The Foreign Service Journal, April 2011

A P R I L 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 61 I N M EMORY George Robert Andrews , 78, a retired Foreign Service officer and for- mer ambassador, died on April 11, 2010, at his home in Antigua, Guate- mala. Mr. Andrews was born inHavana on Feb. 26, 1932. As the son of a U.S. Foreign Service officer, he was brought up in Japan, Panama, Chile, England and France. He graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wil- son School in 1953 and received a mas- ter’s degree from the University of Strasbourg. He then joined the For- eign Service in 1954. In Hamburg, where he served as a consular officer, Mr. Andrews met and married Helga von Levern Schroeder. He subsequently served in Paris, Stock- holm, Dakar, Conakry, Strasbourg, Brussels and Guatemala City. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed him U.S. ambasssador to Mauritius. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1988, Amb. Andrews be- came director of the World Affairs Council in Boston. In this position, he arrangedmany foreign affairs programs that featured presidents from around the world. When he retired a second time, in 1994, he and his wife settled in Antigua. Amb. Andrews is survived by his wife, Helga, of Antigua; their daughters Christina Andrews of Key Biscayne, Fla., and Courtenay Slemeck of New York City; a son-in-law, Luke; and one grandson, Sebastien. Pamela Corey Archer , 70, a re- tired Senior Foreign Service officer, died on Dec. 17 at her home in Arling- ton, Va. Born May 2, 1940, in Los Angeles, Ms. Corey Archer spent her childhood in Mexico where her father opened and ran the first American Airlines of- fice, and later at Santa Catalina School, a boarding school in Mon- terey, Calif. After graduating from Scripps Col- lege in Claremont, Calif., with a degree in Hispanic-American studies, she ac- companied her husband, George War- ren Archer, to his first Foreign Service posting in Thailand. This was fol- lowed by Laos, where she worked as a journalist, and Panama, where she was an advertising copywriter and ac- count executive. Following her separation and even- tual divorce, Ms. Archer worked as a film producer in Buenos Aires and, prior to entering the Foreign Service in 1981, as an international broad- caster with the Voice of America’s Spanish branch and a publicist with National Public Radio. During 25 years as a Foreign Serv- ice officer, Ms. Corey Archer served first with the U.S. Information Agency and then in the Department of State. At her first foreign postings, Teguci- galpa and Montevideo, she monitored the transition from military to civilian governments as assistant press attaché and cultural attaché, respectively. Following a tour in Quito as press attaché, she served as counselor for public affairs in San Salvador, where, among other things, she coordinated meetings between U.S. authorities and guerillas and introduced human rights courses to the national war col- lege at the end of the civil war. She received several meritorious honor awards and superior performance awards for her work in Latin Amer- ica. Ms. Archer’s last overseas postings were in Lima, where she also served as counselor for public affairs, and Madrid, where she was minister coun- selor for public affairs. Her last assignment was as diplomat-in-resi- dence at the University of North Car- olina at Chapel Hill. After retiring in 2005, she worked as an instructor in public diplomacy at the Foreign Service Institute and as a volunteer/interpreter at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. She travelled extensively to visit family and