Tag: Spouses & Family
Ambassador L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer, III
from ADST
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Bremer-L.-Paul-1.pdf
Marry an Asian Woman
by Larry Lesser I’m thinking about a man I saw when I was a consular officer in the American Embassy New Delhi back in the ’60s. He was an American citizen; I’ll call him Abner Strong. He came in one … Read more
How I Became Interested in a Career in Diplomacy
It Was Willy Nilly
by Bobbie Bergesen Riedel
State’s Adjunct “Accidental Diplomats” Foreign Service Spouses
State’s Adjunct “Accidental Diplomats” Foreign Service Spouses By Linda Killen The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse By Katherine L. Hughes (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Aletheia, 1999, Pp. x, 180. $17.95 paper) Were it not for its title, American Diplomacy … Read more
Popular Journal Authors Gene and Bonnie Schmiel Publish Foreign Service Memoirs
Gene Schmiel Kathryn (Bonnie) Schmiel American Diplomacy is pleased to announce the publication of a book of essays and Foreign Service memoirs by two of its most popular authors, Gene and Kathryn Schmiel, whose articles have appeared frequently in this … Read more
On Board the Carrier
In this brief segment, former Foreign Service spouse Kathryn Schmiel illustrates in her understated but descriptive prose style how American personnel stationed abroad in remote parts of the world — especially the children — often find their diversions in unusual … Read more