The Foreign Service Journal, May 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MAY 2014 71 After serving as ambassador to Bul- garia (1979-1981), he headed the Senior Seminar inWashington, D.C., and was a diplomat in residence at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., before retiring from the Foreign Service in 1983. In 1985 Mr. Perry went to Davidson College as professor of political science and the first director of the new Dean Rusk Program in International Studies. He retired from that position in 1995, although he and his wife continued to reside in Davidson, moving to The Pines in 2007. Mr. Perry also spent two years (1997- 1999) teaching and administering inter- national studies at UNC Charlotte. From 1984 on, he wrote numerous columns for the Charlotte Observer . He often said that being able to express his opinions freely in a newspaper with a fine tradition was one of the great privileges of his later life. After entering his 80s, Mr. Perry wrote: “I had a three-time blessed life. I was given a wonderful human being as my wife, with all the good things that come frommarvel- ous children and a happy family. I was given a diplomatic career which took me to fascinations around the world, and which let me be a part of the great ColdWar era in which two nuclear powers proved that by negotiation, not armed conflict, they could keep the peace. And I was given the great gift of teaching a decade at a superb college with inspiring students. I amone fortunate man.” Jack Perry is survived by his wife, Betsy, of Davidson; one son, James William Perry (and his wife, Elizabeth Hanes) of San Carlos, Calif.; three daughters, Leslie Perry Wingate, Jennifer Perry (and her husband, Paul) Karpenko and Laura Perry (and her husband, Brandon) Bates, all of Atlanta, Ga.; and eight grandchildren: Ellen Perry, WilliamPerry, SarahWingate, Sydney Karpenko, Emily Wingate, Zachary Karpenko, Richard Bates and Rebecca Bates. He is also survived by his sister, Jane Perry Adams, and her husband Gerald, of Atlanta. Donations may be sent to the Jack Perry Scholarship Fund, Dean Rusk Program, Davidson College, Davidson NC 28035 or to Crisis Assistance, Ada Jenkins Center, 452 SouthMain Street, Davidson NC 28036. n Barbara Shelby-Merello, 81, an FSOwith the United States Information Agency, died on Feb. 14 in Austin, Texas. Ms. Shelby-Merello was born toMarian Eikel Shelby and Robert Evart Shelby on June 21, 1932. She grew up in Teaneck, N.J., and attended the University of Texas at Austin. In 1960, she joined the U.S. Information Agency, managing cultural exchanges until 1987. Her overseas tours included Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, and Peru, with short postings at the United Nations in New York City and in Belgium, Zaire and Tunisia, in addition toWashing- ton, D.C. Ms. Shelby-Merello translated 12 books by Brazilian authors of widely differing styles (including Jorge Amado, Gilberto Freyre, Antonio Callado, Joao Guimaraes Rosa and DomHelder Camara) from Portuguese into English for the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. She was a finalist for the 1968 National Book Award for her transla- tion of Freyre’s Mother and Son . For several years she wrote an interna- tionally syndicated column in Spanish, WATCH FOR Education Supplement Coming in June! Offering You a World of Ideas About Your Child’s Education Online at: www.afsa.org/schools_supplement.aspx