The Foreign Service Journal, April 2005

York University, from which he received a B.A. in 1937 and an M.A. in 1938. He worked for the New York City government before joining the Department of the Army during World War II, working for Army intel- ligence. In 1944, he joined the Department of State as an “auxiliary vice consul,” a special wartime category, and passed the FSO examination early in 1945. He was initially assigned to Tehran, but before that he was sent temporar- ily to San Francisco to assist the U.S. delegation at the conference founding the United Nations. Mr. Spivack served in Tehran from 1945 to 1948, during the tense and active postwar period there that included, among other events, the confrontation with the USSR over Azerbaijan. His next post was Burma, during another eventful period. He saw that country achieve its indepen- dence, and witnessed its subsequent turmoil. While in Burma he met and married his first wife, Florence, who passed away in 1981. In 1951, Mr. Spivack was assigned as second secretary and economic officer to Paris, where his experience included work on implementation of the Marshall Plan. He returned to the department in 1954 to the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. In 1956 he was posted to Burma a second time, as chief of the embassy’s political section. This was followed by a return to the department from 1959 to 1962, during which he attended the Senior Seminar and then worked as a Foreign Service inspector. Mr. Spivack was then posted to Phnom Penh as counselor and DCM, and later became chargé d’af- faires. He served there from 1962 to 1964, a period that saw considerable turmoil in U.S. relations with Cambodia and its mercurial leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. His next assignment was to New Delhi, where he served from 1967 to 1969 as minister for political and eco- nomic affairs. This was followed by a year as diplomat-in-residence at Michigan State University. Mr. Spivack was consul general in Dhaka when Bangladesh became independent in 1972. He was named chargé d’affaires as the first head of the new U.S. embassy there. His last Foreign Service assignment before retirement in 1975 was as consul gen- eral in Munich. Mr. Spivack returned to New York City following retirement, spending four years as director of programs at the Asia Society. In 1985 he moved to San Francisco, where he was active in the Foreign Service Association of Northern California, the World Affairs Council, the Japan Society and other community organizations. He is survived by his wife Annie, of Tokyo and San Francisco, whom he married in 1986. Thomas Jeremiah Warren , 74, a retired Foreign Service specialist, died of cardiac arrest at his home in Drumfries, Va., on Dec. 31. Mr. Warren was born in Corinth, Miss. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1969, he served for 12 years in the U.S. Army. In the Foreign Service, Mr. Warren served as a communications specialist and supervisory communi- cations officer in Rome, Moscow, Geneva, Quito, Tehran and Madrid. Upon returning to Washington in 1978, Mr. Warren was the officer in charge of telecommunications opera- tions management for Europe and North Africa. He then served for four years as primary representative for the Office of Communications to three major interagency crisis man- agement programs. He retired in 1985. Upon retiring, Mr. Warren began another career, as a contractor/consul- tant to the Department of State and Department of Defense. In 2000, at the age of 70, he retired from a Com- puter Sciences Corporation assign- ment in the Office of the Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses. In his retirement, Mr. Warren enjoyed the beach — fishing, boating or just being there — and traveling internationally. Survivors include his wife, Sandra, with whom he celebrat- ed a 36th wedding anniversary the evening before he passed away; and their children Michael and Jennifer. Mr. Warren was buried with military honors in Quantico National Ceme- tery, Quantico, Va. Peter Whaley , 54, a retired FSO and winner of the William R. Rivkin Award, died Jan. 29 of pancreatic can- cer at his sister’s home in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Whaley graduated in 1972 from Tufts University and attended Stanford University after winning the Wallace Stegner Fellowship for creative writ- ing. Mr. Whaley spent several years as a writer before joining the Foreign Service in 1982 as a political officer. Over a 17-year career, Mr. Whaley was posted to Haiti, Rwanda, Zaire, Bosnia and Washington, D.C. In the mid-1990s, at the height of the turmoil between the Hutus and Tutsis, Mr. Whaley served as deputy chief of mission in Kigali, Rwanda, and as a liaison with Rwandan rebels based in eastern Zaire. He was known for his plain-spoken assess- ment that the Rwandan genocide would never have happened had the 62 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / A P R I L 2 0 0 5 I N M E M O R Y