Emeriti Faculty Activities
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Edith K. Manns directed the Summer Policy Internship Program which provided opportunities for 15 rising seniors to participate in policy research in the School's centers. In December she and her husband sold their Atlanta home and moved to Maine where they are becoming accustomed to life in a small coastal town.

Joe Parko won the Atlanta Journal/Constitution haiku contest, November 17, 2000; was listed in the year 2000 edition of Who's Who in America; and continued to serve as a board officer with Progressive Healthcare Providers, a large nonprofit organization that provides housing, medical care, and trainers for approximately 350 developmentally disabled adults. He is also working on a special program with the American Friends Service Committee.

Barbara Ray continued work as Vice President and Board Member of Progressive Healthcare Providers (PHP), a 10-year old nonprofit organization, which provides care in small group-homes for developmentally disabled individuals in Louisiana and Alabama. Her academic knowledge and experience are also applied through the consuming hobby of genealogy. Computer software and internet communication are making her family historical research both efficient and effective, leading to a very large data base and family products. Her other hobby, photography, also enhances the genealogical work.

Samuel Skogstad served on a three-member team sent to the Ukraine to evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. Government-financed technical assistance to the Ukraine, in the areas of Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy and Administration, from 1995 to 2000; and to recommend a program of assistance for the next three years, April 2-29, 2001. He was retained by Development Alternatives International Corporation, in Washington, D.C., to write a technical proposal to the U.S. Government, to provide technical assistance in all areas of economic policy to the Government of Ukraine for the period 2001-2004. November 2000 - January 2001. His non-professional activities have included acquiring a condominium in Sarasota, Florida where he pursues the art of being retired. This requires proficiency in fishing, napping and swapping stories with members of the North Jetty Fish Camp Sunrise Coffee Klatch each morning.