The Foreign Service Journal, May 2021

70 MAY 2021 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL business card that read: John Coppola, Exhibitionist. Even before he got his first press pass to cover the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mr. Coppola was a politi- cal junkie. He was never at a loss when asked to opine on any aspect of national or international politics, always knew the details of the most recent polls and could at the slightest provocation recite verbatimmajor portions of the U.S. Con- stitution. Mr. Coppola is survived by his sister, Phyllis (Paul) Natoli of Dripping Springs, Texas; nieces Denise (Casey) Brooks of Zanesville, Ohio, Diane (Barrett) Sand- efur of Austin, Texas, and Danielle (Isaac) Orao of Austin; great-niece Carson Sand- efur; and great-nephew Gabriel Orao. Donations in Mr. Coppola’s name may be made to Food & Friends or Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas, both in Washington, D.C., or the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. n Joseph C. Huber, 95, a retired Foreign Service officer with USAID, died Nov. 26, 2020, at Heritage Pointe in War- ren, Ind., of complications from COVID- 19. Mr. Huber was born on the family farm on Sept. 12, 1925, in Warren, Ind. After graduating from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy in 1943. During World War II, he was a flight engineer on seaplanes serving in the Philippines, China and Japan. He was recalled during the Korean War and served as a commu- nications specialist in Washington, D.C. In 1950, after graduating from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education, he taught high school for several years while managing the family farm. He sold livestock feed and became an assistant county agent. In 1958 he joined the International Cooperation Administration’s overseas intern program and was assigned as an extension adviser at the U.S. embassy in Bogotá and, later, Barranquilla, Colom- bia. In 1962 he joined USAID and moved to La Paz, Bolivia, as an agricultural pro- gram adviser. In 1968 he was transferred to Rio de Janeiro and then to Recife, Brazil, to work in the Food for Peace Program. Continuing with Food for Peace, Mr. Huber was assigned to Managua follow- ing an earthquake. He advised the USAID mission director on shipping, warehous- ing and distribution of food commodities to earthquake victims. During his time in Nicaragua, he did several temporary assignments to Honduras, Haiti and Tan- zania to assist in disaster relief. Retiring from USAID in 1976, Mr. Huber went on to work as a pesticide field investigator for the Indiana State Chemist and Seed Commissioner’s Office. He is survived by daughters Mary and Jane, brother David and stepsister JoAnn, seven grandchildren, and 12 great-grand- children. He was preceded in death by his wife, Willene; sons Tom and Bill; and step- brothers Jack, George and Perry. n Edmund “Pat” Hamilton Kelly, 86, a retired State Department Foreign Service officer, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Feb. 5 at Green Ridge Village in Newville, Pa., after a long illness. Mr. Kelly was born June 30, 1934, in Delaware, Ohio, the youngest son of the late Ruth Curran Kelly and Albert Rice Kelly. After the untimely death of his father, his mother married the late Luther Sheets. als. His consulting and teaching work focused on helping museums refine their collections, management approaches and collection policies. He particularly encouraged museums to become more representative of and welcoming to the communities they served (or should serve). As an active member of the Ameri- can Alliance of Museums, Mr. Cop- pola directed that organization’s first Museum Assessment Program of a foreign museum, the Museo del Hombre Dominicano in Santo Domingo. He taught museummanagement and curatorial studies for the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University and at Stanford University’s Washington, D.C., campus. Among his favorite artist-students was his great-niece Carson Sandefur. He also served as director and curator of the Harmony Hall Regional Center Gallery in Fort Washington, Md., and managed several artist-run galleries in Washington, D.C. He was active in the International Council of Museums, served on the Board of Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas, and was an adviser to the Stonewall National Museum and Archives. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the advisory board for the Institute of Library and Museum Science. Mr. Coppola was a painter, print- maker and sculptor. He studied art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Smithsonian Institution; Tamarind Institute, Univer- sity of New Mexico; Miasa Hanga Center in Japan; and Studio Camnitzer-Porter in Italy. He was also an art critic for the Miami Herald and Latino magazine. His artwork was most recently exhib- ited as part of the “America Is …” exhibit at the Touchstone Gallery in Washing- ton, D.C. He delighted in carrying a