The Foreign Service Journal, December 2010

70 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 1 0 I N M E M O R Y may be sent in care of the Community Liaison Officer: Liz Schuster-Shoaf, Box 59/CLO, APO AP 96546. Gwendolyn Louise Remick , 80, the wife of retired FSO Marlin W. Remick, died on July 28 in Fairfax, Va., of congestive heart failure. Born and raised in Lock Haven, Pa., Mrs. Remick accompanied her husband on his overseas assignments for the U.S. Information Agency in the Soviet Union (three years), Iran (three years) and Yugoslavia (four years). There she hosted many receptions, lunches and dinners for visiting Amer- ican officials, nongovernmental ex- perts, academicians and performing artists, as well as meetings with host- country officials and other influential people. In Moscow, she hosted a party for three famous Russian poets, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andre Vozneshensky and Bela Akhmadulina, in her apartment. As Yevtushenko noted, it was one of the few times the three of them got to- gether. Mrs. Remick also witnessed President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the Soviet Union in 1972. In Teh- ran, she hosted a reception for Wern- her von Braun. Mrs. Remick did volunteer work at each post. In Belgrade she handled the finances of the embassy commis- sary, among other duties. She was present in Belgrade on the historic oc- casion of the death of Yugoslav Presi- dent Josip Broz Tito in 1980. After the couple returned to Wash- ington in 1982, Mrs. Remick worked for several years as a Fairfax City reg- istrar. In addition to maintaining ac- curate and up-to-date voter registra- tion records and hiring poll workers for elections, she campaigned to encour- age city residents to register to vote. Besides her husband of 62 years, Mrs. Remick is survived by five chil- dren: Marlin II of Virginia Beach, Va., Marsha Brumgard of Hendersonville, N.C., Mark of Manassas, Va., Eric of Fairfax City, Va., and Steven of Purcel- lville, Va.; and 10 grandchildren. Charles E. Rushing , 81, a retired Senior Foreign Service officer, died of complications from Parkinson’s disease on Oct. 1 in Reston, Va. Mr. Rushing was born in Cairo, Ill., and graduated from Augustana Col- lege in Rock Island, Ill. In 1954 he re- ceived his J.D. degree from Duke University, where he was also associate editor of the Duke Law Journal . That same year, he was admitted to the Dis- trict of Columbia Bar. Mr. Rushing served as an intelli- gence analyst in the U.S. Army before entering the Foreign Service in 1956. His first overseas assignment was as a consular officer in Naples from 1958 to 1960, after which he became the deputy principal officer in Asmara. From 1961 to 1963 he was a political officer in Salisbury (now Harare). He then served as an economic officer in Brazzaville before returning to Wash- ington, D.C., to be the desk officer for Congo, Rwanda and Burundi from 1965 to 1968. During this period, Mr. Rushing was one of the original members of the AFSA reform group dubbed the “Young Turks” and a contributor to the AFSA document, “Toward a Modern Diplomacy,” which called for signifi- cant reforms within the Foreign Serv- ice. In 1968 he spent a year as the per- sonnel officer responsible for junior of- ficers at the department. From 1969 to 1971 Mr. Rushing was chief of the political section in Vi- entiane. He then served as the eco- nomic/commercial officer inMonrovia until 1973, subsequently attending the NATO Defense College in Rome as the only U.S. government civilian. While posted to Copenhagen from 1974 to 1978 as the political coun- selor, he was instrumental in negoti- ating the sale of F-16s to the Danish government. Transferred to Dublin, Mr. Rushing served as deputy chief of mission from 1978 to 1982, including one year as chargé d’affaires. He then spent a year inWashington as the director of a mul- tiagency program at State. From 1985 to 1991 he was execu- tive assistant to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. Mr. Rushing then served as the political adviser to the commander-in-chief of U.S. and NATO naval forces in the Atlantic and Caribbean from 1991 to 1993, before spending his final year with the State Department as senior political adviser in the Executive Sec- retariat. Mr. Rushing spoke Italian, French and Danish, and was the recipient of numerous State Department perform- ance and achievement awards. Includ- ing military service, he served the U.S. government for 40 years. After retiring from the Foreign Ser- vice in 1994, he and his wife of 50 years, Maria, traveled, enjoyed the company of family and friends spread across the world, and pursued art, his- tory and music. He was also a sup- porter of his alma maters. In addition to his wife, Mr. Rushing is survived by two sons: Evan of O’Fal- lon, Mo., and Alex of London; and four