The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2004

linguist to help foreign tourists at the White House Tourist Center, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution Building. Mr. Norbury is survived by his wife of 46 years, Marthe Michiels Norbury of Washington, D.C.; two children, Julie Norbury Webber of Herndon, Va., and Andrew Joseph Norbury of Washington, D.C.; and a sister, Madelon Norbury McDonald of Annapolis, Md. Memorial contributions may be sent in his name to the American Academy of Neurology Foundation, 1080 Montreal Avenue, St. Paul MN 55116 (www.neurofoundation.org). Edward Thomas (“Tom”) Pinch , 76, retired FSO, died of cancer May 1 at the home of his son, William, in Middletown, Conn. Mr. Pinch was born in Washington, D.C., and spent most of his childhood in Florida. He received his degree from the School of Government of The George Washington University, where he majored in foreign affairs. He joined the State Department in 1949, left briefly in 1951 to serve in the U.S. Army, and returned to the State Department a year later. In 1951 he married Anita Porro. In 1953, Mr. Pinch joined USIA. During a 27-year Foreign Service career, most of his service was in South Asia. Mr. and Mrs. Pinch developed a deep and abiding affection for the peo- ples and places of the subcontinent, and four of their five children were born there. His first overseas posting, in 1954, was to Athens. He next served as assis- tant information officer in Karachi, and then as executive officer in Bombay. There followed a posting to Lucknow, where he served as the North India press officer and subsequently as the sub-post public affairs officer. After an assignment in Washington, he had two tours of duty in New Delhi, first as a program officer and then as PAO, fol- lowed by a tour as PAO in Karachi. After another assignment in Washing- ton, Mr. Pinch participated in The Executive Seminar in Foreign Policy. His final posting was to Brasilia, where he served as deputy country PAO. During retirement in Berkeley, Calif., Mr. Pinch occasionally worked as an escort officer and interpreter for the International Visitors Program of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In addition, he and his wife Anita volun- teered for the mentally ill in the Bay area. They supported Bonita House, a facility that provides housing and ser- vices for those suffering from severe mental illnesses and addictions. Mr. Pinch also served as co-chairman of the Lake Merritt Lodge Support Committee, an organization of volun- teers who strive to improve life at the lodge for mentally ill tenants. He also served on the board of directors for the Mental Health Association of Alameda County. Mr. Pinch will be remembered as a dedicated Foreign Service officer, a deeply generous, kind-hearted man with great compassion for those less fortunate and handicapped in life, and a faithful and loving husband and father. His first wife of 44 years, Anita, preceded him in death in 1996. He remarried in 1998. Survivors include his second wife, Maria Carroll Pinch of Naples, Fla.; five children from his first marriage, Thomas Pinch of Mountain View, Calif., Kathleen Pinch O’Dono- hue of Manassas, Va., William Pinch of Middletown, Conn., Michael Pinch of Albuquerque, N.M., and Anthony Pinch of Oakland, Calif.; and 10 grand- children. Donations in memory of Mr. Pinch may be made to Middlesex Hospital Homecare Hospice, 51 Broad Street, Middletown CT 06457, or to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (www.nami.org). Janet Sorg Stoltzfus , 73, wife of Ambassador William A. Stoltzfus Jr., died March 5 after an extended illness. Born and raised in New Jersey, Janet Stoltzfus was a 1952 graduate of Wellesley College and in 1953 of Trinity College, Dublin. In 1954 she served as an English teacher at the Beirut College for Women in Beirut, Lebanon, where she met her husband, William, a Foreign Service officer. They were married in August 1954, and left immediately for their first Foreign Service post in Kuwait. Over the next 28 years in the Middle East and Africa, Mrs. Stoltzfus was headmistress and teacher at the English School of Kuwait and the American School in Damascus; founder of the Taiz Cooperative School in Taiz, Yemen; and developer and head teacher of a “Head Start”- styled program for low-income fami- lies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She also served as a volunteer coordinator for an enrichment program for children with cerebral palsy managed by the Kuwait Handicapped Society. In 1976, Mrs. Stoltzfus moved to Princeton, N.J. She served for 12 years as a faculty member at Princeton Day School, teaching English and religion until she retired in 1994. From1986 to 1990, she lived in London, where she founded and edited the Ellesmere Gazette , a newsletter by and for senior citizens. She is survived by her husband, William, of Princeton, N.J.; two sons, William III and Philip; three daugh- ters, Winifred S. Host, Susan M. 80 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J U LY- A U G U S T 2 0 0 4 I N M E M O R Y