The Foreign Service Journal, June 2009

86 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 Parker Drummon Wyman , 87, a retired FSO, died on March 3 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., of brain cancer. Mr. Wyman was born in Evanston, Ill. He attended Harvard University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in government and international relations in 1944. He received a second bachelor’s de- gree in 1983, in systems analysis, from the University of Maryland. Mr. Wyman served from 1943 to 1946 with the U.S. Army in Europe, where he participated in the Battle of the Ruhr. In 1946Mr. Wyman joined the For- eign Service, beginning a 38-year diplomatic career as a consular officer in Berlin. In 1948, he was assigned to Cairo as a political officer, returning in 1950 to Washington, D.C., to serve in the German affairs office. He was de- tailed to Harvard University in 1951 for a year as a German specialization trainee and then posted to Duesseldorf in 1952 as a political, and later eco- nomic, officer. In 1955, he was posted to Milan as chief of the economic sec- tion, returning to Washington in 1958 for a four-year tour in the Bureau of Economic Affairs and a one-year train- ing detail at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Mr. Wyman returned to Berlin in 1963, where he served first as an eco- nomic officer, then as chief of the eco- nomic section, and finally as political adviser (the deputy chief of mission position at that time). Service as diplo- mat-in-residence at the University of North Dakota (1968-1969) was fol- lowed by a year in Washington, D.C., as the State Department adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1969-1970). In 1970, Mr. Wyman was assigned to Vietnam for a two-year posting at the head of a 100-man combined mil- itary-civilian team in the province of Tay Ninh as senior adviser in the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Devel- opment Support program. In 1972, he was sent to Addis Ababa as DCM, serving as chargé d’affaires during the first 13 months of the Ethiopian Revo- lution. He returned to Washington, D.C., in 1975 to serve as office director for economic affairs in the Bureau of International Organizations. I N M E M O R Y