 BACCHUS, WILLIAM IVAR born in Oklahoma City, raised in Albuquerque, died of cancer at age 72 on January 23rd in an Arlington, Virginia, hospice. He was preceded in death by his parents, Wilfred and Louise Bacchus and his brother, Steve. Survivors are his wife of 47 years, Mary, of Arlington, Virginia; his brother, Charles; two sisters-in-law, Charlene and Jane, all of Albuquerque; two nephews, Scott, wife Erin and children Nora and Sam of Phoenix, Brett, wife Claudia and children Allison and Ridley of Portland, Oregon. Bill was a nephew of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. Bill attended Monte Vista and Zia Elem., Jefferson Jr. High, and graduated from Highland High in 1958. Some activities included Boy Scouts (Eagle Rank), square dancing, Jr. Classical Society officer, student council, band, debate, Thespian Club and sports. He received a leadership scholarship for college. Bill made frequent trips "home" to see family, friends, and Indian art. He also made frequent trips abroad for work and for pleasure. He was an international affairs graduate of Princeton University in 1962. He served four years in the Navy as a submarine officer. During the summer of 1967, he was an intern in the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. After he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1970, he was awarded a Congressional Fellowship and served in the offices of Sen. Fred Harris and Rep. Mo Udall. Bill served as an Asst. Professor of Govt. and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia for three years. He then went to Washington, D.C. to become the Associate Research Director of the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. Starting in 1975, Bill spent over twenty years as government personnel and management specialist at the U.S. Department of State. He became the Director of Policy and Coordination Staff in the Office of the Director General of Foreign Service's Bureau of Personnel. Here, he played a major role drafting the sweeping Foreign Service Act of 1980 covering employment, career advancement and grievance procedures. Bill received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award in 1981 for his role in this act. He then became the Senior Legislative Asst. in Management. Next, he oversaw a management study used in the transition from the George H.W. Bush administration to the Clinton White House in 1993, while he was the Exec. Secretary and the Co-Study Director of the Management Task Force, which produced the report "State 2000: A New Model for Managing Foreign Affairs." Bill then joined USAID as Exec. Director of the Quality Council and later of the agency's Management Council before retiring in 2001. He worked as a consultant in foreign affairs until his death. Bill was an author of four books: "Foreign Policy and the Bureaucratic Process," (1974), "Staffing for Foreign Affairs: Personnel Systems for the 1980's and 1990's," (1983), "Inside the Legislative Process: The Passage of the Foreign Service Act of 1980," (1984), "The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive and International Affairs Funding," (1997), plus a number of articles and chapters in books. Burial services will take place at Arlington National Cemetery at a future date.
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