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The Senate last week confirmed Lawrence Summers as the next Treasury Secretary. Summers has served as outgoing Secretary Robert Rubin's deputy since 1995.
Kenneth W. Kizer will not seek a second term as undersecretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Kizer has served in this position since 1994 and is widely recognized as a pioneer in reforming the agency's hospital health-care system.
Farewell to Kari E. Dohn, deputy assistant secretary for policy and planning at the Commerce Department. Dohn is moving to California to work for California Gov. Gray Davis in a similar position. She spent three and a half years in her federal post.
Mark Thomas Jurkovich is moving from the Commerce Department to Microsoft. Jurkovich, former deputy assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at Commerce, will serve in Microsoft's government relations office in Washington as federal government affairs manager and corporate attorney.
President Clinton has nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles R. Heflebower to be deputy commander in chief of the United Nations Command in Korea, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Korea, and commander of several units stationed in Korea. Heflebower is currently serving as vice commander of the Pacific air forces at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
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G. Martin Wagner, associate administrator for governmentwide policy at the General Services Administration, has been awarded the Federal Government Information Processing Council's 1999 John J. Franke Professional Services award. The award is given to a senior government official who has been a leading spokesperson for information technology issues. At GSA, Wagner is responsible for directing policy development in IT and other areas.
Good Housekeeping magazine recently recognized ten women from all levels of government with its Awards for Women in Government. Federal winners included:
- Ronnie Levin, senior scientist, Environmental Protection Agency, whose efforts to clean up drinking water regulations have led to reduced lead exposure for 50 million Americans.
- Mary Walters, chief of geriatrics, extended care and rehabilitation health center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tucson, Ariz, whose work with long-term care vets resulted in a drop in the average extended-care stay at her facility from more than three years to 28 days.
- Joyce Essien, commissioned officer, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who pioneered a community program aimed at reducing and managing asthma in African-American children.
The Association of Old Crows (AOC) has awarded Arthur L. Money its Gold Medal of Electronic Warfare. Money, special assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence, is recognized as a defense electronics and intelligence industry expert, with more than 33 years of management and engineering experience in those fields. AOC is an organization of professionals engaged in information or electronic warfare.
The General Services Administration received the Public Relations Society of America's silver anvil for best special events program in government. GSA won the Thoth award, named after the Egyptian god of communications, for its special events surrounding the dedication of the Ronald Reagan building in downtown Washington.
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