The Foreign Service Journal, March 2006

very talented manager of people and programs, but she was also a simply wonderful person. I tried to model myself on her in my own career.” Following retirement, Ms. Fagan moved to Chevy Chase, Md. She was a member of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, and was active in their Sodality, Bible Study and Interfaith groups. She was also a member of Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court 212. In addition, Ms. Fagan was a member of the American Foreign Service Association, Diplo- matic and Consular Officers, Retired and the Maryland Foreign Service Officers Club. Ms. Fagan was preceded in death by her parents, Philip and Grace Fuller Fagan, and two brothers, Thomas and Philip. She leaves a sister, Dorothy Fagan Brennan, a brother-in- law, Dr. John F. Brennan Jr., and eight nieces and nephews. Samuel L. King , 87, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 16 at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md., of cardiovascu- lar disease. Mr. King was born in Los Angeles, Calif., and attended South Pasadena High School and Occidental College. He joined the army before graduating from college, and served as a U.S. Army infantry officer from 1940 to 1960, when he retired as a lieutenant colonel. Mr. King served in World War II, spending 39 months in the South Pacific, and the Korean War. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and Valor Device, a Purple Heart, a Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Master Paratrooper Badge. In 1960, Mr. King joined the State Department as a Foreign Service reserve officer. He served for nine years as assistant chief and then as deputy chief of the Protocol Office. During this period he traveled widely in the U.S. with foreign heads of state such as the kings and queens of Afghanistan and Thailand. He also assisted in the planning of John F. Kennedy’s funeral. From 1969 until he retired in 1980, Mr. King served as a personnel officer at State. Mr. King was an honorary member of the U.S. Army Band, the Nation’s Capitol Jaguar Owners Club, the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club and the Coast Guard Auxiliary. He also did volunteer work with the Palisades Citizens Association. Mr. King is survived by his wife of 60 years, Betty King, and several nieces and nephews. Robert Adams Lincoln , 84, a re- tired FSO with the U.S. Information Agency died of cancer on Dec. 14 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. He was a resident of McLean, Va. Born in Walton, N.Y., to Floyd Hastings Lincoln and his wife, Louise (nee Adams), Mr. Lincoln was valedic- torian of the Class of 1939 at the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J., and went on to graduate magna cum laude from Yale University in 1943. He served in the Pacific theater as a commissioned officer with the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1946. Following demobilization, Mr. Lin- coln was public relations officer for the New York Institute of Public Account- ants, and in 1950 joined the Madison Avenue public affairs office of Steph- en E. Fitzgerald. In 1955, Mr. Lincoln joined the U.S. Information Agency. After serv- ing as public affairs officer in Damas- cus and Colombo, in 1963 he became assistant director for the Near East and South Asia under Edward R. Murrow and for Western Europe in 1964 under Carl Rowan. In 1966, he served as counselor for public affairs in Ankara, and from 1971 to 1973 as minister-counselor for public affairs and head of the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office in Saigon. He was vice- chairman of the Fulbright Commis- sions in both Sri Lanka and Turkey, and received USIA’s Distinguished Honor Award for his work in Vietnam. In 1973, Mr. Lincoln left USIA and moved to London, where he under- took research for the Harkness Foundation and the Economist Intel- ligence Unit. He moved to Rich- mond, Va., in 1975 to work as director of community relations for the Vir- ginia Electric Power Co. After retiring from VEPCO in 1979, Mr. Lincoln settled in Northern Virginia. For many years he reviewed nonfiction books (mostly on foreign policy) for the Philadelphia Inquirer and for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Mr. Lincoln was a past president of the USIA Alumni Association, the Public Diplomacy Foundation and the Old Birds Society of Saigon; and a for- mer board member of the Virginia Cultural Laureates Association, the Indochinese Refugees Social Ser- vices, Inc. and the Hallcrest Heights Association. In 2003, he received the Association of Yale Alumni’s distin- guished award for representing central Virginia in the AYA and serving six years as the Yale Class of 1943 corre- sponding secretary. He was a member of the Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, a patron of the Phillips Collection, and a 25-year sub- scriber to the Shakespeare Theater of Washington. Old planes and cars were among Mr. Lincoln’s interests; he built an MGTD sports car replica and an award-winning 1929 Mercedes repli- ca, and drove them in parades. He 78 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A R C H 2 0 0 6 I N M E M O R Y u u u