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 Gratitude for Peter Grothe
Although the Peace Corps came into the public arena during the presidential election that eventually yielded President John F. Kennedy, the name of the now internationally renowned program was actually coined by a Stanford graduate student working for the late Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
That graduate student is, today, Professor Peter Grothe, director of international student programs for the Monterey Institute, who is historically recognized not only for naming the organization but for drafting the original Peace Corps legislation for Humphrey to introduce in the U.S. Senate.
Among the more enduring, this is not the most compelling reason the Monterey Institute quietly appreciates the good works of Peter Grothe.
Professor E. Philip Morgan, head of the International Trade Policy Program in the graduate school of International Policy Studies, has received the Fred W. Riggs Lifetime Scholarly Achievement award by the international section of the American Society for Public Administration in the field of Comparative and International Administration. The award recognizes significant conceptual, empirical and leadership contributions to the research, teaching, and practice of development management..
Riggs, now retired and in his 90s, was an innovative student of the challenges to effective government administration in the many nonwestern countries which emerged in the 1950s. He, and others, created a subfield of study and professional practice now called development administration or development management. This award was created in the early 1980s to recognize those whose work creatively addressed the administrative challenges of nation-building in late developing countries. |
