The Foreign Service Journal, June 2011

64 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 1 1 Ralph Helale Cadeaux , 84, a re- tired Foreign Service officer, died of lung cancer on Nov. 29, 2010, near his home in Maidenhead, England. A retired U.S. Marine veteran who was wounded on Iwo Jima, Mr. Cad- eaux studied at The George Washing- ton University in Washington, D.C. He then worked for the American Red Cross for four years before joining the Foreign Service in 1954. Mr. Cadeaux was posted in Italy, Africa, Vietnam, England, Northern Ireland and Israel, as well as at the State Department and the Foreign Service Institute. He retired as consul general and counselor of the embassy in Tel Aviv in 1976. After retirement he worked at a Geneva-based nongovernmental or- ganization, and later taught at an in- ternational university in London. His great interests were traveling and in- ternational politics, and he had friends and family in many parts of the world. Mr. Cadeaux is survived by his wife, Margaret of Maidenhead; his son, Daniel of New York City; and his daughter, Sarah of London. Martha Allene (Jane) Painter Caldwell , 94, wife of the late FSO Robert W. Caldwell, died on Feb. 15 in the Health Care Center at Goodwin House in Alexandria, Va., her home for the past 17 years. Mrs. Caldwell was born on Dec. 24, 1916, at the Painter family farm near Goss, in Monroe County, Mo. The youngest of three children, she gradu- ated fromMonroe City High School in 1935, playing on the Missouri State Women’s High School Basketball State Championship team her graduation year. After working as executive secretary for Missouri State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lloyd King in Jefferson City, and attending the University of Missouri, Columbia, she joined the Department of State in 1944. She was posted to Embassy Athens, then in exile in Cairo, where she worked in the code room. In Cairo she met Vice Consul Robert Wallace Caldwell (1919-1994). Their first date was a camel ride out to the pyramids at Giza. At the end of the German occupation, the couple re- turned to Athens, where they were married on March 12, 1945. As was required at that time, Mrs. Caldwell surrendered her commission in the Foreign Service upon marriage but, her children recall, always took pride in serving her country as the wife of an American Foreign Service officer. After Athens, Mrs. Caldwell accom- panied her husband to assignments in Dublin (1949-1952), Copenhagen (1952-1958), Karachi (1958-1960), Madras (1964-1968), Addis Ababa (1972-1975) and Ankara (1975-1979). They also had two four-year stints in Washington, D.C. (1960-1964 and 1968-1972). Her children remember that, when asked which post was her fa- vorite, she always replied: “There is no favorite — each was so very special, as were our experiences there. It is almost like having lived nine different lives!” The couple raised three children abroad: Wallace Franklin, born in 1947 in St. Louis, Mo.; GeorgeMarvin, born in 1951 in Dublin; and Margaret Catherine, born in 1956 in Copen- hagen — and all three went on to re- ceive degrees fromCornell University. Throughout her life abroad, Mrs. Caldwell was engaged in charity work and diplomatic entertaining. She also enjoyed developing her own interests, particularly making stone rubbings of ancient designs in Pakistan, India and Ethiopia that were threatened by en- vironmental and human factors. In 1995, she donated a large collec- tion of this visual record, together with a complete catalogue, to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where it is on permanent public display in the Thomas Cooper Library. Many dupli- cate rubbings are still displayed by local archaeological museums, the li- brary at Yale University, and by family members and friends around the world. Throughout her life, Mrs. Caldwell was an active member of the PEO Sis- I N M EMORY