The Foreign Service Journal, February 2007

family and friends, was born in Iron Mountain, Mich., and was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. She met her husband in Washington, D.C., while they were working in the Department of State awaiting over- seas assignments. In June 1958, they were married in Winnetka, Ill. The couple enjoyed a brief honeymoon in Western Europe en route to their first assignment, in Moscow. As family and friends recall, Mrs. Scanlan frequently referred to their arrival at this first post as having made every subsequent arrival at post dull by comparison. They had been ordered to stop in Warsaw to pick up a five-ton shipment of beef packed in dry ice, which they were to take as their personal baggage to the com- missary at the embassy in Moscow. They arrived in Moscow by train, and were left stranded on the platform with the shipment of beef for more than two hours because of a demon- stration at the American embassy protesting the landing of U.S. troops in Lebanon. An officer from the embassy eventually came to meet them with a truck for the beef and a sedan for the Scanlans. Meanwhile, the number of demonstrators had swelled to over 100,000, and the Russian driver told them to roll up the windows and lock the doors. The driver was able to nudge the sedan through the mob, which beat upon and rocked the car. The Russian police controlling the demonstration reluctantly opened up a path to the embassy gate, which the U.S. Ma- rines opened briefly to allow the car to enter. After their Moscow assignment, the Scanlans were posted to Poland (three times), Yugoslavia (twice) and Uruguay. In each and every em- bassy and throughout the diplomatic corps, Mrs. Scanlan was held in high regard. She was a warm, engaging and outgoing member of the commu- nity. She was active in the American and international schools, having raised her four children at various post overseas. The Scanlans lived in the Wash- ington, D.C., area between overseas assignments for over 10 years. Mrs. Scanlan was a leader in civic affairs in Falls Church, Va., where her husband served on the Falls Church City Coun- cil. Following his retirement from the Service in 1991, they divided their time between homes in the Washington, D.C., area and Naples, Fla. Mrs. Scanlan is survived by her husband, John D. Scanlan of Naples, Fla., two daughters, Kathleen Scan- lan of Vienna, Va., and Malia Scanlan of Washington, D.C..; and two sons, Michael, an FSO currently serving in Kiev, and John of Atlanta, Ga. The family requests that any memorial gifts be made out to CLL Global Research Foundation, c/o Dr. Michael Keating, P.O. Box 301402, Unit 428, Houston TX 77230. Charles T. Vetter , 84, a Foreign Service Reserve officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died Nov. 10 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Wash- ington, D.C., from complications of esophageal cancer. Mr. Vetter was born in Columbus, Ohio. He was a graduate of Hamil- ton College in Clinton, N.Y., and served as a naval aviator in World War II. Following the war, he taught at Bell Multicultural Senior High School in Washington, D.C., and worked for the Republican National Committee. He graduated from the National University Law School inWashington, D.C., in 1953, and received a master’s degree in law from The George Washington University in 1959. Mr. Vetter joined the State De- partment in 1950, moving to USIA in 1955. There, he provided training for USIA officers and other U.S. person- nel around the world. One training site was the exhibition of American housewares in Moscow in 1959, which became the impromptu setting of the so-called kitchen debate be- tween Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- chev. From 1962 to 1964, Mr. Vetter worked throughout Latin Amer- ica. He also participated in training programs for Peace Corps recruits, and trained American guides and Marines for the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal. Other assignments during 80 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