The Foreign Service Journal, June 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JUNE 2013 63 years, Lola Arnold Bardos of Chevy Chase; two daughters, Catherine Mack of Lakeland, Fla., and Jennifer Graham of Albuquerque. N.M.; and four grand- children. n Betty Lea Andersen Burgess , 88, wife of the late FSO Harrison Burgess, died on March 16 in Reston, Va. Mrs. Burgess was born in Superior, Neb., on March 21, 1924, to Andrew and Edna Andersen. She had eight siblings. The family later moved to Colorado. During World War II she served as a nurse at Kelly Field, Texas, where she met her husband. Harrison Burgess of Charlottesville, Va., was stationed at Kelly Field in the Air Force. The couple married on March 27, 1943, and, fol- lowing the war, moved back to Charlot- tesville. After the birth of their two sons, Bob and Scott, Mr. Burgess joined the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Ser- vice officer. Over the next 25 years, the Burgesses served in diplomatic posts in Beirut, Salzburg, Belize City, Montreal and Ankara. In addition to her diplomatic, social and support efforts as an American “ambassador” in these countries and when the family was in the United States, Mrs. Burgess was active in many community activities, including the Belize Hospital Auxiliary and the Con- temporary Club and Bailey Museum at the University of Virginia. She was also a skater, fencer, skier, master bridge player, tennis buff and golfer. Most importantly, family and friends remember, Mrs. Burgess was a loving mother and wife, as well as a gracious hostess and steadfast friend. Her husband predeceased her in 1999. Mrs. Burgess is survived by their sons, Bob of Falls Church, Va., and Scott cial help to do so. The State Department held a Memorial Service on May 2, at which Tom Smedinghoff, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine and Secretary of State John Kerry spoke. In addition, the Delta Phi Epsi- lon Professional Foreign Service sorority at The George Washington University held a candlelight vigil for Ms. Smedinghoff on May 3. It was attended by her family and several AFSA representatives. In River Forest, a group of 13-year-old girls, one of whom remembers Anne as her babysitter, spearheaded an area-wide effort to collect and donate 10,000 books to children. At the April 17 funeral in Ms. Smedinghoff’s hometown, hun- dreds of family members and friends, including AFSA President Susan Johnson and several State Department officials, gathered to remember the brave, selfless woman who did not let fear stop her from trying to make a difference in faraway places. Anne Smedinghoff is survived by her parents and three siblings, Mark, Regina and Joan Smeding- hoff of River Forest; grandmothers Dorothy Smedinghoff and Bernice Tokarski; numerous aunts and uncles; and 22 cousins. Her family requests that memo- rial contributions to honor Anne and her work be made to organiza- tions listed at www.annesmeding hoff.com. n Arthur A. Bardos, 91, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died on March 7 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. Arthur Alexander Bardos was born in Budapest and came to the United States when he was 17. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in cinematography, he served in the U.S. Army in Europe. He was a member of a mobile broadcasting group that pro- duced German-language programming as part of the psychological warfare effort aimed at German youth. Mr. Bardos, who was fluent in Ger- man, French and Hungarian, received a master’s degree in comparative literature from USC in 1948. He was enrolled in a Ph.D. program and teach- ing German at Harvard University when he entered the Foreign Service in 1951. Harvard awarded him a master’s degree in comparative literature in 1968. During a 35-year diplomatic career, Mr. Bardos served overseas in Austria, Vietnam, Guinea, Morocco, France, Bel- gium, Germany and Turkey. He worked largely on cultural, educational and broadcasting programs. Mr. Bardos’ assignments also included two teaching stints: one at The George Washington University from 1959 to 1961, and one at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts from 1981 to 1983. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1986. Mr. Bardos was a member of Diplo- matic and Consular Officers Retired and served on the board of Bethesda United Church of Christ, where he volunteered with many programs. He was a past president of a neighborhood association in Bethesda. Survivors include his wife of 64