The Foreign Service Journal, November 2008

Nanjing who took them to Taipei. Living there with their older sister and her husband, they would finish their education and proceed to find work and build their lives. Chi Newman recounts her early experiences in Taipei and Athens, when she and her sister “overcame our fears and managed to survive with our dignity intact,” as she puts it. She describes her life around the world with her husband, FSO Richard Newman, and their family. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1978, her husband spent an additional period working for the World Health Organization in Guatemala, Barbados and Washington, D.C., and the author also tells the harrowing experience of his kidnapping by Guatemalan terrorists during this time. Chi Newman lives with her husband in Tucson, Ariz., where she pursues her passions for tennis, bridge, art and cooking. Foreign Service Family, Vol. II: Finland 1958–1962 Harriet Prince Parrish Youngquist and Eric V. Youngquist, Voyageur Publishing Co., Inc., 2008, $23.00, paperback, 486 pages. This is the second chapter in the government career of Rita and Eric Youngquist, which begins at the end of 1957 when FSO Youngquist arrived in Helsinki. As in the first volume, the story of their family’s experience is told largely through excerpts from the late Rita Youngquist’s many letters to her parents. As at their previous posting, she was active in entertaining and other rep- resentational activities, in addition to running a play- reading group, helping the children with their stud- ies, and organizing family travels in Europe and Scandinavia. Her letters reflect her broad engage- ment and activity. Eric Youngquist served in Bangkok from 1955 to 1957, first as vice consul, then as a commercial offi- cer in the economic section, and later in the politi- cal section dealing with Southeast Asia Treaty Organization affairs. From 1958 to 1962, he was an economic officer in Helsinki. N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 8 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 33