The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2022

86 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL in Vancouver, Canada, from 1976 to 1980. He and Claudine divorced in 1977. Mr. Luppi formally retired in 1980 with the rank of Minister Counselor and worked for a year on requests for declassification under the Freedom of Information Act. After retirement, Mr. Luppi lived in Vir- ginia and Maryland, where he renovated several old farmhouses, raised cattle and enjoyed horseback riding, before relocat- ing to Florida where he spent his final years residing at the Kings Point retire- ment community in Sun City Center. Mr. Luppi is survived by his son Mark Luppi (and wife, Eveline); daughters Mary Basich (and husband, Anthony) and Ann von Mehren (a former FSJ editor in chief); and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son Brian Luppi, who passed away in 1973, and his son-in-law, Peter von Mehren, who died in 2010. n Stuart Everett Patt, 78, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 3, 2021, in West Palm Beach, Fla., after a long battle with lymphoma. Mr. Patt was born on Jan. 7, 1943, in Detroit. After receiving a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School, he worked as a public affairs officer for the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and as an attorney with his own law practice in San Fran- cisco, Calif. In 1994, Mr. Patt joined the Foreign Service and served in São Paulo, Gabo- rone, Manila and Jerusalem. While assigned to Washington, D.C., he worked on the advance team for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as the information officer for operations and as a spokesman for the Consular Affairs Bureau. Mr. Patt retired in 2008 and enjoyed doing photography, playing piano, flying airplanes and performing in local D.C. community theaters. He also volunteered as a docent at the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. In 2017, Mr. Patt and his wife moved to West Palm Beach, Fla., where he volunteered at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and was a docent at the Flagler Museum and at the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. A devoted husband, father and grand- father, Mr. Patt is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, a retired State Department civil servant; daughter Lisa Sprout of Milwau- kee, Wis.; stepson Gene Eybelman (and his wife, Meredith) of Kennesaw, Ga.; grandchildren Jacob Sprout of Milwau- kee, Wis., Kyra and Connor Eybelman of Kennesaw, Ga.; and sisters Hilary Cook of Welston, Mich., and Laura Wayburn of Laguna Woods, Calif. n AndrewDouglas Sens, 81, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 28, 2021, at Sibley Memorial Hospital several days after suffering a stroke in his apart- ment in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C. Mr. Sens was born in Singapore in April 1940. During World War II, he relocated with his parents and sister to England via Australia and India, arriving in London in time to experience the V-2 rocket attacks. After the war, he immigrated with his family to the United States and lived in Maryland and New York. He graduated from high school in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1958. After completing training in the Army Reserve, Mr. Sens attended Hope College in Holland, Mich., graduating with a B.A. in political science in 1962. Shortly thereafter, he married Sharon Visscher, a resident of Holland. From 1964 to 1965, Mr. Sens was an Africa-Asia Public Services Fellow at the University of the Philippines. He also earned an M.A. from the School of Inter- national Service at American University in Washington, D.C., in 1965, and studied at the Institut de Hautes Études Interna- tionales et du Développement in Geneva in 1966. He returned to school again in 1975, earning an MPA from the John F. Ken- nedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Sens joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1966 and served with the State Department until 1997. He worked in political and economic positions at U.S. missions in Uganda, France, Norway, Iran, Pakistan and Argentina, in addition to several assignments in Washington, D.C. During the 1979-1981 Iranian hostage crisis, Mr. Sens served as deputy director for the State Department’s Iran Work- ing Group. He assisted in negotiating the release of the 52 Americans held hostage in Tehran and in implementing the Algiers Accords dealing with the incident. Mr. Sens also served as director for the Office of International Environmental Protection from 1987 to 1990, country director for the Office of Southern Cone Affairs from 1990 to 1993, and as executive assistant to the Under Secretary for Global Affairs from 1993 to 1994, helping to manage the U.S. response to international crime and terrorism, international narcot- ics trafficking, refugee matters and human rights concerns. His last assignment as a career diplo- mat was at the National Security Council, where he served as executive secretary from 1994 to 1997 on behalf of President Bill Clinton and his national security adviser. Shortly after retiring from the Foreign Service, Mr. Sens joined the Independent International Commission on Decom- missioning in Northern Ireland (the “Commission”) under General John de Chastelain and was nominated by the U.S.