Exchanges
Throughout our over 50-year history, STSCA has sponsored numerous US-Uzbek exchanges and projects. Each exchange program/project involved many dedicated volunteers who managed various aspects of the program. We are grateful to all our volunteers, but for brevity’s sake list only the lead individual(s) here.
Exchanges
- Alpinists – Frith Maier
- Art – Paul D. Natkin
- Art Pattison Communications Exchange Program – Michael James Allan, Alan Boyle, and David Endicott
- Ceramic artists – Wally Bivins and Joanne Young
- Chefs – Lydia Barrett
- Cinematographers – Dale Blindheim and Dave Frankel
- Dance (traditional Uzbek dance) – Laurel Gray and Emiko Nakamura
- Dentists – Richard Johnson, Rosh Doan, and Betty Sherman
- Domestic-violence prevention – Karen Greene and Diana Pearce
- English-language resource center – Joyce Doan, Patricia Leigh, Rich Hawkins, and Joanne Young
- Hospitals – Victoria Gallanti
- Human Potential seminars – Roy and Leigh Farrell
- Jewish community – Rob Spitzer
- Lawyers – Robert Alsdorf and Terrance A. Carroll
- Music (Classical and Rock ‘n’ Roll) – Hal Green
- Organizational-management development – Millard and Bonnie Mott
- Orphanage support through OCCA (Orphan Care for Central Asia) – Paula and Jim Quigley
- Parks – Mayor Wes Uhlman (Tashkent Park in Seattle), Fred Noland (Seattle Peace Park in Tashkent)
- Peace Table (sharing knowledge of the food industry) – Jerilyn Brusseau
- Photography – Claire Garoutte and Ray Meuse
- Physicians – Rosh Doan, Roy Farrell, and Royce Morrison
- Public administration– City of Seattle Internship
- Puppet theater – Chris and Stephen Carter
- Schools – Jay and Susan Sasnett, Barb Clagett
- Sculpture – Richard (Rich) Beyer
- Sports/Amputee soccer – Brad Bodley and Bill Barry
- Teachers – Angela Halonen-Webb and Kara Vasser
- Tightrope walkers (traditional from Tashkent) – Joyce Doan
- Trade and business – Gary Furlong
- Youth summer camp – Hal Green
- Zoos – City of Seattle
Special Project
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- Akhror Fund (Long-term support for an accident victim from Tashkent) – Joyce Doan and Joanne Young
University Exchanges (University of Washington with Tashkent academic institutions)
- Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization – Ilse Cirtautas
- Graduate students/Tashkent State University – Will Dirks and Megan Gorman
- Student Exchange office – David Fenner
- Architecture/Urban Planning department – Art Rice
- Business School/Tashkent State Economic Institute
- Drama department/Ilkhom Theater
- Engineering College/Tashkent Polytechnic Institute – Pete Lauritzen
- History department – Aldon Bell
- Mathematics department – Edwin Hewitt
Exchanges/Projects Co-Sponsored by STSCA
- Central Asian textiles exhibits – Seattle Art Museum
- Ceramic artists exchange (co-sponsored with Pottery Northwest) – Joanne Young and Wally Bivins
- “Colors of the Oasis” (ikat) exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and film showing of “Desert of Forbidden Art” – MIR Travel Corporation
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Glasnost’ and Goodwill: Citizen Diplomacy in the Northwest exhibit – Washington State History Museum
- Goodwill Games – Carmen Mathews
- Ilkhom Theater exchange with ACT Theater – Kurt Beattie
- Million Cranes project for schoolchildren (organized by Ploughshares) – Akemi Matsamoto and Dwight Wilson
- Peace Child theater project – Helen Strickland
- Physician exchanges (co-sponsored with Medical Teams International) – Shukhrat Arifdjanov
- Religious leaders from Uzbekistan (co-sponsored by U.S. State Department)
- Seattle Peace Park in Tashkent (co-sponsored with Ploughshares and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers)
- Seattle Peace Chorus – Helen Lauritzen and Helen Hustad
- Target Seattle – Aldon and Betsy Bell, Kay Bullitt, and Rosh Doan
- Teacher and Student exchanges (co-sponsored with Accent on Understanding) – Dan Peterson
- Ten Thousand Tiles project (tiles decorated and shipped to Tashkent for the Seattle Peace Park) – Akemi Matsamoto