The Foreign Service Journal, October 2010

O C T O B E R 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 63 ing and foreign languages in the Maine correctional system. Ms. Dickey is survived by a sister, Jacqueline, a member of The Sisters of St. Chretienne in Cumberland, R.I. Donations in her honor may be made to her church, Our Lady of Good Hope, 7 Union Street, Camden ME 04843 or to the Christian Foun- dation for Children and Aging, One Elmwood Avenue, Kansas City KS 66103. Susan Kay Donnelly , 63, wife of retired FSO Shaun Donnelly, passed away suddenly but peacefully at home in Silver Spring, Md., on July 12. Mrs. Donnelly was born on April 23, 1947, in Menasha, Wis., to Ken- neth Kay, a manufacturing executive, and Joan Buesing, a homemaker. She had a loving, 1950s-style, Midwestern childhood in New Holstein and She- boygan, Wis., where she was active in church, school, music and theater. After graduating from Sheboygan North High School in 1965, she at- tended Lawrence University, graduat- ing with a B.A. in history in 1969. She remained active in theater, music and church activities all her life. In 1970, she married Shaun Don- nelly, a fellow alumnus (1968). Mrs. Donnelly worked as a social worker in Chicago while her husband earned an M.A. from Northwestern University. In 1972, the couple moved to Wash- ington as Mr. Donnelly began a 36- year Foreign Service career as an eco- nomic officer, serving as ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, as assis- tant U.S. trade representative for Eu- rope and the Middle East and, for eight years, as a deputy assistant secre- tary in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, five of them as prin- cipal deputy assistant secretary. Mrs. Donnelly was in every respect a full partner in her husband’s career and a dynamic and widely admired, if uncompensated, American represen- tative throughout their six overseas as- signments in Dakar, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Bamako, Tunis and Colombo. At each post, she was a leader in the American and international communi- ties, serving at various times as an em- bassy community liaison officer, USIA I N M E M O R Y