The Foreign Service Journal, January 2010

58 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 0 Mr. Emery is survived by his wife of 55 years, Brigitte LeMaire Emery of McLean; two daughters, Christine Emery of Washington, D.C., and Car- oline Emery of Jacksonville, Fla.; one son, Eric (and his wife, Wendy) Emery and two grandsons, Benjamin and Christian Emery, of Westerville, Ohio. Michael Mennard , 86, a retired FSO, died at his home in Potomac Falls, Va., on Oct. 24. He had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Mennard was born Miodrag Ugrinovic to a Serbian Orthodox family in Yugoslavia. He came to the United States in 1946 as a displaced person sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, which provided a scholarship for him to Ripon College in Appleton, Wis. He studied there be- fore joining the U.S. Army in 1948. He was sent to the Army Language School in Monterey, where he became an instructor in Serbo-Croatian. Later he was assigned to Helmstedt, West Germany, where he accompanied the trains that transited East Germany to Berlin. He was discharged as a ser- geant in September 1952 and returned to the U.S., where he received his citi- zenship in December of that year. At that time he legally changed his name to Michael Mennard. Mr. Mennard graduated in 1953 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also earned a mas- ter’s degree in history in 1954. He re- ceived a doctorate in history from Georgetown University in 1964. In 1955, he joined the Voice of America where he broadcast in Serbo- Croatian to Yugoslavia. He served as an information officer in Stuttgart in the mid-1950s. In 1964, he was as- signed to New Delhi, where he estab- lished the South Asia Bureau of the Voice of America. In 1974, he entered the Foreign Service, serving two tours in India and one in Germany as a USIA officer. He retired in 1985 and settled in Northern Virginia. During retirement Mr. Mennard was a consultant on Yugoslav issues and contributed op-ed articles to newspa- pers and publications about the break- up of that country. His first marriage, to Nancy Men- nard, ended in divorce. A daughter from that marriage, Tracy Mennard, died in infancy in 1961. Mr. Mennard is survived by his wife of 40 years, Mildred Stewart Mennard of Potomac Falls; his son, Jason Men- nard (and wife Erin) of Winchester, Va.; two stepchildren, Roger Coleman of Asheville, N.C., and Christian Coleman of Orlando, Fla.; and six grandchildren. Albert F. Papa , 90, a retired For- eign Service staff officer, died on Aug. 19 at his home in Bridgewater, N.J. Mr. Papa was born in Fairview, N.J. During World War II he served in Africa, Italy and France with the U.S. Army. He joined the State Depart- ment in 1950. During a 30-year career, he served in Berlin, Coblenz, Dhahran, Rio de Janeiro, Ankara, Rome and Geneva. He received two Distinguish- ed Service Awards. Mr. Papa was predeceased by his daughter, Lee Ann Papa. He is sur- vived by his wife, Clara (Carrie), of Bridgewater; a daughter, Jo Anne; and three grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to St. Ann RC Church, 45 Anderson Street, Raritan NJ 08869, or to the American Heart Association. John Brayton “Bray” Redecker , 76, a retired FSO, died on Oct. 8 in Washington, D.C., after a brief illness. The son of a Foreign Service officer and a gifted linguist, Mr. Redecker de- voted his career to various forms of service abroad. After graduating from Williams College with a B.A. in 1955, he served as a naval intelligence officer in Germany and an employee of Alcoa in its Geneva office. He entered the State Department Foreign Service in 1964. Mr. Redecker’s overseas postings in- cluded Berlin, the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, Rabat and Madrid. He retired in 1991 as deputy consul general in Frankfurt, where he made important strides in strengthening U.S.- German commercial relations. During domestic tours, he attended postgradu- ate training at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology (1967-1968). A leader in applying systems analy- sis principles to the State Department’s domestic and overseas operations, Mr. Redecker pioneered the use of game theory to illuminate foreign policy is- sues. Following his retirement from the Foreign Service, he served in Egypt and the Philippines as a development specialist with the Louis Berger Group. He continued to be active as a diplo- matic courier, remaining on the rolls of that service until his death. Mr. Redecker is survived by his wife, Jul Patino Redecker; his son, Robert; his daughter, Cynthia; and a grand- daughter, Tanaquil. Colleen AnnWardlaw , 51, a retired Foreign Service nurse practitioner, died at her home in McKinleyville, Calif., on Sept. 9. I N M E M O R Y