The Foreign Service Journal, February 2005

children. It was her wish that dona- tions be made to the AFSA Scholar- ship Fund in lieu of flowers. James Mollen , 48, Embassy Baghdad’s special adviser to Iraq’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, was killed Nov. 24 in an insurgent attack in Baghdad. He was the second American diplomat to be killed in Iraq. A political appointee who had worked in the 2000 election campaign for President Bush, Mollen joined the State Department in 2002. He worked in the Bureau of International Information Programs, heading its Global Technology Corps, a public- private partnership engaged in tech- nology projects abroad. He first went to Iraq in 2003 to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority. Mollen’s goal with the Iraqi Education Ministry was to rebuild the country’s 20 major universities and 40 technical institutes, research centers and colleges. In a Washington File interview in December 2003, he expressed concern with Iraq’s “intel- lectual isolation,” and explained his work to bring online digital video con- ference capabilities to universities and colleges so students and faculties could exchange information with their counterparts in the U.S. He had assembled a medical technology pro- gram to bring state-of-the-art informa- tion to Iraqi medical students, and was working to develop Western-style graduate business schools and execu- tive management education programs. In a condolence message, Secre- tary of State Colin Powell said: “Jim dedicated his life to a noble cause: improving the quality of education for thousands of Iraqis. … His sacrifice and heroism embody the greatest American virtues: courage, commit- ment, charity and an abiding faith in the promise of a better tomorrow. Jim’s sacrifice will not be in vain. His State Department colleagues and the American people will not waver in their commitment to building a peace- ful and prosperous Iraq. We will stand resolute against the forces that took Jim’s life, and we will prevail.” Before joining the Bush adminis- tration, Mr. Mollen worked as a com- puter systems analyst for the Coca- Cola Company in Atlanta, Ga. He had been involved with programs to help orphans overseas for more than a decade, and as a member of the board of directors for Orphanage Outreach had made many trips to the Dominican Republic. Mr. Mollen was unmarried and had no children. He is survived by his father John and his mother Anne of Binghamton, N.Y., and brothers Gerald, Bob, Dan and Tim. Eunice M. Rogers , 73, wife of retired FSO Jordan T. Rogers, died Sept. 7 in Mechanicsburg, Pa., after a long battle with colon cancer. Mrs. Rogers was a graduate of William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va., and later received a master’s degree from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She worked as a mental health counselor for over a decade. Mrs. Rogers was active in working with day care centers and with the homeless in Harrisburg, Pa., and was president for several years of the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Day Care Centers in Harrisburg. In 2003, the Market Square Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg, her church, honored her service to the homeless by establishing the Eunice Rogers Compassionate Ministries Fund. In addition to her husband of 23 years, Eunice Rogers is survived by three sons, four stepdaughters, and a number of grandchildren and step- grandchildren. Ted M. G. Tanen , 78, an FSO with USIA who in retirement initiated major cultural exchanges between the U.S. and India, Indonesia, Mexico and other nations, died Nov. 17 at a hospi- tal in Santa Monica, Calif., after a struggle with cancer. Mr. Tanen was born in Lancaster, Calif., in 1926, and entered the U.S. Navy after graduating from high school in 1944. He was assigned to the V-12 wartime officer training program, and was released to the Naval Reserve in 1946. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and, after earning a master’s degree at the University of Southern California in international relations in 1951, joined the Foreign Service. His Foreign Service career spanned 27 years, with assignments in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Hungary, Senegal, Mauritania, Nigeria, Tunisia and France, accompanied by major awards from the U.S. and France. As a young officer, Mr. Tanen served in Budapest two years after the crushing of the Hungarian uprising against Soviet control in 1956. One of his assignments was to serve as princi- pal embassy liaison with Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, who had been released from a communist prison during the upris- ing and had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy. He became a close friend of the cardinal, who was finally permitted to leave for Austria in 1971. Much of Mr. Tanen’s Foreign Service career was dedicated to cul- tural affairs. One of his most suc- cessful tasks was looking after the all-star delegation of African- 68 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 5 I N M E M O R Y u u u u