The Foreign Service Journal, October 2012

68 OCTOBER 2012 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL he handled African and Latin American affairs. In April 2012, Mr. Barton returned to Capitol Hill to attend the confirmation hearing of his youngest son, Rick, as the first assistant secretary of State for con- flict and stabilization operations. After resigning from the Senate staff, Mr. Barton took up the work of president of the Textile Arts Foundation he and his wife had founded. On invitation from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nancy Hemenway (her nom de plume) lectured, exhibited her works and conducted workshops in five nations in Africa. The foundation conducted large one-artist shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Edinburgh Art Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as smaller exhibits in about 20 other American museums. It was dis- solved in the late 1990s when Mrs. Barton succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease. Living in Georgetown, the couple was involved in the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown. Mr. Barton became its president, and was later elected vice president of the Georgetown Citizens’ Association. He was also involved in the Presbyterian P Street Church, the Palisades Community Church, the Palisades Public Library, Iona, Meals on Wheels and the Friends Club. He was a member of Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired. The couple returned annually to their summer home at Juniper Point, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine. But on Mr. Barton’s retirement, they purchased the Tengren estate at Southport, where Mrs. Barton enjoyed much-improved studio facilities, and lived there for 11 years. When his wife’s illness necessitated a return to Washington, Mr. Barton began working summers as a volunteer at the Boothbay Memorial Library. He was also a contributor to the Boothbay Land Trust, Botanical Gardens, St. Andrews Hospital and the YMCA. Mrs. Barton died on Feb. 23, 2008. Mr. Barton is survived by their three sons, Robert Bradford (and his wife, Julie Benson) of Darien, Conn., William E. (and his wife, Lisa) of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and Frederick D. (and his wife, Kit Lunney) of Washington, D.C.; a brother, Bernard D. of Minneapolis, Minn.; seven grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and a step- great-grandchild. Donations in his memory may be made to one’s own favorite charity or to the Nancy H. & Robert D. Barton Scholar- ship Fund at Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME 04011; Wheaton College, Norton MA 02766; the Juniper Point Village Improve- ment Society, Box 498, West Boothbay Harbor ME 04575; DACOR, 1801 F Street, Washington DC 20008; or the Palisades Community Church, 5200 Cathedral Ave. NW, Washington DC 20016. n Stephen M. Carney , 90, a former USIA Foreign Service officer, died on July 3 in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after suffering various health issues. A graduate of Potomac State College in Keyser, W. Va., Mr. Carney enlisted in the Army during World War II. His assign- ments included serving as a communica- tions sergeant in General George Patton’s 95th Infantry Division in France and Germany. Later he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of West Virginia University. Before joining USIA, Mr. Carney was the director of English teaching at the binational cultural center in Nicaragua and then director of the binational center in Equador. As a USIA FSO he served in Martinique, France, Spain (three different posts), Bolivia and the Dominican Republic, as well as in Washington, D.C. He was the USIA desk officer for France, Spain and Portugal during the 1960s. Following his retirement from the For- eign Service in 1971, Mr. Carney worked for McGraw Hill for nearly 10 years. In 2009 he was named “Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur” by the French Gov- ernment for his military and diplomatic service in France. One volume of his memoirs is being considered for publication in the book program of the Association for Diplo- matic Studies and Training. In recent years, he also wrote several essays on his Foreign Service experiences, one of which—“Memorable Encounters with Two Early Public Diplomacy Stal- warts”—is on the Web site of the Public Diplomacy Alumni Association (www. publicdiplomacy.org/pages/ ). Mr. Carney is survived by his wife of 63 years, June K. Carney, five children, nine grandchildren and two great-grand- children. n Lee Coldren , 69, a retired Foreign Service officer, died of cancer on July 29 in Sacramento, Calif. Mr. Coldren was educated at Berke- ley and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the Foreign Service in 1970, where, as he put it, he special- ized in “mountainous, drug-producing, ancient countries prone to instability and terrorism.” Following two years in Lima, he worked in Kabul from 1974 to 1977. After a stint as Sri Lanka desk officer, Mr. Coldren spent two years in New Delhi. He then returned to Afghanistan in 1980 to cover the Soviet-Afghan War. After a tour as deputy director in the Office of Korean Affairs, he spent three years as consul general in Surabaya. He was subsequently deputy chief of mission in Dhaka. Mr. Coldren’s last assignment was as