The Foreign Service Journal, April 2007

France; and a cousin, James S. Land- field of McLean, Va. In lieu of flowers donations in Mr. Landfield’s name are suggested to Hospice or the Alzheimer’s Associa- tion. Thomas B. Larson , 92, retired FSO, died on Dec. 26, 2006, in Hightstown, N.J. Born in Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Larson spent his childhood in Ne- braska. He was a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and received an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1938 and a Ph.D. in political science from Co- lumbia University in 1939. Mr. Larson taught government and political science at Northeastern University, Amherst College and Williams College before joining the U.S. Army in 1943. He started out as a private, and was then transferred to the Army Specialized Training Pro- gram in Army Intelligence’s Russian program as a lieutenant. He joined the State Department in 1947. He served as chief of the Division of Research for the USSR and Eastern Europe in the Office of Intelligence and Research, and was posted to Moscow (as attaché-politi- cal officer) and Paris (as first secre- tary-political officer). Mr. Larson also served as a research analyst, a foreign affairs specialist and an intelligence research specialist. In 1963, he was detailed to the National War College as director of the Department of Political Affairs. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Mr. Larson ap- peared on national television as a Soviet expert, analyzing an excerpt from the diary of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Larson retired from the Foreign Service in 1966, and subse- quently taught at the Russian Institute at Columbia University and the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Disarmament and Soviet Policy, 1964-1968 (Pren- tice-Hall, 1968) and Soviet-American Rivalry (W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), and co-editor, with Alexander Dallin, of Soviet Politics After Khrushchev (Prentice-Hall, 1968). In 2000, Mr. and Mrs. Larson moved to Meadow Lakes, a retire- ment home in Hightstown, N.J. Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Helen R. Larson of Hights- town; a son, John D. Larson, and wife Leslye, of San Francisco, Calif.; and a daughter, Ruth Larson, and husband Hunter Taylor, of Mt. Holly, N.J. Hawthorne “Hawk” Mills , 78, a retired FSO, died of bone cancer on Feb. 3 at his home in Havelock North, New Zealand. Born in California, Mr. Mills grad- uated from Colorado College in 1950 and received a master’s degree from the University of California at Berke- ley in 1958. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1946. Mr. Mills’ public service career spanned the years of the Cold War, from 1945 when he served as a young sailor in the Pacific, to 1990, when he served as an international peacekeeping offi- cial with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai, helping en- force the security provisions of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Over a 36-year Foreign Service career, Mr. Mills also served as chief of mission in Afghanistan during the first two years of Soviet occupation, DCM and chargé d’affaires in Athens, consul general in Amsterdam, political counselor in Tehran, province senior adviser with CORDS in Vietnam and mission coordinator in Saigon. He was also posted to TheHague, Salzburg and Washington, D.C. Mr. Hawthorne’s decorations and awards include the State Department’s Award for Hero- ism and its Superior Honor Award, the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and two Senior Foreign Service performance awards. For 12 years following his retire- ment from the Foreign Service in 1990, Mr. Mills and his Kiwi wife, Diana, lived on an island sheep farm in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. During this time, they spent the Northern Hemisphere summers crui- sing the inland waterways of Europe aboard their French canal boat or vis- iting their far-flung children and grandchildren. In 2002, they moved to the Hawke’s Bay wine country, where Diana grew up, to be closer to family, friends and good medical facilities. Mr. Hawthorne’s autobiography, The Time of My Life: A Personal Look at the Twentieth Century (Xlibris, 2005), was described in the Foreign Service Journal ’s November 2005 issue as “candid and trenchant, and sometimes at odds with conventional wisdom” — but “never boring.” Mr. Mills is survived by his wife, Diana, four children and six grand- children. Phelon DeLafyette Peters , 76, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer with USIA, former Fulbright scholar and Korean War veteran, died on Nov. 28, 2006, in his hometown of Winston- Salem, N.C., after a short illness. After graduating from Atkins High School in Winston-Salem in 1948, Mr. 76 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 7 I N M E M O R Y