The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2004

to Somalia from 1972 to 1974. Retiring in 1974, Amb. Looram set- tled in Langau. His interests included drawing and fly fishing. He published privately a memoir of his career titled With Malice Toward Some . Amb. Looram is survived by his wife, the former Bettina de Rothschild, of Langau; a daughter, Bettina Burr of Cambridge, Mass.; a son, Peter A.A. Lloram of Aspen, Colo.; and two grandsons. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to The Glimmerglass Opera, Inc., P.O. Box 191, Coopers- town NY 13326. Joseph B. Norbury , 76, retired FSO, died March 5 in Washington, D.C., of complications from Parkin- son’s disease. Mr. Norbury was born in Little Rock, Ark., on March 28, 1927. Following graduation from the University of Chicago in 1945, he spent two years in Germany serving with the U.S. Army. After receiving a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1952, Mr. Norbury was associated with a New York City law firm until joining the Foreign Service in 1955. Posted to Quito as an economic officer in 1955, he was transferred to Brussels in 1957. In 1959, he was detailed to the Foreign Service Institute for a year to learn Russian, and then studied Soviet affairs at Harvard University for another year. In 1961, Mr. Norbury was sent to Moscow as a consular officer; he later became a political officer. He returned to State in 1963, and was seconded to the White House in 1965. The follow- ing year he was posted to Santiago as a political officer. In 1969 he was assigned to Poznan as principal officer, returning to State in 1971. In 1973 he was posted to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. There followed sever- al tours of duty at State and a tour in Vienna, attached to the U.S. Mission to the U.N. agencies headquartered there. Mr. Norbury retired from the Foreign Service in 1982, and he and his family returned to their home in Washington, D.C., where he taught Russian at St. Alban’s School for Boys for six years. After retiring a second time, in 1988, Mr. Norbury used his skills as a J U LY- A U G U S T 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 79 I N M E M O R Y