THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1996
President Clinton Appoints 1996-97 White House Fellows
President Clinton today awarded prestigious White House Fellowships to 10 women and 8 men. The new class, which includes a geologist, a firefighter, and a best-selling author, will be the first ever comprised mostly of women.
"For the first time in the program's 32-year history, most of the 'fellows' aren't," says Fellowship Director Brooke Shearer.
A complete list of the 1996-97 Fellows, including hometowns, follows.
White House Fellows spend a year working as special assistants to senior officials in the White House and Cabinet agencies. They also take part in an education program of off-the-record meetings with top national leaders -- Supreme Court justices, Members of Congress, Fortune 500 executives, prominent journalists and others. The non-partisan program was created in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson and John Gardner, his health, education and welfare secretary who later founded Common Cause.
Among those who served as White House Fellows in the program's early years are HUD secretary Henry Cisneros, CNN president Tom Johnson, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and retired general Colin Powell.
President Clinton has said that the White House Fellowship program has "from its infancy invigorated the government with youthful energy and created a spirit of service among those who would become leaders of the future."
The eighteen Fellows appointed by the President today represent 13 states and the District of Columbia. The 1996-97 White House Fellows are:
Brenda G. Berkman, 44, Brooklyn, New York; Lieutenant, New York
City Fire Department.
Audrey Choi, 28, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Staff Reporter, The
Wall Street Journal.
Kimberly R. Cornett, 25, Arnold, Maryland; Executive Director,
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia.
Linda Eddleman, 33, Falls Church, Virginia; an attorney with
Marriott International, Inc. and founder of Alianza Escolar, which
pairs Hispanic children and mentors.
Stephanie L. Ferguson, 33, Richmond, Virginia; research
associate at the Virginia Health Policy Center and a consultant to
the Richmond Urban Primary Care Initiative.
Susan D. Fink, 37, Norfolk, Virginia; Lieutenant Commander and
protocol officer to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, U.S.
Navy, planned and flew combat logistics operations during Operation
Desert Storm.
Peter S. Fiske, 29, San Carlos, California; post-doctoral
research associate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Lewis P. Long, 30, District of Columbia; a senior consultant
with Gemini Consulting and a member of the Greater Washington Urban
League Advisory Board.
Mark J. Mathabane, 35, Kernersville, North Carolina; author and
lecturer, whose best-selling writings include Kaffir Boy and Kaffir
Boy in America.
Kevin Monroe, 34, Carter Lake, Iowa; senior audit manager with
the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP, and elected member of
the Council Bluffs, Iowa Board of Education.
David A. Moore, 38, Clifton, Virginia; Major and POW/MIA family
liaison and support officer, U.S. Air Force.
Robert C. Orr, 32, Princeton, New Jersey; a policy analyst at
the International Peace Academy and a Foreign Policy Fellow at the
Brookings Institution.
Bonnie J. Ryan, 46, Lake in the Hills, Illinois; Government and
Trade Relations Specialist for VITA Health Care, Inc.
Stefanie J. Sanford, 29, Austin, Texas, Chief of the Juvenile
Crime Intervention Division of the State of Texas Office of the
Attorney General.
Elisabeth A. Stock, 27, District of Columbia; a rural
transportation specialist at the World Bank.
Loree K. Sutton, 36, Leavenworth, Kansas; Major, a psychiatrist
enrolled at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Reginald M. Turner, 36, Detroit, Michigan; an attorney with the
firm of Sachs, Waldman, O?Hare, Helveston, Bogas & McIntosh.
John (Randy) Wood, 35, Tierra Verde, Florida; Lieutenant
Commander, U.S. Navy, is a crisis action planner for the United
States Central Command.