TNWAC This Week April 6, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: Two weeks ago your World Affairs Council hosted U.S. Foreign Service Officer Allen DuBose, Diplomat in Residence for this region, as part of our Spring 2021 International Careers Program. [Link] We thank him for the program in which he described the process to become an...Read More
A global affairs awareness service provided by the Tennessee World Affairs Council CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to quiz master Matthew Jackson for this week’s quiz. LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS (10s) Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN Donald McKenzie, Nashville, TN Joseph Mendenhall, Bedford, TX CJ Martella, Knoxville, TN Steve Freidberg, Boston, MA Meaghan Denniston, Knoxville,...Read More
TNWAC This Week March 30, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: Tennesseans are again picking up the pieces from the latest catastrophe to strike the Nashville area. Just as we were observing the first anniversary of the Super Tuesday tornado and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic the clouds opened up and dropped record rains that...Read More
TNWAC This Week March 16, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: This month we observe the anniversary of Covid-19 being designated a global pandemic and the increases in public health efforts and social measures. As we mark the beginning of this life changing catastrophe we also remember and mourn the loss of over a half million...Read More
The Tennessee World Affairs Council wishes to share our remembrance on the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. At 2:46 pm Japan Standard Time ten years ago today, a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck eastern and northeastern Japan, especially Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. An hour later a catastrophic tsunami swept coastal zones of...Read More
A global affairs awareness service provided by the Tennessee World Affairs Council CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to quiz master Matthew Jackson for this week’s quiz. LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS DDDD Kelly O’Connor, Nashville, TN Himanshu Manchanda, Nashville, TN Kathy Ingleson, Brentwood, TN Steve Freiberg, Boston, MA Barbara Gubbin, Jacksonville, FL Ansley, London Sherry Leblang,...Read More
A global affairs awareness service provided by the Tennessee World Affairs Council CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to quiz master Matthew Jackson for this week’s quiz. LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS Jim Shepherd, Nashville, TN Roger French, Washington, IL David Hillinck, Huntsville, AL Austin Travis, Nashville, TN Jacob Williams, Franklin, TN Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN Donald...Read More
TNWAC This Week January 26, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: “Team Spirit.” It was a joint military exercise between forces of the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK), or South Korea. It was a regular fixture in America’s Western Pacific defense posture from the mid-70s through the 90s, especially focused on defending our...Read More
