C10 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.SUNDAY, MAY 15 , 2022
OF NOTEObituaries of residents from the
District, Maryland and Northern
Virginia.
Faye Moskowitz,
teacher, writer
Faye Moskowitz, 91, who
served as chair of the English
department at George Washing-
ton University and was earlier a
founding director of the middle
school at the private Edmund
Burke School in Washington, died
Feb. 21 at her home in the District.
The cause was complications
from chronic obstructive pulmo-
nary disease, said a son, Seth
Moskowitz.
Dr. Moskowitz was born Faye
Stollman in Detroit and moved to
Washington in 1962, when her
husband, Jack Moskowitz, took a
job on Capitol Hill.
She freelanced articles to me-
dia outlets including The Wash-
ington Post and the New York
Times and wrote five books,
mostly about the experiences of
her Jewish family in Depression-
and World War II-era Detroit.
She married at 18 and was a
mother at 20, but she came to
Washington without a college de-
gree. She was 35 when she en-
rolled at GWU, where she gradu-
ated and received a doctorate. She
pursued a teaching career that
did not end until three years ago,
when she retired from GWU at 88.
She started her teaching career
at Edmund Burke, then went to
GWU, where for 12 years she was
head of the English department.
She also was chief of the creative
writing program. At 65, she was
granted tenure.John Menzies,
ambassador
John Menzies, 73, a retired For-
eign Service officer who was am-
bassador to Bosnia during the
negotiations and early imple-
mentation of the 1995 Dayton
Peace Accords, which formally
ended the Balkan War, died
March 26 at a hospital in Morris-
town, N.J. The cause was cardiac
arrest because of a pulmonary
embolism, said his daughter Alex-
andra Menzies.
Mr. Menzies, who lived in
Hackettstown, N.J., was born in
Pittsfield, Ill. He was in the For-
eign Service from 1981 to 2002,
including assignments in Hunga-
ry, East Berlin, Sarajevo and Kos-
ovo. After his retirement, the for-
mer Burke, Va., resident served
four years as president of Grace-
land University in Lamoni, Iowa,
and then six years as dean of the
school of diplomacy and interna-
tional relations at Seton Hall Uni-
versity in South Orange, N.J.Mary Voigt,
lay minister
Mary Voigt, 81, a lay minister
whose avocation as a volunteer
spreader of her Christian faith
became her full-time vocation,
died Feb. 11 at a hospital in
Bethesda, Md. The cause was con-
gestive heart failure, said a son,
Christopher Voigt.Mrs. Voigt, a resident of Kens-
ington, Md., was born Mary God-
win in Bethesda.Libby Cailen,
economist
Libby Cailen, 72, an interna-
tional economist with the Com-
merce Department from 1972 to
1985, died Feb. 19 at a hospital in
Norwalk, Conn. The cause was
cancer, said a son, Adam Roper.
Ms. Cailen was born Libby Co-
len in New York City and later
changed the spelling of her sur-
name. From 1990 to 1995, she was
a funding manager at the historic
Collingwood Library and Mu-
seum in Alexandria, Va. A former
Alexandria resident, she left the
Washington area in 1995 and had
most recently been living in
Weston, Conn.Arthur Neuendorffer,
NOAA physicist
Arthur Neuendorffer, 76, a
physicist with the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration who specialized
in the study of climate change and
developing satellite sensing tech-
niques for use on weather satel-
lites, died March 4 at a hospital in
Alexandria, Va. The cause was
liver disease, said a son, Stephen
Neuendorffer.
Mr. Neuendorffer, an Alexan-
dria native and resident, spent
much of his career with NOAA’s
National Environmental Satel-
lite, Data and Information Serv-
ice before retiring in 2007. He wasa member of the Shakespeare
Oxford Fellowship, which ques-
tions the authorship of works
attributed to William Shake-
speare.John Sommer Jr.,
American Legion executive
John Sommer Jr., 74, who had
been senior executive director of
the American Legion’s national
headquarters since 2009, died
March 11 at a hospital in Lees-
burg, Va. The cause was cardiac
arrest, said a daughter, Kaitlin
Sommer.
Mr. Sommer, a resident of
Round Hill, Va., was born in Co-
lumbus, Ohio. During the Viet-
nam War, he was an Army combat
medic and received the Bronze
Star Medal, his family said. He
held veterans’ benefits jobs be-
fore serving from 1991 to 2009 as
executive director of the Ameri-
can Legion’s Washington head-
quarters office.Michael Corrado,
cardiologist
Michael Corrado, 94, a North-
ern Virginia cardiologist for 50
years before retiring in 1991, died
March 14 at his home in Rehoboth
Beach, Del. The cause was a heart
ailment, said a daughter, Leslie
Stillwagon.
Mr. Corrado, who also had a
home in St. Croix, in the U.S.
Virgin Islands, was born in Cleve-
land. In addition to his private
practice, he also practiced at what
is now Inova Fairfax Hospital andwas a consultant with govern-
ment agencies.John Crump,
taxi driver
John Crump, 87, an indepen-
dently employed taxi driver in the
Washington area for most of his
life, died Feb. 27 at a rehabilita-
tion center in Gainesville, Va. The
cause was pancreatic cancer, said
a daughter, Patti Spanka.
Mr. Crump, a resident of Alex-
andria, Va., was born in Washing-
ton. He also worked at a gas
station in Springfield, Va., and
operated Johnny’s restaurant in
Sterling, Va., in the 2000s. He
drove a taxi until he was 86.James Harris,
U-Md. dean
James Harris, 81, a former dean
at the University of Maryland and
professor of German history who
specialized in antisemitism in
19th-century Bavaria, died Feb.
22 at a hospital in Baltimore. The
cause was heart disease, said Sar-
ah Snyder, a U-Md. communica-
tions officer
Dr. Harris, a resident of Chevy
Chase, Md., was born in Cleve-
land and joined the U-Md. f aculty
in 1967. In addition to formerly
chairing the German depart-
ment, he was dean o f the college
of arts and humanities from 1997
to 2011. He retired in 2012. His
books included “The People
Speak!: Anti-Semitism and
Emancipation in Nin-
eteenth-Century Bavaria” (1994).Charles Swedish,
lawyer
Charles Swedish, 63, a North-
ern Virginia lawyer who prac-
ticed mainly in the courts of
Arlington, Alexandria and Fair-
fax Country, died March 6 at a
hospital in Fairfax County. The
cause was cancer, said his half
brother, Michael Scruggs.
Mr. Swedish, a resident of Vi-
enna, Va., was born in Freder-
icksburg, Va. He practiced with
the firm of Sloan & Swedish from
1986 to 2016 and then under his
own name.John Spanos,
businessman
John Spanos, 98, a Virginia
businessman who invested in
commercial real estate, owned
and operated restaurants in Ar-
lington and Alexandria and a
supper club, Caesar’s Forum, in
McLean, died Feb. 25 at his home
in Falls Church. The cause was
heart ailments, said a grand-
daughter, Angelica Spanos.
Mr. Spanos was born on the
Greek island of Evia and settled
in the Washington area in 1953.
He worked in the kitchen at the
Shoreham Hotel before going
into the restaurant business for
himself.
In 1976, he severed his ties
with restaurants and went into
the real estate business. He was a
founding member of St. Kather-
ine Greek Orthodox Church in
Falls Church.
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