A Goddard man died in a small plane crash near Wilson in western Ellsworth County on Sunday afternoon 77-year-old Ronnie Thompson was flying from Lucas back to Wichita when the plane went down for no apparent reason The crash happened at 4th Road & Avenue D or 2.1 miles East of K232 on Avenue D around 1:30 PM FAA and KHP are all investigating the crash The GSFC Center Director spoke about telework saying that it is decided by direct line managers as per agency policy it’s clear to folks at GSFC that managers are simply following orders from the directorate level – and each GSFC directorate head has established separate and inconsistent policies I still don’t think the Columbia protest optics did any favors for GISS This administration wants liberty and expression for themselves which in this case seems appropriate given DOGE’s proven ineptitude the cancelation of the GISS lease and how it is implemented really smells of malice One must remember the infamous quote by Russell Vought: “We want bureaucrats to be traumatically affected” 3.2 million rent per year in a building Columbia owns doesn’t look defensible Thats 25,000 a year per desk for 130 workers it can’t be that the GISS employs 130 civil servants either giving GISS remote work after pulling civil servants back into their offices at Goddard must have gone over real well in Greenbelt the center director (and HR representative) were caught off guard as to what has (or hasn’t) been happening with the available Situational Telework (or Hybrid) from the direct line managers Did the raising of inconsistencies open an unwanted “can of worms” They 100% know about the inconsistencies AND which directorate is denying all Situational Telework requests *cough cough 500 cough cough * I was surprised they appeared surprised I’m well aware of 500’s policy I wonder if they didn’t want the 500 folks to publicly know about the “inconsistencies” with other Center Directorates and that’s why the HR rep stepped in to shut it down I think telework is a privilege not a right and everyone should be grateful to work for such a great place and everyone is really honored and passionate to work at NASA though even pre-COVID there we folks that had unique/hardship situations that had the ability to not really telework or just the option for occasional flexibility who is arbitrarily denying it and the ability for people to report to their closest duty station hilarious you think he’s the big bad wolf doing this to you and not just executing the presidents orders and cowardly of you to call someone out in an open forum like this and not just ask for a one on one if it’s really bothering you It’s hilarious that you think a one on one will make a difference I’ve had several and continue to get hardline responses and disingenuous rationales from directorate management You must be logged in to post a comment Actor Daniel Goddard returned to ABC 7 Chicago's "Soapchat" on Thursday May 1 teasing his role on General Hospital where he's stirring up drama "The drama's just getting started," Goddard promised You can watch General Hospital weekdays at 2 p.m. on ABC 7. To learn more about General Hospital, click here Click here to connect with Daniel « Back Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInWICHITA (Catch it Kansas) - Watch highlights from the March 2 Catch It Kansas Show here Here are results of some of this week’s action: Up to half of NASA’s research and science budget is on the chopping block by the Trump Administration The proposal has spurred several Maryland lawmakers to fight it “We will lose engineers and others to China,” said Maryland Sen they’re launching a major space exploration initiative The plan from the White House is to reduce NASA’s bottom line from a little more than $7 billion to just under $4 billion this fiscal year Van Hollen teamed up with Congressmen Steny Hoyer and Glenn Ivey on Monday to tour the Goddard Flight Space Center in Prince George’s County Some of the biggest cutbacks are aimed at the Goddard Space Flight Center where the $3 billion Nancy Grace Roman telescope Van Hollen said pulling the plug on the Roman telescope is a waste of money The project is on budget and set to launch on time “And yet they’re talking about flushing all of those tax dollars down the drain.” Congressman Glenn Ivey says engineers aren’t the only ones who will feel the pain He fears many of the businesses near the center will shutter “There’s a lot of businesses that do work directly connected to NASA,” he told a group of reporters gathered outside Goddard the only reason they’re here is because of the Goddard installation Ivey said the steep budget slash at NASA would drive top talent away Steny Hoyer of Maryland said he plans to urge fellow lawmakers and the White House to roll back the proposal “We’re going to fight this with every fiber of our being,” he said “And I project that Congress is not going to do this because it makes no economic sense no competitive sense or national security sense.” Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up here. © 2025 WTOP. 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Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb the former Young and Restless star (ex-Cane) who made his General Hospital debut earlier this month as Professor Henry Dalton was thrilled to share his first scenes with one of the show’s long-running stars The encounter between the characters that kicked off at the Savoy on the Monday “I was really looking forward to those scenes,” enthuses the actor Goddard says he’d found out through the grapevine before he got his hands on the actual script that his on-screen path would cross with Hughes’s “I’d heard that I had scenes with Finola and then I met her in the hallway maybe a week before we shot those scenes,” he recalls who played Dylan on Y&R during Goddard’s time there] I hadn’t seen Steve since he was at Y&R and we were chatting and then Finola came around the corner and we had a brief chat.” Though that was his first conversation with Hughes Goddard was already familiar with the daytime legend “I’ve had scenes in the past with Michelle Stafford [Y&R’s Phyllis and I know that Michelle and Finola are close friends,” he explains “When it got released that I was coming to GH Michelle basically spoke to Finola and said to her when I heard that I would have scenes with her coming up and then the second time I saw her was on set we were about to shoot the scenes,” Goddard continues “And we did kind of a fast rehearsal — which ‘Is there anything you want from me?’ And I thought working with new actors — you want that sort of gracious ‘How can we make this work?’ kind of mentality However impressed Goddard was by Hughes before they started filming his esteem only grew from the experience of working opposite her once the cameras were rolling “It’s interesting because she’s such professional and she’s so good at what she does that you can play the moments in between the dialogue,” the actor observes “You can play those little moments that kind of make it more than just so that it’s more interesting to watch and the scene constantly has an energy Goddard not only had a blast working with Hughes, but gives high marks to the other two female cast members with whom he’s interacted thus far, Braedyn Bruner (Emma) and Eden McCoy (Josslyn) “Braedyn’s young and she just started on the show last year very difficult to get thrust into such an important role where you have deep roots on the show and Anna Devane is your grandmother ‘She has such an incredible levity about her.’ She’s fun she’s sweet — she’s just an absolute pleasure and I’ve really enjoyed the scenes we’ve had There’s sort of a rivalry between Emma and Josslyn Jacks and somehow Dalton is getting wedged into the middle of it so I was really curious to see how Braedyn would play everything “I really enjoy working with Eden because Eden’s an old soul,” he smiles “You can feel it when you talk to her and when you’re in her presence She has a depth to her that you don’t find in a lot of young actors We have little chats — we’ll just chat about life Getting to know his co-stars a bit off-camera has only enhanced their on-screen dynamics “I think there’s a really great duality between Braedyn and Eden parallels the difference between Emma and Josslyn as characters you get to kind of take those little things you know about them as a real person and then play those into the scenes with them That gives you more than just two characters talking; it brings the depth of who you are as humans There was a subtle streak of humor in Goddard’s first scenes with McCoy and Bruner as Joss attempted to pull Goddard’s focus off of Emma and onto her “I like to try to find the humor,” he notes “It was hard because not knowing much about Dalton — just that he’s a professor and they’re the students — I didn’t want to just play it like How do you take the professor/student relationship but still make it entertaining and fun and bring a levity to it That’s what I was kind of going for; I wanted to see how much levity I could bring to it with them without knowing where the character’s going not have it set up in a way that’s kind of anti the direction that they want to take the character “I’m kind of like trying to walk a fine tightrope at the moment!” as Dalton called himself when introducing himself to Anna (Finola Hughes) chatted up Emma’s grandmother under Josslyn’s (Eden McCoy) watchful eye Soap Opera Digest has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services.Copyright © 2025 Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc By clicking Sign In, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and that you have read our Privacy Policy “First and foremost, it’s an absolute pleasure to be back in daytime,” says Daniel Goddard, who has been cast as Henry Dalton, a new character on General Hospital and will make his Port Charles debut on April 15 For the actor, who portrayed The Young and the Restless‘ Cane Ashby from 2007 to 2019 (and his twin performing wasn’t necessarily on his radar at the time GH came his way “I was not really thinking about going back to acting,” he reveals “I had kind of come to terms with that life.” he received a call from his former manager who wanted to submit him for a role on the ABC soap about four or five days before he texted me cosmic kind of moment where something about General Hospital was really prominent in my mind,” Goddard shares It happened about a month before I met my wife in 1998 ‘I’m ready to meet the one I meant to be with,’ and I opened myself up to the acceptance of The role was the recast of Jack Brennan, previously played by Charles Mesure and getting back in the game put Goddard in an emotional spot “It’s the first audition I’ve had in many years and it was a bizarre experience for me,” he admits even though you’ve been on a different soap opera for Especially when he realized he wasn’t the only familiar name in the mix. “I was standing out in the hallway, and there were four or five other guys there, one of them was Daniel Cosgrove [Ezra Boyle There’s a bunch of people here and there’s competition,’ so instantly I become fearful of the fact that I didn’t want to fail,” he explains The role ultimately went to Chris McKenna but GH wasn’t quite done with Goddard and they want you to do it,'” Goddard reveals ‘Are you kidding me?’ I was just gobsmacked by it I can’t begin to express my gratitude to Frank and everyone at General Hospital and to Michael Bruno for really believing in me and being there.” Goddard reported to work in mid-March as the enigmatic Professor Henry Dalton and it seems there are some things in his past that he’s done that have left him in a position of some form of investigation,” teases Goddard it’s an absolute mystery to me.” ‘Don’t tell me anything about the character,'” Goddard shares “I know that the characters that I’ve had scenes with know something about him I don’t want to know what it is because I don’t want to play it that I know I’d rather have the character be sort of a clean slate to me I always used to read the whole script because other characters will talk about you and you’ll get to know more about you than you know about yourself where he doesn’t want everybody know what’s going on or what the twists and turns are.’ And I thought ‘This is going to be cool.’ So I’m allowing myself to go on the journey of who Dalton is from the audience’s perspective and from my perspective of what is the growth and evolution of him I will allow it to unfold as the bits and pieces present themselves to me.” So far, Eden McCoy (Josslyn Jacks) and Finola Hughes (Anna Devane) are some of the actors who have shared scenes with the newcomer “What a blessing to have someone with Finola’s cachet and her value and her experience and talent,” he praises “It was just such a wonderful experience Let’s just have some fun.’ And she said Same thing with Eden — I think she’s fantastic who played Y&R’s Celeste Rosales] Daytime is a family and until you’ve been in it you don’t really understand how tight it is.” That close-knit feeling among the cast and getting to act in general are some of the many reasons he’s thrilled to be back in the genre “I feel like this is something that is not just meant to be; I feel like this completes something in me that’s been missing like Young and Restless for all those years there’s a part of you that becomes this entity that expresses themselves this way there’s always that part of you that’s missing and it’s kind of like you take all those things you learned in the past that has sat in your subconscious for all these years You’ve had a chance to metabolize it all you have this different understanding of how that craft should be applied.” Goddard looks back on his Y&R experience with fondness but his relationship with the viewers he met through the job is especially meaningful to him today “I forever will be grateful to the fans of daytime in general,” he notes “It goes back to in 2010 when Cane was killed off and fans banded together ‘Bring Daniel Goddard back as Cane.’ And I never realized how the fans of daytime are truly the greatest fans in the world They see you as the character because you’re in their lives on such a regular basis And then you form these relationships through social media and going to fan events and it’s just a phenomenal fan base that was wonderful.” One that he hopes follows him to Port Charles where he is having a great time as Professor Dalton wonderful experience so far,” Goddard enthuses and I have four episodes coming up in one week in the sense that everything that I’ve gone through in this process up until now is meant to be I couldn’t be more grateful to be back in what I think is probably the most beloved genre in all of entertainment.” Sign Up We have been notified of spam calls to our families requesting paypal payments for their services Please do not provide any information or make any payments over the phone and contact us directly should you receive these calls Our precious “Sweet Red,” Hollie Kristina Goddard, heartbreakingly left us on September 4, 2024, at the young age of 21. 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Goddard “After being dismissed as a phenomenon of an earlier century great power competition returned.” So declared the National Security Strategy that President Donald Trump released in 2017 capturing in a single line the story that American foreign policymakers have spent the last decade telling themselves and the world the United States generally sought to cooperate with other powers whenever possible and embed them in an American-led global order strategy had to focus on Washington’s contests with its major rivals The main priority of American foreign policy was clear: stay ahead of them Washington’s rivals “are contesting our geopolitical advantages and trying to change the international order in their favor,” Trump’s 2017 document explained his National Defense Strategy argued the following year interstate strategic competition had become “the primary concern in U.S national security.” When Trump’s bitter rival Joe Biden took office as president in 2021 But great-power competition remained the leitmotif Biden’s National Security Strategy warned that “the most pressing strategic challenge facing our vision is from powers that layer authoritarian governance with a revisionist foreign policy.” The only answer was to “out-compete” China and constrain an aggressive Russia Then came the first two months of Trump’s second term. With astonishing speed, Trump has shattered the consensus he helped create Trump has made clear that he supports a swift end to the war in Ukraine even if it requires publicly humiliating the Ukrainians while embracing Russia and allowing it to claim vast swaths of Ukraine Relations remain more tense with China, especially as Trump’s tariffs come into effect and the threat of Chinese retaliation looms. But Trump has signaled that he seeks a wide-ranging settlement with Chinese President Xi Jinping Anonymous Trump advisers told The New York Times that Trump would like to sit down “man to man” with Xi to hammer out terms governing trade Trump has ramped up economic pressure on U.S allies in Europe and on Canada (which he hopes to coerce into becoming “the 51st state”) and has threatened to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal the United States went from competing with its aggressive adversaries to bullying its mild-mannered allies Some observers, trying to make sense of Trump’s behavior, have tried to put his policies firmly back in the box of great-power competition. In this view, moving closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin is great-power politics at its finest—even a “reverse Kissinger,” designed to split apart the Chinese-Russian partnership Others have suggested that Trump is simply pursuing a more nationalistic style of great-power competition as well as India’s Narendra Modi and Hungary’s Viktor Orban These interpretations might have been persuasive in January But it should now be clear that Trump’s vision of the world is not one of great-power competition but of great-power collusion: a “concert” system akin to the one that shaped Europe during the nineteenth century What Trump wants is a world managed by strongmen who work together—not always harmoniously but always purposefully—to impose a shared vision of order on the rest of the world This does not mean that the United States will stop competing with China and Russia altogether: great-power competition as a feature of international politics is enduring and undeniable But great-power competition as the organizing principle for American foreign policy has proved remarkably shallow and short-lived And yet if history sheds any light on Trump’s new approach Although competing with major rivals was central to Trump’s first term and Biden’s term it’s important to note that “great-power competition” never described a coherent strategy To have a strategy suggests that leaders have defined concrete ends or metrics of success Washington sought to increase its power in order to contain Soviet expansion and influence the struggle for power has often seemed like an end in itself and for what reason competition was taking place “Great-power competition” could explain Trump’s threats to abandon NATO unless European countries increased defense spending since doing so could protect American security interests from free-riding But the term could also apply to Biden’s reinvestment in NATO which sought to revitalize an alliance of democracies against Russian and Chinese influence great-power competition represented a potent narrative of world politics one that provides essential insight into how U.S policymakers saw themselves and the world around them and how they wanted others to perceive them the country was cast as a strong and imposing hero with unparalleled economic vitality and military might But Washington could also be presented as a victim which portrayed the United States operating in a “dangerous world” with rival powers “aggressively undermining American interests around the globe.” At times was a necessary partner in ensuring global economic prosperity and the protection of human rights Although there were cameos by other foils—Iran and an array of nonstate actors—Beijing and Moscow stood out as the perpetrators of a plot to weaken the United States some of the details varied depending on who was telling the story the tale was grounded in national interests: these revisionist powers sought to “erode American security and prosperity.” Under Biden the focus shifted from interests to ideals Washington had to compete with the major autocratic powers to ensure the safety of democracy and the resilience of the rules-based international order the broad narrative arc remained the same: aggressive antagonists were seeking to harm American interests Once this vision of the world was in place The Russian invasion of Ukraine was an attack not just on Ukraine but also on the U.S.-led order China’s military buildup in the South China Sea represented not a defense of Beijing’s core interests but an attempt to expand Beijing’s influence in the Indo-Pacific at Washington’s expense Great-power competition meant that technology could not be neutral and that the United States needed to push China out of Europe’s 5G networks and limit Beijing’s access to semiconductors Foreign aid and infrastructure projects in African countries were not simply instruments of development but weapons in the battle for primacy even the UN World Tourism Organization all became arenas in a contest for supremacy Trump emerged as one of the most compelling bards of great-power competition and committed to the long term—but so are we,” he said in a speech in 2017 we must integrate every dimension of our national strength and we must compete with every instrument of our national power.” (Announcing his candidacy for president two years earlier he was more characteristically blunt: “I beat China all the time But having returned to office for a second term His approach remains abrasive and confrontational He does not hesitate to threaten punishment—often economic—to force others to do what he wants Instead of trying to beat China and Russia Trump now wants to persuade them to work with him to manage international order What he is telling now is a narrative of collusion not competition; a story of acting in concert President Xi and I will do everything possible to make the World more peaceful and safe!” Addressing business leaders gathered in Davos Trump mused that “China can help us stop the war with And they have a great deal of power over that situation Writing on Truth Social about a phone call with Putin in February “We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together.” In March as members of Trump’s administration negotiated with Russian counterparts over the fate of Ukraine Moscow made clear its view of a potential future “We can emerge with a model that will allow Russia and the United States to coexist without interfering in each other’s spheres of interests,” Feodor Voitolovsky a scholar who serves on advisory boards at the Russian Foreign Ministry and Security Council The Russian side understands that Trump grasps this prospect “as a businessman,” Voitolovsky added a real estate magnate who has been heavily involved in the negotiations with Russia mused about the possibilities for U.S.-Russian collaboration in an interview with the commentator Tucker Carlson maybe send [liquefied natural] gas into Europe together maybe collaborate on AI together,” Witkoff said “Who doesn’t want to see a world like that?” Trump may be breaking with recent convention but he is tapping into a deeply rooted tradition The notion that rival great powers should come together to manage a chaotic international system is one that leaders have embraced at many points in history often in the wake of catastrophic wars that left them seeking to establish a more controlled in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars that engulfed Europe for almost a quarter century the major European powers assembled in Vienna with the aim of forging a more stable and peaceful order than the one produced by the balance-of-power system of the eighteenth century where great-power war occurred practically every decade The result was “the Concert of Europe,” a group that initially included Austria members of the Concert were endowed with special rights and responsibilities to mitigate destabilizing conflicts in the European system instead of seeking to exploit them to expand their own power the European leaders would meet to seek a negotiated solution to the conflict Russia had long eyed expansion into the Ottoman Empire the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule seemed to provide Russia with a significant opportunity to do just that Austria and the United Kingdom called for restraint arguing that a Russian intervention would wreak havoc on the European order “It is for me to show myself convinced of the principles on which I founded the alliance.” At other times when revolutionary nationalist movements threatened the order the great powers convened to guarantee a diplomatic settlement even if it meant forgoing significant gains the Concert channeled great-power competition into collaboration It had proved unable to prevent conflict among its members Prussia systemically defeated Austria and France and consolidated its position as the head of a unified Germany intensifying imperial competition in Africa and Asia proved too much for the Concert to manage But the idea that great powers could and should take on the responsibility of collectively steering international politics took hold and reemerged from time to time President Franklin Roosevelt’s vision of the United States and China as “the Four Policemen” who would secure the world in the aftermath of World War II The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev imagined a post–Cold War world in which the Soviet Union would continue to be recognized as a great power working with its former enemies to help order Europe’s security environment And as Washington’s relative power appeared to wane at the beginning of this century some observers urged the United States to cooperate with Brazil and Russia to provide a similar modicum of stability in an emerging post-hegemonic world Trump’s interest in a great-power concert does not derive from a deep understanding of this history Trump seems to see foreign relations much as he sees the worlds of real estate and entertainment a select group of power brokers are in constant competition—not as mortal enemies Each is in charge of an empire that he may manage as he sees fit and the United States may jockey for advantage in various ways but they understand that they exist within—and are in charge of—a shared system tough” leaders who “love their country.” He has stressed that he gets along well with them and treats them as equals despite the fact that the United States remains more powerful than China and far stronger than Russia it is the perception of equality that matters: in 1815 Austria and Prussia were no material match for Russia and the United Kingdom but were accommodated as equals nonetheless the United States is neither a hero nor a victim of the international system obligated to defend its liberal principles to the rest of the world Trump promised that the United States would lead the world again not through its ideals but through its ambitions would come material power and an ability “to bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry and totally unpredictable.” What has become clear in the weeks since he gave this speech is that the unity Trump seeks is primarily with China and Russia those countries were positioned as implacable enemies ideologically opposed to the U.S.-led order China and Russia no longer appear as pure antagonists but as potential partners working with Washington to preserve their collective interests This is not to say that concert partners become close friends; far from it A concert order will continue to see competition as each of these strongmen angles for superiority But each recognizes that conflicts among themselves must be muted so that they can confront the real enemy: the forces of disorder It was precisely this story about the dangers of counterrevolutionary forces that laid the foundations for the Concert of Europe The great powers set aside their ideological differences recognizing that the revolutionary nationalist forces that the French Revolution had unleashed posed more of a threat to Europe than their narrower rivalries ever could Russia and China must be treated as kindred spirits in quelling rampant disorder and worrisome social change The United States will continue to compete with its peers but not at the expense of aiding the forces that Trump and his vice president have called “enemies within”: illegal immigrants members must be able to pursue their own ambitions without trampling on the rights of their peers (trampling on the rights of others is both acceptable and necessary to maintaining order) This means organizing the world into distinct spheres of influence boundaries that demarcate the spaces where a great power has the right to practice unfettered expansion and domination great powers allowed their peers to intervene within recognized spheres of influence as when Austria crushed a revolution in Naples in 1821 and when Russia brutally suppressed Polish nationalism as it did repeatedly throughout the nineteenth century it would be reasonable for the United States to allow Russia to permanently seize Ukrainian territory to prevent what Moscow sees as a threat to regional security It would make sense for the United States to remove “military forces or weapons systems from the Philippines in exchange for the China Coast Guard executing fewer patrols,” as the scholar Andrew Byers proposed in 2024 shortly before Trump appointed him deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia A concert mindset would even leave open the idea that the United States would stand aside if China decided to take control of Taiwan Trump would expect Beijing and Moscow to remain on the sidelines as he threatened Canada Just as a concert narrative gives the great powers the right to order the system as they wish it limits the ability of others to have their voices heard The great European powers of the nineteenth century cared little for the interests of smaller powers after a decade of revolution in South America Spain was faced with the final collapse of its empire in the Western Hemisphere The great powers met in Aix-la-Chapelle to decide the fate of the empire and to debate whether they should intervene to restore monarchical power Trump seems to have little interest in giving Ukraine a role in negotiations over its fate and even less desire to bring European allies into the process: he and Putin and their various proxies will sort it out by “dividing up certain assets,” Trump has said Kyiv will just have to live with the results Washington should see Beijing and even Moscow as partners revitalizing arms control would be a welcome development one that requires more collaboration than a narrative of great-power competition would have allowed By turning over global order to strongmen running powerful countries perhaps the world could enjoy relative peace and stability instead of conflict and disorder But this narrative distorts the realities of power politics and obscures the challenges of acting in concert although Trump might think that spheres of influence would be easy to delineate and manage the powers struggled to define the boundaries of their influence Austria and Prussia consistently clashed over control of the German Confederation France and Britain struggled for dominance in the Low Countries More recent attempts to establish spheres of influence have proved no less problematic and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill envisioned peacefully co-managing the post–World War II world they soon found themselves battling at the boundaries of their respective spheres thanks to the economic interdependence brought on by globalization it would be even more difficult for powers to neatly divide the world Complex supply chains and streams of foreign direct investment would defy clear boundaries and nuclear proliferation hardly exist inside an enclosed sphere where a single great power can contain them Trump seems to think a more transactional approach can circumvent ideological differences that might otherwise pose obstacles to cooperation with China and Russia But despite the ostensible unity of great powers concerts often mask rather than mitigate ideological frictions It did not take long for such rifts to emerge within the Concert of Europe They saw the revolts against Spanish rule in the Americas as an existential threat one whose outcome would reverberate across Europe and as thus requiring an immediate response to restore order But leaders in the more liberal United Kingdom saw the rebellions as fundamentally liberal and although they worried about the power vacuum that could arise in their wake the British were not inclined to intervene the British worked with an upstart liberal country—the United States—to cordon off the Western Hemisphere from European intervention tacitly supporting the Monroe Doctrine with British naval might It is not a stretch to imagine similar ideological battles in a new concert Trump might care little about how Xi managed his sphere of influence but images of China’s using force to crush Taiwan’s democracy would likely galvanize opposition in the United States and elsewhere just as Russia’s aggression against Ukraine angered democratic publics Trump has been able to essentially reverse U.S policy on Ukraine and Russia without paying any political price But an Economist-YouGov poll conducted in mid-March found that 47 percent of Americans disapproved of Trump’s handling of the war and 49 percent disapproved of his overall foreign policy When great powers attempt to suppress challenges to a prevailing order spawning efforts to break their grasp on power National and transnational movements can chip away at a concert the nationalist revolutionary forces that the great powers attempted to contain not only became stronger throughout the century but also forged ties with one another they were strong enough to mount coordinated revolutions across Europe they unleashed forces that would ultimately deal a fatal blow to the Concert in the wars of German unification in the 1860s The concert narrative suggests that great powers can act jointly to keep the forces of instability at bay indefinitely Both common sense and history say otherwise Russia and the United States might successfully impose order in Ukraine negotiating a new territorial boundary and freezing that conflict Doing so might produce a temporary lull but probably wouldn’t generate a lasting peace since Ukraine is unlikely to forget about its lost territory and Putin is unlikely to be satisfied with his current lot for long The Middle East stands out as another region where great-power collusion is unlikely to foster stability and peace Even if they were working together harmoniously and Moscow would be able to broker an end to the war in Gaza head off a nuclear confrontation with Iran Challenges would also come from other states rising powers such as Japan demanded entrance to the great-power club and equal footing on issues such as trade The most repressive form of European domination eventually produced fierce resistance all over the world an international hierarchy would be even more difficult to sustain There is little recognition among smaller countries that the great powers have any special rights to dictate a world order Middle powers have already created their own institutions—multilateral free trade agreements regional security organizations—that can facilitate collective resistance Europe has struggled to build its own independent defenses but is likely to double down to provide for its own security and to aid Ukraine Japan has built up its own networks of influence in the Indo-Pacific positioning itself as a power more capable of independent diplomatic action in that region India is unlikely to accept any exclusion from the great-power order especially if that means the growth of China’s power along its border To deal with all the problems that great-power collusion poses it helps to have the skills of an Otto von Bismarck the Prussian leader who found ways to manipulate the Concert of Europe to his advantage Bismarck’s diplomacy could even pull apart ideologically aligned allies As Prussia prepared to go to war against Denmark to wrest control of Schleswig-Holstein in 1864 Bismarck’s appeals to Concert rules and existing treaties sidelined the United Kingdom whose leaders had pledged to secure the integrity of the Danish kingdom He exploited colonial competition in Africa positioning himself as an “honest broker” between France and the United Kingdom nationalist forces that were sweeping through mid-nineteenth-century Europe and was thus a reactionary conservative—but not a reactive one He thought carefully about when to crush revolutionary movements and when to harness them as he did in his pursuit of German unification He was incredibly ambitious but not beholden to expansionist impulses He saw no need to pursue an empire on the African continent since that would only draw Germany into a conflict with France and the United Kingdom The French ruler came to power as the 1848 revolutions were winding down and believed that he had an exceptional capacity to use the Concert system for his own ends He attempted to drive a wedge between Austria and Prussia to expand his own influence in the German Confederation and he tried to organize a grand conference to redraw European boundaries to reflect national movements he found himself either abandoned by great-power peers or manipulated into doing the bidding of others Bismarck found in Napoleon III the dupe he needed to push German unification forward It’s possible he could emerge as a Bismarckian figure bullying and bluffing his way into advantageous concessions from other great powers the European powers remained at peace for almost 40 years This was a stunning achievement on a continent that had been wrecked by great-power conflict for centuries the Concert might offer a viable framework for an increasingly multipolar world But getting there would require a story that involves less collusion and more collaboration a narrative in which great powers act in concert to advance not merely their own interests but broader ones What made the original Concert possible was the presence of like-minded leaders who shared a collective interest in continental governance and the aim of avoiding another catastrophic war The Concert also had rules to manage great-power competition These were not the rules of the liberal international order which sought to supplant power politics with legal procedures jointly generated “rules of thumb” that guided the great powers as they negotiated conflict They established norms about when they would intervene in conflicts and who would be responsible for the public goods that would maintain the peace the original Concert vision embraced formal deliberation and moral suasion as the key mechanism of collaborative foreign policy The Concert relied on forums that brought the great powers into discussions about their collective interests It is hard to imagine Trump crafting that sort of arrangement Trump seems to believe he can build a concert not through genuine collaboration but through transactional dealmaking relying on threats and bribes to push his partners toward collusion And as a habitual transgressor of rules and norms Trump seems unlikely to stick to any parameters that might mitigate the conflicts among great powers that would inevitably crop up Nor is it easy to imagine Putin and Xi as enlightened partners embracing self-abnegation and settling differences in the name of the greater good It is worth remembering how the Concert of Europe ended: first with a series of limited wars on the continent then with imperial conflicts erupting overseas The system was ill equipped to prevent confrontation when competition intensified And when careful collaboration devolved into mere collusion The system came crashing down in a paroxysm of raw power politics Subscribe to Foreign Affairs to get unlimited access Already a subscriber? 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two brothers Timothy Goddard and his wife Kathleen of Littleton Patrick Goddard and his wife Betsy of Simsbury Maura Goddard of Holden and Martha Johnson and her husband Eric of Littleton Ron is also survived by his dear nieces and nephews who were his greatest pride and joy; Vanessa and Isabella Goddard He is also survived by two great-nieces: Bridget Goddard and Natalie Early.  In lieu of flowers donations in Ron’s memory may be made to the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Friends and family are invited to celebrate Ron's life for a period of visitation on Thursday 2024 from 4:00PM - 7:00PM at the Badger Funeral Home 2024 at 10:00AM at the Blessed Trinity Parish - St Burial will immediately follow the funeral Mass at Westlawn Cemetery Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Actor and script editor who oversaw programmes at ATV and introduced foreign drama to Channel 4 she went on to develop a substantial career as an actor her TV appearances included The Glittering Prizes (1976) and The Jewel in the Crown (1984) but she achieved most through influencing scripts and production a West End producer and a champion of contemporary drama as general manager of the Royal Court theatre She had particular responsibility for introducing writers and directors from mainland Europe In 1955 she visited Bertolt Brecht in East Germany to assist Peter Daubeny in bringing the Berliner Ensemble to London for a season the following year that included Brecht’s Mother Courage Jean Genet’s groundbreaking The Blacks was premiered in Paris in 1959 and two years later Goddard brought it to the Royal Court In 1964 she joined Associated Television part of the ITV network with franchises in London and the Midlands she was responsible for one of the first interracial kisses in the UK television drama Prompted by the success of the BBC’s science fiction series Doctor Who, the ATV script editor Ruth Boswell and the story of two time-travelling teenage friends – starting with a visit to Cornwall in 1940 – ran for 26 episodes (1970-71) Goddard as Matilde in Montserrat 1958In 1972 she left to become a freelance consultant to international TV stations on scripts and drama operations the year that she founded the English-speaking theatre in Munich She was hosting a British Council-backed production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker that I directed and escorted me around Munich pointing out the beer cellars where Hitler had given speeches She was in at the start with Channel 4 in 1982 and from 1988 she was secretary general of the European Community’s script fund forging alliances across Europe’s media and entertainment industries Renee was the younger daughter of Emmi (nee Wiechelt) and Werner Scholem the editor of the communist newspaper the Red Flag Renee’s first years were spent with her maternal grandparents in Hanover where she was known as Reni (Renate) Wiechelt and Renee knew nothing of her Jewish parentage her grandparents enrolled her in the Hitler Youth Renate was taught how “evil” the Jews were she expressed pride at being chosen for the guard of honour to welcome him but Jewish aid organisations insisted that she also learn about Judaism I was popular because I could do cockney in the kitchen and then go la-di-da in the dining room. I got very good tipsShe was fostered by Naomi Birnberg, a leading member of the London-based Jewish Refugee Committee and mother of the eventual lawyer and civil liberties campaigner Benedict Birnberg Renee was with the Birnberg family until her arrest as an “enemy alien” in 1940 she spent 18 months behind barbed wire on the Isle of Man She spoke of the indignity of being a Jewish escaper forced to share sleeping quarters with Nazi girls and women There she was told of her father’s murder in Buchenwald who took the name George Goddard to serve as a British soldier and worked as a waitress at Lyons Corner House “They took me because they were short of girls for the night shift serving fire-watchers,” she said she developed her appeal as an entertainer: “I was popular because I could do cockney in the kitchen and then go la-di-da in the dining room A natural performer whose life had already instilled in her a capacity for reinvention, in 1943 she joined and did theatrical work with the Free German Youth, a communist organisation. For a couple of years she lived with the director Peter Zadek who went on to revitalise West German theatre in the 1970s and starred in his then small-scale productions The launching of ITV in 1955 brought more opportunities for live broadcast drama. But by then she was already busy reading scripts and encouraging productions. In 2002 BBC Radio 4 broadcast Robin Glendinning’s dramatisation of her early life Her marriage to Goddard ended in divorce, as did that to the actor Michael Mellinger, with whom she had two daughters, Andie and Leonie. In 1964 she married Stuart Hood who had done much to reinvigorate BBC television This article was amended on 23 April 2025 The second picture caption was corrected: previously it had identified the TV production as The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel Helen Joy Corbett Goddard Helen Goddard passed away peacefully Helen loved life and she lived it to the fullest— she worked hard and her biggest joy in life was her family.  the family relocated to Utah where Helen graduated from Clearfield High School in 1973 Helen joined the United States Air Force as an Aircraft Mechanic where she worked in Turkey and Germany while studying to be a Medical Technician After her Honorable Discharge from the Air Force Helen began her Civil Service career at Hill Air Force Base as a Supply Clerk She received many awards over the years and was promoted to Production Controller where she conducted training at bases around the country Helen retired from Hill Air Force Base after 39 years of dedicated service In 1983 Helen married Jack Goddard and they settled in Roy where they lived for nearly 40 years before relocating to Layton She loved going for visits to catch up with relatives and having ‘dessert coffee’ every day with her Honey Helen and Jack joined the Gold Wing Road Riders Association where they made many friends over two decades with the club Helen was always ready to grab her leathers and jump on the bike— she loved to travel Nana Helen made every Thanksgiving special with her famous pumpkin pie and last year’s Pie-Off proved that hers is superior Helen’s love and generosity was truly the heart and soul of her family She is survived by her brothers Mike (Kathy) Corbett and Steve (Lanny) Corbett; her sister Chris (Mike) Kinsey; her husband Jack Goddard; children Cathleen (Chad) Leavitt Megan (Dallin) Sirrine; step-children Tammy Pledger and family Brody (Jill) Goddard and family; and her grandchildren LJ Leavitt A Celebration of Life will be held to honor Helen’s legacy from 6pm-8pm on Tuesday My research into the history of the rape kit and the story of Martha Goddard has stretched on for more than four years I know so much about her I can visualize her whole life as if it were a movie the first shot pans down Halsted Street in Chicago in 1972 and along a row of boarded-up buildings a brick wall painted with a faded ad for Coca-Cola and a dime store with a steel grate over its door picking her way around oily puddles and piles of trash With her briefcase banging against her hip Marty Goddard hurries toward a dilapidated town house with a sign nailed up out front that read “Metro-Help,” and she disappears inside She worked for a philanthropic organization that provided services to poor people in Chicago she dressed in a silk blouse and knee-length skirt and she crisscrossed the city in taxicabs for meetings with activists and community groups she had just signed up for volunteer shifts at Metro-Help college students with scraggly manes and jangly love beads She covered up her eyes with owlish glasses and kept her hair short Marty answered calls from the kinds of troubled teenagers who were then called runaways most everyone assumed the kids joined a psychedelic circus when they ran off Marty discovered the real reasons that teenagers ended up on the streets One girl confessed to Marty that her father had touched her Another that her uncle had forced her to do something unspeakable The phones rang with the news that kids didn’t feel safe around their own families “I was just beside myself when I found the extent of the problem,” Marty said later in an interview As the girls called in and sobbed on the other end of the line Goddard realized that she had stumbled upon a dark and terrible underworld So many teenagers on the streets were there because they were fleeing from a predator or an abusive parent When cops found girls wandering around downtown they’d charge them with vagrancy or prostitution and send them to a juvenile hall No one talked about the crimes that had driven those girls out of their homes she began to see the shape of a horrifying crisis: thousands of predators were out there molesting children and getting away with it She burned with fury and an inconsolable desire to prove these girls were telling the truth Henry Kempe launched the modern child-protection movement with a paper describing the invisible wounds he discovered when he X-rayed babies and small children “the bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell.” Kempe had discovered a hidden epidemic of what he called the “battered child” syndrome In 1974 the federal government enacted the first major child-protection law but information on incest and pedophilia remained in the shadows “Virtually no literature exists on the sexual abuse of children,” observed the therapist David R And because no one looked for it or studied it or talked about it A psychiatry textbook estimated that incest occurred in only about one in every million families incest was the fault of girls who seduced their fathers Even when abusers kidnapped girls and forced them into prostitution few people recognized this as child sexual abuse A New York Times article from 1975 provides a shocking glimpse into the attitude of the time called “Little Ladies of the Night,” described the nuisance caused by a “14-year-old girl in platform soles and hot pants on a street corner on Eighth Avenue asking passers-by whether they want a good time Runaways in New York have created a widespread problem of teenage prostitution.” These girls were jailed on “runaway” or prostitution charges while the men who sold and hired them walked free Almost no one identified runaway girls as victims rather than as criminals But after listening to teenagers sob on the phone at Metro-Help Gross told me about the woman on the other end of the line She was “tremendously concerned about runaways who were escaping homes because of sexual violence.” Marty Goddard described to him how cops swept downtown streets for homeless kids and then warehoused them in juvenile detention homes the girls were often victimized all over again They had to fend offguards and other inmates Goddard’s call inspired Gross to launch an investigative news series on the issue “We were Chicago’s #1 rock station at the time and though we had a sizable news department of 18 people…we didn’t do a ton of investigative journalism,” Gross told me But Marty Goddard stirred something in him She supplied Gross with a list of names and phone numbers of girls who lived at one halfway house as well as of the social workers who counseled them Gross put together a series that exposed a hidden epidemic of child abuse in the juvenile justice system Gross was transferred to the network in New York he still remembered her voice on the phone and how she had awakened in him a new awareness of injustice because Gross surfaced much later in my search for Marty I was desperate to find clues to Goddard’s current whereabouts Marty Goddard turned out to be far more invisible than any of the previous invisibles that I’d searched out during my years in journalism an Arizona college student named Hannah Myers had somehow learned of Marty and interviewed her for a school project Marty had been in a confessional mood that day She must have assumed no one would ever hear the recording Little did she know that the tape would end up in a history archive in Arizona When a librarian sent me a digital file of the tape it was so full of pops and hisses and blank spots that I struggled to make out the words as I listened to that recording over and over again I began to understand something of the passion that drove her And I no longer thought of her as a historical figure whom I’d refer to formally as “Goddard.” In my mind From The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story by Pagan Kennedy an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving Goddard Engineering and Technology Directorate Critical and Comprehensive Flight Dynamics and Navigation Services The FDF provides comprehensive flight dynamics services to science missions The FDF also emphasizes the value of pre-launch coordination and analysis to ensure mission success because it’s better to prevent an incident than it is to recover from one The FDF helps projects answer three critical questions: FDF navigation support covers all mission phases and flight regimes FDF performs real-time on-console support daily and for critical mission events The FDF ensures that tracking data used to locate Spacecraft is accurate and reliable the FDF is in a unique position to evaluate and monitor the quality of tracking data from various networks including ground and space-based tracking assets FDF’s history of Human Spaceflight Support stretches back to Mercury The FDF is excited to be supporting ISS and NASA’s latest wave of human exploration missions Models generated and assembled by the FDF to support orbit determination and prediction are publicly available and regularly used by the aerospace community these models benefit the community as a whole The FDF integrates network tracking and real-time launch trajectory information to ensure that customers can maintain communications through the entire launch sequence FDF analysts and subject matter experts have been investigating and reporting on Flight Dynamics from an operational perspective A long history of white papers is available for review reflecting the FDF’s participation in past conferences and journals The FDF has seen it all: A spacecraft deployed to the wrong orbit.  A satellite gone silent.  A mission that maneuvered “in the blind.”  A satellite with a thruster stuck on and a satellite with an inoperable thruster.  In each case the FDF switched into high gear and ensured that the satellite could be located and years of scientific exploration can continue.  FDF News showcases its latest achievements in the aerospace industry as it continues to lead the arena with its comprehensive flight dynamics services supporting a diverse range of customers including NASA More FDF News Reach out to the FDF’s Operations Planning Task The FDF employs a team of Systems Engineers to manage requirements and assist FDF Management in business development The Engineering & Technology Directorate at Goddard designs missions and acquires/distributes data to the world-wide science community ETD data products are used to conduct research in Earth and Space Sciences that benefit both the nation and the world NASA Goddard News & Events NASA+ Key Personnel ETD Featured Stories Internships ETD Internal ETD Town Hall More NASA Social Accounts FOIA Privacy Accessibility 1961 in Hartwell Ga to the late Carey Wilson and Joyce Sanders Wilson but nothing was more impactful than her job as a mother Brittany Goddard (Russell Fleming) of Hartwell Carla Davis and Sandra Teasley of Hartwell and her grandchildren 2025 at 2:00 pm at the chapel of Coile and Hall Funeral Directors please make donations to offset funeral cost to Coile and Hall Funeral Directors On-line condolences can be sent to the family by visiting www.coileandhallfd.com The family has entrusted Coile and Hall Funeral Directors and Crematory Budget passback documents reportedly suggest the White House wants to cut NASA's budget by half — possibly closing down Goddard Space Flight Center Reports circulating about the White House's proposed NASA budget for the 2026 fiscal year suggest the agency's funding could be slashed by nearly half they propose a "two-thirds cut to astrophysics down to $487 million; a greater than two-thirds cut to heliophysics down to $455 million; a greater than 50% cut to Earth science down to $1.033 billion; and a 30 percent cut to Planetary science "We would see, in this case, the majority of active science missions and in-development science missions completely wiped out," Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society "I have this image in my head of a perfectly functioning spacecraft designed to increase our understanding of the cosmos in which we reside turned off and left to tumble aimlessly in the black — that's where we would leave ourselves "That has been the poster child for a mission that has remained on budget and on track with the one hiccup around COVID "We've invested nearly $4 billion in building it to this point The passback documents also suggest closing down the entirety of Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland meaning the approximately 10,000 workers at that center would probably be laid off in tandem that have been implemented at other government organizations by request of the Trump administration "It is consistent with their willingness to impose some very profound and dramatic change," he said the document indicates the White House intends to ask Congress to eliminate NOAA's climate research centers and cut hundreds more federal and academic climate scientists "This would end basically every project we support other than hurricane and atmospheric river reconnaissance and snow survey — all of which are funded by either the national weather service or national geodetic survey atmospheric science and climate projects would end," one NOAA worker who requested anonymity told Space.com — 'Their loss diminishes us all': Scientists emphasize how Trump's mass NOAA layoffs endanger the world — Trump administration's NOAA layoffs affected the space weather service that tracks solar storms These are fundamental capabilities of a public sector space agency serving a unique need." "We've seen wealthy individuals start to travel in space themselves and invest in rockets and infrastructure," he added and nor has anyone even shown much interest in is to build these types of science missions." For instance, Dreier emphasizes how difficult it would be to finance another Voyager mission — the NASA endeavor that sent twin spacecraft to explore the territory beyond our solar system in 1977 Both spacecraft entered interstellar space decades after liftoff and have sent back to Earth some of the most fascinating and important astrophysics information to date you couldn't even get to where it is now for another 50 years — and we're not going to make a new one [if] we don't have any money." Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com. Monisha RavisettiSocial Links NavigationAstronomy Channel EditorMonisha Ravisetti is Space.com's Astronomy Editor exoplanet discoveries and other enigmas hidden across the fabric of space and time reported for The Academic Times. Prior to becoming a writer she was an immunology researcher at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York She graduated from New York University in 2018 with a B.A She spends too much time playing online chess you will then be prompted to enter your display name Reshaping our return to the moon: Trump's 2026 budget gives Artemis a major facelift Get everybody's favorite droid at its lowest-ever price for Star Wars Day Please email comments to letters@livingchurch.org Episode 138 • 5th December 2024 • The Living Church Podcast • The Living Church There are people who tend to be on the fringes in church: the unhoused But all of these folks are in the center of church life at St James the Less This is a conversation about radical hospitality Maybe you’ve used that phrase; maybe your denomination does Much about a healthy family is being able to share safe space If baptismal water is truly thicker than blood And how can it also invite parishioners into a deeper Today we’ll be talking about open doors and open homes as well as the boundaries and practical policies that make radical hospitality possible how saying no is an invitation to mutual honor and ways to equip volunteers for joyful service a book of charitable debate on women’s ordination And maybe become more aware of how we can help close the gaps between God’s beloved people Give to support this podcast directs the public-facing programs of The Living Church she is a writer and enjoys life in Atlanta Keith’s note: Some notes from inside the NASA Goddard all hands this morning: 1 while DOGE people are not currently onsite at GSFC they all have badges and have systems access to everything They are under no obligation to inform the GSFC center director if they come in or explain what they want to do The NASA administrator will not be providing any further guidance to NASA employees regarding the latest 5 bullet email that everyone got over the weekend – so NASA employees are pretty much left to make a personal choice A round of boos was heard when this was mentioned Makenzie Lystrup is on a designated team tasked with evaluating/recommending possible RIF outcomes You must be logged in to post a comment Goddard House—the first elder-care organization in Massachusetts—partnered with UMass Boston to launch a scholarship program for working Boston nurses The result: 129 scholarships award­ed to nurses eager to supercharge their service to the people of our city with a new and larger gift sponsoring the Goddard House–Doane Scholarship for another five years Goddard House is taking its impact to the next level Established in 1849 in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood as the Home for Aged Indigent Females Goddard House was founded by a group of businessmen who felt there was a lack of quality care for older women particularly those who had worked as governesses or housekeepers and found themselves later in life without the means to support themselves Goddard House continues its service as a nonprofit assisted living and memory support community It houses 119 older adults on its Brookline MA campus and offers enrichment programs that engage more than 1,500 under-resourced older adults in greater Boston each year a number of generous benefactors supported Goddard House One of these early gifts—an 1851 charitable bequest from Caroline Doane and her nephew was the genesis of Goddard House’s partnership with UMass Boston today Doane and Wells stipulated that Goddard House use the gift to benefit nurses who had “served their profession for at least 10 years in Boston as vouched for by at least two respectable physicians.” Goddard House worked with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to expand the terms to include furthering the education of nurses meeting the 10-year work requirement and sought out a local educational partner to establish a scholarship program UMass Boston’s Manning College of Nursing & Health Sciences is the ninth largest nursing school in the nation and is the only public nursing program in greater Boston that graduates a significant number of nurses from diverse backgrounds at bachelor’s Like three-quarters of UMass Boston alumni many of these nurses remain in Massachusetts after graduation contribut­ing greatly to our region’s nursing workforce But more than 80 percent of UMass Boston nursing students need financial support to pay for their education So when Goddard House called the college to inquire about the possibility of establishing a scholarship program the college’s administration leaped at the chance The resulting Goddard House–Doane Scholarship program is open to students in any Manning College degree or certificate program who have accumulated experience of 10 years or more as a registered nurse or certified nursing assistant in the City of Boston with preference given to nurses with an interest in elder care “This partnership is a wonderful example of how two aligned organizations can amplify each other’s missions,” said Bo Fernhall dean of the Manning College of Nursing & Health Sciences “The Goddard House–Doane Scholarship celebrates the work of nurses and empowers nurses who want to take their service to the people of Boston to a higher level and we are tremendously grateful to be able to offer it to our students.” awarding a total of $85,000 to 11 nursing students we are deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of health care professionals By renewing and expanding our partnership with the Manning College of Nursing & Health Sciences we are investing in both the future of elder care and the broader health care system This scholarship empowers dedicated nurses to thrive while bringing much-needed health care expertise to the community,” said Candace Cramer “We knew that we had made a good choice when we had our first reception at Goddard House for the nurses who had received scholarships and it was as moving a thing as you can imagine,” said Cary Armistead a longtime Goddard House Board member who has played a key role in the creation and renewal of the scholarship program “These are nurses who have made a decision to increase their capacity by getting a further degree But they have families; they’re balancing budgets One told us that she had been trying to decide whether to fund her own education or her child’s and this scholarship allowed her to do both That was an aha moment that really solidified for us the value of this program.” 80 nursing students have received the Goddard House–Doane Scholarship More than 60 have graduated and are now serving the health of the Boston community in many ways UMass Boston sent a survey to past Goddard House–Doane Scholars to find out how their nursing careers had progressed since they received their awards they overwhelmingly reported that their Goddard House–Doane award had a profound impact on their professional and personal lives “The Goddard House–Doane Scholarship was critical to my ability to obtain my doctorate in nursing and the scholarship allowed me to finish my degree and realize my dream,” said Linda Bresette PhD’16 who is now the program director of the Cerebrovascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital “I also had the opportunity to interact with Goddard House residents during my nursing education and helped me to understand how to be a better nurse.” Goddard House renewed its support of the scholarship in 2020 with an additional $500,000 for five years the organization agreed to renew its support again this time increasing it to $750,000 over five years allowing the program to offer larger awards to more students because the board feels that scholarship is “one of the best things we do” to serve the people of Greater Boston “This partnership not only supports nursing students but also strengthens the quality of health care especially for the older adult population,” said Goddard House Board Chair Alexandra Schweitzer “The Goddard House–Doane Scholarship exemplifies our commitment to the Boston community and we’re proud to continue our collaboration with UMass Boston College of Nursing & Health Sciences.” 100 Morrissey Blvd.Boston, MA 02125617.287.5000 Copyright © University of Massachusetts Boston Copyright © document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) University of Massachusetts Boston