Honoring one of Baghdad's victims.Richard Hooper Richard Hooper was an Irish soccer player during the 1900s. He played for the amateur Bohemians during his career in Ireland. Hooper was a top player in his era and his best goalscoring season came in 1901/02 when he scored 20 goals in all competitions from just 19 games. , a leading Arab affairs specialist for the United Nations, was one of 23 people killed in the August 19 bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Now his alma mater has set up a scholarship in his memory. The openly gay U.N. veteran from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. was in the Iraqi capital on a temporary assignment. "The Rick Hooper Scholarship Fund was established to honor Rick and his tremendous efforts to work through the difficult issues that continue to define the Middle East," said University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university, one of the ten campuses of the University of California. , spokesman Jim Burns. "It was suggested by Rick's friends and blessed by his family." Hooper received his bachelor's degree in political science from UCSC UCSC University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California) UCSC University of South Carolina UCSC University of Colombo School of Computing (Colombo, Sri Lanka) in 1985 before dedicating his life to resolving Arab-related disputes, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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