Message-ID: <35F04C5B.993C0A6D@idn.org> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:23:55 -0400 From: "Christopher L. Byrne" <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: Swissair Crash Claims Lives of Several Development Professionals To: mailto:INTDEV-L@uriacc.uri.edu
Apologies for any cross-postings ____________________________________________________________________In today's on-line edition of USA Today (www.usatoday.com), the following list of development professionals whose lives were lost in the Swissair Crash has been posted:
Dr. Jonathan Mann, a top pioneer in the fight against AIDS and current dean of Allegheny University of the Health Sciences School of Public Health in Philadelphia. Mann, an American, was the first director of the World Health Organization's global program on AIDS and was en route to a meeting of AIDS experts.
Mary-Lou Clements-Mann, Mann's American wife. A professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She specialized in research into vaccines.
Pierce Gerety, director of African Great Lakes operations at the U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees. An American, Gerety was a veteran of refugee operations in Sudan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and the Great Lakes area around Rwanda, Congo and Burundi.
Kathryn Calvert-Mazy, UNHCR senior social welfare officer. A Frenchwoman with seven years experience at the refugee agency.
Joachim Bilger, controller of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Ludwig Beaumler, a WIPO official.
Yves de Roussan, UNICEF regional adviser for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Ingrid Acevedo, the director of public relations for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.
The IDN extends our sympathies and condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of all whose lives were lost in this tragedy.