We are pleased to welcome a very distinguished group of new trustees who begin their service this fall.

Howard Rosenbloom is the executive director of the Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors for Hillel International. He also serves on the Nation-al Board of Technion Institute for Technology and is secretary of the Jewish Community Center in Baltimore. Mr. Rosenbloom has been a partner in many ICJS programs, including the Oversight Committee for the National Jewish Scholars Project.

Richard Schifter, a lawyer by profession, served from 1959 until 1979 on the Maryland State Board of Education, including eight years as the Board vice president and four as its presi-dent. He chaired the Governor's Commission on Funding Education of Handicapped Children and the Values Education Commission. From 1981 to 2001 he held foreign policy positions in the United States government, including U.S. representative in the United Nations Human Rights Commission, deputy U.S. representative in the U.N. Security Council with the rank of ambassador, and Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
     Mr. Schifter is a member of the American Jewish Commit-tee's Board of Governors and its Executive Committee and chairs the AJC's International Relations Commission. He also chairs the board of the Center on Democracy and Reconcili-ation in Southeastern Europe, located in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Sanford J. Ungar, president of Goucher College since July 1, 2001, is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College in government. He holds a Master's degree in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Rotary Foundation Fellow. For two years be-fore coming to Goucher, he was director of the Voice of America, the U.S. government's principal international broad-casting agency. From 1986 to 1999, he was dean of the School of Communication at American University in Washing-ton, D.C.
     For most of his career, Mr. Ungar was a print and broad-cast journalist working for, among others, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and National Public Radio. He is the author of six non-fiction books and has published numerous articles in national and international maga-zines. His board appointments have included the International Human Rights Law Group, Oxfam America, the Public Diplomacy Foundation, Science Service, and Georgetown Day School.

In Memory of a Friend and Trustee
As we welcome our new trustees, we also acknowledge with sadness the recent passing of The Very Reverend Constantine M. Monios, dean of the Cathedral of the Annunciation and the senior-ranking Greek Orthodox clergyman in Maryland. For several years Father Monios shared his humor, wisdom, and compassion with us as a member of our board. His leadership often stretched beyond our community to national interfaith organizations, but his Baltimore congregation was always his primary focus. We send our sincere condolences to his family and to all those who cherished his leadership as we did.