In Memoriam
FrontLines - October 2009
William E. Garvey Jr., 87, died June 28 in La Plata, Md. Garvey was a Foreign Service Officer who joined USAID in the early 1970s. As an agricultural
economist, he served in Niger, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and Haiti. Before his retirement in 1978, he received a superior honor award from the State Department for his accomplishments overseas. After retiring from the Agency, Garvey worked for the Academy for Educational Development and the Cooperative League of the USA, now known as the National Cooperative Business Association. Garvey also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco and became the director
of the Peace Corps office there from 1966 to 1970.
Roland W. Hanson, 82, died Aug. 12, in West Springfield, Mass. He served in the Foreign Service for over 40 years, 26 of which were with USAID, and served as auditor general. His duties with the Agency took him to Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Greece, Ethiopia, Thailand, and Panama.
Jane Kairo, 55, died Aug. 10 in Nairobi, Kenya. For more than 20 years, Kairo worked as a legal assistant with USAID’s Nairobi regional legal team. She was in the country during the 1998 embassy bombings there and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Kairo, who worked for 18 lawyers during her career at the regional office, received several USAID awards, including the Agency’s 2007 ethics award.
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