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of adventure, her relentless curiosity
and her lively spirit.
Mrs. Reinhardt’s husband, who
served as counselor of the State Department
and as ambassador to South
Vietnam, Egypt (formerly known as
the United Arab Republic) and Italy,
died in 1971.
She is survived by their four children:
G. Frederick Reinhardt III of
Fairfield, Conn., Aurelia Reinhardt
Gebauer of Miami, Fla., C. Henry
“Harry” Reinhardt of Millbrook, N.Y.,
and Catherine Reinhardt Traber of
New York, N.Y.; and 14 grandchildren.
Pierre L. Sales, 83, a retired FSO,
died on Oct. 29, 2008, in Reston, Va.
Mr. Sales was born in Marseille,
France. After serving in the Pacific
theater during World War II, he graduated
from Columbia College and was
the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship
for graduate studies in Washington,
D.C.
During his 27-year diplomatic career,
Mr. Sales was seconded to the
United Nations Development Program
and subsequently assigned to the
U.N. Secretariat in New York. His
overseas assignments were primarily in
Africa.
Following retirement from the Foreign
Service, he worked in the private
sector for nearly eight years, the last
two as a vice-president in a Washington-based
economic consulting company.
Since 1988, he devoted himself fulltime
to lecturing, research and writing.
He compiled a book, From Ancient
Afryqah to Modern Africa, which was
published as a CD-ROM in 1999. He
was a member of the Explorers Club,
Amici Linguarum, the Society for Historic
Discoveries, the Washington Map
Society, the American Geolinguistic
Society and the American Name Society.
Mr. Sales also managed a graduate
internship Fellowship Program on behalf
of the Washington chapter of the
United Nations Association, which involved
the participation of all Washington-based
universities.
He is survived by his wife, Bakhtaver
of Ashburn, Va., four children
from his previous marriage, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
Malcolm “Mac” Toon, 92, a retired
FSO and former ambassador,
died on Feb. 12 in Pinehurst, N.C.
The son of first-generation Scottish
immigrants, Mr. Toon was born in 1916
in Troy, N.Y. He was a graduate of Tufts
University (1937) and the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy (1938),
and after the war, continued his studies
at Middlebury College and Harvard
University. During World War II, he
served in the U.S. Navy in campaigns in
the South Pacific, where he captained
PT-155, rising from ensign to lieutenant
commander.
He joined the Foreign Service in
1946. His earliest postings included
Warsaw, Budapest and Berlin. In
1960, he was assigned to London.
Known during the Cold War as a
“hardliner” on the Soviet Union, he
served from 1963 to 1967 as counselor
for political affairs in Moscow. After an
assignment in Washington from 1967
to 1969, he was appointed ambassador
to Czechoslovakia. That was followed
by a succession of other ambassadorial
appointments: to Yugoslavia (1971-
1975), Israel (1975-1976) and the former
USSR (1976-1979).
During his diplomatic career, he
participated in the Nuclear Test Conference
in Geneva (1958-1959); the
Four Power Working Group in Washington,
London and Paris (1959); the
Foreign Ministers Conference in Geneva
(1969); the Ten-Nation Disarmament
Commission in Geneva (1960);
the SALT II delegation (1977-1979);
and the U.S.-Soviet Summit in Vienna
(1979).
After retiring to Pinehurst, Ambassador
Toon not only golfed and traveled
extensively but also served on
various boards of directors, received
honorary degrees and held educational
chairs. He served as a Tufts University
trustee emeritus and as a member of
the Fletcher School’s board of overseers.
Later in his retirement, Presi-
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