The Adam Noel Darling Memorial Scholarship Fund

Background

Adam Noel Darling served as an assistant to Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown. He died in a plane crash in Croatia on April 3, 1996 that took the
lives of Secretary Ron Brown and 33 other members of the mission. Adam,
who was just 27 at the time of the accident, was a man of strong moral and
ethical convictions. He believed strongly in democracy and the building of
democratic institutions. He believed that through international trade and
commerce the world could be made safer and that democracy could take root
throughout the world in a manner that would alleviate human suffering,
human rights violations, and uncontrolled degradation of the environment.
Adam Darling loved life and loved working with people. He was a dreamer, a
visionary, and a doer---he believed that people working together can make
a difference.