The Foreign Service Journal, July/August 2018

94 JULY-AUGUST 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Before completing law school, Mr. German worked at the U.S. embassy in Moscow from 1948 to 1950. After finishing law school and passing the bar exam, he began a 35-year career as a Foreign Service officer, interrupted by four years of service in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1956. Mr. German served in Moscow two more times, from 1962 to 1964 (during the Cuban Missile Crisis) and from 1978 to 1980 (during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan), when he was counselor for political affairs. Other assignments included tours in Yokohama and Tokyo; the U.S. Army Rus- sian Language School in Oberammergau; Oslo; Berlin and Bonn; and Washington, D.C. In Washington, D.C., he served as director of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (the “Soviet desk”), director of the Office of Analysis for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and as dean of the School of Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute. He also graduated from the U.S. Naval War College. After retiring from the Foreign Service as a minister counselor, Mr. German worked for a year with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and twice held a visiting professorship at the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas. He and his wife, Jean, retired in her hometown of Austin. Mr. German’s wife of 57 years, Jean Wesley German, passed away in 2012. He is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth. n Donna Hartman, 89, widow of career FSO and former ambassador Arthur Hartman, died on Nov. 16, 2017, at home in Washington, D.C., of complica- tions fromAlzheimer’s disease. Mrs. Hartman was born Donna Ford in Camden, N.J., and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1958. During the 1960s, she taught at the Washington School of Ballet. She also managed a landscape architecture company. She accompanied her husband, Ambassador Arthur Hartman, to posts including Paris, where he was ambassador from 1977 to 1981, and Moscow, where he was ambassador from 1981 to 1987. Amb. Hartman died in 2015. n Roy E. Hylaman Sr., 87, a retired Foreign Service staff officer, died on Feb. 12 in Saint Cloud, Minn., of complications related to interstitial lung disease. Mr. Hylaman served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War before returning to his hometown of Sauk Centre, Minn., and interviewing for a position in the Foreign Service. He was assigned to the embassy in Pre- toria, South Africa, in 1955 as a code clerk. In 1956 he was assigned to temporary duty at the consulate in Salisbury, but soon returned to Pretoria as a communications and records clerk. While at his first posting in Pretoria, Mr. Hylaman met his wife, Genevieve, a Foreign Service secretary fromChicago. They were married in Pretoria on Nov. 2, 1957, and their daughter was born there in 1959. Together they spent more than half of their 52 years of marriage raising a fam- ily in the Foreign Service. In 1960 Mr. Hylaman was assigned to Prague as supervisor of the communica- tions and records section. He and his wife were both working at the embassy when their son, Roy Jr., was born. Despite the challenges of living and working behind the “Iron Curtain,” Mr. Hylaman received several commendations and a Meritorious Service Award for his contribution to the mission. From Prague, Mr. Hylaman transferred to Karachi in 1962 as a communications supervisor. While there, he also served two temporary duty assignments in Rawal- pindi. In 1965 the family returned to Wash- ington, D.C., where Mr. Hylaman worked as a communications specialist. During this time, he participated in the congres- sional investigation of the communica- tions breakdown related to the Israeli Air Force attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War in 1967. In 1968 Mr. Hylaman was again posted to Pretoria as a communications and records officer, returning to the State Department in 1971 as deputy chief of the Communications Center. In 1974 he became the regional communications officer for Far East Asia, based in Manila. Mr. Hylaman returned to Washington, D.C., in 1977 as manager of the telephone program and chief of the training division at the Office of Communications, before moving to Paris in 1979. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1982 and became an archivist with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., retiring from that position in 1996. In 2012, shortly after his wife, Gen- evieve, passed away, he returned to his hometown of Sauk Centre, Minn. Mr. Hylaman was preceded in death by his wife; his brother, William; and a sister, Laura May. He is survived by his children, Mary Hylaman-Barragan of San Diego, Calif., and Roy Hylaman Jr. of Alexandria, Va.; and his sister, Mary Ann Gilyard of Sauk Centre, Minn. n Larry J. Ikels, 74, a career Foreign Service officer with USIA, died suddenly at his home in Bethesda, Md., on Feb. 28. Mr. Ikels was born in 1943 in New Braunfels, Texas, to the late Walter and Wanda Kuhn Ikels. He graduated from