The Foreign Service Journal, April 2005

the fall of Paris to the Allies. He served in Paris fromNovember 1944 to December 1951, when he was posted to Athens. For the next 10 years he served in Athens and, by sec- ondment, in Thessalonika, and finally in Nicosia, during the civil-war peri- od. Mr. Piepenburg’s final overseas posting was to Niamey, from 1961 to 1964. He returned to a Washington assignment, and retired in 1967. Following retirement, Mr. Piepen- burg moved to a country house in the glacial moraine country of McHenry County, Ill., northwest of Chicago. In 2000, increasing physical frailty com- pelled him to move into an apartment in the Presbyterian Homes of Evanston, Ill., where he lived until he entered a nursing home three months before his death. Mr. Piepenburg spoke fluent French and modern Greek. He was a longtime member of the American Foreign Service Association. He is survived by two brothers in Canada, Willard of Toronto and Roy of Edmonton; a niece and two nephews; a few old and dear friends; and many new friends at Presbyterian Homes in Evanston. Alfred Puhan , 91, retired FSO and ambassador to Hungary, died Jan. 20 in Sarasota, Fla. Born in Germany, Alfred Puhan was 12 when he came to the U.S. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1935, and received a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1937. He became involved profes- sionally in world affairs during the 1940s when he worked as a German- language reader for the Voice of America. Soon he was writing scripts for the broadcasts. Edward R. Murrow invited Mr. Puhan to join his “This Is London” program on CBS, but instead, in 1952, he entered the Foreign Service. Ambassador Puhan’s 31-year diplomatic career began in 1953 in Vienna, where as secretary of the Allied Communication Secretariat and director of the Quadripartite Secretariat he worked on the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 that ended the country’s occupation and recognized Austria as an independent and sover- eign state. Subsequent postings include Bangkok, Budapest — where A P R I L 2 0 0 5 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 59 I N M E M O R Y