The Foreign Service Journal, March 2006

Turkey before entering the Foreign Service in 1951. Mr. Oleksiw joined the U.S. Information Agency in 1953, and was one of its dominant figures during the 1960s and 1970s. In the final decades of a 37-year career of government ser- vice that took him to Turkey, Egypt, Iran and India, he served as Africa area deputy director (1962-1965), director of media content (1965-1966), Far East area director (1966-1970), public affairs officer/minister-counselor in New Delhi (1970-1973) and chief inspector (1973-1978). He graduated from the National War College and was awarded the agency’s highest com- mendation, the Distinguished Service Award. In retirement he directed a pri- vate consulting firm, Washington Export Information, Inc., and led evaluation studies of numerous exchange programs. Mr. Oleksiwwas predeceased by his first wife, Elizabeth Hyatt Oleksiw, who accompanied him throughout his Foreign Service career. She died in 1990. Survivors include his wife, Joan Davis Oleksiw; a son, Daniel Oleksiw of Silver Spring, Md.; a daughter, Barbara Oleksiw of San Francisco, Calif.; and two grandchildren. Clifford E. Southard , 80, a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died of conges- tive heart failure on Dec. 17 at his home in Silver Spring, Md. Mr. Southard was born in Free- port, Ill., and grew up in the small Illinois town of Genoa. He was a Navy officer in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, he grad- uated from Northern Illinois Univer- sity and worked briefly in advertising in Iowa. In 1952, he received a mas- ter’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Denver, where his men- tor was Joseph Korbel, the father of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Mr. Southard joined the Foreign Service in 1952 and began his career as a publications officer at State. In 1953 he was transferred to the U.S. Information Agency. Between assign- ments in Washington, D.C., he was posted to Japan, Burma, Nigeria and the Philippines (twice). As PAO in 80 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