James B. Freeman ’46

Music and foreign service were Jim Freeman’s world. While earning his master’s degree at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, he sang in the Four Gone Conclusions quartet. As a public-affairs officer in Paraguay, he led the Bi-National Center Glee Club. As an economic officer in Indonesia, he sang in concert. When he moved to Washington and became the Department of Defense spokesman for international-security affairs, he was soon vicar choral at the Washington National Cathedral, which had (he liked to say) “the best choir of men and boys in the country, to be perfectly frank about it.”

Jim married Elizabeth Weeks, whom he met at a Smith dance weekend. Their daughter, Alison, was born in Paraguay, daughter Diane in Frankfurt (while he was chief of consular services), and son James Jr. in Indonesia. Jim’s death Oct. 22, 2012, left them and seven grandchildren.

The class is proud of this public servant’s lifetime of accomplishment.