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What originally brought Hope Simon Miller to SAIS was seeing an ad in the New York Times that said that this new school was being formed with money from big business as well as government funds and as it sounded like a ...

Platt, Nicholas - Oral History Interview

Platt, Nicholas (2010-04-01)

What originally brought Amb. Platt to SAIS was Paul Nitze. His son was Platt’s classmate in college. Platt went to Paul Nitze for advice on how to get into the Foreign Service and was told to go straight into the Foreign ...

Ward, Robert - Oral History Interview

Ward, Robert (2010-10-01)

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Dukert, Joe - Oral History Interview

Dukert, Joe (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-1)

Joe Dukert B56, 93, Ph.D.05 is the oldest person to have ever earned a PhD at SAIS. Before matriculating to the M.A. program, he didnt have any interest in economics and actually told that to school administrators after ...

Poser, Klaus - Oral History Interview

Poser, Klaus (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-1)

Klaus Poser B56 met his wife, who was studying for her medical degree, through a SAIS classmate. (He would never have met her otherwise.) SAIS was key to his interest in an integrated Europe, which was a major policy issue ...

Bauarschi, Emma Bernardon - Oral History Interview

Bauarschi, Emma Bernardon (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-1)

Emma Bernardon B'56, '57 had the privilege of being the first female Foreign Service Officer (FSO) in Kampala, Uganda in East Africa. She has a newspaper clipping from the local paper, which wrote a story about her. She ...

McIntyre Parker, Mary Lee Lincoln - Oral History Interview

McIntyre Parker, Mary Lee Lincoln (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-1)

Mary Lee Lincoln McIntyre Parker, B56, 57 spent her career in public service working with the US Atomic Energy Commission (now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission), later moving to India and Pakistan with her foreign service ...

Post, Eva Haas Meigher - Oral History Interview

Post, Eva Haas Meigher (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-1)

Post-SAIS, Eva Haas Meigher B56, 57 earned a law degree from the University of California Law School at Berkeley (Boalt Hall). Moving back to Washington, DC she served as a lawyer in international matters working with the ...

Garfield-Schwartz, Gail - Oral History Interview

Garfield-Schwartz, Gail (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-1)

An economist by education and a public policy expert by vocation, Gail Garfield-Schwartz B56 received her Master of Urban Planning from New York University in 1960 and Ph.D. from Columbia University in development economics ...

Sobernheim, Elfi - Oral History Interview

Sobernheim, Elfi (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-13)

Elfi Sobernheim 45 came to the U.S. when she was 11 years old (moved from Germany to Binghamton, NY). She was admitted to both Fletcher and SAIS and came to SAIS because she wanted to live in Washington (big city, more ...

Whiteman, Greg - Oral History Interview

Whiteman, Greg (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-14)

Greg Whiteman 69 had always planned to be in the field of International Studies and appreciated the opportunity to attend SAIS. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth and majored in International Relations. ...

Dworken, Mort - Oral History Interview

Dworken, Mort (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-15)

Mort Dworken 68 (family name of Lithuanian origin ancestors came through Ellis Island and went to Cleveland, OH) recalls being in junior high school and being very interested in international affairs, something he thinks ...

Gall, Pirie - Oral History Interview

Gall, Pirie (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 2010-10-15)

Pirie Gall 69 was in the Peace Corps when he applied to SAIS and he was in the Peace Corps because he went to Stanfords overseas campus program (in Italy) during one of his summers there. As such, he had a strong language ...