The Foreign Service Journal, May 2006

brig on Governor’s Island in New York City. Amb. Mulcahy received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1947. Upon graduation, he joined the Foreign Service, serving for 33 years. His first assignment was as principal officer in Mombasa. This was his first introduc- tion to Africa, which was to play an important part in his career. In 1949, he was posted to Munich as a visa offi- cer. In 1950, he was assigned as polit- ical officer to Addis Ababa, and then as principal officer in Asmara. There, in 1951, he met Kathleen Lyon, a Foreign Service secretary; they mar- ried in 1953 in Globe, Ariz. They had six children, five of whom survive them. In 1952, Amb. Mulcahy returned to Washington, D.C., where he worked on a variety of assignments, including a stint on the Trusteeship Council for Cameroon at the United Nations in New York. In 1956 he was assigned to Athens as a political offi- cer. In 1959, he was posted to Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), as deputy principal officer, and partic- ipated in the protection and evacua- tion of Americans and other foreign- ers from the Congo when civil war broke out there. In 1963, he returned to Washington, to the Bureau of Near East and African Affairs, with respon- sibility for Southern Africa. He was selected for the Senior Seminar in 1966. Amb. Mulcahy served as DCM in Tunis from 1967 to 1970, and then in Lagos from 1970 until his appoint- ment as ambassador to Chad in 1972. In 1974, he returned to Washington as deputy assistant secretary of State for African affairs. In 1976, he was named ambassador to Tunisia. After he returned to the U.S. in 1979, Amb. Mulcahy spent a year as diplomat-in- residence at Atlanta University, where he drew up plans for a graduate pro- gram in international relations. An excellent linguist, he spoke German, French, Italian and Latin, and was conversant in Swahili and modern Greek. Amb. Mulcahy retired from the Foreign Service in 1980, taking up the position of vice president at “Project Hope” headquarters in Millwood, Va. Project Hope provides medical care and education throughout the devel- oping world. After retiring from Project Hope in 1982, he continued his interest in local and international affairs, serving on the board of the Tunisian-American Association in Washington, D.C., and lecturing on U.S. foreign policy at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Va. He was also a devout member of Sacred Heart parish in Winchester. He was actively involved in his college and Marine Corps reunions, as well as in the American Foreign Service Association and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He and his wife traveled extensively in retirement, both in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000, Amb. and Mrs. Mul- cahy had been residents at Win- chester-Canterbury in Winchester, Va. Mrs. Mulcahy died in 2005. Amb. Mulcahy was laid to rest, with full military honors, at Arlington National Cemetery. He is survived by three brothers and two sisters; five children, Anne Dower of Glen Ellyn, Ill., John Mulcahy of Hong Kong, Eileen Mulcahy of Winchester, Va., Kevin Mulcahy of Charlotte, N.C., and Father Brian Mulcahy of Char- lottesville, Va.; and nine grandchil- dren. Kenneth Rabin , 81, a retired FSO with USAID, died Feb. 26 in Portland, Ore. Born in Portland, Mr. Rabin was the son of Sonia Rothkowitz, a Rus- sian immigrant, and Jacob Rabin, who had immigrated from England in 1912. Mr. Rabin’s attendance at Reed College was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Force from April 1944 until June 1945. He flew 31 combat missions over Germany as a lead bombardier in the Second Divi- sion of the 8th Air Force, and was dis- charged as a first lieutenant in June 1945. He returned to Reed, graduat- ing in September 1947, and received a master’s degree from Columbia University in June 1948. He had fur- ther academic training at Columbia University and American University in Washington, D.C. In 1955, Mr. Rabin joined the Foreign Service, serving in Canberra, Perth and Brussels, and at the ex- change program office in Washing- ton, D.C. In 1962 he joined USAID. He was posted to Manila and then, in 1965, to Conakry. Back in Washing- ton, he served in the Vietnam Bureau and in the agency’s Office of Pro- grams. In 1968 he was detailed as a fellow to the Harvard Center of Internation- al Affairs, a program of independent study with faculty status for 15 senior diplomats from 10 countries. Mr. Rabin also served from April through August 1969 as an adviser to Gover- nor Nelson Rockefeller, and accom- panied Gov. Rockefeller on four visits to Central and South America in sup- port of the Alliance for Progress. Mr. Rabin became USAID’s direc- tor of East Asian regional develop- ment in 1969. His last overseas assign- ment was to Bangkok, where he served as director of the agency’s Office of Regional Economic Devel- opment, counselor for regional eco- nomic development, and the U.S. rep- resentative to the United Nation’s 64 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A Y 2 0 0 6 I N M E M O R Y u u