The Foreign Service Journal, April 2005

U.N. not opened refugee camps for the Hutus in eastern Zaire. After the genocide, as charge d’affaires at Embassy Kigali, Mr. Whaley helped supervise reconstruction. He later became the chief U.S. contact in east- ern Zaire with guerrilla leader Laurent Kabila (who ousted longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997). But that was not his only brush with controversy. In 1990, Mr. Whal- ey was evacuated from a posting in Haiti when officials of the Port-au- Prince regime declared him persona non grata because of his wide contacts with opposition figures and his rela- tionship with radical priest Jean- Bertrand Aristide, who later became president. In 1997, Mr. Whaley received AFSA’s William R. Rivkin Award for intellectual courage and constructive dissent. During the previous year, he had defied prevailing opinion in the diplomatic community to accurately predict the peaceful return of 500,000 Hutu refugees from camps in eastern Zaire to their homes in Rwanda. Mr. Whaley returned to Washing- ton in the late 1990s to work on non- proliferation issues at the department. Following his retirement in 1999, he worked part-time in the Secretary of State’s office to improve recognition for retired Foreign Service officers. In particular, he served as the coordi- nator for Foreign Affairs Day events for retirees. Mr. Whaley’s marriage to Kather- ine Crawford ended in divorce. He is survived by his daughter, Susan Katherine Whaley of Chevy Chase; his mother, Eileen Callahan of Whiting, N.J.; and two sisters. A memorial service for Mr. Whaley was held on March 10 in the State Department’s Delegates’ Lounge. ■ 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 63 I N M E M O R Y Send your “In Memory” submission to: Foreign Service Journal Attn: Susan Maitra 2101 E Street NW, Washington DC 20037, or e-mail it to FSJedit@afsa.org, or fax it to (202) 338-8244. No photos, please. 2000 N. 14th Street ■ Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Telephone (703) 797-3259 Fax (703) 524-7559 Tollfree (800) 424-9500