The Foreign Service Journal, April 2009

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 9 of adventure, her relentless curiosity and her lively spirit. Mrs. Reinhardt’s husband, who served as counselor of the State De- partment and as ambassador to South Vietnam, Egypt (formerly known as the United Arab Republic) and Italy, died in 1971. She is survived by their four chil- dren: G. Frederick Reinhardt III of Fairfield, Conn., Aurelia Reinhardt Gebauer of Miami, Fla., C. Henry “Harry” Reinhardt of Millbrook, N.Y., and Catherine Reinhardt Traber of New York, N.Y.; and 14 grandchildren. Pierre L. Sales , 83, a retired FSO, died on Oct. 29, 2008, in Reston, Va. Mr. Sales was born in Marseille, France. After serving in the Pacific theater during World War II, he grad- uated fromColumbia College and was the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellow- ship for graduate studies in Washing- ton, D.C. During his 27-year diplomatic ca- reer, Mr. Sales was seconded to the United Nations Development Pro- gram and subsequently assigned to the U.N. Secretariat in New York. His overseas assignments were primarily in Africa. Following retirement from the For- eign Service, he worked in the private sector for nearly eight years, the last two as a vice-president in a Washing- ton-based economic consulting com- pany. Since 1988, he devoted himself full- time to lecturing, research and writing. He compiled a book, From Ancient Afryqah to Modern Africa , which was published as a CD-ROM in 1999. He was a member of the Explorers Club, Amici Linguarum, the Society for His- toric Discoveries, theWashingtonMap Society, the American Geolinguistic Society and the American Name Soci- ety. Mr. Sales also managed a graduate internship Fellowship Program on be- half of the Washington chapter of the United Nations Association, which in- volved the participation of all Wash- ington-based universities. He is survived by his wife, Bakh- taver of Ashburn, Va., four children from his previous marriage, grandchil- dren and great-grandchildren. Malcolm “Mac” Toon , 92, a re- tired FSO and former ambassador, died on Feb. 12 in Pinehurst, N.C. The son of first-generation Scottish immigrants, Mr. Toon was born in 1916 in Troy, N.Y. He was a graduate of Tufts University (1937) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1938), and after the war, continued his studies at Middlebury College and Harvard University. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in campaigns in the South Pacific, where he captained PT-155, rising fromensign to lieutenant commander. He joined the Foreign Service in 1946. His earliest postings included Warsaw, Budapest and Berlin. In 1960, he was assigned to London. Known during the Cold War as a “hardliner” on the Soviet Union, he served from 1963 to 1967 as counselor for political affairs inMoscow. After an assignment in Washington from 1967 to 1969, he was appointed ambassador to Czechoslovakia. That was followed by a succession of other ambassadorial appointments: to Yugoslavia (1971- 1975), Israel (1975-1976) and the for- mer USSR (1976-1979). During his diplomatic career, he participated in the Nuclear Test Con- ference in Geneva (1958-1959); the Four Power Working Group in Wash- ington, London and Paris (1959); the ForeignMinisters Conference in Gen- eva (1969); the Ten-Nation Disarma- ment Commission in Geneva (1960); the SALT II delegation (1977-1979); and the U.S.-Soviet Summit in Vienna (1979). After retiring to Pinehurst, Ambas- sador Toon not only golfed and trav- eled extensively but also served on various boards of directors, received honorary degrees and held educational chairs. He served as a Tufts University trustee emeritus and as a member of the Fletcher School’s board of over- seers. Later in his retirement, Presi- I N M E M O R Y