The Foreign Service Journal, October 2018

66 OCTOBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL of the International Conference on Population and Development, witness- ing the adoption of the Programme of Action at ICPD in Cairo. Following his retirement from the United Nations in 1994, Mr. Mousky served as a member of the governing board of the Association of Former International Civil Servants, a senior adviser to the International Organiza- tion for Migration, a board member of the U.S. Committee for UNFPA and a member of the DPI/NGO Executive Committee, serving as a mentor to countless colleagues. Mr. Mousky is survived by his wife, Laurence Mousky (née Melhem); his son, Marc Mousky; and his sister, Carol McCall. n Virginia S. Murphy, 99, widow of the late USIA Foreign Service Officer Edmund R. Murphy, died of congestive heart failure on Feb. 25 at her home in Chevy Chase, Md., six days shy of her 100th birthday. Mrs. Murphy was born and grew up in New Orleans, La., where she met Edmund Murphy, a naval officer in the Armed Guard during World War II. They were married in January 1945. After the war ended, Mr. Murphy’s Foreign Service career began, and the couple moved to Washington. D.C. Following Mr. Murphy’s assignment on the Latin American desk, the couple served in Mexico City, Lyons, Buenos Aires, Port-au-Prince, Bogotá and Helsinki. Mr. Murphy retired from the Service in 1973. Mrs. Murphy raised five children, two of whom, Linda Ann and Edmund Robert Jr., predeceased her. She was also predeceased by her husband. Mrs. Murphy is survived by three sons: John Donald of Chevy Chase, Md.; Lawrence Bostick of Monrovia, Md.; and Michael Alan of Berkeley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and four great-grand- children. n Rudolf Vilem Perina, 73, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambassador, died suddenly at home in Vienna, Va., on June 14. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1945, Mr. Perina and his parents fled that country following the 1948 communist takeover. The family lived as refugees in Switzer- land and Morocco before immigrating to the United States in 1950. Mr. Perina earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1967 and later received masters and Ph.D. degrees in European history from Columbia University. While studying in New York, he participated in filming a documentary about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslo- vakia. Mr. Perina worked for more than three decades on east-west relations in Europe during and after the Cold War, and on the Dayton Accords following the dissolution of the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Prior to his retirement, he served as ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, U.S. special negotiator for Eurasian conflicts in the former Soviet Union, principal deputy assistant secretary for European and Canadian affairs, and director of European and Soviet affairs for the National Security Council. Following his retirement from the Foreign Service, he served as chargé d’affaires at U.S. embassies in Chisinau (2006), Yerevan (2007), Reykjavík (2010), Prague (2013) and Bratislava (2015). He also led inspections of embassies around the globe. In 2007, Amb. Perina completed an oral history of his life and career for the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, which is available online through the Library of Congress. In 2010, Amb. Perina was the Scarff Visiting Professor of International Relations at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. He also served until his death on the Council of Advisers of the Wende Museum, a research institute and archive of the Cold War located in Culver City, Calif. Amb. Perina is survived by his wife, Ethel Hetherington Perina; two daugh- ters, Kaja and Alexandra Perina, and their husbands; and four grandchildren. n James Perry Thurber Jr., 90, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, died on June 16 in Los Altos, Calif., after a brief ill- ness. Mr. Thurber was a graduate of Milton Academy in Massachusetts and spent a 13th high school year at the Thatcher School in Ojai. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Stanford University and a master’s degree in international relations fromThe George Washington University. He attended the National War College from 1973 to 1974. Mr. Thurber served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, from 1950 to 1952. He then worked as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal in the San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia and Detroit offices. His last assignment for the Journal was as bureau chief in Houston. From 1956 to 1967 he worked in various administrative positions at Stanford University, including as assistant to the university vice president and provost. Mr. Thurber joined USIA in 1967 and