The Foreign Service Journal, June 2009

J U N E 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 83 ducting a supervisory visit as the home- office manager of two USAID-funded projects implemented by Checchi & Company Consulting, Inc. He was a resident of Darnestown, Md. Mr. Reynders was born in Worces- ter, Mass., and educated at Andover Academy. After receiving his B.S. in economics at Princeton University in 1959, he served in Korea in the U.S. Army until 1962. He earned a law de- gree from Harvard University in 1966 and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He worked briefly for the De- partment of Justice before joining the Foreign Service in 1966. Mr. Reynders was a Foreign Serv- ice officer with the Department of State for 20 years, serving overseas in Jakarta, Hamburg, Rome, Paris and Amsterdam, where he was consul general. In assignments in Washing- ton, D.C., he served as a special as- sistant to the counselor; as a special assistant to the foreign affairs adviser for Vice President Spiro Agnew; as an adviser to the late Patsy Mink, when she was assistant secretary of State for oceans and international environ- mental and scientific affairs in the mid-1970s; and as director of the Op- erations Center. At the time of his death, Mr. Reyn- ders was a senior associate at Checchi & Co. Since joined the firm in 1996, he had project management responsi- bilities for USAID-funded legal devel- opment and institutional reform pro- jects in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Mada- gascar, Montenegro and Israel. He also led the American Bar Association’s Law and Democracy Project in Cam- bodia in the early 1990s. Mr. Reynders was preceded in death by his daughter, Siobhan Reyn- ders, in 2002 and by his parents, John and Louise R. Reynders. His wife of 41 years, Joyce Mercer Reynders, died on March 8. Mr. Reynders is survived by a brother, John R. Reynders, of Or- ange, Conn. Joyce Mercer Reynders , 66, wife of the late FSOThomas R. Reynders, died on March 8 of lung cancer in Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, Md. Mrs. Reynders was born in Bristol, Va. She graduated in 1965 from Rad- I N M E M O R Y