The Foreign Service Journal, March 2017

74 MARCH 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL D-Day. While on a mission later in June 1944, Mr. Chapman’s Spitfire was hit by ground fire. He had to eject, and was taken prisoner. Following the Allied victory, the captors fled and Mr. Chapman and his comrades traveled to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen to help. What he saw there haunted him for the rest of his life. He would always remain aware of the human capacity for evil, his family recalls. Mr. Chapman was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his service in World War II. Returning to Princeton, he com- pleted his economics degree in 1948. After some wandering, in 1950 he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, where he especially enjoyed the human rela- tions, the travel and the opportunity to be involved with complex international challenges. His first posting was to Casablanca, followed by a tour in Beirut, and then one in Tehran as assistant to the U.S. ambassa- dor. At the time, he owned a Jaguar, which he enjoyed driving from Tehran to Beirut. His next posting, in 1957, was to Saigon. Back in the United States in 1959, following some months in Vientiane, Mr. Chapman married Anita Ioas, whom he had met at a lunch party when they both lived in Saigon. The couple bought a town- house in Georgetown, where they raised their three children: Catherine, Hillary and Jennifer. The young family moved to different posts in Western Europe— Luxembourg, Paris and Brussels. Mr. Chapman spent more than two decades working on the VietnamWar and its many complexities, both in Washing- ton, D.C., in the Bureau of Political-Mili- tary Affairs and in the field. He was chargé d’affaires in Laos in 1974, when the Ameri- can effort in Southeast Asia was collaps- ing. At great personal risk, Mr. Chapman kept the American embassy open and helped manage the crisis when members of the communist Pathet Lao attempted to seize control of U.S. buildings. Mr. Chapman capped his more than 30-year diplomatic career serving in Paris, his home, with his great friend from youth, Ambassador Arthur Hartman. There, Mr. Chapman relished the cultural and intellectual excitement of the city and especially being near his brother, Tony, and sister-in-law, Joan. Those were the days of the Iranian revolution and the Tehran hostage crisis in which Embassy Paris was very involved. Mr. Chapman is remembered, among many other things, for assisting perse- cuted Baha’is from Iran. There, in 1981, Mr. Chapman survived an assassination attempt by a Lebanese revolutionary group. At the time, he was living in the chargé d’affaires’ residence, which had a subterranean garage where he was to get in and out of his car. Not wanting to trouble the chauffeur to maneuver the car in the small garage, however, Mr. Chapman had the driver wait in front of the house. One morning, as he walked the 10 feet to the car, a young man approached and began shooting. Mr. Chapman ducked behind the car and was chased around it. Soon the gun was empty, and the gunman ran away and disappeared. After he retired from the Foreign Service in 1983, Mr. Chapman was asked to serve on special missions to Cyprus and Bosnia. He later led the Washington chapter of the Friends of Vieilles Maisons Françaises, a French-American historical preservation organization. Art was among Mr. Chapman’s great loves. He bought paintings by the Polish artist Fangor and the American artist, Mark Tobey, whom his wife, Anita, had known in her youth in California. He also enjoyed poetry and Italian Opera. At the time of his brother Tony’s death, Mr. Chapman began a descent into dementia that stretched over 14 years. Family members recall that he met the many painful moments of physical and mental decline with the same courage with which he had lived. Survivors include his wife of 56 years, the former Anita Ioas of Washington, D.C.; two daughters, Catherine Chapman-Wong of London, Ontario, and Jennifer Chap- man of Washington, D.C.; his son, Hillary Chapman, also of Washington, D.C.; and two grandchildren. n Thomas Lynn Chittick, 74, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Nov. 22, 2016, in Plano, Texas. Mr. Chittick was born on March 7, 1942, the son of Robert and Lucille Chit- tick. Raised in Lafayette, Ind., he grew up on a farmwith his younger sister, Ginger. Though he learned to drive a tractor quite well, he took greater pride in his academic achievements. Mr. Chittick graduated from Purdue University with a B.A. in social studies education and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He served in the army for eight years, includ- ing two tours in Vietnam and, later, an assignment in Berlin. There he met the love of his life, Gabri- ele Calliebe. The couple married after only a few short months of courtship, and proceeded to build a life together over the next 48 years, trekking the globe with the Foreign Service for much of it. Shortly after the birth of his son, Béla, in 1975, Mr. Chittick joined the Foreign Ser- vice with the Department of State, where he served for the next 20 years. He resigned from active duty with the U.S. Army at that time and joined the Army Reserves. Mr. Chittick’s first post was Mexico City (1976-1978). The family headed back