The Foreign Service Journal, September 2007

University of Minnesota. After flight training in Florida and Oklahoma, he spent a year in South Korea flying reconnaissance missions over inter- national waters near North Korea and the Soviet Union. In 1958, Mr. Dols left active duty and returned to law school. Follow- ing a brief stint as a prosecutor in Bloomington, Minn., he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1961 and joined the Foreign Service. His nearly 30- year diplomatic career began with a posting at the U.S. consulate in Bordeaux. Subsequent assignments in Canada, Swaziland, Niger and New Zealand were interspersed with tours in Washington. During one of these in the mid- 1970s, Mr. Dols became aware that several congressmen had violated a House ethics rule prohibiting members from accepting trips to South Africa paid for by the South African government. He would later blow the whistle on the miscreant congressmen on national television news. During his final Foreign Service assignment, Mr. Dols ran a training program for diplomats from several newly-independent Pacific island nations. He retired in 1990. In retirement, he worked as a con- tractor for the Foreign Service Grievance Board, avidly researched his Dutch, German and Irish ances- try, and pursued his love of Civil War history. He enjoyed working on his farm in Rappahannock County, Va. His first wife, Mary L. Dols, died in 1971. He is survived by his second wife, Betty L. Dols, to whom he was married for over 32 years; seven chil- dren, Gregory Coxson of Olney, Md., Molly Gill of Tempe, Ariz., Sheilah Dols of Annandale, Va., Sue Stuffle- beam of Littleton, Colo., Stephen Dols of DuPont, Wash., and Jonathan Dols and Andrea Keum of Alexan- dria, Va.; and 15 grandchildren. Dorothy M. Jester , 92, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Aug. 21, 2006, in Tucson, Ariz., of conges- tive heart failure. Born in Arizona and raised in Texas and California, Ms. Jester attended Stanford University where she majored in Spanish. She re- ceived a B.A. in 1936 and an M.A. in 1940. A fluent Spanish speaker — her bilingual mother had been raised in Mexico — she taught school and worked as an administrative assistant in the private sector in Quito and Lima from 1941 to 1945, when she returned to the U.S. and joined the Foreign Service. Her first posting was to Munich, in 1946. Ms. Jester was sent to Mexico City in 1948 as a junior officer on loan to the U.S. Information Agency. From there she was posted to Mexicali as a consular officer in 1951. In 1954, she was assigned to Managua as an eco- nomic officer, and then in 1956 moved on to Bonn, where she served as assistant commercial attaché. Returning to Washington, D.C., in 1958 for a four-year tour in the Bureau of Economic Affairs, she was next posted to Santiago to do eco- nomic reporting in 1962. In 1964, Ms. Jester was sent to Santo Domin- go to head the economic section. Her tour was interrupted by an upris- ing in 1965; after heading up the evacuation of American citizens, she was posted to Mexico City for a secnd tour. Following retirement in 1971, she settled in Guadalajara. There she was active in the American Society and in fundraising efforts for the national symphony. Ten years later, she moved to Tucson, Ariz. Ms. Jester was interviewed for the For- eign Affairs Oral History Collection in 1998. Friends and colleagues re- call her love of music, art, theater, books, bridge and dachshunds. She leaves no immediate survivors. Robert L. Dwelley , 82, a retired Foreign Service staff officer, died at his home in Brunswick, Maine, on April 9. Born in Brunswick, Mr. Dwelley served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He received a B.A. degree in history from the University of Maine in 1950. Mr. Dwelley entered the Depart- ment of State as a civil servant in 1951, and was temporarily assigned to Dusseldorf, Manila and Moscow. In 1961, he was posted to London as a supervisory communications offi- cer, and in 1962 became a Foreign Service staff officer. In 1964, Mr. Dwelley was trans- ferred to Lima as communications and records supervisor, and a year later was transferred again, to Santo Domingo. He was assigned to the department as a budget analyst from 1967 to 1968, when he became the budget and fiscal officer in Jeddah. He transferred to Amman in 1970. His last post before retiring was Bogota, where he served from 1973 to 1975. Following retirement, he returned to the State Department for several temporary assignments until 1984. Mr. Dwelley settled in his home- town, but spent winters in Costa Rica. He leaves no immediate sur- vivors. S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 7 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 81 I N M E M O R Y