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 59 Ms. Wardlaw was born on March 10, 1958, in Sheridan, Wyo., the daugh- ter of Kenneth Wardlaw and Joyce Montgomery Wardlaw Morrison. A 1976 graduate of Wheatland High School, she won a scholarship and trip to Washington, D.C., as the Wyoming Betty Crocker Family Leader of To- morrow. As a National Merit finalist, she re- ceived a four-year Superior Student Scholarship to the University of Wyo- ming, where she received her B.S. de- gree in nursing with honors in 1980. After receiving her adult nurse practi- tioner degree fromMetropolitan State College in Denver, Colo., in 1984, she worked at the Denver General Hospi- tal walk-in clinic for two years. She was an avid traveler and, during that time, went to China for a two-week bicycle tour to see the Great Wall and the Terra Cotta Soldiers in Xian. In 1986, Ms. Wardlaw joined the State Department as a nurse practi- tioner and served inMalawi, Russia and Morocco. During her career in the Foreign Service, she spent time in Lon- don and Paris and traveled extensively in Africa, Russia and Morocco. Ms. Wardlaw left the Foreign Serv- ice in 1996 and moved back to Lara- mie, Wyo., where she volunteered at Laramie County Community College teaching English to foreign students. A creative educator, she used a variety of methods, including board games she developed, to help students engage in conversational English. After relocating to McKinleyville, she spent a year in China teaching Eng- lish to students at a medical school in Changchung. Ms. Wardlaw was predeceased by her father and her grandparents. She is survived by her mother, Joyce Morri- son of Tucson, Ariz.; her stepmother, Hilary Wardlaw of Casper, Wyo.; a brother, Keith Wardlaw of Laramie, Wyo.; a sister, Connie Lemcke of Brighton, Colo.; five nieces and nephews; and four aunts and an uncle. Samuel Shelton Westgate III , 64, a retired FSO, passed away surrounded by family and friends on Oct. 13, 2008, in Arlington, Va. A graduate of BismarckHigh School I N M E M O R Y