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TO: MSFS Faculty
FROM: Tony
RE: MSFS Faculty Meeting (April 23, 4pm), Faculty Orientation April 23,
5:15pm) Tropaia Speakers

*Faculty Meeting, April 23, 4pm, 7th Floor Executive Conference Room*

Just a reminder that our next MSFS Faculty Meeting will be held on
Wednesday, April 23rd from 4pm-5pm in the 7th Floor Executive Conference
Room. Agenda will follow. Light refreshments will be available.

To RSVP for the Faculty Meetings, please go to this link--
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faculty-meeting-tickets-11297423899


*Faculty Orientation, April 23, 5:15, 7th Floor Executive Conference Room*

MSFS faculty are also encouraged to attend the Faculty Orientation session
on April 23 at 5:15PM, following the Faculty Meeting. This session will
also be held in the 7th Floor Executive Conference Room.

This session is particularly useful for new faculty who will be teaching
with MSFS for the first time. All faculty are encouraged to attend,
however. In past years, we have found that returning faculty have offered
very good advice for new faculty, and new faculty members have raised
helpful questions for returning faculty.

Light dinner will be provided.


To RSVP for the Orientation, please go to this link--
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faculty-orientation-tickets-11297435935


*Tropaia Speakers*


As you all know, the MSFS Tropaia Ceremony will be held in Gaston Hall on May
16. We hope you can come!!


You will be receiving more detailed information about the logistics of the
Tropaia soon. At the ceremony, there will be three main speakers-- a
Student Speaker, whom the graduating students will be selecting soon, the
Keynote Speaker, and the Alumna Speaker. We are truly excited to announce
the Keynote and Alumna Speaker:


*Keynote Speaker*


*Lakhdar Brahimi* will be the Keynote Speaker. Ambassador Brahimi is the
United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy for Syria. Born in Algeria,
Brahimi has had an exceptionally distinguished career in diplomacy, serving
previously as the UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan, for Iraq, for Haiti and
for South Africa. He served as Algerian Foreign Minister from 1991-1993 and
had previous been the Algerian Ambassador to Egypt, Sudan and the Arab
League (1963-1970) and the Algerian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
(1971-1979). He was Undersecretary General of the Arab League (1984-1991).
He chaired the Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations that produced the
Brahimi Report in 2000. Ambassador Brahimi is a member of The Elders.


*Alumna Speaker*


*Laura Yecies *(MSFS 1986) will be the Alumna Speaker. Ms. Yecies is an
entrepreneur, strategist, and executive with extensive experience in the
tech community. She is currently an advisor, strategist and growth
consultant with TheKitchenSync.com. She has previously served as the CEO of
Catch.com, the CEO of SugarSync, General Manager of the ZoneAlarm Consumer
and Small Business Division at Check Point Software, Global General Manager
at Yahoo! Mail, and Vice President at Netscape. She was also a risk analyst
at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. In addition to her MSFS
degree, Ms. Yecies holds an MBA from Harvard and an BA from Dartmouth