Of Bethesda, MD died April 25, 2012 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD due to multiple health problems. A native of Fairfield, Iowa he was a graduate of Parsons College in his home town and was a Littauer Fellow at Harvard U. in 1949-50. He joined the Medical Detachment of the 133rd Infantry of the Iowa National Guard in 1938 and was on the first US transport ship to land in Europe after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was a Major in the Army Reserves as a Food and Agriculture Officer until retiring in 1964. He entered the Foreign Service in 1946 and was transferred to the newly formed Agricultural Foreign Service in 1956. His diplomatic posts were in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Paris, Manila, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Brussels. When in Washington he served on meetings abroad in Tokyo and Geneva, Switzerland. For several years after retiring in 1974 he became a senior associate of E. A. Jaenke & Associates, an agribusiness consulting firm. He was a member of the Harvard Club, DACOR, the National Press Club and Bethesda Country Club
Of Bethesda, MD died April 25, 2012 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD due to multiple health problems. A native of Fairfield, Iowa he was a graduate of Parsons College in his home town and was a Littauer Fellow at Harvard U. in 1949-50. He joined the Medical Detachment of the 133rd Infantry of the Iowa National Guard in 1938 and was on the first US transport ship to land in Europe after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was a Major in the Army Reserves as a Food and Agriculture Officer until retiring in 1964. He entered the Foreign Service in 1946 and was transferred to the newly formed Agricultural Foreign Service in 1956. His diplomatic posts were in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Paris, Manila, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Brussels. When in Washington he served on meetings abroad in Tokyo and Geneva, Switzerland. For several years after retiring in 1974 he became a senior associate of E. A. Jaenke & Associates, an agribusiness consulting firm. He was a member of the Harvard Club, DACOR, the National Press Club and Bethesda Country Club
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