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In memoriam: Suzanne adams
Suzanne's family has requested donations be made to the FPF Scholarship Fund, which Suzanne founded in 1993 and cared deeply about through the years.
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It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Adams on March 6, 2023.
Born in Brooklyn in 1928, and a graduate of both Cornell and Columbia, Suzanne served for 21 years as the Executive Director of the Foreign Press Association of New York. She founded the FPA Scholarship Fund in 1993 and steered it for decades as the Director. During her tenure, she was responsible for obtaining funding and for awarding over 80 scholarships to foreign students enrolled at graduate schools of journalism in the United States.
Her husband, Maurice Adams, was a former president of the Foreign Press Association and the NY Bureau Chief of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Suzanne is survived by her 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren and hundreds of correspondents who passed through New York over the decades for whom she epitomized the FPA.
Ian Williams, FPA President since 2019, writes:
Suzanne was the core of the FPA when I arrived in New York as long ago as 1989 and was tirelessly ingenious at helping correspondents find their feet - and their stories - here. Her most memorable contribution was the Scholarship Fund, and it is fitting that her family have asked for donations in her memory to the fund she founded so that she can be remembered by new generations of foreign correspondents trying to explain the US to the world.
Santi Visalli, former FPA President, write:
I had the pleasure of working with Suzanne Adams for many years, but most closely during the four years I was President of the FPA. I established a scholarship, and she raised the funds and managed them with diligence and professionalism. She was a force. When she started a project, she never stopped until it was well finished. We brought in to the FPA photojournalists. We brought in the first woman as vice president and after me she became president. Suzanne and I worked on many other projects together, and even though sometime we did not agreed on things she always did what was right. I am deeply saddened to hear of her passing, and my sincere condolences go out to her family.
Frank Gómez, veteran FPA member, writes:
As a corporate and later nonprofit executive, I had the good fortune of supporting Suzanne Adam’sselfless work as the head of the Foreign Press Association. Others who admired her often remarked how the FPA was “her baby.” She loved it, she cared for it, she developed it. Her dedication was limitless.
Born in Brooklyn in 1928, and a graduate of both Cornell and Columbia, Suzanne served for 21 years as the Executive Director of the Foreign Press Association of New York. She founded the FPA Scholarship Fund in 1993 and steered it for decades as the Director. During her tenure, she was responsible for obtaining funding and for awarding over 80 scholarships to foreign students enrolled at graduate schools of journalism in the United States.
Her husband, Maurice Adams, was a former president of the Foreign Press Association and the NY Bureau Chief of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Suzanne is survived by her 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren and hundreds of correspondents who passed through New York over the decades for whom she epitomized the FPA.
Ian Williams, FPA President since 2019, writes:
Suzanne was the core of the FPA when I arrived in New York as long ago as 1989 and was tirelessly ingenious at helping correspondents find their feet - and their stories - here. Her most memorable contribution was the Scholarship Fund, and it is fitting that her family have asked for donations in her memory to the fund she founded so that she can be remembered by new generations of foreign correspondents trying to explain the US to the world.
Santi Visalli, former FPA President, write:
I had the pleasure of working with Suzanne Adams for many years, but most closely during the four years I was President of the FPA. I established a scholarship, and she raised the funds and managed them with diligence and professionalism. She was a force. When she started a project, she never stopped until it was well finished. We brought in to the FPA photojournalists. We brought in the first woman as vice president and after me she became president. Suzanne and I worked on many other projects together, and even though sometime we did not agreed on things she always did what was right. I am deeply saddened to hear of her passing, and my sincere condolences go out to her family.
Frank Gómez, veteran FPA member, writes:
As a corporate and later nonprofit executive, I had the good fortune of supporting Suzanne Adam’sselfless work as the head of the Foreign Press Association. Others who admired her often remarked how the FPA was “her baby.” She loved it, she cared for it, she developed it. Her dedication was limitless.