment effort but because they might be able to identify the best people on campus for our purposes.
Guidelines: This first effort will concentrate on recruitment for the Foreign Service of both FSOs and FSIOs. Recruiters will explain to the on-campus individual that this Special Recruitment Effort is not a one-time thing; it is the beginning of long-range and continuing efforts to attract talented minorities and women into the Department and the Foreign Service at the professional level. They will ask the on-campus individual to encourage bright and interested women and minority students to explore careers in international affairs and especially with the Foreign Service. Using the information in our recruitment literature, they will emphasize the challenge of the career, including the very first challenge; passing the examinations. The written examination for the Foreign Service is, admittedly, a difficult screen, but bright minorities and women with the proper preparation can pass it. Recruiters should mention the two affirmative action programs, and should be prepared to discuss both of them, but should emphasize entry through the written examination route. Our effort is to reach that pool of minority and female talent that could succeed in the written examination but who seem to be unaware of or disinterested in Foreign Service careers. Recruiters should stress that we are not looking for sheer numbers but are interested in quality. Recruiters should also assure the on-campus people that the Department will be in continuing touch with them for guidance and exchanges of information.
Follow-on: All recruiters will be responsible for preparing a written report with an evaluation of each campus and comments on the individuals they have recruited. Their reports should include recommendations for future courses of action. A representative of the group should be responsible for preparing a general evaluation with recommendations for the Task Force, and should be prepared to meet with the Task Force.
[Page 750]Tab 1
Paper Prepared in the Bureau of Personnel3
Background on Selection of Target Campuses
1. The campuses selected for twelve recruitment trips of about ten days duration are either large state universities with high proportions of minority and female students, or selected minority or women’s colleges. Factored into the selection was interest in and success on the written examination (as evidenced by the number who took and passed last December’s examination).
2. Recruiters are not required to visit each campus; of those listed, further inquiry may cause elimination of a few for reasons of timing or interest.
3. Four of the areas to be covered (trips 5, 8, 11 and 12) are large and contain too many campuses for one recruiter to cover in a ten-day trip. Recruiters covering these areas could extend their trips to two weeks, or alternatively, the trips could be divided between two recruiters (and we would simply send out four more).
4. Each list includes also the names of recent participants in the scholar-diplomat program, and the names of FSOs currently in residence.
Tab 2
Paper Prepared in the Bureau of Personnel4
TRIP #1
OHIO
Suggested Schools
1. Miami University (Oxford)
2. Ohio State (Columbus)
3. Ohio University (Athens)
4. University of Cincinnati
5. University of Dayton
6. Wright State University (Dayton)
7. University of Toledo
8. Wilberforce University
9. Oberlin (good source of exam takers)
| Antioch College | —William J. Parenti |
| Bowling Green State University | —Robert W. Flansen |
| College of Mt. Saint Joseph | —Eloise Gompf |
| Marietta College | —Michele M. H. Willard |
| Miami University | —Lars G. Schowltz |
| Mount Union College | —George A. Tone |
| Ohio State University | —David M. Lampton |
| Ohio University | —John L. Gaddis |
| Ohio Wesleyan | —Corinne Lyman |
| University of Akron | —Grace L. Powell |
| University of Cincinnati | —Roger Selya |
| University of Dayton | —Tong-Chin Rhee |
| University of Toledo | —George P. Jan |
| Wilmington College | —Donald R. Liggett |
| Wright State University | —Byron S. J. Wing |
| Youngstown State University | —David J. Reith |
| Capital University | —Howard A. Wilson |
TRIP #2
PENNSYLVANIA5
Suggested Schools *Diplomat-in-Residence
1. University of Pittsburgh (25 students passed exam)
2. Penn State
3. Carnigie–Mellon (Pittsburgh)
4. Drexel University (Phila) (4 students passed exam)
5. Duquesne (Pitt) (15% passed exam)
6. Indiana University (50 exam takers)
7. Lehigh University (6 passers)
8. Shippensburg State
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. Villanova
11. West Chester State—Lincoln University—Cheyney State
*12. Allegheny College (Meadville)
| Bloomsburg State College | —James M. Afshar |
| Bucknell University | —John A. Peeler |
| Chatham College | —Jo Louise Husbands |
| Dickinson College | —Donald W. Flaherty |
| Drexel University | —Charles J. Mode |
| Duquesne University | —Robert S. Barker |
| Edinboro State College | —Julius M. Blum |
| Elizabethtown College | —Wayne A. Selcher |
| Gettysburg College | —Donald G. Tannenbaum |
| Haverford College | —Wyatt MacGaffey |
| Kings College | —Richard M. Fulton |
| LaFayette College | —Michael H. Glantz |
| La Verne College | —John Lun Jang |
| Lock Haven State College | —Michael W. Peplow |
| Penn State Univ.—DelawareCounty Campus | —Martin W. Sharp |
| Penn State U.—University Park | —C. Gregory Knight |
| Robert A. Simko | |
| Slippery Rock State College | —Larry R. Cobb |
| Swarthmore College | —Kenneth G. Lieberthal |
| Temple University | —Lloyd Jensen |
| University of Penna | —Trond Gilberg |
| University of Pittsburgh | —Dorothy J. Solinger |
| University of Scranton | —Francis S. J. Homer |
| Villanova University | —Joseph E. Thompson |
| Widener College | —Martin E. Goldstein |
| Lehigh University | —Nicholas W. Balabkins |
| Franklin & Marshall | —Robert C. Gray |
| *Allegheny College | —Grant Mouser |
TRIP #3
COLORADO—ARIZONA
Suggested Schools *Diplomat-in-Residence
COLORADO
1. Colorado College
*2. Colorado State (Ft. Collins)
3. Colorado Women’s College (Denver) (7 took, 1 passed)
4. Southern Colorado State College (Pueblo)
5. University of Colorado (Boulder) (Colorado Springs) (Denver)
6. University of Denver
7. University of Northern Colorado
ARIZONA
1. Arizona State (Tempe)
2. University of Arizona (Tucson)
| Colorado College | —Walter E. Hecox |
| Colorado State University | —Mark T. Gilderhus |
| University of Denver | —Robert Stalcup |
| Arizona State University | —Lewis A. Tambs |
| University of Arizona | —Thomas J. Volgy |
| *Colorado State College | —William Eagleton |
TRIP #4
MICHIGAN
Suggested Schools
1. Central Michigan University
2. Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti)
[Page 754]3. Michigan State (East Lansing)
4. University of Detroit
5. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
6. Wayne State
7. Western Michigan (Kalamazoo)
| Adrian College | —Erwina E. Godfrey |
| Albion College | —Judith Elkin |
| Eastern Michigan University | —Karen E. Lindenberg |
| Grand Valley State College | —Donald Herman |
| Michigan State University (East Lansing) | —William P. O’Hare |
| Northern Michigan University | —Barry L. Knight |
| Oakland State University | —Lawrence T. Farley |
| University of Detroit | —Hung-Chao Tai |
| University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) | —Clement M. Henry |
| University of Michigan (Dearborn) | —Dennis R. Papazian |
| Wayne State University | —Craig N. Andrews |
| Western Michigan University | —Ernest E. Rossi |
| Mercy College of Detroit | —Robert E. Johnson |
TRIP #5
OKLAHOMA—NEW MEXICO—TEXAS
Suggested Schools
OKLAHOMA
1. Central State (Edmond)
2. Cameron University (Lawton)
3. University of Oklahoma (Norman)
4. University of Tulsa
5. Southeastern State College
NEW MEXICO
1. New Mexico State University (Las Cruces)
2. New Mexico Highlands (Las Vegas)
3. University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
TEXAS
1. Texas State (Commerce)
2. Lamar University (Beaumont)
[Page 755]3. Rice (Houston)
4. Prairie View A & M
5. Texas A & M University
6. University of Houston
7. University of Texas (Austin)
| OKLAHOMA | |
| Central State University | —Jack J. Reid |
| Oklahoma State University | —William E. Segall |
| University of Oklahoma (Norman) | —Sidney D. Brown |
| *Northeastern State College | —Harpal S. Gill |
| NEW MEXICO | |
| University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) | —James Lee Ray |
| TEXAS | |
| Angelo State University | —E. James Holland |
| Bishop College | —Manuel S. Aldana |
| Southern Methodist University | —James Brown |
| Southwest Texas State University | —Arnold Leder |
| Texas A & M University | —Betty M. Unterberger |
| Texas Southern University | —Cynthia N. S. Perry |
| Trinity University | —Lawrence L. Espey |
| University of Houston | —Jeffrey Adelman |
| University of Texas (Austin) | —Charles T. McDowell |
| University of Texas (Dallas) | —Brantly H. Womack |
| University of Texas (El Paso) | —Richard Bath |
| East Texas State University | —Keith D. McFarland |
TRIP #6
CALIFORNIA—LOS ANGELES—SAN DIEGO
Suggested Schools *Diplomat-in-Residence
1. University of California (Los Angeles) (Irvine) (Riverside) (San Diego)
2. University of Southern California (Los Angeles) (Long Beach)
*3. Occidental
4. Claremont Group Colleges
—Claremont Graduate School
Claremont Men’s College
Harvey Mudd College
Pomona College
Scripps College
[Page 756]5. University of San Diego
6. California State University (Los Angeles)
7. Pepperdine
8. U.S. International (San Diego)
| Cal. State College (Long Beach) | —Barry Steiner |
| Cal. State College (San Bernardino) | —Brij B. Khare |
| Cal. State University (Los Angeles) | —Norman M. Gosenfeld |
| Cal. State University (Northridge) | —Christopher A. Lev |
| Cal. State College (Stanislaus) | —Steven Hughes |
| Cal. State Polytechnic College (San Guidlupo [Luis Obispo]) | —Carroll R. McKibbin |
| Cal. State University (Hayward) | —Charles W. Merrifield |
| Claremont Men’s College | —Richard S. Wheeler |
| Long Beach City College | —Robert G. Orr |
| Loyola University Law School (Los Angeles) | —Malvina H. Guggenheim |
| Pomona College (Claremont) | —Steven S. Koblik |
| San Bernardino Valley College | —Austin G. Van Hove |
| Univ. of Cal. (Davis) | —Robert J. Lieber |
| Univ. of Cal. (Irvine) | —Caesar D. Sereseres |
| Univ. of Cal. (Los Angeles) | —Susan K. Purcell |
| Univ. of Cal. (Riverside) | —Morton Schwartz |
| Univ. of Cal. (San Diego) | —Marc J. Swartz |
| Univ. of Cal. (Santa Barbara) | —G. Wesley Johnson |
| Univ. of So. Cal. (Los Angeles) | —Richard L. Merritt |
| *Occidental | —Jean Wilkowski |
TRIP #7
FLORIDA—PUERTO RICO
Suggested Schools
FLORIDA
1. University of Florida (Gainesville)
2. University of Miami
3. Florida State University (Tallahassee)
4. University of South Florida (Tampa)
PUERTO RICO
1. Inter-American University (San German)
2. University of Puerto Rico (Manaquez) (Rio Piedras)
3. World University
[Page 757]| FLORIDA | |
| Florida State University (Tallahassee) | —Robert C. Harris |
| Florida Tech. University | —Douglas C. Smyth |
| Univ. of Florida (Gainesville) | —Terrence L. McCoy |
| Univ. of Miami | —Rafael C. Benitez |
| Univ. of South Florida | —Susan Stoudinger |
| Univ. of West Florida | —David S. Myers |
| Jacksonville University | —John A. Sullivan |
| Rollins College | —Dwight L. Ling |
| PUERTO RICO | |
| Catholic University of Puerto Rico | —John de Passalacqua |
| University of Puerto Rico | —Pedro F. Silva-Ruiz |
TRIP #8
GEORGIA—LOUISIANA
Suggested Schools
GEORGIA
1. Atlanta University: Morris Brown
Morehouse
Spelman
Clarke
2. Georgia State (Atlanta)
3. University of Georgia (Athens)
4. Wesleyan (Women) (Macon)
LOUISIANA
1. Dillard (New Orleans)
2. Loyola (New Orleans)
3. Southern (New Orleans)
4. Tulane (New Orleans)
5. Xavier (New Orleans)
| GEORGIA | |
| Clark College | —Susan G. Hadden |
| Columbus College | —Nam Yearl Chai |
| University of Georgia | —Don R. Hoy |
| Valdosta State College | —Dale H. Peeples |
| Emory University (Atlanta) | —Rondo Cameron |
| Georgia State University | —Robert E. Johnston |
| Georgia Southern College | —G. Lane Van Tassell |
| Oglethorpe University | —Robert B. DeJanes, Jr. |
| Shaw Decatur High School | —Harvey G. Soff |
| West Georgia College | —Betty Jane Sherman Youngblood |
| LOUISIANA | |
| Louisiana State University | —Norman W. Provizer |
| Tulane University | —James D. Cochrane |
TRIP #9
WASHINGTON-OREGON
Suggested Schools
WASHINGTON
1. Seattle University
2. University of Washington (Seattle)
3. Washington State (Pullman)
4. Western Washington State College (Billingham)
5. Eastern Washington State College (Cheney)
[Page 759]OREGON
1. Lewis & Clark (Portland)
2. Oregon State University (Corvallis)
3. Portland State University
4. University of Oregon (Eugene)
| WASHINGTON | |
| East Washington State College | —Ernest W. Gohlert |
| Seattle University | —Thomas J. Freebon |
| University of Washington (Seattle) | —Robert C. Williams |
| Washington State (Pullman) | —Patrick M. Morgan |
| Western Washington State College | —Ellis S. Krauss |
| Whitworth College (Spokane) | —Dan C. Sanford |
| OREGON | |
| George Fox College (Newburg) | —Berton L. Lamb |
| University of Oregon (Eugene) | —Jon L. Jacobsen |
| University of Portland | —Earl L. Sullivan |
TRIP #10
WISCONSIN
Suggested Schools
1. Marquette University (Milwaukee)
2. University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point)
(Madison)
(Milwaukee)
(Whitewater)
(Oshkosh)
3. Carroll College (Waukesha)
4. Mount Mary College (Milwaukee)
5. Ripon College (Ripon)
| Beloit College | —Nelson Van Valen |
| Lawrence University (Appleton) | —Minoo D. Adenwalla |
| Marquette University | —Glenn N. Schram |
| University of Wisconsin | |
| (Eau Claire) | —Carl Haywood |
| (La Crosse) | —Bruce Lee Mouser |
| (Madison) | —Robert E. Frykenburg |
| (Milwaukee) | —Ricardo R. Fernandez |
| (Oshkosh) | —Kenneth J. Grieb |
| (Kenosha) | —Roger P. Hamburg |
| (Janesville) | —Barbara Williams |
| (Wausau) | —Angela S. Burger |
| (Whitewater) | —John B. Ray |
| Wisconsin State University | |
| (Plattville) | —C. Robert Frost |
TRIP #11
ILLINOIS
Suggested Schools *Diplomat-in-Residence
1. DePaul University (Chicago)
2. City College of Chicago
[Page 760]3. Eastern Illinois University (Charleston)
4. Illinois State University
5. Chicago State University
6. Northern Illinois University
7. Loyola of Chicago
8. Northwestern University (Evanston)
9. Roosevelt University (Chicago)
10. University of Illinois (Chicago Circle)
11. Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
*12. University of Illinois (Urbana)
| Augustana College (Rock Island) | —James B. Bukowski |
| Bradley University (Peoria) | —John R. Howard |
| Carthage College | —William C. Gunderson |
| DePaul | —Elizabeth Succari |
| Eastern Illinois University | —John R. Faust |
| Illinois State University (Normal) | —Hibbert R. Roberts |
| Loyola University of Chicago | —Sam Sarkesian |
| Northern Illinois University (DeKalb) | —Martin D. Dubin |
| Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) | —David E. Conrad |
| Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) | —Arthur L. Aikman |
| University of Chicago | —Fenton G. Campbell |
| *University of Illinois (Urbana) | —Nobel Melencamp |
TRIP #12
NEW JERSEY-NEW YORK
Suggested Schools *Diplomat-in-Residence
NEW JERSEY
1. Fairleigh Dickerson (Madison)
2. Glassboro State College
3. Rutgers (Camden)
(New Brunswick)
(Newark)
4. Princeton (Woodrow Wilson School)
5. Seton Hall (South Orange)
[Page 761]NEW YORK
1. CUNY (Brooklyn)
(Hunter)
(City College)
(Queens)
2. Columbia (Barnard)
(School of International Affairs)
(Graduate School of Business)
3. Fordham
4. New York University
5. Pace University
6. St. John’s University
7. Vassar
| NEW JERSEY | |
| Jersey City State College | —Clifford E. Landers |
| Kean College of New Jersey | —Gilbert N. Kahn |
| Latin American Institute (New Brunswick) | —John C. Pollock |
| New Jersey Department of Education | —Gary Gappert |
| Princeton | —Jane H. Kalicki |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah) | —Beverly B. Brown |
| Rutgers (New Brunswick) | —Barbara C. Lewis |
| Trenton State College | —Carol J. Ehlers |
| NEW YORK | |
| Adelphi University | —Jerome L. Shneidman |
| Auburn University | —Daniel J. Nelson |
| Barnard College | —Lynn E. Davis |
| Briarcliff College | —Selby H. Joffe |
| City College of New York | —Nathan Kravetz |
| Colgate University | —David Strauss |
| Columbia University | —Donald F. Wheeler |
| Cornell University | —Cynthia W. Frey |
| CUNY-Lehman College | —Stanley A. Renshon |
| Dowling College (Oakdale) | —Norman Holub |
| Fordham University | —Charles B. Keely |
| *Hamilton College | —Richard Bochm |
| Hartwick College | —John O. Lindell |
| Hofstra University | —William F. Levamstrosser |
| CUNY-Hunter College | —Gil C. Alroy |
| Ithaca College | —M. Raquibz Zaman |
| LeMoyne College | —John B. Boyd |
| Marist College | —William C. Olsen |
| North Port High School | —Constantine Louisidis |
| CUNY-Queens College | —Istvan Szent-Miklosy |
| Queensboro Community College | —Dr. Choong-Shick Hong |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | —Harold E. Brazil |
| CUNY-Richmond College | —Dr. James A. Fetzer |
| St. John’s University | —Charles F. Holmes |
| St. Lawrence University | —Robert N. Wells |
| Skidmore College | —Martha H. Good |
| SUNY (Fredonia) | —William Dirkraat |
| (Albany) | —Theodore P. Wright |
| (Binghamton) | —Sydney R. Waldron |
| (Brockport) | —Stephen H. Ullman |
| (Buffalo) | —Alma Lowell Dittmer |
| (Genesco) | —Jay L. Kaplan |
| (Oneonta) | —Paul G. Conway |
| (Oswego) | —Mab Huang |
| (Plattsburgh) | —Ronald D. Tallman |
| Syracuse University | —Kenneth D. Auberback |
| Union College (Schnectady) | —Paul M. Johnson |
| Utica College | —Elroy B. Thiel |
| Vassar College | —Michael E. Kraft |
| Wells College | —Dianne Marie Portelance |
| SO | |
| O–2 | Georgiana M. Prince, M/MO |
| O–2 | Richard T. Salazar, AF/EX |
| O–2 | Rudy V. Fimbres, D/HA |
| O–2 | Wever Gim, EA/RA |
| POL | |
| O–3 | James R. Cheek, NEA/RA |
| O–4 | David D. Passage, S/NOC |
| O–4 | Joseph Lake, EA/PHL |
| O–4 | Roger Harrison, PM/NOC |
| O–5 | William A. Kirby, INR/RNA |
| E/C | |
| O–3 | Stanley Harris, EB/OCA/CD |
| O–3 | Theresa A. Healy, DG/PC |
| O–3 | Henry A. Engelbrecht, EA/ROC |
| CONS | |
| *O–3 | Joan V. Smith, EUR/WE |
| *S–3 | Laurence Stanley, SCA/VO |
| O–5 | Judith Ann Schmidt, FCA/JO |
| ADMIN | |
| *O–3 | Edward J. Perkins, M/MO |
| O–4 | Nicholas Baskey, EUR/EX |
| O–4 | James D. Walsh, A/O |
| O–5 | Peggy Blackford, OPR/ST |
| O–5 | Judith I. Hughes, PA/PP |
| *O–5 | Eric Weaver, NEA/EX |
| *R–5 | Henry R. Grant, S/S-EX |
*minority officer
- Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of the Under Secretary for Management (M), 1977–1978, Box 1, Chron April 1977. No classification marking.↩
- The scholar-diplomat program allowed small groups of associate professors to spend a week at the Department of State observing first-hand the foreign policy process at work.↩
- No classification marking.↩
- No classification marking.↩
- On April 26, Stanley Harris sent a report to Moose about his recruiting trip to Pennsylvania. (National Archives, RG 59, Records of the Under Secretary for Management (M), 1977–1978, Box 3, Chron June 1977)↩