The Foreign Service Journal, September 2009

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 73 ciation of Christian Lawyers. Mr. Lowe is survived by his first wife, Debbie, and their daughter, Mel- issa, of Vienna, Va.; his wife Teresa, and his stepdaughters and their families of Jacksonville, Fla.; and his sister, Sally Mangham, and her family of Jack- sonville. His mother, Nell Lowe, pre- ceded him in death in 2008. Earl H. Lubensky , 88, a retired FSO, died of a heart attack at his home in Columbia, Mo., on May 1. Mr. Lubensky was born in Mar- shall, Mo., on March 31, 1921. After graduating fromMarshall High School in 1937, he worked for several years as manager of the Tavern Supply Com- pany in Marshall, Mo. In 1942, he married Anita Ruth Price and was drafted into the U.S. Army that same year; he subsequently served in the U.S. Army Reserve until his retirement in 1972 as a lieutenant colonel. Mr. Lubensky received bachelor’s degrees from Missouri Valley College in 1948 and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in 1949. He later re- ceived a master’s degree from The George Washington University and a diploma from the National War Col- lege in 1967. In 1949, Mr. Lubensky joined the Foreign Service. He was first posted, along with 26 others in what became known as the Group of 27, as a resi- dent officer in the program to rede- mocratize Germany (1950-1952). He then served in Manila (1952-1954), Madrid (1954-1956) and Washington, D.C. (1956-1961), where he worked on Latin American affairs and the Antarctic Treaty. From then on, all of his foreign post- ings were in Latin America. He served as political officer in Quito (1961-1966) and in Bogotá (1967-1971); as consul general in Guayaquil (1971-1973); and as deputy chief of mission in San Sal- vador (1976-1978). He attended the National War College from 1966 to 1967; was a diplomat-in-residence at Olivet, Albion and Adrian Colleges in Michigan (1973-1974); and served as a senior staff member of the Interna- tional Council on Environmental Qual- ity (1974-1976). I N M E M O R Y