January 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Diplomacy: Durango Herald: Korea RPCV Joseph R. Donovan Jr., who is director for the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State
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January 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Diplomacy: Durango Herald: Korea RPCV Joseph R. Donovan Jr., who is director for the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State
Korea RPCV Joseph R. Donovan Jr., who is director for the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State
Korea RPCV Joseph R. Donovan Jr., who is director for the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State
Specialist on China to speak at FLC
Herald Staff Report
Marilyn Brown, who is president of the League of Women Voters of La Plata County, has found a mechanism to bring intriguing speakers to the Four Corners. When Brown attended her organization's convention in Washington, D.C. last summer she discovered that if she submitted a subject request to the U.S. State Department, her local group could be matched with a speaker at the department's expense.
Once Brown had chosen the impact of China's development on the world economy as her subject, the State Department responded with the name of Joseph R. Donovan Jr., who is director for the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State.
Donovan will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, at 130 Noble Hall on the Fort Lewis College campus. He will be joined by Kim Martin and Deborah Walker, FLC professors, and Ali Sabeti, a retired World Bank official.
The panel discussion, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and is part of the Professional Associates of Fort Lewis College Life Long Learning Series.
Donovan's earlier assignments include three years as the chief of the political section at the American Institute in Taiwan and positions in U.S. embassies in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, and Doha, Qatar.
He has a master's degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and a bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
He spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Korea. Donovan and his wife, Mei Chou Donovan, have two sons.
When this story was posted in January 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| Ask Not As our country prepares for the inauguration of a President, we remember one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century and how his words inspired us. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." |
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