The Foreign Service Journal, November 2007

in political science from Queens College in Flushing, N.Y., and a mas- ter’s degree in American history from Columbia University in 1957. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve. In 1958, Mr. Grahame joined the Foreign Service. After a two-year assignment at the State Department in Washington, he was posted to Chennai (formerly Madras). Later, he was assigned to posts in Kolkata (Cal- cutta) and Mumbai (Bombay), where he served as economic-commercial officer. Other assignments included Luxembourg, Malta and Cyprus. In August 1974, he was in the embassy in Nicosia when, during a Greek Cypriot demonstration, it was attacked by Greek forces. Ambas- sador Rodger P. Davies and his ad- ministrative section assistant were killed by sniper fire in the attack. Mr. Grahame, who was slightly injured, was given an award for valor. He also helped Americans get out of Cyprus during the disturbances that year. In the late 1980s, Mr. Grahame worked with an Afghan coordination unit and visited an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan. His last postings were Israel and Tunisia, both as an economic officer. He retired in the early 1990s. He returned to school and receiv- ed a master’s degree in social work from Catholic University in 1995. Mr. Grahame volunteered at the Washing- ton Home. He was a member of the American Foreign Service Association. His marriages to Marcia Grahame Moss and Joyce Grahame ended in divorce. Survivors include three chil- dren from his first marriage, Peter Grahame of Palm City, Fla., Laura Grahame of New York City and Nicholas Grahame of Indianapolis, Ind.; and three grandchildren. Martin Y. Hirabayashi , 91, a retired FSO, died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes on June 14 in Edina, Minn. Mr. Hirabayashi was born in Seat- tle, Wash., and grew up with seven younger brothers and sisters on a small farm outside the city. He grad- uated from the University of Wash- ington in 1939 with cum laude hon- ors, receiving a B.A. degree in busi- ness and economics. He subsequent- ly pursued graduate work at the uni- versity with an emphasis in interna- tional trade and economics, followed by Japanese-language training at Kyoto Imperial University. In 1942, Mr. Hirabayashi married Joyce Higuchi, whom he had met and courted at the university. During World War II, Mr. Hirabayashi work- ed as a Japanese-language instructor and also as a research analyst and translator for the U.S. Navy, moving frequently with his wife and including stays in Boulder, Colo., New York City and Cambridge, Mass. Following the war, he was assigned to Japan. There, he worked for the U.S. War Depart- ment on the Strategic Bombing Survey, helping to assess the im- pact of American bombing on the facilities and people of that country. In 1946, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he joined the State Department as an economic research analyst. In 1956, Mr. Hirabayashi joined the Foreign Service and was assigned to Tokyo as a economic-commercial officer. In 1961, after two tours, he joined the Far Eastern Bureau’s Japan Desk as an economist. In 1964, he was appointed a member of the U.S. delegation to the sixth round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations, held in Geneva, where his focus was on U.S. trade talks with Japan. Following the nego- tiations, he was named chief of the Special Trade Activities and Com- mercial Treaties Division, Bureau of Economic Affairs, in Washington, D.C. In 1969, Mr. Hirabayashi was assigned to Helsinki as counselor for economic and commercial affairs, where he remained for two tours. In 1974, he was assigned to Stockholm in the same capacity. Retiring in 1976, he moved with his wife to the Minn- eapolis suburb of Edina to be close to their families. In retirement, Mr. Hirabayashi stayed active, serving as a board mem- ber of the Minnesota World Trade Association, the United Nations Association of Minnesota and the Minnesota International Center. He was executive director and later pres- ident of World Trade Week, Inc., a board member and president of the Japan America Society of Minnesota, and a volunteer for the Service Corps of Retired Executives, where he assisted small businesses and entre- preneurs interested in international business opportunities. His wife, Joyce, who had been in declining health following a stroke, passed away on Dec. 5, 2006. Besides five brothers and a sister, survivors include two sons, Tim of Monroe, Mich., and Jim of North Potomac, Md., and four grandchildren. William Carter Ide , 88, a retired Foreign Service Reserve officer, died on July 27 of a heart ailment after a fall at his home in Vienna, Va. Mr. Ide was born in Redlands, Calif., and graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. He interned for the federal government in Washington until the outbreak of 68 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 I N M E M O R Y