The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2016

90 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL then acted as a senior adviser for Middle East affairs in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly every fall from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Keene retired in 2002, after serving in the Historian’s Office and the Office of Press Relations. During his career, he received the Vietnam medal, two Superior Honor Awards, three Meri- torious Honor Awards and his favorite, a Cross of Merit of the Order of the Broth- erhood of the Holy Sepulchre. In retirement, Mr. Keene divided his time between homes in McLean, Va., and Ocean Park, Maine. With his wife, Beth, he indulged his continuing desire to travel, with trips to China, Russia, Machu Picchu, Galapagos, Vietnam, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Spain, Portugal and many other places. In Virginia, he developed his wine cellar and enjoyed fine dining and theater in the Washington, D.C., area. A history lover, he also undertook to follow the major Civil War campaign trails in chronological order, from First Manassas to Appomattox. The Vicksburg Cam- paign and Sherman’s March, in particu- lar, involved fascinating two-week trips across the back roads of the South. During summers in Ocean Park, he played tennis, loved his beach naps and cultivated his garden. Serving as the community archivist, he authored a booklet “Ocean Park, Maine, 1981-2006” for the town’s 125th anniversary. His greatest pleasure was the time spent with family and grandchildren at the beach, on the shuffleboard court or around the Chinese Checkers board. Mr. Keene is survived by his wife, Beth Adams Keene; two sons, Garrett Merrill Keene of McLean, Va., and Ster- ling Douglas Keene (and his wife, Heidi Schlecht) of Los Gatos, Calif.; grandsons Taylor Michael of Portsmouth, N.H., Dylan Keene of South Portland, Maine, and Ryan McKean of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; granddaughter Shani Keene of Los Gatos, Calif.; great grandson Trey- ton Tyler Keene of Saco, Maine; brother David Stanley Keene (and his wife, Vicki) of Andover, Mass.; sisters-in- law Stephanie Blecharczyk and Nancy Adams of East Boothbay, Maine; and beloved nieces and nephews. Donations in Mr. Keene’s memory may be sent to the AFSA Scholarship Fund, 2101 E St. NW, Washington DC 20037. n William Randall Salisbury, 75, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Nov. 14, in Woodbridge, Conn. Mr. Salisbury earned a bachelor’s degree in classical studies at St. John’s College in Annapolis. A Root-Tilden Scholar at New York University School of Law, he also held a bachelor of laws degree and an LLM in international law. He entered the Foreign Service in 1967, specializing in political affairs, and worked with the Office of the Legal Adviser at the State Department on negotiations for the Law of the Sea Treaty, and with the Office of Legal Counsel to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency on negotiations for treaties banning chemical and bio- logical weapons. Mr. Salisbury served in India and the Bahamas—where he helped set up the new embassy after the country’s independence. He also served in Ger- many, the Netherlands and Finland, but worked on issues throughout Europe, particularly U.S.-European Union politi- cal relations. He also served as chairman of AFSA’s Legal Committee and chairman of the Secretary of State’s Open Forum Panel, at which time he was instrumental in obtaining recognition for Foreign Service wives as private individuals not subject to inclusion in their husband’s efficiency reports. During his retirement, Mr. Salisbury worked as an actor in Washington, D.C.-area theaters and in TV and film. Always a serious scholar, and an avid reader of classical literature, he regu- larly attended classes in philosophy and classical history at Yale University after his 2003 move to Connecticut. Mr. Salisbury is survived by his ex-wife, Diane, also a Foreign Service officer; a son, Randall; and a daughter, Avery. n Jack Morgan Smith Jr., 89, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on April 20 at West Hills Hospital in West Hills, Calif., of lung cancer. Born in Atlanta, Ga., and graduated from Atlanta Boys’ High School in 1944, Mr. Smith began undergraduate studies at Georgia Tech before his education was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Returning from the Philippines, he received a B.A. in political science from Emory University in 1948 and then started graduate studies at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Smith joined the Foreign Service in 1950, beginning a 35-year diplomatic career with a particular focus on facili- tating American trade in Latin America. On his first Foreign Service assign- ment, in Frankfurt, he met and married the former Gabriele (Gaby) Wioska. During the 1950s, he served in Frank- furt, Karachi and Rome. Returning to Washington from 1960 to 1964, he worked on export licens- ing policy for Soviet Bloc countries in the Office of East-West Trade. He was