The Foreign Service Journal, May 2010

M A Y 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 Taiwan before postings in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. After spending a year learning Russian, he served two years in the political sec- tion in Moscow during the mid-1960s, returning in the mid-1970s as political counselor. Mr. Brement was a highly accom- plished linguist who also spoke French, Spanish, Hebrew and Bahasa Indone- sia, as well as Old Norse. An expert in Sino-Soviet affairs, Mr. Brement served on the National Secu- rity Council as Soviet adviser to Presi- dent Jimmy Carter. He was deputy ambassador to the United Nations under President Ronald Reagan, and from 1981 to 1985 he served as ambas- sador to Iceland, where his work with the NATO Naval Base at Keflavik earned him the U.S. Navy’s highest civilian medal and an honorary knight- hood from the Icelandic government. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1985, Ambassador Brement served for four years at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., where he was director of the Strategic Studies Group, an advisory think-tank to the Chief of Naval Operations. From 1994 to 1999, he was associ- ate director of the College of Strategic Studies at the George C. Marshall Cen- ter in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ger- many. And from 1999 to 2002, he was theHugh S. andWinifred B. Cumming Memorial Professor in International Af- fairs at the University of Virginia. Later, he was a member of the Tucson Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs. The author of numerous articles in his areas of expertise, Amb. Brement wrote a book, Reaching Out toMoscow (Praeger, 1991), as a Woodrow Wilson fellow in 1990. He studied fiction in the prestigious writing program taught by Wallace Stegner while attending Stan- ford University as a State Department fellow in the late 1960s. His novel Day of the Dead (Moyer Bell, 2006) is a treatment of the assassination of the late South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. He was perhaps most proud, however, of his translations of two vol- umes of Icelandic poetry — Three Modern Icelandic Poets (Iceland Re- view, 1985) and The Naked Machine (Forest Books, 1988). Amb. Brement is survived by his wife of 35 years, author and playwright Pamela Sanders Brement of Tucson, Ariz.; his daughter, Diana of Seattle, Wash.; sons, Mark and Gabriel, both of Tucson; five grandchildren; and his first wife, Joan Bernstein Brement of Seat- tle, Wash. Dorothy R. Dillon , 92, a retired FSOwith the U.S. Information Agency, died on Jan. 31 at her home in Wash- ington, D.C., after a long illness. Born in New York, N.Y., she ob- tained a doctorate in U.S. and Latin American history from Columbia Uni- versity. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she taught at Sweet Briar Col- lege and Rutgers University. In 1951, Ms. Dillon joined the State Depart- ment as an intelligence analyst, trans- ferring in 1953 to USIA, where she was chief of the Latin American branch of the Office of Research. In 1960, she joined the Foreign Service. After serving as cultural affairs officer in Guatemala City, she was as- signed toManila as CAO. Returning to Washington, she was a Federal Execu- tive Fellow at the Brookings Institution and, later, a policy officer for Latin America. She then became deputy as- sistant director and assistant director for Latin America at USIA, the first woman to hold that position. Ms. Dillon retired in 1978. Throughout her career and after- ward, she was a dedicated activist for women’s rights, and witnessed changes along those lines in USIA and else- where by the time she retired. In retirement she remained active in Latin American affairs, serving as di- rector of the Washington Center for Latin American Studies. She was also a member of the Foreign Service Griev- ance Board and a contributing editor to The Times of the Americas . Ms. Dillon leaves no immediate sur- vivors. Norris Dean Garnett , 78, a retired Senior FSO with the U.S. Information Agency, passed away on Jan. 14 at his home in Culver City, Calif., from com- plications following a stroke he had suf- fered some years earlier. Mr. Garnett was born on Nov. 21, 1931, in Newton, Kan., the seventh of 13 children. After graduating fromhigh school in 1949, he attended Bethel Col- lege in Newton until 1951, when he joined the Air Force. After demon- strating a significant aptitude for lan- guages, he was given intensive Japan- ese-language training and assigned to Tokyo. Following an honorable discharge, Mr. Garnett settled in Los Angeles and enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles, where he majored in for- eign affairs and languages. Upon grad- uation, he moved toWashington, D.C., where he pursued graduate studies in Russian language and foreign affairs at Georgetown University. In 1958, he applied for a position as a Russian-language guide with USIA’s AmericanNational Exhibition, a collec- I N M E M O R Y