The Foreign Service Journal, October 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | OCTOB ER 2018 65 He was also president of the local Harvard alumni association for many years. Mr. Levine is survived by his wife, Katherine; his son Tyrrell Levine (and his wife, Kiro); daughter, Kara Leibel; son Brian Levine (and his wife, Jane); a sister, Lillian Shwartz; and grandchil- dren Timmy Wang and Kayla Levine. He was predeceased by his brother, Jacob “Jack” Levine. n Helen (Sue) Carpenter Low, 91, a Foreign Service spouse, died on April 26 in her apartment at an assisted living and memory care residence in Ashland, Mass. Mrs. Low was born in Tulsa, Okla., on Oct. 9, 1926. The family relocated to Findlay, Ohio, during the Great Depres- sion, when she was 7 years old. Mrs. Low applied to Denison Univer- sity in 1944, long after the application deadline, but she was admitted based on having won a highly competitive State of Ohio scholarship. She gradu- ated from Denison Phi Beta Kappa with an economics major in 1948. In 1949 she received her master’s degree in philosophy, politics and eco- nomics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She completed her honors at Oxford Univer- sity, Somerville College, as a Fulbright Scholar in 1951. Mrs. Low married Stephen Low in 1956, and together they started a life in the Foreign Service with tours in Uganda, Senegal, Brazil, Zambia and Nigeria, as well as a stint in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1982. After leaving the Foreign Service in 1987, they spent five years in Bologna, Italy. In addition to raising three sons and serving as a Foreign Service spouse, Mrs. Low was active in improving the status of Foreign Service women and spouses, researching and writing papers for various governmental and nongov- ernmental organizations, leading and supporting women’s groups overseas and at home and supporting her local community. She traveled widely and maintained a keen interest in current affairs, music, art, geology, photography, philosophy and spirituality. Mrs. Low played an active leader- ship role in the Association of Ameri- can Foreign Service Women, chairing groups and directing surveys. She wrote recommendations and testimony for congressional hearings that led to a policy framework to support and acknowledge the role of spouses in the Foreign Service, and the establishment of the Foreign Service Spouse Corps. Mrs. Low was predeceased by her husband in 2010. She is survived by her sons, Diego of Massachusetts; Rod (and his wife, Helen) of Honolulu, Hawaii; and Jesse (and his wife, Julie) of Cairns, Australia; and grandchildren Ciara, Roisin, Stephanie, Lena and Philip. n Mark Mitchell, 58, an active-duty Foreign Service officer with USAID, died on May 6 as the result of a car accident in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he was posted. Mr. Mitchell graduated from Cali- fornia State University, Fresno with a bachelor’s degree in business adminis- tration. He then joined the Army, rising to the rank of captain in the intelligence branch before returning to school to earn a master’s degree in international relations and a law degree from the University of South Carolina. He then worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Defense Intel- ligence Agency before joining USAID. Mr. Mitchell served in Brazil, Dji- bouti and Afghanistan before being posted to Georgia in 2015. Mr. Mitchell is survived by his hus- band, Paulo Mendonca; his parents, Betsy and Russell Mitchell; and a sister, Melissa Mitchell. n Stafford KingMousky, 85, a former Foreign Service officer with USAID, died on Dec. 6, 2017, in New York City after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Mousky was born in St. Cloud, Minn., on Oct. 11, 1932, the son of Carl and Estelle Mousky. His father was a govern- ment official for the state of Minnesota, and his mother was a schoolteacher. He graduated fromWoodrowWil- son High School in St. Paul, Minn., and later graduatedmagna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science fromHamline University. He went on to serve in the U.S. Navy for four years, spending two years on aircraft carriers in the Pacific. Mr. Mousky joined USAID in 1960, serving as a development specialist until1977. He served on the Bolivia desk in Washington, D.C., before moving to Peru in 1965. He later served as chief of the Devel- opment and Planning Division of the Latin America Bureau of USAID and as the senior USAID economic and social adviser to the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations, where he served under permanent representatives George H.W. Bush, John Scali, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, William Scranton and Andrew Young. In 1977 he was seconded to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as chief of the Office of the Executive Director, and later became chief of the Governing Council for the U.N. Liaison and External Relations Branch. Mr. Mousky concluded his UNFPA career as senior adviser for the Secretariat