Distinguished Visitors & Special Events
The U.N. in the World’s Trouble Spots: A U.S. Perspective, Ambassador Morris N.
Hughes, Jr., Diplomat in Residence, October 27, 1999 (Sponsor: World Trade Center,
New Orleans)
The Role of Women in Business in Latin America, H. E. Astrid Fischel, Vice
President of Costa Rica, November 9, 1999 (Sponsor: World Trade Center, New
Orleans)
Guatemalan/U.S. Relations, The Honorable William H. Stixrud, Ambassador of
Guatemala to the United States, November 12, 1999 (Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin
American Studies)
Costa Rica in Perspective, The Honorable Jaime Daremblum, Ambassador of Costa
Rica to the United States, (Sponsors: World Trade Center of New Orleans and the Stone
Center for Latin American Studies)
Cuba and Capitol Hill: The Legislative Process and Foreign Policy, Moses Mercado,
Chief of Staff to Richard Gephardt, Senate Minority Leader, April 6, 2000
(Sponsors: Cuban Studies Institute and Stone Center for Latin American Studies)
Inter-American Development Bank Annual Meeting Tour: Rivers, Heritage and
Development: A Tour of Case Study Sites in New Orleans, March 22 - 29, 2000
(Organizer: Thomas F. Reese. Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin American Studies)
Social Work in the Third Millennium-An Alternative Focus, Symposium: First U.S.Cuban Social Work Student Encounter. Topics included social policy, children and
adolescents, older adults, mental health, families, chronic contagious disease, chronic noncontagious disease, civil society, and academic/professional development. Cuba, May 1-12,
2000 (Sponsors: La Sociedad Cubana de Trabajadores de la Salud and The School of Social
Work. Collaborators: Hospital Psiquiátrico de la Habana, Instituto Politécnico de la Salud
“Miss Mary O’Donnel,” and the Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad de la Habana)
Award of Recognition to Don Eleuterio Po’ot Yah for 35 years of devotion to the
Preservation of the Maya Language of Yucatán, September 16, 1999 (Sponsor:
Stone Center for Latin American Studies)
World Trade Center’s Cunningham Award for Eamon M.Kelly, President Emeritus of
Tulane University. For his outstanding service toward better social and cultural
understanding and cooperation among the peoples of the Western Hemisphere. March 22,
2000 (Sponsor: World Trade Center, New Orleans)
Celebrating Tulane Authors in Latin American Studies (A reception to honor Tulane
Latin American faculty who published scholarly works in 1999) April 13, 2000 (Sponsor:
Stone Center for Latin American Studies)