The Foreign Service Journal, October 2006

O C T O B E R 2 0 0 6 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 87 Beryl B. Barraclough , 71, wife of retired FSO William Barraclough, died on May 23 at their home in Hilton Head Island, S.C., after a long struggle with cancer. Mrs. Barraclough accompanied her husband on tours to Brussels, Lusaka, Tokyo and Paris. She is survived by her husband; her son, Keith, of Alexandria, Va.; her daughter, Jennifer Kessler, and granddaughter, Kayla Kessler, both of Hilton Head Island, S.C. Maxwell Kennedy Berry , 76, a retired FSO, died peacefully on June 11 at his home in Lacey, Wash., from congestive heart failure. Born in Morganfield, Ky., Mr. Berry earned a B.A. in English from Duke University in 1952, served as a naval officer aboard the USS Tarawa from 1952 to 1955, and received an M.A. in English from Louisiana State University in 1955. He entered the Foreign Service in 1956 and served in Saigon, Jakarta, Adana, Izmir, Ankara, Lusaka and Washington, D.C. In 1963, he was detailed to the Near East area studies department at Princeton University. Plagued by ill health, he retired in 1980. Mr. Berry is survived by his wife, Ann; a son, Walter Berry of Gabriola Island, British Columbia; a daughter, Helen Berry of Olympia, Wash.; and a brother, Marion W. Berry of Morgan- field, Ky. Janine Werner Boswell , 91, widow of the late Foreign Service offi- cer William O. Boswell, died on June 5 in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Boswell was born in Le Havre. The daughter of a Norwegian diplo- mat, she was of French/Norwegian descent. She joined her husband in representing the United States on diplomatic assignments to Lisbon (1941-1945), Naples (1945-1946), Vienna (1946-1947), Paris (1947- 1950), Rome (1953-1955), Milan (1955-1958) and Cairo (1962-1965). Mrs. Boswell was an active member of the French Group of what was then the Association of American Foreign Service Women (now Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide). Following Mr. Boswell’s retirement in 1970, the couple lived in Bethesda, Md., and New Florence, Pa. Mrs. Boswell leaves sons Eric (a retired FSO), Steven, Philip, Peter and Christopher; daughters-in-law Nancy Zucker Boswell, Julie Yanson and Kathryn Boswell; and four grand- children. Mr. Boswell died in 2002. Charles W. Bray III , 73, a career FSO, former ambassador and a co- founder of the “Young Turks” move- ment that reformed AFSA’s mission in the 1960s, died of pneumonia on July 23 at his home in Milwaukee, Wis. Ambassador Bray was born in New York City and graduated from Prince- ton University in 1955. He served overseas in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958, and joined the Foreign Service in 1958. After a year as an information specialist and another year in Visayan- language training at FSI, Amb. Bray was posted to Cebu as a consular offi- cer in 1961. From 1963 to 1965 he served as a political and USAID offi- cer in Bangui. He returned to Wash- ington, was detailed to the University of Maryland for systems analysis and economics studies in 1966, and then continued working in the department. During this period, Amb. Bray helped launch the “Young Turks” movement, a group of AFSA mem- bers who in 1968 issued a manifesto, “Toward a Modern Diplomacy,” call- ing for major changes in the Foreign Service. They were instrumental in bringing about AFSA’s recognition as the official representative of the Foreign Service in 1972. Amb. Bray served as chairman of the AFSA Governing Board in 1971. In 1971, Amb. Bray was named State Department press spokesman and director of the Office of Press Relations, serving under Secretary of State William P. Rogers until 1973. In this capacity he handled such issues as U.S. sales of F-4 Phantom jets to Greece, opposition to French atomic tests and censure of secret trials of Jews in the Soviet Union. Amb. Bray resigned from the Service in 1973 in protest over the Nixon administration’s wiretapping of three Foreign Service officials. Loyalty “has to run in both directions,” he said at the time. During the Carter administration, Amb. Bray was appointed deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency and director of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed him ambassador to Senegal. After returning to the U.S., he led a State Department task force that iden- I N M EMORY