The Foreign Service Journal, October 2008

Shortly after retiring, Mr. Schodt became director of the overseas cam- pus of the United States International University (San Diego) in Evian-les- Bains, France, and Bushey, England. In 1975, he received the George Norlin Award, the highest honor the University of Colorado Alumni Association bestows on an alumnus. In the same year, he was also honored with the Valley State College Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Following his return to the U.S. in 1978, Mr. Schodt taught in the Political Science and International Relations Department at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C. He retired from that position in 1988. In 1996, he and his wife moved to Charlottesville, Va., where he resided until his death. Mr. Schodt is survived by his wife, Margaret Birk Schodt of Charlot- tesville; two sons, David Schodt (and his wife Elizabeth Ciner) of North- field, Minn., and Frederik Schodt (and his wife Fiammetta Hsu) of San Francisco, Calif.; and two grandchil- dren, Sara Schodt of New York, N.Y., and Christopher Schodt of North- field, Minn. John J. “Jack” Tuohey , 75, a retired FSO with USIA, died on May 22 after a brief battle with cancer. Born on Nov. 6, 1932, in West Roxbury, Mass., to John Sr. and Ann (Rogers) Tuohey, he graduated from Boston College High School in 1950. After service in the U.S. Army sta- tioned in Alaska, he received his bach- elor’s degree from Boston College in 1957. In 1959, he married Virginia Ann Williams at St. Patrick’s Cathe- dral in New York. Mr. Tuohey served both the U.S. Information Agency and the Depart- ment of State as a Foreign Service officer. His overseas postings includ- ed Frankfurt (1960-1963), Vienna (1963-1964), Moscow (1965-1967), Bombay (1967-1970), Berlin (1973- 1977) and Tel Aviv (1977-1979). During the Tehran hostage crisis in 1979, he served on the State Depart- ment’s Iran Task Force. In his free time, Mr. Tuohey enjoyed hiking and camping with his sons and served as their scoutmaster in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Of the Scouts in Israel, he said, “I had six different nationalities in my troop, but we were still the Boy Scouts of America.” He loved to share stories from his career and life overseas, including true tales about religious riots in Bombay, intrigue in Berlin and the Bolshoi Ballet. Among his most memorable expe- riences were the negotiations sur- rounding the Camp David Accords — an experience, he would later say, that “left me on the brink of exhaustion at most times.” He had arrived in Tel Aviv one month before Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. “The U.S. had volunteered to play the middle man in the peace process, and it was one heck of a job. It was very satisfy- ing, however, because we achieved something,” he later reported. In 1977, Mrs. Tuohey was diag- nosed with multiple sclerosis, and in 1979 the Tuoheys returned to Wash- ington, D.C. In 1985, Mr. Tuohey was given what would be his last assignment — to serve as the State Department adviser to the comman- ders of special operations at Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C. In addition, he taught psychological operations at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. Mr. Tuohey retired as a counselor of the Senior Foreign Service in 1989, remaining in Fayetteville to care for his wife full time as her health declined. After her death in 1996, he volunteered his time as an arbitrator for the Cumberland County courts, with the speakers bureau at Fayette- ville Technical Community College and as a liaison to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s office for his neigh- borhood association. His letters to the local newspaper editor were so frequent that in order to get them published, he often wrote under a pseudonym or submitted them under the names of consenting neighbors. Family and friends will miss Mr. Tuohey’s gift for a quick limerick, his partisan taste in Irish whiskey and a brogue that, surprisingly, never saw the shores of the Emerald Isle. He is survived by his four sons: John Matthew (and his wife Pam) of Linden, N.C.; Kevin Michael (and his wife Shauna) of Natick, Mass.; Robert Paul (and his wife Kristen) of Stur- bridge, Mass.; and Patrick Eugene (and his wife Michelle) of Kansas City, Mo.; and 12 grandchildren (Shannon, Sarah, Ashley, Caroline, Jay, Savan- nah, Evan, Rebecca, Ryan, Caroline Rose, Maureen and Madeline). Though the family diaspora has spread as far as Turkey and Australia, all of his sons were present with him in his final hours. In addition to his wife, Virginia, Mr. Tuohey was preceded in death by his brother, Paul Francis Tuohey. The family requests that any memorial contributions be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. n 82 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 8 I N M E M O R Y u E-mail your “In Memory” submission to the Foreign Service Journal, attention Susan Maitra at FSJedit@afsa.org , or fax it to (202) 338-6820. No photos, please. u