The Foreign Service Journal, September 2014

74 SEPTEMEBER 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL at the National Cancer Institute. He also raisedmoney to have his entire genome sequenced for study of potential future cancer treatments to help others. Mr. Lake’s battle with cancer is recorded in a Waterloo Productions docu- mentary, “Lakeside”, which was released in early 2014. The film follows a year in the life of Mr. Lake fromhis initial remission to his subsequent re-diagnosis. Mr. Lake is survived by his wife, Susan; daughter, Bronwyn; partner and caregiver, Lisa Costello; mother, Sarah Bryant; father, Joseph Lake; stepmother, Jo Ann Kessler; a brother, Michael Allen (and his wife, Ksenia) Lake; a sister, Mary Elizabeth Lake; niece, Delaney Otteman; and a legion of family and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the ClaytonMemorial Medical Fund, P.O. Box 5703, Portland OR 97228. n Patricia B. Norland , 94, wife of the late retired FSO and ambassador, Donald R. Norland, died peacefully onMay 20 at the home of her son, Ambassador Richard Norland, in Tbilisi, Georgia. Born inMiami, Ariz., Patricia Bamman graduated with a degree in English from Wellesley College in 1942. She began her career in Norfolk, Va., working as a clerk typist at the Naval Air Station and Norfolk Army Base and as secretary of publicity for the Office of Civilian Defense from 1943 to 1946. After WorldWar II, she moved toWash- ington, D.C. to work on the legislative staff of Senator Sheridan Downey, a Democrat fromCalifornia, from 1939 to 1951 and, briefly, for his successor, Senator Richard Milhous Nixon. She also worked with the State Department’s Educational Exchange Service, where her duties included arrang- ing visits of foreign dignitaries to Blair House. In 1952, she married a newly minted Foreign Service officer from Iowa, Donald Norland, and the couple headed by ocean liner to Europe and their first assign- ment in Rabat, Morocco. They would go on to posts in the Ivory Coast, France, Netherlands, Guinea, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Chad until 1981, when Ambassador Norland retired. The mother of three children who graduated fromGeorgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and themselves became diplomats, Mrs. Norland found representing the United States abroad a joyful and rewarding privilege. In keeping with the prevailing practice of the era, Amb. Norland’s performance in the field was evaluated in part onMrs. Norland’s ability to represent the United States as a hostess and philanthropist. She excelled in these endeavors. She embraced chances to reflect the American spirit in different ways across distant nations. In 1960, she entertained hundreds of guests in the heat at a Fourth of July party in the Ivory Coast with the aid of only one small refrigerator. While the spouses of diplomats today fly tomajor cities to have a baby, she delivered her youngest in a fan-cooled room in a French clinic in Abidjan in 1959. Friends remember her as a gentle and graceful practitioner of the art of person- to-person diplomacy. She enjoyedmeeting people from around the world and finding cultural affinities that createdmutually enriching personal bonds. She volunteered with the Red Cross in Botswana alongside Lady Ruth Khama, wife of the country’s late president, Sir Seretse Khama, in the late 1970s. In that capacity, she quietly reinforced U.S. ties with a non-racial government bordering the apartheid regime of South Africa. Adventure was a regular theme inMrs. Norland’s life. While she was living in Conakry, Guinea, in November 1970, Por- tugal launched an invasion of that country. Mrs. Norland provided shelter and food in her home for embassy personnel and to help calm families. In their fewmonths before evacuating N’Djamena by Frenchmilitary transport in March 1980, Pat Norland taught English at the University of Chad. She recalled a stu- dent whose essay lamented his country’s civil war, in which “brothers fight brothers, cousins fight cousins.” Her account of the ordeal, “Evacuation fromN’Djamena,” was featured in the July-August 1980 FSJ . After her husband’s death in 2006, Mrs. Norland kept up her travels as an envoy of America. She lived with her daughter on diplomatic assignment in Vietnam and Laos, countries where seeing an elder par- ent share an American’s home surprised and delighted friends and colleagues. In 2012, she moved to Tbilisi, to live with her son, Richard, the U.S. ambassador to Georgia. She died under hospice care at his residence. A breast cancer survivor, Mrs. Norland had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. On her death, the prime minister of Georgia wrote to Richard Norland personally about her inspirational life: “I would like to pay tribute toMrs. Nor- land’s remarkable life and accomplish- ments. She contributed greatly through her work and her parenting to the promotion of international understanding in the many lands where she accompanied your father and your family.” Mrs. Norland’s passion for public ser- vice and her 62-year diplomatic career is captured on the tombstone she shares with her husband, which reads: “Together, a life devoted to the Foreign Service.” Mrs. Norland was predeceased by her husband, Donald. She is survived by her children: Richard, a career FSO and U.S. ambassador to Georgia; David, a former