The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2022

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2022 77 to Maine several times, once entering Canada and experiencing the notorious Bay of Fundy with a tidal range of more than 20 feet. Taking up quilting late in life, she produced lovely display-worthy quilts. An omnivorous reader, Ms. Radosh volun- teered at the Lighthouse Point public library and read about one book every day, both fiction and nonfiction. Ms. Radosh is survived by husband Burnett Radosh of Jacksonville, Fla.; sons Alaric of Arlington, Va., and Jeremy of Herndon, Va., as well as daughters-in-law Li-chuang and Handan. She is also sur- vived by grandchildren Natasha Duke and Tolga Akyatan and great-grandchildren Kiana Carper, Mckayla Carper and Elif Akyatan. Ms. Radosh will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. n Patricia Franklin Schofield, 75, wife of a retired Foreign Service officer, passed away at her home inWashington, D.C., on Feb. 23, 2022, following a long illness. She was born on Jan. 4, 1947, in Dawson Springs, Ky., to Decola Franklin and Brunette Russell. She graduated from Western Kentucky University and later received her doctorate from the University of Maryland. Ms. Schofield worked for several years with organizations providing services to handicapped individuals in Kentucky, Georgia andWashington, D.C. She mar- riedWilliam Schofield on July 31, 1976. He soon became a Foreign Service officer, andMs. Schofield accompanied himon overseas assignments in Brazil, Jamaica and Slovakia. She was active in embassy life and served as community liaison officer in Jamaica. She also volunteered with inter- national groups at her posts, especially those that supported aid to the handi- capped. While in Slovakia, she partici- pated in a University of Maryland–spon- sored assessment of special education in Sarajevo. Upon return toWashington in 1999, she began work at the Transition Center of the Foreign Service Institute, where she received a Superior Honor Award. She retired from there in 2009. Patricia Schofield is survived by her husband of 45 years, William Schofield; a sister, Denell Storms, and her husband, Edward; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. n John Jackson “Jay” Taylor, 90, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer, died peacefully at home onMarch 3, 2022, in Decatur, Ga., surrounded by his family. Mr. Taylor was born in Little Rock, Ark., on Dec. 4, 1931, to Annie Laurie Cain and AlfredWesley Taylor. The family later moved to Nashville, Tenn., where his father, a lawyer, worked in the insurance industry. At the age of 16, Mr. Taylor entered Vanderbilt University. He graduated in 1953 and joined the Navy, where he became an air cadet. While training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, he met Betsy Rose, a nurs- ing student at Touro Nursing School, at a chance encounter in the Café duMonde in NewOrleans. After a first date at Antoine’s Restaurant, which was quite a splurge on a cadet’s salary, the couple never looked back; they were married four months later. Mr. Taylor switched to the Marine Corps, becoming a helicopter pilot, and served in Japan and California. In 1957 he fulfilled his long-held dreamof becoming a Foreign Service officer when he passed the exam—after three tries. During his 37-year career, Mr. Taylor had nine overseas postings: Accra, Taichung (for Chinese language school), Taipei, Kuching, Hong Kong, Pretoria, Cape Town, Beijing and Havana. Highlights of his career include serving as deputy assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research; chief of mission of the U.S. interests section in Havana; a member of the National Security Council staff for East Asia; diplomat in residence at the Carter Presidential Center; and direc- tor of analysis for Asian and Pacific affairs. By the time of his retirement in 1994, Mr. Taylor had achieved the rank of Minister Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service. His fascinating career, which involvedmany momentous world events such as the opening of diplomatic relations with China and the struggle against apart- heid, is recorded as part of ADST’s Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Along the way, Mr. Taylor earned a master’s degree in Far Eastern studies from the University of Michigan and wrote three books on international relations, including The Dragon and the Wild Goose (1987), a comparative study of China and India. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Mr. Taylor wrote and directed a PBS docu- mentary on South Africa (“Ubuntu, African and Afrikaner,” 2001) and wrote twomore books, including The Generalissimo: Chi- ang Kai Shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Belknap Press, 2009). It won the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize as the “best book on international relations” for 2010. Mr. Taylor frequently contributed op-eds on world affairs to The Washing- ton Post, The New York Times and The LA Times . He was an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Stud- ies at Harvard University. His significant contributions to current scholarship on the history of Taiwan and China are among the legacies of his rich life. In private life, he is remembered as a wonderful, kind and loving father who took his four children onmany grand