The Foreign Service Journal, March 2016

84 MARCH 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL honors in the long jump competing for the University of California. After graduating from high school, he served in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II. Mr. Grant attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in philosophy and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and then at Harvard University, from which he received a master’s degree in public administration. Mr. Grant joined the Foreign Service as a commercial officer in 1956. He and his wife, Marianne, served in Munich, Brussels, Bonn, Taiwan and Paris (twice), in addition to Washington, D.C. In 1982, while serving as commercial counselor in Paris, Mr. Grant and his family were the target of a terrorist attack attributed to the Lebanese Armed Revolu- tionary Faction. A bomb mounted under- neath Mr. Grant’s vehicle dislodged and later exploded when the French bomb squad attempted to diffuse it, ultimately killing two police officers. Mr. Grant and his family were unharmed. Following his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1984, the Grants moved to Sequim, Wash., returning in 2008 to the Washington, D.C., area, where their son and daughter-in-law reside. Mr. Grant devoted his retirement years to writing poetry, publishing six books of poems. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Marianne; his son, Kenneth; his brothers, Bruce and Kenneth; and his sister, Mar- ian. His daughter, Laurie, preceded him in death in 1993. n Sondra Otey Hartley , 73, the wife of retired FSO Douglas Hartley, passed away on Dec. 13 at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, after a fight against cancer. The daughter of the late Laura Wade Little and the late Dr. Bedford Otey, Sondra was born and raised in Memphis, Tenn., graduating fromThe Hutchison School. She attended Randolph Macon College in Virginia and graduated from the University of Alabama. In 1979, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she met Douglas Hartley, a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. State Department. A few weeks after their wed- ding, the couple moved to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Sondra’s vivacity and charm, enhanced by her quick grasp of the Portu- guese language, quickly won the hearts of the Brazilians. After living for five years in Salva- dor and in Rio de Janeiro, the Hartleys returned to Washington, D.C. There, she worked with a book publisher and lec- tured on life in the Foreign Service. In retirement, the couple spent summers with friends in Maine, bought property in Cushing and eventually built a house there on the coast, where they moved permanently in 2008. Mrs. Hartley was intensely interested in politics and was active as a volunteer at the Cushing Community School, the local Historical Society, the local Food Bank and the Farn- sworth Museum. She was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church inThomaston, Maine. Because of her openness, loyalty and unfailing generosity, she had a wide circle of friends. Sondra Hartley is survived by her beloved husband, Douglas, and by three half-brothers, a half-sister, a step-son, four step-daughters, 10 grandchildren and a great-grandson who was born two weeks before her death. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to the Cushing Historical Society, P.O. Box 110, Cushing ME 04563, or the Cushing Com- munity School, 54 Cross Road, Cushing ME 04563. n WilliamAlston (“Otty”) Hayne, 90, a retired Foreign Service officer and descendent of a pioneering California family, died peacefully at his home in St. Helena, Calif., on Nov. 14 following a courageous battle with cancer. Born in San Francisco in 1925, Mr. Hayne spent his first years on the family farm in Marysville, where his proud par- ents advertised their business as “Hayne Hogs & Hay.” When the family moved to the Bay Area, he was educated at local schools before going to theThacher School in Ojai, Calif. After high school, he joined the Navy and was sent to Doane College in Nebraska and then to the V-12 Program at U.C. Berkeley, where he earned his undergraduate degree in two years. He was on his way to join the Pacific war effort on the U.S.S. South Dakota when the war ended. After his release from the U.S. Navy Reserve, he received anMBA from Stan- ford University under the GI Bill in 1949. Mr. Hayne then worked for the Spice Islands Company and for Riley Precision Tool Company. In 1952, he met and wed Elisabeth Church, a transplanted Phila- delphian, to whom he would be happily married for 55 years and with whom he would raise three children. He joined the Foreign Service in 1954 and was posted to the U.S. consulate in Kingston, Jamaica. Subsequent overseas postings as an economic officer included Lima, Paris and Mexico City. He was also detailed to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he earned another master’s degree, and to Harvard University, where he served as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs. Mr. Hayne retired from the For- eign Service in 1980, and he and his wife moved to his family’s century-old vineyard property in St. Helena. There he