Arthur R. Dornheim, Foreign Service Officer, 87

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Arthur R. Dornheim Foreign Service Officer

Arthur R. Dornheim, 87, a Foreign Service officer who retired in 1977
and spent 11 years as an executive with the Japan-America Society of
Washington, died June 23 [2008] at Suburban Hospital [in the
metropolitan Washington DC area] of pneumonia.

Mr. Dornheim joined the State Department in 1949 and became a Foreign
Service economics officer. His assignments included Hong Kong; Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia; and Taipei, Taiwan.

In retirement, he became the first full-time staff member of the Japan-
America Society. He served as executive director and later as
associate director.

He also worked in the children's department at a Bethesda [Maryland]
bookstore and was treasurer of the Battery Park Citizens Association
in Bethesda.

Arthur Rieper Dornheim, a Bethesda resident, was born in Manhattan,
New York, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. He was a 1942 graduate
of Yale University.

He attended the Navy's Japanese language school during World War and
served in the Pacific as a translator and escort of Japanese
prisoners. After the war, he was involved in the occupation of Japan
and received a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia
University.

A son, Michael Dornheim, died in 2006.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Charleen Egan Dornheim of
Bethesda; a son, Daniel Dornheim of Los Angeles [California]; and a
sister.

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Adam Bernstein

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303579_3.html