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<p>grossjh:</p>

<p>Congratulations!. What a relief for you and what a wonderful adventure for your daughter. It sounds like she is embracing the opportunity and will make the most of what Goucher has to offer.</p>

<p>If the State Dept is still on her radar and she has time this summer, she might want to check out the May issue of the Foreign Service Journal, which has a bunch of articles on changes in the Foreign Service since 1924. (It’s the 90th anniversary of the Rogers Act, which created the modern Foreign Service.)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.afsa.org/FSJ/0514/index.html”>http://www.afsa.org/FSJ/0514/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Especially interesting are the 20 or so snippets where current FSOs share a key moment in their careers. It gives you a good idea of the wide range of activities FSOs do in every corner of the world. </p>

<p>Note also the short article about FSO recruiting at BYU’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Relations and the “site of the month,” USC’s Center of Public Diplomacy. More proof that you don’t have to go to Georgetown, Princeton, or the like to become an FSO. </p>

<p>The best news of all though is that last month the Senate finally released its hold on the commission, tenure, or promotion of 1800 FSOs. </p>