The Foreign Service Journal - November 2017

78 NOVEMBER 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Take AFSA With You! Change your address online, visit us at www.afsa.org/ address Or Send changes to: AFSAMembership Department 2101 E Street NW Washington, DC 20037 Moving? psychology andmathematics. He earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology at Gonzaga University, and went on to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. He also obtained a master’s degree in stra- tegic studies from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Mr. Roecks met his best friend and life partner, Jane Kvitle, at the University of Wisconsin, and the couple married in June 1976. They moved to San Antonio, Texas, where Mr. Roecks worked as a Department of Defense civilian with the Air Force. In 1990, Mr. Roecks joined the Foreign Service with the Department of State. His first assignment was to Kinshasa. In 1992 he was posted to New Delhi. There, during a trip to Calcutta (now Kolkata), Mr. Roecks had a private audi- ence with Mother Teresa. It was one of the most influential moments in his life. Before leaving India, the Roecks com- pleted their family, adopting a son, Adam, and a daughter, Jasmyn, fromMother Teresa’s orphanage in New Delhi. Mr. Roecks retired from the Foreign Service in 2012, and went on to found the Roecks-Kvitle Foundation. Service to oth- ers was a major tenet of Mr. Roecks’ life. And through the foundation he started the Inland NWBladder Cancer/Uros- tomy support group to help others. The foundation also supported a tennis player from Ethiopia who went on to pursue his education in the United States. He also enjoyed volunteering his time at the American Cancer Society counsel- ing others who battled cancer. Friends and family members remem- ber Mr. Roecks as a service-oriented, adventurous and creative individual who led a rich life. Mr. Roecks was preceded in death by his father, his brother Marc and his nephew Chad. He is survived by his wife, Jan; his son, Adam, and daughter, Jasmyn; his mother, Bettie; his sister, Gayle (and her husband, Jeff Hanna); his brother, Eric (and his wife, Lu-Ann Branch); nephews Marc Jr., Brandon, Andrew and Nicholas; and nieces Nina, Becky and Danielle. The family requests donations in his memory be made to the Liberty Humani- tarian Scholarship or The American Cancer Society. Q Clint Ernest Smith, 86, a retired Foreign Service officer, passed away peacefully on May 25 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. Mr. Smith was born in 1930 to Clint Galen Smith and Vene White Smith of Las Cruces, N.M. After graduating from Las Cruces High School, he earned his B.A. at the University of NewMexico, where he participated in the Naval ROTC program. He served in the Navy from 1953 to 1956 on ships that went to Japan and Korea, and to the Marshall Islands (Bikini/ Eniwetok) while nuclear tests were con- ducted. Following active military service he obtained a master’s degree in commu- nications and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1957 Mr. Smith was selected to enter the Foreign Service, and in the same year he met Marilyn Sode, a graduate of U.C. Berkeley. They married on Oct. 19, 1957, and went on to enjoy a vital and loving partnership of 59 years. Postings in Buenos Aires (1959-1961), Madrid (1963-1968), Mexico City (1971- 1975), Lima (1975-1978) and Bucharest (1979-1981) were interspersed with peri- odic assignments in Washington, D.C. As the Smiths moved their growing family from one post to another, Mr. Smith held positions in the economic, political, and consular sections. In 1962 he contrib- uted to the sensitive work of photo-inter- pretation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During his diplomatic career he also