Thank You for My Italian Year – Anya Farion – Italy 1988
Being awarded a Fulbright Grant to carve marble for a year in the town of Pietrasanta, Italy was a dream come true for a sculptor like myself. The situation was ideal; one was able to learn from and be inspired by the Italian craftsmen and the international community of artists who come from around the […]
A Fulbrighter Afloat – Alyson McLamore – The United Kingdom 1988
During my Fulbright year in London, the executive director of the UK Commission, John E. Franklin, wished to explore the possibility of sending future UK Fulbright Scholars on a “team-building” voyage aboard the Malcolm Miller, a ship of the Sail Training Association. To test the scheme, I was given a berth and assigned to the […]
My Wonderful Memories at Texas A&M – Dr. Balagopalan Unni – Texas, USA 1988-1991
Dr. Balagopalan Unni – Fulbright to Texas, USA 1988-1991
David Hadaller – Romania 1987
My Fulbright Year in communist Romania began almost two years before I arrived in Bucharest in 1987. My former professor and mentor from Gonzaga University, Dr. Fran Polek, was himself a Fulbright alumnus who had served in Timisoara, Romania, during the 1984-85 academic year. In late 1985, I told Fran about my dreams of working […]
Alex Counts – Bangladesh 1988
Alex Counts embarked on his Fulbright to Bangladesh in 1988 with a plan to change the world, and the experience he gathered enabled him to return home and establish the Grameen Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to enabling the poor and fighting poverty. Brought up in a family of mental health professionals in New York City, […]