The Foreign Service Journal, January 2006

Texas; Carmen (Mrs. Norman B. Conley Jr.) of Lancaster, Ohio; Jac- queline Dur Sheppard, also of Lan- caster; and John J. Dur of Henniker, N.H. He is also survived by 18 grandchildren and six great-grand- children. Patricia Crane Harrison , 71, a retired FSO with USAID, died Nov. 9 at home with her family in Vineyard Haven, Mass., after a four-month bat- tle with cancer. She was the owner and chef of Vineyard Haute Cuisine, a catering business she started in 1995. Born in 1934, Mrs. Harrison grew up in Waban, a village in Newton, Mass. She graduated from Mills Col- lege in Oakland, Calif., and did grad- uate work in French studies at the University of Paris and in cultural anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C. She began her career with the U.S. Agency for International Develop- ment in 1960 in Laos during a civil war. She married USAID official Jacob L. Crane III in 1962, gave birth to two daughters, Lisa and Nicole, and relished her life in the Foreign Service in Senegal, Afghanistan, Jordan, Nepal and Zaire, until Jake’s death in 1980. In those years, she became an accomplished high-Hima- laya trekker, an avid and adventurous cook and a seasoned sailor, cruising in the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean Seas, and across the Atlantic to the Caribbean aboard a 36-foot ketch with her husband and daugh- ters. After serving in Haiti from 1981 to 1983, Mrs. Harrison returned to work at USAID headquarters in Washing- ton. She retired from government ser- vice in 1988, and moved to her home in Vineyard Haven. She married author, Tufts professor and former USAID official Lawrence Harrison in 1990, the year in which she opened Harrison’s Restaurant on the wharf at Oak Bluffs, Mass. In the fall of 1993, she started an intensive course at the Cordon Bleu School of Cuisine in Ottawa, Ontario. In the summer of 1994, she apprenticed at Lydia Shire’s Pignoli Restaurant in Boston, and then completed her Cordon Bleu studies with honors in London. She started Vineyard Haute Cuisine the following spring. Over the past 11 years, Mrs. Harrison catered some 75 weddings and innumerable cocktail and dinner parties. She earned a reputation as a chef who produced the highest-quali- ty food, beautifully presented by a staff committed to gracious service. Her files are filled with effusive letters from grateful brides. She will be remembered for the amazing crab cakes she served every year at the Taste of the Vineyard, wearing her signature floppy red chef’s hat. But it was the style and beauty that graced everything she did for which she will be best remem- bered by her friends, family, staff, brides and numerous clients. Mrs. Harrison loved golf — she had a hole-in-one in 2001 — and duplicate bridge. She continued to be a world traveler, and particularly enjoyed driving trips to the West Coast and Canada with her husband and their dogs. Besides her husband Larry, Mrs. Harrison leaves daughters Lisa and Nicole; stepdaughters Julia, Beth and Amy; sister Karen and brother Chuck; and 11 grandchildren. Jack H. Shellenberger , 77, a retired senior FSO with USIA, died Oct. 25 at his home in Great Falls, Va. Mr. Shellenberger’s distinguished diplomatic career from 1955 until 1991 included tours as counselor of public affairs at U.S. embassies in Lagos, Tehran, Ottawa and Tokyo. As a junior officer, he served as director of the American cultural center in Nagoya, as a branch public affairs offi- cer in Moulmein and as an informa- tion officer and counselor at the U.S. mission to the European communi- ties in Brussels. At the Voice of America, Mr. Shellenberger served first as a regional editor for Europe in the Worldwide English Division from 1962 to 1964. There, he edited a news and current affairs broadcast, “Report to Europe.” He returned to the Voice a decade later as chief of policy and was promoted to director of programs at the international net- work the same year, 1974. He directed all of the Voice’s program- ming during the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and the final months of the Watergate crisis. A scholar and writer, Mr. Shel- lenberger earned a master’s degree in international public policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, where he studied from 1964 to 1965. He was appointed dean at the School of Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute in 1988. In 1977, Mr. Shellenberger was assigned as counselor and country public affairs officer in Tehran, where he served until July 1979, a few months after the fall of the shah. A month later, he was assigned as public affairs officer in Ottawa, where he served for four years. During those years, he was the USIA White House liaison and coordinator for the Ottawa, Versailles and Williamsburg G-7 economic summit meetings. In 1983, Mr. Shellenberger was assigned to Japan. After 10 months of J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 6 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 79 u I N M E M O R Y u u