The Foreign Service Journal, April 2003

Administration for three and a half years. She returned to France on the death of her father, and became an executive secretary in the French shipping company Chargeurs Reunis in Paris. By this time Mr. Munn, who had joined the Foreign Service in 1947, was working for the American con- sulate general in Bremen, Germany. After numerous trips to Paris and an exchange of letters, the couple became engaged on Washington’s birthday and were married in a civil ceremony in the mayor’s office on Sept. 21, 1951. Mrs. Munn accompanied her husband on his travels and lived in nine countries. Their children Sharon Claudette and Alan Paul were born in Athens, Greece; Alison Leslie was born in Tripoli, Libya. Following Mr. Munn’s retirement in 1975, the family lived in Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina, before settling in Reston, Va. Mrs. Munn is survived by her husband; her children Sharon Claudette Shell of Chalfont, Pa., Alan Paul of Indianapolis, Ind., and Alison Leslie of Centreville, Va.; and three grandchildren, Kelley Leanne Shell, Brett Patrick Shell and Sara Kathleen Shell. The family plans to hold a memo- rial service for Mrs. Munn at Arlington National Cemetery in the spring of 2003. James Richard Todd , 82, retired FSO and one of the first African- Americans in the U.S. Foreign Service, died Jan. 3 in Red Bank, N.J. Mr. Todd was born in Ashville, N.C., but moved with his family to Philadelphia, where he was raised. He attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta and Howard University in Washington, D.C. Following gradu- ation, he worked at the Department of Defense in Washington, where he met his wife, Norma. In 1945, shortly after their mar- riage, Mr. Todd joined the State Department, the 11th African- American inducted into the Foreign Service. He was posted to Egypt. A P R I L 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 71 I N M E M O R Y 2000 N. 14th Street Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Telephone (703) 797-3259 Fax (703) 524-7559 Tollfree (800) 424-9500