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It’s a girl—“bright-eyed, generally calm and with the sweetest disposition, though she can scream like Joan Rivers” says her proud father, Rusty Stahl. Ruby Selah Stahl was born January 31 and named for both her father’s maternal grandmother, Reba, and mother’s paternal grandfather, Reubin. Selah is a Hebrew word meaning both “pause and reflect” and “rock”, which Rusty notes happens to be the name of the leadership development program through which he met his wife, Sarah From. Rusty worked at Ford in the Governance and Civil Society and Peace and Social Justice programs and is the president and CEO of the Talent Philanthropy Program of the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. 
 
 
Rosalia Sciortino visited recently with a former colleague and long-time friend, Pratiwi Setianto, who was a program assistant for the Gender and Reproductive Health program in the Jakarta office of the Foundation when Lia worked there before moving on to the Manila office. Lia was with the Foundation from 1993 to 2000 and now is an associate professor at the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR) at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand; visiting professor in Master and PhD International Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University; and founder and executive director of the newly created SEA Junction, a public venue and library for conversations on Southeast Asia.
 
 
Members of LAFF’s Thailand chapter met for lunch in February in Bangkok. Around the table and starting from the left are William Klausner, Mary Zurbuchen, who worked in the Jakarta and New Delhi offices from 1984 to 2000, Sisamon Plengsri, Rosalia Sciortino, who was in the Jakarta and Manila offices from 1993 to 2000, Patcharee Srikanchana, Daranee Peterson, who worked in the Bangkok office from 1975 to 1981, Peter Weldon, who worked in the Bangkok and Jakarta offices from 1973 to 1980, Chatsarun Isarangkora, Chaythip Bunyastit and Sunanthana Kampanathsanyakorn.

 

 

 

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