The Foreign Service Journal, September 2022

84 SEPTEMBER 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Service. He spent part of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro where his father was labor attaché at what was then the U.S. embassy (and is now a consulate). Mr. Rowell went on to graduate from Yale University with a degree in interna- tional relations, served two years in the U.S. Army and later studied as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University. After entering the U.S. Foreign Service in 1956, he served two consular tours in Brazil before returning to the State Department. He then served as a political officer in Argentina and Hon- duras. His next assignments included the State Department’s Office of the Inspec- tor General and the European Bureau’s Iberian Affairs Office. He served as deputy chief of mission in Portugal, spent two years as deputy assistant secretary of State for consular affairs in Washington, D.C., and then began his ambassadorships to Bolivia, Portugal and Luxembourg. Honors include the Presidential Merit Award and two Superior Honor Awards. He also received awards from both Bolivia and Luxembourg. Retiring in 1994 after 38 years in the Foreign Service, Ambassador Row- ell served as president at DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs profes- sionals, after having also served as vice president, treasurer, board member and committee volunteer. His service also included: presi- dent of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training; vice president for retirees at the American Foreign Service Association; member of the Douglas Dillon Book Award Committee at the American Academy of Diplomacy; and senior reviewer at the Office of Freedom of Information and Declassification at the Department of State. In retirement, Ambassador Rowell was also a frequent lecturer on foreign affairs at U.S. universities, a business consultant and a corporate director. Ambassador Rowell is remembered as a calm, gentle soul who personified dignity, thoughtfulness and wisdom. He is also remembered as a man who set the gold standard as an American diplomat. He would be the first to acknowledge that his Foreign Service career began and ended in partnership with his wife, Le, whose initiative and relationship-build- ing among the diplomatic, business and cultural communities inspired and aided his personal and professional acumen. Ambassador Rowell’s legacy of service to family and country was a boundless mission to make the world a better place where people can live and work in peace. He understood this is not an individual pursuit, but a team effort for the greater good. His legacy is shared and will endure through those who knew him, all those whose lives he touched and those who will follow a similar path. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Lenora Wood Rowell; his three children, Ted, Karen and Chris; grandchildren Daniel, Andrew, Christopher and Jack; great-grandchildren Harvey, Cece and Lydia; and brother Rick. n Pamela Fay Scott , 71, wife of retired USAID Senior Foreign Service Officer Rick Scott, died from a heart attack on March 29, 2022. Ms. Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1950. The first in her fam- ily to attend university, she received a CQSW (a master’s degree in social work) from the University of Edinburgh. After practicing social work in the area, she was invited to visit a friend in India. She traveled there in 1975 and worked for Oxfam UK in the eastern state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) on a “food for work” project. During her visit, she observed some- thing that stayed with her for the rest of her life: a very thin man bent over to pick up a single grain of rice that had fallen from an open rice bag and ate it. His pal- pable desperation made a lasting impres- sion, and Ms. Scott remained committed throughout her life to helping ease the path for those less fortunate. After India, Ms. Scott traveled to Ban- gladesh. She made her way overland to Dhaka on rickshaws, buses, trains and a rowboat, and often laughed about being one of the few—if not the only—Western women to travel overland to Bangladesh at that time. On arrival, she heard about a “crazy American” who worked for the inter- national aid organization CARE on the island of Bhola in the Bay of Bengal. Once again, off she went. She met the aid worker and then proceeded overland to Nepal. Five years later, after working with U.K. social services in Oxford, England, she and the crazy American were mar- ried in Wausau, Wis. Ms. Scott, husband Rick and their two children lived and worked around the globe and experienced many cul- tures, all of which she loved dearly. Her travels took her to Haiti, India, Morocco, Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, Liberia and Timor-Leste. During this time, Ms. Scott appreciated periodic visits home to her beloved Scotland. While she valued her chosen profes- sion of social work, she showed an uncanny ability to reinvent herself each time she moved. Her work included serving as the head of the English-lan- guage hotline in Moscow to help English