The Foreign Service Journal, April 2009

A P R I L 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 63 dents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clin- ton requested he leave the golf course and chair the American delegation to the Joint U.S.-Russian Commission on POWs and MIAs. He married Elizabeth Jane Taylor in 1943, and they enjoyed a 53-year marriage until her death in 1996. Amb. Toon is survived by their chil- dren, Barbara Lindenbaum of Mari- etta, Ga., Alan Toon of West End, N.C., and Nancy M. Toon of South- ampton, N.Y.; and grandchildren, Rachel Bruce, Sarah Lindenbaum and Gordon Toon. Hubert LeRoy Zwald , 97, a retired FSO, died on May 22, 2008, in Can- berra, A.C.T., Australia. Mr. Zwald was born May 12, 1911, in Emporium, Pa. A gifted musician, his piano studies at Washington Uni- versity in St. Louis, Mo., were inter- rupted by World War II. He served in Europe in communications until the end of the war, attaining the rank of major. Following the war, he remained in Paris, helping the American soldiers re- turning to the U.S., before obtaining a communications position with the American embassy. In 1949, he re- turned to Washington, D.C., and was transferred to Bogota, his first posting in finance. Subsequent assignments in- cluded Johannesburg, Seoul, Teguci- galpa and, finally, Canberra in 1965, where he settled after retirement. Family and friends recall Mr. Zwald’s gentle manner and his beauti- ful piano playing — memories en- graved on his headstone, which says, “Let there be music.” He is survived by his wife, Lesley, whom he met and married in Australia in 1971, and a daughter, Roberta, born in South Africa. His first wife, Bertha, died in 1968 in Australia. I N M E M O R Y E-mail your “In Memory” submission to the Foreign Service Journal at FSJedit@afsa.org , or fax it to (202) 338-6820. No photos, please.