The Foreign Service Journal, March 2012

Nev., where he owned businesses in real estate, insurance and financial planning, as well as a long-running H&R Block franchise. Mr. Wirtz was deeply involved in community affairs in Boulder City and the Las Vegas metro region. He helped with the establishment of the Southern Nevada Veteran Memorial Cemetery and the Nevada State Vet- eran Home in Boulder City. A sup- porter of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he set up and endowed the Walter Nowak Prize in chemistry, an annual scholarship for aspiring chem- istry students. Mr Wirtz was a member of the St. Andrew Catholic Community, the Knights of Columbus, the Reserve Of- ficers’ Association, AFSA, the Boulder City Museum and Historical Associa- tion and the Searchlight Museum Guild. He was treasurer of the U.S.- China Peoples Friendship Association. He financially supported Catholic mis- sions in Botswana, Thailand and Mon- golia, visiting several of them. Mr. Wirtz is survived by his wife of 44 years, Rosalie, of Boulder City; a daughter, Rosette McClave and son- in-law Scott McClave of Huntington Beach, Calif.; a son, Patrick of Boul- der City; and four grandchildren, Katie, Andrew, Piper, and Jack. There is a Web memorial for Mr. Wirtz at www.dignitymemorial.com. Robert J. Wozniak Sr. , 76, a re- tired FSO with the U.S. Information Agency, died on Nov. 13, 2011, at Sib- ley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., due to complications related to his treatment for cancer. A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Wozniak served in the Navy in the early 1950s and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1960 on the G.I. Bill. After college, he worked as a reporter for the Grand Rapids Press, the Associated Press Detroit Bureau and the Kalamazoo Gazette . Mr. Wozniak joined the United States Information Agency in 1963. During a three-decade Foreign Serv- ice career, he principally performed public information and cultural rela- tions duties in Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Morocco and at NATO headquarters in Brussels. He held a senior man- agement position at Voice of America immediately prior to his retirement in 1996, and then served as distinguished diplomat-in-residence at American University’s Center for Global Peace for several years. A longstanding interest in antiqui- ties led Mr. Wozniak to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Cyprus American Archeology Research Insti- tute during retirement. From 1999 to 2007, he served as chairman of the AFSA Elections Committee. Mr. Wozniak’s first marriage, to Kathryn Gilbert, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Farida El Samman Wozniak of Washington, D.C.; two children from his first marriage, daughter Lisa (and her husband, Kenneth Simon) of Yp- silanti, Mich., and son Robert Jr. (and his wife, Camille Bowman) of Oak Park, Ill; two children from his second marriage, son Farid and daughter Leila, both of Washington, D.C.; brothers Donald (and his wife, Diane) of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Richard (and his wife, Michele) of Oak Park, Ill.; and grandchildren Zach and Ben Simon and Lily and Ryan Wozniak. M A R C H 2 0 1 2 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 75 I N M E M O R Y www.facebook.com/fsjournal Like Us! Get FSJ and AFSA Updates