The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2021 75 cators Hy and Rose Fromowitz. He spent summers with his parents and four sisters inThree Arrows, a cooperative commu- nity in Putnam Valley, N.Y., swimming, acting, singing and playing baseball. Mr. Fromowitz attended Columbia University, where he continued his enjoyment of sports (he was a New York Yankees fan for life), theater, and the study of history and politics. One of his favorite professors there encouraged him to join the Foreign Service. He started his diplomatic career in 1963 at age 21 and met his wife of nearly 57 years, Joan McGraw, during his first assignment, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Fromowitz went on to posts in Paris (1965-1966), Toronto (1966-1968), Bel- grade (1969-1971), Moscow (1974-1976) and Athens (1980-1983). Between foreign assignments, he and his family lived in Arlington, Va. During that time, he was awarded a congressio- nal fellowship and worked for U.S. Repre- sentative Rep. John Joseph Cavanaugh III and Senator Gary Hart. He also studied for a year at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Ft. McNair. From 1986 to 1990, Mr. Fromowitz was the U.S. consul general in Vancouver, where he won the Meritorious Honor Award for best managed post. He then returned to Athens (1990- 1994), this time as political counselor. Before retiring from the Foreign Service in 1995, he worked for the State Depart- ment Board of Examiners. On retirement, he and his wife, Joan, lived in Vancouver for three years before moving to Yountville. Aside from enjoying wine country, Mr. Fromowitz volunteered with Meals on Wheels and the Napa Red Cross. He was a founding board member of Pathway Home, a resi- dential assistance program for military personnel with PTSD. Mr. Fromowitz is survived by his wife, Joan (McGraw); son David of Washing- ton, D.C.; daughter Rachel Martin (and her husband, Michael) of Atlanta, Ga.; son Daniel (and his wife, Stacey) of Van- couver, B.C.; and four grandchildren. n Edward W. “Ted” Lollis II , 83, a retired Foreign Service officer, passed away in Knoxville, Tenn., on Dec. 20, 2020. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., he was the son of Edward and Georgia May Campbell Lollis. A graduate of Howe High School in Indianapolis, he earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from Yale University. He also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton Uni- versity, the University of Melbourne in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Foreign Service Institute. Mr. Lollis returned home from his studies in Australia via an around-the- world route. While in India, he had what he described as “an epiphany … that I preferred people to rocks”—and after serving in the U.S. Army, he subsequently joined the federal government as a career Foreign Service officer. As an FSO, Mr. Lollis possessed exper- tise in the areas of sub-Saharan Africa, development finance, energy policy, economic and commercial affairs, and consular affairs. His overseas postings included Rwanda, France (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop- ment in Paris), Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and the United Kingdom; and he had multiple assignments at the State Depart- ment in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lollis helped prepare President Ronald Reagan for the North-South Sum- mit in Cancún, Mexico, and negotiated