The Foreign Service Journal, January 2010

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 57 and nine great-grandchildren, in France and the United States. Robert B. Clary , 89, a retired FSO, died of renal failure on June 4, 2009, at his residence in Peoria, Ill. Born on Aug. 14, 1919, in Cass County, Indiana, Mr. Clary completed high school at the age of 17 and went to the Chicago area to see the world and begin his quest for adventure. He was teaching photography at Hull House in 1941, when his U.S. Army re- serve unit was activated. He spent the next four years in the European theater and was discharged in 1945 with the rank of first lieutenant, having been awarded the Bronze Star Medal with two clusters and the ETO Ribbon with five battle stars. Mr. Clary graduated from Kansas State University in 1950 with degrees in engineering and public administra- tion, which he put to use, first, as an en- gineer with the American Salt Comp- any, and then as engineer and city man- ager of Newton, Kan. In 1964, as the VietnamWar was in- tensifying, Mr. Clary joined the Foreign Service as an officer in the Public Ad- ministration Division of the USAID Saigon mission. This assignment was followed by a tour in Bangladesh, where he met and married fellow FSO Barbara Gensler on April 4, 1969. He then served as a program analyst on the Operations Appraisal Staff of the USAID Auditor General. Mr. Clary’s favorite assignment was as the senior operations officer in the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, a position he held from 1972 to 1980. Major assessment/survey field assign- ments included Ethiopia, Uganda, Su- dan, Kenya, Italy, Honduras, Bangla- desh, Haiti, Djibouti, Mauritania, Sene- gal, St. Lucia, Upper Volta (now Burk- ina Faso) and other Sahel countries. In 1980, Mr. Clary retired from the Foreign Service. He continued to enjoy travel, as well as golfing on exotic courses in places such as Egypt, Malawi and South Africa, while his wife com- pleted her Foreign Service career. In 1993, the couple returned to Peoria. ThereMr. Clary volunteered at the American Red Cross and the Corn Stock Theater, and marshaled on the Peoria Municipal golf courses. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus Bishop Rosati Council 5034 and an usher at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Friends and family members recall the pride he felt in having accom- plished more in his life than he had ever imagined he could. And they re- call how highly he valued the satisfac- tion he gained fromhelping to solve the problems of those less fortunate. Mr. Clary is survived by his wife of 40 years, Barbara Clary of Peoria; his former spouse, Maxine Meyer; a son, Robert (and wife, Inge) of Chicopee, Mass.; a daughter, Marcia McVay (and husband, Richard) of Topeka, Kan.; five grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; nine sisters-in-law; and five brothers-in- law. Weston Lewis Emery , 85, a retired Foreign Service officer, died at his home inMcLean, Va., on Sept. 13 from complications caused by Alzheimer’s. Mr. Emery was born on Jan. 7, 1924, in Gardiner, Maine. His grandfather was president and co-owner of the nar- row-gauge Kennebec Central Railroad and the Sandy River & Rangely Lakes Railroad in Maine. In the 1930s, his parents moved the family to Winter Park, Fla., where they launched and ran the Emery Institute, a pioneering correspondence program for stutterers, available in multiple languages. Mr. Emery was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943 and tested into the Army Specialized Training Program at Texas A&M University. He served with the U.S. Army’s 12th Armored Division (the “Mystery Division” responsible for liberating 11 concentration camps) in Europe during World War II. He re- ceived a Combat Infantryman’s badge, Bronze Star medal with oak leaf clus- ters, Certificate of Merit as a combat radio operator, European AfricanMid- dle Eastern Campaign medal and the Croix de Guerre. Mr. Emery received his bachelor’s degree from Rollins College in 1948 and pursued graduate degrees at Bos- ton University and Université de Gren- oble. At Rollins he was president of the Delta Chi Fraternity and later received the school’s Alumni Achievement Award in Military History. After several years in the private sec- tor, including experience in Laos, Mr. Emery joined USAID in 1959 and was posted to Tunis as a procurement offi- cer. Subsequent postings included Tegucigalpa, Quito, Asuncion and Washington, D.C., where he served in the Office of Foreign Disaster Assis- tance. Mr. Emergy was fluent in French and Spanish. He retired from USAID in 1986. Having been passionate about fam- ily roots throughout his life, Mr. Emery took genealogy courses during retire- ment and recorded 400 years of family ancestry. He also wrote C-66: AWorld War II Chronicle of an Armored In- fantry Company (1992), which was ac- claimed by numerous historians, both military and civilian. I N M E M O R Y