PETER D WHITNEY
September 25, 1943 -
February 9, 2012
Peter was a career Foreign Service Officer with the US
Department of State. After retiring he
taught economics and international trade.
He served as Diplomat in Residence at Duke University and as Economist
in Residence at American University. After
the Foreign Service he taught at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the
University of Denver/Intermodal Transportation Institute. Peter is co-author of Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy and wrote numerous
articles on The Caribbean Basin Initiative and Latin American economic policy. His
papers are being collected by the Hoover Institute at Stanford. He developed
and taught economics courses for the National Foreign Training Institute in
Arlington. In the Foreign Service he
served as Chargé d'affaires,
DCM, Consul, Economic Counselor and Office Director; he and his family were
posted to Portugal, Japan, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica and Argentina. He was a
graduate of the National War College, class of 1985. He was a Senior Advisor on
Latin America for Control Risk Group for many years.
Peter grew up in Chappaqua, New York, graduated from Horace
Greeley High School, Princeton University, after which he held a Fulbright
Scholarship to Brazil, and earned graduate degrees from Vanderbilt and Harvard.
Peter resided in Virginia since 1967, with various overseas
tours of duty intervening. Since 1997 he
and his family have resided in McLean, Virginia. He was an amateur botanist,
past president of the Washington Botanical Society, board member of the C&O
Canal Association and treasurer of the Vinifera Winegrowers Association, for
which he wrote numerous articles. An avid baseball fan, he served a term as
Commissioner of Little League Baseball in Annandale VA and coached Little
League teams in the US and overseas. Peter was the founding director of the
American Chamber of Commerce of Bahia [Brazil], served on the Board of
Directors for the Pan American School of Bahia and founded the Princeton
Schools Committee in Argentina. He was a
member of the Board of Directors of the International Executive Service Corps
in Chile and actively supported church and environmental charities in
Jamaica. He was an active member of
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, serving on Worship and International Mission
committees.
He is survived by his wife, Martha, of McLean VA, sister
Mary Whitney Hoch of Amherst MA, daughter Martha Savanna Whitney of Oakland,
California and by son Tyson Peter Whitney and granddaughters Eva Maria and
Marta Mireia Whitney of Arlington, Virginia.
His death resulted from a series of strokes. He will be buried in Fair Ridge Cemetery in
Chappaqua, New York. A memorial service will be held at Immanuel Presbyterian
Church, McLean VA on Saturday, February 25, 2012, at 2:00 PM.
MEMORIES OF PETER, FROM RECENT YEARS,
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Princeton Reunion 2010
Pike's Peak CO after teaching in Denver at ITI
Vanna and Peter. San Francisco. Trolley Dancing
Penny and Laird McCollouch , Peter, Martha at Mountain Home Inn 2011
Another baseball stop, Buena Vista - Lexington hike 2011
Lunch in Olema. Summer 2011
Babe Ruth plaque in Yankee Stadium
Botanizing and photographing. Drakes Bay. Point Reyes Seashore CA
Rocky Mountain National Park CO
Blooming Cross Easter 2008
Snow storm 2010
Trying new food ,new flavor of aqua fresca. Tepoztlan, Morelos, MX
David Whitney, Peter, Tyson, Richard Whitney, Ray Whitney, Mireia Whitney
Eva learns to keep score at an Orioles game
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| Don Whitney -99, Mary Whitney Hoch, Peter |
Peter and Martha
Meal at Tyson and Silvia, with Silvia's parents. L-R Mireia, Vanna, Eva, Martha, Jaume Boada, Maria Salom, Silvia Boada, Tyson
Peter in the woods he loved
Painting the gate posts to a timber tract, Stilson GE
Mountain Weekend Getaway. Peter, Martha , Joe Anderson, Carolyn Johnson, Tom Till, Pat Jacobsen
High Tea for Eva's 11th Birthday
Spring Training with Tampa Bay
Afternoon Oakland A's Game. 2011
Eagle Creek Trail. Columbia River Gorge. Summer 2010
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| Peter Donald Whitney, Tyson Peter Whitney, Donald Howard Whitney |
Marta Mireia [2005], Tyson Peter,Eva Maria [2000] , Peter Donald
Silvia Boada Salom, , Martha, Vanna [Martha Savanna]
Fair Ridge Cemetery, Chappaqua New York.
