The Foreign Service Journal, January 2012

70 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 2 yard and in Stockbridge, Mass. Mr. Bloomfield is survived by his wife Carey Goodson Bloomfield of Cambridge; his five children, Thomas Bloomfield of Westminster, Md., John Bloomfield of Crofton, Md., Ann Du- vall of Newton, Mass., Richard Bloom- field of Madison, Wisc., and William Bloomfield of Fairfax, Va.; his five grandchildren, Ryan, Kristen and Joanna Bloomfield, and Ben and Olivia Duvall; his two stepsons, Eric and Christopher Goodson; and his former wife Patricia Koepfle of Chevy Chase, Md. His first wife, Jean Duvall, died in 1965. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Mr. Bloomfield’s memory to the Working Boys Center in Quito, Ecuador, online at www.workingboys center.org or by mail, payable to Fam- ily Unity International, Inc., 12750 Stephen Place, Elm Grove WI 53122. William A. Buell Jr., 86, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Nov. 1 in Portsmouth, R.I. Born in 1925, Mr. Buell spent most of his childhood in Middletown, R.I. Like many of his generation, his edu- cation was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Ma- rine Corps as a fighter and transport pilot. He returned to Princeton Univer- sity, graduating in 1950 and going on to receive his master’s degree in interna- tional affairs from The George Wash- ington University. That same year, he married Jeanne Baldwin, the mother of his four children. In 1951, Mr. Buell joined the For- eign Service, where he would work for the next quarter-century, posted to Warsaw, Taipei, Hamburg, Lome, Brussels (twice) and Paris. After a year at the Naval War College, he was made director of the Polish Language Serv- ice of the Voice of America in 1965, and subsequently took charge of Polish af- fairs in the Department of State. After the death of his first wife, in 1968, he was remarried, to Mary Cut- ler O’Shaughnessy (a former FSO and the widow of another FSO, Elim O’Shaughnessy), acquiring three step- children in the process. Mr. Buell was director of the Office of Northern European Affairs when he left the State Department in 1975 to work for Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. In 1977, he was named director of Radio Free Europe in Munich, be- coming senior vice president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty two years later. After his retirement and move to Middletown, he served as a consultant to the International Rescue Commit- tee, administering medical assistance programs in Poland and Russia. InMiddletown, Mr. Buell became a vital part of the Aquidneck Island com- munity. He was deeply involved with St. George’s School (where his father had been headmaster, and where he was both an alumnus, class of 1942, and, later, a trustee). He was also ac- tive in St. Columba’s Chapel, the Red- wood Library, the Newport Preserva- tion Society and Hospice Care of R.I. Mr. Buell was an ardent and skilled sailor, navigating two trans-Atlantic passages and captaining his own boat until just a few years prior to his death. A music lover, he also sang in choruses throughout his life, including the Princeton Nassoons, the Washington Cathedral Choir and the St. Columba’s church choir. Predeceased by his daughter, Nancy, Mr. Buell is survived by his wife, Mary of Portsmouth, R.I.; three of his children, Jewell of Shutesbury, Mass., Bill of New York, N.Y., and John of New Haven, Conn.; his brother, Tom of Portland, Ore.; his stepchildren, Elise, Nelson and Sophie O’Shaugh- nessy; and seven grandchildren. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to the International Rescue Committee or Hospice Care of R.I. Charles (Chuck) Green, 93 , a re- tired Foreign Service officer with USAID, died peacefully on Sept. 8 at his home inMalibu, Calif., surrounded by his family. Born on Nov. 8, 1917, in Hunting- ton Park, Ohio, he excelled as a student and Eagle Scout. Graduating from high school at 15, he went to Compton College in California and then UCLA to earn a bachelor’s and a master’s de- gree in history. While at UCLA during the 1930s, he was a Golden Gloves box- ing champion. As a child of the Great Depression, he was always happy to have a job and, over the years, held many different ones. These included helping out on the family farm, picking crops through- out the Central Valley of California and delivering newspapers. He even had a stint with the Border Patrol. An early believer in collaborative learning, Mr. Green formed a study group at the U.S. Navy officers’ train- ing school at Northwestern University duringWorldWar II. All the members of the group passed the test to become officers. Initially assigned to a submarine, he was asked to stay on as a teacher in the school. There, at a USO dance, he met his wife, Dorothy Hillis, and the couple would go on to a 67-year marriage. The teaching assignment at North- I N M E M O R Y