bout de papier, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1990), p. 5
I have just received Vol. 7 No. 2 of bout de papier and enjoyed its contents. It is no wonder that the magazine has won the New York Association of Art Director’s Award for design. It certainly has gone from strength to strength in the last year.
P. Gigott Canadian Embassy The Hague, Netherlands
Dear Editor,
As a sort of follow-up to Geoffrey Murray’s piece on the late Honourable Howard Green, I thought our readers might be interested in the following extract from a letter I received from his son, John Green, of Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. in reply to my letter of condolence.
His many friends in the Department will be glad to learn that HCG remained in full command of his faculties and of good cheer right to the end – which happily was peaceful.
“Like you, I do not think that Dad received the public recognition he had earned, but that was not a major concern to him, and his friends, like yourself, did not forget him. No doubt his passing would have been a matter of much greater note had he not outlived so many of his contemporaries, but I am sure he would not have traded away any of his 93 years on that account.
He was still in his home, and although he had slipped a long way from what he was, he was still able to receive his friends and even rise to occasional public appearances right to the end, which was quick and painless, so there is much to be thankful for.”
Ross Campbell InterCon Consultants
Dear Editor,
Congratulations on your thoughtful and well-written editorial in bout de papier (Vol. 7, No. 1). You raised a number of important and immediate issues, including the myth that change can be made simply by bringing more women into the Foreign Service at the entry level and assuming that they will rise to management positions in 15 years. As you quite rightly point out, the change which is required is more immediate than that solution can offer. High attrition rates among women are testimony to the obstacles to such advancement and illustrate that the policy of bringing about change from below is only a partial solution, and not a very effective one at that. As you say, the problem is also one of attitude; it strikes me that some of the problems women face in advancement in the Foreign Service arise out of the subjective and arbitrary nature of the promotion process which I criticised in the letter you published (Vol.
Your editorial also gives me hope that if you continue to pursue these kinds of issues, I might have to recant some of my criticism of bout’s editorial policy. I hope that I will have the opportunity to do so in the near future.
Philip Calvert Foreign Service Officer
(on Leave Without Pay) Department of History University of Washington Seattle, Washington
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