The Foreign Service Journal, March 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2021 83 his father was a Boy Scout executive and his mother a public health nurse. As a youth, he earned the Eagle Scout Award. Mr. Kahn graduated from the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Omega and the Arnold Air Society, and a flutist in the Cal Band and member of the Straw-Hat Band and Baton, the band honor society. He received his Phi Beta Kappa Award in 1954. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and played the flute in an Army band. Following Army service, Mr. Kahn traveled to Europe with the Cal Band, visiting Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels. Mr. Kahn found that his band uniform got him free admission to opera houses, and he saw “Tosca” performed by the renowned La Scala Company of Milan. In 1958, Mr. Kahn joined the State Department as a career Foreign Service officer. He became a Turkish specialist based on his language skills, and served in Turkey several times, including assign- ments in Izmir, Ankara and Istanbul. Also fluent in French, he was posted to Dakar. His final overseas post was to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Vienna. He then returned to the State Department in Washington, D.C. In 1972 he received the State Department’s Merit Honor award. After retiring from the State Depart- ment in 1988, he served at the Justice Department, where he planned the International Conference of Appellate Court Judges. Following government service, Mr. Kahn spent 17 years as the education and programs director for the Ameri- can Friends of Turkey. He organized educational programs on Turkey at the Smithsonian Institution in a partnership between the American Friends of Turkey and the Smithsonian Associates. Mr. Kahn married the former Beverly Baldwin in 1967. They had one daughter, Melissa. Beverly died of cancer in 1974. He married Ruth Carlsen in 1984. Music and the arts, particularly opera and classical music, were Mr. Kahn’s great loves. He also enjoyed reading and literature, following national and global politics, architecture and railroads. Mr. Kahn is survived by his wife, Dr. Ruth Carlsen; a brother, Alan, of Yount- ville, Calif.; children Melissa (Jason) Richey, of Sewickley, Pa., Rebecca (Robert) Nesse of Rochester, Minn., Debra (John) Wilkinson of Zumbrota, Minn., Steven (Ann Marie) Carlsen of Bloomington, Minn., Dr. Susan (Michael) Baker of Elmhurst, Ill.; grandchildren Justin Richey, Logan Richey and Mar- cus Richey, John (Holli) Nesse, Lucas (Emily) Nesse and Sonja (Gabriel Eguia) Nesse, Robert (Nicole) Wilkinson, Laura (Maxwell) Wilkinson Behrens, Dr. Eliza- beth (Dan) Wilkinson Cozine, Anthony Carlsen and Claire Carlsen, Dr. Evan (Jennifer) Baker and Katherine Baker; and 11 great-grandchildren. Memorials may be sent to Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., www.cathedral.org; DACOR, www.dacor- bacon.org; or Scouts BSA Troop 98, www. kahn.troop98dc.org . n The Rev. Theodore L. “Ted” Lewis, 93, a retired Foreign Service officer from Bethesda, Md., died on July 11, 2020. A native of Long Island, N.Y., Rev. Lewis served in the Army during World War II, and then graduated from Haver- ford College and Harvard University. As a Foreign Service officer, he was first posted to French Indochina, where he became a lay reader in the Anglican con- gregation in Saigon and began to discern a call to ordained ministry. He was later posted to Karachi, where he assisted the local bishop in visitations to rural villages. He prepared for the ministry at Virginia Theological Seminary and, fol- lowing his ordination in 1964, served as curate of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. He returned to Sai- gon in 1965, working to coordinate food importation for South Vietnam as the VietnamWar raged. Rev. Lewis was then assigned to Kin- shasa, where he started a small Anglican congregation and helped encourage creation of the first Anglican diocese there, in Boga. He remained an advocate for the Congolese church for the rest of his life, coordinating sponsorship for advanced education for clergy and serving in more recent years as the church’s American commissar. After Kinshasa, he was posted to Seoul and Vientiane. Returning to Washington, D.C., he assisted in several parishes and, in recent years, was theologian-in-residence at All Saints Church in Chevy Chase, Md. He focused on scholarly work in retirement, traveling regularly to Duke and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where he made many friends. Rev. Lewis was the author of two books, To Restore the Church ( 1996) and Theology and the Disciplines of the For- eign Service: The World’s Potential to Con- tribute to the Church (2015), as well as many articles on Anglican Communion matters for several publications, includ- ing The Living Church . He also wrote for The Foreign Service Journal. He is survived by his son. n Charles “Chuck” Fredrick Keil, 75, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Nov. 25, 2020, in Annapolis, Md., after a courageous two-year battle with head and neck cancer.