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About Robert & Gretchen Osgood:
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ROBERT E. OSGOOD, the third dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS, was a
highly respected expert in foreign policy and the author of several
significant texts on international relations. He played a key role at
SAIS for 25 years until his death in 1986. His former students loved
him for his wit, his elegant writing, and his enduring wisdom in
things personal and professional. He was SAIS' director of American
Foreign Policy and co-director of Security Studies, but perhaps his
most valuable contribution to SAIS was his role in developing what has
been called the "SAIS approach," the analysis of policy based on
strong theoretical and historical concepts. He also launched the
Master of International Public Policy for mid-career professionals.
Outside of his involvement with SAIS, Dr. Osgood was named director of
the Washington Center for Foreign Policy Research in 1967, served in
1969-70 on the U.S. National Security Council, and was a member of the
Secretary of State's
Policy Planning Council from 1983 to 1985.
Bob
was a revered mentor to generations of SAIS students, both while they
were studying and afterwards.
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GRETCHEN A. OSGOOD
spent 24 years working for the Public
Health Service, which became a part of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. She wrote articles on nursing and government management of nursing for
professional journals. Among them was a survey of federal
nursing priorities for the 1980s. Among her professional
memberships, she was a past president of the District of
Columbia League for Nursing and served on its board until her
death. She was a recipient of the Public Health Service's
Superior Service Award and the American Academy of Nursing's
President's Award for deepening understanding of the profession.
Gretchen Anderson was a Minneapolis native, a 1943 graduate of
Smith College in Northampton, Mass., and a 1946 graduate of
Johns Hopkins University's nursing school.
She received a master's degree in supervision in public
health nursing from Boston University's nursing school in 1950.
She spent nine years as an associate nursing director at
the University of Illinois's research and education hospitals in
Chicago before settling in the Washington area in 1962.
In 1946, she married Robert E. Osgood, who became a dean
of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International
Studies. After his death in 1986, she endowed a professorship
and a student fellowship, both in her husband's name, and also
gave money toward summer internships, all at SAIS.
She had no immediate survivors.
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