RE Log - Fall 2020

FALL 2020 Ransom Everglades LOG 5 Back in 1994, Beverly Watson ’90 landed a job offer from Africare, a Washington, D.C.,-based relief organization, to serve in Angola. Watson had just graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and Angola had just reached a ceasefire in a decades-long civil war. Africare’s chief executive officer, C. Payne Lucas, urged Watson to weigh the risks before accepting the post. “Are your parents okay with this?” he asked. The earnest question made Watson, then 21, smile. “You do not,” she recalled saying, “know my mother.” Watson’s mother, the late Rose Thomas Watson, also went to Angola early in her career, in her case as a teacher under the auspices of the United Methodist Church. A Fulbright Scholar who worked or lived in some 20 countries, taught at three universities, received her