Preorientation Departure Meeting in Washington D.C. July 7-July 9, 2004

Welcome to the Fulbright Program and the Department of State

Individual Country Sessions. In the middle of the picture: Tissa Jayatilaka, Executive Director of the United States Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, a position he has held since 1989. To the left of Tissa: is David Cohen, a former Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka from October 1, 1977 to July 31, 1978. His field of specialization: teaching English as a Foreign Language and Herta Keilbach, Ph.D., Professor of Foreign Languagesa and English as a Foreign Language.To the right of Tissa Jayatilaka is Lani Gunawardena, Ph.D, Professor of Distance Education & Instructional Technology, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She is a native of Sri Lanka. Standing are four Fulbright Student Fellows and a Fulbright Scholar

Here is a list of the Fulbright Scholars and Fulbright Student Fellows going to Sri Lanka:

In the spirit of a cultural ambassador promoting mutual understanding and respect, I took recourse in the wisdom of our founding fathers and visited the various Memorials, starting with the Jefferson Memorial:

The whitedomed, colonnaded building on the south bank of the Tidal Basin surrounds a 19 ft, high statue of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Statue of Jefferson

Roosevelt Memorial, consisting of four openair rooms with chunky Granite blocks, waterfalls and sculptures.

				These images show graphic details and a strong symbolism of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, highlighting the despair of the Great Depression, Roosevelt's personality and New Deals programs transformed into hope and renewal.