The Foreign Service Journal, October 2018

62 OCTOBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL boards of the Center for Belarusian Studies inWinfield, Kan., and the Monnet-Madi- son Institute in Cambridge, Mass. From 1999 to 2003 he accompanied his wife on her assignment for the U.S. Depart- ment of Commerce at the U.S. embassy in Canada. The couple moved to New London, N.H., in 2003. There, Mr. Harrod served on several town advisory panels; as chairman of the Energy Committee for three years; and as vice chairman and, later, acting chairman of the Democratic Party com- mittee. Mr. Harrod was predeceased by his parents and his wife, Dolly, who died in November 2006. He is survived by his son, Williamof Seattle, Wash.; his sister, Susan Harrod (and her husband, Dan Donahue) of Ashford, Conn.; a niece, Nancy Rosen- berg (and her husband, Michael Owen) and their daughters Alexa and Hannah Owen; and a niece, Jane Rosenberg (and her husband, John Kern), and their chil- drenMadelyn and Kenneth Kern. Memorial donations may be made to the Congressional Fellowship Program, c/o American Political Science Assn., 1527 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washing- ton DC 20036. n Darryl Norman Johnson, 80, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambassador, died on June 24 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Mr. Johnson was the second of three sons born to Norman Boyd Johnson and Eugenia Laurell (Nelson) Johnson. He was born on June 7, 1938, in Chicago, Ill., and soonmade the first of many moves, to Des Moines, Wash., with his family. An accomplished trumpet player, he considered becoming a professional musi- cian. Instead, he heeded President John F. Kennedy’s call and joined the Peace Corps after two years at the University of Puget Sound, completing his bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Washing- ton, and then doing graduate work at the University of Minnesota and Princeton University. Mr. Johnsonmet his first wife, the former Carol Lee Franz of Allegan, Mich., in Peace Corps training, and they moved toThailand together in 1963. Mr. Johnson soon joined the State Department, and his first posting was to Bombay (nowMum- bai). He subsequently served in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Beijing andWarsaw. Mr. Johnson was appointed the first U.S. ambassador to Lithuania in 1991 upon the breakup of the Soviet Union. He then returned to Taiwan, this time as chief of mission, before returning to D.C. as deputy assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He returned toThailand as U.S. ambas- sador in 2001, enjoying several opportuni- ties to play his trumpet with the king, an accomplished jazz musician. He served as ambassador to the Phillipines from 2005 to 2006. Ambassador Johnson had the oppor- tunity to work on U.S.-China relations right after Nixon opened China, to work on Cold War diplomacy during the last decade of Soviet power, and to witness both the Tiananmen Square protests and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Ambassador Johnson retired to Burien, Wash., where he taught a class at the Scoop Jackson School of International Relations at the University of Washington and was active on several boards. Since 2016, he resided at The Grove, the memory care unit at Judson Park, less than a five-minute walk fromhis childhood home in Zenith, Wash. He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Kathleen Dessa Forance Johnson; his daughter Darawan (Johnson) Gideos; and his twin sons, Gregory and Loren Johnson. He is also survived by David, Clarissa and Emmett Gideos of Rockville, Md.; Ellen Richards and Kate Johnson of Austin, Texas; Eim and Zoe Johnson of Portland, Ore.; his brother Brian Johnson of Beverly, Mass.; his first wife, Lee Ware of Arlington, Va.; and his best friend, David Hughes of Woodinville, Wash. He was predeceased by his brother Linn Valen Johnson of the Seattle area. The family welcomes contributions to the following nonprofit organizations: Friends of Thailand, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and the Lewy Body Dementia Association. Please leave online condolences at www. powerfuneralhome.com . n Stanton Jue, 93, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died at home in Arlington, Va., on July 14. Mr. Jue emigrated from South China at age 14 and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. He served on a newly built destroyer in the Mediterranean and South Pacific and, as a Japanese and Chinese language specialist, in intelligence and psychological operations at naval head- quarters in Honolulu. After the war, he earned a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, where he met his future wife, Florence. While a graduate student, he worked for the Committee for a Free Asia (later named the Asia Foundation). Mr. Jue joined the Foreign Service as an information officer in 1956, one of the first Chinese Americans to serve as a diplomat with the State Department. His overseas postings included PhnomPenh, Taipei, Tokyo, Saigon, Seoul and Canberra. Following a brief tour in Beijing in the