History of the Global Learning Center
Founding Board Members 1988
Anna Anderson (Treasurer), Stuart Berger, Pat Cameron, C.G. Chacko, Darold Deterdin,
Patricia Ann Hatcher, Ben Henry, Myrlliss Hershey, Howard Johnston (President),
Jeanne Johnston (Secretary), Pat Lehman, Diane Lincoln, Otis Milton, Jim Munson,
Sam Muyskens, Ken Stewart, David Walker, Tim Voss
About Howard & Jeanne Johnston
Executive Director's Report 1993
Flyers
Newsletters
Locations:
1989 124 S. Broadway, Wichita KS 67202
1990 435 S. Broadway, Wichita KS 67202
1995 Office 334 N Topeka, Wichita KS 67202
Resource Room Brennan Hall WSU Cnr 17th & Yale
1997 829 N. Market, Wichita KS 67214
2011 PO Box 781715 Wichita KS 67278
Traditions
United Nations Anniversary Banquet in October
Annual Meeting in January
Religions of the World in March
H&JJGCC Awards presented at the UN Banquet
Annual Retreat in May
Howard & Jeanne Johnston Global Community Citizenship Award
From 2000, the Howard & Jeanne Johnston Global Community Citizenship Award has been presented at the UN Banquet.
Steps:
1. May - Form an Awards Committtee at Annual Retreat
2. Summer - Call for Nominations, including biographies and resumés
3. August Board Meeting - Consider Nominees
4. September Board Meeting - Choose Award Recipient(s)
5. September - Have Plaque(s) made
6. September - Invite Johnston family representatives to the Banquet
7. Banquet - Introduce the recipient and present award with Sarah and Bill (photo)
8. Banquet - Opportunity for Recipient(s) to speak
Criteria:
1. Consider Founding members, but not a requirement
2. Years of membership
3. Service on Board and as Officers
4. Voluntary Support
5. Role as Model Global Citizens in the Community
6. Donations and Financial Support
7. Travel to other Countries
8. Presentations to the GLC
9. Contribution to Education (any and all levels)
Past Recipients:
2000 - Howard Johnston - Founder
2001 - Al Vargo - Director of WSU Intensive English Program
2002 - Ken Stewart - Lawyer and Co-Founder
2003 - Randy Bush - Butler Community College, Political Science, International Education
2004 - Billy McCray -
2005 - Manfred & Susan Menking - Physicians
2006 - Dorothy Billings - Wichita State University - Professor of Anthropology
2007 - Glyn Rimmington - Wichita State University, Distinguished Professor of Global Learning
2008 - Balbir & Treva Mathur - Trees for Life
2009 - Vimal Goyle - Physician
2010 - Carolyn Shaw - Wichita State University, Professor of Political Science
2011 - Rick McNary - Founder of Numana
2012 - Michael Poage - Pastor, Poet, Activist
2013 - Mohan & Lakshmi Kambampati
2014 - Dr. Deema DeSilva, Mary Harren and Sister Ann Catherine Burger
2015 - Rev. Sam Muyskens
Past UN Banquet Speakers
1989 Rev. Sylvia Farmer - Associate Chair of the Inter-Faith Ministries
1990 Hilda Paqui, Media Relations Officer for United Nations Development Programs
“United Nations - Status of Women, Education, Cooperation with the Third World”
1991 George Neavoll, Page Editor for Wichita Eagle
“Role of the United Nations”
1992 Dr. David Farnsworth Political Science, WSU
“Future of the United Nations”
1993 - no information -
1994 Don Skokan, Janet Nickel, Manfred Menking, & C.G. Chako
“The Role and Activities of the United Nations” Panel
1995 Dr. Carol Konek, Professor of Women’s Studies, WSU
“50 Years of the United Nations: Are Women’s Rights Human Rights?”
1996 Dr. Robert Musil. Ph.D., Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility
“Nuclear Proliferation”
1997 - no banquet -
1998 Prof James McKenney WSU Political Science, Prof.·C.G. Chacko Friends
“International Terrorism” Panel
1999 Dr. Timothy Weldon, Professor of Philosophy, Newman University
“Human rights in an era of Ethnic Cleansing”
2000 Jonathan Schell, Author and Journalist with the New Yorker, Harpers, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation, "The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now"
2001 Dr. Lawrence Korb, Council on Foreign Relations
“The Role of the US in the UN : Prospects under the Bush Administration"
2002 Joseph Cirincione, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Does the United States still believe in the Vision of the United Nations?”
2003 Dr. Victor Sidel, Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. “Responsibilities of a Superpower: The US and UN and Weapons of Mass Destruction”
Since 2004, the featured speakers have come from the United Nations. Hopefully, this will continue as a tradition. There is much to learn about the many roles and responsibilities of the UN.
2004 Ramu Damudaran (India) - UN Secretariate
2005 Nancee Oku-Bright (Liberia) - UN Humanitarian Affairs
2006 Brian Vitunic - UN Central Asia Desk
2007 Kathleen Abdalla - UN Sustainable Development
2008 Donald Lee - UN Millennium Development Goals
2009 Ari Gaitanis (Australia) - UN Peace Keeping
2010 Liv Tigerstedt (Sweden) - UN Anti-Terrorism
2011 Dena Gudaitis - UN World Food Program
2012 Antonie DeJong - UNIFEM
2013 Abraham Joseph - UNEP
2014 Alex Taukatch (Ukraine) - UNDPI
2015 Thomas Beall - Asst. US Attorney & Jennifer White - Founder ICT-S.O.S.
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