The Foreign Service Journal, October 2010

62 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 1 0 Notre Dame University. He moved with his family to Long Island when his father began a long career at Brook- haven National Laboratory. Mr. Collins graduated from Bellport High School, Long Island Village, N.Y., in 1954. After receiving his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1959, he pur- sued graduate studies at Columbia University from 1959 to 1961. He re- ceived an M.Ed. from George Wash- ington University in 1993. His languages were French, Greek, Viet- namese and Portuguese. Specializing in political and politi- cal-military affairs, Mr. Collins was ap- pointed to the Foreign Service in 1964. His postings included Greece, Viet- nam, Cambodia, Portugal, NATO/ Brussels and Washington, D.C. His first assignment was Thessaloniki; he later returned to Greece to serve as special assistant to the ambassador for political-military affairs, twice acting as a negotiator on U.S.-Greek military base agreements. His expertise on Greece, Turkey and Cyprus was an asset while assigned to the U.S. Mis- sion to NATO. Mr. Collins was a delegate to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris from 1970 to 1972. There he met his wife of 39 years, Gloria Elizabeth Collins, a native of Washington, D.C., who was also a member of the Foreign Service. The couple served together during most of their careers. During the Vietnam War, Mr. Collins served at Embassy Saigon and at the consulate in Can Tho, as well as in Phnom Penh when that diplomatic mission was evacuated in March 1975. In addition, he was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1983-1984. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1994. Following retirement, Mr. Collins moved to NewMexico and later joined Sandia National Laboratories as a con- sultant. He also worked at the De- partment of State inWashington, D.C., as a document reviewer from time to time. He was an avid runner, tennis player and baseball fan, as well as an avid reader and student of American, English and Irish classic literature and a lover of indie films, both foreign and American. Mr. Collins is survived by his wife, Gloria Elizabeth Collins, of Washing- ton, D.C.; and a sister, brother and stepmother. Francis P. (Frank) Coward , 91, a retired FSOwith the U.S. Information Agency, died on June 11 in Slinger- lands, N.Y. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., on Dec. 12, 1918, Mr. Coward graduated from Union College, where he majored in language and literature, and received anM.A. in education from the Univer- sity of Buffalo. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II as an interpreter for French pilots and, later, as an interpreter for German war crim- inals in Europe. Following the war, Mr. Coward taught in Lausanne, Switzerland, for two years, then returned to New York City where he taught at Williamsville High School for 12 years. The recipi- ent of two Fulbright Scholarships, Mr. Coward spent one year in Oldenburg, Germany, and another year in Vienna. In 1962, Mr. Coward joined the U.S. Information Agency. He first served in India, then in Thailand for nearly five years as an assistant cultural affairs officer, followed by five years in Burma as cultural affairs officer. At each post, he was successful in insti- tuting new long-range public diplo- macy programs in addition to directing normal cultural functions. Mr. Coward retired to Rensse- laerville, N.Y., in 1979, where he was active in community affairs and main- tained a strong interest in international developments. He was an avid reader, whose personal library contained sev- eral thousand books. Survivors include his wife, Gretch- en, of Rensselaerville; son Nicholas and wife Vicki of Alexandria, Va.; daughter Helen and husband Ronald Gresch, of Baltimore, Md.; a sister, Marian Page; and five grandchildren. Memorial donations may be di- rected to Trinity Church or the E.N. Huyck Preserve, both in Rensselaer- ville. Colette Dickey , 83, a retired For- eign Service specialist, died onMay 22 in Camden, Maine. Ms. Dickey was born in Pawtucket, R.I., where she was educated in parochial schools and attended Bryant College before entering the Foreign Service in 1951. During her 32-year career as an office management spe- cialist, she served in Belgrade, Tokyo, Damascus, Geneva, Paris, Poznan, Sofia, Lisbon, Rio, Guatemala City and Brussels, usually as secretary or execu- tive assistant to chiefs of mission and deputy chiefs of mission. In those po- sitions her office skills and linguistic abilities were highly regarded by a se- ries of ambassadors and senior officers. In 1982, Ms. Dickey retired to Camden, where she became an active member in a number of Maine mid- coast foreign policy forums and envi- ronmental organizations. She also volunteered as a teacher of basic read- I N M E M O R Y