The Foreign Service Journal, September 2014

72 SEPTEMEBER 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL n Donald Y. Gilmore, 90, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died on June 17 at Havenwood-Heritage Heights Nursing Facility in Concord, N.H. Born on Sept. 14, 1923, in Charlot- tesville, Va., Mr. Gilmore grew up in Providence, R.I., where he graduated fromProvidence Country Day School in 1941. He attendedMiddlebury College in Vermont, and received anM.A. in interna- tional affairs fromThe Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. During WorldWar II, Mr. Gilmore was a naval aviator and flight instructor in Pen- sacola, Fla. He joined the Foreign Service in 1951. Mr. Gilmore’s overseas assignments included Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Belgium, India and Colombia. He served for several years as director of French lan- guage broadcasting at the Voice of America and, later, as a deputy assistant director of USIA inWashington, D.C. He was accompanied on his Foreign Service postings by his wife, Norma (Nicki) Kerr Gilmore, a former State Department employee. Three of their four children were born in North Africa during assign- ments there. From retirement inMeredith, N.H., and later in Concord, N.H., Mr. Gilmore served as a contract escort-interpreter for State Department cultural exchanges, and arranged conference programs for the Fletcher School and the Television Confer- ence Association. He also became interested in archaeol- ogy and attended summer field schools. He was elected president of the New England Antiquities Research Association, serving for six years. In 1998, Mr. Gilmore co-edited a book for NEARA, Across before Columbus? , which explored evidence for transoceanic contacts with the Americas before 1492. IN MEMORY After undertaking several trips to North Africa, he lectured on the rock art of the Sahara Desert. Mr. andMrs. Gilmore loved the moun- tains and climbedmost of the “Four-Thou- sand Footers,” a group of 48 mountains in NewHampshire. They also hiked in Switzerland and the Grand Canyon. Mr. Gilmore is survived by his wife, Norma; three daughters, Deborah Gilmore of Voorhees, N.J., Shelly Barton of Laconia, N.H., and Katherine Sheils of Potomac, Md.; a son, Jefferson Gilmore of Denver, Colo.; four grandchildren, Paul Howard of Prides Crossing, Mass., Sarah Howard of Waltham, Mass., Allison Cronin of Washington, D.C., and Ian Gilmore of Denver, Colo.; and a sister, Jeanne O’Brien of Cambridge, Mass. Donations inMr. Gilmore’s name may be made to the Union of Concerned Sci- entists ( www.ucsusa.org/memorial) , Two Brattle Square, Cambridge MA 02138. n Wayne D. Hoshal, 86, a retired Foreign Service diplomatic courier, died on Jan. 16 at Grand Itasca Hospital in Grand Rapids, Minn. Born on April 8, 1927, in Sioux Falls, N.D., Mr. Hoshal grew up in Calumet, Minn., where he graduated fromGreen- way High School in 1945. He immedi- ately enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and was stationed on Kwajalein Island in the Pacific during WorldWar II. After the war, he returned home, completed his studies at Itasca Junior College and graduated from the University of Minnesota. While on a study break in the library, Mr. Hoshal read an article about a diplomatic courier. It was then that he decidedwhat he wanted to dowith his life, but he had towait for two years tomeet the age requirement for the job, 25. In the interim, he worked as a bellhop and doorman at luxury hotels in Florida, Maine andNewYork. In 1953, Mr. Hoshal began work as a diplomatic courier in what would become a 32-year Foreign Service career. His wife, Jean, whomhe married in 1970, says he lived the life he had dreamed of. Mr. Hoshal’s overseas postings included Panama City, Frankfurt (where both of his children were born) andManila. In carrying messages too sensitive to be transmitted by cable, Mr. Hoshal encounteredmany dangerous situations, including traveling by rail behind the Iron Curtain and being stranded for six weeks in India when war broke out. According to a Duluth News Tribune article, Mr. Hoshal’s daughter, Ann, recalls a story of her father drinking tea on the fourth floor of a hotel in Saigon while the city was being shelled during the Vietnam War. There were also less hazardous mis- sions, like the time he was assigned to deliver moon rocks to the National Air and Space Museum. A friend of the curator, Mr. Hoshal decided to instead deliver a slab of blue cheese as a joke. Mr. Hoshal retired from the Foreign Service in 1985 as chief of the Diplomatic Courier Service. He and his family moved toMinnesota, the state he so loved for its impressive forests and natural beauty. He spent time in outdoor activities, such as counting loons for the Department of Natural Resources, and continued such sports as downhill skiing until his health declined last spring. Mr. Hoshal was predeceased by his par- ents; two brothers, Julian and Earl Hoshal; and a sister, Colleen Peters. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Jean; a daughter, Ann Hoshal of Brainerd, Minn.; a son, Neil Hoshal; grandchildren, Alex and Alyssa Chinn; two brothers, Dale (and his wife, Carla) and Gary (and his wife, Robin) ; two sisters, Allene (and her husband, Patrick) Quinn and Donna