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pointed him ambassador to Ecuador, an appointment that President John F. Kennedy renewed. During the next four years, Mr. Bernbaum dealt with complex issues such as Ecuador’s dis- putes with Peru over borders and with the U.S. over tuna fishing rights. He managed to deal skillfully with two challenging Ecuadorian presidents, both overthrown in coups, and the military governments that followed them; and he oversaw the birth of the Alliance for Progress program in Ecuador. In 1964, President Lyndon John- son appointed Mr. Bernbaum ambas- sador to Venezuela. He devoted much of his four years in Caracas to dealing with problems with petroleum and Venezuelan resentments over prefer- ential treatment for Canada. He took special satisfaction in playing a key role in averting a war between Vene- zuela and neighboring Guyana. Amb. Bernbaum retired as a career minister in 1969, and he and his wife moved back to Washington, D.C. He continued to take a keen interest in foreign affairs, and was an active member of the International Club. He served as the president of Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, from 1981 to 1983, and main- tained close contact with his col- leagues in the Foreign Service. And he was a member of the Cosmos Club to the end of his life. When he and his wife left their home in Bethesda to go to the Maplewood Park Place retirement community, Amb. Bernbaum started and ran a popular current affairs dis- cussion group there. In his later years, when he could no longer pursue his lifelong love of golf, he became an avid walker, covering three miles a day well into his 90s. He also traveled widely with his wife and loved to spend time with her, his children and his grand- children. Not long after the couple moved to Collington in 2003, Amb. Bernbaum’s wife, Elizabeth, passed away. He is survived by his two children, Edwin Bernbaum of Berkeley, Calif., and Marcia Bernbaum of Washington, D.C.; four grandchildren, Shana and Leah Zallman, and David and Jona- than Bernbaum; a sister, Sandra Fei- genberg; and a brother, Harry Bern- baum. Memorial contributions may be made in his name to the Senior Living Foundation of the American Foreign Service, 1716 N Street NW, Washing- ton DC 20036 (www.slfoundation. org). Patricia M. Byrne , 82, a retired FSO and former ambassador to Mali, Burma and the United Nations, died on Nov. 23, 2007, at The George Washington University Medical Cen- ter in Washington, D.C. Ms. Byrne was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Vassar Col- lege. She received a master’s degree from the School of Advanced Inter- national Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1947. In 1949, she joined the Foreign Service, serving in Greece, Vietnam, Turkey, Laos, France and Sri Lanka, where she was deputy chief of mis- sion, in addition to Washington, D.C. In 1969, Ms. Byrne became the first female graduate of the National War College. She was named ambassador to Mali in 1976 by President Gerald Ford, and in 1979 President Jimmy Carter dispatched her to Burma. President Ronald Reagan named her deputy U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, with the rank of ambassador, a position she held from 1985 to 1989. Ms. Byrne retired in 1989, but returned to the State Department for two more years to help establish pro- cedures for declassifying documents. She settled in Washington, D.C., where she was active in Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, serv- ing on the group’s education commit- tee and, twice, as a member of the board. She also volunteered with the Senior Living Foundation and the Asia Society. Ms. Byrne is survived by a sister. Thomas P. H. Dunlop , 73, a re- tired FSO, died on Feb. 1 at his home in Alexandria, Va. Mr. Dunlop was born on June 12, 1934, in Washington, D.C., but spent his youth in Asheville, N.C. He attended both the University of North Carolina and Yale University, receiving his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Yale in 1956. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After spending a year in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar, he served in the United States Air Force in France and Germany as an intelligence officer. In 1960, Mr. Dunlop joined the Foreign Service. During a 33-year diplomatic career, he served as a polit- ical officer in Yugoslavia, Vietnam and Korea. Washington assignments in- cluded a tour as country director for Romania and Korea, as well as details to the Defense Department and the office of the Director of Central Intel- ligence. Mr. Dunlop also attended the Senior Seminar. Upon retirement in 1993, Mr. Dunlop served on a civil rights mission to Yugoslavia, obtained a master’s degree from George Mason Univer- sity in linguistics, and taught English as a second language. He was also employed by the State Department to review classified official documents with a view to making them available to historians and the general public. 68 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 8 I N M E M O R Y