The Foreign Service Journal - March 2018

78 MARCH 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL She undertook 27 different service trips throughout the world, the last in 2011 at the age of 89. Water aerobics was a part of her daily routine, and she enjoyed growing Bonsai trees and collecting praying hands from all over the world. Mrs. Mein is survived by her son, David, and daughter-in-law Judy; her daughter, Marilyn, and son-in-law Corwin Edwards Jr.; and her son, Eric, and daughter-in-law Catherine; eight grandchildren; and 11, soon to be 13, great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions can be made to the music or mission programs of her church, Calvary Baptist, 755 Eighth Street NW, Washington D.C. 20001. n WilliamHaven North, 91, a retired member of the Foreign Service with USAID, died on Dec. 12, 2017, inWashing- ton, D.C., of gastrointestinal bleeding. Mr. North began his civilian govern- ment career in 1952 as a Foreign Service officer in the Technical Cooperation Agency—a USAID-predecessor organiza- tion—serving five years in Ethiopia and four years inWashington, D.C., supporting Marshall Plan programs in Europe and planning assistance to the newly indepen- dent African states. In 1958 he was assigned to USAID’s European Bureau, where he managed the remnants of the Economic Coopera- tion Administration programs and other new programs for Africa, and in 1961 was posted to Nigeria as assistant program director. In 1965 Mr. North was detailed to the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the first USAID representative to partici- pate in that yearlong program. Back inWashington, D.C., in 1966, he became director for Central andWest Africa affairs, a geographical subdivision in the African Bureau, where his work focusedmainly on Ghana and Nigeria. In 1970 he was posted in Ghana as mission director. From there, in 1976, he returned to Washington, D.C., where he served as deputy assistant administrator, and for several periods acting assistant administrator, of the African Bureau until 1982. After serving as co-leader of a mission to evaluate an integrated rural devel- opment project in Nepal and helping to organize the African Development Foundation, in 1983 Mr. North was put in charge of pulling together the evaluation and information functions of USAID. The result was establishment of the agency’s Center for Development Information and Evaluation. During this time he also served as chair- man of the Expert Group on Evaluation of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Coopera- tion and Development. Mr. North retired fromUSAID in 1989 with the rank of Career Minister after 38 years of U.S. government service, including two years in the U.S. Army. In retirement, he worked as a consul- tant. He also joined with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training to conduct nearly 100 oral history interviews of former USAID officers, thus contribut- ing significantly to the public understand- ing of USAID operations overseas. Mr. North and his wife, Jeanne, also a major intellectual contributor to USAID and development theory, were married for almost 65 years. He is survived by his daughter, Jean- netteThannikary (and her husband, Cy); his sons, W. Ashby North and Charles North (and Charles’ wife, Sharon); grand- daughters Sarah North and Aarica North (and Aarica’s husband, LiamVoth); and his sister, Louise Grey. In lieu of flowers, the family recom- mends donations to the Bethesda United Methodist Church (washmorefeet.org) , InterfaithWorks (iworksmc.org ), the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (adst.org) , or the USAID Alumni Association’s USAIDHistory Project (usaidalumni.org ). n Howard B. Schaffer, 88, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambas- sador to Bangladesh, died inWashington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 2017, of complications from congestive heart failure. A native of New York City, where his family ran a small business that manu- factured lighting fixtures in Queens, Mr. Schaffer graduated fromHarvard College in 1949. Drafted into the Army during the KoreanWar, he was based in Japan, where he first became interested in a career in foreign affairs. He took the Foreign Service examon his return to the United States, and worked in the advertising industry until 1955, when he received his invitation to join the Foreign Service. Amb. Schaffer spent 36 years in the Foreign Service and was considered one of the department’s leading experts on South Asia, where his postings included two tours in NewDelhi and one in Islamabad, in addition to his 1984-1987 tenure leading the embassy in Dhaka. His earlier postings included Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. With his wife, Teresita Schaffer, Howard Schaffer was also part of an early Foreign Service tandem couple. At the time, the phenomenon of two officers marrying and continuing their careers was unusual enough tomerit a profile in The New York Times in 1975, while posted in Pakistan. After Teresita Schaffer took a leave of absence during her husband’s stint as ambassador in Bangladesh, he retired so that she could become an ambassador as well, serving in Sri Lanka.