The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2014

68 JULY-AUGUST 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL n David C. Brooks, 56, a Foreign Service officer with the State Department, died on April 2 at Virginia Hospital in Arlington, Va. Mr. Brooks was born in Middletown, Conn., on March 28, 1958. He graduated fromValley Regional High School in 1976, and received a B.A. and an M.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Mr. Brooks was a Fulbright Scholar in Nicaragua, and earned his doctorate in Latin American history from the Univer- sity of Connecticut in 1998. In 2013, he was awarded a master’s degree from the Army War College. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1993, he taught history and coached wrestling at the Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn. Mr. Brooks began his Foreign Service career in public diplomacy with the U.S. Information Agency and then became a political officer at the State Department. During his 21-year career, he served as a cultural affairs officer in Warsaw, a trade officer in Caracas, and as a political officer in São Paulo, Lima and Managua. He served as deputy chief of mission in Luanda prior to returning to Washington, D.C., last summer as chief of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs policy unit. Mr. Brooks was an expert in Latin American politics. Colleagues remem- ber that he was known for being able to disarm the most anti-American audiences with engaging talks on American culture— especially comic books, which allowed him to explain U.S. policy in a context anyone could understand. No audience was beyond the reach of Mr. Brooks’ enthusiasm, his passion for American culture and the desire to con- nect with people, they recall. Mr. Brooks received many honors during his diplo- matic career, including the Secretary’s IN MEMORY Award for Outreach, presented to him by Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2004. Mr. Brooks was also a member of Toastmasters, where he competed regu- larly and won several awards. He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Nancy Rios-Brooks, also an FSO and a member of the AFSA Governing Board; their three children, Fernando, Jack and Elisabeth; and a brother, Douglas Brooks (and his wife, Catherine) of Vergennes, Vt. n Lisa Chiles , a retired USAID Foreign Service officer who held the rank of career minister, died on May 19 in Santa Barbara, Calif. A native of North Carolina, Ms. Chiles received a bachelor’s degree from Salem College in North Carolina, a J.D. from Emory University and a master’s degree in international and comparative law and trade fromVrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Prior to joining USAID, Ms. Chiles was a trial attorney in the International Antitrust Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. During her nearly 30-year career at USAID, Ms. Chiles served as legal adviser in the Office of the General Counsel in Washington, D.C., and as the regional legal adviser in the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. She also served as deputy mission director in Bangladesh and as mission director in Pakistan, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Having previously worked with Ambas- sador Ryan Crocker in Pakistan, she hap- pily agreed to his request that she serve as acting mission director in Iraq. Ms. Chiles was the deputy assistant administrator for USAID’s Asia and Near East Bureau before serving as the agency’s counselor fromMay 2008 through July 2009. She was a recipient of the Meritori- ous Presidential Service Award. After retirement, Ms. Chiles settled in Santa Barbara, where she resumed paint- ing—one of her passions—and worked with various committees at All Saints by the Sea Church. She also contributed her management experience to the Music Academy of the West. Colleagues and family members recall how enriching Ms. Chiles found her work at USAID, including her interaction with colleagues and other stakeholders, and how she used the lessons learned to teach her children the virtues of compassion and kindness. Ms. Chiles is survived by her husband, Austin Pullé; her children, Roshani and Ananda Julian; her son-in-law, Tom Inwood; and her granddaughter, Evange- line Inwood. n Dorothy Green , 94, wife of the late USAID FSO Chuck Green, died peacefully on April 7 at her home in Malibu, Calif., surrounded by her family. Born on Aug. 14, 1919, in Canada, Mrs. Green grew up in Iowa and moved to Cali- fornia after meeting and marrying Chuck Green. Unable to attend college during the Depression, she attended Santa Monica College while raising their two children and earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. On joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Green served first with the U.S. Informa- tion Agency and later with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Greens were posted overseas in Colombia (twice), the Dominican Republic, Peru, Vietnam and Indonesia. Mrs. Green was always the first to say yes to a new assignment. As family members recall, she never complained, even when they were assigned to Vietnam during the war. One of a small number of wives allowed to be in Saigon at that time, Mrs. Green worked there for the Internal