The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2014 69 Revenue Service, whose agents were chas- ing war profiteers. Later she joined the Drug Enforcement Administration, during a time when large amounts of heroin were being shipped illegally through Vietnam to the United States. During their second assignment, in Colombia, she continued to work for the DEA when that country became a center for cocaine and marijuana. A true adventurer, she made friends all over the world. She took packs of teenag- ers every weekend to the beach in the Dominican Republic; managed to evade scooters, cabs, and buses while master- ing driving on the left side of the streets in Jakarta; and spoke fluent Spanish and Indonesian. The Greens were among the first Amer- icans to travel to China when it opened to tourism. On her own, Mrs. Green toured the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc coun- tries in the 1970s, long before the fall of the Soviet Union when travel was exception- ally limited. Another of her amazing solo adventures was an open-boat voyage up the Mahakam River in Borneo, where she visited the Dyak tribes. Mrs. Green was a natural athlete. Growing up, she danced tap and ballet, rode horses, did gymnastics, and enjoyed roller and ice skating. She loved tennis and swimming, and swam for an hour a day into her mid-80s. She preferred reading, traveling, being with friends and going to the beach to cooking and cleaning. Her flexibility and tolerance extended to allowing exotic pets, including snakes and monkeys, to join the household. She loved people and invited any and all into her home—including many “adopted” extra kids of all ages along the way. Mrs. Green’s husband of 67 years, Chuck, died in 2011. She is survived by her son, Terry (and daughter-in-law JoAnn) of Santa Monica, Calif.; her daughter, Marilyn (and son-in-law Larry Jones) of Moorpark, Calif.; four grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, in-laws and friends around the world. n Michael J. Lippe , 70, a retired For- eign Service officer with USAID, died on April 28 in Washington, D.C., after a long illness. The son of an American diplomat, Mr. Lippe was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up and attended schools in Cuba, Singapore, Belgium and England. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and the University of Michi- gan. After receiving a J.D. fromHarvard University, he went to Botswana for three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. After joining USAID in 1976, Mr. Lippe had tours in Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tunisia, where he was a specialist in urban development and housing, as well as Washington, D.C. He retired from USAID in 1996, but continued to work as a contractor traveling on short-term assign- ments to many places outside his primary career specialization in Africa, including Jakarta, Beijing and Prague. After several years in Washington, D.C., Mr. Lippe relocated to Shepherdstown, W. Va. He also provided pro bono legal services to political refugees in the Wash- ington, D.C., area. Mr. Lippe was diagnosed with pancre- atic cancer in 2007. With his doctor, Dung Le, he wrote a book about his experience, Pancreatic Cancer: A Patient and His Doctor Balance Hope and Truth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Following the diagnosis, he unexpectedly enjoyed six years of mostly pain-free and relatively active living, during which he continued to travel for pleasure. He was also an avid Washington Nationals fan, and continued to be involved in the well-being of his children and grandchildren. At the time of his death, Mr. Lippe was planning to move to New Zealand, where his youngest son, Luengo, had settled. His second-oldest son was helping him get ready for the move. Friends and family members remember Mr. Lippe’s liveliness, his humor and his continuing interest in the world. He is survived by his first wife, Lesego Lippe, and his second wife, Elizabeth Bel- lamy; four sons: Motaki of North Carolina; Motho andThapelo, both of Botswana; and Luengo of New Zealand; seven grandchildren; and a sister, Laurie, and a brother, Stuart. n Haynes RichardsonMahoney Jr. , 94, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on April 5 in the Mayflower Nursing Home in West Yarmouth, Mass. Born on Feb. 13, 1920, Mr. Mahoney grew up in Jacksonville, Fla., swimming with the manatees in the St. Johns River and shipping out one summer on a banana boat to Cuba. In later life, he was an avid sailor out of Bass Hole on Cape Cod. Mr. Mahoney worked his way through the University of Florida and then attendedThe George Washington Univer- sity, where he covered international affairs as a part-time journalist for the Washing- ton Herald . During World War II he served in France and Germany, then joined the military government and directed the de- nazification of the Bavarian press. In 1949, Mr. Mahoney joined the State Department as a press officer posted to Germany. He was assigned toThailand with the U.S. Information Agency in 1953, returning to Washington, D.C., in 1956 to work on Asian affairs. In 1959, he was sent to Japan as deputy public affairs officer. There he dealt with the anti-American riots that derailed a planned visit by Presi- dent Dwight Eisenhower and pioneered