106 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2025 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Pa., after suffering from congestive heart failure and multiple myeloma. Mr. Seibold was born on February 9, 1943, in Astoria, N.Y., to Dr. Frank Seibold, a veteran of World War II, and Marjorie Hayes Seibold. He attended Catholic schools in New York City and graduated from Hofstra University, earning a bachelor’s degree in history. He pursued a PhD in history and worked at various times as a high school teacher and social worker. In 1980 Mr. Seibold joined the U.S. Foreign Service as a political officer but soon switched to consular work. His first tour was in Seoul, where he returned for two more postings, retaining an abiding affection for Korea and its people. His other postings included Bonn, Jerusalem, Manila, and Washington, D.C., at the State Department’s Office of Fraud Prevention Programs. After retiring in 2003, Mr. Seibold moved to Sharon, Pa., where he lived with and cared for his father until the latter’s death in 2007. Mr. Seibold traveled occasionally and became an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown, Ohio, and a guest speaker for a Reform Jewish congregation there. Mr. Seibold was also active in the Great Decisions group at the Sharon Library, frequently leading the discussion and sharing his extensive knowledge of history and foreign affairs. Family and friends remember him as a good man and a loyal friend and will miss him greatly. Mr. Seibold was married twice but not at the time of his death, and he had no children. He was preceded in death by his parents, younger brother Tom Seibold, and younger sister Jeanne McLaren. n Sandra Louise Vogelgesang, 83, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer and ambassador, passed away on September 5, 2025, at her home in Ohio. Ms. Vogelgesang was born on July 27, 1942, in Canton, Ohio, to Glenn Wesley Vogelgesang and Louise Forry Vogelgesang. In 1960 she graduated as valedictorian of her class at Lehman High School in Canton, and in 1964 she graduated with honors in history from Cornell University. She pursued graduate education in international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, receiving a master’s degree in 1965, a master of arts in law and diplomacy (MALD) in 1966, and a PhD in 1971. Ms. Vogelgesang entered the Foreign Service in 1965 but returned to the Fletcher School to complete her graduate classwork. She then took her first tour abroad with the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), in Helsinki from 1967 to 1969. There she served as administrator for the U.S. Educational Exchange Program and assistant cultural attaché, subsequently returning to complete her PhD. At Fletcher from 1969 to 1971, she was the first doctoral candidate with the then new Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy. Her thesis, “The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War,” was published by Harper and Row in 1974. Following her academic leave, Ms. Vogelgesang transferred from USIA to the U.S. Department of State, where she was appointed as an economic officer. After Swedish language training, she was assigned to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a Nordic analyst. At the department, she became active in employee concerns, including the Junior Foreign Service Officers Club and the Secretary’s Open Forum Panel (OFP), an organization set up within the foreign affairs agencies to foster constructive inhouse dissent. Elected OFP chair, Ms. Vogelgesang became the first full-time director from 1973 to 1974 while serving as editor in chief of the department’s only regular economic publication, “Current Economic Developments.” She also worked on U.S.- European community relations in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. While serving as OFP chair, Ms. Vogelgesang was based in the office of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff (S/P). The work with OFP led to ongoing assignments with S/P under the leadership of Winston Lord. She remained with S/P for the first year of the next administration with Cyrus Vance as Secretary, serving on the S/P staff headed by Anthony Lake. Much of her work focused on human rights, a priority of the new Carter administration. On detail at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, her research on U.S. human rights policy resulted in the book American Dream, Global Nightmare: The Dilemma of U.S. Human Rights Policy, published in 1980 by W.W. Norton. Returning to Washington, she became deputy for policy planning for the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs (EUR) and then director of EUR’s Office of Regional Political-Economic Affairs. In 1982 she headed north to U.S. Embassy Ottawa as chief economic officer. That period marked the launch of negotiations with Canada that would lead to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). After the four-year tour in Canada, where her husband, Geoffrey Wolfe, was able to take up a part-time assignment in the Embassy Ottawa political section, Ms. Vogelgesang returned to Washington. She served as deputy assistant secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Her portfolio included U.S. participation in the UN’s development
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