May 29, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Obituaries: Washington Post: Thailand RPCV Alan Getson dies in Virginia
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May 29, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Obituaries: Washington Post: Thailand RPCV Alan Getson dies in Virginia
Thailand RPCV Alan Getson dies in Virginia
Thailand RPCV Alan Getson dies in Virginia
Alan Getson
The Washington Post
May 29, 2005
Alan Getson, 64, a retired senior foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, died of a leukemic blood disorder May 26 at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington.
Mr. Getson joined USAID's foreign service in the late 1970s, working in Tunisia, Cameroon and Rwanda. He was deputy mission director in Mali from 1991 to 1993 and was deputy director of the Office of Sustainable Development in the Africa Bureau from 1993 until his retirement in 1995.
After his retirement, he was a contract adviser on HIV/AIDS programs in the USAID Global Health Bureau until 2002.
Mr. Getson was born in Medford, Mass., and served four years in the Air Force in the early 1960s at Andrews Air Force Base. He attended Temple University in Philadelphia and graduated from Boston University in 1966. He then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand. After returning from Thailand, he obtained a master's degree in public health from East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., in the late 1960s.
He worked for Planned Parenthood in Harrisburg, Pa., and New York City as a projects supervisor and was an international health adviser before joining USAID.
Survivors include his partner, Mark Stafford of Arlington; and two brothers
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