Academic Life in Theory and in Practice
These pages cover the years from 1965 to the present and images and comments from Louis A. Picard on his experiences and observations on and in the academic business.
Growing Up and Moving on- Toward a University Life
1943-1965
Getting an Education
(These pages cover the years from 1965 to the present and include images and comments from Louis A. Picard on his experiences and observations on and in the academic business).
Early reading. I would have started reading by 1948. I don’t remember having read to me children’s books other than the old reliable Christmas books. I tended towards “adult” books fairly early I think.
My first three books were, I think in this order, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island. I believe all three were read to me by my father in the late 1940s. My father also gave me several Horatio Alger books which were important to him. He bought into the myths of exceptionalism and self-development though it did not always work for him. I suppose that I bought into exceptionalism as well.
Early book series also included Laura Lee Hope’s Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue, and the Bobbsey Twins series. Later focus was on Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys.
I never read Nancy Drew, but the series were less masculine than I would think normal for the late 1940s. Series with a more masculine flavor included Tom Swift, the Motor Boys, the Motor Cycle Boys, the Rover Boys and similar titles.
I would get hooked on a series and kept with it. The books were old since they were based on my father’s memory, and the fact that he browsed through used book-stores, usually during the day. Most of the books cost a quarter which was good since read very fast.
From there a fixation on science fiction lasted at least a decade of my teen years. I devoured these series. Looking back, I now think that these series stunted my ability to digest ideas and images. The familiarity of the series was a comfort.
All were first generation and most were published prior to World War I. Many reflected cultural and racial prejudices of the period, especially in terms of race. However, I remember understanding that Canuks or Frenchie was/were insulting without totally realizing that it was my own identity.
These pages cover the years from 1965 to the present and images and comments from Louis A. Picard on his experiences and observations on and in the academic business.
1943-1965
Getting an Education
Delta College (1961-1963).
The College of Letters was an experimental program developed at least in part the stealth within the community college that was created in 1961. . Only a few hundred students were admitted to it. Most admitted were well qualified for admission. The program was pan-disciplinary, open class room and for many who taught in it, Socratic in its method.
I entered the first class enrolled in the school in September and took courses there until August of 1963 when I transferred to the University of Michigan.
As an experimental school, the college recruited many academics who could and later did move to research universities. Others moved out of academia into other areas of achievement.
Among those who influenced me were:
Hugh Charles Hooks taught at Delta College from 1961 to 1968. He was a Poet, literary critic and most important a musician. We became life long friends.
Patricia Drury, Historian.
Pat Drury in Auburn Michigan. Pat was and remains a bright, thoughtful and a clear thinker. I was very impressed. We were still in contact in 201. She is now (2014) 84.
July 28, 1962- Mary Anne Gouin, a fellow student and axcuaintence writes an eloquent letter to the Peoples Forum of the Saginaw News defending the separation of Church and State in the U.S. That made an impression on me.
Robert B. Pettingill, Economist
Click here to see Charles perform on clarinet with the Jim Beebe Band.
1963-1965
The University of Michigan, August, 1963 though 1965
1965
Random thoughts of and on international images growing up:
- A Child’s Vision of Empires
- Lions and Tigers and Bears (Wizard of Oz).
- An Essay written on Empire in high school.
- The image of the open window from Ray Bradbury
- Rider Haggard and Baden Powell
- Circus Images, and the Side show. The exotic and the racism
- Lost on an Island. “The Tribe that Lost Its Head” by Nicholas Monsarrat.
My memories of Ann Arbor have dimmed over the years. I’ve forgotten the dark cold days and nights in the trailer park in Saline but remember the images of early summer on campus, bright sunny weather, small airplanes flying over head (the sound still takes me back there). Reading the trendy New York Herald Tribune.
There were a number of academics at UM who had an impact on me Most represented the 1950s liberalism, pluralistic and moderate progressive thinking of the post-war world.
These included:
James K. Pollock- German History, Constitutional Law and Government. Pollack had helped to write the West German Constitution after World War II. In the late 1950s, he was a principal advisor to the writing of the Michigan state constitution. His politics were conservative and he was a supporter of the Republican Party, at the time sometimes referred to as the Eisenhower GOP.
Lionel H. Laing- British and European Politics
B. Perkins
Karl H.. Reichenbach- World War I and Inter-war European History
William Zimmerman- Soviet and Eastern European History
Bradford Perkins- British and American History
J. Higham
Francis L. Loewenheim- 20thcentury European History. Rice University. Taught at University of Michigan the Summer of 1965
Friends in Ann Arbor included Terry Roth and his wife, Marge
Frank Birmingham (A’67, PhD’72, was assistant Professor of philosophy at New England College, Hennicker New Hampshire in 1976).
Not Ready to Go Home: Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1969-May 1970
Completed a year of Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin. Decided not to stay. Declined a Ford Fellowship in order to return to Denmark.
Summer of 1974.
In 1974, John Armstrong told his students that within a few years the Ukraine and the other republics would separate from the Soviet Union. His students in private just laughed and laughed at the absurdity of it.
Lene spends the summer at Browndale Camp at Roberts Lake, Campbell River, on Vancouver Island in Canada. I spend the summer in Madison, studying for comprehensive exams.
The Browndale work (L). The camp at Roberts Lake on Campbell River, Vancouver Island. B.C. Canada. Getting lost over night.
Marilyn Baron (“John’s Friends and Marilyn’s Mother).
June 21- John’s Party. On the island.
University of Nebraska, 1976-1977 and 1978-1997
An Old Book.
1977
May 10. Meeting with officials at DANIDA, Copenhagen
May 29. Meeting with J.A. Douglas, last Administrative Secretary of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
August 16, M. G. Fairlie, District Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate Service
1978
Phelps Stokes and TransCentury. Teachers’ College and Marie Gadsden.
Buying Take Out food in South Africa. Mafeking and Pretoria. Cabinet ministers in Botswana cannot get served food inside a restaurant in South Africa.
1980
Contacts-
-John Andrews, Director, Constrution Industry Unit, University College London.
-Dr J Eastin, Agronomy Deparment Chairman Tech. Division.
-Geof Heinrick. Agronomy Department, –Dr Earl Long, Plant Schience.
-Mr. and Mrs. L. F Hoffman, Saginaw Michigan.
-Jeanette’s Folks.
-Ontumetse. MLGL
-E.D. Roper. Ministry of Local Government and Housing. Salisbury
Zimbabwe
-Doug Jones and David Smith (Transcentury)
-Dr. Elliot Zwangobane, Undersecretary, Public Service Commission Permanent Secretary and Mr. Chideya, Undersecretary
-Mrs. Cheneux, Zimbabwe Red Cross
-Doug Klein and Paul Tuebner, USAID
-Thabo Chipane- Johannesburg
-Klaus Endresen, (Norwegian Peace Corps)
Assignment as OEPEX (USAID). With the Institute of Development Management and Ministry of Local Government and Lands.
July 8 Chris Sharp at MLGL
July 10. Meetings at SIDA, MLGL and Brian Egner.
July 11 Emery Roe, New Agric Building, Near Station. Consultant on Water Points Survey.
July 28 Ms. Pansey Flemming, Canadian expert. Set up records system for ULGS.
Meet with USAID.
July 29 Brian Egner and Pansey Flemming
July 30. Mr. Bo-Dan Bergman, SIDA
August 6. Jon Gant. USAID. Discuss General Needs Survey, Ministry of Local Government and Lands
August 1978. Beginning of Senior Administration Course.
August 28. Met with P. Flemming and Establishment Secretary.
September 16. Prof. John Bruce, University of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center.
Dr. Erfried Adam. Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Advisory Committee on Local Government.
- Letsedidi, Department Director. ULGS
September 22 Wendy Spray, (Peace Corps Volunteer), Chris Sharp and P. Flemming. MLGL
September 23 Fleetwood- Bird. Meeting with Frank Boakgomo.
September 24 Frank Boagkomo
September 26 Peggy Flemming
October 14 Mark Marquardt and Fred Schindler
October 20 Bathusi Dintwe MLGL
October 21 Tom Ttlou
October 22. Mokobi. BIAC and Gary Clark, USAID
November 10- Ramotswa Council Chambers. Asst. C.S., Clement Moguto
November 14 Don Laijt, District Officer Lands Southeast District
B.N. Seitshiro, District Commissioner Gaborone District and B.N Seitshiro, Land Board, Finance Officer C.K. Maganu District Officer
1983
University of Pittsburgh, September 1987 to Present
With Wes Posvar, 1989
October, 1993.
Washington D.C. Reception, 2008.
A Book of Interest, c. 1995.
Another book of interest, 1996.
Ghana, 2005
G20 Summit on Development and Foreign Aid, Pittsburgh, October 2009.
Purposeful Penny Event, September 18, 2010.
“Haitian Aid”
Samara, Russia 2011
Like a fish out of water.
But the food and drink are good.
On a visit to see a model facility.. A bit of the USSR.
African Studies Conference, March 29, 2012.
With Raymond Geselbracht, Harry S. Truman Library. Truman Symposium on Foreign Aid, May 19, 2012.
October 21 Tom Ttlou
October 22. Mokobi. BIAC and Gary Clark, USAID
November 10- Ramotswa Council Chambers. Asst. C.S., Clement Moguto
November 14 Don Laijt, District Officer Lands Southeast District
B.N. Seitshiro, District Commissioner Gaborone District and B.N Seitshiro, Land Board, Finance Officer C.K. Maganu District Officer
1982
Katherine M. Picard appointed to the St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation Board. Newspaper article from diary given by Mary M. Sarle, October 14, 1982
Trip to Tanzania. Dar es Salaam. Interviews at the Institute
of Finance Management, Dar es Salaam. Still had courses on political education. Visit to Mzumbe and the Institute of Development Management (IDM). Origins- strong links to the ruling party structures. Interviewed Paul Sommerfeld. Canadian CIDA.
1984
The End of Apartheid in South Africa. Thinking about the homelands.
Ideology as religion.
Zeerust vs. Mafeking. The Imperial Reserve.
Lesotho vs. Transkei vs. Swaziland.
1986
Contacts: Dr. Hwang and Paulina McCullough
January 12- Contact Lee Roberts, WB and Ben Crosby at MSI
January 16- David Linj
January 18- George Githau
January 22- Meet with Mr. Kilian at the South African Embassy and with Ben Crosby. Washington D.C.
January 24- Return to Pittsburgh
January 29- Gina-Bell Nchaimi
February 16-19- Chicago
February 19- Marietou Overview
February 25 TUAN meeting
February 26- Carolyn Tibbets and Brenda
March 25- Reuben Barrios, Overview Defense
March 29- Burkhardt Holzner
June 11- Doug Passanassi
June 13- Phillip and Wolfgang to discuss the Private Sector in South Africa
June 24- Back in South Africa. Ms. DuPreez
June 28- Dick Fehnel
July 11- Ayesha Mohammed, meet at Airport for Breakfast. Holiday Inn
July 18-21 Botswana
July 23- Lynne Brooks, Exclusive Books. SAMDI, Godfrey Mokate
July 24- Oscar Montero, Interview, NAIL. Read Graham Gotz Paper. Meet with Richard Huphries. Kuben Naidoo- FFC
July 25- Leave for Pietersburg
July 30. Petal Thring, Project Management, Mark Hambui, re Northern Province, Marilyn Richards
August 1- Lecture, UNISA. Kuben Naido, FFC
August 2- Lecture, Africa Institute
August 5- Itumaleng Mokate, SAMDI
August 10-12 Brussels Back to U.S. I notice the difference in the level of activity between the routines of the University of Pittsburgh and working overseas on research, outreach and consulting. Two different worlds.
September 11- Gabriele Sturzenhofecker
September 17. Joe Eaton. New Dean likely to be Carolyn Ban
September 28. Blair Rouble.
October 4- Chihiro Imin.
October 8- Jessi Guberman
October 9- Alumni Society Meeting- J. W. Marriott Hotel Washington Place
October 10- Susan Musich, Peace Corps and Jeanne North, USAID and Barbara Kearny.
October 11-12. PAS Board Meeting. PIET Two Year Arrangement.
October 23. Reviews of Harvey White and Laura Hastings.
November 7- Salim Latib and John Greeno
November 11- Dorothy Bassett
November 13- Carl Dawson
November 14-16 Mexico City
November 19- Roger Thomas Deposition. Immigration Court
November 20- Bob Norman. Call Ladipo A. and Jinny Bartley at PAS
November 26- Bev Peters and Francois D.
December 3- Stan Kabala; Jose Mendes; Burkhardt Holzner
December 4- Sylvia Borzutzky. Jennifer E.
December 5- Gleama Burke, Wolfgang.
December 6- Call Oscar M.
December 14- Carolyn and Jim Leach
December 30- Depart for Nicaragua
1987
January 28-30, 1987
Visit to Zimbabwe. Met with M. Shulman, and Vice-Chancelor Kamba of the University of Zimbabwe and with J. Gupara, ZIPAM and with Tony Krasner and again with Marty Schulman.
Worked with George Guess at DAI.
February 9, 1987
Swaziland. Visited SIMPA and IDM. Met with Scott Reed of CIDA and Peter Capozza USAID.
September, 1987. Joe Eaton key to new job at University of Pittsburgh. Works with Saul Katz.
Contact with Tony and Joan Robertson.
South Africa. Mantec-Human Resources
Gita Gopal, World Bank
David Billings
Frank Meehan. Possible administrator of GSPIA.
Contact with Ladipo A.
Possible Link: Guy Mullin, Coordinator of advocacy group. Rue Mariano, Kulima Machado 56 Bairro. Asst. with regard to religious NGOs.
January, 1988
Nitin Madhav. Resident in Pittsburgh. Student at GSPIA/Pitt.
1987 and beyond
Shoe Horns and Money in Eastern and Central Africa (and The Horn)
Working with International Organizations.
South Africans as Expats. (Senegal, Liberia, Cape Town and Mozambique)
Culturally Assimilated. Goans, Coastals, Coloureds, Arab-Africans)
1990-1994
1991.
“Have a Good Year.” Kay Picard. (74 years old).
January 8. Meet Dave Bobrow and Martin Staniland.
January 10. Cedric Salze and Susan Novaks.
January 11. David Plank.
January 15. Shahid and Esther Kedi.
January 25-29. Michigan. There are issues related to my mothers balance and processing of information.
February 28. Kalahari Sands Hotel. Lunch with Carlos Almada, Franciska Sake, IIAS. Windhoek, Namibia
February 1. Copenhagen. IIAS meetings. Malcom Wallis. Reference: Bureaucracy: Third World Development (London: Macmillan, 19890. P. 228
Flight to Brussels.
March 4. The Hague. Holland. Institute of Social Studies. Vasant. ISS. Talk on South Africa.
March 5. Leave for Maastricht. Joan Corkery. Talk on South Africa.
March 7. Leave for Leeorden.
March 10. Return to Pittsburgh.
March 23. Washington D.C.- Taskforce on the Review of the Public Service. DM Network.
March 24. Meet with Phil Morgan and Steve Morrison.
March 25. Lunch with Paula Bilinsky. GSPIA reception.
March 26. Meeting of research group ACIPA led by John MacGruder. Also Jeanne North.
March 27. Charlene Smith and Jackie at NASPAA. Meet with Pat Isman- South Africa Project and Marilyn Richards of TransCentury. Michael Schatzberg, SAIS. Charlene.
March 29. Memo to Riall Nolan with regard to Policy Change project; to Jeanne North re. Pitt. Involvement in Policy Change Project and Jim Perry re. Bechuanaland Paper.
April 2. Possible Working Group on Policy Change.
April 9. Notes on Financial Entitlement in LDCs- One starts with interim support for a two-year period with a higher rate of interest. It is automatic based on pre-defined considerations. Basic principles: need to be kind but can’t distort the truth; don’t try to be gentle. Emotional swing- everything to nothing
April 10 Work with a Counselor. $1200.00 a month plus minors. 20%.
April 11. No fault is consented in 90 days. Not consented, negotiations required over economic reasons, physical separation. Two year trial period. Separation is a first step. There is no such thing as a legal separation; you are just living apart. The day and date of the separation is important. There are certain rights and obligations that exist: 1. Equitable distribution, 2; Alimony- the nature of the requirement and how long. What factors come into play? How much is there? How can one re-accommodate afterwards? Interim financial matters are important. General Advice- separation and the financial implications need to be addressed before divorce action.
April 13. Note Prof. of African Literature Njabula Ndebele. Rector of the University of the North. Later Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town. Head of the Congress of South African Writers. He has been a key figure in South African Higher Education.
April 14. Department of Planning- University of Witwatersrand- Alan Maybin Spatial and Regional Planning. Also contact Grahamstown, Rural Local Government and Western Cape for local government finance. Need to talk to the ANC about CAAA.
April 15- Discussions on Wits Program in Public Policy and Development Administration. Breakfast- Roland Hunter, Mark Swilling, Patrick Fitzgerald and Thozomila Botha, Coordinator. Local Government Policy Project, Njabula Ndebele, following after the Thornhill Report. Issue: re. CPA- Bulk Services for Metro areas. CPS- Representative sysrtems. PPDA- Administrative systems and training. Concern: Affirmative Action. To be added to discussion: Lee Roberts,, EDI World Bank, Beth Shield, Women in Development, USAID, EDI- WB. CIDA and John Montgomery Harvard.
April 16- Gideon Erasmus (Kallie), Development Administration, UNISA; Graduate Business School- Patrick and Enos Ngutshane. Also John Creamer, Africa Institute and Dirk Kotze, UNISA. Other contacts: Michael Sutcliffe, Graham Block, David Evans, Goodman Kunene, Swaziland.
April 18- Lunch with Mark Swilling of PlanAct. Briefing, ideas and the idea of a Manuel on Urban Development, a workshop document.
April 19- Fannie Cloete
April 22- PlanAct- a detailed discussion of local government models. And a critiques of Thornhill and alternatives.
April 23- Breakfast with Nick Binidill and discussion PPDA and seminar on future. Meeting with Nick Binidell and One City Team, with PlanAct staff.
April 25. Discussion of PlanAct Policy Document. There is a Group of Researchers at the Center for Policy Studies that focuses on national local government policy research project for the ANC. Meeting with C. Ramphasa.
April 26. David Evans USAID and PPDA.
April 28. Iris Young and Lochs Rhodes, LBJ School. Ethics Debates
May 17- Botswana
May 20- Return to Johananesburg
July 18- Contact for affiliation: PPDA, Africa Institute, Unisa- Bernardos.
July 19- Local Government models file, Affirmative Action file, Botswana paper- Hannes, Tolucca Schedule, SA Embassy, TELP, interview notes.
July 20- Jeanne North- S&T/RD/IDM
July 31- Focus on ANC people and PPDA- USAID proposal. Note: Peter Crankov, PlanAct. Dirk Kotze. Staying at Rosebank Hotel.
August 6- Ahmed Kathrada
August 7- Barney Disai PAC; PPDA meeting with Nick and Patrick. PlanAct- work on the one city project. Rosebank Hotel- Democratic Party Report back.
August 8- Seths Cooper- BP now with IMD; Carl Niehaus, ANC
August 9- Call Musa Myeni, IFP; Meet with Harvard at Business School. HIID.
August 10- Joe Madibane, Development Bank of South Africa.
August 11- Call Jerri Eddings, Baltimore Sun, Musi Myeni, IFP. Aswi Dev. Completed PPDA paper.
August 12- Botswana
August 13- Meet with Musa Myeni, IFP
August 14- CPS- Mr. Fan Den Berge, Secretaria for Economic Commission for Southern Africa.
August 14. Meeting at Metropolitan Chamber, Johannesburg. Leave for Botswana.
August 18. Return to Pretoria; Kellogg Fellows arrive. Note: impatient only wanted to meet senior officials in the ANC
August 19. Dr. Zach de Beer, Chair Democratic Party; K. Shubane, CPS; Chris Heymans, South African Development Bank.
August 20. UNISA and Springs,
August 21. Chris Maretz, Constitutional Development and Johan Heyns, NG Church.
August 22. Father Smangaliso Mkatshwa and Koos van der Merve (National Party and Inkatha Freedom Party Chief Whip
August 24. Roelf Meyer. MP. National Party Deputy Ministry of Constitutional Development; Samuel Motsuenyani, NAFCOC; Bobby Godsell, Anglo-American Corporation. Call Victor Barnes, USAID
October 2. John McGruder, NASPAA and Sam Shoen.
October 3. Ben Crosby and Derick Brinkerhoff, with Jeanne North
October 4. World Bank.
December 31. Joe and Lynn Cisky, Saginaw, Chippewa School. Alwie Amrais Foreing, Department of Foreign Affairs, South Africa.
1992
January 4. Norm Nicholson
May 18. PlanAct Richard Tomlinson. Yeoville.
May 20. Nick Binedell and Hannes Mentz
May 26. Botes and Andrews
May 27. Dick Fehnel
June 1. Center for Policy Studies.
June 2. T. Viljoen, SAIPA
June 3 Annias Reynolds and Hannes and Wilma Mentz. Contact Fannie Cloete and Ahmed Kathrada. Kathrada has strong roots in the Johannesburg community.
June 4. Van Zel Slabbert Presentation.
June 5. Patrick Fitzgerald
June 8. Africa Institute, Pretoria and Gary Perg, USIS
June 9.Lunch with Sir Kenneth Stone
June 11. UNISA
June 12 Fanie Cloete
June 14. Bob Beauregard and Fanie Cloete.
June 15 Ellen Dorsey and Seyed Bayat
June 21. Al Zuck. Three day conference.
June 29. Ahmed Kathrada and David Solomon
July 1. NAFCOC.
July 2-6. Botswana.
July 6 Kathrada. Kholvad House, 27 Market st. and West Bekker, 3rdFloor.
July 8. CODESA
July 9. Leave for Vienna.
July 30. Pittsburgh. Guy Peters.
August 1. Robert Capristo.
August 17. Notes on the Commission for Administration. Can- Recruitment, Promotion, Discipline, Transfer. Cannot- have six services, introduce position classification and grading. One idea- have a separate Civil Service Training Center. Need to document the impact of regionalism on civil service procedures. Regional Government will not do its own training.
September 10-11. Public Administration Service. Washington D.C.
September 14. Proposal to Wits: Copyright work. Need a Journal Survey; New Executive courses; public policy work in South Africa.
October 1-December 1 UNDP Consultant Certificate. Consultant in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
December 14. University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Franklin James.
1993
April 12-May 10. UN Certificate. Consultant with UNDP in Eritrea and Ethiopea.
Back in South Africa.
June 18. Met with Patrick Fitzgerald and John Gerhardt on foundation of the the Wits School of Public and Development Management. Braamfontain Center, Jorrison Str. And Jan Smuts Ave. 5thFloor. Project: Tertiary Education Project Support, Ford Foundation activity.
June 22. Dave Evans, USAID. No interest in capacity building through Universities.
June 25. Met with Chris Thornhill.
June 29. Dr. Steyn, Transvaal Provincial Authority Building, in Pretoria
Back at University of Pittsburgh:
June 30. Met with Enos Ngutshane with regart to Education, Training, and Transition issues. Formation of SAFPUM. South African Foundation for Public Management and Development.
July 9. Met with Athumani Livega.
July 11. Thomas Mogale, Defense. Met with Livega.
July 15. Master’s defense. Victor Amran. (with Paulina McCullough).
September 27. Met with Sibusiso Nkomo
November 1. Trafalgar Courts and Ms. F.A. Dreyfus and Enos N.
November 2 Pema Lakha Associates
November 3 Steve Brent, USAID a
November 4. USAID Legislative Relations and Gretchen Siena-Zorota and Steve Brent
November 8.
Visited Imefudnu Rural Development Foundaton
November 9. Met with Tony Vileon. Human Sciences Research Council.
November 10. Met with Glen Truman GCP Trust and with Imefundu Rural Development Foundation.
November 11. University of South Africa with Hannes Mentz and Dirk Kotze.
November 16-17. Pietersburg, Northern Province.
Al Johnson, Bramfontain Centre.
November 25. SAFPUM Staff Meeting.
November 29. Mr. Pema Lakha, Patrick FitzGerald. TADD. Beverly Lukas, David Burger, Kenneth Klohen.
December 28. Consultative Business Council.
December 30. Discussions with Pat Isman, Rudi Klaus, and Bettye Harrison-Burns.
1994
January 1. Worked at SAFPUM with Rukudzo Murapa. Thoughts on training and worked with UNDP and World Bank on reconstruction projects in Eritria and Ethiopia.
Italics= M.
January 17. Leave for South Africa.
January 21. Ford Foundation Launch
January 23. Dinner with Heinz
January 24. Harvard’s Peter Zimmerman talk at P&DM
January 27. Marilyn Richards. Resumes to PACT
January 28. Leave for Mmabatho
January 29. Botswana
January 31- February 1. Mmabatho.
February 2. Johannesburg
February 3. Dinner with Larry Cooley and Ben Crosby. Larry had been mugged and robbed on what is now the Mandela Bridge near Braamfontain.
February 4. USAID meeting and debriefing.
February 9. Pema-Locka
February 18. Dinner, Ayesha’s sister.
February 19. Jeanne North arrives.
February 20. Meeting with Coleen Perkis.
February 25. Travel to Geneva for “mysterious” meetings.
February 26. Dinner with Jeanne North.
March 1. Dinner with Jane Booker.
March 3. Port Elisabeth Launch. CIPA
March 10. Grants work shop
March 16. Southern African Development Bank. Kositer and E. Abrams.
March 17. Dinner Katie and Ayesha
March 25. Dinner Barbara and Barry
March 26. Dinner Colleen and Richard
March 28. Johannesburg Unrest. Zulu-ANC Violence near ANC headquarters. Ran into the Zulu demonstrators in front of the Johannesburg City Hall. Snipers and several casualties in front of Shell House.
March 29. Meeting. Review Panel SAFPUM.
March 30. Dr. Peter Rush, Brenthurst Clinic. Parktown.
Marcu 31. Meeting Salim and Barb
April 1. SAFPUM closed.
April 4. SAFPUM closed.
April 11. Barb and Salim. Dinner with Veronique.
April 12. Dr. Rukhusan. Medical House
April 13-April 23. Travel to Eritrea.
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May 3. Leave South Africa.
May – December. P&G active. UNDP, World Bank Interventions in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Thoughts on retraining rebels in Eritrea. 1. The educational level of returnees is important. 2. Materials development is an issue. 3. We need to explore the creative use of oral tradition. 3. There is a problem of drift in training; that is one long wandering discussion. 4. Overall, there is an issue of supplies and the environment for training. We will need small amounts of funds for consumables.
There is an issue of precedent with regard to the issue of development of a civil service for Eritrea. The civil service needs to be formed, since it does not exist, around the needs of the country. The goal is a lean, efficient civil service, well paid and motivated. An issue is the review of existing institutions. The time frame is a period of five to six years.
The current, remnant of the provincial administration and its department is ineffective, of questionable size, not rational and very fluid. It is part of the old establishment.
The ex-combatants have strong motivation and some skills but are not in any way professionally equipped to handle their jobs.
Organizationally, it is not clear what size the new Ministries should have. Current evidence suggests that departments are ineffective, not rational, very fluid. They are said to be part of the old establishment in Eritrea. Many bureaucrats will have to be discharged. Nor can the bureaucracy accommodate every former fighter. New government structures will need to take over, fill in the gaps and appraise the ex-soldiers’ skills, their qualifications and their potential.
There are many misconceptions about the role of ex-combatants, and the promises made to them. Likewise there are mistaken fears about the likely treatment of the current civil service. The Commission for Public Administration will need to postpone this issue. Likewise salary issues cannot be resolved at this point. There is discussion of organization and management training and the establishment of such units within departments.
May 25-May 30. Eritrea.
June 19. National Park Board. Pretoria.
June 21. Karos Lodge at Camp Oliphants.
June 30. TEPS and Mark Swilling.
July 2-July 19. Eritrea. Send report to Newells at UNDP.
August 10, 1984. Return to U.S.
August 15-August 19 Jamaica.
August 28. Nancy Soper, U.S. Air Force
August 30. Margaret Cele. Education.
September 1. Paula Bilinsky. Other students: Myron Dowell. Patricia Gepert. Mark Lane. Gena Billingon.
September 28. Iris Young.
October 2-October 4. World Bank, Washington D.C.
October 7-October 23. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Travel to North and South Ethiopia.
1995-2015
Fixated on colonials.
South Africa and Foreign Aid. Pariah Groups and Zenokphobia.
Outcasts- Superior, inferior, Indigenous, primitive.
Role of immigrants and mixed race groups
-Sleazy, Greedy and Exclusive
-Exclusivism, Xenophobia and genocide.
-Khama, Rollings, Liberia, Sierra Leone.
“Waiting” for majority rule.
Racial clash or ideological myths.
1995
Contacts:
Gary Manko
Allan Jacobs
Tom McKechnie
Jeff Ramon
Rikke S. Jenson, Aarhus
Herrie Lotter, South Africa
George Sorenson, Development
1995-1996: P&G Associates
Students: Ranjan Chaudhury, Wendy Lofgren. Yvette Dennis, Susan White, Ellie Connely
Paulina MacCullogh
Salim Latib and Jean de la Harpe in Pittsburgh. Ann Wessling is my GSA. George Gitau is a Masters student in Pittsburgh.
March 8-March 22- Eritrea
April 13- K. Ole Karie, Moi University
May 16. South Africa working at SAFPUM then to the Horn working for World Bank until July 4.
September 6. Ben Crosby, MSI. Note- Billy de Walt CLAS, Phil Welling, Bob Rateschka, Linda Ali, Martin Akpo Asambe, John Kevin, Saadya Toor
August 13-16. Washington D.C.
August 21. Met with George Klinzing. Director, Office of Research
April 18, 1996.
Sikubwoabo Kyeyune, M.P. District Administrator, Mbarara, Uganda
May 3, 1996
West African discussions. George Grazinger, PAS; Barky Diallo, Senegal; Hadji Arabu Diallo, and Alan Friedman.
May 13, 1996
Worked on ideas for Guinea Basic Education Project.
May 21, 1996.
Begin to focus on Eastern European issues. Muskie Program, CIS.
September 16, 1996
Pittsburgh. Stressed out with jury duty. Not sure why.
1997
Contact Names: Paulina McCullough- Originally from Chile. Dr. Orlando Neiney, Trip to Managua, Nicaragua.
Hanna and Madelyn at GSPIA
There are many concerns about the future of IMDI this year.
January 6- Peace Corps, Managua. Gabriel Area.
January 7- INCAE. Lee Rosner, USAID.
January 8- Development Associates; USIS- Maira Vargas. Development Associates
January 9- Academy for Educational Development. Return to the U.S.
January 16. Christian Almgren.
January 22- Joe Markevic and Marcelene White.
January 29-February 1- Institute for Social Studies (Hague) Netherlands. Responsibility. Advocacy; no research time. Nature of policy school. Non-tenured.
February 11- Jean de la Harpe in Pittsburgh. Makiko Kinoshita. Priscilla Cook. Heidi Streetman and Prof. Cheney. Alvarez. Holiday Inn. Marietou.
February 12. Burkhart Holtzner. Luz Villasana.
February 25. Gutierrez, Economics candidate. Rueben B. and at the Katz House. Books. With Philipe G. and Chandra Econ.
March 11- Gerald Pace and June Sherrill.
March 19-Khodr Zoror and Selin Hur. Ted Muller History.
March 24- Foster Akukoke
March 25. Gail Kusun and Tori
March 26. Dennis Brutus.
March 27- Jane Sherrell
April 9- Marcella White, Corrinna Wengryn, Takeo Konishi, Jeanne and Jennefer, Marvey. Alison (South Africa)
April 17- Sara Dieleman and Phillipe G.
April 25. Dennis Parquet. (Quebec)
May 1- Des Gasper by phone.
May 5- Eric Rubin and Andrea Rogers
May 7- Yasako Ose and David Billings. Marietau and Wolfgang. Summer Capstone Seminar
May 14-May 19- Michigan
May 26- Ephraim Nabongo
May 30- Newton Dixon
June 5- Lloyd Patross
June 9- Contact Don Klinger. Ranji
June 16. Rebecca Rash; Michael Turner; Bob Frier; Jeffrey Larson and Justin Cooper.
June 19- Phyllip Gasquet and Jestyn D. Cooper. Contact Chemonics. Jerry Wells and Phillipe G.
July 8- Susan Massey
July 10-17
Montreal and Quebec City
July 18- Ed Connerley and Thomas Joseph
July 9- Natalia Shakrrova. T. Mueller, History
July 25- Matt Lyon, Anna Genisbigler, Ed Connerley. Contact Marlyn Richards at PACT
July 28. Natalia Sharkova and George Gitau
July 29- Depart for South Africa. Trip with Kerry Ban. Building Organizations for Effective Learning
September 8. USAID Pretoria
September 15. Art Tucker
October 1- Ranjin- phd proposal. History Department meeting. Edward K. Mueller, Lucy Fischer, Dennis Brutus and Olatuni A. Enbu re. Adjaye Promotion.
October 9- Catherine Good. Mary Fonzi. Contact Stan Polsky. Escort: Ron Francis, Colin Dorian, Anthony Melck
October 13, 1997- Travel to Jacksonville FL.- International Resource Center, Kathy Dyllies
October 15-17. PAS Meeting Washington D.C. Travel to Michigan.
October 23-27- Mexico City.
October 29- NIsha and Mark Miller. Tertiary Education Linkages Project
October 31. Peliminary Exam. Thomas Joseph.
November 3- Yasuko Ose. New student. Auna.
November 10- Marino Gonzales
November 12- Stacy King.
November 13-16 ASA meeting Columbus Ohio
November 17- Andrea Stevens
November 20- Sandy Protalipac
December 1- Len Lerer
December 3- D. Geraci and Tedesse Negash
December 4- Helene Shutz, Paul Goodwin, CMU, Thope Lekau
December 17- Ranjan Chandhri, PhD Student
1998
January 1- Contacts that year. UNDP. Edward Bankston and David Wylie. USAID- Steve Brent. Phd student. Claudia Petrescu.
January 8- Helen Shah. Saul Katz issues. Matt Lyon. Contact Demnet.
January 9- Carrie Gruenloh. Search Committee
January 14. Carl Dawson, Carrie Gruenloh, Susan White. Gina Bell Tamufor, Luz. Ron Oakerson. Pinar.
January 20. Carlos Nunoz.
January 22. Mahendra Lawoti and Ken Polsky. Mathias Naab.
January 26. Anthony Buggiero
January 29. Anna Geisbigler
January 30. Dennis Brutus.
February 3. Leon Haley.
February 5. Darlene Martin
February 9. International Development Project. Mehmet Cakir, G. Klinzing, Gregory Allen.
February 12. Thomas Mathau.
February 18. Arrive Johannesburg.
February 21- Ken Wilson, Jim Statinau Aurora Associates.
February 23- Ford Foundation. Salim Latib. SAMDI. Dick Fehne
March 2- UNISA and U. of Pretoria. Sibusiso Nkomo.
March 3- USAID and USIS.
March 7- Return to U.S.
March 11- Kerry Ban, Lisa Schmidt, Darlene Martin. Adjaye Review.
March 12- Meet Paul Nelson at the Holiday Inn University Center.
March 14. George Klinzing. Mark Miller. Sabina Dietrich.
March 15- Paul Goodman at CMU. D. Garacia.
March 25. Meeting re. Clyde Weaver.
March 26. IMDI Advisory Board.
May 25. South Africa. Adam Suffer
May 26. Coleen, Gavin Cawthra, Richard Humphries. Centre for Policy Studies.
May 27. Contact Paul Whelan Fund for Contemporary Research Director of Policy Research. Edger Pietese, Local Government Learning Network. Warren Kufchik, IDASA.
May 30- McIntesh Xaba Associates.
June 2- Kwatha Loga. P.S. Reddy and Krish Singh
June 3- Strini Pillay. MS Tech. Institute for Multi-Party Democracy. Ms. Mariam Seedat and Prof. Masa Sejanamane.
June 4- IDASA. Mangosutho Tecknikon. Institute for Economic Research. Kwa Na Loga.
June 10- SAFPUM and JUMPNET. Jean de la Harpe. Salim Latib. Tech. SA
June 11- Joanne Murphy SALEA
June 12- Ford Foundation. USIS. Gill Jacot Guillarmod. Peter Natiello.
June 13. SALGA. Centre for Development and Enterprise. Prof. Douglas Irvin.
June 15- Seth Mokatie. Training Officer. Condev.
June 16- Return to U.S.
July 23-25. Public Administration Service Meetings.
Contact: Michael Morgenson
October, 1998
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Post-Nyerere government refocuses on decentralization with a new Policy Paper on Local Government Reform. Government Printer: Dar es Salaam, October, 1998.
The Second major area of focus, has been trying to straighten out procurement policies given the challenges of corruption, crony capitalism and nepotism. Every policy looks good on paper. See The Public Procurement Act of 2001. Dar es Salaam: Government Printer, 2001.
1999
January 1. Contact in South Africa. Mandla Tshabalala. Cape Technikon
Contact Pietersburg Holiday Inn
January 16- Adrien Ionescu. Open Society
January 17- Prof. Sorin Antohi (and Guzzini)
June 3. In Johannesburg
June 7- Greg Mills and Jean de la Harpe
June 8- Gavin Cawthra, Thomas Mogale and Linnette (Oxford) P&DM. Salim Latib.
June 9- Dick Fehhel. Travel to Pretoria, U.S. Embassy
June 10- Salim Latib, Naude Malan and Bev Peters
June 11- Alan Mabin, Colleen and Thomas Mogale. Staying at Victoria B&B.
June 12-17 Pietersberg. Travel to East London.
June 23- Errol Spring.. Meetings at Fort Hare Institute of Governance. Barry G.
June 28-July 3- Pretoria. Meetings at USAID and Peace Corps. Deputy Mayor of Pretoria. Ed Connerley arrives. Coleen and Andile. Moses Turner. Peace Corps. Dick Fehnel. Rukudzo Murapa.
2016- 2018
Thoughts on chapter structure. Each chapter should contain a mixture of text, bios and pictures. There would be 2-3 country or regional bios of both Africans and expatriates. There could also be excerpts from 1-2 interviews.
The text would occur within a historical context.
Chapter Eight
Is it too late to think about government? Now?
Religion.
The rest of the world. Asia, East Europe, Central America.
Chapter 9: Does Decency have a chance in the world.
Chapter 10: Classes, class and alternative futures and futures past.
Education, traditionalism and class
Cultural transfer, a positive or a negative.
