The Foreign Service Journal, May 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MAY 2021 73 to Chad in 1983. He served there until 1985, during the Chadian-Libyan con- flict, and then served as the senior vice president of the National War College before retiring in 1997. In retirement, Amb. Moffat divided his time between his homes in New Hampshire and Washington, D.C. He loved solving The New York Times cross- word puzzles, playing tennis, hiking and reading. He is a lineal descendant of two founding fathers: Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, the latter of whom was negotiator of the Treaty of Paris and the first U.S. chief justice. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children, Sarah, Matthew and Nathaniel, as well as seven grandchil- dren and two great-grandchildren. n Philip W. Pillsbury Jr., 85, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died peace- fully at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 3 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was surrounded by his family. Born in Chicago on Nov. 20, 1935, Mr. Pillsbury was the elder son of Philip W. Pillsbury and Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury. His father was president and chairman of the Pillsbury Company, which was founded by Mr. Pillsbury’s great-grand- father, Charles Alfred Pillsbury. On his mother’s side, he was descended from Myles Standish, an English settler who came to America on the Mayflower . Mr. Pillsbury attended the Blake School, the Hotchkiss School and Yale (class of 1957). Following graduate school in Paris, at Sciences Politiques, and The George Washington University, he began a lifelong career with the United States Information Agency, which began in Spain, Italy, Mali and Madagascar. After returning in 1966 to the United States, he temporarily left the Foreign Service and used his connections and profound understanding of African life and culture as project director of the Urban League Twin Cities in Minneapolis. During these four years through 1970, he fostered the deepest of relationships with key members of the civil rights movement and used his African pho- tographs and art collection to connect with members of the Minneapolis urban society in ways not many could. Mr. Pillsbury resumed his career in the Foreign Service in 1970 in Lubum- bashi, Zaire, where he promoted Ameri- can culture and arts. He then served in Tehran (1972-1974), Turin (1976-1980) and Buenos Aires (1980-1984). He returned to Washington, D.C., where he attended the National War Col- lege as a civilian for a year, before run- ning the USIA Youth Exchange until 1990. In 1995 Mr. Pillsbury was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Joint Commission of the Environment for the Panama Canal. Mr. Pillsbury served his country on five continents and invariably left an indelible mark on those he met. He learned to understand and respect local customs and ways of life in a characteris- tically unassuming manner. A farewell letter he wrote on leaving Mali in 1962 crystalizes his Foreign Service experience: “I leave as a friend of Mali. More, I love your country and your people. My stay has given me my life’s richest human experience. Most of all I have learned that love and sincerity between friends crosses all boundaries of politics, race, religion and customs—that we all have the same emotions in our souls and can meet in a spirit of brotherhood. How- ever, until this is understood by all we can have no lasting peace in this world.” If you would like us to include an obituary in In Memory, please send text to journal@afsa.org. Be sure to include the date, place and cause of death, as well as details of the individual’s Foreign Service career. Please place the name of the AFSA member to be memorialized in the subject line of your email. Among his many board member- ships, his impact was felt most deeply at the Hotchkiss School, the Octagon Soci- ety, the Foreign Student Service Council, the American Architectural Foundation, the Society of the Cincinnati, Alliance Française of Washington, D.C., Blair House and many others. Mr. Pillsbury was also proud to have served as his class agent for both Hotch- kiss and Yale, as well as the National War College. He was a member of the Wood- hill Club of Wayzata, Minn., the Metro- politan Club, the Chevy Chase Club and the Yale Club of New York City. Mr. Pillsbury was preceded in death by his brother, Henry Adams Pillsbury, and his first wife, Marion Winsor Mirick. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Caroline (Nina) Hannaford Pillsbury; three children, Fendell, Caroline Oliver and Philip III; nine grandchildren, Dustin, Andrew, Dalton, Elizabeth, Serena, Anna, Winston, Millicent and Thomas; sons-in-law Michael and Drew; and daughter-in-law Cynthia. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made in his memory to the Parkinson’s Foundation. n