The Foreign Service Journal, February 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | FEBRUARY 2013 67 Fiske also received the city’s civil rights award, and were crowned king and queen of the annual Renaissance Fair. In 2009, Mrs. Fiske moved to Vashon to be closer to family. She was predeceased by her husband in 1998. Survivors include her four children, Lindsay Hofman of Vashon, Jonathan of Evanston, Ill., Anne of Newport, N.C., and Fred of Syracuse, N.Y.; a sister, Winifred Kelley of Des Moines, Iowa; 10 grandchil- dren; and two great-grandchildren. Contributions in Janet Fiske’s name may be made to Vashon Community Care or the League of Women Voters’ Moscow chapter. n Robert Franklin Gould , 70, a former FSO, died on Dec. 15 at Shady Grove Hos- pital inMontgomery County, Md., after a lengthy battle with cancer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Gould was a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He joined the Foreign Service in 1966, despite knowing there was every likelihood he would be sent to the embattled Republic of Vietnam on his maiden assignment. Mr. Gould was a member of the first class of U.S. civilians to graduate from the VietnamTraining Center in Arlington, Va. After spending more than a year learning Vietnam’s language, politics and culture, and the details of the South Vietnamese government’s rural pacification program, he arrived in Vietnam in April 1968 as part of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support program. Ambassador WilliamColby, himself a lawyer, was running U.S. pacification sup- port at the time, and he quickly enlisted Mr. Gould to review South Vietnam’s internal security laws for apprehending and dealing with suspected communist insurgents. Colby told him: “You are the best-qualified Vietnamese-speaking Amer-