GSPIA Honors Its Own During ASPA Annual Conference
GSPIA Associate Professor Harvey White was installed as the 2007-08 president of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) at its 68th annual conference held last March in Washington, D.C. ASPA is the nation’s largest and most prominent society representing all forums in the public service sector, with a membership of approximately 9,000 government and nonprofit administrators, scholars, educators and students.
The new presidency was celebrated at a special GSPIA-hosted reception held in White’s honor. Also recognized was GSPIA alumnus Keun Namkoong (PhD ’89), current president of the Korean Association for Public Administration (KAPA). Namkoong is professor of Public Administration at Seoul National University of Technology, and partners with Prime Minister Han Duck-soo in co-chairing the Government Information Sharing Committee. Founded in 1956, KAPA is Korea’s largest professional association in the public administration field, and Namkoong is the sixth GSPIA alumnus to serve as its president. GSPIA is proud to have been a sponsor of ASPA’s 2007 Annual Conference and will continue its affiliation as an ongoing co-sponsor of the Donald C. Stone Lecture, an annual conference event.
Goldstein Glitters at D.C. Reception
 For the alumni, faculty, staff and students who filled the ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel in
Washington, D.C. on a sunny afternoon last March, it was an oh-so-familiar picture—the yellow sweater, the fat cigar, the gravely voice, and even the bobblehead fundraising dolls—the unmistakable trademarks of Professor Donald Goldstein, affectionately known as “Goldy.”
Goldstein was on hand to deliver the first annual Matthew B. Ridgeway Lecture, and to be honored for his recent donation of 4,400 military-related books, 13,000 photographs, 300 films and videotapes, and transcripts of 200 interviews with Japanese and American participants in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Goldstein Collection, now housed in the Hillman Library, has been independently appraised at $890,000, but Goldy is not one to work with uneven numbers, and has pledged to contribute additional dollars to raise his gift to a $1 million value.
Prior to his 32-year tenure with GSPIA, Goldstein was an Air Force officer, serving for 22 years. A distinguished military scholar, he is the author or coauthor of 25 books, including two best sellers: At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Miracle at Midway.
It was his military background that led to a personal friendship with General Matthew B. Ridgway and the eventual establishment of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies in 1988. Ridgway had retired to Pittsburgh and lived there until his death in 1993 at the age of 98.
In his remarks, Goldstein noted that Ridgway “ranks as one of the greatest field commanders in U.S. military history, along with Stonewall Jackson and Creighton Abrams. In less than three months, he single-handedly saved the U.S. in the Korean War. He was a soldier and statesman, and GSPIA and the University of Pittsburgh should be proud and honored to have a center named after him.”
Special guests attending the lecture and reception included Associate Professor Harvey White, installed that weekend as 2007-08 president of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA); and Keun Namkoong (PhD ’89), president of the Korean Association for Public Administration (KAPA). Dorothea de Zafra Atwell (MPIA ’65), recipient of the 2006 GSPIA Alumni Volunteer Service Award, was also recognized.
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