Barbara C. Moore, U.S. Ambassador, 58, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402668.html

March 15, 2010

Barbara C. Moore U.S. Ambassador

Barbara C. Moore, 58, the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua from 2002 to 2005 who
had spent much of her career with the U.S. Information Agency in public
diplomacy assignments, died March 11 [2010] at Montgomery Hospice in
Rockville. She had colon cancer.

Mrs. Moore began her USIA career in the mid-1970s. She was deputy chief of
mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, from 1998 to 2002. After
her ambassadorial posting, she spent a year as foreign policy adviser to the
U.S. Southern Command in Miami.

Barbara Calandra was a native of Buffalo and a 1973 Spanish literature
graduate of the College of New Rochelle in New Rochelle, N.Y. She had had a
home in the Washington area since 1985, and at the time of her death was a
Silver Spring resident. She was on the board of the Arlington County-based
Fabretto Children's Foundation, which aids poor children in Nicaragua.

She was a recipient of USIA's Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor awards,
among other awards.

Survivors include her husband of 34 years, Spencer B. Moore of Silver
Spring; a son, Nicholas Moore of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; a sister; and two
grandchildren.

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Adam Bernstein