The Foreign Service Journal, July/August 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2018 97 the late FSO James Sutterlin, co-authored Berlin: From Symbol of Confrontation to Keystone of Security . He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Century and University Clubs of N.Y., the Harvard Business Club of San Diego and the 1230 Club of La Jolla. Mr. Klein is survived by Anne Klein (née Cochran), his wife of 65 years; his children, Steven (and wife, Marie), John (and wife, Trish), Barbara and Suzanne; and grandchildren Ruth, Michael, Mat- thew and Vincent Klein. He is prede- ceased by his sons, Peter and Richard, and his brother, Dr. Lester Klein. He will be buried in Annapolis National Cem- etery. n WilliamH. Lindsey Jr., 90, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Infor- mation Agency, died on March 4, after suffering a severe stroke six weeks earlier. Mr. Lindsey was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 6, 1928. He attended—and played football for—Louisiana State University, then transferred to Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea, was sent to the Officer Cadet School at Fort Sill and then assigned to Bamberg, Germany. After leaving the Army, he moved to Mexico to study at Mexico City College, where he earned a master’s degree in Latin American history. Mr. Lindsey joined USIA in 1963. During his 30-year career, he served in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, Sri Lanka, New Zea- land and Sierra Leone. He met his future wife, Susan, in Uruguay, where she was teaching at the British School. Their son, Lee, was born in Mexico. Mr. Lindsey retired in 1993, but returned to government service in 1997 when he joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a reserve officer. During the next 18 years, he was involved in disaster relief efforts in California, Puerto Rico, Michigan and Louisiana. After a professional career spent largely overseas, this second career gave him an opportunity to travel throughout the United States and explore many regions of the country. He retired for the last time in 2015 at the age of 87. In 1997 Mr. Lindsey and his wife moved to Wicomico Church, Va., to live on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. He is survived by his wife, Susan, and his son, Lee, and daughter-in-law, Mary, of Charleston, S.C. n Steve A. Nielsen, 89, a retired mem- ber of the Foreign Service, died on March 20 in Bentonville, Ark., after a brief illness. Mr. Nielsen was born in 1928 in Win- side, Neb., to Carl Jens and Anna Marie Miller Nielsen. He graduated from high school in Le Mars, Iowa, and attended Westmar College in Le Mars. After college he served in the U.S. Army for four years. Mr. Nielsen served overseas in Sudan, Honduras, Vietnam, Congo, Mexico, Afghanistan and Liberia, in addition to assignments in Washington, D.C. While in Afghanistan, he met Foreign Service Officer Thelma Walters of Lamar, Mo. They were married on Dec. 6, 1968, in Afghanistan. Mr. Nielsen retired in 1978, and the couple settled in Hinton, Iowa, before moving to Bella Vista, Ark., in 1984. Mr. Nielsen is survived by his wife of 49 years, Thelma; a brother, Ed Nielsen of Fargo, N.D.; a sister, Lorraine Lake of Sebring, Fla.; a sister-in-law, Edith Wal- ters of Lamar, Mo.; and numerous nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews and great-great-nieces and nephews. n WilliamRichard “Dick” Smyser, 86, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on March 20 in Bethesda, Md., of compli- cations of heart disease. Mr. Smyser was born in 1931 in Vienna, where his FSO father was posted, and spent his childhood in Europe. The family moved to Elkins Park, Pa., after World War II. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952 with a bachelor’s degree in economics, and later received master’s degrees in public administra- tion and government, from Harvard and Georgetown universities respectively. In 1976 he received a doctorate in politi- cal science from George Washington University. Mr. Smyser joined the U.S. Army after college and was stationed in Munich. In 1954 he joined the Foreign Service. His first posting was Algiers, during Alge- ria’s war for independence from France. His next assignment was Berlin, where he served as assistant to General Lucius D. Clay, President John F. Kennedy’s per- sonal representative in Berlin from 1961 to 1962, during the Berlin Crisis. After a tour in Saigon, Mr. Smyser served as a member of the U.S. delega- tion at the Paris talks to end the Vietnam War in 1969 while working for National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger at the White House. Mr. Smyser accompanied Mr. Kiss- inger on his secret mission to Beijing in 1971, where their meeting with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai opened the way for negotiations to restore diplomatic ties with China. He then served as political counselor in Bonn, and went on to direct the State Department Bureau of Refugee Pro- grams. From 1981 to 1986, Mr. Smyser served as assistant secretary-general to the