The Foreign Service Journal, December 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | DECEMBER 2018 93 fields, picking hops and living in ram- shackle cabins with other field hands. At the age of 9—in the midst of the Great Depression—he and his family moved to Hyattsville, Md., where his father found work at the Government Printing Office. Mr. Moser served briefly in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II before graduating from the University of Mary- land. After graduation he worked on the Marshall Plan, a forerunner of the United States’ foreign aid programs. He began his overseas career as a training officer in Indonesia. While on home leave from Indonesia in 1956, he met his future wife, Ginny, at a cocktail party in Georgetown. They were married in Hong Kong in 1957 and returned to Jakarta to start married life. Subsequent postings took the family to Kenya, Malawi, Liberia, Vietnam, Tai- wan, Thailand and, finally, toThe Gam- bia, where Mr. Moser served as USAID representative. In mid-career Mr. Moser attended the National War College, where he was selected as a distinguished graduate in the class of 1974 while simultaneously earning a master’s degree from George Washington University. Mr. Moser retired from USAID in 1983. He worked for various nongovernmental organizations before moving to Cornwall, Vt., in 1992. There Mr. Moser supported the Middlebury Hospice’s annual art auc- tion, served Meals on Wheels and was a Lister. He also volunteered for 10 years as guardian ad litem for children caught up in the court system. Mr. Moser’s family remembers him as a man with great energy, endless curiosity and a deft sense of humor. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ginny, and five children: Daniel (and wife, Debbie) of Alexandria, Va.; Peter (and wife, Annie) of Seattle, Wash.; Abby (and husband, Mat) of Washington, D.C.; Spencer (and wife, Valerie) of North Adams, Mass.; and Liz of Towson, Md.; as well as 10 grandchildren: Jackson, Aidan, Cassandra, Liam, Sophie, Reed, Teddy, Sawyer, Eva Rae and Sarah. n Jacob M. “Jack” Myerson , 92, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on July 7. Mr. Myerson was born on June 11, 1926, in Rock Hill, S.C., to Solomon and Lena Myerson. He earned a master’s degree from George Washington Univer- sity in 1950. Before joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Myerson was a private in the 69th Infan- try Division that met the Russian army at the Elbe River. In 1957, Mr. Myerson moved to Wash- ington, D.C., to be the first desk officer in the European Bureau of the State Depart- ment for what later became the European Economic Community. He was responsi- ble for organizing the U.S. involvement in European and Atlantic regional organiza- tions, NATO and the Council of Europe. In 1970, he was appointed economic counselor of the U.S. mission to the Euro- pean Economic Community in Brussels and worked there as a Minister Counselor until 1975, when he moved to New York City as the U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council. From 1977 to 1980 he was economic minister in Paris, where he spent much of his time after retirement. He served as deputy secretary general of the Organi- zation for Economic Cooperation and Development from 1980 to 1998. He was awarded the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Medal. Mr. Myerson lived a rich life outside of his career and developed an interest in modern art after retirement. He endured the loss of two wives, Nicole Neuray and Helen Hayashi, and his only child, Sylvie Anne Myerson. He is survived by his grandson, Nayan Myerson-Jain; his granddaughter, Lila Myerson-Jain; his son-in-law, Vidyut Jain; and his longtime companion, Sarah Shafer. n Joyce Lownes Hoyt Robinson , 97, spouse of the late Ambassador Henry A. Hoyt, died on May 28, in Clemson, S.C. Mrs. Robinson was born Aug. 4, 1920, in Gladwyne, Pa., to the late Walter and Florence Lownes. She graduated from Ursinus College in 1942 and joined the Women’s Army Corps as an officer in military intelligence. She coded and decoded messages to Latin America in Miami, Fla., and at the Pentagon. She was sent to the University of Michigan to learn Japanese, and immedi- ately after the war, at the age of 25, went to Japan. Serving under General Douglas McArthur, she supervised 150 Japanese men monitoring written communica- tions. She left the army with the rank of major. In 1948 Mrs. Robinson spent a year traveling by land around South America. During this trip she met and married Henry (Hank) A. Hoyt, who worked for the U.S. embassy in Paraguay. The couple served together in Cuba, Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina. Amb. Hoyt died in 1967 while serving as the U.S. ambas- sador to Uruguay. Mrs. Robinson moved her family back to the Washington, D.C., area and worked for the Overseas Education Fund as associate executive director and director of Latin America programs. She also served for 14 years as U.S. alternate delegate to the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Com- mission of Women and on the board of