The Foreign Service Journal, March 2015

70 MARCH 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Jordan, El Salvador, South Korea, Spain and Argentina, in addition to Washing- ton, D.C. Mr. LaMazza held a variety of positions, including eight assignments as labor attaché. His work required him to travel exten- sively throughout South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Mr. LaMazza’s diplomatic career culminated with post- ings to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and three of the United States’ major trading partners, Canada, Italy and Japan. In July 1998, on retiring, he received the Secre- tary’s Career Achievement Award. Mr. LaMazza settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where he managed the Meals on Wheels program. He then moved to Chandler, Ariz., in 2008 to be closer to family. He maintained his interest in public and foreign policy, read the morn- ing papers in Arabic, translated Japanese haikus and monitored the trajectory of the New York Yankees. Family and friends remember Mr. LaMazza for his fine sense of balance, justice and values, as well as his quick wit, sense of humor, diplomacy and humility. He is survived by his daughters, Michelle Winter and Bernadette LaMazza; his son, John Dominic LaMazza; his brother, Father Carmen LaMazza; and four grandchildren. n MalcolmMcLean, 87, a former Foreign Service officer, died peacefully at his home in St. Paul, Minn., on Nov. 19. Mr. McLean was born on April 23, 1927, in Duluth, Minn., to Charles Rus- sell McLean and Mildred Washburn. He attended boarding school in North Caro- lina and graduated from Yale University. Mr. McLean joined the Foreign Service in 1955. His first overseas post was South Korea, where he met his wife of 58 years, Wendy, who was also working there. The couple went on to serve in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. In the early 1970s, Mr. McLean was enjoying his assignment in Central America when he received a call from an old family friend, a board member at Northland College in Ashland, Wis., who told him that he should consider applying to become president of the school. That year, Mr. McLean made a com- plete career change, moving his family from Guatemala to northern Wisconsin. There, from 1971 to 1987, he helped shape Northland into a liberal arts school with a strong environmental studies cur- riculum. Friends and colleagues at Northland remember Mr. McLean as an inspired, positive leader who was good at connect- ing with students, faculty and staff and a wonderful friend. After serving at Northland, Mr. McLean moved to St. Paul, Minn., where he was president of the United Arts Coun- cil, and then worked for several years with Compatible Technology Interna- tional. Committed to service and education, and enjoying working with children, both Mr. and Mrs. McLean volunteered as teaching assistants at Paul and Sheila Wellstone Elementary School. Mr. McLean also read to the blind, was involved with the arts and with the UnitedTheological Seminary of the Twin Cities. His children remember him as their hero. Mr. McLean was predeceased by his brothers, Russell and John, and a sister, Carol. He is survived by his beloved wife, Wendy; their three sons, Ian (and his wife, Margaret) of Lincoln, Neb., Hugh (and his wife, Mary Beth) of Elmhurst, Ill., and Christopher (and his wife, Nancy) of Berkeley, Calif.; and six grandchildren: Katherine, Kevin, Derek, Eileen, Reed and Helen. n Leonard C. Meeker, 98, a former U.S. ambassador to Romania, died on Nov. 29 at his home in Ocracoke, N.C., of congestive heart failure. Mr. Meeker was born in Montclair, N.J., in 1916. He was a graduate of Deer- field Academy (1933), Amherst College (1937) and Harvard School of Law (1940). He began his legal career in the General Counsel’s Office of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and in the Office of the Solicitor General, which handles the federal government’s litigation at the Supreme Court. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, and served in the Office of Strategic Services. In 1946, Mr. Meeker joined the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. He was named assistant legal adviser for United Nations Affairs in 1951, deputy legal adviser in 1961 and legal adviser of the State Department under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. Mr. Meeker played a significant role during the Cuban Missile Crisis on 1962 by developing the concept of a “quaran- tine” of the island instead of a blockade, which could have been considered an act of war. His top-secret memo (now declas- sified), “On Legal Aspects of Declaring a Blockade of Cuba,” helped defuse one of the most serious international crises of the modern era. In 1969, Mr. Meeker was appointed ambassador to Romania, where he served until 1973. After leaving government service, he was for many years both a lawyer and director of the International Project at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. He traveled to coun- tries in Africa and Latin America to assist local lawyers in promoting and protecting