The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2020

90 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Bilingual, she moved to Germany in the early 1970s and ended up as a com- mercial specialist at U.S. Embassy Bonn. She met and married her husband, Mr. Sherwood, who also worked in the com- mercial section, in 1984. In 1985, they were transferred to Washington, D.C. As she had already taken some IT courses at branches of the University of Maryland in Germany, she enrolled in the university’s main campus in College Park. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1986 and the next day enrolled in a graduate program in management information systems at the American University in Washington, D.C. The Sherwoods were assigned toThe Hague in 1986. Mrs. Sherwood was able to complete her degree in 1988, mainly by correspondence, and was elected to the academic society Phi Kappa Phi as a result of her outstanding scholarship. In Holland, Mrs. Sherwood worked for the IT branch of KPMG in Utrecht. She designed management information systems for the Alsmeer Flower Auction, Heineken, KLM and the Dutch Environ- mental Protection Agency, among others. In 1990 she gave birth to her son, Colin. After a short stay in Mexico City, the family was transferred to Stockholm, where Mr. Sherwood retired in 1993. In Sweden, Mrs. Sherwood worked for the Swedish telephone company Tele2. Later, she took a position with Analysys, based in Cambridge. Her son prospered in school and eventually graduated fromOxford with a degree in history. During Mrs. Sherwood’s employment in England, she authored and co-authored detailed studies of specific markets. After finishing at Analysys, she worked for another eight years at Oxford Intelligence, a research firm specializing in attracting foreign investment to the U.K. In recent years she changed emphasis and went back to her German, teaching teenagers and adults in several schools in and around Cambridge. Karin Sherwood is survived by her husband of 35 years, Harrison, and her son, Colin, an official at HM Treasury in London. n Marsha Lynne Singer , 62, a Foreign Service officer, died on April 28, 2019, in Arlington, Va., after battling ovarian cancer for more than a year. Ms. Singer received a bachelor’s degree in political science and a law degree from the University of Florida, as well as a mas- ter of law degree in real estate law from the University of Miami. Before joining the Foreign Service, Ms. Singer had been an FS spouse, accom- panying her husband, FSO David C. Grier, to Caracas. There she served as the com- munity liaison officer. As an FSO, she served as a consular officer in Krakow, desk officer in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, coordinator of the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in South Africa and economic officer in Caracas. She was finishing her second year of Arabic in Cairo, in preparation to become the economic officer in Alexandria, when she was diagnosed with cancer. Ms. Singer was an avid reader, gar- dener, bird watcher, pet lover and fan of cooking shows. She is survived by her husband, David Grier, son Matthew, mother Ruth, sister Sara, brother William and three nieces and two nephews. n Robert Strand , 83, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on June 20, 2019, in Baltimore, Md. He was born on June 25, 1935, in Lake- wood, Ohio, to Dorothy and Edwin Strand. Edwin was an attorney for Ohio Bell, and Dorothy, née Reilly, was an interior deco- rator and former dancer. In 1953, Mr. Strand graduated second in his class fromUniversity School in Shaker Heights. In 1957, he graduated third in his class fromAmherst College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies and an honorable mention as an All–New England mid- fielder in soccer. He then attended Queens College, Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1959, and several years later a master’s degree, in moral sciences. After completing Army basic training, Mr. Strand joined the State Department in 1961. He spent the early part of his career in Africa, including postings in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria, during the lead- up to the Biafran Civil War, and Zaire (now DRC), where he reopened the U.S. consulate in Kisangani in the wake of the Simba Rebellion. Returning to the United States, he and his family settled in Falls Church, Va. Then, after a stint in Moscow, Mr. Strand began the major focus of his Foreign Ser- vice career: arms control. Starting at State, he worked on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the subsequent Strategic Arms Reduc- tion Treaties. Then, on loan to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, he worked on the Mixed and Balanced Force Reduction talks—first in Belgrade at a Committee for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference, and later at a United Nations special session on arms control. Finally, Mr. Strand was assigned for three years to the U.S. mission to NATO, where he worked again on the MBFR and on the first round of the Intermediate-