The Foreign Service Journal, May 2014

68 MAY 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL technical cooperation for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in 1966 served as executive assistant to the U.S. ambassador there. He returned to Washington, D.C., in 1967 as assistant director for development in the Office of Brazilian Affairs at USAID, becoming director of that office in 1968. He was then detailed to the National Secu- rity Council as a senior staff member. Mr. Lewis served as special assistant for policy planning in the Bureau of Inter- American Affairs from 1969 to 1970 and as special assistant to the director general of the Foreign Service from 1970 to 1971. From 1971 to 1974, he was deputy chief of mission in Kabul, serving as chargé d’affaires in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown in a coup. He then returned to Washington, D.C., to serve as deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff until 1975, when he became assistant secretary of State for international organi- zation affairs. In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed Mr. Lewis U.S. ambassador to Israel, a position he held until 1985. Ambassador Lewis played a major role in negotiating the Camp David peace talks that resulted in the historic treaty between Egypt and Israel on Sept. 17, 1978. Following his return from Israel, Amb. Lewis served as the second president of the U.S. Institute for Peace from 1987 to 1992. He left USIP the next year to become director of policy planning for Secre- tary of State Warren Christopher. In that capacity he played an active role in the U.S. diplomatic team that helped mediate the successful launch of the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestin- ians in 1993 and 1994. After his retirement from the Foreign Service, Amb. Lewis taught at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins and advised foreign policy think-tanks on the Israeli-Palestin- ian issue. Considered one of the foremost experts on U.S.-Israeli relations, he was a frequent guest commentator on Middle Eastern issues for television and radio. Amb. Lewis sat on the U.S. Advisory Council of the Israel Policy Forum, and was involved in the J Street Project. He was also an active board member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He received the Meritorious Honor Award from the State Department and the Meritorious Honor Award fromUSAID in 1966. In 2011 USIP dedicated the Samuel W. Lewis Hall in its new facility to him. Amb. Lewis leaves his wife of 61 years, Sallie Smoot Lewis of McLean, Va.; and two children: Grace Lewis of Oakton, Va., and Richard Lewis of McLean. n Edward E. Masters, 89, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambas- sador, died on March 21 at his home in Washington, D.C., after a long illness. Mr. Masters was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 21, 1924, and grew up in northern Ohio, alternating between his grandfather’s farm and the small town nearby where his parents lived. He gradu- ated from high school in 1942 and started college at Denison University, leaving to enlist in the army. There he spent the next three years, during which time he became interested in foreign affairs. Mr. Masters received degrees fromThe George Washington University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He joined the Foreign Service in 1951, and during a 30-year career reached the rank of career minister, serving as ambas- sador to Bangladesh (1976-1977) and Indonesia (1977-1981). Other positions included deputy chief of mission inThailand (1971-1975), direc- tor of Indonesian affairs at the Depart- ment of State and political counselor in Jakarta. He also served in India and Paki- stan, and had an assignment in Washing- ton, D.C., as director of the Office of East Asian Regional Affairs, which involved policy coordination for the entire area. Following his retirement from the Department of State in 1981, Ambassador Masters was adjunct professor of Asian studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1981-1982) and later at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Inter- national Studies (2000-2003). In 1982 he joined the San Francisco- based Natomas Company, a Fortune 500 energy and shipping firm, as senior vice president for international affairs. He left the company after a hostile takeover, and was elected president of the National Policy Association, a nonprofit organiza- tion that brought together business, labor, agricultural interests and academia to focus on critical national issues in the fields of trade, productivity and interna- tional competitiveness. In 1994 Amb. Masters founded the United States-Indonesia Society because he felt it was not in the U.S. national interest that most Americans knew so little about Indonesia. His envisioned that USINDO would promote mutual under- standing between the two countries and strengthen the bilateral relationship. Amb. Masters’ prescription for solving bilateral problems over the long run in developing countries was through educa- tion at all levels. Toward that end, in 2009 USINDO established the Edward E. Mas- ters Fellows program, which has brought 17 highly qualified Indonesians for gradu- ate study at top U.S. universities. Amb. Masters served as USINDO’s president until 2001, then as the orga- nization’s U.S. co-chair, and later as co-chair emeritus. For his commitment and advancement of the U.S.-Indonesia relationship, the Indonesian government