The Foreign Service Journal, February 2011

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 1 1 I N M E M O R Y among local chamber musicians, recall his intelligence and wit. Dr. Greifer, or “Greif,” as he was known to many friends, was preceded in death by his sister Naomi Rubin. He is survived by five children from his former marriage to Helen Kyndberg Greifer: Maggie Mosley, John Greifer, Andrew Greifer, Timothy Greifer and Nicholas Greifer; eight grandchildren: Lauren and Jacqueline Mosley, Maya and Sari Greifer, Natalie and Jacob Greifer, and Raina and Sten Greifer. He was “Uncle Elisha” to Jennifer, Steven and Lydia Rubin of Naperville, Ill. He leaves behind his loving part- ner, Beverly Jo Evans; her children Steve (Amy) Evans, Holly (Harley) Wallen, and Brandon (Amie) Evans; and five grandchildren, Dylan, Logan, Madison, Meredith and Zachary. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Adult Amateur Arts, Music & Culture Fund of The Mar- quette Community Foundation, the Peter White Library, the Political Sci- ence Endowment of the NMU Foun- dation (www.nmu.edu/foundation) or SASI in Evanston, Ill. (www.sasiath ome.org). Richard Holbrooke , 69, a former FSO, ambassador and the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died on Dec. 13, 2010, in Washington, D.C., of complications from surgery to repair a torn aorta. Mr. Holbrooke was born on April 24, 1941, in New York City, to Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland. When he was 16, his father, a physician, died. The young Holbrooke was looked after by the family of Dean Rusk, whose son was his friend in Scarsdale, N.Y. In 1962, he graduated with a history degree from Brown University, where he had been editor of the Brown Daily Herald . According to the Washington Post , Mr. Holbrooke wanted to be a newspaper reporter but, after being re- fused a job by the New York Times , he joined the Foreign Service. His first assignment as an FSO in 1963 was to Vietnam, where he served as a field officer for USAID in the lower Mekong Delta. He then moved to Saigon to serve as a staff assistant to Ambassadors Maxwell D. Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In 1966, he joined the Vietnam staff in the Johnson White House. He was a junior mem- ber of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks, and he wrote a chapter of the Pentagon Papers , the government’s secret history of the conflict. In 1970, Mr. Holbrooke joined Princeton University’s Woodrow Wil- son School as a fellow, and then moved on to become Peace Corps country di- rector inMorocco. In 1972, he helped found Foreign Policy magazine and was its managing editor for almost five years. After serving as a campaign ad- viser to Jimmy Carter, the 35-year-old Holbrooke was appointed assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs, making him the youngest assistant secretary in history. At the start of the Reagan administra- tion, he left government to become a senior adviser to Lehman Brothers and help form the consulting firm Public Strategies. In 1993, President Bill Clinton named Mr. Holbrooke ambassador to Germany. He returned toWashington a year later to become assistant secre- tary of State for European affairs, and in that capacity brokered the 1995 Dayton peace accords ending the war in Bosnia. In early 1996, Ambassador Holbrooke returned to the private sec- tor but continued to serve the Clinton administration as special envoy to Cyprus and the Balkans. In 1999, Pres. Clinton appointed him ambassa- dor to the United Nations. Amb. Holbrooke was a foreign pol- icy adviser to the presidential cam- paign of Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., in 2004, and supported Hillary Rod- hamClinton’s presidential bid in 2008. After becoming Secretary of State the next year, Hillary Clinton turned to him for help with the Obama adminis- tration’s toughest foreign policy prob- lem, naming himU.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Richard Holbrooke’s marriages to lawyer Larrine Sullivan and television producer Blythe Babyak ended in di- vorce. In 1995, he married author Kati Marton. Besides Ms. Marton, he is survived by two sons from his first mar- riage, David and Anthony Holbrooke; two stepchildren, Elizabeth and Chris Jennings; a brother, Andrew Hol- brooke; and four grandchildren. William Laurence Krieg , 97, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Nov. 20, 2010, at his home in Sarasota, Fla. Born on Oct. 11, 1913, to Laurence Montgomery Krieg and Helen Crane Krieg, in Newark, Ohio, Mr. Krieg graduated at the top of his class from Newark High School. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth Col- lege, and went on to earn his M.A. in international relations from the Fletch- er School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Later Mr. Krieg also completed the yearlong advanced course at the National War College. After joining the Foreign Service in