The Foreign Service Journal, February 2007

World War II. He was a ball-turret gunner and radio operator with the 490th Bomb Group, a B-17 Flying Fortress unit of the Eighth Air Force, based in England. Awarded the Purple Heart as a result of enemy action in Strasbourg, France, he also earned an Oak Leaf cluster, an Air Medal and four battle stars. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Naifeh attended the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University before joining the Foreign Service in 1951. He served for nearly three decades in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Jordan. Upon retiring from the Foreign Service, Mr. Naifeh founded the American-Arab Affairs Council, serv- ing as president and chairman from 1981 to 1990. The council, a non- profit organization, is dedicated to acquainting Americans with the Arab world, the Islamic religion and the culture of the Middle East. The council offers a program of publica- tions, lectures, seminars, exhibitions and films, all carried out with the assistance of four distinguished advi- sory committees in the fields of diplo- macy, economics, education and the media. Throughout his career, both in the Foreign Service and at the American-Arab Affairs Council, Mr. Naifeh worked tirelessly to educate Arabs about Americans and Ameri- cans about Arabs, believing that information leads to respect, toler- ance and peace. In 1999, Mr. Naifeh retired to Aiken, S.C. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Marion Carolyn Naifeh, a son, Steven Naifeh, and a daughter, Carolyn Naifeh. The fam- ily requests that donations in his honor be made to the Hala Maksoud Scholarship Fund, 815 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20006. William T. Pryce , 73, a retired FSO and former ambassador, died of pancreatic cancer on July 11 at his home in Alexandria, Va. The son of a career naval officer, Ambassador Pryce was born in San Diego, Calif., and lived in China and Hawaii as a boy. When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, he and his mother and sister were on a ship bound for California, and from there to their family home in Ebensburg, Pa. After receiving an undergradu- ate degree from Wesleyan Universi- ty and a graduate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- macy, Amb. Pryce served for three years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He met his wife, Joan, while sta- tioned in San Francisco. Amb. Pryce joined the Foreign Service in 1958. As a junior officer, he came to the attention of Amb. Thomas Mann, for whom he worked when the latter was under secretary for economic affairs (and later ambas- sador to Mexico and assistant secre- tary for Latin America). In 1966, Amb. Pryce was assigned to Moscow as a political officer. He traveled widely throughout the Soviet Union, invariably accompanied by the KGB, and gained a reputation (that grew throughout his career) for not being easily intimidated. He later served in Panama City and Guatemala City, and was executive assistant to Amb. Ellsworth Bunker in connection with the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties. In 1981, he was assigned as chargé d’affaires in La Paz, and later as DCM in Panama. In the late 1980s, Amb. Pryce was the alternate U.S. representative at the Organization of American States, and then became senior director for Latin America at the National Security Council. There he played an important role in the transition to democracy in Panama following the 1989 removal of Manuel Noriega in Operation Just Cause; in the negoti- ated end to the civil war in El Salvador; and in the peaceful transi- tion from Sandinista rule to a demo- cratically elected government in Nicaragua. He served as ambas- sador to Honduras from 1993 until his retirement from the Service in 1996. Following retirement, Amb. Pryce remained active in foreign affairs, serving as vice president of the Council of the Americas, which advocates free trade and rule-of-law initiatives in the Western Hemi- sphere and carries on a vibrant hemispheric exchange program. He was active in the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the boards of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C., and the Washing- ton Institute of Foreign Affairs. Throughout his life, he was a dedi- cated Wesleyan alumnus. Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Joan M. Pryce, of Alexandria, Va.; a daughter, Kathy E. Pryce of Arlington, Va.; two sons, Jeffrey F. Pryce of Washington, D.C., and Scott F. Pryce of Paris and Barcelona; a sis- ter, Katharine M. Collins; and six grandchildren (Bobbie, Keith, Jack and Kate Witherell; William F. Pryce; and Pierce A.M. Pryce). Reynold L. Riemer , 68, a retired Foreign Service officer, died of can- cer in Paris on Dec. 11. Mr. Riemer was born in New 78 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 7 I N M E M O R Y