THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2024 71 IN MEMORY nQueenie Sorrel Goldstein Andrus, 81, the spouse of retired FSO Donald Bruce Andrus, passed away on Aug. 9, 2024, in Montreal, Canada, from myeloid dysplasia syndrome and the complications of an E. coli infection. Ms. Andrus was born on Oct. 31, 1942, in Montreal to Tena Sydney Levitt Goldstein and Bernard Harry Goldstein. She graduated from the School of Nursing of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and worked at the Jewish General Hospital; Verdun Hospital; Maimonides in Montreal, where she worked with famed psychiatrists Dr. Vivian Rakoff and Dr. Heinz Lehmann; Massachusetts General Hospital, specifically in the Bulfinch metabolic research unit; Boston State Hospital; and hospitals in Caldwell and Moscow, Idaho, and in Columbia, South Carolina. She was a compassionate and dedicated nurse throughout her life. Ms. Andrus married Bruce Andrus in 1970 in Montreal. In 1977, she joined her husband in a career in the U.S. Foreign Service and was also a nurse in Hong Kong and at embassies in Rabat, Islamabad, New Delhi, and Antananarivo, and at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Ms. Andrus valued her medical colleagues and learned from them, and, in turn, they learned from her, and together provided medical care of the highest quality, family members recall. She was active in the diplomatic settings of embassies and consulates, often looking after the welfare of all employees and their families before the community liaison officer program was created. In Kolkata, she had the opportunity to volunteer with Mother Teresa, and in Islamabad, she made frequent visits as a volunteer nurse to Afghan refugee camps from 1991 to 1994. Participating in bioweapon and mass casualty exercises, she accompanied many embassy employees and family members on medevacs, including one on an old airplane in Pakistan where the door came off its hinges. As her colleague Beverly Greenfield put it, they were engaged in “stamping out disease and saving lives.” In the Foreign Service, this included dealing with many tropical diseases. After retirement in 2001, Ms. Andrus joined her husband on short tours of duty in Tel Aviv, Kathmandu, Dushanbe, and Casablanca. Ms. Andrus enjoyed playing bridge during Foreign Service life and in retirement. She is survived by her husband, retired FSO Donald Bruce Andrus; her children, Eric Bernard Andrus (and spouse Irina Daniela Burcescu) and Michelle Lisa Andrus; and her grandchildren, Alin Everest Burcescu Andrus and Roman Orion Burcescu Andrus. She is also survived by her sister, Sheila (and spouse Howard) Cohen, of Calgary, Canada; her brother, Jay (and spouse Janet) Goldstein, of Grand Blanc, Mich.; and her cousins, nephews, and nieces. Contributions may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to further research into myelodysplastic syndromes. n William Andreas Brown, 93, retired FSO and former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Thailand, died peacefully of natural causes on July 19, 2024, at his home in Arlington, Va. Mr. Brown was born on Sept. 7, 1930. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in 1952, earning his MA in 1955 and his PhD in 1963. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) artillery officer in the Korean War, then as a captain in the USMC Reserve. He joined the Foreign Service in 1956, serving in Hong Kong; Taiwan (twice); Singapore; Malaysia; USSR (twice—first as a Sino-Soviet expert, later as political counselor); India; Thailand (as ambassador from 1985 to 1988); and Israel (three times), including as deputy chief of mission from 1979 to 1982 during the 1982 Lebanon War, and twice as ambassador from 1988 to 1992 and 1993 to 1994. Among the highlights of his diplomatic career, Amb. Brown opened the first U.S. consulate in Borneo, a symbol of U.S. support for the fledgling Federation of Malaysia in the face of armed intervention by Indonesia’s independence leader and first president, Sukarno. He escorted House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Minority Leader Gerald Ford to the People’s Republic of China in 1972 (the first such delegation from the House of Representatives). He administered the U.S.-Soviet Environmental Agreement from 1974 to 1976. As the last chargé d’affaires in Taiwan, he closed the U.S. embassy after the U.S. broke diplomatic relations in 1978. He then opened its “non-official” replacement, the American Institute in Taiwan, and later became its acting director. From 1983 to 1985, he was principal deputy assistant secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific affairs. After serving as ambassador to Israel during the Persian Gulf War, the first Intifada, and the peace process, which led to the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, he retired in 1992. Amb. Brown was called out of retirement in 1993 to head the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. As part of the events connected with the Oslo Accords, he attended the September 1993 White House meeting of President Clinton, Prime Minister Rabin, and Yasser Arafat, then returned to retirement in 1994. In retirement, he served briefly as special envoy on Burma (1996) and led
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