Harry H. Schwartz ’37

SEASONED DIPLOMAT of the Foreign Service and Department of State, and sailor, Harry Schwartz died of pneumonia Feb. 15, 1991, leaving his widow, Maria; four sons; a daughter; and 12 grandchildren.

At Columbus Academy he was on the swimming and tennis teams and was business manager of the school paper and magazine. At Princeton he majored in politics, was on the lightweight crew freshman year and major "P" sophomore year, and was a member of Cloister Inn. In 1940 Harry joined the Foreign Service. Posts included vice consul in Vancouver, Canada; third secretary and vice consul in Tangier, "haven for Allied and Axis spies," where he was awarded the war department's Medal of Freedom; and vice consul at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, where he signed invoices which he later learned were for uranium destined for the Manhattan Project. He resigned to marry Maria, under a rule then forbidding marriage to aliens, and desk officer in the political division, African affairs, of the Department of State, before being reappointed to Foreign Service in 1956. Next came an assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, as first secretary, and then Teheran as counselor for political affairs. He was then consultant at the Department of Defense and special assistant at the White House before serving, from 1967 to 1969, as a deputy assistant in the Pentagon's international security affairs office, Finally, before retiring in 1971 for medical disability, he was special assistant to the secretary of state, working on international narcotics traffic.

Our deepest condolences go to Maria and the rest of Harry's large family.

The Class of 1937