The Foreign Service Journal, September 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2013 87 freelance book reviews for a number of publications, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal . He is the author of a history book, Gateway: Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky (Bell Country Kentucky Historical, 2000), and Quests (Writers Club Press, 2002). Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Sandra Dunlop Burns of Wash- ington, D.C.; two sons, David A. Burns of Haddonfield, N.J., and Patrick Burns of Arlington, Va.; and five grandchil- dren. n Thomas J. Fitzpatrick Jr. , 76, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died on May 3 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md., of complications related to back surgery. Thomas Joseph Fitzpatrick Jr. was born in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1959, and then served in the Navy. On his discharge in 1963, he joined USIA. In 1967, he received a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University. He served overseas in Mexico, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Spain and Brazil. His professional specialties included arranging travel for dignitaries, includ- ing for overseas presidential trips. He was also known for giving an annual St. Patrick’s Day party wherever he was assigned. Mr. Fitzpatrick retired in 1997 and moved from Washington to Grasonville on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Joyce Bergdoll Fitzpatrick of Gra- sonville, Md.; three children, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick III of Grasonville, Mary K. Weaver of York, Pa., and Michael K. Fitzpatrick of Falls Church, Va.; and a sister. n William (Bill) B. Hussey , 97, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on May 25 after a short bout with pneumo- nia at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills, Calif. Mr. Hussey was born in Bellingham, Wash. After graduating from Boston University, he undertook further study at UCLA and the Naval War College. He served in the U.S. Navy, rising to the rank of captain. During World War II, he partici- pated in numerous battles in the Pacific theater and was on board the battle- ship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, when General Douglas A. MacArthur accepted the surrender of Japan from Prime Minister Shigemitsu. After the war he served on the staff of the commander of the Gulf Sea Frontier and the commander of the Panama Sea Frontier. In 1949 Mr. Hussey joined the For- eign Service. After specialized training in the United States and Germany, he was posted to London as a regional security supervisor. Soon after reporting for duty, he was given additional duty as chairman of the newly created London Liaison Group. Due to the blockade of Berlin and increasing tension with the Russians, the group was authorized to meet with U.S. and foreign government authori- ties throughout Western Europe and North Africa to develop a coordinated plan for the evacuation of all Americans from the region to the United States. Mr. Hussey wrote the final plan, titled “Operation Whiz Bang.” Later, he served in Bonn, Munich and Frankfurt, followed by assignments to Burma and Thailand. He was deputy chief of mission in Togo, Malawi and Madagascar, and also served as chargé d’affaires in Lesotho and Mauritius. Between assignments to Thailand and Lesotho, he served in the department as deputy chief in the Bureau of Educa- tional and Cultural Affairs and, sub- sequently, as deputy chief of cultural presentations in the same bureau. After retiring from the Foreign Ser- vice in 1969, Mr. Hussey was appointed United Nations Development Program regional representative for the Western Pacific. Headquartered in Apia, Western Samoa, the staff included members from 30 countries working on eco- nomic and social development projects throughout the island nations. In 1975 he became a foreign affairs consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, and in this capacity had the opportunity to travel throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. This work required cooperation with various regional groups, including NATO, the European Economic Union and the U.N. family of organizations. In 1981 Mr. Hussey was appointed associate vice president for interna- tional relations for the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympic Games. This was followed in 1986 by appointment as chief of govern- ment relations on the staff organizing the three-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in New York. From 1975 to 1988 he served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific, the Los Angeles Sister City Commission and the Mayor’s African Task Force, and was vice president of the Worldview Interna- tional Foundation. Tennis was one of Mr. Hussey’s great passions. He had a lifelong devotion to the game, and he and his wife Piyachart were nationally ranked in their age groups well into their 80s. He tire-