The Foreign Service Journal, April 2011

70 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 1 1 the national and international boards of the Boy Scouts of America. He was also a lay leader and member of the administrative board of the Highland Park United Methodist Church, serv- ing as president in 1992, and served on the executive committee and edu- cational foundation board of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Amb. Rubottom was preceded in death by his wife of 69 years, Billy Ruth. He is survived by his daughter Eleanor Odden (and her husband, Allan) of Madison, Wisc., his son Frank Ruchard Rubottom of Hous- ton, Texas, and his son John William Rubottom (and his wife, Angie) of Austin, Texas; four grandchildren, and one greatgrandson. Margaret Joy Tibbetts , 90, a re- tired FSO and former ambassador, died on April 25, 2010, at the Gover- nor King Community of The High- lands in Topsham, Maine. Ms. Tibbetts was born on Aug. 26, 1919, in Bethel, Maine, to Pearl Ashby Tibbetts and Dr. Raymond R. Tibbetts. She was educated at the Gould Acad- emy in Bethel, graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., in 1941, and earned anM.A. (1942) and a Ph.D. (1944) at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She joined the Office of Strategic Services as a research analyst in 1944, moving to the State Department a year later to work in research and analysis until 1949, when she was assigned to London as a political officer. She re- ceived her commission as a Foreign Service officer in 1951. After serving in Leopoldville as an economic officer and consul covering the Cameroons and French Equatorial Africa from 1954 to 1957, she returned to the de- partment. In 1958, she became the officer-in- charge for political-military affairs in the Office of European Regional Af- fairs, and a year later was detailed to the International Cooperation Admin- istration, where she served until 1961. Ms. Tibbetts was then assigned to Brussels as chief of the political sec- tion. In 1963 she returned to the de- partment to attend the Senior Seminar. President Lyndon Johnson appoint- I N M E M O R Y Active and retired Foreign Service employees from foreign affairs are invited to nominate colleagues (or themselves) for a two-year term with the Foreign Service Journal. Editorial Board members, appointed by the AFSA Governing Board, set the general editorial direction of the Journal , in consultation with the editorial staff, each month. Members evaluate manuscripts, de- cide on future focus topics, and weigh in on other matters affecting the Journal ’s style, substance and process. Board members must reside in the Washington area and be able to attend monthly midday meetings at AFSA. Share Your Expertise! Join the Journal ’s Editorial Board! If interested, please contact FSJ Editor Steve Honley (honley@afsa.org ) by June 1.