The Foreign Service Journal, December 2006

Hawaii from 1983 to 1995. There, he was senior associate director for the Pacific Forum, vice president for institutional relations at Hawaii Loa College, director of the Honolulu International Visitors Program for the U.S. government, and executive director of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council. He and his wife moved to Tiburon in 1995. Mr. Forster is survived by his wife, Nancy; sons Thomas Forster of Orcas Island, Wash., and Washington, D.C., and Douglas Forster of Mill Valley, Calif.; daughter Cindy Forster of Claremont, Calif.; and four grand- children. Harvey E. Gutman , 80, a retired FSO with USAID, died on Sept. 1 at his home in Sarasota, Fla. Born in St. Gall, Switzerland, on July 1, l921, Mr. Gutman moved to the U.S. in 1938. He served in U.S. Army Combat Infantry Intelligence during World War II and in the mili- tary government in Germany for two years following the war. He was awarded the Bronze Star. Mr. Gutman earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Port- land in Oregon, and a master’s degree from American University in Wash- ington, D.C. After initial employ- ment with the Department of Com- merce, he joined USAID as a Foreign Service officer in 1958. During a 22- year career, he was posted to Vien- tiane, Lome, Paris, Bangkok, Rabat, Monrovia and Niamey. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1980, and subsequently worked as an economic consultant on projects in Africa. In 1991, Mr. Gutman moved from Virginia to Sarasota, Fla., where he was active in planning international lectures at the Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning and hosting re- tired ambassadors and other career friends when they came to speak. He was on the board of the Sarasota- Manatee U.N. Association and a member of the Foreign Service Retirees Association of Florida and the American Foreign Service Asso- ciation. Friends remember Mr. Gutman as a man of unparalleled character and intellect; an avid world traveler; a nat- ural wit and humorist in many lan- guages; and a student of people and all aspects of cultures. Mr. Gutman was predeceased by his long-term companion, Anne M. Keen, in 1991. He is survived by a niece, Tara H. Gutman, and grand- nephew, Maxim Gutman, of Canber- ra, Australia. Elizabeth Marie Jordan , 79, the spouse of retired USIA FSO Robert F. Jordan, died at her Silver Spring, Md., home on Sept. 23 after a 13-year struggle with mesothelioma cancer. Born Elizabeth Dabareiner in Wisconsin, daughter of the late Nor- man H. and Marie (Schulz) Dabar- einer, she was a graduate of Janesville high school, class of 1945. She attended Milton College, and in 1947 moved with her family to Framing- ham, Mass., where she met her future husband. She attended Framingham State Teachers College and worked as a property tax officer in a local bank. In 1956 she married and there- after accompanied her husband throughout a 36-year career with USIA, serving in Asuncion, Rosario, Monterrey, Tegucigalpa, Palermo, Port-au-Prince, Dublin, Lisbon, Hav- ana, Manila and Brasilia. While overseas, she learned four foreign languages and taught English in binational centers. She became proficient at playing the Paraguayan harp, at weaving Portuguese Arraiolos rugs and tapestries and at preparing ethnic cuisine. She collaborated with embassy spouses on compiling three cookbooks of ethnic recipes. She was honored by the Honduran gov- ernment for her extensive volunteer work in local hospitals. An avid bridge player, she was a winner of the Department of State’s annual worldwide duplicate bridge tournament. A staunch Boston Red Sox fan, she followed the team’s ups and downs from around the globe. In 1993 Mrs. Jordan was an office volunteer and later an employee of Saint Luke Lutheran Church in Sil- ver Spring, Md., where she became a Stephen Minister. She is survived by her husband, Robert F. Jordan of Silver Spring, Md.; a daughter, Linda J. Winnard of Leawood, Kan.; two sons, Michael S. Jordan of Damascus, Md., and David P. Jordan of Lake Worth, Fla.; a sister, Donna D. Good of East Greenwich, R.I.; brothers Norman H. Dabar- einer Jr. of Oconomowoc, Wis., and Larry C. Dabareiner of Bellingham, Mass.; and five grandchildren. James George Sampas , 79, a retired FSO, died on Sept. 5 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He had Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Sampas was born in Lowell, Mass., the son of George and Mary Tsouprakakis Sampas. He was edu- cated in the Lowell public school sys- tem, and graduated from Lowell high school in 1945. He left high school early to serve in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1945 to 1946 in the U.S. and Germany. He received B.A. andM.A. degrees from Boston University, and a J.D. degree from American University’s Washington College of Law. He 82 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6 I N M E M O R Y