2016 Dean’s Reception
On Wednesday, September 23rd, Dean Kenneth Freeman formally welcomed the 2015-2016 cohort to the Questrom School of Business and Boston University. This was the inaugural welcoming of Humphrey Fellows by a Questrom dean, as this year the University shifted the administrative home of HHHP from the Office of the Provost to Questrom.
More than sixty guests including faculty, professional affiliates, host families, and other friends of the Program gathered to honor BU’s thirty-seventh cohort of Fellows. Among them were former BU HHHP directors Ksenya Khinchuk, John Harris, and Sonia Parker, Alumna Tetyana Illyash (2012-2013/Ukraine), Bank of America Senior Vice President (and BU Alumnus) Al Petras, SEC Boston Assistant Regional Director Joseph Mick, State Street Global Advisors Vice President Bruce Westgate, and our collaborators in our Associate Campus Partnership with Bunker Hill Community College, Kathleen O’Neill, Wissal Nouchfif, and Zoe Edwards.
Following Dean Freeman’s welcome, Associate Professor Jack McCarthy gave his inaugural welcome as HHHP’s new director. We were also fortunate that Amy Nemith, Assistant Director of the Global Professional Exchanges Division and Program Lead for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at the Institute of International Education in Washington, DC, was able to align her annual visit with this event, and she addressed the audience as well.
Each Fellow then took the podium and addressed the audience. It was a wonderfully idiosyncratic array of self-introductions, all engaging and brimming with excitement about the goals, objectives, and as yet undiscovered possibilities of the year ahead. The Fellows also expressed appreciation to the staff and interns who have supported their transition to BU and the U.S. since they arrived in late August.
We are grateful to all of our friends who came out to join us in welcoming this year’s Fellows, and we look forward to a great year together!
