The Foreign Service Journal, March 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2021 85 wife, Alexandra Macdonald of Athens, Greece; and a son, John Dimitri Macdon- ald, and grandson, John Daniel Macdon- ald, of Bear, Del. n Bernard Norwood, 97, a retired Foreign Service officer, died of kidney cancer on Nov. 13, 2020, in Austin, Texas. Mr. Norwood was born in Boston, Mass. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston University, and a master’s and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He served as a mortar man in World War II with the U.S. Army’s 104th Infan- try (Timberwolf ) Division, participating in frontline combat against the German army for 195 consecutive days. He was wounded in the Rhineland and was awarded the Purple Heart. Mr. Norwood served as an interna- tional economist at the State Depart- ment from 1949 through 1957. He became a Foreign Service officer in 1955. In that capacity, he served as first secretary of the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Luxembourg and Brussels from 1958 to 1962, a criti- cal period in which the European Coal and Steel Community, the Common Market and Euratom were taking shape. Mr. Norwood was a U.S. delegate to negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva from 1953 to 1967. From 1963 to 1967, he served in the executive office of the president as chair of the trade staff committee in the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. In this capacity he worked closely with the president’s special representative, former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Mr. Norwood was the senior civilian member of the National War College class of 1967-1968. Then, not wanting to accept another overseas posting that would conflict with the career path of his wife, Janet L. Norwood, who rose to become commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1979 to 1991, he left the Foreign Service. From 1968 to 1975, Mr. Norwood was senior adviser to the Board of Gover- nors of the Federal Reserve System. He then joined Robert Nathan Associates, a leading Washington, D.C., economic consulting firm, as principal associate from 1975 to 1994. Mr. Norwood was predeceased by his wife of 71 years, Janet, in 2015. He is survived by two sons: Stephen, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, and Peter, the Austin, Texas, site lead for Google. n Charles “Pat” Patterson, 77, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 18, 2020, in Chestertown, Md., after a long struggle with esophageal cancer. Mr. Patterson grew up in Harlingen, Texas. As a boy, he had a pet armadillo, tended tropical fish and small livestock at a feed store, worked in a photography shop and, proudly getting his driver’s license at age 14, drove to the Gulf of Mexico on solitary overnight fishing trips. High school valedictorian, Mr. Pat- terson left Texas to attend the University of Michigan, where he majored in theater and literature, attended national poetry workshops and honed his acting skills. After beginning a graduate program in theater, he volunteered for the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam conflict, serving as an electronic communications officer in Turkey and Italy. He continued his education in the military, earning a master’s degree in international relations from Boston University. Mr. Patterson resigned his commis- sion to begin a long diplomatic career with the State Department, serving as a political officer in Italy, Lebanon, Tunisia, Kuwait, Israel, Malta, Nigeria and Barba- dos. An outstanding linguist, he won a Matilda W. Sinclaire language award and spoke Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic and Hebrew. In retirement, Mr. Patterson con- tinued short-term assignments for the State Department. He participated in the Future of Iraq Project (an unsuccessful attempt to prevent hostilities after 9/11), worked to reestablish diplomatic rela- tions with Libya and served as a political adviser at U.S. Embassy Sana’a. He also covered the Far East for the Avian Influenza Task Force, which planned America’s diplomatic response to a potential pandemic health event. This gave him a unique insight as the COVID-19 crisis developed. Mr. Patterson reconnected with his life partner, Sheila Austrian, also a retired diplomat, after he retired to Washington, D.C., and soon made Chestertown, Md., his full-time home. He was an avid golfer, taught a popular course at Washington College on current events in the Middle East and served in many capacities at his local community theater. He was also a committed “fixer,” with a basement full of tools, batteries, glue, electronic gizmos and whatever else a house might need when things don’t work properly. Mr. Patterson is survived by his partner, Sheila; twin daughters, Meg and Beth Patterson; a granddaughter, Skye O’Keefe; an older brother, Tom Patterson; and his former wife, Margo Worthington. He asked that any dona- tions in his memory be made to Church Hill Theatre, 103 Walnut Street, Church Hill MD 21623.