The Foreign Service Journal, March 2014

62 MARCH 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL to Japan. For the next 34 years, she would live and work in Japan, Burma, Israel, Palestine and Washington, D.C. Mrs. Forster enjoyed exploring the cuisines of the countries where she lived, preparing dinners for diplomats and many other guests. She wrote about this in her memoir, A Culinary Journey: Reci- pes and Reminiscences of an American Diplomat’s Wife (Wind Shadow Press, 2013). The book received an honorable mention in the 2013 Eric Hoffer Awards for books. Everywhere she lived, Mrs. Forster joined local organizations. In Wash- ington, D.C., she was a docent at the National Cathedral. In Tokyo, she orga- nized print shows. Mrs. Forster taught world history in international schools in Tokyo, Israel, Honolulu and Washington, D.C. Many of her former students stayed in touch with her to the end of her life. Midway through her teaching years, Mrs. Forster became involved with the fledgling International Baccalaureate program that promotes bilingual fluency and an advanced curriculum. She was invited to start a new IB school in Hawaii in 1986 and persuaded her husband to retire early to allow her to take up the challenge. Following their move to Tiburon in 1994, Mrs. Forster became the founding director of the California Association of IB World Schools. She remained a sought-after reviewer of IB programs fromThailand to Dubai well into her 80s and co-edited Journeys in Learning Across Frontiers (IB Publishing, 2012), an anthology of testimonials by students and faculty members. She self-published Encounters: A Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers (Wind Shadow Press, 2009), an account of her husband’s wartime imprisonment by the Japanese and the couple’s life of shared encounters with the cultures of the East and West. Mrs. Forster was also among the founders of Marin Village, a volunteer service that helps seniors stay in their homes. The organization established a volunteer award in her name and named her its first recipient in 2013. She was also very involved in the activities of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere. Her husband, Clifton, died in 2006. Mrs. Forster is survived by three children: Thomas Forster of Brooklyn, N.Y., Cindy Forster of Los Angeles, Calif., and Douglas Forster of Naples, Fla.; her brother, Roddy Keeney of New York City; five grandchildren: Nathan, Taylor Ann, Makala, Wyn and Callum; a nephew, Charles Howard of Sacramento, Calif.; and a niece, Karen Hawkins of New York City. Donations in her memory may be sent to Marin Village, 930 Tamalpais Ave., San Rafael CA 94901, or to Aca- demia Semillas del Pueblo School, 4970 Huntington Drive South, Los Angeles CA 90032. n Philip W. Hemily , 91, a retired For- eign Service officer, died peacefully on Jan. 7 in Sarasota, Fla., of natural causes. Born in 1922 in Newaygo, Mich., Mr. Hemily received a bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1947 after serving three years (1943-1946) as an ordnance officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a research associ- ate in physics and taught undergraduate mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama from 1947 to 1949. Mr. Hemily loved France, where he spent many years. He received a doctorate from the Université de Paris in 1953 and was director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research from 1953 to 1956. Beginning in 1957, he held a series of senior staff positions at the National Sci- ence Foundation. He was instrumental in creating the international office of the foundation, and participated in estab- lishing programs to strengthen science and mathematics education. In 1965, Mr. Hemily was posted to Brussels as science counselor to the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Eco- nomic Cooperation and Development, a position he held until 1974. From 1976 to 1982, he served as deputy assistant secretary general for scientific affairs at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He helped establish the NATO “Sci- ence for Stability” program, strengthened national science and technology policy structures in OECD nations through the organization’s Committee on Science and Technology Policy, and developed regional agreements on measures for the protection of the environment. Mr. Hemily retired from the Senior Foreign Service of the Department of State in 1983. During the next decade, from 1984 through 1995, Mr. Hemily was a trustee for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a consultant, a senior program offi- cer, and director of the Committee on International Organizations and Programs, the Office of International Affairs, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. Toward the end of this period, he gave priority attention to U.S. scientific and engineering relations with UNESCO, the International Council of Scientific Unions, the establishment of interna- tional engineering organizations and