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 65 den for six months with pneumonia. Mr. Miller was predeceased by a son, William Keller Miller Jr., who died in 1995. He is survived by his wife, Margaret of Arlington, Va; three children, Michael Robert Miller of Missoula, Mont., Mary Margaret Miller (and her husband, Dennis Far- ley) of Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Barbara (Libby) Miller (and her hus- band, Jack Judd) of Missoula, Mont.; four grandchildren; and one great- grandson. Richard Bordeaux Parker , 87, a retired FSO and Middle East expert who served as ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco during the 1970s, died on Jan. 7 at the Grand Oaks retirement facility in Washing- ton, D.C., of vascular disease. Richard Parker was born in the Philippines of American parents (his father was an Army officer) in 1923. He was educated at public schools in various parts of the United States and became an engineering student at Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, now Kansas State University, in 1940. He enlisted in the Army at the end of his junior year, went to officer candidate school after basic training and was commis- sioned a second lieutenant of infantry in June 1944. In December 1944, the division in which Mr. Parker commanded an an- titank platoon was overwhelmed in the Battle of the Bulge, and he was made a prisoner of war. Taken to a camp for American officers in west- ern Poland, he was liberated by the Russians in 1945 and emerged via Odessa two months later. He re- mained in the Army until 1947, when he returned to Kansas State Univer- sity, receiving a B.S. that year and an M.S. in citizenship education the fol- lowing year. He then worked for five months as executive secretary of the Kansas State Commission for UNESCO, a body es- tablished by Milton Eisenhower, who was then president of KSU and chair- man of the United States National Commission for UNESCO, to pro- mote cultural exchange and adult ed- ucation in international affairs. I N M E M O R Y