After retiring in 1988, Blaney volunteered as president and CEO of the Coalition for American Leadership Abroad. While at the White House, Blaney served as coordinator for the United States in NATO’s Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society and he was also special assistant to the chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality. Blaney was a White House staff member and special assistant to the counselor to the president. Mission to NATO where he was economic and science counselor. Mission to the European Communities, and at the U.S. He served twice overseas in Brussels at the U.S. As a Foreign Service officer, Blaney served as a member of the policy planning staff in the offices of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance. He also did graduate work and research at Johns Hopkins University and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Blaney III, 85, died May 11, in Bethesda, Md. Trail is survived by his wife, Sharon three children and 12 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. From 2000-2010, Trail and his wife divided their time between South Africa and North Carolina before settling permanently in Pinehurst. Retiring in 1993, he returned to South Africa where he formed a consultancy with three retired newspaper editors. In 1991, he was the DCM in Nigeria, where he oversaw the embassy’s transfer from Lagos to Abuja. He served as ambassador to Malawi from 1988 to 1991. He was consul general in Johannesburg in 1980 and deputy chief of mission (DCM) in Nairobi in 1984. On his return to Washington in 1978, he served as deputy director of the Office of West African Affairs. Trail served as consul general in Kaduna in 1973 and as a political-military officer covering the Vietnam conflict from Bangkok in 1975. Returning to Washington in 1970 as Liberian desk officer, he subsequently spent a year as a congressional fellow in the offices of Congressman Lee Hamilton and Senator Lee Metcalf. Joining the Foreign Service in 1965, Trail’s first assignments took him to Munich and Bonn, followed by a tour as political officer in Sierra Leone in 1968. Navy for six and a half years, the last two spent teaching naval science at Rice University where he earned an additional bachelor’s degree in economics. Trail earned a bachelor’s degree from Franklin and Marshall College. Trail III, 86, died May 13, in Pinehurst, N.C. He is survived by three children, William, James, and Kathryn. Rathner was predeceased by his wife, Norma. He retired in 1990, and served as a reemployed annuitant until 2007. He also held assignments in Washington as an international narcotics officer, international conference officer, and deputy examiner with the Foreign Service Board of Examiners. Under the Department’s Pearson Program, he served as assistant to the mayor of Natchez, Miss. Information Agency as the Department of State representative to the U.S. He joined the Foreign Service in 1965 and served as a general services officer in Freetown, Seoul, and La Paz conference attaché in Geneva administrative counselor in Kingston and at the U.S. In 1951, he graduated from the University of Maryland and went on to work with the Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s County Recreation Departments as a recreation supervisor, and with the Departments of the Army and Air Forces in Europe as a civilian sports consultant and recreation supervisor for the U.S. Rathner served with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. Herbert Rathner, 96, died June 16, in Las Vegas, Nev.
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