The Foreign Service Journal, June 2009

82 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J U N E 2 0 0 9 back to the United States, while William was assigned to Lagos after the Vichy French government vetoed his posting to Dakar in French West Africa. She arrived in the United States in October 1941 and spent the next year unsuccessfully attempting to arrange transportation to Lagos. At last a va- cancy on the consular staff there opened unexpectedly, so she was able to book passage across the Atlantic. She traveled to Nigeria through waters infested with U-boats on an un- escorted merchant vessel that was sunk by German submarines on a later voyage. The happily reunited couple was married in Lagos on Feb. 6, 1943. Mrs. Krieg accompanied her hus- band on subsequent assignments to Caracas, Guatemala City and Santi- ago, alternating with assignments in Washington, D.C. In Venezuela she took an active part in the Caracas Players, with a leading role in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” presented in El Teatro Municipal, then the capi- tal’s main downtown theater. In Guatemala she was active in the Union Church, and in Santiago she worked as a volunteer with the Salva- tion Army in rural areas. Upon retirement, the Kriegs set- tled in Bethesda, Md., until 1993, when they moved to Sarasota, Fla. Philinda is survived by her three chil- dren, Laurence John Krieg of Ypsi- lanti, Mich., Laura Krieg Morris of Sarasota, Fla., and Helen M. Came of Pittsfield, Mass.; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Harry Roberts (“Bob”) Melone Jr. , 80, a retired FSO, died on Jan. 30 from pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Washington, D.C. Mr. Melone was born in Auburn, N.Y., on June 30, 1928, the son of Harry Roberts Melone and Dorothy Swift Melone. He was president of the senior class of 1946 at Auburn High School and graduated in 1950 from Dartmouth College. He then studied international relations at Yale University before entering the For- eign Service in 1952. During a 30-year career, Mr. Mel- one served in Tabriz, Yaounde, Paris, Niamey and Washington, D.C., and at the United Nations. He was ap- pointed ambassador to Rwanda in 1979 and served there until 1982. Mr. Melone is survived by his wife, Domnica Djuvara Melone, of Tako- ma Park, Md.; his daughter, Sandra Djuvara Melone (and son-in-law An- drei Popovici), and a granddaughter, Zoé Melone Popovici, all of Takoma Park, Md.; his sisters Anne Deidrick and Mary McIsaac; and nine nieces and nephews: Nancy Deidrick Kosub, Elgin Deidrick, Sara Deidrick Timms, John Deidrick; and Martha, Jeffrey, Betsy, Caroline and David Post. Contributions can be made in his memory to Search for Common Ground at www.sfcg.org . Edwin C. Pancoast , 83, a retired FSOwith the U.S. Information Agency, died on March 13. Born in New Jersey, Mr. Pancoast served in the U.S. Army as a commis- sioned officer from 1943 to 1946. He received his bachelor’s degree from Maryville College in 1949, and a mas- ter’s degree from The George Wash- ington University in 1971. Mr. Pancoast entered the State De- partment in 1949 as an intern and a year later, as a civil servant, was sent to Germany, where he worked as an ad- ministrative assistant in the office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. He was then appointed resident officer for Dieburg, Hesse, and from 1951 to 1953 served as the film officer in the U.S. Information Service office in Bre- men. He served as director of Amerika Haus there until 1955, when he was transferred to Naples, where he was the cultural affairs officer for southern Italy until 1958. He was transferred to Trieste in 1958 and commissioned as an FSO in 1960. In 1961, Mr. Pancoast was assigned to USIA headquarters in Washington, where he was the desk officer for the Mediterranean countries of Europe. He returned to Germany in 1965, first as an information officer in Bonn and, a year later, as branch public affairs of- ficer in Duesseldorf. After a detail to the National War College for the 1970- 1971 academic year, he was posted to Accra in 1971, where he was public af- fairs officer to Ambassador Shirley Temple Black. In 1974, he returned toWashington, D.C., to head the policy office at the Voice of America. In 1979, he was named director of the Amerika Haus in Munich, serving there for five years. Returning to USIA headquarters in 1984 as a senior program officer, Pan- coast retired in 1986, settling in Chevy Chase, Md. He is survived by his wife, Eunice Billings Pancoast, of Chevy Chase, and three children: a son, Lawrence; and two daughters, Karen and Joanne. Thomas Rickert Reynders , 71, a retired FSO, died unexpectedly on Feb. 1 in Kabul, where he was con- I N M E M O R Y