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 67 she received her A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in 1953 fromRadcliffe Col- lege, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa member. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow in political theory and received her M.Ed. degree from Harvard Uni- versity. She subsequently taught and tutored in Concord, Mass., Arlington, Va., Taichung, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dar es Salaam, Colombo and New Delhi. She also taught remedial math at the Math Center in Washing- ton, D.C. Upon her husband’s retirement after 34 years in the Foreign Service, the couple settled inWashington, D.C. There Mrs. Levin drew on her Chi- nese-language and painting skills to be- come a devoted docent, supporter and participant in the museum family at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art. She divided her time among Washington, D.C., New York City and Calais, where she took particular pride in her showplace gardens. Mrs. Levin was diagnosed with non-treatable stomach cancer on July 9. In accordance with her wishes, she died at home with truly caring hospice nursing, surrounded by her family. Her last days in Calais were supported by the loving efforts of longtime friends and neighbors who maintained her vegetable and flower gardens, which she viewed with joy and appre- ciation. The many messages and cards she received in July, sent by friends liv- ing everywhere from the Outer Heb- rides to Australia and throughout the U.S., were all read to her and were of great comfort. Mrs. Levin is survived by her hus- band of 56 years, Herbert Levin, of New York City; daughter Martha Levin, of Hong Kong; son Jonathan C. Levin, of South Burlington, Vt.; sister, I N M E M O R Y 2010 A NNUAL FS A UTHOR R OUNDUP Watch for the November FSJ ’s annual roundup of books by current and former members of the Foreign Service and their families.