The Foreign Service Journal, November 2019

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2019 99 at Embassy Ottawa, which sparked his deep abiding interest in U.S.-Canadian relations. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1998, after receiving several State Department Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor awards. Not only didMr. Jones enjoy the intel- lectual challenge of the work, but he was also passionate about serving his country, colleagues and family members recall, and treasured the friendships that emerged during his assignments. In retirement, Mr. Jones enjoyed a prolific second career as a writer and editor. He wrote hundreds of articles, col- umns and monographs in Canadian and U.S. newspapers and journals, includ- ing Hill Times, Policy Options, Embassy, Ottawa Citizen, Washington Quarterly, American Diplomacy, Orbis, Epoch Times and the Penn Gazette , as well as articles for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was a frequent contributor to The Foreign Service Journal . He edited numerous sections of the annual State Department human rights report and the international religious freedom report, and co-authored an analysis of the Clinton administration Middle East peace process for the State Department Historian. He also authored or co-authored several books, including Alternative North Americas: What Canada and the United States Can Learn from Each Other (2014); The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough (2012); and Forever Tandem (2011). Family members recall Mr. Jones’ love of reading (5,250 titles were on his list of books read), travel, vanilla ice cream, “granny” cookies, baseball, a desire to wear all the Penn alumni regalia at home- coming and a habit of punning at every opportunity. Mr. Jones is survived by his wife, Teresa Jones; his three daughters, Martha, Lisa andMargaret Jones; two grandsons, David and Alexander Marshalleck; and a sister, Elizabeth Pendley. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations inmemory of Mr. Jones to the Class of 1963 University of Pennsylvania Fund or the American Cancer Society. n Robert “Bob” AlanMartin, 87, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer, died on July 22 inMenlo Park, Calif., of cancer. Mr. Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated fromEpiscopal and Andover academies. At Yale, he studied international relations and was a member of the Yale Daily News , graduating in 1954. Drafted later that year, he served two years with the U.S. Army Counter Intel- ligence Corps in Germany before earning a degree in 1959 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1960 Mr. Martin entered the Foreign Service to begin a 35-year career focused principally on arms control and other national security issues. He was assigned to the Arms Control and Disarmament Committee from 1961 to 1964, serving in Geneva as a member of the U.S. delega- tion to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Conference and in Cairo at the Second Non-Aligned Conference. He then spent a year in the Bureau of European Affairs. In 1967 Mr. Martin was posted to the U.S. Mission to NATO in Paris, which was soon relocated to Brussels as a result of the French government’s decision to withdraw from its military relationship with NATO. Returning toWashington in 1970, Mr. Martin was assigned to the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs office supporting the SALT treaty negotiations. Introduced by an A-100 colleague in the department, he met andmarried Joanna Woods Witzel, a fellow FSO, in 1971. In 1974, as one of the early tandem couples, Mr. and Mrs. Martin were posted to Vietnam—initially to Nha Trang and subsequently to Saigon. That unique assignment ended abruptly on the night of April 29, 1975, with Mr. Martin leaving from the embassy’s roof to the aircraft car- rier USS Hancock in the South China Sea. Arriving back inWashington, he became State’s representative on the del- egation to the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions talks inMoscow. He was then assigned as political-military counselor at the embassy in Tehran. Returning to the department in 1978, Mr. Martin was assigned to the Operations Center and then led the Political/Military Office in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until 1982. He attended the Senior Seminar in 1983, and in 1984 was assigned to the U.S. Information Agency to handle the Geneva Summit. From 1986 to 1990, he was posted to Frankfurt as political adviser and directed an interagency counterterrorism response team. He returned toWashington, and then retired in 1994. In retirement, Mr. Martin took the opportunity to travel abroad. At home in Menlo Park, he closely followed national policy issues and enjoyed continuing education at Stanford University, garden- ing and docent service at a local National Trust property. Mr. Martin is survived by his wife, Joanna; his sister, Barbara Pettinos; and many nieces and nephews. n Erik Sedman Ronhovde, 82, a former Foreign Service officer, died at his home inWashington, D.C., from pancreatic cancer on July 10. Born in New York, N.Y., Mr. Ronhovde was the son of Andreas G. Ronhovde and Virginia Sedman Ronhovde. He attended elementary school in Stockholm, Sweden,