The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2023

86 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Colleagues who worked with her describe a model leader whose passion, commitment, and dedication inspired the best in others. Her deep commitment to promoting U.S. interests and values around the world was matched in her belief and actions toward living a healthy and eco-conscious life. Family members and friends recall how, amid her challenging job, Ms. Lan- genkamp had the ability to break away from the pressures of work to organize embassy yoga sessions and spin classes, as well as bike to and from the office every day. She was a dedicated mother, believing deeply in the need for work-life balance in order to be efficient at work and a better human being. A lover of cycling and a longtime commuter by bicycle to work, Ms. Langenkamp was riding 12 miles each way to her new posting at the Eisen- hower School at National Defense University, where she was fulfilling her dream of obtaining a master’s degree. She was riding her bicycle home from her children’s elementary school open house when the driver of a flatbed semi- truck made a right turn into her bicycle, crushing her. As a tribute to Ms. Langenkamp’s life and legacy, her husband has begun a campaign to improve street safety nationwide through investment in alter- native transportation infrastructure and improved trucking regulations. Sarah Langenkamp is survived by her husband, fellow FSO Dan Langen- kamp; two young sons; three of her four grandparents; her parents; three siblings and their spouses; and five nieces and nephews. n William David McKinney, 82, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer with USAID, died on Sept. 8, 2022, of renal failure, at his home in Wellington, New Zealand. Mr. McKinney was born in Boston, Mass., the eldest of four children. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., on a basketball scholarship, was actively involved in the civil rights movement, and graduated with a B.A. in May 1963. In 1965 he joined the Peace Corps and went to India, where he met his first wife, Ruth (a fellow volunteer), and they went on to have two sons, Raj and Keith. In 1969 Mr. McKinney graduated with an M.A. from the University of Califor- nia–Berkeley and then returned to India and then Ghana with the Peace Corps. The family went to Bangladesh with UNICEF from 1975 until Mr. McKinney returned to the U.S. and joined USAID in 1979. During the 1980s, Mr. McKinney and his family were posted in Pakistan and in Jordan, where he worked in the Program Office. Mr. McKinney attended the National War College at Fort McNair in 1989-1990; and he served as AFSA vice president for two terms (1991-1993). He was commissioned into the Senior Foreign Service in 1994, during a tour in Yemen where he was USAID mission director from 1993 to 1996. Subsequent postings included the Central Asia mis- sion in Almaty, where he covered five countries, and Baku, before retiring in 2004 to New Zealand. In retirement, Mr. McKinney did contract work for USAID in Banda Aceh (2005), Iraq (2006), Lebanon (2009-2010), and Ukraine (2012-2013). He also undertook a contract for the New Zealand Agency for International Development in Wellington (2007-2008) covering the Cook Islands, Kiribati, and Samoa. While accompanying his second wife, Kirsty, on her New Zealand government posting to the Solomon Islands, Mr. McKinney worked for the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuber- culosis, and malaria. He finally stopped paid work in 2013 to focus on the family. Outside work, Mr. McKinney served on the boards of international schools in Islamabad, Amman, and Baku. He could be found on the basketball or tennis court or on the baseball field at posts where he served as player, coach (Little League in Amman), or spectator. Right to the end, he remained an avid follower of his beloved Boston Red Sox, New Eng- land Patriots, and Boston Celtics. In 2020 Mr. McKinney recorded his oral history with the Association for Dip- lomatic Studies and Training. Formatted into a book, the text is available from kirstyburnett27@gmail.com. Mr. McKinney is survived by his wife, Kirsty Burnett, and their two children, Iain and Ayesha, of New Zealand; and by his sons, Raj and Keith (and their wives), and two grandsons of Portland, Ore. n Samuel Tinsing Mok, 77, a former Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 21, 2022, after a short battle with cancer. Mr. Mok was born on Dec. 30, 1944, in Shanghai, China. He spent his early years in Hong Kong, where he graduated from La Salle College. In 1963 Mr. Mok moved with his family to New York, where he studied accounting and joined ROTC at Fordham University. After graduating, Mr. Mok worked in the private sector as an auditor but was soon called to service with the U.S. Army, serving in Japan and then at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After resigning his Army commission, Mr. Mok became the director of account- ing at Time-Life Books and then corporate treasurer at U.S. News &World Report .