The Foreign Service Journal, February 2011

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 79 I N M E M O R Y 1938, Mr. Krieg served as a consular officer in Stuttgart, Milan, Lisbon, Lagos and Caracas. He was later deputy chief of mission in Guatemala City and Santiago, in addition to sev- eral assignments in Washington, D.C., including heading the Office of Argen- tine, Paraguayan and Uruguayan Af- fairs. Throughout his career, Mr. Krieg strove to bring peace through trust and understanding between the countries in which he served. In 1943, his bride-to-be, Laura Philinda Campbell, braved the U- boat–infested waters of the Atlantic to join him in Lagos, where they were married. Together they had three chil- dren: Laurence John Krieg, Laura Krieg Morris, and Helen Middleton Krieg Came. After retirement, Mr. Krieg taught as a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University and the Foreign Service In- stitute. He also produced two lengthy historical studies of boundary disputes in Latin America for the Department of State. His analysis of the 1983 U.S.- led invasion of Grenada earned a com- pliment from President Ronald Rea- gan. Mr. Krieg was a member of Faith Lutheran Church in Sarasota. Mr. Krieg’s wife of 66 years prede- ceased him in 2009. He is survived by his three children; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a sister, Jeannette Krieg Drake, of Granville, Ohio. Roman Leo Lotsberg , 84, a re- tired FSO with the U.S. Information Agency, died of multiple organ failure on Oct. 27, 2010, at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County, Va. Mr. Lotsberg was born in Min- neapolis, Minn., and served in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II. Attending the Univer- sity of Minnesota on the GI Bill, he graduated in 1949 with a bachelor’s de- gree in international relations. Mr. Lotsberg joined the State De- partment in 1950. His first overseas postings were to Saigon (1950-1952), Tangier (1953-1954) and Calcutta (1955-1958). He also served in Paris twice (1958-1962 and 1972-1976), Cairo (1965-1967), Tehran (1968- 1972) and Madrid (1977-1980). In Cairo, he was evacuated to Athens with the outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and worked on refugee problems there for several months before returning to Cairo to complete the tour. He was the recipient of a USIA Meritorious Honor Award. Following retirement from the For- eign Service in 1981, Mr. Lotsberg joined Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib- erty, where he retired in 1991 as direc- tor of administration in Munich. His memoir, Always a Foreigner , self-published in 1998, includes many memorable anecdotes about his For- eign Service career. During one of his earliest assignments, in Saigon, for in- stance, he played a role in shipping a baby elephant from the king of Cam- bodia to President Harry S. Truman. While awaiting shipment, Mr. Lots- berg arranged for the elephant to be kept in the walled garden of an em- bassy colleague. He spoke French, German and Spanish, and also studied Arabic, Farsi, Hindi and Vietnamese. In retirement, Mr. Lotsberg settled inMcLean, Va., later moving to Alexan- dria, Va. He served as foreign affairs course coordinator for what is now the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University from 1998 to 2004. He was a member of the Uni- tarian Universalist Church of Arling- ton, Diplomats and Consular Officers, Retired, and the Public Diplomacy Alumni Association. He was also a member of AFSA, and active in Foreign Affairs Retirees of Northern Virginia. His hobbies in- cluded skiing, playing guitar, singing and dancing. Mr. Lotsberg’s first wife, Catherine Stough, whom he married in 1956, died in 1992. Survivors include his wife of 11 years, Priscilla Griffing Lotsberg of Alexandria, Va.; a daughter from his first marriage, Carolyn “Lyn” Lotsberg of Madrid; his brother Allan (Jackie) Lotsberg of Minneapolis, Minn.; two stepchildren, Angela Locke of Freder- ick, Md., and Thomas (Fawn) Krebs of Livermore, Calif.; two step-grandsons; and a brother-in-law, James Griffing. Stephen Low , 82, a distinguished retired FSO and former chief of mis- sion to Zambia and Nigeria, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 5, 2010, at his home in Bethesda, Md. Ambassador Low was born and raised in Cincinnati. He graduated from Yale University and, after a Ful- bright fellowship in Paris, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. In his early career he was a teacher of English in Bogotá and of American government at Tufts. He joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and served for 31 years. After early tours in Uganda and Senegal, he later served as counselor in Brasilia, as country director for Brazil and, in the National Security Council, as special assistant to the president for Latin