The Foreign Service Journal, December 2010

D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 I N M EMORY Nicholas G. Andrews , 85, a re- tired FSO, died on Aug. 27 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif., of complica- tions from pneumonia. Born in 1924, Mr. Andrews spent his childhood in Bucharest, where his father ran the Standard Oil Company’s operations, and at boarding school in England. He interrupted his college years to serve in the U.S. Army during WorldWar II. He was stationed in Ro- mania, where he met his wife, and re- turned after the war a married man. After graduating from Princeton University in 1949, Mr. Andrews en- tered the Foreign Service and began a 34-year career as a diplomat. He served overseas in West Berlin, Bel- grade, Sarajevo, Ankara and Warsaw, where he was deputy chief of mission. In Washington, D.C., he served as di- rector of the Office of Eastern Euro- pean Affairs, among other assign- ments. Fluent in seven languages, he served as an interpreter for the 1963 meeting between President John Kennedy and Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. During the late 1970s, Mr. Andrews played a role in negotiating the return to Budapest of the Crown of St. Stephen, a Hungarian national treas- ure that had been held by the U.S. since World War II. Following his ex- perience in Poland with the Solidarity movement from 1980 to 1981, Mr. An- drews wrote Poland 1980-81: Solidar- ity versus the Party (National Defense University Press, 1985), a book that is still often cited by scholars of the pe- riod. He retired from the Foreign Service as a senior research scholar at the National Defense University in 1984. Following retirement, Mr. An- drews spent seven years overseeing production of the sections of the De- partment of State’s annual Human Rights Report to the Congress for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But his great passion during this period was the research and writ- ing of his second book, Ryland B. An- drews inWorldWar I (Chandos Press, 1997). A U.S. Army captain in World War I and a military intelligence offi- cer, Andrews’ father had died when he was just 13. Mr. Andrews was an avid tennis player well into his 80s, and enjoyed chess and puzzles. He was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, Md., the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasion Studies, and the Atlantic Council of the United States. In 2000, he and his wife moved from Chevy Chase to Newport Beach, Calif. Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Dana Romalo Andrews of New- port Beach; three children, Suzanna Andrews of New York City, Benjamin Andrews of Shepherstown, W. Va., and Gregory Andrews of Birmingham, Mich.; and five grandchildren. Nicole Grace John , 17, the daugh- ter of U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Eric John and Mrs. Sophia Yoon John, died on Aug. 27 in New York, N.Y., in a tragic accident. Nicole was a freshman at Parsons The New School for Design. She was majoring in fine arts and was an avid painter and photographer. She was also very active in Habitat for Human- ity in Thailand, and worked with un- derprivileged children. She had accompanied her family on assign- ments to Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok, as well as Washington, D.C. Friends of the John family remember her intelligence, creativity, beauty, poise and generosity of spirit. In her memory, Parsons The New School for Design has established a scholarship fund to support deserving students in fine arts and photography. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any donations people may wish to make be made to this memorial schol- arship fund, at: The Nicole John Schol- arship Fund, c/o The President’s Office, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York NY 10011. Condolences for the John family