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 71 I N M E M O R Y grandchildren: Adam, Natalie, William and Amelia. Contributions in his name may be made to Capital Hospice or the Parkin- son Research Foundation. R. Smith Simpson , 103, a retired FSO, died on Sept. 5 at a retirement community in Charlottesville, Va. Robert Smith Simpson was born on Nov. 9, 1906, in what is now Arlington County. He graduated in 1927 from the University of Virginia, where he also received a master’s degree three years later. In 1931 he graduated from the Cornell University law school. He also completed all but his dissertation for a doctorate in international affairs at Columbia University. After serving as a labor policy ad- viser in the National Recovery Admin- istration during the Depression, Mr. Simpson taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1942. Dur- ingWorldWar II, he served in theWar Shipping Administration and then as a labor expert in the State Department. In 1945, he joined the Foreign Service, serving in Brussels, Athens, Mexico City, Bombay and Lourenco Marques (the former name for Ma- puto), where he was consul general. He retired in 1962 as the Foreign Service deputy examiner. Mr. Simpson is best known for his forceful advocacy of special training for a career in international affairs. Just after retiring, he wrote an article for the November 1962 Foreign Service Journal , “Is the Service Ready for the Sixties? Are We Getting Our Share of the Best?” In it, Mr. Simpson reported that during his time as deputy exam- iner of applicants for the Foreign Serv- ice, “the great majority were wholly unprepared for diplomatic work.” He concluded that, apart from problems with the quality of education, the For- eign Service and State Department had lost its edge in terms of attracting the best graduates and would there- fore have to devote attention and re- sources to communicating with the educational establishment and the general public. In addition to articles in profes- sional journals, Mr. Simpson wrote a book, Anatomy of the State Depart- ment (Beacon, 1968), further dis- cussing how aspirants to a career in diplomacy should be trained, assigned and promoted. During the mid-1970s, Mr. Simp- son began a collaboration with Peter F. Krogh, a former State Department of- ficial who became dean of the Ed- mund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1970. The result was the School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, which focuses on diplomatic practice rather than just on foreign policy. Mr. Simpson taught night classes at Georgetown University for many years. In 1992, he moved to Charlottesville. His wife, Henriette Lanniée, whom he married in 1934, died in 2007. Mr. Simpson is survived by two daughters, Margaret Maurin Stunkard of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Zelia Broyles of Vinton, Va.; three granddaughters; and five great-grandchildren. Arthur David Weininger , 90, a former FSO, died on Dec. 1, 2009, in Rye Brook, N.Y. Mr. Weininger was born in New York on June 9, 1920, the son of Betty Singer Weininger and Sigmund Wein- inger, Jewish immigrants from Roma- nia. He graduated from DeWitt Clin- ton High School in the Bronx in 1937. Following graduation from The Col- lege of the City of New York in 1941, he enlisted in the United States Army, where he was selected to study Japan- ese at Yale University. He was later sent to Calcutta and Shanghai, where he prepared for the invasion of Japan. After the war, Mr. Weininger re- turned to New York. He married An- nette Rose Shor on June 21, 1947. Their honeymoon was cut short by Mr. Weininger’s appointment to the For- eign Service and his immediate assign- ment to Washington, D.C. He was sent to The Hague that September, where he was assigned to the political section and worked on the Marshall Plan. He returned to Wash- ington in 1949, and thereafter served in Mexico City from 1951 until 1954. He then transferred to Madrid, where he served until resigning from the For- eign Service in 1955. Mr. Weininger was then employed as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in New York, retiring as a vice president in 1982. Mr. Weininger was an avid reader of history and literature. He and his wife loved to travel by car throughout the United States and enjoyed return- ing to Europe for visits. Mr. Weininger is survived by his wife, Annette, of Rye; their three chil- dren, Robert Weininger (and his wife, Nancy) of Phoenix, Ariz., William Weininger (and his wife, Ellen) of White Plains, N.Y., and Ilene Jaroslaw (and her husband, David) of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and eight grandchildren. ■ Send your In Memory submission to journal@afsa.org