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Robert S. Gelbard '64, confirmed this summer as the United States ambassador to Indonesia, was headed for that troubled nation shortly after an international peacekeeping force landed in East Timor last month. His deployment was delayed while he wrapped up business from his previous posting in Bosnia, where he was the President's special representative before and during the Kosovo crisis. Ambassador Gelbard, a career diplomat, has emerged as one of the State Department's "hot guns," in the words of Associate Professor of Economics and International Studies Patrice Franko–an assessment confirmed by his appointment in Indonesia as that country dealt with bloodshed and chaos in East Timor, demonstrations in the capital and problems with the International Monetary Fund. In addition to his status as a member of Colby's Class of 1964, Gelbard became a Colby parent this year when his daughter, Alexandra, enrolled as a member of the Class of 2003. His wife and Alexandra's mother, Ailene Gelbard, a demographer in charge of international programs at the Population Reference Bureau, is scheduled to speak to students while in Maine for Colby's Family Weekend, October 29-31. She also will address Waterville's Mid-Maine Global Forum on October 29 on the topic "World Population Beyond Six Billion," a population mark that was to be surpassed in October. |
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