ANTHONY M. SCHWARZWALDER ’61

ANTHONY M. SCHWARZWALDER, a former Agency for International Development mission director at the forefront of USAID strategy development, and a longtime leader in international relief and development, died Feb. 3, 2012, at age  71.  He was a member of Eclectic and received his degree with distinction. He received an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University and was a graduate fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. During his 23-year career with USAID, he served overseas in Bangladesh, where he was the first mission director following the Bengali war for independence, in Jordan, and in the Philippines, in addition to his base in Washington, D.C. He received the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Government Service and Leadership in 1972. After leaving USAID he worked for several Washington, D.C.-based organizations focused on HIV/AIDS prevention programs. He is survived by his wife, Cecilia Javier, three children, four grandchildren, his sister, and a niece.