The Foreign Service Journal, November 2013

64 NOVEMBER 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL her death, and had told them she was excited to begin building her dream cot- tage nearby. Her brother George died in 1975. She is survived by her brother Henry and many cousins, nieces and nephews. n Jonathan Edward Mudge , 55, a retired Foreign Service officer, died of pharyngeal cancer on July 15 in Alexan- dria, Va. Mr. Mudge., the son of Anne and Richard Mudge, was born on Oct. 8, 1957, in Los Angeles, Calif. A graduate of the Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., Mr. Mudge spent a year in France with the academy’s School Year Abroad Program. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, he spent a year teaching English at the American Institute in Taiwan, in Taipei. He was also a graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management. In 1990, Mr. Mudge joined the Foreign Service. His overseas postings included Shanghai and Beijing. He also worked in intelligence research, was an economic/commercial officer, and served as Kazakhstan desk officer. He finished his career as OECD desk officer, retiring from the Foreign Service in 2012. Mr. Mudge is survived by his parents; his siblings, Carter A. Mudge, Margaret A. Mudge and Randall T. Mudge; and by four nephews. n David Nalle, 88, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Aug. 2 at the Washington Home and Community Hospices in Washington, D.C., of com- plications from prostate cancer. Mr. Nalle was born in Philadelphia, Pa. His study of engineering at Princeton University was interrupted by World War II, during which he served as a naval aviator. He returned to complete a degree in English in 1948. In 1951, Mr. Nalle joined what would become the United States Information Agency, where he served a total of 28 years. He was initially assigned to the Middle East desk, then sent to Kabul. During the 1960s he was posted in Iran, Syria and Jordan and began to develop a reputation as a linguist and expert on Central Asia and the Middle East. While in Iran he also served as director of the Iran-America Society. Mr. Nalle returned to the United States to head USIA’s division for the Near East, South Asia and North Africa in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After serving in Moscow as press and cultural affairs officer, he returned to his prior supervisory position at USIA, retiring in 1980 as deputy associate director. During and after his Moscow tour, at the end of the Brezhnev regime, Mr. Nalle and his wife, Peggy, played a role in assisting Russian dissident artists to organize shows in Moscow and get their work out of the Soviet Union to be shown in the United States and Europe. They also helped some dissident artists emigrate from Russia. After retiring from USIA, Mr. Nalle became the founding director of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship, a position which he held from 1983 to 1992. He was the Washington editor of the Central Asia Monitor from 1993 to 2002, and wrote about Middle East and Central Asian affairs for the Middle East Journal and Middle East Policy . He was chairman emeritus of the Nava’i-Nalle Lecture Series in Central Asian Studies at Georgetown University and taught courses on Central Asia at American University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He also served on