The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2015 87 n Harry A. Cahill , 85, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on April 8 at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., from injuries sus- tained in a fall at his home. Mr. Cahill was born on Jan. 10, 1930, in New York City, and graduated fromMan- hattan College in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army for three years before joining the Foreign Service in 1956. He later earned his M.S. fromThe George Washington University in 1972. During a 34-year career, Mr. Cahill served as political officer inWarsaw (1962- 1964), economic officer in Belgrade (1965- 1968) and economic-commercial officer inMontevideo (1968-1971), where his tour coincided with the Tupamaro urban terrorist campaign. He was detailed to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1971, and then to the Department of Commerce (1972-1974), where he worked on programs for the Voice of America. Mr. Cahill served as counselor for economic affairs at Embassy Lagos (1975-1978), as deputy chief of mission at Embassy Colombo (1979-1981) and directed the U.S. Commercial Service from 1982 to 1983. He was consul general in Mumbai (1983-1987). He closed out his diplomatic career from 1988 to 1990 at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, as minister-counselor for economic affairs and acting deputy representative on the U.N. Economic and Social Council. Following retirement, he remained a senior consultant with the State Depart- ment. He was fluent in nine languages and authored a book on U.S.-China trade, The China Trade and U.S. Tariffs (University of Chicago Press, 1973). During the 1990s, Mr. Cahill served in Bosnia and Herzegovina as an election supervisor with the Orga- nization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and as refugee affairs coordinator at Embassy Sarajevo. IN MEMORY He also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense for Iraq and Afghanistan, directed the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and taught international business management at Pepperdine University. He was a member of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Vienna, Va., and past president of the philanthropic Hinduja Foundation. Mr. Cahill was also a member of the AFSA Governing Board. Mr. Cahill is survived by his beloved wife of 58 years, Angelica; children, Alan Cahill, Daniel Cahill (Beth), Sylvia Cahill, Irene Cahill (Julie Landrio), Madeleine Gabriele (Vince) and Steven Cahill (Clau- dia); and grandchildren, Ashley, Dylan, Cole, Alexander, Matthew and Brady. Memorial contributions may be made in his name to Doctors Without Borders. n George F. Jones , 79, a retired FSO and former ambassador to Guyana, died on April 20 in Fairfax, Va., of a heart attack. Mr. Jones was born in San Angelo, Texas, and raised inWashington, D.C., and Austin, Texas, where he graduated from Austin High School in 1951. He received an A.B. (magna cum laude) fromWabash Col- lege in 1955, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2000 andmaster’s degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1956 and Stanford University in 1967. He graduated from the National War Col- lege in 1978, where he received the U.S. Army Association prize for “excellence in research and writing.” After working briefly for the Interna- tional Cooperation Administration (now USAID), Mr. Jones entered the Foreign Ser- vice in 1956. During a career that spanned almost 50 years, he served as a specialist in Latin American affairs. He was assigned to Quito in 1958 and, in 1960, marriedMaria Rosario Correa there. Postings followed to Accra and Caracas. He served at State as desk officer for Venezuela and Colombia from 1967 to 1971, when he was assigned to the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna as a political adviser. After service in Guatemala City (1974- 1977), a year at the National War College and work on regional political programs at State (1978-1982), Mr. Jones served as deputy chief of mission in San Jose (1982- 1985) and in Santiago (1985-1989). In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointedMr. Jones U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Guyana. He worked closely with former President Jimmy Carter in support of free and fair elections there, which resulted in Guyana’s first transfer of power from an incumbent to an opposi- tion party. Ambassador Jones was twice the senior adviser on Latin American affairs to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly inNewYork, and was amember of the U.S. government delegation to the funeral of Guyana’s President Cheddi Jagan inMarch 1997. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1995, Amb. Jones became a specialist in support for democratic election processes and election observation. From 1996 to 1999, he was director of programs for the Americas at the International Foundation for Election Systems, and from 2000 to 2005 he was director of Democracy and Governance Programs for Development Associates, Inc. He chaired international observer missions to elections in Paraguay (1996), Honduras (1997) and Guyana (1997), and was a member of observer missions to Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicara- gua, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. He was senior technical adviser to the Guyana Elections Commission during the 2001 national elections. Amb. Jones was active in AFSA and