The Foreign Service Journal, May 2008

sional fellowship, he then spent a year on Capitol Hill. Before returning abroad again, Mr. Humphrey served for two years in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, followed by two years on the Soviet desk and two years on the German desk. In the summer of 1977, Mr. Humphrey was assigned to the U.S. mission in Berlin, serving there as public safety adviser until 1981. He returned to Washington and worked for two years on the Yugoslav desk. In 1983, he was assigned a second time to Berlin, this time as political counselor. Mr. Humphrey retired from the State Department in 1986, remaining in Berlin, where he was selected in 1988 to direct the Allied Mediation Bureau that had just been established by the three occupying powers in the Western sectors of the capital. Until June 1991, the bureau served as an entity to which Berlin citizens could bring claims they might have had against any or all of the three Allied powers. Mr. Humphrey is survived by his three children, Lisa, Nina and Peter; his former wife, Sandra Humphrey; two sisters, Phyllis Brown and Phoebe Cottingham; a niece and nephew; and his companion of many years, Heidemarie Rennman. Louis H. Kuhn , 66, a retired FSO with USAID, died on Feb. 15 in Naples, Fla., after a long illness. Mr. Kuhn was born on April 6, 1941, at the Schofield Barracks Army Hospital on Oahu, Hawaii, and grew up in Fairborn, Ohio. He received his high school diploma from Chaminade High School in Dayton, and his under- graduate and graduate degrees in eco- nomics from Xavier University in Cincinnati (1963) and Ohio State University in Columbus (1965), re- spectively. He joined USAID in 1967. During his 30-year career as a Foreign Service officer, Mr. Kuhn spe- cialized in Asia and the Pacific Islands. He spent 23 years on assignment as a program officer with USAID in Thailand, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka. In addition, he was on assignment for seven years at the Department of State. M A Y 2 0 0 8 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 71 I N M E M O R Y