The Foreign Service Journal, September 2011

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 National Merit Scholar. She earned a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University in 1965, an M.A. in English literature from the University of London in 1980, and a J.D. from the University of Washington in 1985. From 1966 to 1967 she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda. When she returned to Seattle, she pur- sued her law degree and worked at a local TV station as a copywriter. In 1974, her husband, Max Robinson, joined the Foreign Service and they moved to Dakar and then London. While inWashington, D.C., Ms. Robin- son worked as editor for the Library of Congress’ Copyright Office. In 1985, she joined the United States Information Agency as a For- eign Service officer. In her first as- signment (1987-1990), she served in Moscow during a period of great tran- sition. There she used her love of cul- ture and arts to build trust and understanding between the U.S. and Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War. She later served in Belarus and Haiti, where she worked to bring edu- cational and cultural opportunities to that impoverished nation. In Wash- ington, D.C., she served in the Foreign Press Center and various regional bu- reaus. She retired from the Foreign Service in 2002. Ms. Robinson was a great admirer of the arts and an avid painter. During her Foreign Service assignments, she tirelessly used the visual and perform- ing arts to build strong relationships with the people of many nations and to give them a better understanding of the U.S. She continued this pursuit in retirement, operating a painting studio and participating in numerous art and cultural exhibitions. Susan Robinson is survived by her daughter, Lisa Robinson, a child psy- chiatrist in Newton, Mass.; her son, Joel Robinson, an FSO currently serv- ing in Baghdad; three granddaughters: Emily Robinson and Zoe and Naomi Goldstein; her brothers, George and John Sutton; and her mother, V. (Jane) Sutton of Portland, Ore. Bruce David Rogers , 54, a career Senior Foreign Service officer, died in I N M E M O R Y