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 65 Evanston, Ill., on Nov. 2, 1960, and grew up in Nebraska and Michigan. She graduated from Benton Harbor High School in Michigan in 1979, and received a B.A. in medical anthropol- ogy fromMichigan State University in 1983. In 1988, she earned two master’s degrees — in medical anthropology and public health — from the Univer- sity of Connecticut. She married Michael Conlon in 1985, and the couple had two children, Emma and Daniel. The family lived in Mexico City, London and, for the past four years, Tokyo, where Mr. Conlon served as the agricultural trade officer. In Tokyo, Ms. Frandsen-Conlon was the community liaison officer for three years. Family and friends recall her love of reading, animals, hiking and traveling. In July, the family returned to their home in Vienna, Va. Ms. Frandsen-Conlon is survived by her husband of 25 years, Michael; her children, Emma, 18, and Daniel, 14; her father, the Rev. Charles Frand- sen; two brothers, John and Philip; and 13 nieces and nephews. She was pre- ceded in death by her sister, Christina, in 2003, and her mother, Ianthe, in 1995. Memorial contributions may be made to the nonprofit organizations Life with Cancer (Lifewithcancer.org) or Capital Hospice (capitalhospice. org). Gerald (Jerry) Goldstein , 88, a retired FSO, died on March 24 in Seattle, Wash., of esophageal cancer. Born in New York City in 1921, Mr. Goldstein received his B.S. degree from Brooklyn College in 1944 and an M.A. degree from the University of California, Berkley in 1948. He served in the U.S. Army overseas from 1942 to 1946. Mr. Goldstein entered the Foreign Service in 1950 and subsequently served in Munich, Vancouver, Port-of- Spain, Bonn, Brasilia and Washington, D.C. He also attended the National War College in 1965. He retired in 1976 with the rank of minister coun- selor. During retirement, Mr. Goldstein enjoyed wood working and created a number of lovely pieces. He read ex- tensively in economics and history, subjects that had interested him all his life and were at the core of his Foreign Service career. Mr. Goldstein is survived by his wife, Sylvia, of Seattle; his children Susan of Oakland, Calif., Kay of Berke- ley, Calif., and Steven of Seattle; and two granddaughters, Anna and Rachel. Dorothy Jean (Petrie) Irving , 87, the wife of retired FSO and former ambassador Frederick Irving, died on Feb. 8 in Amherst, Mass., of a heart at- tack. A leader in early childhood educa- tion and a community relations spe- cialist, Mrs. Irving had earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. in education from Columbia University. In 1946, she married FSO Frederick Irving, accompanying him to postings in Austria, Iceland and Ja- maica. In Austria during the 1950s, and again from 1967 to 1968, Mrs. Irving chaired the 100-member Austrian- American Friendship Fund, a bina- tional organization of volunteers and Austrian and American government officials working to help handicapped and homeless children. In Iceland, where her husband served as ambassador, Mrs. Irving took up study of the difficult local language. Though the U.S. maintained a strategic naval base in the country, the embassy had no American member who knew Icelandic. Mrs. Irving often served as the translator of Icelandic newspapers at a significant time in U.S.-Icelandic relations, and was widely respected and admired in many strata of Ice- landic society for her cultural interest and involvement. Upon the couple’s departure, the Icelandic government publicly cited Mrs. Irving for her contributions to successful retention of the naval sta- tion, which had been threatened with expulsion by the coalition government that included members of a heavily pro-Soviet political party. In Jamaica, where her husband served as ambassador, Mrs. Irving worked with Peace Corps Volunteers and several social welfare organiza- tions. Because of her wide community involvement, the U.S. business com- munity publicly thanked her for “im- proving the climate in which we conduct our business.” The Jamaican prime minister and minister of education each honored Mrs. Irving with a luncheon when she and her husband departed. The Ja- maica Teachers’ Association stated: “Castro built schools along the high- ways, but it was Mrs. Irving who taught in them.” While in the United States, Mrs. Irving served as a member of the State Department Mental Health Advisory Committee and lectured at the For- eign Service Institute. During one U.S. assignment, she was honored by the mayor and school superintendent of Cambridge, Mass., for her work in a multiethnic school in that city, and by I N M E M O R Y