Carl F. Stover, Public Relations Consultant, 79, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020103518_3.html

Carl F. Stover Public Relations Consultant

Carl F. Stover, 79, a political scientist and program administrator who
became a public affairs consultant in the 1980s, died Jan. 19 [2010] at
Riderwood Village retirement community in Silver Spring. He had congestive
heart failure.

Mr. Stover spent six years as a public affairs consultant for cultural,
education and scientific institutions and programs before suffering a stroke
in 1988 that left him unable to continue working.

He was a political scientist at the SRI International research institute
before serving from 1964 to 1970 as president of the Washington-based
National Institute of Public Affairs.

In the mid-1960s, he helped start the National Committee on United
States-China Relations, which was formed to promote public discussion and
knowledge of China. He served as the China group's president in the early
1970s and worked with the U.S. Table Tennis Association to sponsor a visit
to the United States of a ping-pong team from China.

In the 1970s, Mr. Stover led Federalism '76, an organization that encouraged
civil education and participation leading up to the U.S. bicentennial. He
also directed National Council on the Arts cultural resource development
projects.

Carl Friedrich Stover was a native of Pasadena, Calif., and a 1951 graduate
of Stanford University, where he also received a master's degree in
political science in 1955. According to his family, he was a conscientious
objector and did alternative service in the office of the U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture from 1955 to 1957.

He was chairman emeritus of the International Society for Panetics, a group
that says it works to "reduce human suffering inflicted by individuals
acting through governments, institutions, professions, and social groups."
He was an officer with a cultural understanding and international
development organizations and a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.

His marriage to Catherine Swanson Stover ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 36 years, Jacqueline Kast Stover of Silver
Spring; three children from his first marriage, Matthew J. Stover of
Chester, N.H., Mary S. Marker of Columbia and Claire S. Herrell of Harpers
Ferry, W.Va.; and seven grandchildren.

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Adam Bernstein