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Award Winners Achieve Excellence Worldwide /// By Bill Palmer
“This morning we celebrate creativity and innovation,”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an overflow crowd
during the Department Awards Ceremony in November.
Speaking in the Benjamin Franklin Room, she said the
2009 award winners “have come up with innovative
ideas, demonstrated remarkable bravery and led success-
ful policy initiatives.”
The annual awards recognize outstanding achieve-
ments in functional areas such as reporting and analysis,
management, linguistic ability, administration, security,
consular services, international economics, trade devel-
opment, peacekeeping, equal employment opportunity
and mentoring.
While lauding the winners, Secretary Clinton chal-
lenged everyone present to “keep asking yourselves what
we can do better.”
The awards were presented by Under Secretary for
Political Affairs William Burns.
Thomas Morrison
Information Arnold L. Raphel
Management Award Memorial Award
Wendell D. Bullington Daniel Bennett Smith
Bullington, former information Smith, assigned to the Executive Secre-
programs officer at the U.S. Embassy tariat, was cited for success in counsel-
in Baghdad, was cited for exceptional ing, encouraging and motivating peers
performance, innovation and leader- and subordinates, and for inspiring the
ship under trying and dangerous current and next generation of Depart-
conditions while serving as the ment employees to achieve excellence
Baghdad New Embassy Compound in the pursuit of U.S. foreign policy.
information technology coordinator.
He demonstrated remarkable dedica-
tion and perseverance in preparing the
Baghdad NEC, the world’s largest and
most complex embassy compound, for
occupancy.
Luther I. Replogle
Award for
Management
Improvement
Office Management Ralph A. Hamilton
Specialist of the Year Hamilton, financial management
officer at the U.S. Embassy in New
Patricia Reber Delhi, was cited for outstanding
Reber, formerly assigned to the U.S. leadership, wide-ranging management
Embassy in Addis Ababa, was cited improvements and resourcefulness,
for resourcefulness, commitment to resulting in substantial cost savings,
customer service, exceptional inter- critical training and improved morale
personal skills, mentoring of junior throughout Mission India.
officers and exemplary handling of a
high VIP visitor workload in Ethiopia.
Barbara M. Watson
Award for Consular
Excellence
Donald Leroy Moore
Herbert Salzman Moore, consul general at the U.S. Em-
Award for Excellence bassy in Port au Prince, was cited for
in International exceptional, creative and committed
Economic efforts to further U.S. interests in Haiti.
His steadfast service to the American
Performance community, efforts to provide the best
Jason “Andy” Abell visa service to Haitian visa clients and
careful and engaged mentoring of his
Abell, economic officer at the U.S.
staff meet the highest standards of
Embassy in Damascus, was cited
consular excellence. n
for exceptional contributions to
understanding the economic realities
in Syria and his influential reporting
on how to optimize the application The author is a writer/editor with
of trade and financial sanctions to State Magazine.
empower free-market advocates while
discouraging destabilizing behavior by
the government of Syria.