The DACOR Bulletin March 2024

OFFICERS

President: Angela Dickey

Vice President: Sylvia Stanfield

Secretary: Elizabeth Warner

Asst. Secretary: Alfreda Meyers

Treasurer: Richard Morford

Asst. Treasurer: Janice Bay

STAFF

Front Desk: 202.682.0500

Executive Director

John Bradshaw x14 jbradshaw@dacorbacon.org

Director of Operations

Meg Sharley x10 msharley@dacorbacon.org

Director of Development

Jared Hughes, x23 jhughes@dacorbacon.org

Director of Finance

Abdul Raheem Raheem, x16 araheem@dacorbacon.org

Director of Communications & Programs Bulletin Editor & Designer

Christine Skodon, x17 clskodon@dacorbacon.org

Staff Accountant

(Mr.) Aubrey Puranda, x13 apuranda@dacorbacon.org

Administrative Assistant

Alya Gunawan, x11 agunawan@dacorbacon.org

Chef

Robert Moore, x18 or x26

General Inquiries

dacor@dacorbacon.org

The DACOR Bacon House is built on the Indigenous lands of the Nacotchtank (Anacostan) and later Piscataway people. The House was built in 1825 by enslaved laborers. Enslaved people lived and worked in the DACOR Bacon House until 1862 when the District of Columbia Emancipation Act was signed.

DACOR Programs & Policies

LUNCHEON TALKS

Members, along with guests they accompany, are invited to attend luncheon talks which are held weekly throughout the year. These talks begin at noon with a cash bar reception in honor of the speaker. Lunch starts at 12:30 pm, followed by the speaker’s remarks which conclude by 2:00 pm; attendees are free to leave at that time.

The charge is $35 per person and reservations are required. (The charge for attending only the speaker portion of the program from 1 – 2 pm is $15.) Changes and/or cancellations to programs are announced in our e-blasts and on our website.

OTHER EVENTS

All members of DACOR are invited to attend ADST/DACOR book launch receptions, A-100 receptions for newly-commissioned FSOs, and DCM/ PO receptions for DCMs and Principal Officers. There is no entry charge, but reservations are necessary. Members are also welcome at the Sunday afternoon Huston Musicales; a fee of $25 per member and $30 for guests is collected at the door. Children under 18 are admitted free.

Disclaimer: DACOR encourages vigorous expression and questioning of points of view, while striving for balance. No endorsement of speakers’ views or of their charitable, professional or commercial bona fides should be inferred.

MEMBERS’ LUNCHEONS

Members and their guests are invited to lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, reservations are required. Members' Luncheons include a biscuit/bread, an entree, a dessert, and a cup of coffee/tea and cost $35. A cash bar is available from 12 and lunch is served from 12:30 to 1:30. On Wednesdays a Chef’s Special of soup and salad is available for $18 from 12 - 1:30. Reservations are required.

NO-SHOWS & CANCELLATIONS NOT RECEIVED BY

9 AM THE BUSINESS DAY BEFORE AN EVENT WILL BE BILLED.

— TO MAKE OR CANCEL RESERVATIONS — Register through the Calendar of Events at www.dacorbacon.org Or contact us at programs@dacorbacon.org or 202.682.0500 x20.

DACOR routinely takes photos at its events. Members and guests should notify the DACOR photographer if they want to restrict the use of their names and images.

DRESS CODE

DACOR maintains a professional business attire dress code in the DACOR Bacon House. While suits, ties and heels are always welcome, they are not required. For individual events, or categories of events, DACOR may apply a formal business attire dress code where men are expected to wear a suit or jacket and tie, and women should wear commensurate attire. Promotional material for these events will specify that formal business attire is required. During summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, business casual may be worn.

From the President

Harry Baumgarten has been elected to fill the vacancies on the two boards left by Luke Knittig, who has resigned and moved away from the Washington area. Harry is an assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice of the State of Delaware. Previously he served as legislative director and counsel to Congressional representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Yvette Clarke, respectively. He is a published writer on foreign relations, law, and democratic governance. Harry is licensed to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia and before the federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. A relative newcomer to DACOR, Harry has joined the Finance and Budget Committee. As a member of the Membership Committee, he initiated the idea for a professionally produced video that we are using to recruit new members. At my request he also has agreed to serve on two working groups, one on catering issues within the DACOR budget and a second to be announced shortly.

Harry is the third governor/trustee who has joined the DACOR and DBHF boards since my tenure began eight months ago. Over the summer of 2023, Meredith Whiting was elected to fill the slot left vacant by the death of former board member Michael Canning. Lynn Vega was elected to fill the slot left vacant by the death of Ambassador Stephen McGann. She is running again this spring for another full board term.

Meredith Whiting is a well-loved presence at DACOR who originally came to our organization via the membership of her late husband, John Whiting. Throughout her career before and after retirement she has served a number of philanthropic causes. These efforts are now bringing needed expertise to DACOR and our House. She has served as co-chair of the House and Garden Committee for several years and is now taking on co-chairmanship of Task Force 2025. She was instrumental in organizing and launching the Friends of Historic DACOR Bacon House. She is an inaugural member of the Friends. Meredith has also responded positively to my request to serve on the two working groups with Harry and others. During her professional career she served on the White House staff of then Vice President George H.W. Bush and was also a Senior Fellow in environmental and sustainability issues at the Conference Board.

Lynn Northcutt Vega is the Representative of the Choctaw Nation in Washington, DC. She is a recently retired career member of the U.S. Foreign Service who worked as a USAID diplomat and

development officer for three decades. She is a native of Oklahoma and a member of the Choctaw Nation. (Please see her full bio, along with those of other nominees to the board for spring 2024, in the April edition of the DACOR Bulletin and the Board of Governors election emails that will be sent to voting members.)

Angela Dickey

Upcoming

Sunday • March 17 • 3 - 5 pm • In-Person • $25 members; $30 non-members

"American melting pot"

Cloyce K. Huston Musicale

LI-COHEN DUO

viOlA mAgiC - A ROmAnCE

As a special prize-winner of the Primrose Viola Competition, Matthew Cohen, and his wife Jhenni Li-Cohen present a lyric program to open the spring season. Together the duo will perform classics that focus on the viola’s rich timbre by Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, as well as a lively medley on viola by contemporary composers Rebecca Clarke, Sean Hickey and Paul Coletti. A Steinway artist, Ms. Li-Cohen will thrill us at the keyboard with Debussy’s “L’isle joyeuse” and “Feux d’Artifice.”

Brighten your Sunday afternoon at Bacon House with these outstanding musical talents and enjoy tea & sherry at intermission. Children under 18 accompanied by an adult are admitted free.

Thursday • March 21 • 6:30 - 9 pm • In-Person • $45

Salon Mr. DANIEL SPIRO

REligiOn, COnfliCt AnD DiAlOguE

Religion is a powerful force in the lives of individuals and peoples across the globe. It expresses their highest aspirations and motivates their most generous and humanitarian actions. All too often, however, it appears to be the source of some of the most intractable conflicts, ones that include those that periodically erupt in violence. Such conflicts consume efforts at peacemaking and diplomacy at many levels and in many venues.

The many foreign affairs professionals in DACOR will welcome discussing the approach to peacemaking and dialogue that our Salon presenter in March, Dan Spiro, has pursued for many years.

Daniel Spiro wears many hats. He is a practicing attorney who has devoted virtually his entire career to investigating and litigating against corporate fraud. He coordinates the Washington Spinoza Society. In addition to serving as the President and a co-founder of the Jewish-Islamic Dialogue Society of Washington, he is active in other Jewish-Islamic partnerships in the D.C. area.

A full bio and more information about the Salon’s key issues for discussion may be found in the online program announcement.

Wednesday • March 27 • 12 - 2:30 pm • In-Person • $50

Mr. ALEX PRUD’HOMME

JuliA ChilD, DACOR AnD DiPlOmAtiC gAstROnOmy

Join us for a special 3-course luncheon program with Alex Prud’homme, great nephew of Julia Child. Prud’homme is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the coauthor of Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France, and has authored or coauthored Dinner with the President, The French Chef in America, France is a Feast, Born Hungry, The Ripple Effect, Hydrofracking, The Cell Game, and Forewarned. At this event, Prud’homme will discuss DACOR member Julia Child and gastronomy as a diplomatic tool.

A full bio may be found in the online program announcement.

Friday • April 5 • 11:45 am - 2 pm • Hybrid • $35 in-person; $10 virtual

Development Dialogue at DACOR Hosted by DACOR & USAID Alumni Association

Dr. HOMI KHARAS

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings

thE RisE Of thE glObAl miDDlE ClAss

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Homi Kharas on his latest book The Rise of the Global Middle Class. The middle class is the most successful group in world history. Sometime before 2030 the fifth billionth person will join the middle class. What started a little over two hundred years ago as a search for a better life has fueled unprecedented global transformation. In his new book Homi Kharas looks at how this powerful dream captivated generations through history, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?

Homi Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. In that capacity, he studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, including aid to poor countries, the emergence of the middle class, and global governance and the G-20. He previously served as interim vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program.

A full bio may be found in the online program announcement.

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Need additional help? Contact Alya at agunawan@dacorbacon.org or 202.682.0500 x11.

Thursday • April 11 • 6:15 - 8:30 pm

• Hybrid • $35

Co-sponsored by DACOR & Supreme Court Historical Society

Mr. DOUGLAS ROOKS

unknOwn siDE Of thE fullER COuRt: thE intERnAtiOnAl AnD insulAR CAsEs

Melville Fuller was chief justice during a turbulent and dynamic era in the history of the United States. Not stinting his flaws or some of the controversial decisions of his court, the new biography of Fuller, Calm Command, the first in 70 years, takes note of his internationalist work and the compelling insular cases in which his dissents are unexpected. Author Douglas Rooks also emphasizes Fuller’s unstinting efforts to unite the court and streamline its decision-making and case load.

Join us for an evening program and reception with Douglas Rooks in conversation with DACOR Trustee and lawyer Harry Baumgarten. Rooks, a lifelong journalist, has been an editor at three Maine and New Hampshire daily and weekly newspapers, and an opinion columnist for more than 40 years. His three previous books are Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible; Rise, Decline and Renewal: The Democratic Party in Maine; and First Franco: Albert Beliveau in Law, Politics, and Love.

A full bio may be found in the online program announcement.

Sunday • April 28 • 3 - 5 pm

• In-Person • $25 members; $30 non-members

Cloyce K. Huston Musicale ENSEMBLE BAMBOU

twO wOmAn COmPOsERs - COlmAn AnD ARRiEu, Plus bEEthOvEn, ZEmlinsky AnD AlbÉniZ

Heralding its first appearance at Bacon House is the woodwind quintet, Ensemble Bambou, with leader Maude Fish, bassoon. Joining her are Nicolette Oppelt, flute, Katherine Caesar-Spall, oboe, Cheryl Hill, clarinet, and Alan White, French horn.

“Umoja,” the Kwanzaa theme of Unity, opens the program, by Valerie Colman, the flutist and Grammy-winning black composer named one of the outstanding women composers of her generation. Besides this signature work we’ll also hear a younger contemporary of Ravel and Debussy, Mlle Claude Arrieu (1903-1990), our second distaff composer. The works by these two stellar composers will be leavened by several classics: Beethoven’s (d. 1827) Op. 71 Quintet, a piece by Zemlinsky (1871-1942), and ending with the rhythmic Suite Espagnole by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909).

Join us for this exciting international roster of composers inaugurating Ensemble Bambou’s quintet of woodwinds in performance at Dacor. Tea & sherry are served at intermission. Children under 18 years accompanied by an adult are admitted free.

2024 DACOR ANNUAL MEMBERS' MEETING

Thursday, April 25

10:15 am - 12:00 pm

Business to be conducted:

■ Committee Reports

■ President & Executive Director Reports

■ Board Election Results

All members of DACOR are invited to attend.

Travel Committee Update

Historic Green Spring Tea Programs are offered on March 24, April 14, April 18, April 28, May 12, and May 26. They differ in offerings with tea, e.g. lecture, tour, workshop. Programs are by reservation only and run from 1 - 3 pm. Call 703-941-7987. https://www. fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/green-spring/historic-house

Spring Farm Day at Frying Pan Park, Saturday, May 4th 10 - 3 pm. Enjoy sheep shearing, cow and goat milking, wagon rides, and more. Pre-purchase online $12 and $14 at the door. https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/ frying=pan-park

Historic Garden Week is April 20 - 27. All across Virginia, private landscapes, historic sites and public gardens will be open for tours. Additionally, there will be more than 1,000 world-class floral arrangements created by Garden Club of Virginia members to enhance the properties. https://www.vagardenweek.org/

Southern Maryland Celtic Festival is on April 27. St. Leonard, MD will host multiple stages and music to include bagpipes, rugby games, and a Highland’s athletics area along with vendors selling Celtic-themed spirits, food and crafts. https://www.cssm.org/celticfestival.html

Foreign Affairs Day

Friday • May 3rd

Celebrate 100 years of the Foreign Service at this year's Foreign Affairs Day! In-person and virtual attendance are available.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS DAY INVITATIONS will be electronic this year. To make sure you receive an invitation, please send your personal email address to foreignaffairsday@state.gov.

DACOR is proud to sponsor the State Department's annual homecoming event. Inaugurated as "Foreign Service Day" in 1965 to honor and inform Department of State Foreign Service retirees, Foreign Affairs Day was expanded and renamed in 2001 to include Department Civil Service Employees. Attendees include retired Civil Service and Foreign Service generalists and specialists from the Department, as well as retired Foreign Service Officers from other foreign affairs agencies. This year, the event will include the traditional presentation of the Foreign Service Cup by DACOR and the Director General's Cups (Foreign Service and Civil Service) and remarks by Secretary of State Blinken. In addition, the AFSA Memorial Ceremony honoring personnel who have died serving abroad under circumstances distinctive to the Foreign Service will be held.

Isabel “Libby” Mohn

Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Graduate School Focus: International Environmental Policy, Ocean & Coastal Resource Management

Undergraduate School: Wake Forest University

Hometown: Northfield, Illinois

The Katherine & S. Pinkney Tuck Memorial Fellowship

• What has been the most memorable moment for you during your studies?

One of the most memorable moments from my studies was traveling to Colombia over spring break with a class. Nothing can ever replace such hands-on learning. We studied regenerative agriculture, specifically through the lens of specialty and sustainable coffee farming. The class was co-led by a student who had grown up on a coffee farm in the area we visited. The personal connection made this experience particularly special, especially because it allowed us to have a deeper relationship to the local community.

• Where have you worked or interned during your studies? What have you gained from the experiences?

In my second semester, I interned for Fair Carbon, an organization creating instructional content for managers of blue carbon projects. This was a valuable experience to understand the truths and myths around the emerging topic of blue carbon within ocean finance. This past summer, I worked with the High Seas Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas. I attended a workshop on area-based management tools on the high seas at their Switzerland headquarters where I connected with incredible ocean conservation professionals. Pursuing an independent research project, I am interviewing experts who work for large-scale marine protected areas (MPAs) to glean lessons learned on implementation for the future establishment of high seas MPAs. From these interviews, I have learned how important relationship building is to get stakeholders on the same page for decision-making. Currently, I am

working with NOAA at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as a CA Sea Grant Fellow for the year 2024.

• Where have you traveled during your studies?

As an undergraduate, I lived in Vienna for a semester studying history and international relations. The very streets I walked were my classroom, holding the remnants of history from hundreds of years ago. During my last year, I traveled to Belize with my coral reef ecology and conservation class where we conducted underwater research surveying the reef and its inhabitants. Between my studies, and even despite the pandemic, I was able to live in Taiwan for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. I fell in love with the food, the culture, and the wonderful people I encountered. Graduate school opened up more doors to travel, from Switzerland and Hawaii for my summer internship, to Líbano, Colombia for the course on regenerative agriculture and sustainable coffee farming. This past January, I took advantage of our January term off classes to meet up with my Chilean graduate school colleague in Patagonia.

• What are your goals for the future?

My goal is to work at the crux of international relations and environmentalism. I am passionate about facilitating international collaboration, especially for environmental adaptation and mitigation. Most recently, I have followed my route of interest toward the establishment and implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs) on the high seas. These will be areas of the ocean that are protected and jointly governed by multiple countries. My current position working for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is a great stepping stone to this goal by

learning the processes that go into managing an ocean area. Through my studies, I have also developed an interest in renewable energy and climate finance, which are both imperative to the health of our oceans and environment at large. I would love to work in these fields as well to continue to gain experience and expand my global network of environmental champions.

• What has your scholarship/fellowship allowed you to do that you would not otherwise have been able to do?

This fellowship has allowed me to pursue opportunities that I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to pursue.

Isaiah Nielsen

The monetary contribution to my tuition has allowed me to be bolder in following my niche interests that are often minimally paid. Such interests have included my own research on marine protected areas in the high seas, international diplomacy governing the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, and the intricacies of ocean conservation governance. I am grateful to the DACOR Foundation for providing an outlet to connect with foreign affairs professionals who are also passionate about positive international impact.

Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University

Graduate School Focus: U.S. National and Transnational Security

Title of Capstone: Combating IUU Fishing in Costa Rica

Undergraduate School: University of Minnesota Morris

Hometown: Roseville, Minnesota (but grew up in Puebla, Mexico)

The Ben H. & Clare Roy Thibodeaux Memorial Fellowship

• What has been the most memorable moment for you during your studies?

The most memorable moment during all of graduate studies is likely one to come! My capstone group and I will be traveling to Costa Rica for field research on IUU fishing in March.

• Where have you worked or interned during your studies? What have you gained from the experiences?

I am currently interning at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) at the Department of Treasury. I have learned a lot about countering illicit finance, but also about working across the US government interagency.

• Where have you traveled during your studies?

I tried three times for semester-long study abroad to South Korea but were canceled during undergrad due to COVID-19. But, in summer of 2021, I traveled to

Gwangju, South Korea as a part of the Critical Language Scholarship awarded by the State Department.

• What are your goals for the future?

I am committed to a career in public service. I recently got engaged and want to move back to the Midwest after graduation in order to continue my goals of federal service alongside my fiancée. My federal experience has confirmed my drive to serve the public and has rapidly developed my professional skills.

• What has your scholarship/fellowship allowed you to do that you would not otherwise have been able to do?

This fellowship allowed me to continue to do the two things that I love: learn and serve. I have enjoyed every moment of graduate school and the connections I have made pushed me right into the heart of federal government.

100 yEARs Of thE fOREign sERviCE

2024 is the 100th anniversary of the Rogers Act which created the modern Foreign Service. Throughout the year, we will focus on important moments in our diplomatic history.

By Audrey Straw, Program Intern

The Great Depression, World War II, and Beyond

The 1930s-1940s marked a turbulent period in American History, and the US was starting to fill a new role in international politics. The Great Depression altered the perceptions of the role of government. For the Department of State, this meant significantly downsizing the Foreign Service.1 In addition, the world was on the precipice of another war. Despite these cutbacks, President Franklin Roosevelt made changes to the Foreign Service. In 1936, President Roosevelt declared the Foreign Service Officers who wished to marry a non-American citizen must request permission, as marriage to a foreign national resulted in assignment complications.2 In addition, Roosevelt nominated women to ministerial positions, a notable change to past appointments.3

The pre-war period also presented many dangers and challenges to Foreign Services Officers, as tensions rose across the globe. Officers were exposed to personal threats. In 1936, upon the collapse of the Ethiopian resistance in the Italo-Ethiopian War, the American Legation in Addis Adaba underwent a 3-day siege from bandit groups before being evacuated to the British Legation, which was protected by a company of Sikh troops.4 During the Spanish Civil War, the American Embassy in Madrid provided shelter and food to American citizens trapped in the capital at the outbreak of the war. The embassy helped approximately 1,500 American citizens in Spain to safely evacuate.5

The outbreak of World War II challenged that Department of State, leading to a major reorganization and modifications to meet emergency needs to deal with wartime planning.6 Going into the war, the Foreign Service

simply did not have the capacity to match the explosion of activity internationally.7 The Spring of 1941 marked a shift in the US’ involvement in the war, as the country officially aligned itself with the Allied Powers.8 The Foreign Service began to work to maintain the Allied coalition and developed military and economic cooperation against the Axis Forces.9 The passage of the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941 marked the US’ full entry into the war. This increased the number of civilians needed to work abroad. The State Department needed people to negotiate the lend-lease agreements and to develop a cultural relations program to provide an accurate portrayal of US policies.10 In addition, the early demands on the Foreign Service included evacuating Americans out of war zones, exchanging prisoners of war, liaising with the Red Cross, and helping with visa and refugee problems.11

During the war, many Foreign Service personnel put their lives at risk. They were separated from their families due to the personal dangers that came with their posting. While in occupied countries, they faced bombing raids and artillery fire. Some personnel were forced to spend months in detention camps until their exchange could be orchestrated.12 Many stories came out after the war of Foreign Service Officers narrowly escaping buildings that were bombed after destroying codes and confidential documents to keep them from the Axis Powers.13

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Foreign Service Auxiliary was created to deal with the large increase in tasks following the outbreak of the war.14 The auxiliary was established as a means of increasing the

1. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/rogers

2. Plischke, Elmer. U.S. Department of State: A Reference History. 1999. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. Page 314.

3. Barnes, William, and John Heath Morgan. The Foreign Service of the United States: Origins, Development, and Functions. July, 1961. Historical Office Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State. Page 255.

4. Ibid 228.

5. Ibid 229.

6. Plischke 299.

7. Barnes and Morgan 240.

8. Ibid 243.

9. Ibid 244.

10. Ibid 243-244.

11. Ibid 242-243.

12. Ibid 247.

13. Ibid 249.

14. Barnes and Morgan 240; https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/wartime

number of people in the Foreign Service without having to take the examination.15 Recruiting for career Foreign Service was suspended during this period,16 and Auxiliary officers were only appointed for the duration of the war. In general, there were two different types of Auxiliary officers: specialist and junior officers. Economic analysts, cultural relations assistants, and information specialists were hired to be specialists.17 Junior officers were typically assigned to general consular work and would have been assigned as Foreign Service Officers under different circumstances.18 The Foreign Service Auxiliary was dissolved shortly after the war ended.19

Towards the end of World War II, the Office of Foreign Service was created to improve the overall stateside management of the Foreign Service.20 Three divisions were created within this new office: the Division of Foreign Service Planning to provide recommendation for the functions and activities of the Foreign Service, the Division of Training

Services to advance training protocols, and the Division of Foreign Reporting Services to manage the dissemination of information received from abroad.21 The Division of Training Services was the precursor to the modern Foreign Service Institute (FSI). This division not only focused on the training of new officers, but also worked with experienced officers to continually update their knowledge of foreign affairs.22

After the end of World War II, the Act of 1946 was passed to reorganize the Department of State to aid in the country’s postwar recovery.23 Following a much smaller act in 1945 that increased the number of clerical workers in the Foreign Service, the Act of 1946 once again reorganized the Foreign Service system. The War had significantly increased the responsibilities of the Department of State and the postwar system needed to adapt. New duties were created in connection with relief, rehabilitation, and refugees, and the Department continued to do economic, intelligence, and cultural work.24 The greater involvement of the US in world affairs also meant a higher volume of traditional Foreign Service tasks, such as representation, reporting, and negotiating. The Act of 1946 authorized the expansion of the Foreign Service, with the appointment of 250 additional career officers.25 Along with this, the bill created stronger administrative direction of the Foreign Service, namely through the creation of the position of Director General of the Foreign Service.26 The salaries of Foreign Service Officers were also increased.27 A new allowance was instated to account for the costs of changing posts, such as the need to purchase new clothes when moving from Finland to India. This bill also allowed Foreign Service personnel to be assigned to other agencies for special instruction or training.28 Foreign Service Officers were also now required to spend at least 3 of their first 15 years of service on assignment in the United States. The act

15. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/timeline/1940-1949

16. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/wartime

17. Barnes and Morgan 245.

18. Ibid 246.

19. Ibid 255.

20. Barnes and Morgan 251; Plischke 302.

21. Barnes and Morgan 251-252; Plischke 303.

22. Barnes and Morgan 252.

23. Ibid 240.

24. Ibid 255.

25. Ibid 255.

26. Ibid 257.

27. Ibid 259.

28. Ibid 261.

Photograph of Winston Churchill signing the Lend-Lease Act in London in 1942. Gift of Mrs. Theodore Achilles. DACOR Bacon House Collection.

also officially established FSI.29 The FSI was divided into four schools: Advanced Officer Training, Basic Officer Training, Language Training, and Management and Administrative Training.30

In 1948, the US Information Agency (USIA) was established after the passage of the International Information and Education Exchange Act. This agency was attached to the Department of State and utilized Foreign Service Officers and staff at US embassies to enhance the mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.31 The creation of USIA expanded the spaces in which Foreign Service Officers worked.

Despite the reorganization and expansion of the Foreign Service, more changes were to come. The Hoover Commission, chaired by former President Herbert Hoover,

29. Ibid 262.

aimed to reexamine America’s overseas operations.32 One particular question considered was how the relationship between the Department of State and other departments and agencies involved in foreign affairs should work together. As more federal agencies, such as USIA, started to contribute to foreign policy, the role the Department of State and the Foreign Service played became murky.33 The first attempt to heed these recommendations came in 1949, wherein the Office of the Foreign Service was dissolved and replaced under the Division of Departmental Personal to streamline the management of the Foreign Service.34 More changes were to come to the Department of State and the Foreign Service in the coming decades, with the Cold War coming to fruition and security within the Department of State coming into question.

30. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/timeline/1940-1949

31. Plischke 474.

32. Barnes and Morgan 266.

33. Ibid 267.

34. Ibid 269.

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Turning Points: The Role of the State Department in Vietnam (1945-1975)

When Stephen Sherman, editor of Turning Points, contacted DACOR asking if we had any photographs of the book’s late author, DACOR member Ambassador Thomas J. Corcoran, we were worried we wouldn’t be able to help. However, Christine and Emma were able to find a picture of Ambassador Corcoran in a photo album of DACOR’s 1990 Memorial Day Ceremony. Ambassador Corcoran was then DACOR’s Secretary and Chair of the Memorial Committee. As thanks, Mr. Sherman has donated a copy of Turning Points to the DACOR library.

Turning Points is a thoughtful, objective and well-researched study that chronicles the key policy decisions made by the US State Department throughout the entire period from 1945 to 1975; decisions that ultimately led to the first war lost by the United States. In his extensive study, Ambassador Thomas J. Corcoran does an excellent job of exposing many of the myths and falsehoods found in orthodox histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Thomas J. Corcoran served in the Navy during WWII before beginning his Foreign Service career in 1948. His first assignments abroad were in Spain and then, in 1950 in Hanoi and Hue in Vietnam. He was Charge d’Affaires ad interim (Laos) from August 1975 - March 1978 and then became Ambassador to Burundi from 1978 until retiring from the State Department in 1980.

 COntRibutiOns in hOnOR Of 

The officers and trustees of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation acknowledge with gratitude the following donation in honor of a living individual:

Gladys BAKER

Shirley M. McKinley

Theresa M. Cunningham

Angela DICKEY

Richard Norland

Glenn MUCKLOW

Dr. Barbara Porter

Sandra Smith MUCKLOW

Dr. Barbara Porter

Welcome to Our New Museum Intern!

Anamarie Lipinski is a senior Public and Applied History major at Waynesburg University with a minor in Political Science. She is from Hickory, Pennsylvania, and has had the opportunity to work at several historical organizations in her surrounding area. Most recently, she managed many historical items as the museum archivist at the Paul R. Stewart Museum in Waynesburg. Anamarie traveled to Japan during the summer of 2023 to explore the connection between popular culture and traditional history. Her experiences through many conversations with individuals around her communicated the importance of individual stories on the grand scale of our nation’s history. Through pursuing a degree in public history, the passion she has for preserving artifacts and collections has grown through being able to bring to light many stories or moments in history to be given public access. By studying and interning in DC, she seeks to gain experience of maintaining an existing collection and learn about proper museum procedures best found in our nation’s capital. She is thrilled to be working in the DACOR Bacon House with its magnificent collection and historical ties to the U.S. government while collaborating with the expert staff.

Thank You to Our 2023 Annual Fund Contributors

The DACOR Bacon House Foundation Board of Trustees, Officers, Executive Director, Staff and Volunteers are all extremely grateful to the DACOR members, Friends of the Historic DACOR Bacon House, Corporate and Private Foundation donors who all gave so generously in 2023 - far surpassing our goal of $300,000 and raising $739,000 toward our Bicentennial House Preservation Fund goal of $5 million by 2025. Thank you!

In 2024, we only have $700,000 more to go to reach the $5 million goal by our bicentennial year of 2025. We are counting on everyone to help us reach it by maintaining (and perhaps increasing) your critical philanthropic momentum in 2024. If you are not yet a donor to the Foundation’s House Preservation Fund - which your annual dues do not underwrite - please consider making your first generous tax-deductible contribution today.

We’ve made every effort to have your name listed correctly. If you prefer to be listed differently (or not at all) or are not in the correct giving level, please let me know and it will be corrected. Yours in service, Jared B. Hughes, Development Director (202) 682-0500 x23 jhughes@dacorbacon.org

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The Estate of

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The Hon. Joyce E. Leader

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Mrs. Meredith Whiting

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Mrs. Nedra O. Agnew and Mr. Peter Agnew

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The Hon. Charles Arthur Ford and Mrs. Lillian Ford

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Ambassador Richard J. Gookin

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Ms. Carolee Heileman and The Carolee Heilman Charitable Fund at Fidelity

Mrs. Francisca Thomas Helmer and Mr. Colin S. Helmer

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Mrs. Judy Goodman Ikels

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Thank You and Good Luck: DACOR Says Goodbye to Alya

Mr. David R. Thomas

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Mrs. Gabriella Mariani Thurston

Col. Gita R. Velu and Dr. Robert McFaddin Beaty

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DACOR leaders, members, staff and all those who have stayed in the DACOR Bacon House guest rooms wish Alya Gunawan the best of luck. Alya left DACOR for a position in the private sector in January.

Alya started working at DACOR as the Administrative Assistant in October 2022. She always greeted everyone with a big smile and was happy to help with the myriad of questions members and others had for her. She was the face of DACOR at the front desk, serving in an essential position that supported our membership, the Executive Committee and Boards, and our guest rooms and reciprocal club program. Whether you realized it or not, Alya assisted every member in various capacities and was a great help to our community and organization.

We thank Alya for all her hard work and wish her a fond farewell.

wElCOmE nEw mEmbERs

Ellen Foster ANDERSON and Thomas P. ANDERSON

Ellen Anderson is a legacy member who was introduced to DACOR by her father Seaborn Foster, who was a career Foreign Service Officer. Seaborn served as Consul General in the Netherlands and was posted in Manila and Paris. Ellen is one of Seaborn’s four children living in the Washington, D.C. area. She works for Oracle Corporation and is working closely with the federal government and the United Nations, helping to meet mission goals.

Dr. Skyler Jennifer ARNDT-BRIGGS and Dr. Gregory Mark BRIGGS

Skyler Jennifer Arndt-Briggs has been the Chair of the Lois Roth Foundation for cross-cultural dialogue since 2014. She has had an Academic career in German-American cultural affairs and was a Fulbright scholar twice. She worked at UMass Amherst from 2000 to 2022, where she was the Executive Director of the DEFA Film Library and an Adjunct Professor in German. She is the child of former FSOs Richard T. Arndt and Lois Roth (stepmother).

Pablo BARRUTI

Pablo Barruti is employed by the State Department in the Public Diplomacy section at the Embassy in Beijing. He is a Strategic Content Advisor with the embassy’s Social Media team. He previously worked in the private sector in business, real estate development, and hospitality. After marrying a Foreign Affairs Officer, Pablo left the private sector and took a position with the State Department.

Richard Cleveland BLACKWOOD and Amy Starr BLACKWOOD

Richard Blackwood serves at the Embassy in Beijing in the Econ Section as the Trade Officer and the Deputy Unit Chief for the Trade, Technology and Transportation Unit. Previously, he served as the Senior Philippines Desk Officer in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and as a Political Officer at the Embassy in Seoul, covering the ROK’s relations with China, Japan, and Russia. He has also served in Shanghai, China and Guadalajara, Mexico. A native of Oklahoma, Richard received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma, and an M.A. in National Security Studies from the Naval War College. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he worked as a Congressional staffer. He and his wife, Amy, have two daughters.

Eileen Patricia BRADNER

Eileen Bradner recently retired from Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the US, where she headed the Washington, D.C. office and directed all federal government affairs activities for the company. She continues to serve on the Industry Trade Advisory Committee (“ITAC”) for Steel and has served as a delegate to the OECD Steel Committee meetings and the North American Steel Trade Committee. She was a partner at Wiley Rein LLP from 1988 to 2009 and was a practicing attorney in the law firm’s international trade practice. She represented numerous U.S. manufacturers in international trade proceedings and litigation including newspaper printing presses, heavy forged hand tools, steel, and photographic paper. From 1980 to 1988, she was a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Senate working on the staff of Senator John Glenn, covering international trade, commerce, steel, autos, shipping, and Great Lakes issues. She was introduced to DACOR by Alex Sundquist.

Stephenie FOSTER

Stephenie Foster was a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Coordinator of Afghan Relocation Efforts at the Department of State from 2021 to 2023. She was a Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) at the Department of State from 2012 to 2017. Stephenie is a recognized voice in women’s leadership and gender equality. She has had decades of experience on Capitol Hill, at the Department of State, and in the legal profession. She has used her expertise to counsel government officials, foundations, and individuals. She is a frequent speaker, an author of numerous articles, and the co-author of Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice (with Susan Markham) published in 2023. She was introduced to DACOR by Shaz Akram.

Liesyl FRANZ and Keith NICKERSON

Liesyl Franz is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. She coordinates cyber policy issues across a broad range of issues that affect international cyberspace security and oversees the unit’s three offices covering Global Policy, Plans, and Negotiations, International Engagement and Capacity Building, and Threat Management and Coordination. She was previously the director for the Office of International Engagement and Capacity Building and

the Deputy Coordinator for the Bureau’s predecessor, the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues. Ms. Franz has over 20 years of cyber policy experience in the public and private sectors. In her 10-year tenure at the Department of State, she has served as delegation lead for multiple cyber engagements with bilateral and regional partners and multilateral negotiations including in the UN, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as well as regional venues such as the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and the Organization of American States (OAS). Previously, she served as Vice President for Cybersecurity and Global Public Policy at TechAmerica, an industry association representing global high technology companies, Director for Cybersecurity International Affairs and Public Policy in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Director for Global Government Affairs at EDS Corporation. Ms. Franz holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She was introduced to DACOR by Greg McGillivary.

Silvio Ivan GONZALEZ and Amy Leigh GONZALEZ

Silvio González is a career member the Senior Foreign Service currently serving as Minister Counselor for Public Diplomacy at the Mission in Mexico. He recently served as Chief of Staff for the Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy at the Department of State. As Chief of Staff, Silvio provided strategic and policy guidance to oversee the allocation of $1.4 billion to public diplomacy (R) family bureaus managing media, culture, education, and information integrity. Previously, he served as Public Affairs Counselor in Lima, Peru and Buenos Aires, Argentina where he managed teams of communication and program professionals to support the bilateral relationship. He also chaired the Fulbright Board Commissions.

Prior to his current assignment, he oversaw public diplomacy policy in the Western Hemisphere. From 20122015, González served as Spokesperson in Amman, Jordan where he coordinated communication efforts dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis and Middle East Peace efforts. Previous assignments include Branch Public Affairs Officer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Deputy Spokesperson in Bogotá, Colombia, Economic Affairs Officer in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Consular Officer in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Hermes GRULLON

Hermes Grullon’s current assignment is as a Foreign Service Orientation Deputy Course Coordinator, welcoming all new Foreign Service Officers. Previously, he served as a Political Officer/Acting Deputy Political Counselor in the U.S. mission

to the Organization of American States, a Watch Officer in the Operations Center, a Consular Officer/Acting Deputy Consul General in Embassy Managua, and a Political Section Chief in Embassy Djibouti. A first-generation college graduate, he completed his BA at DePauw University, his MA in International Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and coursework at Howard University. Hermes is the president of the Pickering and Rangel Fellows Association.

Matthew James KELLER and Marion Jehane ABBOUD

Matthew Keller has been an Advisor/Deputy Team Lead, at the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance in Washington, DC from 2021 to the present. Prior to that assignment, he was a Program Manager with Catholic Relief Services in Iraq from 2019-2020. He worked as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State in Washington from 2016-2018. Matthew is an experienced humanitarian leader with a strong background in disaster response, foreign policy, and international security. He has acted in key roles, including Risk Management Advisor for USAID, Chief Risk Officer for Catholic Relief Services, and Interim Country Representative for Enabling Peace in Iraq Center.

Phillip LINDERMAN and Patricia LINDERMAN

Phillip Linderman is a retired State Department senior Foreign Service Officer. Over a three-decade career, he served abroad in U.S. embassies and consulates in Belgium, Mexico, Ecuador, Germany, Cuba, Chile, and Trinidad. He also represented U.S. interests at the Organization of American States and the European Union. Phillip’s diplomatic duties often focused on U.S. border security, international travel, and migration policies, giving him wide experience in working with foreign governments, as well as U.S. law enforcement and intelligence partners, on matters such as visa and passport fraud, human trafficking, terrorist travel, watch listing, and identity information collection and use.

Hon. Ellen Elizabeth MCCARTHY and Gordon Leonard HANNAH Jr.

Ellen McCarthy was Assistant Secretary of State, in the Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from January 2019 to January 2021. Previously, she served as the Chief Operating Officer at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency from September 2012 to September 2016. She also worked as the Chief Human Capital Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Intelligence from September 2004 to September 2008. Ellen was introduced to DACOR by Clarke Cooper.

Peter Dudley MCKILLOP and Juliet Anne HINDELL

Peter McKillop is the son of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and former DACOR member David H. McKillop. Peter was a foreign correspondent for Newsweek covering much of Asia from 1990-1997. He was also a Managing Director for JP Morgan in Hong Kong and Tokyo from 1999 to 2004. He is presently the founder and publisher of Climate & Capital Media which covers the global issues of the business and finance of climate change.

Joseph Vincent MICALLEF and Carla Lee MICALLEF

Joseph Micallef started his career on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Aide to the House Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Investment, Trade and Monetary Policy (1980-82) before leaving for Graduate School (MIT) and a career in business (Investment Banking and Media). After retiring, he became an advisor to the Government of Malta and held various Foreign Ministry positions. He serves as a Special Envoy for Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation in the Caribbean and Central America and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and Trade in the Republic of Malta. He also serves as Honorary Consul to Oregon in the Republic of Malta. In addition, he was an Opinion Columnist covering National Security and International Affairs for Military.com, (2017-2021) and The Epoch Times 2021-2023. Joseph was introduced to DACOR by Frank Giordano.

Ellen Foster ANDERSON and Thomas P. ANDERSON

Ellen Anderson is a legacy member who was introduced to DACOR by her father Seaborn Foster, who was a career Foreign Service Officer. Seaborn served as Consul General in the Netherlands and was posted in Manila and Paris. Ellen is one of Seaborn’s four children living in the Washington, D.C. area. She works for Oracle Corporation and is working closely with the federal government and the United Nations, helping to meet mission goals.

Josh PAUL

Josh Paul recently resigned from the State Department after over 11 years working as the Director of Congressional & Public Affairs in the Bureau of Political Military Affairs from 2012-2023. The bureau is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. Josh previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Congressional staffer for Representative Steve Israel (D-NY).

Josh grew up between London and New York and holds master’s degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews, Scotland. He was introduced to DACOR by Keith McCormick.

Dr. John J. PIRET

John Piret’s father was the Science Attaché (then Counselor) at the US Embassy in Paris from 1959 to 1975. John grew up in Paris and attended French grade school and high school. He is also a Docteur ès Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris (now Sorbonne Université). He worked in France for a number of years as an employee of a French engineering company (ARMINES), Managing Director of a US-based investment bank that was performing transatlantic M&A and Financing transactions, and Director of the European-American Chamber of Commerce (headquartered in Paris). John also worked with the French Science Attaché in Boston to expand his New Technology Venture Accelerator, which brought French startups to Boston every year to experience the Boston startup ecosystem.

He is currently an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, working at the DoD’s office of Industrial Base Resiliency. He held positions as a Lecturer in Finance at Northeastern University, Program Manager for MIT’s Energy Storage Research Center, and Managing Director at Newbury Piret (a Boston investment bank) for 25+ years, where he carried out international M&A and financial transactions for technology companies. John holds an ScD in Physics from Sorbonne Université (Paris, France) and an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, as well as an MSc in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in the Management of Technology (now Sloan Fellows), both from MIT. He was introduced to DACOR by Robert Melville.

Thomas Gwyn REICH Jr and Seiko KYAN

Thomas Reich is an independent consultant in the defense and aerospace industry, with a specific expertise in international business development and sales, the US government system of export controls for defense articles, the corporate government relations function within the US defense industry, and the defense establishment and defense trade with Japan. Tom was a Foreign Service Officer from 1981 to 2010. His posts include US Consul General, in Okinawa from 2003-2006; Foreign Affairs Officer, in the H and EAP bureaus from 2000-2003; and First Secretary of the US embassy in Tokyo from 1996-2000. Tom also served as a political adviser to the commander of Joint Task Force 536 during the tsunami relief effort in Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka in early 2005. In Washington, Tom served in the State Department in the Bureau of PoliticoMilitary Affairs (security assistance officer for Southwest

Asia, 1986-1987), the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs (country officer for Burma, 1988-1990, deputy director of the Office of Japanese Affairs, 2002-2003; and legislative liaison, 2007), and the Bureau of Legislative Affairs (legislative manager for East Asia, 2000-2002). He also spent a year on detail to the U.S. Trade Representative in 20072008 as director for APEC Affairs. A native of North Carolina, Tom received a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations, also from Georgetown. Tom and Seiko have a daughter, Nina, currently an undergraduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nathaniel Richard RUDY and Elisabeth McCorkle FAIRFIELD

Nathaniel Rudy is a Foreign Service Officer, currently posted to FSI, scheduled to be posted to Libreville, Gabon in October 2024. He has worked in private, non-profit, and government management roles in Blacksburg and Roanoke, Virginia, and in various locations around Maine, for over 25 years. He joined the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer (Management Generalist) in September 2023.

Daniel Morris SCHNEIDERMAN and Kathryn Elizabeth MEVIS

Daniel Schneiderman is the Department of State’s Deputy Special Representative for Guantanamo Affairs in the Bureau of Counterterrorism from September 2022 to the present. Previously, he was the Regional Counterterrorism Policy Advisor in the Bureau of Counterterrorism (June 2017-April 2018), the National Security Council Director for the Yemen, Middle East, and North Africa Directorate from May 2016 to May 2017, and the Special Assistant to the Coordinator in the Bureau of Counterterrorism from November 2014 to April 2016. Daniel has served at the State Department and in public service for more than a decade, as a career civil servant (Presidential Management Fellow alumni, Class of 2011) and in his current iteration as a political appointee of the Biden-Harris Administration. He was also detailed from the State Department to the NSC as a career official during the Obama-Biden administration. Daniel was introduced to DACOR by Megan Doherty.

Alexandra SCOTT and Gabriel Violette LAFORGE

Alexandra Scott is a Foreign Service Officer, currently assigned to the consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, from 2022 to the present. She was a contractor at the State Department for six years prior to joining the Foreign Service

in 2022. She worked on public diplomacy programs in ECA (Fulbright) and DS (OSAC), as well as the Strategic Communications Unit in EAP/PD. Alexandra is currently serving her first tour in Ciudad Juarez in the immigration visa section. She will serve as a public diplomacy officer in Phnom Penh from 2026 to 2028. Alexandra was introduced to DACOR when she was a DACOR intern in 2014.

Linda Kathleen TROWBRIDGE

Linda Trowbridge was introduced to DACOR by her uncle, Ambassador Donald Liedel, who was an active DACOR member. Linda visited her uncle frequently during the time he lived in Washington, DC. Linda also spent time with Ambassador Liedel in Mexico City in the 1970’s when he was with the Embassy there and stayed with him in Bahrain in 1983 when he was Ambassador. Since retiring from her 50-year career as a registered nurse, Linda has been active in the Albuquerque International Association (AIA), a nonprofit organization presenting international lecture series on U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Leadership. Linda has stayed at or been to DACOR Bacon House three times, the first in 2003 for her uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration. The second was in 2010 when her uncle sponsored her to be a guest. The last time was in 2018 when she stayed at the House and attended her uncle’s funeral in Arlington. She treasures her memories of staying at the DACOR Bacon House over the years.

Karen WALKER

Karen Walker began her career as a public liaison officer with the U.S. Information Agency in 1990, promoting democracy and environmental programs. She returned to Foggy Bottom in 1997 as a subject matter expert and Foreign Affairs Officer. Throughout her career, she has supported global and regional environmental diplomacy programs, advocated for U.S. businesses investing in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, managed commercial diplomacy initiatives in developing countries, and co-led technical assistance and public diplomacy programs in the Middle East and North Africa. She rejoined academe in 2006, earning a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Maryland College Park in 2014. While dissertating on soft power diplomacy, Karen was appointed a State Department Franklin Fellow, serving as grants manager for democracy and governance programs in Iraq. She teaches public diplomacy for working professionals for JHU’s Krieger School - Advanced Academic Programs. She is a member of the Public Diplomacy Council of America, serving as co-chair of the Academic Study Committee. Karen was introduced to DACOR through the Public Diplomacy Council of America.

The Castle by the River

By Audrey Straw, Program Intern

What does a castle in the Scottish Hebrides have to do with the DACOR Bacon House? Both the Amhuinnsuidhe (avinsuey) Castle and the DACOR Bacon House have ties to the family of Mrs. Virginia Murray Bacon. Mrs. Bacon, who owned what is now the DACOR Bacon House from 1925 to 1980, is associated with the building of the castle through her paternal lineage.1

Lord John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore, was Virginia Murray Bacon’s great-great grandfather. He was appointed in 1769 by King George II to serve as the Governor-General of New York and in 1771, King George III reassigned him to Williamsburg to serve as GovernorGeneral of Virginia. He did not remain in this position for long, having to flee once America’s fight for independence began.2 In the south drawing room, you can spot the portraits of John Murray and his wife, Countess Charlotte.

Murray and his wife had eight children. His son Alexander Murray is Virginia Murray Bacon’s great grandfather. One of Lord John Murray’s daughters, Lady Augusta Murray, would become known for her secret wedding to Prince Augustus Frederick, the son of King George III.3 The marriage was considered illegitimate because they could not get the blessing of King George III. The couple had two children together, both considered illegitimate.4 A painting of Lady Augusta can be found in the dining room, with her son, Augustus Frederick d’Este seated on her lap.

Lord Murray’s son, Viscount George Murray, the fifth Earl of Dunmore, bought the land that the castle would be built on for £60,000 before he died in 1836.5 DACOR has a small mezzotint portrait of Viscount Murray. In 1865, Viscount Murray’s grandson, Charles Adolphus Murray, the 7th Earl of Dunmore, commissioned Scottish architect David Bryce to build Amhuinnsuidhe Castle.6 Bryce was Scotland’s leading

Victorian architect and created over 230 architectural designs throughout his career. He is considered to be the man that perfected the Scottish Baronial style, a style that is distinguished by grand mansions that borrowed architectural design from castles of an earlier era.7

Originally called Fincastle after the courtesy title for the first son of the Earl of Dunmore,8 Amhuinnsuidhe Castle is located on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides off the northwest coast of Scotland. It is a 55,000-acre estate overlooking sandy beaches and land lochs, with the mountain peaks highlighted in the background.9 The name, Amhuinnsuidhe, in Gaelic means “sitting on the river,” a clear reference to the castle’s surroundings.10

Charles Murray built the castle to be closer to his sporting activities. He sent his wife, Gertrude Coke, to view the property when it was nearly finished, where she noted, “it wasn’t as big as a hen house or a stable at her father’s house”, which motivated him to build additional wings to the castle.11 The Murrays would declare bankruptcy before they could live in the castle, and their banker, Sir Edward Scott, would come into possession of the castle.12

The castle would go in and out of the Scott’s ownership throughout the years. In 1925, it was rented by J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan.13 It is said that he wrote his play Mary Rose while in residence at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle.14 Sir Samuel Scott, Sir Edward Scott’s son, would eventually buy it back in 1935.15 Sir Scott was a conservative member of parliament. His wife, Lady Sophie Scott, would make her mark on the house. While alive, Lady Sophie Scott built a name after going missing for a week16 and engaging in an affair with a married man.17 In death, Lady Sophie Scott became known as the ghost of Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, continuing to practice the renowned hospitality her and her

1. Calderhead, William D. “The Castle that Mrs. Bacon’s Ancestors Built,” Curator’s Corner, The DACOR Bulletin, April 2003.

2. Ibid

3. https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-forbidden-marriage-of-lady-augusta-murray/

4. https://www.rct.uk/collection/georgian-papers-programme/lady-augusta-murray

5. https://www.celticcastles.com/castles/amhuinnsuidhe/?modal=chunk__history

6. Calderhead, 2003.

7. https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/davidbryce.html

8. https://www.celticcastles.com/castles/amhuinnsuidhe/?modal=chunk__history

9. Calderhead, 2003.

10. https://www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/Chatelaine/AMHUINN.HTM#:~:text=In%20Gaelic%20Amhuinnsuidhe%20 (pronounced%20’avin,’sitting%20on%20the%20river’.

11. https://www.celticcastles.com/castles/amhuinnsuidhe/?modal=chunk__history

12. http://ica-atom.tasglann.org.uk/index.php/sir-edward-h-scott-of-north-harris-papers;isad

13. https://www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk/the-best-castles/other-articles/amhuinnsuidhe-castle/

14. https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB12767

15. http://ica-atom.tasglann.org.uk/index.php/sir-edward-h-scott-of-north-harris-papers;isad

16. https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=rocklandctyjournal18990429.2.154&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------17. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4908222

husband were known for.18

The last private owner of the castle was Jonathan Bulmer, whose family owns the famous Bulmer cider brand. After nearly a decade of owning the castle, in 2002, Bulmer sold the castle.19 In March of 2003, Architectural Digest noted the listing for the house as going for $7.228 million.20 Several celebrities, including Madonna, Sting, Mohamed El Fayed, and Michael Jackson were rumored to be potential buyers.21 Residents on the Hebridean island of Harris ultimately came together as a community to buy the castle. This move secured the future of the community, as a change in ownership was known to disrupt the lives of everyone who lived there.22

18. https://reasortestates.co.uk/amhuinnsuidhe-castle/

What has come of the Amhuinnsuidhe Castle today?

People can rent it out if they want to stay in this area of Scotland, with its 12 bedrooms and public spaces for renters to stay in. It is fully staffed and allows individuals to explore the wildlife and activities unique to the Scottish Hebrides.23

As for the Earl of Dunmore, now distant relations to Mrs. Murray Bacon, the line to this title remains unbroken to this day.24 Malcolm Kenneth Murray is now the 12th Earl of Dunmore. He no longer qualifies to sit in the House of Lords. The Murray family created a space in Scotland and facilitated a space here in DC to bring people together, which continues today.

19. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/07/stephenkhan.theobserver 20. Calderhead, 2003.

21. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/07/stephenkhan.theobserver

22. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/mar/22/scotland.devolution

23. https://reasortestates.co.uk/your-stay/ 24. Calderhead, 2003.

Amhuinnsuidhe Castle. Image from https://reasortestates.co.uk/amhuinnsuidhe-castle/

Call for Nominations for the Eleanor Dodson Tragen Award 2024

The Eleanor Dodson Tragen Award honors a spouse, family member, domestic partner or member of household, who has effectively advocated and promoted rights, programs, services and benefits for Foreign Service families in the tradition of the AAFSW and its members, as did the late Mrs. Eleanor Tragen.

In the 1960s, Mrs. Tragen and her colleagues were instrumental in calling attention to the lack of rights of spouses (at that time almost exclusively wives); they wrote a brief, entitled, “What If?” that spotlighted the lack of resources wives had should they face a sudden death, illness or divorce. Ele then testified before Congress, using “What If?” as her basis and eventually helped to win important rights for wives such as access to alimony and pension benefits.

While the first recipients of the award (see box) were recognized for this early work in gaining rights for wives, more recent recipients have been honored for their work on issues that face today’s Foreign Service spouses, partners and families.

Criteria:

The recipient, active duty or retired, will be chosen for his/her volunteer efforts to enhance, improve, broaden or make more effective services, rights and benefits provided to FS spouses, families, EFM domestic partners and household members. The initiative to be recognized should benefit more than just a specific mission activity at one post, but offer promise of replication or application throughout the Foreign Service.

2023: Michelle Neyland

Award:

The winner will receive a cash award of $2,000, which will be presented at the AAFSW Annual Awards Program in November or December. If available, the Program will be held at the State Department and the winner will also be honored at a luncheon at the DACOR Bacon House and receive travel costs to and free lodging at DACOR Bacon House if posted outside of DC.

Eligibility:

Nominees must be spouses, family members, EFM domestic partners or members of household of FS employees, active or retired. Previous nominees can be considered if an updated justification sheet is included. Nominees must agree to attend the November/ December awards ceremony if selected.

Nominations:

To make a nomination, please submit the following:

• Nominee’s full name

• Nominee’s relationship to the direct-hire employee or retiree

• Nominee’s email address

• Nominator’s name and relationship to nominee

• Justification for the nomination including specific actions and qualities that fulfill the award criteria

• Name of nominee’s hometown newspaper and U.S. representative in Congress

• Nominations should be submitted as a Word document, not to exceed 3 pages, double spaced. Nominations should be sent by e-mail to John Bradshaw at: jbradshaw@dacorbacon.org

Submission deadline: April 26, 2024.

Past Tragen Award Recipients

For her leadership in spearheading a successful pay equity legislation campaign for Civil Service Domestic Employees Teleworking Overseas, for educating and motivating the right stakeholders and delivering tangible results for Department and interagency families and for helping the Department and Interagency advance toward DEIA goals.

2022: Alison Davis

2021: Fabiula Maughan

2020: Joanna Athanasopoulos Owen

2019: Melissa Brayer-Hess

2018: Patricia Linderman

2017: Kelly Bembry Midura

2016: Leah Evans

2015: Sheila Switzer

2014: Ann La Porta

2013: Bob Castro

2012: Thomas Gallagher

2010: Mari O’Connor

2009: Mette Beecroft

2007: Leslie Dorman

2006: Jean Vance

The officers and trustees of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation acknowledge with gratitude the following memorial contributions:

Erratum

The February issue of the DACOR Bulletin incorrectly listed an “In Honor of” contribution for Sandra Smith and Glenn Mucklow from Barbara Porter in the “In Memoriam” section. We are happy to confirm that Sandra and Glenn are both alive and well and were happily married recently. DACOR regrets the mistake.

Steven Charles BECK

Leo Cecchini

Evelyn S. COLBERT

Bruce Kinsey

Susan Kay DONNELLY

Hon. Shaun E. Donnelly

Hon. John E. KORNBLUM

Hon. Jacques Paul Klein & Margrete S. Klein

Hon. Alan Wood LUKENS

James Dandridge & Margarete Dandridge

James “Jim” MCGUNNIGLE

Hon. Patrick F. Kennedy & Mary Elizabeth Swope

Hon. Daniel O’DONOHUE

James Dandridge & Margarete Dandridge

Mark PALMER

Sushma Mahyera Palmer

Hon. Eward Morgan ROWELL

James Dandridge & Margarete Dandridge

Dennis R. SHAW

Dana R. Shaw

John SHUMATE

Paula Jakub

Peter TARNOFF

Hon. Patrick F. Kennedy & Mary Elizabeth Swope

Antoinette TAYLOR

Hon. Patrick F. Kennedy & Mary Elizabeth Swope

Hon. Terence A. TODMAN

James Dandridge & Margarete Dandridge

Lewis “Jack” Marion WHITE

Rev. Father John J. Hurley Jr.

John D. “Jack” WHITING

Leah Thayer Ferguson

Theodore S. WILKINSON III

Xenia Wilkinson

Hon. Johnny YOUNG

James Dandridge & Margarete Dandridge

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The officers and governors of DACOR note with deep regret the deaths of the following DACOR members and extend sympathy and condolences to members of the families and to colleagues and friends.

Philip Gordon COMBS, retired from the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, died December 2, 2023, in Bethesda, Maryland, at the age of 85.

Mr. Combs was born September 12, 1938, in Lexington, Kentucky. He received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Kentucky.

Mr. Combs had a 36-year career as a European specialist in the International Trade Administration.

Mr. Combs is survived by his wife of 55 years, Mary Emilie; three sons: Jon, Christopher (Adriana Abreu), and Brendan (Darlene); three grandchildren: Connor, Gabriela, and Juliana; and three brothers: James (Madonna), Kenneth, and Byron (Marlene). He is also survived by many Koch sisters and brothers, as well as Combs and Koch cousins, nieces and nephews.

Cynthia Ann WALKER, attorney advisor and procurement officer for numerous international organizations, including the United Nations, the European Union, the African Development Bank, among others, died November 29, 2023, at the age of 79.

Ms. Walker was born September 26, 1944, in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a bachelor’s degree in government from Boston University in 1968, and a bachelor and master of laws from Cambridge University in 1970. Upon graduation, she worked various jobs, including a period with the U.S. government.

In 1983, Ms. Walker went back to graduate school at Harvard Law School as a visiting scholar and then received a J.D. from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1987.

Ms. Walker lived in many different countries and spoke French, Italian, and German fluently. She enjoyed living and working abroad and stayed active with several international groups in the Washington D.C. area. She was an active participant in DACOR’s efforts to assist Foreign Service Nationals from Embassy Kabul to settle into the DMV area. She was an avid follower of domestic and international politics and volunteered at the White House from 2008 through 2016. Ms. Walker was a long-time resident of the Watergate West Cooperative in Washington, D.C. and was involved in her community there.

Ms. Walker is survived by her maternal first cousins once removed, David Hammons of Reno, Nevada and Anne Spiker, of Gold Canyon, Arizona, and her paternal first cousins

once removed, Mary Townsend of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Margaret Townsend of Lawrence, Kansas.

Thomas Edward WILLIAMS

Sr.,

retired Foreign Service Officer and spouse of retired Foreign Service Officer Robin Quinville, died December 13, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 85.

Mr. Williams entered the Foreign Service in 1961. He served in Germany, Nigeria, Turkey, South Africa, and Canada. He was director of the Office of International Affairs in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where he led preparation of the annual report to Congress. He retired in 1987 but managed the human rights reports until 1994, when he joined his wife, FSO Robin, in Austria. Subsequently, he accompanied her to Belgium, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

In retirement, Mr. Williams enjoyed traveling, good food, conversation, and vibrant debate about current affairs.

Mr. Williams is survived by his wife; his children, Amelia and Thomas Jr. (a retired Foreign Service Officer), and four grandchildren.

The officers and governors of DACOR were saddened to learn of the deaths of the following colleagues and friends.

Melvin Raymond CHATMAN Jr., retired Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, died December 2, 2023, in Aldie, Virginia, at the age of 83.

Mr. Chatman was born September 28, 1940, in Chandler, Oklahoma. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University in 1962. After serving in the U.S. Army for six years, Mr. Chatman joined the Foreign Service.

At the beginning of his career with USAID in Vietnam, Mr. Chatman coordinated the Saigon evacuation transportation for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. In addition to his post in Vietnam, he also served in Bangladesh, El Salvador, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, and Washington.

Mr. Chatman retired in 1998 after almost 30 years with the Department of State. In retirement, he wrote a book detailing his family roots, pursued a master’s degree in creative writing, and spent years working with his wife to establish an urgent care clinic in South Riding, Virginia.

Mr. Chatman is survived by his wife of 40 years, Anita; a son, Farouk; two siblings, Whit and Susan; and his mother, Joan Taylor.

Anthony H. CORDESMAN, former intelligence analyst who became a prominent commentator — as well as frequent critic — regarding U.S. policies in the Middle East and beyond during decades of war and upheaval, died Jan. 29, 2024, in Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of 84.

Anthony Huff Cordesman was born August 1, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1960, a master’s degree the next year from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of

Law and Diplomacy, and completed a doctorate from the University of London in 1963.

Dr. Cordesman served in intelligence analysis posts at the Pentagon and State Department in countries including Egypt and Iran, and at NATO in Brussels and Paris. From 1988 to 1995, he was national security assistant to Senator John McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee and was civilian assistant to the deputy secretary of defense.

Dr. Cordesman joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in 1995 and was most recently the group’s emeritus chair in strategy. In Washington policy circles, Dr. Cordesman carried significant influence with his essays and analyses on Middle East affairs and other security topics at CSIS, including directing a project on studying Saudi Arabia’s policy shifts under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. His many advisory roles included helping the Defense Department assess the regional fallout from Israel’s victory over Arab forces in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

To the public, Dr. Cordesman was known for regular media appearances, including as an ABC News analyst and an op-ed contributor to news outlets including The Washington Post, during pivotal events that included the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the current Israeli war in Gaza.

Dr. Cordesman is survived by his daughter, Bridget, from his first marriage and sons Justin and Alexander from his second.

Howard Franklin “Jack” DAWSON

Jr., retired from the Central Intelligence Agency, died December 24, 2023, in Fairfax, Virginia, at the age of 86.

Mr. Dawson was born May 25, 1937, in Marshalltown, Iowa. He received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1959. Following military service in the United States Army, Jack was hired by the CIA as an imagery analyst.

In addition to excelling and rising to the senior ranks in the analytic cadre during his 35-year career at CIA, Mr. Dawson was widely respected among his CIA peers as a patient mentor and role model to the younger officers.

In retirement, Mr. Dawson traveled to Europe, took up golf, read, watched World Cup soccer, and cheered on the New England Patriots.

Mr. Dawson is survived by his wife of 62 years, Rose; daughter Laura Durback (Gerard); daughter Amy Hessler (Anthony); son Howard Dawson, III (Wendy); and four grandchildren, Natalie, Ashley, Melissa, and Sean. He is also survived by a brother, David.

Merle GOLDMAN, prominent scholar of Chinese intellectual dissent, positing that China’s rise as a global economic force could eventually pry open Beijing’s tight lid on opposition, died November 16, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 92.

Dr. Goldman was born March 12, 1931, in New Haven, Connecticut. She received a bachelor’s degree in 1953 from Sarah Lawrence College, a master’s degree in 1957 from Radcliffe College, and a doctorate focused on Chinese history from Harvard in 1964. She was a professor at Boston University from 1972 to 2001 and was on the faculty of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. She was a frequent lecturer at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, among other places.

Dr. Goldman became a leading expert in interpreting China’s

staggering changes and policymaking across more than six decades that shaped contemporary China. She chronicled each step from Beijing’s cautious openings in the 1970s to the current dictum of the Communist Party: giving supercharged modernization and middle-class comforts in exchange for zero tolerance on dissent.

The more than a dozen books written or co-edited by Dr. Goldman are considered among the essential compendiums on China’s pro-reform movements. As part of the American delegation to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights from 1993 to 1994, she helped examine China’s systematic purges after authorities crushed prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Dr. Goldman was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years in 2017. She is survived by her sons Seth and Ethan, daughters Avra and Karla; 12 grandchildren and 4 greatgranddaughters.

Peter

A.

JAY,

Washington Post correspondent and Indochina bureau chief in Saigon, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, and a Hartford County farmer, died January 23, 2024, in Bel Air, Maryland, at the age of 83.

A direct descendant of John Jay, the New York jurist who served as president of the Continental Congress, U.S. secretary of foreign affairs, and the first chief justice of the United States, Peter Augustus Jay was born November 27, 1940, in Manhattan. He received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1962. He joined the Peace Corps shortly after its founding, serving for two years in Peru, and fell into journalism after he returned home to Maryland, discovering through a friend that there was a job opening at the Aegis, a weekly paper in Bel Air.

Mr. Jay joined the Washington Post in 1965, covering Prince George’s County and the Maryland State House in Annapolis. In 1970, he was sent

to Saigon, where he completed an 18-month tour as Indochina bureau chief at a time when American troops were pulling out of the country and military morale was low. Mr. Jay returned to Washington in 1972, working as deputy metro editor. Shortly thereafter, he left the Washington Post, moved to the family farm in Churchville, Maryland, wrangled a columnist job at the Baltimore Sun, and bought the Record, a weekly newspaper in Havre de Grace. He and his wife Irna Moore ran the Record for fifteen years before selling it in 1989.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Jay is survived by his son William, daughter Sarah, and three grandchildren.

Kit Allison JUNGE, retired Foreign Service Officer, died December 9, 2023, in Surprise, Arizona, at the age of 66.

Ms. Junge received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington before joining the Foreign Service in 1999.

Ms. Junge began her career in Armenia, then served in Azerbaijan, and later, she was a management officer in Calcutta and Kigali. She also served in Tunisia and Washington. She retired in May 2021.

In retirement, Ms. Junge enjoyed building wooden ship replicas, cooking for friends, and taking care of her mom. She was also an avid motorcyclist.

Ms. Junge was preceded in death by her brother, Scott. She is survived by her mother, Joyce; a sister, Nina; and four nieces and nephews.

Joseph S. LELYVELD, who rose from copy boy to top editor at the New York Times, where he distinguished himself as the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about apartheid South Africa and where he sought to carry the bedrock values of journalism into the digital age, died

January 5, 2024, in Manhattan, at the age of 86.

Mr. Lelyveld was born April 5, 1937, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University in 1958 and 1960, and another master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1960. While he was studying at Columbia, he became a copy boy at the Times. After graduation, during a Fulbright fellowship that took him to Southeast Asia, he filed stories for the foreign desk, an experience that lit his ambition to become a foreign correspondent.

Hired by the Times in 1962, Mr. Lelyveld helped shape four decades of the proverbial first draft of history as a reporter covering New York City, as a correspondent dispatched to Africa, Asia, and Europe, and as an editor who ascended the masthead on the strength of his intellect and sense of mission.

Mr. Lelyveld’s foreign posts included the Congo, India, Hong Kong, and London, where he was bureau chief. He first went to South Africa in 1965 but was expelled for reporting that was unflattering to the government. In 1980, the Times sent him back, where he stayed three years chronicling the agonies of life under the apartheid regime.

Mr. Lelyveld’s rise through the editorial ranks at the Times began in 1986, the same year he received the Pulitzer and became foreign editor. He was promoted to deputy managing editor in 1989 and managing editor six months later, and executive editor in 1994.

The Times won 12 Pulitzer Prizes under Mr. Lelyveld’s leadership. He first retired in 2001 and came out of retirement briefly in 2003 to serve as interim executive editor.

Mr. Lelyveld was predeceased by his wife of 44 years. He is survived by his partner of 19 years, Janny Scott, two daughters, Amy and Nita, and a granddaughter.

Joann “Jodie” LEWINSOHN, retired Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died November 9, 2023, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 92.

Ms. Lewinsohn earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 1952. At the urging of a professor who had served in the Foreign Service, she applied to USIA. She first participated in a summer seminar at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Rangoon, then served a year in the Philippines as a Fulbright fellow. After she graduated from SAIS in 1956, she served as an administrative assistant at the Embassy of Cambodia in Washington. In March of 1959, she joined USIA as a public affairs trainee.

During her career, Ms. Lewinsohn served at posts in Phnom Penh (twice), Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Stockholm, Pretoria, and Rome. In Washington, she served in the Office of East Asian Affairs and was a deputy associate director in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

In retirement, Ms. Lewinsohn briefly ran a small catering service with her

sister and read applications from high school students for a summer travel program of the American Councils for International Education.

Ms. Lewinsohn was predeceased by her sister, Nancy. She is survived by her long-time housekeeper, Melanie and many close friends and devoted aides.

Arno Joseph MAYER,

Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton and historian of modern Europe and the politics and diplomacy of peacemaking, died December 18, 2023, in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 97.

Dr. Mayer was born June 19, 1926, in Luxembourg City. He was forced to flee from home with his family in 1940, just hours before the Nazis invaded. They eventually settled in New York City. At 18, he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to Camp Ritchie in Maryland, becoming one of the “Ritchie Boys,” the storied U.S. intelligence unit, who were trained in espionage and combat intelligence, among other specialized skills.

After training at Camp Ritchie, Dr. Mayer served in Operation Paperclip at Camp Hunt, Virginia, which held and interrogated German scientists, including Wernher von Braun. It has been estimated that he and his fellow intelligence officers saved tens of thousands of lives by uncovering the location of the Nazis’ secret rocket and research facility.

Following his two-year military service, Dr. Mayer received a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York in 1949. Driven by his wartime experience to focus his scholarship more deeply on the history of diplomacy, he received a doctorate in international relations from Yale in 1953. He taught briefly at Wesleyan, Brandeis, and Harvard before joining Princeton in 1961. He took emeritus status in 1993.

Mayer’s teaching and research at Princeton centered on the comparative history of Europe since 1848, with special emphasis on the interpenetration of domestic and international affairs. He was by training a historian of diplomacy, though he ranged far beyond his original field.

Through scrupulous research in

archives in Europe, Dr. Mayer showed that World War I was the result not of diplomatic failures but of “pre-emptive counterrevolutions” in each country, meant to stave off mass unrest at home by turning public energies abroad.

In May 2022, representing the surviving Ritchie Boys, Dr. Mayer received the Elie Wiesel Award at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the museum’s highest honor.

Dr. Mayer is survived by two sons, a sister, and five grandchildren.

Jerry Dean PIFER, retired Foreign Service facility manager, died November 22, 2023, in Everett, Washington, at the age of 68.

Mr. Pifer joined the U.S. Navy and served as a submariner for six years aboard SSBN Ethan Allan. He later worked as the technical manager on a rubber plantation in Liberia. In 1996,

Pifer joined the Foreign Service as a facility manager.

Mr. Pifer’s posts included Finland, Namibia, Cote d’Ivoire, and Washington—where he developed the first-ever facility management tradecraft training at the Foreign Service Institute—Mexico, Senegal, and the Florida Regional Center.

Mr. Pifer retired after 21 years in the Foreign Service and took up horticulture and plant propagation techniques, creating beautiful gardens around his home in Granite Falls, Washington. He also continued his interests in astronomy, quantum physics, and ancient history, and enjoyed music and playing bass guitar.

Mr. Pifer is survived by his wife of 45 years, Karolyn; and two sons, Jesse and Kyle.

Helen Sullivan SOLITARIO, retired Foreign Service Staff and spouse of deceased Foreign Service Officer Thomas P. Solitario, died December 17, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the age of 96.

Mrs. Solitario was born November 17, 1927, in Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico. In 1956, Solitario joined the Department of Agriculture in Mexico City as a foreign national. She then entered the Foreign Service after she married Tom Solitario in 1957.

Mrs. Solitario’s overseas posts included Leopoldville, Ankara, Athens, Tel-Aviv, Dublin, Belgrade, San Jose, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Lima, and again in Mexico City as the ambassador’s secretary. She retired in 1990 to become a full-time grandmother in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mrs. Solitario enjoyed traveling, swimming, and hosting Latin newcomers as a volunteer with the International House of Charlotte.

Mrs. Solitario was predeceased by her husband in 1989. She is survived by two sons, Tom and Paul; and four granddaughters, Christine, Elizabeth, Chiara, and Allegra.

Catherine “Cathy” Frances THIBODEAU,

retired Department of State employee and chief of congressional correspondence in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, died May 29, 2023, in Bradenton, Florida, at the age of 92.

Mrs. Thibodeau was born September 17, 1930, in Daniels Park, now College Park, Maryland. She joined the Department of State’s personnel bureau, now the Bureau of Global Talent Management in 1958.

In her 33-year career with the Department of State, Mrs. Thibodeau held details in the secretary’s office, Geneva, and in the White House during the Nixon administration, and she also served extensively in the Office of Congressional Affairs. Before retiring in 1991, she served as chief of congressional correspondence in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs.

In retirement, Mrs. Thibodeau was elected and served on the town council in University Park, Maryland. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, numerous women’s and garden clubs, symphony guilds, and bridge clubs. She was also an excellent seamstress and volunteer, and she enjoyed reading, political debates, crossword puzzles, daily news, music, and hosting parties and events.

Mrs.Thibodeau was predeceased by her husband, Delmar in 1989. She is survived by three children, A. Bridget, A. Bryan, and Aurilla “Dee Dee”; three sisters, Josephine, S.P., and Pauline; and five grandchildren.

Bernard J. WOERZ,

retired Foreign Service Officer, died December 1, 2023, in Sound Beach, New York, at the age of 87.

Mr. Woerz received a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College in 1958. Following two years working in New York City and service with the National Guard, he entered the Foreign Service in 1960.

Overseas assignments for Mr. Woerz included five years in communications and records in Accra, Oslo, and Warsaw, followed by assignments as a general service officer in Warsaw and Tokyo. He then served as an administrative officer in Curaçao; post management officer in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs’ (NEA) Executive Office; administrative officer in Kabul, Amman, and Beirut; special assistant in the Bureau of Administration; and principal officer in Curaçao.

Injured during the 1984 Embassy Beirut bombing, Mr. Woerz was transferred to the Bureau of European Affairs’ Executive Office as a supervisory post-management officer and then to NEA’s Executive Office as executive director. Before his 1990 retirement, Woerz served in temporary duty assignments (TDYs) in Bamako and Leopoldville. After retirement, he served TDYs in Bombay, Sana’a, Islamabad, Aqaba, Muscat, Kathmandu, Kabul, Amman, and Jerusalem and with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.

In 1995, Mr. Woerz and his wife retired to Sound Beach, New York. He was actively involved in the community and enjoyed spending his free time with the retired sisters at the convent founded by The Daughters of Wisdom.

Mr. Woerz’s wife, Patricia, predeceased him by a few days. He is survived by two children, Danielle and Chris; and five grandchildren.

DACOR Bulletin

Obituaries

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