The Foreign Service Journal, June 2011

J U N E 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 Paul AndrewModic , 86, a retired Foreign Service officer and former Voice of America executive, died on Feb. 12 in Berlin, Md., of complica- tions from Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Modic was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Feb. 26, 1924. After high school, he entered the U.S. Naval Re- serve Officers Training Program. He served as a fire control officer on a de- stroyer in the Pacific at the end of World War II. After the war, thanks to the GI Bill, he completed his higher education, graduating from Oberlin College in 1948 with a B.A. in political science. Mr. Modic worked as a reporter for the Providence Journal and the Cleve- land News before joining the Foreign Service in 1951. His diplomatic career included assignments in Burma, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Germany, Japan — where he was the deputy commis- sioner general of the U.S. Pavilion at the 1970 World Fair in Osaka — and Washington, D.C. From 1976 to 1979 he served as director of programs at the Voice of America. Following retirement, Mr. Modic settled in Bethesda, Md. He was ap- pointed to four two-year terms with the Foreign Service Grievance Board, and volunteered in the Clinton admin- istration’s Office of Presidential Corre- spondence, where he wrote the Proclamation for National Pearl Har- bor Remembrance Day. Mr. Modic was a longtime member of the D.C. chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. His wife of 50 years, Lois M. Modic, died in 2004. He is survived by a sister, Mildred Barba of Euclid, Ohio; a stepdaughter, Diane D. Way- man of Berlin, Md.; three grandchil- dren, Seth A. Wayman of Pittsburgh, Pa., Sarah W. Johnson of German- town, Md., and Katherine A. Wayman of Burlington, Vt.; and two great- grandchildren, Taylor Johnson and Jonah Wayman. Jeanne Jaccard Parker , 87, wife of the late FSO and former ambassa- dor Richard B. Parker, died in her sleep on Jan. 8. Born and raised in Kansas, Mrs. Parker attended Manhattan High I N M E M O R Y