The Foreign Service Journal, June 2011

66 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 where he served as the chief United States representative to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Nego- tiations. When the INF talks resumed six months later, President Ronald Reagan called him to return to Geneva and lead the delegation in renewed talks with the Soviet Union. Those talks concluded successfully in 1987, when the U.S. Senate ratified the INF Treaty, eliminating an entire class of nuclear weapons, a significant achieve- ment in ending the Cold War. Mr. Glitman’s last posting, as am- bassador to Belgium, concluded a long and successful career in service to his country. In recognition of his work, he received the Presidential Distinguish- ed Public Service Award in 1989 and the Presidential Meritorious Public Service Award in 1987 and 1984. The Department of Defense conferred on him its Meritorious Public Service Medal in 1977 and its Outstanding Public Service Medal in 1980. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Ambassador Glitman wrote articles for many foreign affairs publi- cations and served as diplomat-in-res- idence and an adjunct political science professor at the University of Vermont. He chronicled his experiences with the arms talks in his book, The Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (Palgrave Mac- millan, 2006). Amb. Glitman is survived by his wife, Christine (Amundsen) Glitman of Shelburne, Vt.; five children, Rus- sell of Rutland, Vt., Erik (and his wife Diane Kirson) and Karen (and her husband, Glenn Russell) both of Jeri- cho, Vt., Matthew of Winooski, Vt., and Rebecca (and her husband, Michael Trieb) of Attleboro, Mass.; and six grandchildren, Sarah and Abbi Glitman, Molly and Alice Russell, Tris- tan Glitman and Katerina Trieb. He also leaves his sister Paula Glitman, his brother Joseph Glitman, and many nieces and nephews. Amb. Glitman’s family would like to thank the caring staff at The Arbors in Shelburne, who made his last years as comfortable as possible. As he en- joyed the outdoors, especially hiking and skiing in the woods and moun- tains of Vermont, the family requests that in lieu of donations or flowers in his memory, please enjoy a walk in the woods. Donald Keith Guthrie , 73, a re- tired FSO, died from complications re- sulting from Parkinson’s disease on March 18 at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. Mr. Guthrie grew up in Las Cruces, N.M., where his parents were profes- sors at New Mexico State University. He attended Las Cruces High School and NewMexico State University, and he received degrees from the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- macy at Tufts University in Boston, Mass. As a Fulbright Scholar, he stud- ied at the University of the Andes in Bogota. Mr. Guthrie served as a Foreign Service officer with the State Depart- ment from 1961 until his retirement in 1991. His overseas posts included the Philippines, Panama, Indonesia and Saipan, and he had numerous assign- ments in Washington, D.C., as well. His last posting abroad was as chargé d’affaires in Belize. One of Mr. Guthrie’s lifelong inter- ests was railroads. Following retire- ment, he researched and wrote articles about the logging railroads in Virginia. Other interests included stamp col- lecting, bird watching, sailing, hiking, music, playing the piano and clarinet, travel and languages. Mr. Guthrie is survived by his wife, Judy Stanford; his brother Kenneth Guthrie; and members of his extended family, Simon Stanford of London, Nick Stanford of Edinburgh, Andy Stanford of London, Lauren Sawyer of Boulder, Colo., Peyton and Brett Sawyer of Albuquerque, N.M. and Jonathon Sawyer of Dallas, Texas. In lieu of flowers, donations in Mr. Guthrie’s memory may be made to the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society, P.O. Box 1645, Las Cruces NM 88004. Rex Leon Henry , 88, a retired FSO with USAID, died on Nov. 24, 2010, in a hospital near Lisbon, after a losing battle with prostate cancer. Born in West Plains, Mo., on April 7, 1922, Mr. Henry worked on the family farm before joining the National Guard. He later served in the Army during World War II, training recruits in Fontainebleau, France, and after- ward as a member of the occupying forces in Germany. Following the war, he returned to continue his education at the Univer- sity of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., in 1951, majoring in animal husbandry and general agriculture. A recipient of the Alpha Zeta Award from the Na- tional Scholastic Society, Mr. Henry spoke French and some Portuguese and Spanish. From 1951 to 1957, he worked as a county agricultural agent in Missouri, Kansas and California. Mr. Henry’s career with USAID began in 1958 in Tunis, where he served as chief livestock adviser until I N M E M O R Y