The Foreign Service Journal, March 2022

82 MARCH 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL history work capturing the legacy of modern U.S. diplomacy, Mr. Kennedy received the Foreign Service Cup, the Cyrus R. Vance Award for Advancing Knowledge of American Diplomacy, the Forrest C. Pogue Award from the Mid- Atlantic Region Oral History Association, and a special citation from the American Academy of Diplomacy. In 2011, former Secretary of State George Shultz commended the ADST program with the following words: “The efforts of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program are inte- gral to safekeeping our nation’s history, documenting the vast variety of settings in which our diplomacy takes place, identifying work that has succeeded, and studying the causes of less successful results. I applaud you for engaging in the vital task of transmitting this learning to others so that the future can learn from the past.” In 2014, Mr. Kennedy received the American Foreign Service Association’s Award for Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy in recognition of his distinguished career. His interview in the September 2014 FSJ can be read at bit.ly/KennedyInterview. While Mr. Kennedy took his work and duty to country seriously, he always found the humor in any situation. An avid reader (and author of three books on diplomacy), he was most content with a cat on his lap, a book off the shelf and a friendly conversation on the horizon. He will be missed, but his legacy lives on in diplomatic work and the history he has both made and captured. Mr. Kennedy was preceded in death by his wife, Ellen Fox. He is survived by his three children: Heather Kennedy of Seattle, Wash., Victoria Deveraux of Arlington, Va., and Charles Kennedy III of Pasadena, Calif., along with seven grand- children and one great-granddaughter. In lieu of flowers, the family would welcome donations at adst.org/donation- page to support the work of ADST that he cared so much about. n Carol Joan Mills, 83, a retired Foreign Service secretary, died on Dec. 7, 2021, at the Elks Home Noble Senior Living Community in Bedford, Va. Ms. Mills was born on Sept. 9, 1938, in Keyser, W.Va. She graduated from Keyser High School in 1956 and earned an associate degree in the arts from Potomac State College in 1958. She began her career as a secretary at a law office in Keyser that year and also served with Brethren Volunteer Services in Washington, D.C. As a secretary for USAID during the 1960s, she was posted inThailand and Laos. She then transitioned to the State Department, serving as secretary to ambassadors all over the world. Her career included tours in Nicaragua, Hungary, South Korea and Australia. She also worked in Grenada and Mongolia on temporary duty assignments. Ms. Mills grew up in the Church of the Brethren, and she credited her youth group with inspiring her relationship with the Lord, as well as instilling in her the principles that she kept throughout her life. She loved cats, reading, travel and time with her nieces and nephews, to whom she was affectionately known as Aunt Butchie. In retirement, she enjoyed taking cruises to different countries and staying in touch with friends, both in her home- town and throughout the world. Ms. Mills was preceded in death by her parents, Delbert Elwood Mills and Genevieve Shoemaker Mills, and her three sisters, Charlotte Mills Wilmoth, Jeanie Mills Graham and Delberta Mills Daveler, and their spouses. She is survived by seven nephews and nieces: Richard Lee Wilmoth, Thomas Craig Wilmoth, Mark Stephen Graham, Stephanie Graham Sorensen, Jonathan Mills Graham, Elizabeth Kristin Graham and Matthew Christopher Graham, and their families. n Margery GruenMyers, 78, wife of the late Foreign Service Officer Robert P. Myers Jr., died of colon cancer at her home in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 29, 2021. The only child of two economists, Ms. Myers was born and grew up in Washing- ton, D.C. After attending Alice Deal Junior High and Sidwell Friends School, she graduated fromHarvard-Radcliffe College in 1965 and the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1970. Dr. Myers was an accomplished physician, an expert horticulturist and an extraordinary chef, with an adventurous spirit and an insatiable curiosity. Before her senior year in college, she embarked on a four-month trip around the world. Traveling alone, she visited the Philip- pines, India and Syria, among other countries. Along the way, she met a dashing For- eign Service officer, Robert Myers, whom she married in 1966. During their 39 years of marriage, they shared many adven- tures, living in Laos, Spain and Northern Ireland as they raised their three boys. One of the few women in her medi- cal school class, Dr. Myers refused to choose between family and career; she embraced both. Her first two sons, Robert and Michael, were born while she was in medical school—and she still graduated on time with her class. Her third son, Chris, was born on an American military base inThailand while