John P. Wentworth *62

John Wentworth, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer, died Oct. 3, 2015, at age 90.

Born in 1925, Wentworth was on active duty with the Navy from 1943 to 1950. He attended Dartmouth from 1943 to 1944 and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1946 from Case Western Reserve University. He later took courses at MIT, George Washington, American, and Indiana universities.

Before joining the State Department in 1955, Wentworth worked as an electronics engineer at Hughes Aircraft and Boeing. From 1961 to 1962, he studied at Princeton as a Foreign Service Institute Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School in its non-degree, mid-career program, one of the first five visiting students in this program.

Wentworth had been stationed in Colombia, Cyprus, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Ethiopia, Israel, and Australia before retiring from the Foreign Service in 1979. In 1958, during the civil unrest in Cyprus, he was a would-be assassin’s target. He spoke five European and two African languages.

Predeceased by Jocelyn, his wife of 58 years, he is survived by two children and two grandchildren. Their daughter, Carolyn Henderson, wrote, “He was kind to everyone; a real gentleman.”

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