The Foreign Service Journal, November 2016

64 NOVEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL a Cadillac—none of themoperational; at other times he owned BMWs and Porsches. During his lifetime, he owned more than a total of 70 cars. He was proud to have driven solo fromLima to Patagonia and fromLima to Iguazu Falls, and later enjoyed road trips with his wife, Alice. Mr. Cohn was predeceased by his par- ents and his older brother, Alan. He is sur- vived by his wife, Alice Beasley of Oakland; daughters Professor Deborah Cohn Sauer (and her husband, Peter) of Bloomington, Ind., and Dr. Tamara Cohn Krimm (and her husband, Charles) of Wasilla, Alaska; their mother (his former wife and State Department retiree) Irene Cohn, of San Francisco; his younger brother, John; a niece, Leslie Cohn; and grandsons Noah, Benjamin and Daniel Cohn Sauer, who continue his love affair with anything on four wheels. n Dwight Melvin Cramer, 89, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 15 in Rockville, Md., following a stroke. Mr. Cramer grew up in Hastings, Neb. Drafted in April 1945, he spent two years in the Army before receiving a B.A. from Hastings College. At the University of Chicago he received anM.A. in political science and satisfied preliminary require- ments for a doctorate, after which he moved toWashington, D.C., to work for the State Department. His diplomatic career included assignments to the United Nations and to Vienna, where he assisted in the estab- lishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He also served inMunich, Bangkok and Taipei as an economic officer. Returning toWashington, D.C., Mr. Cramer worked on scientific and technical cooperation with the Soviet Union, Poland, Yugoslavia and China. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Mr. Cramer served on the Foreign Service Board of Examiners, reviewed State Department Freedomof Information cases and lectured on cruise ships to Asia. Music was important throughout his life. As a young person he played in school orchestras, and later he attended concerts and operas. During his two-year posting in Vienna, he attended 24 operas. In later years he was a political activist and leader who believed that one citizen canmake a difference. He is remembered by friends and family for his loyalty, optimistic nature and dedication to causes he believed in. Mr. Cramer was a 34-year Tuesday volunteer at Common Cause headquarters inWashington, D.C., and served as presi- dent of the Maryland chapter of Common Cause. He carried out press office duties at four presidential conventions. Throughout the Clinton presidency he volunteered in the White House Social Office, where he listened tomusical tapes sent in by people asking to perform for the president and judged their merit. He was a member of DACOR and the Asian American Forum. He was an active member of the River Road Unitarian Uni- versalist Congregation for more than 50 years, singing in the choir and serving as board chairman, among other duties. Survivors include the former Carol Johnson, his wife of 58 years; children Ste- ven, SusanWhite, David and their spouses; and six grandchildren. n Olga K. Drexler, 85, a former mem- ber of the Foreign Service and the wife of retired FSO Robert W. Drexler, died on July 1 in Silver Spring, Md. Olga Hladio was born in Jersey City, N.J. She entered the Foreign Service in 1955 and was posted to Vienna and Tehran. In 1963, she marriedMr. Drexler, then a political officer at the U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Mrs. Drexler joined her husband in rep- resenting the American government and people on diplomatic assignments to Hong Kong from 1968 to 1972, Geneva from 1972 to 1974, and Bogotá. Mrs. Drexler is survived by her hus- band, her sister Stephanie andmany nieces and nephews. n Lawrence Elliot Harrison, 83, a retired Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, died on Dec. 9, 2015, at the University Hos- pital of Alexandropoulos, Greece. Born in Boston, Mass., Mr. Harrison graduated fromBrookline High School in 1949 and fromDartmouth College in 1953. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1957, and graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1960 with a master’s degree in public administration. He joined USAID in 1962, and served as a programofficer in Costa Rica from 1964 to 1965. His next posting was as deputy director of the USAIDmission in the Dominican Republic from 1965 to 1968; from there, he was assigned as USAID director in Costa Rica from 1968 to 1971. Returning toWashington, D.C., Mr. Harrison was assigned to the Bureau for Latin American and the Caribbean from 1972 to 1976. From 1976 to 1978, he was posted to Guatemala as director of USAID’s Regional Office for Central America and Panama. He served as USAID director in Haiti from 1978 to 1980, and in Nicaragua from 1980 to 1982. During his various USAID assignments, Mr. Harrison and his family experienced volcanic eruptions in Costa Rica and the U.S. Marine invasion of the Domini- can Republic in 1965, an earthquake in Guatemala in 1976 and the revolution in Nicaragua in 1979. Retiring from the Foreign Service in 1982, Mr. Harrison worked briefly at