The Foreign Service Journal, November 2021

98 NOVEMBER 2021 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL children Lila and Chloe; and numerous nieces and nephews. An inurnment was held both at Washelli Cemetery and Acacia Memorial Park. Remembrances may be sent to Habitat for Humanity or the Helpline House on Bainbridge Island. n Paul D. Taylor , 82, a retired Foreign Service officer, died unexpectedly on July 18 at Linden Ponds Senior Living in Hingham, Mass. Mr. Taylor was born on May 16, 1939, in Warren’s Corners, N.Y. His academic achievements included earning a bach- elor’s degree from Princeton University, where as a member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society he helped to organize a 1959 visit by the new Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. He earned a master’s degree in public policy fromHarvard University. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Taylor served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Taylor had a distinguished career as a Foreign Service officer. After early diplomatic assignments in Quito, Bangkok, São Paulo and Madrid, he served as chargé d’affaires in Guatemala in the early 1980s. From 1985 to 1988, he served as deputy assistant secretary of State for Inter-American affairs. On April 11, 1988, President Ronald Reagan nominated Mr. Taylor to be the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, where he served until January 1992. His final post in the Foreign Service was as State Department adviser to the president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., from 1992 to 1994. He continued at the Naval War College, from which he retired as professor emeritus. Mr. Taylor lived in Newport with his wife, Dorcas Billings Taylor, for 23 years. They moved to Massachusetts in 2017. Mr. Taylor had an intense passion for Latin America and the Caribbean, and an abiding interest in U.S. foreign policy. At the time of his death, he was enthusiasti- cally writing a paper about newly released data on the actual peril facing America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Taylor was an avid sailor. He also had a penchant for fine woodworking and leaves behind numerous handmade wooden items, including dining tables built for each of his three children and their spouses. In Newport, he was a member of the vestry and building committee of Trinity Church Newport, on the race committee at the Ida Lewis Yacht Club, and a mem- ber of many book groups over the years. At Linden Ponds, he participated actively in the Great Decisions Series and Lifelong Learning. Mr. Taylor will be remembered for his consideration of others, inquisitive mind, jolly nature and endless wit. Survivors include his wife, Dorcas Taylor (née Billings); son Jonathan Taylor and his wife, Rev. Andrea Suess Taylor, of South Dennis, Mass.; daughter Katherine Taylor Haynes and her hus- band, Anthony C. Haynes, of Nashville, Tenn.; and son Matthew Taylor and his wife, Nácia Pupo Taylor, of Kensington, Md.; and grandchildren Capt. Noah Taylor and his wife, Lt. Chantal Durgana, Jacob Taylor, Alexander Haynes, Teo- doro Pupo Taylor, Christopher Haynes and Benjamin Pupo Taylor. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of your choice in the name of Paul D. Taylor. n Peter H. Thormann , 83, an econo- mist and retired Foreign Service officer, died on Aug. 16 at Galloway Ridge at Fearrington in Pittsboro, N.C. Born in 1938 in Munich, Germany, Mr. Thormann was 9 months old when he and his parents fled the Nazi regime and arrived as refugees in the United States. Mr. Thormann spent his childhood in the Boston area. He attended the Boston Latin School for three years until his family moved to the suburb of Newton, where he graduated fromNewton High School in 1955. Mr. Thormann earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Brandeis University in 1959, followed by an MBA in industrial relations at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, in 1961. While completing doctoral work in economics at the University of Minnesota, he met and married his wife, Mary. In 1966 he accepted a permanent position in his field at the International Labor Organization in Geneva. In 1973 he was recruited to USAID and posted to Washington, D.C. He served as an adviser to the Program and Policy Coordination Bureau on employ- ment policy and science and technology programs, then as principal adviser for technical resources for the Asia bureau. Mr. Thormann joined the Foreign Service in 1983. He was posted twice to New Delhi for a total of nine years, first as program economist and then as director of the Office of ProgramDevelopment and Economic Growth. Mr. Thormann was recognized for his leadership and innovation in developing the Program for Advancement of Com- mercial Technology in India, helping to establish the Indian stock exchange, and creating the roadmap for restarting the economic growth program suspended by sanctions due to the nuclear test in 1998. InThailand, where he was posted from 1988 to 1992, Mr. Thormann served as program economist and later director of the USAID ProgramOffice. He helped design and manage the financial markets development program and the launch of a vibrant venture capital industry.