The Foreign Service Journal, September 2020

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2020 83 restore longleaf and shortleaf pine ecosys- tems on dedicated parcels of his land. He is survived by his wife of nearly 38 years, Christine M. Johnson, of Vienna, Va.; his daughter, Mariza Matel (and her husband, BrendanWilliams) of Ellicott City, Md.; his sons, Alex and EspenMatel, of Vienna, Va.; and his sister, Christine Matel Milewski (and her husband, Greg Milewski) of Oak Creek, Wis. n Sue Ford Patrick , 73, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer, died on July 6 in Pompano Beach, Fla., after a brief struggle with pancreatic cancer. Born on Nov. 9, 1946, inMontgomery, Ala., Ms. Patrick was the eldest of three children born to Oscar andMildred Ford. InMontgomery, she attended Chisholm Elementary, St. John the Baptist Elemen- tary and St. Jude College Preparatory School before transferring toMadonna Academy, a private Marianist high school in Hollywood, Fla. In 1963 she graduated fromMadonna Academy as valedictorian. In 1967 Ms. Patrick graduated from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in history. After pursuing graduate studies in U.S. diplomatic history at the University of Virginia, she joined the Foreign Service in 1972. During a 32-year diplomatic career, Ms. Patrick was posted overseas toThailand, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Haiti and South Africa, in addition to assignments in Washington, D.C. She spokeThai, Swahili, French and Afrikaans. In addition to her earlier graduate stud- ies at the University of Virginia, she later received a master’s degree in African stud- ies fromBoston University and a master’s degree in national security studies from the National War College. In the years preceding the Rwandan genocide, Ms. Patrick served as deputy chief of mission in Kigali, Rwanda, where she sought tomake peace between the warring Hutu and Tutsi factions. In Johannesburg, South Africa, she was the first woman to serve as the U.S. consul general. At the Pentagon, fol- lowing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, her efforts played a key role in shepherding former Warsaw Pact coun- tries into the orbit of NATO and Western democracy. Then, as diplomat-in-residence at Morehouse and Spelman colleges in Atlanta, she led the State Department’s efforts to recruit talented college graduates to join the Foreign Service while teaching a course in U.S. diplomacy. After she retired, Ms. Patrick undertook an assignment as adviser to help negotiate a peace agreement between the govern- ment of Senegal and warring factions in its Casamance region. She was recognized by the State Department with several Superior Honor Awards. She was a member of the Phi Beta Delta honor society of international schol- ars, a member of the International Honor Society in history, and recognized as a distinguished alumna of her alma mater, College of Notre Dame of Maryland. In 2019 she was recognized by the Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School with the Founder’s Award, given to those who embody the school’s motto, “Toward a Better World.” In retirement, Ms. Patrick turned her focus to her local community of Pom- pano Beach. She founded the Palm Aire Student Enrichment Group, a group of 40 volunteers who tutor children weekly to help them reach grade-level proficiency. A member of the city commission’s Educational Advisory Committee, she provided counsel on public education matters and monitored the actions of the Broward County School Board on behalf of city residents. She is survived by her husband, Hen- derson; two children, Lauren Patrick and Ibrahima Patrick; her mother, Mildred Ford Carter; aunts Dorothy Sue Peterson (George) and Ruby Kitchen; uncles Ned Hunter, Forest Hunter andMoses Hunter Jr.; cousins Christine Sampson, Barry Johnson, Johnny Frank Kitchen, Renard Kitchen, Travia Cooper and other relatives and friends from across the globe. n George E. Scholz , 68, a retired Foreign Service officer, died peacefully on Sept. 16, 2019, at his home in Tucson, Ariz., from gastric cancer. Mr. Scholz was born in Chicago, the first child and only son of Daniel and Alice. The family lived in the city before moving to Orland Park, Ill., where Mr. Scholz graduated from Carl Sandburg High School. He went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in political science from Law- rence University in Appleton, Wis., and then joined the Peace Corps as a volun- teer teaching English in Morocco from 1973 to 1976. Mr. Scholz earned a master’s degree in teaching English as a Second Lan- guage from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill., where he met his wife of 42 years, Celeste. They taught abroad in Algeria, Portugal, China and Saudi Arabia before Mr. Scholz joined the U.S. Informa- tion Service as a regional English language officer (RELO) in 1990. Mr. Scholz served as a RELO in Indo- nesia (1992-1996, 2008-2011), Malaysia (1996-2000), South Africa (2000-2004), Egypt (2004-2008) and South Korea (2011- 2012) before retiring. Mr. Scholz’s ability to build bridges was demonstrated in two projects: the creation of materials for the Officer Training Pro- gram for the Indonesian National Security Police Training Center, and the establish-