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RAINBOW/PUSH COALITION
FIRST ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER
Natalic Cole
PROGRAM
Co-Host
Welcome
REV. JESSE L. JACKSON, SR.
President & CEO, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Invocation
RABBI LEONARD I. BEERMAN
Presentation of Award to Brenda Marsh-Mitchell
DANNY BAKEWELL
President, The Brotherhood Crusade
1998 Grassroots Organizer Award
BRENDA MARSH-MITCHELL
Presentation of Award to Delores Huerta
MARTIN SHEEN
1998 Rainbow/PUSH Advocacy Award
DELORES HUERTA
Introduction of Brian McKnight
CASEY KASEM
Musical Performance
BRIAN McKNIGHT
Presentation of Award to Ron Burkle
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
1998 Bridge Builders Award
RONALD W. BURKLE
Presentation of Award to Quincy Jones
REV. JESSE L. JACKSON, SR.
1998 Rainbow/PUSH Legend Award
QUINCY JONES
Wednesday, October 7, 1998
The Regent Beverly Wilshire
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Organization:
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Letter (Greeting)
Other: to be Honored
Event: Birthday gala (Quivey Janes, Ron Burkle, and Linda Chavez- Thompson
Date of Event: Oct. 7. 1998
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Sr.
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August 27, 1998
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
It has become a family custom for you to share birthdays with me. We have spent the last
three or four years together.
This year, we are doing something different - we are having a birthday gala in Los
Angeles, California on Wednesday, October 7th. We are honoring Quincy Jones, Ron
Burkle and Linda Chavez Thompson of the AFL-CIO: Dolores
We unanimously want you to be honored, to have you share remarks, and be with us if it
is at all possible. Quincy, Ron and all of our friends are anxious for you to join us.
Please let us hear from you at your earliest convenience.
With warmest personal regards, I remain
Sincerely yours,
Jene Jack
of Sharon Hilliard
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
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Rev. Willie T. Barrow, Co-Chair of Board of Trustees
Janice Mathis, General Counsel
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Founder & President
Inside Left
Inside RiGHT
CO-CHAIRS
You are cordiolly invited to celebrate the Birthday of
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Jacquie and Clarence Avant
at the
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Aline and Donny Bokewell
First Anneal Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Awards Dinner
Marilyn and Alan Bergmon
Honoring
Quincy Jones
Don Cornelius
Ronald W. Burkle
Delores Huerta
Brenda Marsh-Mitchell
Carole Bayer Sager and Bob Daly
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Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Rosemory Carroll and Donny Goldberg
6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception . 7:00 p.m. Dinner
The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
9500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverty Hills
Jean and Casey Kasem
Cocktail Attire
For information please call Michael Teta Associates at (323) 658-5660.
Lorraine and Sid Sheinberg
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QUINCY JONES
An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the
word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer,
record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor,
instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine
founder, social activist and multi-media entrepreneur. As a
master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul,
hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many
dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including
records, live performance, movies and television.
Quincy's creative magic has spanned over six decades, beginning
with the post-swing era and continuing through today's high-
technology, international multi-media hybrids As the first black
composer to be embraced by the Hollywood establishment in the
60's, he helped refresh movie music with badly needed infusions
of jazz and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back on the Block,
named "Album of the Year" at the 1990 Grammy Awards, brought such
legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and
Miles davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to
create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical
traditions. As producer and conductor of the historic We Are The
World recording (the best selling single of all time) and Michael
Jackson's multi-platinum solo albums, Off The Wall, Bad and
Thriller (the best selling album of all time, with over forty
million copies sold), Quincy Jones stands as one of the most
successful and admired creative artist/executives in the
entertainment world.
In 1990, his life and career were chronicled in the critically
acclaimed Warner Brothers film, Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy
Jones, a film which helped illuminate not only Quincy's life and
spirit, but also revealed much about the development of the
African American musical tradition.
In 1994, Quincy led a group of businessmen, including Hall of
Fame football player Willie Davis, television producer Don
Cornelius, and television journalist Geraldo Rivera in the
formation of Qwest Broadcasting, a minority controlled
broadcasting company which has purchased television stations in
Atlanta and New Orleans for approximately 167 million,
establishing it as one of the largest minority owned broadcasting
companies in the United States. Quincy serves as Chairman and
CEO of Qwest Broadcasting.
Quincy has long been associated with social causes. In the 60's
and 70's he was a major supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s Operation Breadbasket, an effort to promote economic
development in the inner cities. After Dr. King's death, Quincy
served on the board of Reverend Jackson's People United to Save
Humanity (PUSH).
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An ongoing concern throughout Quincy's career has been to foster
appreciation of African-American music and culture. To this end
he helped form IBAM (the Institute for Black American Music).
Proceeds for IBAM events were donated toward the establishment of
a national library of African-American art and music. He is also
one of the founders of the Annual Black Arts Festival in Chicago.
Reflecting on the changes in pop music over the years, Quincy
says, "If there are any common denominators, they are spirit and
musicality. I go for the music that gives me goose bumps, music
that touches my heart and my soul." Over the years, Quincy Jones
has reached the essence of music and art: the ability to touch
people's feelings and emotions.
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BRENDA MARSH-MITCHELL
A mother of three lovely daughters, Brenda Marsh-Mitchell was born
and raised in Los Angeles. She has dedicated her life to serving
others. She has been a loyal freedom fighter and public servant
for decades. Brenda works quietly through Brotherhood Crusade,
where she has been employed for more than 27 years.
As Director of Community Relations and Special Assistant to the
President, Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., Brenda is a well-known and
respected leader in the community. Often referred to as "The
Mother Teresa of South Central Los Angeles," she is a pioneer of
vision, courage, dedication, and commitment.
Brenda has been at the forefront of many struggles. She was largely
responsible for organizing the successful Rainbow/PUSH --
Brotherhood Crusade "Save the Dream" March and Rally in February of
this year which, in spite of rainy weather, drew thousands from
around the State. Thanks to her efforts of reaching out to
churches, grassroots organizations and members of the community, we
were successful in getting the message out that the assault of
Proposition 209 would not go unnoticed.
Brenda has literally reached out to thousands in need and by taking
direct action for social justice she has "raised the roof" to gain
public attention on issues from police misconduct to community
feeds. Her work to register African American voters is probably
unmatched in this community. Many evenings and weekends are spent
at shopping malls and in church parking lots where Brenda works
countless hours counseling people in the importance, not only of
registering to vote, but in then exercising that right by returning
to the polls on election day.
Brenda is a role model for her children, as well as for the
children of the community through example and participation. She
has always made sure that her daughters were involved in the plight
of the community through volunteer work, education, and self-
determination. She truly is a "Community Treasure."
We proudly pay tribute to one of the most dedicated friends
Rainbow/PUSH could ask for, Brenda Marsh-Mitchell.
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DELORES C. HUERTA
Delores Huerta is the co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the
United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO ("UFW") She is one of
the best known women in the American civil rights labor movement.
The mother of 11 children, 14 grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren, Delores has played many key roles in the UFW
including negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement
for farmworkers, heading the UFW's national grape boycott, and
directing the UFW's political and lobbying efforts. In
championing the farmworkers rights, Delores Huerta has often
confronted grower goons and has been arrested more than 22 times
for disobeying illegally imposed injunctions. In 1988, she fell
victim to the illegal tactics of a San Francisco police officer
while protesting then President George Bush's opposition to the
UFW's Grape Boycott to ban pesticides. She suffered three
fractured ribs and the removal of her spleen.
In addition to leading the national grape boycott in 1970,
Delores also directed the 1975 grape, lettuce and Gallo wine
boycott which resulted in the enactment of California's
Agricultural Labor Relations Act, the first law of its kind in
the United States which granted farmworkers the right to
collectively organize and bargain for better wages and working
conditions.
At 67, Delores still works long hours for the union she co-
founded and nurtured. Many days find her in cities across
Northern America, Canada and Mexico, promoting La Causa (the
farmworkers cause). For more than 30 years, Delores remained
Cesar Chavez' most loyal and trusted advisor. Together they
founded the Farm Workers Credit Union, the first credit union for
farmworkers, The National Farmworkers Service Center, Inc., a
community based affordable housing and Spanish language radio
communications organization with five radio stations, the Juan De
La Cruz Farm Workers Pension Fund, and the Robert F. Kennedy
Medical Plan.
Luis Valdez, the famous Chicano writer and director of El Teatro
Campesino, wrote "When I think of Delores Huerta, I think of the
earth, powerful, beautiful, fecund, challenging, conscience, yet
so incredibly delicate. The patina of my superimposed memories
of her over the last 25 years glows with dissolving moving
images: Delores as picket captain, Delores as single mother,
Delores as negotiator, lobbyist, speaker, La Pasionaria de
Delano, Delores as my leader, for she was the first woman general
I met and followed into the fray of La Causa."
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RONALD W. BURKLE
Ron Burkle began his career in the supermarket industry at the
age of 13. He has worked in every conceivable position within
the industry from "boxboy" to Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board.
Ron is the managing partner and majority owner of the Yucaipa
Companies, a private investment firm which invests primarily its
own capital. Yucaipa has completed 16 acquisitions in the
supermarket industry nationwide and is the largest shareholder of
Fred Meyer, Inc. of Oregon, and the controlling shareholder of
Ralphs Grocery Company/Food 4 Less of Southern California, Cala
Foods of Northern California, Dominick's of Chicago and Falley's
of Kansas. Ron serves as Chairman of Fred Meyer and Dominick's.
In 1991, Ron founded the Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation, a
nonprofit organization, to support the needs of numerous agencies
and programs throughout Southern California.
The Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation has been at the forefront of
community service and giving since its inception. In 1992 a two
million dollar contribution was provided by the Foundation to
help save interscholastic sports in the Los Angeles Unified
School District.
The Foundation also spearheaded the distribution of 1.4 millon
dollars in food and other necessities in the wake of the 1992
civil unrest in Los Angeles. Again, on Ron's direction, more
than one million dollars in food was dispersed following the 1994
Northridge earthquake.
More recently, the Foundation has underwritten the Watts
Friendship Sports League's summer baseball program, and together
Ron and the Foundation have made a generous commitment to Disney
Hall. Upon its completion, Disney Hall will provide free
concerts for inner-city youth and their families.
Ron has managed to strike a balance between big business and
community activism. His dedication to several worthy causes
appears limitless. Among his varied contributions, Ron serves as
Chairman of the Board of D.A.R.E. America (Drug Abuse Resistance
Education). He also serves as a Trustee of the National Urban
League and is an active member of several boards including
Project Angel Food and Kaufman & Broad.
Education and the arts have also benefitted from Ron's continued
generosity. The Ron W. Burkle Family Building on the Claremont
Graduate University campus was recently completed where he sits
as a member of the Board of Fellows.
Whether opening his home to charitable organizations for their
annual fund-raisers or committing his personal time to
participate in bettering the community, Ron has proven his
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dedication to helping others and building bridges within the
community. For his continued friendship and ongoing
contributions, we are pleased to honor Ron Burkle with The
Rainbow/PUSH Bridge Builders Award.
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John Glenn - stories and anecdotes
1. John Glenn's favorite space food is rehydrated shrimp, he said, "Oh this is great! May have
shrimp for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
2. Theme of firsts-
A. Broke the coast-to-coast flight record in 1957 in an F8U jet at
supersonic speeds, went from LA to NY (Glenn made this trip faster than
if he'd ridden a bullet fired from a .45 caliber gun)
B. First American in orbit, 1962
C. Oct. 29, 1998 - oldest human to fly in space (77 yrs old)
3. Glenn was a high school glee club member and loves barbershop quartets in October 1957
he won about $25,000 on Name That Tune
4. When launch day comes for his newest mission, Glenn will have spent 500 hours in training
5. Glenn's first car was his father's old Chevy -- a convertible. Because the top had rotted away,
Glenn drilled holes in the bottom of the car to drain the rain. He has had a ragtop car ever since.
The following two excerpts are taken directly from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, July
19, 1998.
Glenn will be involved in two age-related experiments, as both a researcher and a guinea pig.
One will study what causes muscle weakening in space. The other will look into sleep patterns
by comparing Glenn and others in the crew. For those two studies, Glenn will give blood 12
times in nine days.
"I wish I could have the very personal attention of every person in this country who is 60 years
of age or older. One thing that has happened in the in the look into the life and biosciences in the
NASA program has been that we find some notable parallels between what happens to astronauts
in space and what happens to the elderly right here on Earth. And if we can find what triggers
some of these similarities, perhaps we will have a whole new handle on approaching difficulties
that people have right here on Earth." John Glenn
fib.20 36 yrs. after became 1st american to orbut Earth
1962
Oldest man ever in space
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America - patriot
Laura E. Schiller
10/02/98 10.05 38 AM
Record Type:
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To:
Noa A. Meyer/WHO/EOP
CC:
Subject: Video for John Glenn
Could you get the details
Forwarded by Laura E. Schiller/WHO/EOP on 10/02/98 10:06 AM
Toby C. Graff
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10/02/98 10:01:51 AM
Record Type:
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To:
Wendy Arends/WHO/EOP, Laura E. Schiller/WHO/EOP
CC:
Subject: Video for John Glenn
Hi. Marsha just called in and said that Mrs. Clinton agreed to tape a 20 second congratulations to
John Glenn for ABC News on Monday. She asked that you please add it to her taping time on
Monday morning and Laura, that you draft some talking points. Pls. call me if you have questions.
Thanks. Toby
Congratulations a to you n Glenn
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To: Evan Ryan
Organization: The White House
Fax: 202-456-5340
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COMMENTS:
I am following up on your conversation with Priscilla Goldfarb.
Л suggested script for the videotaped greeting from the First Lady to the celebrants at the
October 7th reception for the Mailman family and The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public
Health follows. The preferred format of the videotape is VHS.
Please note:
(1) The second syllable in Mailman is pronounced with an emphasis on the first syllable so that
the second syllable sounds like the second syllable in in salesman.
(2) Pardes is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable, which is pronounced like par as in
"par for the course." The second syllable is pronounced like the first syllable in designate.
(3) The Dean's last name is Rosenfield, not Rosenfeld.
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EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA
3051 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20008
UNITATE
(202) 232-4400
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Evon,
pls follow uf
July called 1998 left 8/27 msg.
Ms Melanne Verveer
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Deputy Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
100 Old Executive Office Building
17th and Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20501
Dear
Thank you for your telephone call of earlier today in respect of
our SADC Trade and Investment Conference, taking place in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are, naturally, extremely disappointed
that the First Lady cannot attend our conference as our special
guest of honor.
All the same, thank you very much for your offer of assistance
which we gladly accept. We understand that you can help make the
following happen:
a video recorded message from the First Lady which can
oct.5+6
a
be played at the event in Minnesota; (Please advise as
to the next steps we need to take with regard to
obtaining the video.)
b.
a member of the President's Cabinet will be asked to
represent the White House at the dinner on 5 October.
(We have already sent and invitation to Secretary Daley
Roser Isaacs 9461450
8/27
Deborah
745-6646
We are running out of time, and must, unfortunately go to print
quite soon now. We would appreciate it if you could resolve these
issues as soon as possible. Many thanks for your kind assistance
throughout this process.
Sincerely yours,
7. a. Cam
Franklin A Sonn
AMBASSADOR
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South african Development Chithes
knows the ambassador
Evening of The 5th(?)
Amb. Soun
"A"
EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA
3051 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C, 20008
(202) 232-4400
13 March 1998
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Office of the First Lady
Room 100
old Executive Office Building
Washington DC 20500
Dear Mrs Clinton:
You may be aware of the special appreciation we in Southern Africa
have for you because of your genuine love for Africa and our Region
and for the way you re-focused the American attention on our Region
during and after your visit to Africa last year.
We, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), who make up
the fourteen countries of Southern Africa are planning a major
conference to take advantage of the heightened interest created by
your and the President's visits to Africa.
This Conference will take place in the latter half of October and
Governor Arne Carlson of Minnesota has already been invited and we
are also hoping to bring over a Head of State from our Region. We
are also intending to involve attracting a Major Leader of Business
in South Africa and Minnesota as well as Speaker Gingrich.
We would deem it a high honor if you would be so kind as to open
the conference during a Gala Banquet on the first evening. We are
intent on making of this a very special event and have no doubt
that your presence would assist us greatly in achieving this goal.
Should you agree in principle we would be glad to work with your
office on the logistics.
Please once again be assured of a sense of kinship with you and our
abiding thankfulness at the inspiring way you speak of and for our
continent and Region.
With respect and good wishes,
Franklin A. Sonn
AMBASSADOR
and
Chair of SADC Ambassadors
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SEP. 28. 1998 4:18PM
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POSSIBLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Ambassador Sonn (who will be introducing Mrs Clinton's video)
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Dr Mbuende, Executive Secretary of SADC
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The SADC Ambassadors and Ministers gathered in Minnesota
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Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton (Welcoming Address after Mrs
Clinton's video)
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Mr Danny Glover (Special Guest at the dinner)
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The assembled corporate leaders
QI 'I 6117 ON
4:233M 8661 28.8 SEP.
"B"
Southern Africa: Open for Business
SADC Trade and Investment Conference
Radisson Plaza Hotel
35 South 7th Street
612
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
339-4900
October 5-6, 1998
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday, October 5
7:30 a.m. Breakfast and Registration
Third Floor, Radisson Plaza Hotel
8:30 a.m. Official Welcome and Opening Plenary Session
Arne Carlson, Governor of Minnesota
Dr K. Mbuende, Executive secretary of SADC
10:00 a.m. Break/Networking
10:30 a.m. Panel Discussion
U.S. Government Programs to Facilitate U.S. Trade and Development in
Southern Africa
David H. Miller, moderator, Executive Director, The Corporate Council on
Africa
AnnMarie Emmet, Export Import Bank
Frankie King, U.S. Department of Agriculture
John Richter, U.S. Trade and Development Agency
Samuel D. Smoots, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
The panel represents the key U.S. agencies providing financial assistance, loans, viability
studies, insurance, and technical assistance for U.S. entrepreneurs interested in doing
business in Southern Africa. Learn how to use these programs.
12:30 p.m. Luncheon and Keynote Address
L.D. DeSimone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 3M
Mr. DeSimone, the head of one of the largest and most successful companies in America,
will discuss 3M's commitment to Southern Africa as one of the key emerging business
opportunities in the global economy.
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1:30 p.m. Break/Networking
2:00 p.m. Afternoon Breakout Sessions I
Agriculture and Fishing
Cargill, Land O' Lakes, Universal Marketing (invited)
Consumer Products
American Home Products (invited), Faegre & Benson
Energy and Mining
General Electric (invited), Phelps Dodge (invited)
Financial Services and Health Care
Medtronic, The St. Paul Companies, United HealthCare
Information Technology and Telecommunications
ADC Telecommunications, Lawson Software,
SBC Telecommunications, STARTEC, Inc.
Infrastructure Development and Transportation
Donaldson Company, Inc., Honeywell, Inc., 3M
Travel and Tourism
Carlson Companies, Northwest Airlines
Participants will choose one breakout session for extensive, detailed discussion with
representatives from U.S. companies, those named above and others, who will share
their hands-on experiences - both negative and positive - of setting up operations in and
establishing trade relations with Southern African nations. A ranking Trade Minister
from a SADC country will also be present, giving participants an opportunity to establish
a personal relationship with the highest ranking economic officials in the SADC countries.
4:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions Adjourn
Hospitality areas will be available for more informal discussion and further networking.
7:00 p.m. Conference Dinner
Greetings from Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States (via videotape)
Welcome by Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis
Special Guest: Danny Glover
The dinner is hosted by the Ambassadors of the SADC nations and is being held to honor
the Trade Ministers from each country who have come to the Twin Cities to participate in
the conference. Mrs. Clinton, joined by Mayor Sayles Belton, will officially welcome the
Ministers and all the participants to this important regional trade conference and will
discuss the many opportunities she and the President envision for Southern Africa
following their historic trip to Africa earlier this year. Mr. Glover, who has charmed
audiences in films as varied as the Lethal Weapon series and Mandela, in which he
played Nelson Mandela, will discuss the growing cultural ties between America and
Africa.
9:00 p.m.
Dinner Adjourns
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Tuesday, October 6
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Third Floor, Radisson Plaza Hotel
8:30 a.m.
Opening Plenary Session:
Southern Africa as an Emerging Market: Separating Fact from Fiction
Glen Skovholt, moderator, Vice President, Government and Community
Affairs, Honeywell, Inc.
Robert Mallett, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Commerce Department
Kaire Mbuende, Executive Secretary, SADC
Ernest Micek, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cargill, Inc.
Conrad Strauss, Chairman, Standard Bank Investment Corporation of
South Africa
10:30 a.m. Break/Networking
11:30 a.m. Luncheon and Minnesota Meeting Address:
The Next Trade Boom? Making Connections with the Emerging Economies of
Southern Africa
Franklin A. Sonn, Ambassador of South Africa to the United States
Participants will be joined by other community leaders for the luncheon, which will be
broadcast live on the stations of Minnesota Public Radio
1:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Africa's Strategic Importance to America: What It Will Mean for U.S. Business
Robert Krueger, Ambassador to Botswana and Special Envoy to SADC
Witney Schneidman, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Africa Bureau,
Department of State
Mr. Schneidman and Ambassador Krueger - two of the U.S. Government's leading policy
makers for Africa - will discuss current domestic developments in Africa, U.S. policy in
the region, and what it all means for U.S. businesses. Southern Africa is experiencing
rapid, often dramatic change and business opportunities there will be greatly influenced
by how the U.S. government reacts - or fails to react - to that change.
2:45 p.m. Afternoon Breakout Sessions II
Agriculture and Fishing
Cargill, Land O' Lakes, Universal Marketing (invited)
Consumer Products
Amer: in Home Products (invited), Faegre & Benson
Energy and Mining
General Electric, Phelps Dodge (invited)
Financial Services and Health Care
Medtronic, The St. Paul Companies, United HealthCare
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Information Technology and Telecommunications
ADC Telecommunications, Lawson Software, SBC Telecommunications,
STARTEC, Inc.
Infrastructure Development and Transportation
Donaldson Company, Inc., Honeywell, Inc., 3M
Travel and Tourism
Carlson Companies, Northwest Airlines
Participants will continue in the same breakout sessions as Monday afternoon, now
focusing on future growth opportunities. The same business presenters will lead each
session,
4:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions Adjourn
Hospitality areas will be available for more informal discussion and networking.
6:00 p.m.
Closing Cocktail Reception
A Celebration of African Culture
The African Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Remarks by:
Amos Bernard M. Midzi, Ambassador of Zimbabwe
William George, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic
Evan Mauer, Director, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Participants will have an opportunity to experience works from the Institute's permanent
collection of African Art during a special, private reception. Participants may drive to the
exhibit or use buses provided at the hotel.
Major Sponsors
3M, Cargill, Honeywell, Medtronic, The St. Paul Companies
Additional Sponsors
ADC Telecommunications, Carlson Companies, Faegre & Benson,
Northwest Airlines, Riggs Bank, United HealthCare
With special thanks to
The Corporate Council on Africa, Colle & McVoy, Express Interactive Solutions,
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Business Partnership, and
The Minnesota Meeting
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FOREWORD -
he Official SADC Trade, Industry and Investment Review is the ideal medium
T
for all business people in the region and beyond. By transcending country
boundaries the Review points you to trade, industry and investment opportunities
that exist in the region and exposes you to a large regional market,
In this second edition of the Review, you will find updated country profiles and news
regarding the accomplishments by SADC sectors with special emphasis on projects that
involve the private sector and other Community stakeholders.
In response to the challenges of globalisation and increased competition, the SADC
Governments see themselves as catalysts for economic growth. Through the provision of
infrastructural facilities and services, SADC's economies can be transformed to become
even better vibrant growth nodes with requisite conditions to attract more foreign direct
investment.
All Governments have understood the necessity to make strategic alliances with the private
sector as partners in development. Clear rules and fair laws govern this partnership.
Generous investment incentives are being offered, including tax holidays, exemption from
duty on capital goods, relaxed rules for expatriate recruitment, and protection of
investment.
The Official SADC Trade, Industry and Investment Review 1998
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In addition, commercialisation, restructuring and privatisation of state-owned enterprises
have gained momentum in the SADC region. The Special Features section of the 1998
edition of the Review gives you an overview of progress in this respect in Mozambique and
Zambia. A travel feature on Mauritius demonstrates the private sector's role in the
advancement of tourism, one of the most important growth sectors of SADC.
As a region we have potential to increase the share of foreign direct investment into Africa.
For instance, plenty of opportunities exist for foreign investors to improve the productivity
of value-added manufacturing through new technology. Abundant agricultural, natural,
mineral and human resources are yet to be tapped.
With the entry of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Seychelles into SADC,
the regional market has expanded from 140 to 190 million people. Moreover, the DRC adds
invaluable water, hydropower, fisheries and mineral resources to the Community. The
Seychelles are strategically located in the Indian Ocean and, like Mauritius, could prove
particularly useful in the area of maritime transport and human resources development.
These opportunities give us a competitive edge over most other emerging markets.
Investments in infrastructure and telecommunications are increasingly being made by the
private sector. However, it has become evident that in order to ensure continued progress.
the private sector also needs to be engaged in the financing of other such projects.
Notable efforts in this regard are being made in the SADC development corridors which
are underpinned by strong political commitment, public-private partnership and a
desirable crowding in effect on investment.
The policy reforms that have begun to take root in the SADC countries are most promising.
Therefore, my message to you is 'let us work together to make Southern Africa a region of
vibrant economic growth within the framework of a Free Trade Area before the turn of the
century.'
It is my sincere hope that you will seize the opportunities that beckon.
Mandela
PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA
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Chairman of SADC
January 1998
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EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA
3051 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20008
UNITATE
(202) 232-4400
745 Shannenzie
TELEFAX TRANSMISSION
To: Ms Noah Meyer
Tel: (202) 456-2787
Office of the First Lady
Fax: (202) 456-5709
From: Debra Steiner
Tel: (202) 745-6646
Executive Assistant
Fax: (202) 265-1607
to the Ambassador
Date: 28 September, 1998
Pages: 1+17
Subject: VIDEO ADDRESS BY MRS CLINTON FOR SADC TRADE AND
INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
1. Our telephone conversation of this afternoon refers.
2. I attach for your background:
a) A copy of the original letter of invitation to Mrs
Clinton
b) A copy of the Schedule of Events for the SADC Trade and
Investment Conference
c) A copy of the Foreword to The Official SADC Trade and
Investment Review 1998, by President Mandela as well as
an introduction to SADC from the same publication,
written by Dr Kaire Mbuende, SADC Executive Secretary.
(Dr Mbuende is also one of the speakers at the
Conference).
d) A list of possible acknowledgements
3. SPEECH CONTENT:
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It would be appreciated if the First Lady could address
the topic of Trade and Investment in our region from the
perspective of the US Administration's new initiative on
Africa.
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It is important to emphasize how it is in the interest
of the US to develop mutually beneficial relationships
with African countries, particularly with the SADC
region.
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Mrs Clinton's own perspectives and personal impressions
after having visited the region twice in recent times
would also be valuable.
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The audience would also probably like to hear how Mrs
Clinton views the role of the US in engaging Africa in
the twenty-first Century, once again with the emphasis
on trade and investment.
(Both the State Department's South Africa Desk and the NSC
will probably have helpful information in this regard.)
4.
I hope this will be of some assistance to you. Please do not
hesitate to contact me should you require further assistance.
Regards
Debra Steiner.
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thing: the will of the people to create a new future for
themselves and their children. On the last day of our
trip, I met with a group of women and two men from
the Malicounda Bambara Village who have done
something remarkable. Although female genital muti-
lation (FGM) affects less than 20 percent of women
in Senegal, in many villages like theirs, it is consid-
ered a rite of passage for all girls.
The women of Malicounda had taken a literacy
class created by an American, Molly Metching, who
had come to Senegal with the Peace Corps more than
20 years ago and never left. It was during this class,
where they learned about their health and rights, that
they decided FGM had harmed their daughters' bod-
ies and spirits for too long. They decided it was time
to end the pain, hemorrhaging, infections, AIDS and
childbirth complications caused by a tradition that is
sometimes deadly, but always painful.
During our discussion, the women showed me the
skirt they had used to educate their religious leaders,
Laying bricks, the president and first lady help African women build a foun-
their neighbors, and their husbands-because men
dation for better housing in the Mxenge housing project in Cape Town,
must be part of this and every struggle for women's
South Africa. Below, Hillary Clinton is shown in traditional African garb.
rights. A 66-year-old man described how he now goes
AFRICAN DIARY Continued
from village to village spreading the word about the
dangers of FGM.
one year, the number of homes in that village has increased
Because of all of their efforts, Malicounda Bambara has
from 18 to 104. Roads once made of dirt are now paved.
now banned FGM and, in the process, they are inspiring
The concrete slab where we gathered last year is now a
others to do the same. Recently, 13 other villages with a
community center, complete with a day care center and a
combined population of more than 8,000 people joined
store. And the women have just bought a larger plot of
together to end female circumcision in their communities.
land that will provide fertile soil for new
And now, Senegal's President Diouf has
businesses and new homes.
called for a new law to abolish it
One of the personal highlights of the
throughout the country.
trip for Bill and me was the dedication
I wish every American could see the
of the Ron Brown Commercial Center
new faces of Africa-and how much
in Johannesburg. Ron's beautiful wid-
America's involvement means for both
ow and our dear friend, Alma, was there
our continents. We talked to Peace
for the occasion. The President spoke
Corps volunteers who are helping
about how Ron was the champion of
Africans lift up their own lives, health
close ties to Africa because of his deep
and education. We saw the results of
conviction that it would help both
assistance from the United States
Africans and Americans. We saw how
Agency for International Development
right he was.
in the hopes of women building their
Just as in our country, people in
own homes and starting micro enter-
Africa are trying to find ways to grow
prises. We saw African and American
their economies, while protecting their
soldiers training side by side at the
beautiful environment. We talked with
Thies Military Base in Senegal. And we
a group of environmental leaders in
saw fulfillment of the late Ron Brown's
Botswana, which is home to some of the
vision in the vast opportunities now
most amazing creatures that inhabit this
open to American businesses.
earth. At the Chobe National Game
We all came from Africa-and we
Park, it was great to see Bill's eyes light
have so much to learn and gain from
up as we encountered elephants, hippos,
Africa. When Dr. Martin Luther King
giraffes, lions, crocodiles and countless
Jr. came back from witnessing the birth
wild animals that we never knew exist-
of Ghana in 1957, he was, as most of us
ed-from the sable antelope to the mag-
are upon returning from this continent,
Shown si
nificent secretary bird. But equally
transformed. After that trip, he talked
size of 9'
impressive was the people of Botswana's
about Africa as the "Promised Land,"
Calabash
rock-solid commitment to democracy
the same phrase he used to describe
and the impressive results they have
America in his final speech 30 years ago.
achieved in everything from literacy to
As Dr. King understood, both Africa
road building.
and America can lead us to the Promised
In Senegal, the beauty of the water
Land of the future-if we walk together
and land was only overshadowed by one
through a door opened to all.
EXCLUSIVE!
Calling for improved rights orthildren and women,
Hillary Bodbain Clinton, speaks: (o. dignituries,
including first lady Janetal Insevent at Makerere
University in Uganda.
THE FIRST LADY'S
AFRICAN DIARY
"We all came from Africa-and we have so
much to learn and gain from Africa."
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
ILL and I ended our remarkable journey to
There were hundreds of citizens from Goree Island
B
Africa on Goree Island. It is a beautiful place,
throughout Senegal. And, we were accompanied by m
lined with cobblestone streets and brightly col-
prominent African-Americans who were part of my }
ored houses, and filled with the same warm,
band's delegation, including Transportation Secretary R
resilient and brilliant people we met through-
ney Slater; Reverend Jesse Jackson, the President's Spe
out our trip. But for many years, it was used as a launch-
Envoy for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa; C
ing pad for one of the greatest evils ever perpetrated by
gressman Charles Rangel; Congresswoman Maxine Wat
human beings-slavery.
Congressman Donald Payne; Congressman William
In a slave house-the Maison des Esclaves-built the
ferson; Bob Nash, Assistant to the President; Susan I
same year our nation was born, we peered out from "The
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; and
Door of No Return," where Africans were separated from
Johnson, President of Black Entertainment Televisio
their families and slave traders from their humanity.
When the President asked them all to stand, a wa'
Today, that open doorway is a powerful symbol of a past we
emotion and pride moved through the air. Like 30 mi
must never return to or forget and a new future we must
other African-Americans, their ancestors had been t
continue to walk towards together.
from Africa and sentenced to live in bondage. Now
I thought about that as my husband spoke there, sur-
were coming back as extraordinary leaders of America
rounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the hopes of genera-
architects of a new partnership between our two C
tions. The audience was filled with students, including those
nents-proving, as my husband said, that "the human
from the Martin Luther King Girls' School, which I visited
it can never be enslaved."
last year in Senegal, and the Margaret Amidon Elementary
When Chelsea and I went to Africa a year a
School in Washington, D.C., the sister city of Dakar.
announced that my husband would soon become the
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AFRICAN DIARY Continued
gets of war. At Makerere University, where I gave a speech
SI
President to make a major trip there. He was convinced
about human rights, I met three children who had escaped
that Africa was undergoing a Renaissance-and that there
after being kidnapped and brutalized by the Lord's Resis-
was a new, positive face of the continent that all Americans
tance Army (LRA), a terrorist group based in Southern
needed to see and be part of.
Sudan. And I met a woman who has put her life on the line
Challenges remain. But, too often the images we see
to protect the children of Uganda. When you first see Sis-
of Africa are still dominated by misconceptions and stereo-
ter Rachele Frassera, the Deputy Head Mistress of St.
types. We see pictures of brutal dictators. Yet half of the
Mary's School in Aboke, you are immediately struck by the
48 nations in sub-Saharan Africa now choose their own
contrast between her small size and her enormous courage.
governments. We see images of famine and poverty. Yet,
When the LRA kidnapped 139 girls from her school, 75
as countries have embraced economic reform, Gross
percent of her student body, she chased down the terror-
Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates in Africa have more
ists and convinced them to release 109 girls. Now, she is
than tripled since 1990. We see America's role in Africa
working day and night to get them all home safely.
characterized solely in
Everywhere we trav-
terms of aid. Yet America's
eled, we saw the human
private investment in
spirit's remarkable ability
Africa earns a return of
to heal and rebuild. It's
more than 30 percent a
still hard to imagine that
year, higher than on any
in less than four months,
other continent. We see
one million people were
countless pictures of war
murdered in the geno-
and conflict. Yet people all
cide of Rwanda. My hus-
over Africa are choosing
band and I will never for-
La
reconciliation and renew-
get the faces of the six
a
al. Those are the people-
Rwandans we met in
and the new picture of
Kigali as they described
su
Africa-we were privi-
the human toll of their
ric
leged to see in every
nation's violence. One
country we visited.
woman lost her husband,
I will never forget the
her six children and her
welcome we received
brothers. Her teeth had
from the moment we got
been knocked out and
off the plane in Ghana. At
Visiting a day care center with Ghana's first lady Nana Rawlings, Hillary
machete cuts were left on
an
Independence Square in
Rodham Clinton salutes the children, the future of the new Africa.
her head. A man whose
Accra, there were hun-
right arm had been
dreds of thousands of people as far as the eye could see,
hacked off described having to hide under dead corpses to
the largest welcome we'd ever received anywhere.
survive. But none of these victims had given up to bitter-
Despite the heat, they had all come to express friendship
ness or despair. All of them were doing everything they
Tr
towards America and pride in their 40 years of freedom.
could to rebuild their lives, their communities, and their
Some women had even made dresses from cloth adorned
country.
be
with pictures of both Bill and Ghana President Jerry Rawl-
We saw the same powerful commitment to the future
ings.
throughout South Africa, where, in less than 10 years, Nel-
scr
At a day care center I visited with Mrs. Rawlings, the
son Mandela rose triumphantly from Prisoner to Presi-
women we spoke with were dressed in aqua, orange, yel-
dent. He showed us the tiny cement cell on Robben Island
low and other bright colors. Like other female pioneers
where this man of freedom spent 18 years of his life impris-
who have built and sustained Ghana's democracy, these
oned. As Bill said, we should thank God that President
women were united by a common mission-the desire to
Mandela was able to survive "without having his heart
become full participants in their country's political and
turned to stone and without giving up on his dream for
economic development. I saw the micro enterprises some
South Africa."
women have created selling jewelry, art, clothing and oth-
That dream is being realized at the Victoria Mxenge
er goods. But nothing delighted us more than the child
Housing Project in Cape Town. When I visited it last year,
care center. In bright rooms, children were learning and
the women sang to me of "Strength, Money and Knowl-
being cared for, while their mothers worked to support
edge." When my husband joined me there on this trip, we
their families.
witnessed the remarkable changes born of those three
In Uganda, the children at the Kisowera School sang to
ingredients. As we approached the housing project, we
us about the key to their future, "Universal Primary Edu-
could still see the shanties where these homeless squat-
cation." This is a new program that President Museveni has
ters-mostly women-had once lived. Now, on the other
undertaken to provide education for every boy and every
side of the street, we found a vibrant community they have
girl. Right now, two-thirds of the 130 million children out
built by pooling their resources, securing small loans, and
of school worldwide are girls. Yet, at this school, it's a dif-
constructing homes together.
ferent story. As their teachers told us with pride, they now
Last year, I asked the women if they believed they would
graduate as many girls as boys. What's more, last year, the
own a home some day. Their answer was a resounding
girls outscored the boys on their exams!
"yes." This time, when I asked how many had become
Of course, children cannot learn or dream if they're tar-
homeowners, hands shot up throughout the group. In just
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Remarks for the Congressional Black Caucus
September 18, 1998
Thank you so much. I am delighted to be here. I regretted deeply that my obligation to go to
Mother Theresa's funeral on behalf of my husband and my country prevented me from being
here last year, and I am so pleased that you have invited me back SO I would have a chance to
address this important gathering about some very important issues.
I want to start by thanking Congressman Paine not only for his introduction, but for his steady
and very important leadership over many years on behalf of so many important issues. I feel
privileged that I have gotten to know him -- that I have had a chance to travel with him, that I
have seen him in action -- and I just have the highest regard and admiration for his leadership and
his personal commitment to doing all that he can helping children at home and abroad,
particularly in Africa, have the kind of opportunities to lead lives to fulfill their own God-given
potential. Thank you so much.
I am delighted to be here with Congressman Hilliard, Congresswoman Brown and
Congresswoman Kilpatrick, and my dear friend of many many years, Secretary Slater. It is also
very good to see ambassadors from so many of the African countries represented here, as well as
representatives from the non-governmental community foundation and business leaders, and
friend and supporters of the Congressional Black Caucus and of Africa.
I think it is so important that this meeting be held and that this particular subject be given the
attention it is today. I know that you are going to be having some very important panels and
other speakers discuss all that we can do to raise the visibility of issues affecting Africa and the
African people. To connect those issues and those people with us here in America is certainly
for the good because we are living in an interdependent, interconnected world. One of the
principle reasons that I went first to Africa, and later my husband and I went to Africa, was to
bring home to America the importance of that vast continent -- the opportunities that are there to
work together with the people of that continent to promote freedom and democracy and peace
and stability. And to give Americans a broader view, a more realistic view, of what goes on in
Africa.
The Congressman referred to my visit -- I wish it had been 28 days. I had so much I wanted to
see and of course couldn't see all the things I was invited to see, but when I arrived in Uganda, I
had so many people saying to me all through my trip prior to that point, "When is the President
coming? When will your husband be in Africa?" And of course you know what bureaucracy is
like, what the White House and the State Department are like, and nobody wants to jump the gun
or make a decision that hasn't been well thought out, but I certainly had concluded that the
President needed to come to Africa. So, I called my husband.
The night before I made my speech at the now River Center, I said, "Now Bill, I really wish
tomorrow I could announce that you are coming to Africa." And he said, "Well, why can't
you?" And I said, " Well, I don't exactly have clearance to announce that." And he said, "Oh,
yes you do, just say I am coming to Africa."
So, because of the President's commitment and his concern, we were able to make that
announcement and follow up with an extraordinary trip. I think all of you who accompanied us,
and those of you who followed it from afar could see how significant a trip that was. It certainly
changed and transformed my husband's view, and many of the people who were traveling with
us would not have been involved in African affairs before, and I think that has really set our
relationship with Africa on a different footing.
I want to start by thanking the Congressional Black Caucus and all of you here today. First for
focusing on what is important, what will stand the test of time, what makes a difference to the
boys and girls growing up here, in our inner cities, in our rural countryside, and the boys and
girls growing up in the cities and villages of Africa.
Thank you for working on behalf of the American people for improving our schools, and fixing
social security and passing a health care Bill of Rights; and making it possible for every
American to believe that he or she will have a positive future in the twenty-first century. The
hard work you have done and the example you have set by focusing on what really is significant
in the lives of Americans every single day is a lesson to us all. And you have expanded that
focus to include Africa. And that too is a lesson to us all, because the invaluable role you are
playing in making this country a better place and in connecting what happens here in America
with what happens elsewhere in the world, particularly in Africa, is a critical message for us all
to hear and learn from.
I have said many times that I wish I could take every single American with me when I am
privileged to travel abroad either with my husband or on my own. I wish I could take every
young American boy or girl to see what it means to be an American in another part of the world
and to understand what is happening in the cultures that are different from ours.
I wish I could take them as we look at our development and foreign assistant projects, both from
our government as well as from private sector and the not-for profit sector; and the difference
they are making in the lives of people throughout the globe. Because if we could, I think that
more Americans could understand why you are here and why we have an overflow room this
morning, to talk about a place that is still considered exotic and very far away for most
Americans.
So by joining you today at this twenty eighth annual legislative conference, I am hoping to help
put the spotlight on the future of Africa, and to make clear what my husband and all of you have
tried to do time and again to demonstrate clearly that what happens to the future of Africa is
directly relevant to our national security, our national interest, our place in the world.
As you know, this Administration, under the President's leadership, is deeply committed to our
partnership with Africa, and to expanding the opportunities for growth and democracy
throughout that continent. I know you will hear later from Secretary Slater that the President and
Vice President will speak at the final session and the dinner tomorrow night, and it is fitting that
would be the audience that is addressed; because the Congressional Black Caucus has worked
hard to open the opportunity to open the doors of opportunity to minorities and all Americans
here in the United States, and has chosen, appropriately, the theme for this conference as,
"Opening the Doors in Africa."
I think that really says it all. How do we open doors, and then enable people to walk through
those doors themselves? As you know there were many prominent African-Americans with us
on our trip to Africa, including of course, Congressman Payne and Congressman William
Jefferson and Congressman Rangel and Congresswoman Maxin Waters, as well as Secretary
Slater, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Bob Johnson, other distinguished Americans.
And there were many moments of extraordinary emotion during the trip, but one of the most
emotional for me personally was on Goree Island, when the President asked our delegation of
prominent African Americans to stand on that island that was such a symbol of tragedy and
oppression; as it served as a place where slaves were sent forth, ripped from their families, and
their homeland. But when Congressman Paine, Secretary Slater and the others stood, the people
of Senegal who were there with us just rose as one, because they could see what it meant to open
doors. They could see what the promise of opportunity and democracy really meant.
It was an extraordinary moment, because certainly those men and women who were with us who
stood, like all other African Americans here, had been sold into bondage through their ancestors
and now were coming back as extraordinary leaders of America, and as architects of a new
partnership between us and Africa.
We come together today both as Africa is a shining light of promise and has posing problems.
We know that. I see Congresswoman McKinney coming in, it is good to see you.
In the wake of the bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, we have to stand even
more steadfastly with our African friends and allies against terrorism, against those who would
intimidate and ruthlessly murder people in order to prevent a march toward freedom and
democracy.
We know that there is the resumption of conflicts in the Congo and throughout Central Africa,
but you know, I have often said to Americans who only know what they see in the headlines and
on the TV news about Africa which are pictures of famine, or pictures of conflict, or unfortunate
pictures of bombings, I say to them, "Suppose you had been living in Africa in the 1980's, and
the conflicts in El Salvador or Nicaragua had been played on the news day in or day out, and that
was all you know about North America. Wouldn't you have a rather perverse view about what
happened in an entire continent?" Well, we cannot do the same to Africa.
Yes, there are problems in Africa. There are conflicts in Africa, there are setback in Africa. But
there are in any continent where human beings live and work. That is the story of human history.
And what we are trying to do is to stress that we need a more balanced and realistic picture of
Africa. We cannot let the sensational story of the moment determine America's views about an
entire continent, just as we would not want to be considered in the wake of stories of the
Guatemalan civil war that went on for years, if that had been focused on to our detriment.
It is important to realize that Africa, like may regions of the world is in the process of transition.
And we should not, cannot expect this process to be easy or instantaneous. There will be
setbacks. That is the nature of progress. And we have to recognize that Africa is a vast and
diverse continent. It will not be homogeneous more so than North America, or South America or
Asia is.
We have to build on and reinforce these successes so that they take on a life of their own and
then influence others to be successful as well. The Administration continues to have two over-
arching policy goals for Africa: combating trans-national threats and fully integrating Africa into
the global economy. These goals have never been more important than they are now. And I
want to say a word about both of them.
Certainly combating transnational threats is something that we are paying a great deal of
attention to in the Administration. I look out here and I see people who served in the Clinton
administration and the NEC and the State Department -- even in the Defense Department -- who
have been working as hard as we know how to work with African leaders to deal with these
trans-national threats -- these conflicts that are holding back the development of SO many people.
And we are committed to doing all that the United States can do to try and work with the people
of Africa to put those days behind them once and for all.
When we talk about fully integrating Africa into the global economy we have to, I believe,
recognize what the global economy is doing now. We are in the midst of a very severe
international financial challenge in many parts of the world. Now it may not be rational, it may
not make a lot of sense, but problems in places as far from the United States and Africa as
Indonesia or Malaysia or Japan, influence how investors, businesses and governments feel about
investing in any developing economy.
If we are serious, as we must be, in helping to integrate Africa into the global economy, we must
be realistic about the very difficult challenges which the global economy is posing to developing
countries. And we have to do everything we can through the United States government to
stabilize the international economic situation in order to provide opportunities for development
to occur in Africa.
Now sometimes these issues are treated separately and individually, instead of being seen in a
broader context. Like for example, what does the International Monetary Fund have to do with
Africa? There are no countries there that are currently being looked at for the IMF funding, but
if we do not stabilize those countries that are in financial crisis, I can guarantee you the
opportunities for development and investment in Africa will be severely impacted
disadvantageously.
It is very important for us to recognize that the IMF, with all of its problems, is the only tool we
have in the world today that we have to combat this financial crisis. There is nothing that we can
do to say to individual investors who say, "Well there are problems in South Korea, I guess I
better pull my money out of Brazil and South Africa." Because of the way they are reacting to
the market, other than trying to create conditions through the infusion of both assistance and
conditionality, that will send a message to the markets that has such an influence now because of
the international movement of capital, that it is safe, it is appropriate to consider investing in
places in Africa and the rest of the developing world.
So, the IMF is not one issue you stick over here and say, "Oh, I'm not happy with what they did
there and I am not happy with what they did here," and all the rest of it, and say, "Yes, but I
really want people to invest in developing Africa." Those two things in today's global economy
are integrated together. There is no way to escape that. I wish there were frankly. There are
many aspects of the global economy which I think are not good for developing countries in terms
of providing the kinds of support that transition economies need.
But we have to -- as the President said in a very important speech in New York on Monday -- we
have to create new architecture of financial stability, to replace what has been through attrition,
undermined because of the changes in the global economy since the Second World War when we
created that international system which consisted of the IMF among other things.
So I am here in part to say that we cannot talk about Africa as a separate entity and a separate
challenge apart from what is going on in the rest of the world. We do not, for example, in the
United States government fulfill the President's call to replenish the IMF, so that the IMF, our
only tool available, will be ready to step in and prevent financial crisis in other developing
countries that I believe the prospect for enticing development into Africa are severely
undermined. This goes hand in hand together and every one of us must urge our Congress to
fully fund the President's request of $18 billion for the IMF.
Are there problems for the IMF? Yes, there are. Are there different tactics of strategies that they
should fulfill? Yes, there are. But when the house is burning that is no time to reorganize the
fire department, we need to make sure that we go ahead and do the funding necessary to provide
the tools and then, we -- and when I say we I mean the United States, both our government and
our private sector have to work hand in hand to create a better response and different kinds of
strategies that will enable us number one of course to maybe foresee some of these problems, and
intervene and help more quickly, and then to have better remedies for them when they occur.
Now we also have another piece of legislation that is in the Congress, and that is the African
Trade Bill. I hope that what I have just said about the IMF demonstrates that again, you can't
just take the African Trade Bill and put it up and say, "Let's just focus on that." We have to see
it in context. And I would certainly urge this Congress, before it recesses, to act on the African
Trade Bill.
And I would make the argument again, it is not a perfect bill. I for one have never seen a perfect
bill. There is an old saying about two things that you should never watch being made: legislation
and sausage. You know, I do not believe that there is such a thing as a perfect bill that does all
the things that all of us would like to envision. We know that any piece of legislation is a result
of compromise and give and take; and that is one of the hallmarks of the democratic system.
And that's not all bad.
But in that bill we have so many more tools that will encourage our private sector to take that
leap of faith and invest in Africa. And we have good arguments about why they should take that
leap of faith if they are given the incentives and the opportunities to do so by having our
government, in a sense, provide through that trade bill, the sort of encouragement that they need.
We know that there are good stories about development occurring all over Africa. There is all
kinds of evidence about the effects of micro enterprise and small scale business that demonstrate
clearly that there are good, hard-working, committed people working at the grassroots level
throughout Africa who have given some assistance and help, both financial and technical, can
help build another future for themselves.
We know there is a commitment to self-sufficiency. There are leaders who are speaking the
language of self-sufficiency and independence that is the music to the ears of every person I
know in the United States. If they will open their ears and hear that message they will be more
inclined to go and invest in Africa. So there is tremendous potential for trade and investments.
We saw that time and time again on the President's trip. So the African Trade Bill will pry open
the ears and the eyes of so many different business interests, and I believe would lead to
significant investment in Africa.
Now there are many signs of progress throughout the continent. It is very encouraging that
Nigeria is once again moving toward a return to democracy. That very important country has
such an opportunity in the twenty-first century if only it would see its self-interest. And that is
what we hope will occur, because democracy is the clearest root to fulfilling self-interest
political and economic --and we hope that Nigeria will continue to make such steps.
Regional efforts brought down a brutal junta in Sierra Leone and brought back a democratically
elected government. And some of those who perpetrated the ethnic slaughter in 1994 are now
being brought to justice before the international criminal tribunal.
So there are many signs that the African renaissance is alive and well. It is not going to be an
easy task, we know that. Nothing as challenging as a transition from many of the conditions that
kept African countries down over the last thirty years will be easily wiped away. But I would
like to remind all of us that in the 1960's, the prevailing economic opinion in looking both at
African countries and at Asian countries was that African countries had more resources both
natural and people, and were better positioned to be better economies that Asian countries.
Now what made the difference? Why did the standard of living in Asian countries rise
continually? And despite their current problems why were the conditions put in place that would
enable them to create large middle classes and provide a higher standard of living to the majority
of their people, when many African countries did not fulfill that particular prediction?
Well you know as well as I do that leadership had a big role in determining how effective
African development was. And anyone who believes in this global economy that only the
economy is important is forgetting the lessons of history. Political leadership and good
government policy is critical to making sure economies work well. What we are finding in the
Asian crisis is that the lack of good government policies and good political leadership that
created conditions of transparency created conditions that were against corruption, that they
really were unprepared to deal with the problems despite their economic well being.
You cannot separate political policies that create good conditions for economic development
from the economic development itself. So now we are finally in the position in many parts of
Africa where we have the leadership. We have political leaders who understand what it takes to
create the conditions for economic success.
And we should do everything we can to stand with those leaders and encourage others to join
their ranks. Because if we work with Africa to build a stronger future for the people of that
continent, we are building a stronger future for ourselves.
So the President is a number one cheerleader for our partnership with Africa. There are strong
members of Congress who understand why this is in America's interest -- in their constituent's
interest -- and not just members of the Black Caucus, but others as well. What we have to do is
take that message of realistic progress and make it the cornerstone of a policy that delivers on
this partnership, and I hope that all of us will be committed to that and looking for creative
strategies to bring that about.
Thank you very much.
SADC
as an Emerging Market
By Dr. Kaire Mbuende
SADC Executive Secretary
With the imminent creation of a large
Transformation to
integrated market of 190 million
market-based economies
people and a combined Gross Domestic
All member States have undertaken
Product of over US$150 billion,
major economic reforms by embrac-
Southern A frica is an emerging market
ing market-based economies, with the
which will attract substantial domestic,
private sector playing a leading role.
regional and foreign investment.
The reforms that have been undertaken
Continuous flows of investments and
include privatisation of state-owned
sustained growth and development
enterprises, relaxation of some
will, however, depend on the ability
exchange control restrictions and
of our industries to compete within the
import liberalisation. The short-term
domestic, regional and international
social impact of the reforms should be
markets.
addressed through deliberate
The macro-economic situation in
Regional leaders pose for a group picture at
government programmes
the region has improved significantly
the 1997 SADC Summit held in Blantyre.
Resource endowment
Malawi in September.
and the opening up of the markets has
The region is richly endowed with
also created new opportunities for
abundant agricultural, mineral and
investors both domestic and
human resources. The availability of
international. SADC achieved GDP
these resources in the region can be
growth of 6.6 percent in 1996, higher
turned into a competitive edge given
than Africa's average growth of 5
the environment that is being created.
percent and outpassed that of the
More investments should be directed
industrialised countries of 4 percent.
towards the beneficiation of the
Southern Africa is, therefore, one of
region's resources, especially in
the most active emerging markets in
manufactures which would lead to the
the developing world. SADC is viewed
diversification of exports.
as the region with the greatest potential
Good infrastructure
10 spearhead the new African
In SADC there is a relatively good
Delegates listen attentively to speeches of
Renaissance. This renaissance is about
the official opening or the 199, SADC Summit.
infrastructure that is a prerequisite for
renewal and regeneration, it is about
an emerging regional market and
creating space for people to express
investment destination. The region has
and develop their talents, it embraces
made substantial investments in
tolerance and mutual support and
telecommunications, railways, ports
harnesses the collective energies of
and road transport systems. The
member States to achieve a common
transformation of the transport
vision. Other important factors that
corridors into development corridors
have contributed to this emerging
is a landmark for SADC's long-term
market include the following
development strategy. The
Political stability,
development corridors such as Beira,
peace and security
Maputo and Walvis Bay are all
SADC enjoys relative peace and
intended to open investment
stability since the 1990s, which has
opportunities for both domestic and
provided a conducive environment for
foreign private investors.
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SADC Chairman. President Nelson Mandela
trade and investment. It is important
of South Africa. presents the SADC Laissez
Tourism potential
that SADC consolidates and continues
Passer to SADC Executive Secretary. Dr.
The service sector is one of the sectors
10 pursue measures which promote
Kaire Mbuende. Issued to employees of
where opportunities are enormous,
relative peace and stability prevailing
SADC. the Laissez Passer has status of a
especially in tourism. It is one of the
III the region.
diplomatic passport.
fastest growing sectors in the region
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SADC has many centres of tourist
The Objectives of the Community as stated in the Treaty are to:
attraction which should be developed
Achieve development and economic growth, alleviate poverty, enhance
and marketed.
the standard and quality of life of the peoples of southern Africa and support the
Development of capital
socially disadvantaged through regional integration.
and money markets
Evolve common political values, systems and institutions.
The region has established a viable
Promote and defend peace and security
financial sector that has witnessed the
Promote f-sustaining develpment on the basis of collective self-reliance,
creation of stock markets. Out of the
and the r-dependence of member States.
sixteen stock exchanges in Africa, eight
Achieve complementarity between national and regional strategies and
of them are in Southern Africa with the
programmes.
Johannesburg Stock Exchange being the
Promote and maximise productive employment and utilisation of resources
oldest of them all. There has been
of the region.
remarkable activity on the stock
Achieve sustainable utilisation of natural resources and effective protection
exchanges such that some of them are
of the environment.
rated highly as the emerging capital
Strengthen and consòlidate the long-standing historical, social and cultural
markets in developing countries. The
affinities and links among the peoples of the region.
capital and money markets are assisted
by the liberalisation of the current
To achieve Its aim, SADC shall:
account transactions, but there still are
Harmonise political and socio-economic policies and plans of member
exchange control restrictions on the
States.
capital account which remain a sore to
Mobilise the peoples of the region and their institutions to take initiatives
investors. Member States are urged to
to develop economic, social and cultural ties across the region, and to participate
remove all capital account exchange
fully in the implementation of the programmes and projects of SADC,
control restrictions to allow free flow of
Create appropriate institutions and mechanisms for the mobilisation of
investment capital.
requisite resources for the implementation of the programmes and operations of
Itis, therefore, evident from the above
SADC and its institutions.
that the region has all the ingredients of
Develop policies aimed at the progressive elimination of obstacles to free
an emerging market and attractive
movement of capital and labour, goods and services, and of the peoples of the
destination for investment. Southern
region generally among member States
Africa could be the 21st Century boom
Promote the development of human resources.
region.
Promote the development, transfer and mastery of technology
Improve economic management and performance through regional
GLOBALISATION AS
cooperation.
THE CONTEXT OF REGIONAL
Promote the coordination and harmonisation of the international relations
INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
of member States.
The SADC strategy for integration
Secure international
and development of the region
understanding, cooperation and
should be seen in the context of
support. mobilise the inflow of
globalisation. As we brace ourselves
public and private resources tato
for the next millennium, the world
the region.
is gripped in a new process of
Develop such other
globalisation as reflected in the
activities as member States may
growth of world trade, unification
decide in furtherance of the
of capital markets and the
objectives of SADC.
internationalisation of production,
distribution networks and the mega-
The SADC signatories agree that
revolution in information,
underdevelopment, exploitation,
communications and technology.
deprivation and backwardness
Globalisation presents both
in southern Africa will only be
opportunities and challenges for
overcome through economic
developing countries and especially
cooperation and integration. The
for Africa and indeed the Southern
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member States recognise that
African region.
achieving regional economic
integration in southern Africa requires them to put their full support behind SADC
Challenges
to act on behalf of all southern Africans for their common prosperity, peace and
Our economies in the region continue to
unity.
be confined to the export of primary
commodities, especially from agriculture
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and mining sectors. While the volume of
itself an opportunity for expanding
producing goods and services which can
exports has increased substantially, their
production, improving productivity and
compete effectively with other
value has declined drastically. Our
enhancing competitiveness in regional
international goods and services on the
economies are thus participating in the
trade. This has the potential to increase
global market. Competitive nations are
global market from a weak and
employment in tradable goods industries.
the ones that have chosen the institutions
disadvantaged position.
The expansion of the manufacturing
and policies that promote long-term
The ability of investment capital to
and related sectors opens new
growth.
seek out the most efficient markets, and
employment opportunities in non-
Unfortunately, the competitive
(or producers and consumers to access
tradable and service sectors. The
position of our region and individual
the most competitive sources, exposes
movement of labour across national
member States still leaves a lot to be
the vulnerability of our economies to
boundaries lessen production
desired. In the 1997 Global
being dumping grounds for multinational
bottlenecks, thus raising the supply
Competitiveness Report covering
corporations. Infant manufacturing
response of the economy. It has been
rankings for 1996, only South Africa
industries are subjected to stiff
observed, that in the industrialised
was ranked, at number 43, out of 53
competition and run the risk of being
countries, openness to foreign expertise,
countries surveyed. This means that the
wiped out.
advanced technology and know-how and
region has to look at itself seriously and
Globalisation in its present form
management techniques also had
internally first to build up capacities to
exacerbates the unevenness of the
positive effects on production and
enhance competitiveness.
international market. Increased capital
marketing efficiency.
mobility across borders, aided by
Factors enhancing
advanced telecommunication tech-
Regional integration as an answer
Competitiveness
pology. has the risk of destabilising flows
to challenges of globalisation
There are a number of factors that
and give rise to balance of payments
The region should, therefore, face up to
enhance competitiveness and which we
problems and exchange rate volatility.
the challenges and exploit the
have to address because of their critical
Furthermore, the low level of
opportunities. However, given the size
nature. The main ones will be examined
development of SADC economies in
of our economies as individual entities,
below
terms of technology, infrastructure,
we can only compete effectively if we
Market-based economic policies
technical and managerial skills increases
work as a group. This is why regional
An open economy empowers the people
the risk of being marginalised.
integration is a prelude to globalisation.
and allows international transactions in
The real challenge for SADC is to
The trend towards regional
capital inflows, goods and services as
develop structures and adopt appropriate
integration is clearly reflected in the
well as in the movement of expertise
policies which transform the region's
rising number of economic groupings
with new management techniques which
productive capacity in manufactured
over the last three decades, such as
improves production capacity and
products for export. This would be
MERCOSUR, CARICOM, BAC, IGAD,
enhances productivity. Macro-economic
sustainably competitive at regional level,
ASEAN, NAFTA, ANDEAN to mention
stability, embodied in low inflation,
and would give the region the latitude to
a few. The importance of large regional
appropriate, stable and predictable real
effectively launch itself onto the global
markets as a basis for increasing trade
exchange rates and prudent fiscal stance,
market.
flows and building up capacities to
is essential for expanding economic
produce export products can not be over-
domestic activity and is a precondition
Opportunities
emphasised.
for benefiting from sustained private
Not withstanding the above challenges,
Regional integration is an important
capital flows. Member States have
there are substantial benefits to be derived
instrument for enhancing competition
adopted open market economic policies.
from globalisation. These benefits can
as it offers national economies
There is also some degree of economic
he noticed in increasing trade which
opportunities of reduced tariff levels,
convergence, which augurs well for
gives consumers access to a wider choice
larger markets, economies of scale in
improving the competitive position of
of low cost, high quality goods and
the production of goods and services.
the region.
services. Producers would also have
Such regional competition will also spur
Role of government.
access to advanced technology, that
adoption of new and advanced
and the legal framework
facilitates more efficient and effective
technology and management techniques
Legal and political institutions that lay
use of resources, and to world markets,
which would improve the quality of
the foundation for supporting a modern,
as perceived by the conclusion of the
output. Regional trade and capital flows
competitive market economy, including
Uruguay Round and the establishment
across borders are important for
the rule of law and protection of property
of the World Trade Organisation. This
underpinning export growth.
rights, play an important role in building
would allow SADC countries to exploit
investor confidence. It is gratifying to
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the opportunities and comparative
COMPETITIVENESS AS A CRITICAL
note that in SADC we can boast of
dyantages available,
FACTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT
having transparent and independent
The fact that the WTO allows greater
Globalisation demands that the region
judicial systems which are supported by
market openness at regional revel at a
becomes competitive in attracting
accountable political systems that uphold
taster pace than at the global level is
investment, new technology and
the rule of law and respect the basic prin-
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ciples of democracy and human rights.
2 percent of their budgets on R&D, as
harness national energies and harmonise
Financial and capital markets
compared to more than 10 percent for
macro-economic policies which
There is a two way relationship between
the developed world. Virtually, only
facilitate sustained growth of the
the financial sector and the productive
governments appear to be attempting to
economies. This vision is within reach.
sector of the economy. The financial
fund R&D. There is, therefore, need to
While the factors examined earlier
sector's contribution to economic growth
mobilise more resources from
are all important for the region to be
lies in the central role it plays in
government and to bring in the private
competitive, I want to underline a few
mobilising savings and allocating these
sector to fund R&D, in order to improve
elements which I view as most critical
resources efficiently to the most
the region's competitive edge.
and deserve to be given priority. The
productive uses and investments in the
Human capital
broad areas that are crucial include trade
real sector of the economy. It is gratifying
Human capital is another critical factor
liberalisation, diversification of exports,
to observe genuine efforts by
for promoting competitiveness as it
infrastructure management, investment
Governments in the region to restructure
provides the required knowledge, skills,
and human resource development.
and resuscitate the financial sector for
attitudes and capacities for developing
SADC has a viable strategy in
enhanced economic performance. The
competitive strategies, product
regional integration and particularly in
financial sector reforms have brought
development, quality control, corporate
its vision of creating a free trade area. I
about an increase in such vital capital
financial operations, marketing and
urge member States to move with speed
market institutions as stock exchanges,
human resource development.
on the ratification of the protocols as
stock broking firms and issuing houses.
Furthermore, human resource and skills
they form the basis for the region's
Quality and efficiency
development facilitates the adoption,
integration into the world trading system
of infrastructure
absorption and diffusion of new
with the hope and confidence to succeed,
The provision of low cost and efficient
technology. The requisite skills and
As indicated earlier, most of SADC
infrastructure is essential for enhancing
ability to learn quickly are needed. As a
countries depend on single natural
competitiveness especially for
region, substantial investment in human
resource based exports. There is need
landlocked member States. In SADC,
resource development and training has
for the region to facilitate the
the basic infrastructure is in place. In
been made, but this has to be a continuous
diversification of exports especially into
relation to telecommunications, while
process as new ways of doing business
manufactured goods. Manufactured or
the interconnections to international
are developed.
processed exports have higher value-
countries appear good, the cost to the
Productivity Improvement
added and do not suffer from erratic
consumer is still very high. Given that
Productivity is a decisive factor for the
price fluctuations as experienced by
telecommunication has become the key
success of SADC's integration agenda
commodity exports. Bold and deliberate
to development, especially for export
as the region tries to make itself
policies to industrialise should be taken
marketing and importation of machinery
competitive in the fast globalisation of
to encourage the devel opment of SADC's
and equipment, the need for cost-
the world economy. High productivity
manufacturing base. Governments
effective systems. can not be
levels are crucial in attracting foreign
should provide incentives and financial
overemphasised.
direct investment which is a source of
instruments to support new industries
Modern technology
new technology and managerial skills
which should use the regional market as
Man has managed to survive the ravages
for the enhancement of the competitive
their launch pad for the international
and calamities of this world because of
edge of Southern African export
market.
being innovative and improving upon
products.
The region generally should improve
existing technology. Technological
It is clear from the above factors that,
the management of its infrastructure to
changes bring with them the hope that
SADC cannot allow itself to be
facilitate efficient and effective low cost
their productive potential can be
marginalised. The region has to liberalise
delivery systems which are essential for
harnessed to raise living standards of the
further, embrace new technology,
enhancing competitiveness. Foreign
region's citizens and eradicate absolute
manage the macro-economic policies
investment will flow in if the
poverty. The absorption and diffusion of
with prudence, open the markets and use
infrastructure can guarantee low cost
new technologies play an important role
the market information tool for
efficient delivery.
in transforming the regions productivity
establishing niche markets in which our
Foreign investment should be
levels, production capacities and
export products are competitive.
facilitated as it brings with it advanced
capabilities and economic performance
technology and new management and
in the same way technology has created
WAY FORWARD
technical skills necessary for
the prosperity of the industrialised world.
The vision for the Southern African
transforming the production base to a
Regrettably, total spending on Research
Development Community is the creation
competitive one. The saying, charity
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& Development (R&D) is very
of a single political and economic space
begins at home, is true of investment.
insignificant and yet it is one of the
built on democratic principles, equitable
Domestic investment should be
crucial factors for improving
and sustainable development, improved
mobilised across the region and directed
productivity and competitiveness.
living standards of the citizens, free
to the most important productive sectors.
Available statistics indicate that the third
movement of factors of production and
The region should achieve higher levels
world, including SADC, spends less than
of goods and services. There is need to
of domestic investment for it to be able
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to attract more foreign direct investment.
SADC CORPORATE PROFILE
Intra-SADC investment should be the
Originally known as the Southern
starting point for increased investment
African Development Coordination
ANGOLA
inflows into the national economies
Conference (SADCC), the Organisation
including from the small to medium-
was formed in Lusaka, Zambia, on 1
scale enterprises.
April, 1980, following the adoption of
BOTSWANA
Human resources is at the centre of
the Lusaka Declaration - Southern
development as the prime mover and the
Africa: Towards Economic Liberation
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO
beneficiary of such developments. The
by the nine founding member States.
level and capacity of human resources
The Declaration and Treaty
determines the capacity the region has
establishing the Southern African
LESOTHO
to absorb and diffuse new technologies
Development Community (SADC)
for improving the quality and standards
which has replaced the Coordination
MALAWI
of export products. Productivity
Conference was signed at the Summit of
improvement is also dependent on the
Heads of State or Government on 17
level of training and expertise of the
August, 1992, in Windhoek, Namibia.
MAURITIUS
human resources. The same goes for
Member States are Angola,
business management skills and
Botswana, Democratic Republic of
MOZAMBIQUE
entrepreneurial acumen. There is need
Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Malawi,
to build capacity in managing the
Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia,
regional integration process and the
Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland,
NAMIBIA
change brought about by the
Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Each
globalisation process. For the region to
member State has responsibility to
SEYCHELLES
be part of the process, the business sector
coordinate a sector or sectors on behalf
has to be led by men and women of high
of the others.
esteem, with the right business culture
New member States may be
SOUTH AFRICA
to pursue the shared vision of turning
allowed to join by a unanimous decision
SADC into a competitive and fast
of the SADC Summit and upon acceding
SWAZILAND
economic growth centre in Africa, and
to the SADC Treaty.
indeed in the developing world.
SADC headquarters are in
The onus is on SADC countries to
TANZANIA
Gaborone, Botswana.
prepare themselves for entry into the
The working languages of SADC
21st Century, where only those who can
are English and Portuguese.
ZAMBIA
compete will achieve prosperity. The
region can compete if all energies are
ZIMBABWE
harnessed for the common objective.
The future is a very challenging one,
but these are challenging times. In
looking to the future, it must be borne in
SADC FLAG
mind that challenges in today's global
Victoria
economy are much greater than what
any single country can cope alone. But
SEYCHELLES
as a region, working together, the tasks
become more manageable and the
objectives, closer within reach. So let us
keep our sights on our common goals of
building a community in which there is
BIQUE
free movement of goods, services, capital
and people, in which poverty has been
MAURITIUS
Port Louis
eradicated and the standard of living of
the people is comparable to international
standards. This should be supported by
SUC
sustainable export-led growth. This is
Maputo
what our partnership. as SADC, is all
15
about: Achieve Prosperity and Eradicate
AZILAND
SADC
Poverty in Southern Africa. The region
THO
has to be attractive to investment and
Flags and Map of
aggressive in its marketing approach for
Member States
it to make an impact in the world market.
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Summit
Heads
Member
States
I
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National
Standing
Council
Sectoral
Contact
-
Committee
of
Committees
Points
of Officials
Ministers
of Ministers
Committee
Sector
SADC Organ-
SADC
of SADC
Secretariat
Coordinating
Tribunal
Polltics,
-
Units/
Defence and
Parliamentary
Ambassadors
Forum
Commissions
Security
Sectoral
Contact
SADC
Points
ORGANISATIONAL
STRUCTURE
The Institutional Framework
carrying out these sectoral activities.
Standing Committee of Officials
Over the years, SADC has established
The Council also meets at least once a
- Each member State is represented by a
institutions through which its business is
year to review progress and operations
Permanent Secretary, or an official of
conducted, from policy making to
of its subordinate institutions. The
equivalent rank. Like in the Council, the
administration.
Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Council
official usually comes from a ministry
Summit Made up of Heads of
are appointed by member States holding
responsible for economic planning or
State or Government, the Summit is the
the Chairmanship and Vice-
finance. The Standing Committee acts
ultimate policy-making institution of
Chairmanship of SADC respectively.
as a technical advisory committee to the
SADC. It is responsible for the overall
Sectoral Committees and
Council to whom it also reports. This
policy direction and control of functions
Commissions - SADC has established
group also meets at least once a year.
of the Community. Headed by a
Commissions and Sector Coordinating
Members of the Standing Committee
Chairman and Vice-Chairman, who are
Units to guide and coordinate regional
have a dual responsibility as they are
elected for an agreed period, the Summit
policies and programmes in specific
also National Contact Points.
meets at least once in a year. The Summit
areas. The sectors are allocated to
National Contact Points - These
is responsible for creating Commissions,
individual member States to coordinate
are located in the Ministry responsible
and other institutions, as well as for the
and provide leadership. Sectoral
for SADC matters and act as a vital link
appointment of the Executive Secretary
activities are supervised by Sectoral
between other agencies of government
and Deputy Executive Secretary.
Committees of Ministers. The Minister
and SADC organs. The National Contact
Council of Ministers - Ministers
representing the sector coordinating
Points' responsibility also include regular
from each member State, usually but not
country chairs the Sectoral Committee
consultation with and briefings of
only those responsible for their country's
of Ministers. Sectoral Commissions may
relevant government institutions, the
economic planning or finance, make up
be established as and when necessary,
enterprise community and media on
the Council. The Council is responsible
through a convention or other
matters relating to SADC.
for overseeing the functioning and
instruments approved by the Summit
Sectoral Contact Points These
development of SADC and ensuring that
and ratified by member States.
are the grassroots level in the SADC
policies are properly implemented. The
Commissions are regional institutions,
organisational structure. All government
16
Council advises the Summit on policy
supported by all member States whereas
ministries with line responsibilities for
matters and approves SADC policies,
Sector Coordinating Units are part of
SADC sector(s) are Sectoral Contact
strategies and work programmes. One
national governments staffed mainly by
Points and work closely with the
of the major tasks of the Council is to
civil servants of the sector coordinating
respective Sector Coordinating Units in
decide upon sectoral areas of cooperation
country. Sectoral Committees and
the preparation of sectoral policies and
and the allocation of responsibility for
Commissions report to Council.
strategies. and formulation of project
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proposals. Sectoral Contact Points attend
and participate in sectoral meetings, and
DECLARATION ON GENDER
assist Sector Coordinating Units in
AND DEVELOPMENT
monitoring of projects.
A Declaration on Gender and Development was signed by 12
Secretariat - As the principal
member States at the SADC Summit held on 8 September 1997 at
executive institution of SADC, the
Blantyre, Malawi.
Secretariat is responsible for strategic
The Declaration commits the SADC countries to:
planning and management of SADC
Placing gender firmly on the agenda of the SADC Programme of Action and
programmes. Headed by the Executive
Community Building Initiative:
Secretary, who is appointed by the
Ensuring the equal representation of women and men in the decision making
Summit, the Secretariat is charged with
of member States and SADC structures at all levels, and the achievement of at
the task ofimplementing decisions made
least 30 percent of women in political and decision making structures by the year
by the Summit and the Council. The
2005;
Secretariat organises and manages
Promoting women's full access to, and control over productive resources
SADC meetings and is responsible for
such as land, livestock, markets, credit, modern technology, formal employment,
the financial and general administration
and a good quality of life in order to reduce the level of poverty among women;
of the Community. Diplomatic
Repealing and reforming all laws, amending constitutions and changing
representation and promotion of SADC
social practices which still subject women to discrimination, and enacting
is also undertaken by the Secretariat.
empowering gender sensitive laws;
Tribunal A Tribunal shall be
Enhancing access to quality education by women and men, and removing
constituted to ensure adherence to, and
gender stereotyping in the curriculum, career choices and professions;
proper interpretation of the provisions
Making quality reproductive and other health services more accessible to
of the SADC Treaty and subsidiary
women and men;
instruments, and to adjudicate upon
Protecting and promoting the human rights of women and children;
disputes referred to it. The composition,
Recognising, protecting and promoting the reproductive and sexual rights of
powers, functions, procedures and other
women and girl child;
related matters governing the Tribunal
Taking urgent measures to prevent and deal with the increasing levels of
will be prescribed in a Protocol to be
violence against women and children; and
adopted by the Summit. Decisions of the
Encouraging the mass media to disseminate information and materials in
Tribunal shall be final and binding.
respect of the human rights of women and children.
Additional Institutions Other
institutions may be established when
necessary.
DECLARATION ON A SOUTHERN AFRICA
FREE OF ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES
The Budget
A Declaration on a 'Southern Africa free of anti-personnel landmines'
The SADC budget for operational costs
was signed by 12 member States at the SADC Summit held on 8
of running the Secretariat and Com-
September 1997 at Blantyre, Malawi.
missions is funded from contributions
The Heads of State or government of SADC:
made by member States in equal amounts
Acknowledge the final Declaration of the 4th International NGO Conference
agreed upon by Council. Council also
on Landmines which was held in Maputo, Mozambique, in February 1997;
determines from which other sources
Appreciate the generous assistance being rendered to SADC by the EU on
revenue can be sourced.
the landmine clearing project, as well as other assistance rendered by the Inter-
Estimates of revenue and expenditure
national Community to SADC countries on the same matter, on a bilateral basis;
are prepared by the Executive Secretary
The Declaration urges the SADC countries to:
who submits them to Council for
To take unilateral steps to ban the use, production, trade and stockpiling of
approval. Budgets for sectoral projects
anti-personnel landmines in their territories;
are handled directly by project executing
To support landmine ban campaigns, especially by the general public and
agencies, but it is the responsibility of
NGOs in their territories;
project sponsors, Sector Coordinating
To implement the relevant UN Resolutions urging for a worldwide ban on
Units and the Secretariat to mobilise and
the production and use of anti-personnel landmines;
source funding for SADC projects.
To implement the various OAU Resolutions urging for a continent-wide ban
In addition, individual member States
on the production and use of anti-personnel landmines on the African Continent;
provide funding and staff to their
To publicly commit themselves to the objective of signing the international
respective Sector Coordinating Units.
Treaty banning the production, trade and use of all anti-personnel landmines to
17
SADC meetings are hosted, on rotation,
be signed in December 1997;
by member States at their own.expense,
To increase greatly resources for mine clearance from all mine infested areas
but member States delegations meet their
in the affected SADC countries; and
own cost of travel, accommodation and
To increase resources for assisting landmine victims.
subsistence.
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SADC
Sectoral
Responsibilities
Council
Sectoral
Sector
of
Committees
Coordinating
Ministers
of Ministers
Units
The primary role of SADC is to help define regional
priorities, facilitate integration, assist in mobilising
resources and to maximise the regional impact of
projects.
The approach is to address national priorities
through regional action. Each member State has been
allocated a sector to coordinate which involves
proposing sector policies, strategies and priorities,
and processing projects for inclusion in the sectoral
programme, monitoring progress and reporting to the
Council of Ministers.
The SADC Programme of Action is made up of
all the programmes and projects approved by the
Council of Ministers.
In
* Sectors still to be allocated.
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International Women's Forum
September 28, 1998
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Ms. Noa Meyers
LEADERSHIP
Office of the First Lady
The White House
FOUNDATION
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Noa:
DIRECTORS
Thank you so much for all of your help arranging Mrs. Clinton's videotaped
Helen Galland
remarks. We are so proud that the First Lady will tape a message for the
President
International Women's Forum's Global Conference in New Orleans.
Jean Head Sisco
Chairman
As we discussed on the phone, these remarks will be prominently featured at the
Jeanne L. Herberger
IWF's General Assembly, the kick-off of the 3-day conference, which will take place
Treasurer
on Thursday, October 22 at 1:30 p.m. The General Assembly will be multi-media
presentation on the IWF's Leadership Foundation and its Fellows Program. Included
Lou Kerr
on stage will be live presentations from women who have been both Mentors and
Secretary
Fellows in the program. They will speak about the importance of women mentoring
Carolyn Bussard
each other as a major personal and leadership development tool.
Barbara Casey
The theme of the IWF conference is In Pursuit of a Higher Culture, through
Cay Cook
leadership, work, business, wealth, health and the environment. The focus will be on
Cari Dominguez
taking the culture to that next step - to satisfy the hunger in people for higher things.
Evolving past where we are now, thinking with a new head, and improving the human
Mary Frates
condition, will be at the center of the discussion. Featured speakers will include:
Patricia Gabel
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nation's Development Fund for
Pamela Garside
Women, Oda Makoto, renown author and social commentator from Japan, Wangari
Maathai head of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, Rosario Green, Secretary of
Rosalind Gilmore
Foreign Relations of Mexico, Bineta Diop, Executive Director of Femmes Africa
Susan Greenwood
Solidarite, and Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. U.S. Ambassador
to the Vatican Lindy Boggs, Wangari Maathai, and civil rights leader Rosa Parks will be
Kaaren Johnson-Street
inducted into the International Hall of Fame.
Liane Levetan
Sybil Haydel Morial
The audience for Mrs. Clinton's remarks will be approximately 300 members of the
IWF, women leaders who have gathered from around the country and around the globe.
Linda Moriarty
Mrs. Clinton is a member of our Arkansas Forum and has taped remarks for their
Irene Natividad
conference in Atlanta in 1995.
Ellen Sills-Levy
Attached are some drafted comments, which Mrs. Clinton may consider incorporating
Patricia Smothers
into her speech. But she is such a gifted speaker, I know she will touch the hearts and
Joan Specter
spirits of these women. She'll be wonderful.
Jannie Tay
Noa, again thank you for your help. Please let me know if you have any questions or if
Marina Vaccari
you need any additional information.
Cynthia Maduro Ryan
Co-Founder
Sincerely
Rosemary E. Weiss
Co-Founder
Jacqueline P. Mildner
Lillie Richardella
Chief Operating Officer
Jacqueline P. Mildner
Director of Programs
1621 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20009 U.S.A.
(202)775-8917
(202)429-0271 (FAX)
[email protected]
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video
Ms. Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Office of the First Lady
The White House
Room 100 OEOB
Washington, D.C. 20550
Dear Melanne,
I would appreciate if you can ensure that the First
Lady receives the enclosed letter that I have written
to her in behalf of the International Women's
Forum.
Thank you so very much for all of your help.
Fondly,
Cissil
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reaching and with love
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(202) 775-8917
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Officers
August 18, 1998
Fran A. Streets
President
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barbara Barrett
Office of the First Lady
Executive Vice President
The White House
Kathleen B. Cooper
Washington, D.C. 20550
Joan Specter
Vice Presidents
Communication
Dear Hillary:
Lucy Jarvis
I am writing to you about a very special event that can turn the concept of
Janice A. Zarro
Vice Presidents
mentoring and development into a reality for women and girls in 18
Development
countries around the world. My IWF colleagues and I would truly love to
Alexandra Armstrong
feature video taped remarks from you at the opening session of the
Evelyn Gessler
International Womens Forum's Fourteenth Annual Global Conference to
Carole Hyatt
be held in New Orleans in October of this year.
Anna Wu
Vice Presidents
Global Membership
The program that is being planned would feature a welcome from you to
both the IWF and its Leadership Foundation at the conference General
Gay Cook
Rosalind Gilmore
Assembly which this year will focus on the Leadership Foundation's
Vice Presidents
Fellows Program. The Leadership Foundation is the educational and
Leadership
charitable arm of the IWF and is charged with the crucial task of
Laurel G. Bellows
transferring the skills, knowledge, and life experience of the 4,000
Patricia Gabel
members of the IWF to up-and-coming women poised to accede to the
Vice Presidents
Presidents' Roundtable
very highest levels in their own careers. Members of the IWF come from
industry, finance, government, media academia and the arts, and they are
Amanda Brown-Olmstead
assigned as mentors to 12-15 Fellows for one year. Through this unique,
Fran S. Rodgers
Vice Presidents
hands-on personal coaching, skills are transferred from one generation of
Programs
women to another. New leaders are developed around the globe.
Belva Davis
Secretary
Jill Barad, President and CEO of Mattel (and Mentor in the program) has
been invited to serve as keynote speaker. Pat Mitchell, President, CNN
Florence W. Schornstein
Treasurer
Productions/Time Inc. Television and former anchor of Boston's top
network news (and Mentor to the program) has been invited to host a
Carol Cox Wait
Immediate Past President
roundtable discussion among women who have participated in the
program. The other Mentors whom we hope to highlight on stage are
Lillie Richardella
Cathy Minehan, President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston;
Chief Operating Officer
Rosalind Gilmore, former top treasury official of the United Kingdom and
a Director of BAT Industries; Micheline Bouchard, Chairman, President &
Clinton letter, page 2
CEO of Motorola (Canada); and Bobbie Gaunt, President & CEO of Ford Motor
Company of Canada; in addition there will be Fellows from Goodyear Tire Company,
NationsBank, Ernst & Young (Bahamas), PNC Bank and more.
Telspan International, a woman-owned company specializing in satellite up-link and
telecommunications, has been invited to cover this program for the global market and to
capture footage from the stage for an international media presentation designed to inform,
inspire, educate and illuminate their leadership acumen and competitiveness. We would
very much like to incorporate your taped remarks into this educational video.
Hillary, your voice and image would add remarkably to the important message we wish
to convey before the General Assembly. It would be our great honor to feature you at this
opening session on mentoring. As a member of our Arkansas Forum, you know the scope
and diversity of this global audience of women leaders. And the IWF members and I well
remember the impact of your videotaped comments before our Global Conference in
Atlanta three years ago
I thank you always for your friendship and for your consideration of the IWF request.
Lillie Richardella, the IWF COO can be reached in Washington on (202) 775-8917 and is
prepared to answer any questions you or your staff might have. I have asked Jackie
Mildner, the director of programs, to be in touch with your staff to present further details
of the conference.
Sincerely, findly
Cissie
Roselyne Swig
CC: Fran Street, President, International Women's Forum
1:30 pm - Oct. 22nd in New Orllans
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A SALUTE TO WOMEN MENTORS
&
THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM'S LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
Remarks by
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Videotaped for
October 22, 1998 New Orleans Global Conference
As an honorary member of the International Women's Forum's Arkansas
chapter, I am delighted to welcome you to the 1998 Global Conference
General Assembly in New Orleans.
I am particularly delighted to speak to you today in conjunction with
this General Assembly program devoted to the subject of developing
future women leaders through the International Women's Forum's
Leadership Foundation.
It wasn't so very long ago that women's prospects for equal participation
in the labor market, let alone in the world of leadership, was extra-
ordinarily limited.
The progress that has been made for women in this country is largely of the
recent past, and the understanding and knowledge of what leadership means
for women of achievement, resides in the hearts and minds of some very exceptional
individuals.
To pass this living knowledge on concerning what women bring to the worlds of
work, decision-making, leadership and authority, is a hefty responsibility
that isn't easily organized, shared, and preserved.
At the International Women's Forum's Leadership Foundation, this important
work is being done, successfully, creatively and effectively through the
Leadership Foundation Fellows Program.
It seems only yesterday when in 1995, I addressed the assembly of International
Women's Forum leaders on hand for your Global Conference in Atlanta, to welcome
the work of the 12 Mentors of the IWF and the 12 Fellows in whose hands their
mentoring rested, to a new and innovative program -- The Leadership Foundation's
Fellows.
Now, entering its fifth year of successful operations, this program has taught
us all a little bit more about what woman-to-woman, senior-level mentoring
means and how it is growing our tomorrows.
Today, you will hear from the leaders, mentors, fellows and trainers of
the program that is earning national and international recognition as
the only initiative of its kind aimed at women headed for the top.
Part of its success rests in the fact that the women members of the
International Women's Forum are uniquely positioned to offer advice,
counsel and mentoring at a level unavailable anywhere else due to
who you are, what you have achieved, and what you have to offer.
I cannot underscore enough how important this work is and I can only
commend the International Women's Forum and its Leadership Foundation
for taking the leadership role it has in bringing to the American
work place this opportunity.
In 1995, when last I spoke to you about this program, it was an
American initiative only.
You now touch lives in Europe, the Caribbean and Asia with
customized training at the highest level for women of
potential and promise.
I offer you my congratulations and warmest wishes for every
success with the International Women's Forum and its Leadership
Foundation programs which increase the prospects of women
and girls in the United States and throughout the world.
Best wishes for a productive General Assembly program and an
outstanding three day Global Conference.
The International Women's Forum
Leadership Foundation
The International Women's Forum is a global organization of preeminent women of
significant and diverse achievement. With Forums throughout North America, Europe, Asia,
Latin America and the Middle East, the IWF facilitates networking among women of
achievement and promotes opportunities for women in leadership. The IWF is proud to have
The Honorable Fran A. Streets serving as its President.
The Leadership Foundation is the educational and charitable arm of the (IWF). The purpose
of the Leadership Foundation is to use the experience and expertise developed by members
of the IWF to benefit women worldwide and to educate the public about the contributions
women can make, and are making, to society. The Leadership Foundation is a training and
personal development organization that promotes professionalism and leadership in all
fields and disciplines, including business, academia, science and world affairs.
Each year, The Leadership Foundation selects 12-15 women with exceptional potential for
the unique opportunity to participate in its Fellows Program. Women are chosen from
diverse careers and ethnic backgrounds and represent a cross-section of geographical areas
around the country and world. They are matched with members of the IWF who are
willing to be Mentors and who act as hands-on coaches and personal guides during the
course of the year. The program requires a commitment of 32 days throughout the entire
program year, which runs from October through September. The Fellows receive: 10 days
with their Mentors, ongoing leadership training, extensive networking opportunities, the
opportunity to attend two international conferences, and a customized week long
educational program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
One of the unique aspects of the program is the access it provides to some of the most
highly placed professional women in the world. IWF's membership is over 3000 and
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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
VIDEOTAPED REMARKS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL GLOBAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 5, 1998
Good afternoon. As an honorary member of the International Women's Forum's Arkansas
chapter, it is a great personal pleasure for me to welcome you to the 1998 International Women's
Forum's Global Conference in New Orleans. I am always delighted to speak to an organization
so devoted to the development of women's leadership
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their induction into the International Hall of Fame. Thank you for the personal contributions each
of you has made to helping others and for serving as inspirations for women around the world.
Thank you for increasing the prospects for women and girls throughout the world. Warmest
wishest for an outstanding conference.
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An International
Preservation Organization
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
949 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Telephone: 212 517 9367
Telefax: 212 517 9494
TO:
Katie Button, Assistant to Melanne Verveer
FROM:
Laurie Beckelman Lame
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September 17, 1998
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Dear Ms. Button,
It has been suggested to me that I contact you.
As you may know, the World Monuments Fund is honoring Richard H. Jenrette at our annual
Hadrian Award Luncheon in New York on October 23, 1998. Melanne was kind enough to
forward our initial invitation to the First Lady, asking her to be Honorary Patron of the event
and Mrs. Clinton graciously agreed. We are aware that due to the First Lady's hectic
schedule, she may not be able to attend the event itself. With that in mind, we were
wondering if the First Lady may participate in our Luncheon in another capacity.
Every year at the luncheon, we present a short, 10 minute film about the honoree and the
historic work that s/he has done. Mr. Jenrette has restored several historic homes in the
United States and exemplifies patronage of American cultural heritage. We would be deeply
honored if the First Lady would agree to be filmed for approximately 1 minute at the White
House, introducing the film and speaking of the importance of American cultural heritage and
Mr. Jenrette's role. I have attached a draft of a script for the First Lady, which she may edit
to her liking. This coverage would be included in our 10 minute film and would be shown at
the luncheon.
We would be greatly honored if the First Lady would agree to being filmed. Please do not
hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I would be grateful if you could be so kind
as to present this fax and idea to Melanne and look forward to hearing her response.
Park Yours sincerely, Bechila
Laurie Beckelman
Vice President
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Proposed text for Hillary Rodham Clinton's remarks for the
World Monuments Fund film honoring Richard Jenrette
It is my very great pleasure to introduce this film honoring Richard Jenrette
as an exemplary preserver of our American heritage. I have known Dick for many
years, as a friend, a business leader, and fellow champion of historic architecture. As
a member of the President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the US
Capitol Preservation Committee, and many other charitable organizations, Dick
works tirelessly to help preserve our country's treasures. I admire his lovely homes
and am proud that he opens them to the public so that everyone may share his
appreciation for historic architecture.
I applaud the World Monuments Fund as it bestows this year's Hadrian
award to Richard Jenrette, a great leader in the fight to save America's endangered
heritage.
Bonnie Bunkan Pres
Phyllis lambert- last heciprent years
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949 Park Avenue
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Telephone: 212 517 9367
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email: [email protected]
TO:
Ms. Noa Nelles
FROM:
Martha Flach, Archivist
DATE:
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Dear Ms. Nelles,
As promised, enclosed is the Hadrian Benefit film script, a page from the
program (I will send the rest soon), and a copy of the invitation (Mrs. Clinton should
have received one already, please let me know if you would like another). Your office
should already have general materials on the World Monuments Fund, but I would
be happy to send more if need be.
I do think this would be an excellent opportunity for the First Lady to talk about
her work with "Save America's Treasures." One of our projects she might be
especially interested in is the Preservation High School initiative (which is briefly
described in the film script). We have been working with the New York Board of
Education and other organizations to start an ambitious new project to train local high
school students in the restoration arts. We are excited about the potential of
combining education, specialized craft training, and heritage preservation in a way
that young people - and the public - find compelling.
Thank you SO much for your efforts and please let me know if I can be of any
assistance or if I can assist you in any way with the First Lady's remarks. I will actually
be in Washington on business this Wednesday through Friday but will be checking
my messages.
M Sincerely, K
Martha Flach
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Honorary Patron
Brooke Astor
Honorary Chairman
Joan K. Davidson
Gail Gilbert
Harold McGraw III
Joseph J. Melone
Co-Chairmen
The WORLD MONUMENTS FUND will present its eleventh
and the Trustees of the World Monuments Fund
World Monuments Fund
annual Hadrian Award for outstanding leadership in the
preservation of cultural heritage to RICHARD H. JENRETTE.
cordially invite you to the
Mr. Jenrette will be recognized for his extraordinary
Eleventh Annual Hadrian Award Luncheon
dedication (0 the protection and restoration of historic
honoring
American homes. As well as being a highly regarded
leader in the international business community, Mr. Jenrette
has served as an important role model for the American
RICHARD H. JENRETTE
preservation movement, meticulouly restoring and refur-
bishing numerous historic properties including Edgewater in
Friday, October 23, 1998
the Hudson River Valley, New York; the antebellum Milford
Plantation in Pinewood, South Carolina: and Estate Cane
The Plaza
Garden, an 18th-century sugar plantation on St. Croix, U.S.
Fifth Avenue at Central Park South
Virgin Islands. A past Chairman of Historic Hudson Valley
New York City
and the current Chairman of the President's Advisory
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Council on Historic Preservation, Richard Jenrette's
Reception 12:00 noon
commitment to the texture and context of the past has made
Luncheon 12:30 p.m.
an indelible contribution to the greater understanding of
our priceless historic heritage.
R.S.V.P. by enclosed card
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1998 HADRIAN AWARD LUNCHEON
1998 HADRIAN AWARD LUNCHEON
BENEFIT COMMITTEE
BENEFIT COMMITTEE
UNDERWRITER
The Annenberg Foundation
John Jay Iselin
Mr. and Mrs. Julian H. Robertson, Jr.
Placido Arango
Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Prince Amyn Aga Khan
Anthony P. Balestrieri
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kimmelman
VICE CHAIRMEN
Anne H. Bass
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Л. Lauder
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass
Janice H. Levin
American Express Company
Ruth Bowman
Mr. and Mrs. Noel Levine
Hollinger International Inc. / Hon. Conrad M. Black, P.C., O.C.
Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Lyons Brown, Jr.
Christina and James Lockwood
Christie's
Mario Buatta
Norma Matalon
World Monuments Fund
The Equitable Companies Incorporated / Edward D. Miller
Edward Lee Cave
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert
Dr. Angela A. Cobra
Lynn Nesbit
Hon. and Mrs. Henry A. Grunwald
Larry E. Condon
Hon. Jennifer Raab
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst
Catherine G. Curran
Khalil Riad Rizk
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Daniels, Jr.
J.T. Robertson
Hon. and Mrs. Ronald S. Lauder
Elizabeth de Cuevas
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta
Dr. Lois de Menil
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rose
Samuel H. Kress Foundation / Dr. Marilyn Perry
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott
Nancy Varnedoe Gregory
Antonia P. DuBrul
Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro
Mrs. Keith S. Wellin
Lady Mary Fairfax A.M.O.B.E.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M.F. Sichel
Patricia H. Falk-Moiscenko
Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford
Barbara G. Fleischman
Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Stephens, Jr.
ASSOCIATE CHAIRMEN
Mrs. Anastassios Fondaras
Dr. Margaret Johns and IL Peter Stem
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Geniesse
Donald J. Sutherland
Paul R. Beime
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Gould
Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Tuber
Brook and Roger Berlind
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Grimes
Hiram P. Williams, Jr.
Simon J. Critchell
Ashton Hawkins
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey
Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hazel Hurst
Robert W. Wilson
Dr. Mathilde Krim
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Henckels
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winston
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The McGraw-Hill Companies / Harold W. McGraw III
Alice and Warren lichman
list in formation
Peter Norton
Lydia C. L. Irwin
Hon. and Mrs. Leon B. Polsky
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross
Gayfryd Steinberg
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THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND (WMF), founded in 1965, is a
ELEVENTH ANNUAL
private non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of
HADRIAN AWARD 1998
international architecture and art. To date, WMF has orchestrated
over 165 major projects in 52 countries. The World Monuments
Watch, a global program of WMF, publishes a biennial List of 100
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
Most Endangered Sites to attract attention and public response
to imminent threats against cultural heritage. Through its grants
World Monuments Fund
program, the World Monuments Watch funds emergency conser-
vation at selected sites on the endangered list.
THE HADRIAN AWARD of the World Monuments Fund is present-
ed annually to an international leader whose patronage has grearly
enriched the appreciation and conservation of art and architecture
around the world.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Ashton Hawkins
ASSOCIAÇÃO
Marilyn Perry
Prince Amyn Aga Khan
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
Chairman
Peter Kimmelman
(PORTUGAL)
Jonathan S. Linen
Hon. Ronald S. Lauder
Paulo Lowndes Marques
Lois de Menil
Chairman
H. Peter Stern
Samuel C. Miller
Vice Chairmen
Peter M. F. Sichel
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
Robert W. Wilson
Gayfryd Steinberg
ESPAÑA
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Vice Chairman and Treasurer
Bertrand du Vignaud
Juan Carlos Fierro
Paolo Viti
Chairman
Robert J. Geniesse
Nancy Brown Wellin
Secretary and General
WORLD MOMUMENTS FUND
Counsel
AFFILIATES
IN BRITAIN
The Rt. Hon.
Bonnie Burnham
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
The Viscount Norwich
President
FRANCE
Chairman
Bertrand du Vignaud
Paul Beirne
Chainnan
J. Carter Brown
W.L. Lyons Brown, Jr.
ASSOCIAZIONE COMITATO
Patricia Falk
ITALIANO
Louise L. Grunwald
Count Paolo Marzotto
Chairman
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
Head of Emperor Hadrian, Brower, Roman
PROGRAM
WELCOME
Bonnie Burnham
President, World Monuments Fund
DRAFT
OPENING REMARKS
Paul Goldberger
Master of Ceremonies
DRAFT
Reba White Williams, Ph.D.
President, Art Commission of the City of New York
PRESENTATION OF
1998 HADRIAN AWARD
Dr. Marilyn Perry
Chairman, World Monuments Fund
Phyllis Lambert
1997 Hadrian Award Recipient
Richard Hampton Jenrette
THE HADRIAN AWARD
The World Monuments Fund presents the Hadrian Award annually to an international leader whose
patronage of cultural activities has advanced the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of world
art and architecture. A brilliant commander and administrator whose reign was marked by military suc-
cess and artistic patronage, the Roman emperor Hadrian (A. D. 76-138) commissioned new construction
while also conserving the masterpieces of Greek and Roman civilization. Hadrian restored the Pantheon
and the Forum of Augustus in Rome, collected Greek and Roman sculpture at his villa at Tivoli, and
contributed to classical heritage with many new architectural works.
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S a patron of the arts, the emperor manifested a concern for the survival of outstanding artistic trea-
sures coupled with a desire to convey the standards embodied in these works to his contemporary
world. As these concerns are no less vital to our times, the Hadrian Award salutes the cultural leaders
of today for keeping this spirit alive.
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AS CHAIRMAN OF HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY, HE CHAMPIONED THE ACQUISITION
AND RESTORATION OF ONE OF THE AREA'S MOST EVOCATIVE HOUSES.
THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND HAS FOUGHT FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOR
MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
SINCE 1965, WE HAVE ORCHESTRATED OVER 165 MAJOR PROJECTS IN 52
COUNTRIES, THROUGH ON-SITE CONSERVATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND ART,
AND EDUCATIONAL AND INTERPRETIVE ACTIVITIES.
THIS YEAR SAW THE RE-OPENING OF THE 16TH-CENTURY TOWER OF BELEM IN
LISBON, A BUILDING THAT SYMBOLIZES PORTUGUESE PROMINENCE IN
EXPLORATION DURING THE RENAISSANCE.
IN CRACOW, WORK CONTINUED ON THE BEAUTIFUL .YCHROMED INTERIORS
OF THE 19TH-CENTURY TEMPEL SYNAGOGUE.
WHEN EARTHQUAKES STRUCK CENTRAL ITALY LAST YEAR, TRAGICALLY
DESTROYING LIVES AND PRICELESS TREASURES, THE FRIENDS OF ASSISI WAS
ESTABLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND. A FIRST
RESULT IS EMERGENCY CONSERVATION AT THE PIEVE DI SAN GREGORIO, A RARE
12TH CENTURY COUNTRY CHURCH WITH SPLENDID ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE.
CLOSER TO HOME, AN IMPORTANT NEW INITIATIVE IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A
HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PRESERVATION ARTS HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.
DURING THE LAST TWO SUMMERS, STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE 42ND
STREET REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND A RESTORATION PROJECT IN
BROOKLYN'S PROSPECT PARK.
THE WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH WORLDWIDE LIST OF 100 MOST ENDANGERED
SITES WAS LAUNCHED WITH LEAD FUNDING OF $5 MILLION FROM THE AMERICAN
EXPRESS COMPANY. NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR, IT CONTINUES TO AID THE RESCUE
OF ENDANGERED CULTURAL SITES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO SAVE IRREPLACEABLE WORKS OF ART AND
ARCHITECTURE, THE WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH IS INSPIRING GOVERNMENTS,
BUSINESSES, FOUNDATIONS, INDIVIDUALS AND EVEN THE WORLD BANK TO JOIN
OUR WORK.
TRUSTEE ROBERT WILSON ESTABLISHED THE ROBERT W. WILSON CHALLENGE
FOR CONSERVING OUR HERITAGE, COMMITTING UP TO $1 MILLION A YEAR TO BE
MATCHED BY DONORS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
AT POMPEII, WE'RE SPONSORING COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH, TESTING AND
ANALYSIS WHICH WILL CULMINATE IN THE FIRST CONSERVATION MANUAL FOR
THE ENTIRE SITE. THIS 3-YEAR GRANT FROM THE SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION
COMES AT A TIME WHEN POMPEII IS GRAVELY THREATENED BY EXPOSURE, LACK
OF SECURITY, AND TOURIST WEAR-AND-TEAR.
AT THE U.S. CAPITOL THIS PAST JUNE, WE ANNOUNCED 37 GRANTS FOR SITES ON
THE 1998 LIST OF MOST ENDANGERED SITES.
FUNDING WILL GO TO CONSERVATION PROJECTS
IN EGYPT, THE MORTUARY COMPLEX OF KING AHMENHOTEP
IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, A FOLLY AND HISTORIC GLASS CONSERVATORY
IN THE CANYONS OF COLORADO, THE CLIFF DWELLINGS OF MESA VERDE
AND FOR THE NOW DECREPIT STRUCTURES OF FORT APACHE IN THE WHITE
MOUNTAINS OF ARIZONA.
IN THE WORDS OF AN APACHE SAYING, "WISDOM
SITS IN PLACES" LIKE THESE.
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STILL OTHER WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH SITES ARE IN NEED OF HELP.
A SMALL COUNTRY CHURCH IN POLAND WHERE EXQUISITE WALL PAINTINGS
ARE THREATENED BY RISING WATER LEVELS FROM A NEARBY DAM
AND AHMEDABAD, INDIA WHERE CENTURIES OLD COURTYARD HOUSES ARE
THREATENED BY DECAY AND NEGLECT.
BUT REWARDING PROGRESS CAN ALSO BE SEEN
AT THE PITARETI MONASTERY IN THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA, WHERE LOCAL
CRAFTSMEN MADE EXCELLENT USE OF A GRANT TO RESTORE BUILDINGS LONG
DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKES AND DECAY.
IN ALASKA, IMPORTANT RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ICONS - FADED WITH AGE
AND DAMAGED BY WARTIME RELOCATION - ARE BEING CONSERVED AND
THE FAMED TEMPLE OF HERCULES IN ROME HAS FINALLY EMERGED FROM
SCAFFOLDING AFTER MORE THAN 15 YEARS.
WHATEVER THE CAUSE OF PERIL - FLOOD, FIRE, NEGLECT, OVER-DEVELOPMENT.
VANDALISM, OR THE RAVAGES OF WAR - THESE UNIQUE AND PRECIOUS
CREATIONS CAN STILL BE PRESERVED. THE WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH LIST OF
100 MOST ENDANGERED SITES OFFERS NEW HOPE FOR THEIR SURVIVAL.
BEGINNING IN 1988, THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND HAS PRESENTED ITS
ANNUAL HADRIAN AWARD TO AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER WHOSE SUPPORT OF
CULTURAL HERITAGE ENRICHES THE APPRECIATION AND PRESERVATION OF
GREAT ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
PAST RECIPIENTS ARE:
CARLO DE BENEDETTI;
PAUL MELLON;
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES;
MRS. VINCENT ASTOR;
MARELLA AND GIOVANNI AGNELLI;
DOMINIQUE DE MENIL;
DAVID ROCKEFELLER;
LORD ROTHSCHILD;
HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN,
AND PHYLLIS LAMBERT.
IT IS WITH GREAT RESPECT THAT THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND PRESENTS THE
ELEVENTH ANNUAL HADRIAN AWARD TO RICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE. IN
HONORING HIM WITH THIS AWARD, THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND RECOGNIZES
A CHAMPION OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE WHO IS A CONNOISSEUR, A
CLASSICIST, AND A PRESERVATIONIST WHOSE LOVE FOR AMERICA'S
ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE HAS ESTABLISHED A TANGIBLE AND ENDURING
LEGACY FOR US ALL.
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DRAFI
1998 World Monuments Fund Hadrian Award Video
NARRATION ONLY
(additional dialogue from Marilyn Perry, Chair, World Monuments Fund and
RHJ interview at Edgewater to be added)
FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, RICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE HAS BEEN ADDING
VALUE AND BEAUTY TO THE WORLD AROUND HIM.
THIS SELF-DESCRIBED "CONTRARIAN" BUSINESSMAN HAS ALWAYS CHARTED HIS
OWN COURSE..
JENRETTE'S JOURNEY BEGAN IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. A JOURNALISM
MAJOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, HE WENT ON TO SELL
INSURANCE, LIKE HIS FATHER, BEFORE ENTERING HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL.
IN 1959, HE JOINED WITH TWO CLASSMATES TO FOUND AN INVESTMENT BANKING
FIRM, DONALDSON, LUFKIN AND JENRETTE
JENRETTE NOT ONLY SAVED DLJ FROM INSOLVENCY, BUT HE DID THE SAME FOR
THE EQUITABLE COMPANIES, WHERE HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT AND CEO IN
1990. AT THE SAME TIME, HE WAS ALSO ENGAGED IN PREVENTING COLLAPSES
OF A DIFFERENT NATURE.
EDGEWATER, BUILT IN 1820 ON THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON RIVER, WAS ONE OF
JENRETTE'S FIRST PROJECTS
IN TOTAL, RICHARD JENRETTE HAS RESTORED NEARLY A SCORE OF AMERICA'S
GRANDEST HOUSES
THE ANTE-BELLUM MILLS HOUSE HOTEL - THE RESTORATION OF WHICH
INSPIRED THE REBIRTH OF A DOWNTOWN QUARTER IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH
CAROLINA.
ROPER HOUSE - A GRAND MANSION ON CHARLESTON'S WATERFRONT.
A NEW YORK CITY ROW HOUSE BUILT BY JOHN JACOB ASTOR IN 1826.
CANE GARDEN, A SUGAR PLANTATION OF THE 1780'S ON ST. CROIX, IN THE U.S.
VIRGIN ISLANDS
AYR MOUNT, BUILT AROUND 1815 IN HILLSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA.
AND THE GREEK REVIVAL MILLFORD PLANTATION, BEGUN IN 1838 IN PINEWOOD,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
HIS COLLECTION OF HOUSES, WHICH HE HAS FILLED WITH THE FINEST FEDERAL-
PERIOD FURNISHINGS AND ARTWORK, IS UNPARALLELED. JENRETTE HAS SET
THE STANDARD FOR PRIVATE RESTORATION IN THE UNITED STATES, YET HIS
PHILOSOPHY IS PUBLIC-MINDED
HIS HOUSES WELCOME SOME 10,000 VISITORS A YEAR. AYR MOUNT IS OPERATED
AS A MUSEUM. EVENTUALLY, THE CLASSICAL AMERICAN HOMES PRESERVATION
TRUST, WHICH JENRETTE FOUNDED, WILL ASSUME THE REMAINING PROPERTIES.
BUT HOUSES AREN'T THE ONLY THING DICK JENRETTE SHARES. HE HAS
DONATED HIS TIME, EXPERTISE AND RESOURCES TO LOCAL, REGIONAL AND
NATIONAL PRESERVATION ORGANIZATIONS. THESE INCLUDE: THE HISTORIC
CHARLESTON FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC
PRESERVATION, THE WHITE HOUSE ENDOWMENT AND THE PRESIDENT'S
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
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And to be here in this beautiful setting with all of these trees, I'm always happy to be
anywhere that the Morgan State University Choir appears, and I want to thank you once again.
You know Dr. Carter brought the choir to the White House last month and they participated in a
special production from the White House of gospel music that will be telecast in February and
I'm going to give it an advance plug because I think if you are a lover of gospel or even curious
about gospel this is an event you will not want to miss.
Thank you very much Governor. Thank you for your introduction and the work that you
are doing. Thank you Mayor Shmoke for your being with us today and for the work that is being
done in Baltimore. Thank you Senator Sarbaines for your leadership on behalf of issues that are
important both to our past and to our future. I am delighted that Bill Ivey, the new head of the
National Endowment for the Arts, could be here to help kick off this very exciting project that
the NEA is funding. I also want to thank Ms. Eckemann and Mr. Sands for caring about
preservation and Target stores for the partnership that they have formed with the NEA to save
our outdoor sculptors. And again I want to welcome all of you; elected officials, local
preservationists, community residents, Prince Hall Masons, all who are here today to celebrate
this great moment.
Not only on behalf of the sculpture behind me, but on behalf of the ? of Baltimore, on
behalf of the extraordinary rich history of Maryland, and on behalf of our effort to Save
America's Treasures throughout our nation. It's always a pleasure to be back in Baltimore, as
you've already heard, this is a city that is just seeped in American history. And as we begin our
tour, it started at the Smithsonian, the first stop where we announced the rather significant gift to
preserve the Star-Spangled Banner, and then came here as the next stop to announce the
preservation of this sculpture.
We are attempting to make sure that every American understands how important the past
is. Not just as a history lesson to be learned about and put away on a shelf somewhere, but as a
living reminder of how we became the nation we are. The values that we bring from the past to
the present and that will guide us as we move together, with confidence, into the future. The
event this morning, where some of you were, was an extraordinary national commitment to
preserve the Star-Spangled Banner. The secretary of the Smithsonian said that of all the one-
hundred and forty million objects that the Smithsonian has custody over, the Star-Spangled
Banner is the most important. It is truly one of America's treasures and a powerful symbol of
our nation's struggle for independence and freedom.
So, it is particularly fitting that we would come from that announcement to this beautiful
stood on the banks of the river that brought SO many people here.
I also heard that the first bakery, that still serves the people of Troy, wás invented here
because a man named Regional Friehofer saw a business opportunity because of the number of
women who were working, they didn't have enough time to bake bread, so he created the
opportunity for them to buy the bread. Now that's the sort of invention that all of us, who have
ever been working women, really appreciate. So there's a lot that we have to be grateful for the
people of Troy.
You know, we're not just celebrating the past; we are thinking about the lessons of the
past and what they mean to us today and in the future. When the President and I started the
White House Millennium Council, we did it because we knew that we were going to have a
change of century and a change of millennium while Bill was still president. We thought what
could we do to mark this time. Certainly they'll be room for a lot of great New Year's Eve
parties and I'm positive they'll be products like Millennium toothpaste or millennium potato
chips, but if that's all that happens I don't think we would make the best use of this opportunity.
So in talking together, he and I thought maybe we could use this time for all of us to reflect about
what it is that made us Americans, and why we're so grateful for the blessings and freedoms we
have in our country. So we came up with a theme: to Honor the Past and Imagine the Future.
That is what this tour is really about. We are honoring the past--as we do here today in
front of Kate Mullany's House -- but also imagining the future. Because the voice of Kate
Mullany and all the women and men of Troy and this area continue to speak to us today. They
fought for equal pay, for equal work and we do still today. They fought for better working
conditions in the work place and we do still today. They fought for respect at work and at home
and we do still today. And the women of Troy who worked with Kate Mullany struggled to
balance the demands of work and family and we do still today. They fought for equal
opportunity for women in places once reserved only for men as we do still today.
In 1869 another women labor leader, Augusta Lewis, president of the Women's
Typographical Union, wrote about the Troy Collar Laundry Union as a model for working
women through the ages. She wrote; "Others will be encouraged by their success and will be
stimulated by their examples to elevate their own condition." Thanks to Kate Mullany and other
brave women and men who led the labor movement and who took their rightful places in
American history, we have examples to follow even today. All of us gathered here have many
debts to those who came before; not only to our own families but to some many others who
contributed to the improvements that we take for granted in America today.
I hope that all of us, as we move toward this new century and millennium, will think
about ways we can honor the past and imagine the future. What gifts do we want to give to our
children, our grandchildren and future generations. Well, there may be tangible gifts like Kate
Mullany's house that we would want to pass on, that we hope that people will know and
remember as a significant place because of the woman who lived here. But there will also be
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USAID "Lessons Without Borders" conference
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will be holding the "Lessons Without
Borders" conference on Monday, September 16th in Baltimore, Maryland. You have been asked
to record a 3 minute video which will be used for two purposes. One will be as a part of a larger
video that the USAID is producing on their "Lessons Without Borders" program. Approximately
300-400 development professionals from around the country and 500 members of the faculty and
student body of Johns Hopkins University are expected to see that video which will be shown at
Johns Hopkins' Shriver Hall.
In addition, your video will be shown at a dinner being held to increase awareness of the
International Center for Health and Population Research, formerly known as the International
Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, in Bangladesh. As you will recall, you visited that facility
in April of last year. Attending the dinner will be CEO's of various corporate and philanthropic
organizations. A major contributor to the endowment for the research center is the Ford
Foundation. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala is expected to be the
keynote speaker at the dinner, and Demisse Habte, Director of the Center in Bangladesh, will also
participate. Your video will be introduced by Brian Atwood, Director of USAID.
"Lessons Without Borders" is a program created by the USAID and launched by Vice President
Al Gore in 1994. The purpose of this program is to draw on global experiences to help solve
domestic problems in the U.S. It was designed to share some of what the USAID has learned in
other countries with poor communities in the United States. The conference provides a forum for
technical exchanges between domestic and international experts. The idea for this conference
grew out of a discussion between USAID director Brian Atwood and Marian Wright Edelman,
executive director of the Children's Defense Fund.
nation needs SO much help and support from both the public and the private sector in order to
endure as it endured on that night in September of 1814.
It is not just famous icons or even famous military and political leaders or even business
leaders like Thomas Edison or scientific and creative geniuses, as he was as well. We have to
look at the full range of human experience and American contributions to understand how we
have become the people we are. So it is the scientists, the writers, and other creators who have
transformed our lives; and it is the way they lived and what they lived with that can speak to us
today -- the places, the books even the kitchen utensils, the photographs, all of which form the
heart of our cherished history.
When the President and I began to talk about how we could mark the millennium, there
were many things that we could have thought about. Other countries are doing some fascinating
efforts to try to mark their passage through the millennium. Great Britain is building a huge
dome that will be in Greenwich and will be used for all kinds of activities. Iceland is reenacting
the passage from Iceland to North America of their famous explorers like Leif Eriksson. But as
we thought about it, we thought that maybe we should try to engender interest throughout our
country in our history in ways that would reach every community that we possibly could touch.
So as we began to plan we thought of a theme -- Honor the Past and Imagine the Future --
because clearly by honoring our past, we think about the values, the lessons, the ideals, the
experiences, that we want to bring forward into the present, to use to build this imagined future
together.
It was important for me as I began to talk about and highlight so many of these treasures
to be sure that it touched the entire human experience. And so for instance I am here.
As we've already heard, only five percent of our national historic sites are dedicated to
women. The last time I looked, women have constituted about 50% of our population since our
beginning. Now some of those women are well-known, like Edith Wharton -- a pioneer in so
many regards, an observer of American life, a designer, a decorator, a gardener, a writer. She
wrote to a friend that she was a decidedly better landscape gardener than a novelist, but I don't
think you could convince the Pulitzer Prize committee or the many, many of us who studied her
work in years after that to believe it. She might have been as good a landscape gardener as a
writer but that just told us a little bit more about her genius and how far it reached. But because
of her example, she was not the last. Young women growing up could look to her experience
and dream, themselves, of becoming writers of landscape gardeners.
As we look at the full range of the American experience, we need to remember women
like Harriet Tubman or Kate Mullany, a labor leader from the middle of the 19th century. The
women who gathered at Seneca Falls, where I will be visiting on Thursday, had the radical idea
that men and women should be able to fulfill their own destinies. Every woman should really be
able to think that American History incudes her. That she could, if she's talented enough, write
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The future is created every day, the future is not something that is out there waiting to
happen to us. The future is something that we make, every one of us in our private and public
and professional capacities are always making the future. Certainly it is imperative that we
remember where we came from, and that we reflect upon those values and lessons in order for us
to carry with us into the present and them to help make the future based on what has worked and
what is the best of the past. And that is why we want to say a special word of appreciation today
to General Electric, and particularly to its Chairman and CEO Jack Wells, because as you've
already heard, Thomas Edison was one of the real creative geniuses, not only of America's
history, but of the entire world history. Life magazine is surveying the last one-thousand years,
the millennium preceding the one that will turn in just a few years, included that of all the people
who influenced how we live today, Thomas Edison was the most important.
Now just stop and think about that for a minute, think about all the men and women, the
military leaders, the political leaders, the artistic leaders, the religious leaders, the scientific and
creative leaders who have lived and worked in the last thousand years. And yet based on a
survey of experts from all fields, Thomas Edison was chosen as the most important person of the
last thousand years. Now that to me is almost breathtaking because we take so much for granted
about what he did here at this invention factory.
The millions of documents and artifacts and machine pieces that fill this park service site
have been endangered of deteriorating, being damaged beyond repair. Why? If you look around
you there is so much that goes on here, there's ten buildings. I just went through one of them,
into his library, and then up to one of the workshop areas, and yet I can see how much there is to
be preserved, if we are to remember how this man, who some believe is the most important
contributor to what we call modern civilization, lived and worked. From this place where genius
was transformed into invention, we find that Thomas Edison never stopped thinking and
working. And we can see all around us the results of that effort. Now when he died, his staff
promptly sealed his death. They understood that they had worked with someone of great genius.
They understood that, in this place, SO much of what we now enjoy, in terms of progresses and
advances, first took thought and then were put into action.
When Life magazine names Thomas Edison as their person of the Millennium, they said
that the dramatic changes is our political, social, and economic life, are in large part driven by
changes in technology. Just think of that for a minute. Think about what the computer is doing
to us today. And then think back to how so much of what Edison did literally changed to face of
how we live. It's incredible to think that here with a few dozen other "mockers," as he-called his
colleagues, Edison created the model of the modern research and development lab that we see at
GE and around the country. Today, all told, we spend more than 200 billion dollars a year on
research and development. But in many respects, those investments today started with Thomas
Edison. Because we benefit from the technological advances he made, we also might forget how
really innovative he was in the way he used that technology. These weren't just inventions to sit
on a shelf somewhere, they were inventions to be translated into the everyday lives of people.
They became a part of how we lived in our homes and what our popular culture was meant like.
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FROM:
Priscilla S. Goldfard RSH Director of Development tel 212-305-0449 fax 212-305-7372
e-mail [email protected]
RE:
Videotaped Greeting for October 7, 1998 Event
We appreciate Mrs. Clinton's kind wishes (your letter of 8/31/98 TO Allan Rosenfield, M.D.,
Delamar Professor and Dean, Columbia University School of Public Health, in response to Dean
Rosenfield's invitation dated 8/14/98) and regret she will be unable to join us on October 7, 1998
TO celebrate the $33 million gift from the Mailman Foundation that has renamed our school The
Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.
We seek your assistance in providing a videotaped greeting from Mrs. Clinton for this occasion.
I understand that Evan Ryan was responsible for preparing a similar videotape for a previous
event held by Columbia's School of Social Work. I have left a message on her voice mail and
am sending this fax in anticipation of her return to the office on September 14.
Mrs. Clinton's message would be the highlight of our celebration and truly inspirational for the
400 leaders of the New York philanthropic and public health communities that will be attending.
It would acknowledge the importance of the gift as the largest gift ever to a school of public
health, recognize our school's leadership role in health promotion and disease prevention in New
York, across the nation, and around the world, and emphasize the importance of individual and
community health in all of our lives.
Mrs. Clinton is a distinguished and respected advocate for the health of children and families.
Her videotaped message would raise critical awareness of the wide range of issues that public
health encompasses: increasing access to and quality of health care, preventing child poverty,
improving maternal and child health, preventing community and household violence, identifying
the role of environmental factors such as air and water as causes of disease, analyzing issues
related to identifying and treating AIDS patients, and much, much more.
Please let me know how I can be helpful, e.g. providing more information regarding the Mailman
gift, the Mailman family, public health, and the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of
Columbia University.
I look forward to hearing from you and to arranging to show a videotaped message from Mrs.
Clinton on October 7.
Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Mr. President, I want to take this opportunity to bring to the attention of my
colleagues the $33 million gift by the Mailman Foundation to Columbia University
School of Public Health (CSPH). This represents the largest single gift ever made to
a school of public health.
CSPH is one of our nation's first schools of public health and is celebrating its 75th
anniversary. In its recent history, CSPH has distinguished itself on the local,
national and global levels in a variety of public health areas that the gift will help to
strengthen and expand, including:
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Increasing access to and quality of health care;
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Preventing childhood poverty;
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Enhancing women's reproductive health, including STD prevention services,
and reduction in pregnancy-related deaths in developing countries;
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Identifying environmental factors such as air and water quality as a cause of
disease;
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Preventing community and household violence;
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Analyzing issues involved in identifying and treating AIDS patients.
In addition to these important areas of program and research support, the gift will
also be used to provide financial aid to students as well as faculty support.
The family-run Mailman Foundation was founded by the late Joseph Mailman, the
founder of Mailman Corporation, one of the earliest conglomerates in North
America. The Foundation has been an important benefactor to numerous
institutions devoted to education, medicine and the arts.
I commend the Mailman Foundation for its remarkable act of philanthropy and for
recognizing Columbia's leadership in the field of public health, as well as the
importance of public health in our efforts to improve our nation's health care
system. This gift to Columbia University's internationally known graduate school,
now known as the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia
University, will advance the cause of health promotion and disease prevention,
through education, research, and direct service.
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"It Takes a Village...But It Also Takes the Mailman School of Public Health"
written for Hillary Rodham Clinton
on the occasion of the celebration in honor of the
Mailman Family
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The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University
October 7, 1998
New York City
Good Evening. I'm so pleased to have the opportunity to extend my best wishes to all of you
who have gathered to celebrate The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia
University. Because of the Mailmans' generosity, a unique partnership has been created that will
forever link the family with the vital cause of public health and with this great university. I wish
I could be with you in person to applaud Phyllis Mailman, her son Josh Mailman, and her
daughter Jody Wolfe for their exceptional vision that has endowed The Joseph L. Mailman
School of Public Health, and to congratulate President Rupp, Vice-President Pardes, and Dean
Rosenfield on this truly historic occasion.
But I'm grateful for this opportunity to share with you my thoughts about why their support of
public health is SO meaningful to mc personally.
You may recall that I wrote a book a few years ago. Its title came from an old African proverb:
"It takes a village to raise a child." The wise man who put this important idca into words was
talking about the influence that both the family and the community have on a child's
development into an adult who has the knowledge to be a productive member of his own society
and also the self-cstcem to grow. My book was about my concept of the modern "village". Even
though many of us do not actually live in traditional villages, all communities need to have
networks of values and relationships that help people to survive and thrive.
Remarks by
U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
upon receipt
of the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize
at the World Health Assembly
Geneva - 14 May 1998
(Begin transcript)
Mr. President, Director-General, ministers, ambassadors, other
distinguished guests.
It is indeed a great honor to receive this award and to join all of you
here today celebrating the World Health Organization's 50 years of
leadership. I want to thank United Arab Emirates Health Foundation for
this award, and for this generous gift to the Safe Motherhood Initiative,
which will save the lives of countless women and children.
Let me congratulate the distinguished recipients of the Sasakawa health
prize, for the work you do every day to put quality health care within
the grasp of all people.
I also want to pay special tribute for his decades of service to WHO, and
his lifetime of dedication to improving health throughout our world, to
Dr. Nakajima. Thank you, Dr. Nakajima, for your service and leadership.
And to the incoming Director-General, Dr. Gro Brundtland, let me
congratulate you on your election. Your expertise and leadership will
help make WHO's vision a reality in the 21st century.
As we speak, at this very moment, children are being born in Africa, in
Asia, in Australia, in the Americas, in Europe. What will their lives be
like in the 21st century? Will they live with dignity and health -- or be
degraded by poverty, war, injustice, and premature death? Will there be
health for all?
The answers to these questions depend upon all of us. Heads of state,
ministers, parliamentarians, experts, physicians, nurses, researchers,
village health workers, and citizens all. Many of you in this room are
the authors of the success stories of the 21st century. But the answers
for tomorrow depend not just on what we say today as individuals, but on
what we do tomorrow as a community of nations.
When public health leaders first started meeting internationally more
than 100 years ago, they had seen firsthand the devastation left in the
wake of the yellow-fever epidemic that swept across the Southern Cone in
the late 1800s. They had experienced cholera overrunning Europe, malaria,
terrible sanitation conditions, unsafe food and water, infectious
diseases and diarrhea that robbed babies of any chance at life. No nation
was safe from the epidemics that traveled across national boundaries. Yet
no one really knew about the causes of infant mortality. There were no
immunizations or antibiotics. No oral rehydration therapies or adequate
OR
prenatal care.
But now, thanks to the World Health Organization and many other
public-health pioneers, researchers, scientists, and so many, a
dramatically different world welcomes the 365,000 children born each day.
It is far less likely that we will have to look into the eyes of children
dying of infectious diseases, and know that their lives could have been
saved had they only received a simple vaccination. Because smallpox is
now only found in the history books, children today will not have to
endure the blindness, the disfigurement or death that once plagued 15
million people a year. And if we refuse to give up, polio will soon be
eradicated.
Children today are far more likely to live past their fifth birthday, and
some born today will even be around to see the 22nd century dawn. But
standing as we are at the border between one century and the next, we
have the opportunity for the first time in history to alleviate and end
much of human suffering and prevent millions of premature deaths.
We have every reason to reject the doom-sayers who paint a picture of a
21st century with environmental degradation, rampant poverty, and untold
suffering from new diseases. As your new World Health Report makes clear,
we can choose an optimistic vision of the future and work to make it a
reality, so that at the end of the next century our successors will look
back at what we did for the children born this very day. They will, I
hope, see public health hazards overcome and diseases like cancer
conquered, and see children living not only longer but better-quality
lives.
Whether we see that vision or not is really the question we face today.
We certainly have the means within our reach. Just as immunizations,
antibiotics, and clean water revolutionized lives in this century,
children are being born today into a world in which telemedicine on the
Internet provides life-saving information in a matter of seconds. A world
of biology where research is allowing us to map the human genome and
unlock the mysteries behind chronic diseases and our greatest killers.
But we know that this promise of progress will only be possible if our
ethics and self-interest compel us to act. If we apply ancient values and
morality to new frontiers of discovery. If we master the political will
and summon the economic resources to ensure that all citizens reap the
benefits of advances in health care. If we heed yesterday's lessons to
meet new challenges tomorrow.
Now some of what we need to do is not complicated. It is, so far, the
best practices that are proven to work in every place that needs them. As
I have been privileged to travel around the world I've seen what people
can accomplish when they use simple public health techniques and
community action to improve health and save lives.
In Bolivia, I visited with expectant mothers at a primary health center
run by an NGO with support from the government. They had created a safe
place for very poor women to come and get health care. The women -- with
their ruddy faces and bowler hats -- were receiving prenatal checkups and
having their infant immunized on the day that I visited. They were also
learning about family planning and how to space births so they could more
likely have their children survive, and themselves.
Some of what we need to do is provide better information and education so
that people can make better health decisions for themselves and their
children. On a recent trip my husband and I took to Africa, I met with
women and two men from Malicounda Bambara village in Senegal. These
people have accomplished something extraordinary. Although female genital
mutilation affects less than 20 percent of women in Senegal, in villages
like theirs it is considered a rite of passage for all girls. The women
decided that FGM had for far too long harmed their daughters' bodies and
spirits. They decided it was time to end the hemorrhaging, the AIDS, the
childbirth complications caused by this tradition. During our discussion
they showed me the skit they had used to educate their religious leaders,
their neighbors and husbands.
As a result of their efforts, this village voted to ban this
long-standing cultural ritual. Not only that, they are inspiring others
to do the same. A 66-year-old man told me how he walks from village to
village spreading the word about the dangers of FGM. Recently 13 other
surrounding villages representing 8,000 people joined together to end FGM
in their communities. They petitioned their government, and now the
president is working to enact a new law to abolish it throughout the
country.
When I asked one woman: "What drove these people to change such a
long-standing tradition?" She simply replied: "We studied human rights
and particularly the right to health."
What better time than now, here at the Palace of Nations on the 50th
anniversary, not only of WHO but of the United Nations Declaration of
Human Rights, to make clear that health care is a basic right, a basic
human right that all men and women are entitled to. As Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. once said, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health
is the most shocking and the most inhumane."
For the children being born today, let us all declare, their basic health
should not depend on where they live or how much money their parents
have.
Some of what we have to do is to attack the inequities that deprive
children in one area from enjoying the health care that is available to
their neighbors. We know that child malnutrition varies greatly from
continent to continent. The number of physicians and nurses varies
greatly, depending on the wealth of a country. And even in rich countries
there are pockets of despair.
To improve health for all, we must make progress in the fight against
poverty. To fight poverty, we must ensure health care for all. That is
part of the unfinished business of this century. And when we talk about
health equity, we must talk about equity between countries and within
countries. Men, women, and children come from all over the globe to be
treated in the great medical centers of the United States, and yet we
have more than 41 million Americans who are uninsured. But to be sure,
their emergeny needs are usually taken care of, but often well after they
should have received primary care, and frequently at a greater cost.
A country such as mine can have the most cutting-edge technology in the
world. A country that is poor can have cutting-edge technology for the
rich of that poor country. But it will not matter to the people who still
die and suffer because they do not have access to the services they need.
Some of what we have to do is to face up to the difficult issues posed in
every country about how we finance and deliver health care. As
populations age, thanks to the wonderful progress we've made in health
care, then every country, whether or not it currently has a universal
system, will face greater cost pressures to meet overall needs.
Many countries with universal systems are now unable to afford the
facilities they have, or the technology they need, and will have to face
hard choices about how to restructure their systems.
Other countries are in danger of having their existing health structures
collapse under the huge weight of caseloads from HIV/AIDS or
tuberculosis. And we find many parts of many countries cutting back on
necessary basic services just to make ends meet.
Some of what we have to do is to join together to combat a new array of
global health threats. Increases in food-borne illnesses mean families
have more reason to worry about whether the dinner they just served their
children will make them sick or worse. Parents are worried about tobacco
addicting their children, stealing their health and often their lives. My
husband is working hard to save children in our country from the death
grip of big tobacco. But none of us can rest until we save all children
from the advertising and other enticements that seduce them, and I
applaud Dr. Brundtland for her strong statement yesterday.
Across the globe people are worrying about infectious diseases and with
good reason. They remain the leading cause of death. In the last 20 years
we have witnessed the birth of at least 30 new infectious diseases like
ebola. The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to strike at citizens without
regard to sex or station in life, and increasingly women and children are
the targets.
We also see old scourges like tuberculosis reemerging with new force. We
have treatments that work for TB, but more people will die from
tuberculosis this year -- 2 million -- than in any other year in history.
We also have anti-malarial drugs, but resistance to them, and other
factors, have led to alarming increases in malaria, which is now moving
into previously unaffected regions. Infant and child mortality could be
decreased by 20 to 30 percent if malaria were eradicated. And I want to
thank Dr. Brundtland for her commitment to roll back malaria once and for
all.
We know there are no magic bullets, no solutions that we can take from
the sky. We need to share information, share responses, share
surveillance. What would happen if we had an excellent surveillance in
Africa, for example, when the AIDS outbreak first occurred? I hope we
never have to ask that question about any other disease in any part of
the world again.
Some of what we have to do is end discrimination against girls and women.
The health of children must never again depend on whether they are boys
or girls. The last WHO event I attended was a forum at the Beijing
Conference about women and health security. There were people from all
over the world sending the message that the health of women and girls
could no longer be divorced from progress on other economic or social
issues.
For how can we have progress when half the population of any country is
underfed, undervalued, or denied care when they are sick. How can we have
progress when women live in fear of violence at the hands of strangers or
relatives, when they are trafficked across state lines like drugs and
sold into modern-day slavery? How can we have progress when women don't
have access to the family planning they need to protect their health and
make fundamental choices about when and if to have children? How can we
have progress when every single minute that goes by, somewhere on this
globe a woman is dying of complications from pregnancy and childbirth.
At a small clinic in Nepal I saw a safe home-delivery kit that is given
to expectant mother. Inside is a bar of soap, twine, wax, a plastic
sheet, and a razor blade. Its purpose is to reduce the two major causes
of maternal and neonatal death -- tetanus and sepsis -- by promoting the
"three cleans" priniciple -- clean hands, clean surfaces, clean umbilical
care.
These kits are made locally by a microenterprise owned by women. And
these kits, as well as the entire Safe Motherhood Initiative, teach us
about the importance of investing in prevention. We will reap great human
dividends if we give people the power to protect their with prenatal
care, nutrition, and family planning. Most maternal deaths can be
prevented by spending less than $2 a year per person. These safe
motherhood kits are emblematic; they remind us that women's health, like
all health, issues are not soft or marginal issues but are very important
issues and moral obligations as well as practical necessities that every
society must face.
Our political leaders must understand that unless we address the health
care needs of our citizens we will not have the quality of life, the
economic growth, the justice and equity that make democracies and
economies thrive. Our leaders should be just as worried about reducing
infant morality as increasing trade. They should be just as concerned
about maternal mortality as military might. They must see women's health
as part of the overall development of every nation. Because good health
is linked to every other tool of opportunity -- jobs, loans to start
microenterprises, legal protection and, above all else, education. When a
woman can read and write, she is more likely to live through childbirth,
her child is more likely to live, and her family is more likely to be
healthy.
Above all, what we must do is to call upon the private, public, and
non-profit sectors represented here to join together to meet all of the
challenges of the 21st century. Just as concerned people have done in
this great city before -- when they have banded together to ensure peace,
or work towards universal human rights; just as nations and public and
private institutions did during the 20th century when they invested in
the research and training that gave birth to the advances we celebrate
today.
We must put our hearts, our minds, and our resources in action, to meet
the needs -- whether it's finding a vaccine for diseases like AIDS or
malaria, closing the equity gaps that plague our health care systems, or
making it clear that issues like maternal mortality or tobacco are not
peripheral concerns, but central ones.
I would hope that on the occasion of WHO's 100th anniversary in 2048, our
successors would look back at what has been accomplished. Instead of an
apocalyptic 21st century, as predicted by some, of overpopulation,
pollution, disease, and poverty, I hope they would see that for the first
time in human history all people had access to the tools they needed to
live longer and better lives in peace.
We don't have a minute, or a child, to waste. We have only one World
Health Assembly left in this century. The children of the next century
being born today in Africa, in Asia and Australia, in the Americas, and
in Europe, come into our world with every reason to expect they will be
wanted and loved by their families, and valued by the societies they
join. We should not, we dare not, disappoint them. Yes, there will be
obstacles and setbacks, but we cannot be discouraged. We have the
technology, we have the know-how, we have the resources. We only need the
will to act.
With the World Health Organization continuing to lead the way, I know
that we all will turn the vision of "health for all" into a reality in
the 21st century. And those children born today will thank all of you.
Thank you very much.
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Columbia School of Public Health
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Diono C. Landrab, M.P.H.
Associate Dean for External Affairs
IN BRIEF
Mailman Foundation commits $33 million to Columbia School of Public Health
The field of public health is essential to the prevention of disease and the promotion
of health. But schools of public health, unlike schools of medicine, law and business,
generally have not been able to attract the very large, transforming gifts that are needed to
ensure their long-term vitality.
Until now.
The Mailman Foundation has given a $33 million gift to Columbia University
School of Public Health (CSPH), the largest single gift ever given to any school of public
health.
The Foundation chose to endow the School because of its worldwide public health
research, its education of the next generation of health care practitioners, and its
commitment to service in New York City. The gift reflects an understanding of public
health as a crucial partner in the improvement of health care in this country.
The Mailman endowment will ensure Columbia's leadership in public health. By
emphasizing prevention of disease, the goal of public health is to intervene before any one person
becomes ill. For example, a physician can treat a single patient but public health research can
lead to an understanding of why there is an epidemic of breast cancer, what its causes are, and
how we can prevent the epidemic from spreading to more people. Similarly, in helping a
pregnant tecnager, public health can look beyond her to analyze the social context of her
problems and to design programs that will help large numbers of young people. CSPH looks at a
wide range of public health problems such as:
Environmental degradation as a cause of disease. CSPH studies underway include the
environment and breast cancer on Long Island, radiation and thyroid cancer at Chernobyl, air
quality and asthma in Northern Manhattan, and water quality and crypto sporidium
Ethical problems of identifying and treating AIDS patients
Women's reproductive health including access to contraceptive and STD services, and
reduction in high rates of pregnancy-related deaths in developing countries
Community and household violence
One in four children living in poverty
Providing health care to the vast numbers of uninsured and underinsured people in the U.S.,
and the impact of managed care on access to services.
Because of this extraordinary gift, the School, now celebrating its 75th Anniversary, will be
renamed The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, and will be in
an even stronger position to solve the most pressing health care problems of our time.
Office of External Affairs
PHONE 212-305-1793
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FAX 212-305-7372
New York, NY 10032
E-MAIL [email protected]
John Glenn - stories and anecdotes
Cadellac of space
1. John Glenn's favorite space food is rehydrated shrimp, he said, "Oh this is great! May have
shrimp for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
2. Theme of firsts-
A. Broke the coast-to-coast flight record in 1957 in an F8U jet at
supersonic speeds, went from LA to NY (Glenn made this trip faster than
if he'd ridden a bullet fired from a .45 caliber gun)
B. First American in orbit, 1962
C. Oct. 29, 1998 - oldest human to fly in space.
testing affects Space ofage in
3. Glenn was a high school glee club member and loves barbershop quartets in October 1957
he won about $25,000 on Name That Tune
4. When launch day comes for his newest mission, Glenn will have spent 500 hours in training
5. Glenn's first car was his father's old Chevy -- a convertible. Because the top had rotted away,
Glenn drilled holes in the bottom of the car to drain the rain. He has had a ragtop car ever since.
Taken from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, July 19, 1998.
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What is so important about The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health is that it provides
us with experts on all sorts of villages all over the world. They may be teachers or policy
analysts. They may be health program planners or physicians and nurses. They may work in
"villages" in Africa or Asia, or right here in Manhattan. And they study the problems of
communities in stress-whether it be the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Russia, or
poor, urban mothers here at home who may have little or no access to prenatal care. But the best
thing about public health experts is that they are not content to live in an ivory tower. They offer
practical help to those in need, and they provide service backed by science.
Just to name a few of the School of Public Health's many accomplishments:
They have highlighted the fact that one out of four children live in poverty in the U.S. and
have identified strategies to overcome it.
Here in Manhattan, they have demonstrated effective strategies for reducing emergency room
visits for people with asthma, for reducing childhood injuries, and for preventing cigarette sales
to minors.
They have established model, "user-friendly" healthcare clinics for teens in their schools so
that kids can have a safe place to talk about their problems.
And a new program has been designed to address the growing problems suffered by refugees
all over the world so that they will have access to healthcare, as well as nutritious food and clean
water
My worries-especially for children-have increased over the years, but SO has my hope for the
future. It is increasingly clear to me that with the help of the science of public health as practiced
by the Mailman School we are making enormous progress in effectively responding to serious
public health problems. Today, in the United States, life expectancy at birth has reached a new
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high of over 76 years and the infant death rate has reached a record low. And the rate of
teenagers giving birth has continued its decline since 1991.
But, of course, we still have a lot of work to do. And we cannot expect easy answers.
We must be sensitive to the unique needs of each "village" or community. As the Mailman
Family knows, we must clearly recognize, that, in the interest of public health, all communities
must balance individual rights and freedoms with personal responsibility and mutual obligations.
And we must direct our limited resources wisely to address the truly important threats to public
health and to promote the most promising solutions.
For 75 years your School of Public Health has provided invaluable guidance on how to nurture
the well being of communities. As we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of this important institution,
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it is indeed fitting that the Mailman endowment will ensure the school's continued leadership in
preventing disease and promoting health around the world.
And so I offer my heartiest congratulations to all of you this evening, with gratitude, for your
important contributions to the health of our "global village" and my best wishes for the
continued success of The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health.
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DATE:
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TO:
Patti Solis Doyle
cc: Evan Ryan
Special Assistant to the President
First Lady's Scheduling Office
Director of Scheduling for the First Lady
FROM:
Priscilla S. Goldfarn,Director of Development tel 212-305-0449 fax 212-305-7372
e-mail [email protected]
RE:
Videotaped Greeting for October 7, 1998 Event
We appreciate Mrs. Clinton's kind wishes (your letter of 8/31/98 to Allan Rosenfield, M.D.,
Delamar Professor and Dean, Columbia University School of Public Health, in response to Dean
Rosenfield's invitation dated 8/14/98) and regret she will be unable to join us on October 7, 1998
to celebrate the $33 million gift from the Mailman Foundation that has renamed our school The
Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.
We seek your assistance in providing a videotaped greeting from Mrs. Clinton for this occasion.
I understand that Evan Ryan was responsible for preparing a similar videotape for a previous
event held by Columbia's School of Social Work I have left a message on her voice mail and
am sending this fax in anticipation of her return to the office on September 14.
Mrs. Clinton's message would be the highlight of our celebration and truly inspirational for the
400 leaders of the New York philanthropic and public health communities that will be attending.
It would acknowledge the importance of the gift as the largest gift ever to a school of public
health, recognize our school's leadership role in health promotion and disease prevention in New
York, across the nation, and around the world, and emphasize the importance of individual and
community health in all of our lives.
Mrs. Clinton is a distinguished and respected advocate for the health of children and families.
Her videotaped message would raise critical awareness of the wide range of issues that public
health encompasses: increasing access to and quality of health care, preventing child poverty,
improving maternal and child health, preventing community and household violence, identifying
the role of environmental factors such as air and water as causes of disease, analyzing issues
related to identifying and treating AIDS patients, and much, much more.
Please let me know how I can be helpful, e.g. providing more information regarding the Mailman
gift, the Mailman family, public health, and the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of
Columbia University.
I look forward to hearing from you and to arranging to show a videotaped message from Mrs.
Clinton on October 7.
Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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