Raymond Brown:  

Left Jordan. Went east. Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, New York. Crashed summer 1973 and 1974 in Berkeley. In a co-op dorm. Spent Junior Year Abroad. American University in Cairo , Egypt. Finshed vassar in 1976. BA, Political Science, U.S. Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies. Back toLA. Studied Arabic at the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies. Lived in Carmel. Total language emersion. Then south to Claremont Graduate School of International Studies. Ph.D., GLobalAffairs, focus on East and Southern Africa. Led three overseas groups for Operation Crossroads Africa -- to the Sudan (1979), Kenya (1980) and Lesotho (1982), Spent a year in NYC at the National Urban League. George Edmund Haynes Fellowship. 1980-81, Vernon Jordan's last year as NUL Executive Pres...Expand for more