The Foreign Service Journal, September 2005

Mr. Gates is survived by his three sons, Carl of Conway, Ark., Marvin of Carson City, Nev., and Raymond of Ukiah, Calif. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Carlyse. Lewis E. Gleeck Jr. , 92, a retired Foreign Service officer, died July 1 at his home in Bowie, Md., following a lengthy illness. Mr. Gleeck was educated at Pomona College, the University of Chicago, Columbia University and the U.S. Army War College. In 1940 he began a 29-year career in the Foreign Service, serving in Canada, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Iceland, Norway, Pakistan and Washington, D.C. Posted to the Philippines in 1962, Mr. Gleeck served there for the next six years, retiring from the Foreign Service in 1969 as consul general. Mr. Gleeck remained in the Philippines for the next 30 years, joining USAID to work on land reform and cooperatives for six years and subsequently serving for several years as a consultant on base-com- munity relations to the U.S. Navy at Subic Bay. He then served as editor of the American Historical Collec- tion’s bulletin and the curator of its library from 1976 through 1998. Established in 1950, this large and unique collection on the relationship between America and the Philip- pines is now housed in the Rizal Library at Ateneo de Manila Uni- versity in Loyola Heights, Quezon City. During his long and varied career, Mr. Gleeck published at least 14 books — among them, President Marcos and the Philippine Political Culture (Cellar Book Shop, 1988) — and scores of articles on the American experience in the Philippines. He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Norma C. Gleeck; two sons, Alfred Lewis Gleeck and Edward Gleeck; and a daughter, Eva Gleeck. John A. (Jack) Linehan , 81, a retired FSO and ambassador, died peacefully at his home on May 19 of complications of bladder cancer. Born in Gloucester, Mass., on July 20, 1924, and educated in local schools, he attended one year at Boston University before being draft- ed into the Army as a medic. Ambassador Linehan landed at Utah Beach on June 11, 1944, five days after D-Day, and was awarded five battle stars upon his discharge. He returned to Boston University and earned his bachelor’s degree in political science in 1948. Three months later, he mar- ried Janice Rowley, a Gloucester neighbor whom he had known since the age of 7. The two departed for Washington, D.C., where Amb. Linehan attended Georgetown School of Foreign Service, receiving a bache- lor’s degree in Foreign Service. Sworn into the U.S. diplomatic service in 1952, he went to his first post — Paris — with his wife and five-month-old son in 1953. In Paris, as he often said, Amb. Linehan had the honor for some time of being the lowest-ranking diplomat at the American embassy, and the sole proud claimant to the title of third secretary. Subsequent postings soon moved him out of that spot, however. He was vice consul in Quebec City; consul in Adelaide; chief of the political section in Monrovia; deputy chief of mission in Accra (while Shirley Temple Black was the ambassador); and ambassador in Freetown. Later, he headed 84 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 5 I N M E M O R Y u u u