The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2017

66 JULY-AUGUST 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Donations in his name may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org ) or Us Against Alzheimer’s (www.usagainstalzheimers.org ) n Richard K. Fox Jr., 91, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambas- sador, died in the company of his family on April 9. Richard Kenneth Fox was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio. From 1944 to 1946, he served overseas in the U.S. Navy. He received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 1950. He worked for the Urban League in St. Louis, Mo., and St. Paul, Minn., from 1950 to 1956, when he became assistant director of the Minnesota Commission Against Discrimination. In 1961 Mr. Fox began his career at the Department of State as a special assistant to the deputy assistant secretary of State for personnel. From 1963 to 1965, he was a special assistant to the deputy under secre- tary of State for administration and the first director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965 he was posted toMadrid, serv- ing as a deputy administration officer and then promoted to counselor of administra- tion in 1968. He returned toWashington, D.C., in 1970 to serve as executive director of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, where he was promoted to deputy assistant secretary in 1973. Mr. Fox was appointed deputy director of personnel for career counseling and assignments in 1974, and then detailed to the interagency Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy for the 1976-1977 academic year. In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointedMr. Fox U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, the first FSO to serve in that capacity. His tenure witnessed the continuing recovery of the economy due to rising prices for petroleum, the country’s major export. He returned to State in 1979 to serve as the senior deputy inspector general of the Foreign Service. Ambassador Fox retired in 1984, and the Department of State recognized his service by conferring on him the Wilbur J. Carr Award. As former U.S. Ambassador George Moose recalls, “He was a mentor to somany of us, including me.” From 1983 to 1997, Amb. Fox served as the vice president and executive director of Meridian House International. Amb. Fox was actively involved in a range of civic and educational institu- tions. He served as a member of the D.C. Board of Higher Education; trustee of the University of the District of Columbia and Christ Seminary in St. Louis, Mo.; president of the board of directors of the Wheat Ridge Foundation; president of the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America and the American Foreign Service Protective Association; and adviser to the president of Valparaiso University, where he received an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1983. He was twice elected to the board of governors of DACOR and to the board of trustees of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation. Amb. Fox is survived by his daughters, Jeanne Fox Alston; Jane Fox-Johnson (and her husband, Mitchell Johnson); and Helen Fox Fields (and her husband, Gary Fields); and five grandchildren: Kenneth and Kevin Alston and Rachel, Charlene and Briana Fields. n Deane R. Hinton, 94, a retired For- eign Service officer, Career Ambassador and U.S. envoy to five countries, died on March 28 at his home in San Jose, Costa Rica, due to organ failure. Deane Roesch Hinton was born in Missoula, Mont., onMarch 12, 1923, the only child of Col. Joe A. Hinton and Doris Roesch. As a child he traveled with his family according to his father’s assign- ments; Col. Hinton served in the U.S. Army in bothWorldWar I andWorldWar II (in the 82nd Airborne). Mr. Hinton also served inWorldWar II as a second lieutenant in the Signals Corps, participating in the Italy campaign. After the war, he completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago in 1943 and did a year of graduate studies in economics. Mr. Hinton joined the Foreign Service in 1946. His first assignment, to Damascus as a political officer, was followed by a posting toMombasa in 1950 as principal officer of the consulate. In 1951 he was detailed to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University to study economics. From 1952 to 1956, Mr. Hinton was a financial affairs officer in Paris. He returned to the State Department for two years, and was then assigned to the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Brussels as a financial officer. He was detailed to the former National War Col- lege for the 1961-1962 academic year. From 1963 to 1966, Mr. Hinton directed the Office of Atlantic Political-Economic Affairs at State. He was seconded to the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1967, where he directed USAID programs in France, Belgium and Guatemala and then served as USAIDmission director and economic counselor in Santiago from 1969 to 1971. He was then detailed to the White House Council on International Economic Policy, where he served from 1971 to 1973. In 1973 President Richard Nixon appointedMr. Hinton U.S. ambassador to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). When relations soured between Washington and President Mobuto Sese Seko in 1975, Amb. Hinton was declared persona non grata . He returned to Brussels