The Foreign Service Journal, October 2006

tified $129 million in budget cuts made possible by closing a number of the country’s overseas missions. In 1988, Amb. Bray became presi- dent of the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread in Racine, Wis., which holds conferences on sustainable development, education, democracy and families. Among other things, he rescued the Frank Lloyd Wright- designed Wingspread Conference Center that had fallen into disrepair. Amb. Bray retired in 1997, and thereafter devoted himself to restora- tion of Ten Chimneys, the home of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontayne, in Genesee Depot, Wis. Under his leadership, the home was opened to the public as a museum and resource for the arts world. Amb. Bray received the President’s Distinguished Service Award in 1984 and the State Department’s Distin- guished Honor Award in 1988. Throughout his career he wrote essays for newspapers and journals of opin- ion. He founded several community and youth organizations in Racine, and served as president and chief executive of the Princeton Project 55, which arranges internships in public service for Princeton University grad- uates. His first wife, Eleanor Mauzé Bray, died in 1993. Survivors include his wife of seven years, Katie Gingrass of Milwaukee; three children from his first marriage, Charles Bray of Austin, Texas, Kather- ine Bray-Merrell of Davidson, N.C., and David Bray of Atlanta, Ga.; five stepchildren, Charles Gingrass of Milwaukee, David Gingrass of Napa, Calif., Mary Gingrass-Stark of Nash- ville, Tenn., Sarah Gingrass of Milwau- kee and Amy Gingrass of Aspen, Colo.; two brothers, Richard Bray of Bethesda, Md., and Thomas Bray of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; and nine grandchildren. Robert A. Clark Jr. , 85, a retired FSO, died of bladder cancer on June 19 at Westminster of Lake Ridge Retirement Community in Wood- bridge, Va. Born in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 20, 1920, Mr. Clark attended Davidson College and Columbia University before World War II broke out. He briefly served in the Army Air Corps until he was medically discharged. He joined the Foreign Service in 1944 as a diplomatic courier, and was posted to Cairo. In 1947, Mr. Clark returned to State, where he held increasingly senior positions in the diplomatic pouch and courier operations office. Early in 1949 he was posted to Bangkok to supervise the regional courier office, and later that year transferred to Manila. After a brief stint at State in 1951, he was sent to Paris. Two years later he was assigned to the U.S. legation in Budapest as administrative officer. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when Soviet troops arrived in Budapest to put down the revolt, Mr. Clark was the convoy commander in charge of evacuating U.S. citizens. As the legation’s administrative officer, he negotiated the convoy’s progress with Soviet officers for two days in a Hungarian border town until he obtained approval for the Americans’ passage to Austria. Mr. Clark then returned to Washington, working in the executive directorate of the Bureau of Far East Affairs. After service as counselor for administration in Jakarta from 1961 to 1964, he spent the remainder of his FS career in Washington, first in the Bureau of Administration and then as deputy director of the Office of Munitions Control in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs. After retiring from the Service in 1972, Mr. Clark served on a communi- ty volunteer rescue squad and taught English as a second language. His first wife, Ruby Eastman Clark, whom he met when she was a Foreign Service secretary in Cairo, died in 1975. His second wife, Eleanor Berg- mann Clark, a Foreign Service officer, died in 2004. He is survived by his third wife, Lillian Youry Clark of Lake Ridge; three daughters from his first mar- riage, Carol Lynn Arnold of Ashford, Conn., Christine Adair Rumps of Anchorage, Alaska, and Janice East- man Clark of Manassas, Va.; two step- daughters; two sisters; six grandchil- dren; and two great-grandchildren. Kevin E. Honan , 55, an active- duty FSO, died on June 17 in Washington, D.C. Born in the Bronx, New York, Mr. Honan graduated from Georgetown University in 1973. He later earned an M.A. in commodity economics there. Mr. Honan joined the Foreign Service in 1974, and was posted to Istanbul. After returning to State, he was sent as an economic officer to Kuwait and, in 1981, posted to Ankara. Between 1984 and 1988, he worked in the Bureaus of African and Economic Affairs at State. He was then detailed to the Foreign Service Institute to learn Japanese, after which he was assigned to the trade unit of Embassy Tokyo. In 1995 he was detailed to FSI to study Korean, and was posted to Seoul in 1996, again as an economic officer. In 1999 he transferred to Tokyo as counselor for economic af- fairs. Returning to State in 2002, he directed the Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs. In 2005 he was appointed director of the Office of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Textile Trade Affairs. 88 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 6 I N M E M O R Y