The Foreign Service Journal, October 2004

her career as such. She also served in Havana, Conakry, Athens, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Bahrain and Asuncion. Ms. Bow- man was fluent in Spanish and could speak some French. She traveled extensively in the United States and throughout the world after her retirement, even though she was in cancer recovery. In 1995 she came out of retirement to serve as an administrative officer for the Summit for the Americas that was held in Miami and attended by 34 heads of state. She was active in her church, the Life After Cancer organization and other volunteer groups in Asheville. Ms. Bowman is survived by her brother James Bowman of Bayonne, N.J.; a sister Theresa Lambertson of Long Island, N.Y.; three nieces, and one nephew. A memorial service was held at the Unitarian Universa- list Church in Asheville. Morgan Lyall Breckon , 68, re- tired senior diplomat and FSO, died suddenly in Singapore on June 22, while on assignment there for the Center for Naval Analyses of Alexandria, Va. Mr. Breckon was born in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, Canada, on June 30, 1936. His early years were spent in Minnesota and Oregon. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1958, and in September of that year was commis- sioned an officer of the United States Foreign Service, where his first assignment was in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Follow- ing Vietnamese language training at the Foreign Service Institute, he was assigned to the political section of Embassy Saigon in July 1961. After Thai language training, he was assigned to Bangkok as political officer from 1966 to 1969. During his tenure there, he opened the con- sular post in Songkhla, in southern Thailand. He was again assigned to Saigon in 1969, and returned to Bangkok in 1970, and following that was posted to Madras as consul in 1971. In 1973, he returned to Washington to serve in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Service at Princeton University in 1975-76. Later assignments included the Policy Planning Staff of the State Department, where he worked on East Asia matters. He served as chargé d’affaires and deputy chief of mission in Kuala Lumpur from 1979 to 1983. During that time he was also appointed to and served as con- sul general for Brunei. Mr. Breckon then became direc- tor of the office of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Affairs at the State Department, where he worked closely with the POW-MIA organi- zation The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. He was among the first group of American officials to travel to Hanoi following the war. Mr. Breckon was DCM from 1986 to 1989 in Vienna, for the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks and later the Conventional Forces in Europe negotiations. From 1990 to 1992, he served as deputy U.S. repre- sentative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and in New York on the United Nations First Committee during the final negotia- tions on the Chemical Weapons Convention. Mr. Breckon retired from the Foreign Service in 1993, with the rank of minister-counselor. Throughout his career he received numerous superior honor and merito- rious awards. Following retirement, he became a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, where for the past 10 years he directed a wide range of studies on strategic and operational issues in East Asia and the Pacific. He frequently visited the region, participating in seminars and confer- ences, and meeting with senior gov- ernment and nongovernment offi- cials and experts. Both the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the U.S. Pacific Command, to which he provided numerous briefings and advice, con- sidered him an invaluable resource in understanding political-military dynamics in Asia. Mr. Breckon also contributed to numerous Track II dialogues and publications, wrote on China and Southeast Asia for the quarterly online journal Compara- tive Connections , published by the Pacific Forum/CSIS, and lectured frequently on Southeast Asia at the Foreign Service Institute. Mr. Breckon had a keen fascina- tion for the natural world and thor- oughly enjoyed exploring his sur- roundings and meeting people wherever he traveled. His hobbies included music, cycling, sculling, squash, skiing, cooking, woodwork- ing and his rose garden. He was a member of Diplomatic and Consu- lar Officers, Retired; The Asia Society; The Far East Lunch Group; the Council for Security Coopera- tion in Asia and the Pacific; the Association for Asian Studies; the Malaysia-American Society; and the United States-Indonesia Society. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Claire; their two children, Morgan Alexander of Washington, D.C., and Lydia of Providence, R.I.; a grandson, Jolyon Lyall, and his brother, Garry, of Portland, Ore. In remembrance, please consider donations to So Others Might Eat, 71 O St. NW, Washington DC 20001. 76 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / O C T O B E R 2 0 0 4 I N M E M O R Y