The Foreign Service Journal, March 2022

86 MARCH 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL The key to pulling off this ploy, former colleagues said, was that the other side knew that Ambassador Smith really was willing to walk away rather than accept a bad deal. Mr. Smith met Deborah Wince in 1986 when she was working at the White House and sought his backing for changes in an agreement with Japan. When she arrived at his office, she recalled, he said, “You have three minutes. What do you want?” They married in 1988. After leaving government service the same year, Amb. Smith formed Rock- mere Associates, a consultancy that gave advice to companies trying to break into protected foreign markets. He ran it until he was in his mid-70s. Amb. Smith is survived by his wife of 33 years, Deborah, along with two children from his first marriage, Eric Smith of Overland Park, Kan., and Leslie Rosen of Nahant, Mass.; two sons from his second marriage, Devereux Smith of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Christian Smith of Washington; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. n Geoffrey Ernest Wolfe, 80, a retired Foreign Service officer and the spouse of Ambassador (ret.) Sandra Louise Vogel- gesang, died peacefully surrounded by his family on Oct. 27, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. He was born on Jan. 11, 1941, in Washington, D.C., to Joseph Ernest Wolfe and Edna Othelia Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe graduated fromMontgom- ery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., in 1959. He earned a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from American University in 1963, and a mas- ter’s in political science from Columbia University in New York in 1978. His first foray into international affairs took place at the Department of Agricul- ture, where he worked for the Foreign Agricultural Service from 1966 to 1969. Mr. Wolfe’s 30-year Foreign Service career began in 1969. His primary focus was on economic issues, with a geo- graphic emphasis on the Soviet Union. He was fluent in Russian, thanks to training at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. His first posting in the Foreign Service was Vietnam. Thereafter, he worked in the Soviet Union, Washington, D.C., and Canada. While he was in Washington, his work ranged from an assignment to the Environmental Protection Agency to negotiations on nuclear issues in the nations of the former USSR. At Embassy Ottawa, Mr. Wolfe served in the political section while his wife, San- dra Louise Vogelgesang, also a career FSO, served as economic minister-counselor. He later accompanied her to Nepal dur- ing her tenure as ambassador, from 1994 to 1997. While there, the family traveled extensively in Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Mr. Wolfe was active in the Bethesda, Md., community. He was particularly involved with the Boy Scouts, serving as a scout- master for Troop 1434. Mr. Wolfe was also involved in local politics, serving as precinct chair for the Democratic party. He maintained an impressive array of tools and lumber, which he used to create some of the fur- niture for the family home, and he loved showing his children how to make things with their hands. He and his wife continued to enjoy traveling after both retired from the Foreign Service, seeking out places they had not explored during their careers and returning to past homes, such as Vietnam, to see what had changed. Destinations ranged fromWestern Europe and South America to South Africa, China and Japan. If you would like us to include an obituary in In Memory, please send text to journal@ afsa.org. Be sure to include the date, place and cause of death, as well as details of the individual’s Foreign Service career. Please place the name of the AFSA member to be memorialized in the subject line of your email. Mr. Wolfe is survived by his wife, Sandra Louise Vogelgesang, and their two children, Christopher Glenn Wolfe (and wife Kim and granddaughter Summer) and Carolyn Louise Wolfe (and husband Satchel Kornfeld). He is also survived by his brother, BertramWolfe, of Kensing- ton, Md., and his three children, Demian, Candice and Timothy, and their respective spouses and children. n Arthur HamiltonWoodruff, 92, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambassador, passed away on June 14, 2021, in Nokomis, Fla. After graduating fromHarvard Univer- sity in 1950, Mr. Woodruff enlisted in the Marines and was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Korea. He joined the Foreign Service in 1954. His career included postings to Morocco, the Congo, London, NATO headquarters in Brussels, the Canadian War College and the United Nations in New York. He was appointed U.S. ambassador to the Central African Republic in 1981, serv- ing there until 1983. He retired in 1988. Ambassador Woodruff also served on the editorial board of The Foreign Service Journal from 1962 to 1963. He was an avid reader of history and a devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox. Amb. Woodruff is survived by his wife, Jean, and his children, William, Lauren, Alexandra and Wells. n