The Foreign Service Journal, October 2006

DCM, with the personal rank of min- ister. In Cairo, he served as chargé d’affaires during the Six Days War of June 1967, receiving the Superior Honor Award for safely evacuating 500 Americans. Mr. Nes retired from the Foreign Service in 1968. Following retirement, Mr. Nes set- tled in the town of Greenspring Valley, where he built a home. He served on the boards of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and wrote and lectured extensively on foreign affairs, primarily the Middle East. He was an ardent golfer, sailor and skier, and a member of the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club, the Chevy Chase Club, the New York Yacht Club and the West River Sailing Club. He sailed from Galesville, Md., to North- east Harbor, Maine, each summer until 2000, and played golf until 2005. Mr. Nes’ beloved wife and career partner, Elizabeth Houghton Nes, predeceased him in May 2004. He is survived by his five daugh- ters, Wendy Del Terzo of Lancaster, Pa., Audrey Keykendall and Margaret Nes of Taos, N.M., Nancy Knowlton of Baltimore, Md., and Victoria Kirby of San Francisco, Calif.; and two grandsons, David Nes Del Terzo of Lancaster, Pa., and Nicholas Nes Knowlton of Baltimore, Md. Florence L. Neverman , 89, a retired Foreign Service staff officer, died on April 3 in Sarasota, Fla. Ms. Neverman was born in La Moure, N.D. She served in the U.S. Navy WAVES from 1942 to 1946, retiring from the Naval Reserves in 1961 as a lieutenant. After joining the Foreign Service in 1947, Ms. Neverman was assigned as a secretary to Warsaw (1947-1949), Baghdad (1949-1951), Geneva and Zurich (1955-1957), Copenhagen (1957-1960), Beirut (1960-1965), Tehran (1965-1969) and Tokyo (1969- 1971). The late Ambassador ArminMeyer, to whom she was secretary during her last three postings, recently recalled Ms. Neverman’s excellent organiza- tion and conscientious efficiency. Upon retiring in 1971, Ms. Never- man settled in Sarasota, Fla. She is survived by a sister, Laurie Cooper. John Albert Edward Orloski , 97, a retired Foreign Service Reserve staff officer, died on Aug. 15 of a stroke at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. Born in Scranton, Pa., Mr. Orloski graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1934. He went to work at the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration in 1934, moving to the Latin American Division of the old Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in 1938. He was posted to the U.S. embassy in Cuba in 1945, first as commercial officer, then as assistant commercial attaché. He was subsequently assign- ed to La Paz as commercial attaché, returning in 1948 to the Department of Commerce’s International Division where he was responsible for the north and west coast areas of South America. In 1950, Mr. Orloski joined the management consulting firm of Klein & Saks, where he was a senior indus- trial consultant until 1965, when he joined the consulting firm of Econo- mic Associates. In 1965, he joined the newly established Industrial Develop- ment Organization of the United Nations as senior economic adviser, later becoming assistant to the direc- tor of the policies and planning divi- sion and moving to Vienna with the organization. After the Vienna assign- ment, Mr. Orloski took on specific field assignments for UNIDO: He headed a three-person economic mis- sion to Swaziland in 1970, worked with the government of Mauritius in 1971 and with the government of Guatemala in 1976. Later that year, he returned to the U.S. following a serious earthquake there. Mr. Orloski and his wife, whose daughter Jewel was mentally disabled, were active in promoting a greater awareness of the needs of people with mental disabilities. He helped estab- lish the Association of Retarded Citizens of Prince George’s County, and served as the group’s president for four years. A member of St. Mark’s Parish in Adelphi, he worked for Christian Assisted Living for Mentally Retarded Adults, serving as the group’s chaplain. In 2002 Mr. Orloski moved to Riderwood Village in Silver Spring, Md., where he was active in the com- munity and wrote articles for the local newsletter on travel and gardening. Mr. Orloski’s wife, Estelle, died in January. His daughter Jewel died in April. Survivors include a daughter, Mary Jane Phillips of Silver Spring, Md. Talcott W. Seelye , 84, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambassador, died of pancreatic cancer on June 8 at his home in Bethesda, Md. Ambassador Seelye was born in Lebanon, where his father, Laurens Seelye, was a professor at the Ameri- can University of Beirut. He was a descendant of Captain Robert Seeley, who arrived from England with John Winthrop in 1630, and a long line of prominent educators. His great- grandfather, Julius Hawley Seelye, was 92 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