The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY FEBRUARY 2015 79 joined the U.S. Marines in 1953, serving until 1955. Mr. Krieger worked at the State Depart- ment for 37 years, from 1955 until his retirement in 1992. He began as a clerk- typist and went on to hold increasingly responsible positions, the last as budget and nance chief in the Bureau of African A airs. During his time as an FSO, he served two tours in Nairobi and two tours in Ottawa. Mr. Krieger enjoyed movies, the study of history and the Redskins football team. He was a member of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac, Md. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Kirkpatrick. n Douglas L. Langan , 70, a retired FSO and former deputy director of the Foreign Service Institute, died of lung cancer on Aug. 25, at his home inWilm- ington, N.C. Mr. Langan was born on Oct. 9, 1943, in Phoenix, Ariz., to Dolores and Leroy F. Langan. An army brat, Mr. Langan grew up all over the United States and abroad in Korea. Baseball was a lifetime love, and he played from childhood through college. A gifted pitcher, he earned both the nickname “Lefty” and a tryout with the major leagues. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and enrolled at Georgetown University Law School, but left to join the Peace Corps where he served from 1967 to 1969 in a tin mining town at an elevation of 14,000 feet in the Bolivian Andes. He went on to complete his law degree at Rutgers Law School in 1971, and joined the Foreign Service later that year. Mr. Langan’s career included posts overseas in Istanbul, Havana, La Paz and Lima, where he served as deputy chief of mission. InWashington, D.C., he served as deputy assistant secretary of State in four di erent bureaus, one of very few people to hold so many senior posts. He led the advance team that rees- tablished a Foreign Service presence in Cuba in 1977, and later was responsible for opening U.S. embassies in the newly independent republics of the former Soviet Union, the former Czechoslovakia and former Yugoslavia. His nal assignment was as deputy director of the Foreign Service Institute. After his retirement in 1997, Mr. Langan served as a consultant to the State Department. Most notably, he organized the new O ce of the Global AIDS Coordi- nator after the creation of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. In 2005, he chaired a task force that reviewed the U.S. diplomatic presence in Iraq and made widely praised recommen- dations regarding the sta ng and organi- zation of the new embassy in Baghdad. He received a number of signi cant awards for his work. Mr. Langan was most proud, however, of raising three boys as a single parent. He retired to Wilmington, N.C., in 1998. Mr. Langan reveled in his retirement years, living near a beautiful beach and indulging his passions for shing, running, reading and watching sports on TV. He valued his family above everything and loved spending time with them. Friends and family members recall him as a very special person, with a gift for listening attentively to every person he encountered. He was knowledgeable and accomplished, yet unassuming and modest. His sense of humor, quick wit and ready laugh made him a joy to spend time with. Mr. Langan’s family is deeply grate- ful for the care provided by his doctors, who worked so valiantly to extend his life, as well as the outstanding care provided in the last weeks of his life by hospice attendants. Memorial donations may be made to the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Founda- tion (1414 Physicians Dr., Wilmington NC 28401); or CancerGrace (GRACE, 4616 25th Ave. NE, #300, Seattle WA 98105). Mr. Langan is survived by his wife, Anne; three sons and their wives: Mat- thew (Michele), David (Jessica) and John (Misha); six beloved grandchildren: Jacob, Luke, Blake, Avery, Brayden and Evan; a sister and her husband, Debby (Dick) Heller; a brother and his wife, Richard (Mary); and four nephews: Adam, Christo- pher, Andrew and Gregory. He also leaves three stepchildren: Tad Ryals, Tucker Ryals (Ericka) and Elizabeth Bourgeois (Brennan); and was a lov- ing grandfather to their children: Taylor, Emma, Maggie, Sam and Hudson. n Joseph H. Melrose , Jr., 69, retired FSO and former ambassador to Sierra Leone, died on Nov. 8 at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., from injuries su ered in a fall. A Pennsylvania native, Mr. Melrose graduated fromUrsinus College in Colle- geville, Pa., in 1966. He taught in Philadel- phia and Cheltenhamwhile studying for a master’s degree at Temple University, and joined the Foreign Service in 1969. His began his career with overseas assignments to Vietnam and Syria. He was consul general in Karachi when Pakistan President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel died in a plane crash during the start of Pakistan’s third democratic era. From 1995 to 1998, he was deputy chief of mission in Lagos, during a time of great change and the start of Nigeria’s demo- cratic transition. Mr. Melrose served as ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1998 to 2001, brokering