The Foreign Service Journal, September 2016

86 SEPTEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL “Burdensharing” should be hyphenated: “Ambassador Caldwell is groaning under quite a load, and I’d like to help him,” Mr. Safire concluded. “But inmy personal stylebook he is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Burden-Sharing.” After retiring from the Foreign Service in July 1999, Mr. Caldwell began a second career in international affairs as a trainer in conflict analysis and resolution for the U.S. Institute of Peace, a position that took him to Colombia, Serbia and Kosovo and put him into contact with leaders from Africa and Asia. Mr. Caldwell shared with his children a passion for music, politics and sports. For 10 years, while his children were growing up, he was a licensed U.S. Youth Soccer Association coach and a youth-soccer referee. In addition to his wife, Sally, of Annandale, Va., Mr. Caldwell is survived by his son, Ian (and his wife, Meredith) of Vienna, Va.; by his daughter, Rachel (and her partner, Michael Landusky) of Colum- bus, Ohio; by three grandsons, Ethan, Jude and Luke Caldwell of Vienna, Va.; and by two granddaughters, Chloe Harris and Ella Landusky of Columbus, Ohio. Donations in Ray Lee Caldwell’s name may be made to Capital Caring Hospice. n Maxwell (Bruce) Hirshorn, 85, a retired Foreign Service officer with the State Department, died suddenly in his sleep on July 7 in Arlington, Va. Mr. Hirshorn was born on Oct. 18, 1931, in Camden, N.J., the oldest son of Harry and Estelle (née Spector) Hirshorn. He grew up in northwest Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated from the WilliamPenn Charter School in 1949, which instilled in him the Quaker qualities of tolerance, charity and compassion that remained with him for the rest of his life. Mr. Hirshorn attended Yale College, where he sang in the Glee Club and managed the squash and track teams. He graduated with a degree in history in 1954 and returned to his hometown to work at his father’s insurance brokerage, Harry R. Hirshorn and Company (nowHirshorn Boothby). The following year, he married his first wife, Anne Sue Friedberg. It was at this time that he discovered his passion for the law. He first took night classes at Temple University Law School but transferred to the University of Penn- sylvania Law School, where he graduated in 1960. At Penn he was a member of the Lewis Law Club and the Moot Court Board. After receiving the third-highest bar exam score in Pennsylvania, he practiced law in Phila- delphia for the next two years. In 1962, inspired by John F. Kennedy’s call to public service and encouraged by his wife, Bruce Hirshorn joined the Foreign Service. The State Department first sent him and his family to Izmir, where he served as a consular officer. For the rest of his life he enjoyed surprising waiters in Turkish restaurants by conversing with them in their native language. His next posting was Brussels, where Mr. Hirshorn worked at the United States Mission to the European Economic Com- munity. One of his primary duties involved persuading the United Kingdom to join the CommonMarket. In 1970, Mr. Hirshorn was sent to study at the London School of Economics, where he earned anM.S. degree in economics. When the Hirshorns returned to Wash- ington, he and his wife, Anne, divorced. He met his second wife, Willene Drake, at the Foreign Service Club, where she was a hostess. They married in 1974. The following year, Mr. Hirshorn was assigned to the American consulate in Hong Kong as an economic officer. In 1977, he was posted to Kuala Lumpur, where he served as the economic coun- selor. In 1981 the Hirshorns returned to the United States, and Mr. Hirshorn worked at the State Department until his retirement in 1985. He returned to school to earn an LLM in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1986 and was then hired as a partner at Boring & Pilger. Mr. Hirshorn continued his service to his country as a lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute and the Foreign Agricul- tural Service. He served on the Governing Board of the American Foreign Service Association from 1993 to 1995, and for many years (through 2015) he helped the FSJ with the annual tax guide. He also served as a long-time member of his condominium’s board of directors. Bruce Hirshorn will be remembered for his decency and compassion, his tremendous work ethic, his commitment to his clients, his devotion to family, his enormous reserves of energy and his dry wit. He enjoyed challenging his children at squash, table tennis and the occasional footrace. He was an avid filmgoer, enjoyed dancing and winemaking, and loved clas- sical music, New Orleans jazz, klezmer music and opera. Mr. Hirshorn is survived by his wife of 42 years, Willene (née Drake); his former wife Anne Sue (née Friedberg); and chil- dren Barry (and his wife, Linda Sjogren) of Kapolei, Hawaii; Harriet (Marie de Cenival) and Hal of New York, N.Y.; and Dalton of New Orleans, La. He is also sur- vived by his brother, Ralph Steven (and his wife, Natalie) of Philadelphia, Pa.; and sisters-in-law Edith Brooks of Foley, Ala., and Melinda Drake of Lawrenceville, Ga. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Bruce Hirshorn’s name to the American Friends Service Committee or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.