The Founding of Alianta

Alianta Founders 2013
Alianta Charter Members 2013
Ambassador Mark Gitenstein and Dan Dimancescu co-founded Alianta in early 2013. This was announced at the Cosmos Club Feb 6, 2013 to an audience of 250 and followed by a first meeting of ‘Charter Members’ a few months later. Mark took the lead as the first President of the organization.

Standing: Mike Carroll, Founder of Romanian Children's Relief; Mrs. Katherine Dimancescu; Dana Beldiman, Honorary Consul of Romania in SanFrancisco; Shelia Kast, Jim Rosapepe, Don Lothrop, New Vista Partners; Eileen McHenry, Romanian Children's Relief; Chris Fontanesi, former Peace Corps Volunteer.

Seated: Dr. Ernest Latham; Mark Gitenstein, former U.S. Ambassador to Romania; Dan Dimancescu, Honorary Consul-General of Romania in Boston

The Society of Friends of Romania


  • Established in 1920 by William Nelson Cromwell

    • PERSONALITIES:

    Executive Committee:

  • T. Tileston Wells, Chairman
  • William Nelson Cromwell
  • Radu Irimescu
  • John Foster Dulles
  • Serban Drutzu

    • ALIANTA is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

    MAILING: PO Box 11131, Washington, D.C. 20008

    Origins: The Society of Friends of Romania

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    Quarterly Review

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    Officers and Directors

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    History of US-Romanian Relationship

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    National Unification Day - December 1, 1918

    Brief History of U.S.-Romanian Political Relations (1) - by United States Department of State

    Brief History of U.S.-Romanian Political Relations (2) - by United States Department of State

    Is Roumania a Balkan State? by N. Iorga published in Roumania - A Quarterly Review, Vol. VI, Number 1, 1930, p. 14.

    1903-Present Romanian Oil Industry: History - Chronology of Events

    1918 - Ohio Transylvanian-Romanians in WW-1 (37th Div.)

    1918 - First Romanian Diplomatic Representative  to Washington, DC

    1918 - Vasile Stoica - at Independence Hall, Philadelphia

    1922 - Romanians in America - by Dan Dimancescu

    1925 - US War Loans to Romania WW-I - War Debt Repayment Settlements Negotiated

    1931 - Ford Motor establishes sales company in Bucharest and in 1936 Ford’s first East European plant opens in Bucharest with 2,500 cars and trucks per year. Ford Hall is now listed as a Historic Monument.

    1943 - Romanians in U.S.A - by Dimitri Dimancescu

    1943-1944 - Seventy Years After - U.S. Air War Prisoners Remember 1947 - US Emergency Food Aid - Aid sent to alleviate severe shortages 1960 - Fulbright Program - intellectual exchanges program established

    1964 - Fifty Years Ago / U.S. Opinions About Romania - Leading national newspaper articles

    1991 - Peace Corps - launched and phased out in 2013

    2011 - Strategic Partnership - Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century

    1918 - Vasile Stoica - at Independence Hall, Philadelphia

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