The Foreign Service Journal, March 2023

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2023 65 Later, he was the director of the Office of Western European Affairs at the State Department. In 1987 Mr. van Heuven joined the National Intelligence Council as national intelligence officer for Europe. He held this position during the ensuing four years, which marked fundamental changes in Europe. He led the preparation of the National Intelligence Estimate anticipating the breakup of Yugoslavia, for which he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit from the Central Intelligence Agency. He also received the State Department’s John Jacob Rogers Award. After leaving government in 1991, Mr. van Heuven joined the RAND Corpora- tion as a senior consultant. He was a dis- tinguished lecturer at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and also served on the Board of Direc- tors of the Atlantic Council. He published widely on European and transatlantic affairs and was a frequent lecturer in the United States and in Europe. Mr. van Heuven was an active sports- man who enjoyed tennis, golf, and skiing. Riding, however, was his greatest passion. For many years, he was an active member of the Sugarbush Polo Club in Vermont. He was also an avid fox hunter, and a field master of the Green Mountain Hounds. Mr. van Heuven is survived by his wife, Ruth Held van Heuven, of Washing- ton, D.C.; two daughters, Anne Marie and Catherine Margot, both of Denver, Colo.; their spouses, Tracy Anne Davis and John Anthony Carney, both of Denver, Colo.; a granddaughter, Madeleine Rose Carney of Denver, Colo.; and a brother, Dr. Wichard Anne Jelle van Heuven of Vero Beach, Fla. n Helen Weinland, 80, a retired For- eign Service officer, died on Dec. 2, 2021, at her home at Parker Ridge in Blue Hill, Maine, after a brief bout with liver cancer. The daughter of Richard and Virginia Weinland, Ms. Weinland was born in New York City and raised in Chappaqua, N.Y. She attended Dana Hall, Mount Holyoke College (class of 1963), and Indiana Uni- versity, majoring in history. After several years of teaching history at Ohio State University, Ms. Weinland joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1974 and served in the State Department for 20 years. Her overseas postings included Switzerland, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia, Rwanda, and Berlin, where she was pres- ent as the Berlin Wall came down. Of special note was her 1984 appoint- ment as deputy chief of mission (DCM) in Rwanda, one of only three women DCMs at the time. She was also particularly proud of her 1991 appointment as consul general in her final posting, to Kaduna, Nigeria. Ms. Weinland’s interest in travel and foreign countries was sparked by grow- ing up in a family that had foreign visitors and exchange students as frequent dinner table guests. She had forged lifelong relationships with friends from France, England, Pakistan, and Somalia long before joining the Foreign Service. Ms. Weinland’s Nigerian postings led her to sponsor a Nigerian teenager for a college education in the United States, subsequently adopting her. Kekuut and her extended family are now a significant part of Ms. Weinland’s extended family. Ms. Weinland regaled friends and family with stories of her experiences all over the world, during her career and her post-retirement travels. In 2003 she self-published an account of her career: Living Abroad with Uncle Sam: Foreign Service Days . Her commitment to family was unwav- ering. She researched family history and donated land for a nature preserve dedi- cated to her parents in Penobscot, Maine. Friends and family members recall her as an indefatigable organizer, well known for planning gatherings and reunions among friends, college classmates, and family. Ms. Weinland’s strong faith and social commitment led to her long involve- ment in Partakers, a prison ministry, when she lived in Boston. She loved the Red Sox, the Metropolitan Opera, and her cat companions. Family and friends remember her as having led a lively and meaningful life. Ms. Weinland is survived by two sib- lings, Thomas Weinland (and his spouse, Mary Ginn) and Margaret Weinland; a daughter, Kekuut Hoomkwap (and her spouse, Ejiro Emorhokpor); three grand- children, Kathryn, Isabel, and Sophia- Marie Emorhokpor; three nephews, Richard, Christopher, and Jay Weinland; and a loving extended family, as well as many friends, around the world. n David E. Zweifel, 87, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambas- sador, passed away on Jan. 1, 2022, from complications of cancer, with his family by his side. He was born in Denver, Colo., on Sept. 13, 1934, to Henry Sebastian Zweifel and FriedaTheresa Zweifel (née Pieper). He grew up on the Great Plains, where through reading an old family atlas, he began to dream of seeing the world. After graduating from Oregon State University, he joined the U.S. Navy to fulfill his Naval Reserve Officers Train- ing Corps (NROTC) obligations aboard the USS Gearing . He served three years at sea and two years on the faculty of Princeton University where he taught naval warfare. With his obligations fulfilled, he at last took the Foreign Service exam and