Joyce A. Harmon ’73

Joyce A. Harmon ’73, of Washington, D.C.; Dec. 10, of cancer. She went to school in New Delhi and Taiwan before entering Brown, then joined the CIA and spent most of her career with the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), including overseas assignments in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and as FBIS bureau chief in Vienna, Austria. Later headquartered in Langley, Va., she served as chief of the operations center, then as director of the White House situation room during the Clinton administration. She retired in 2001 and traveled to see old masters and Italian Renaissance art, medieval architecture, and the “big five” game animals in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. She was a volunteer curatorial assistant at the Phillips Collection and a docent at the National Gallery of Art. She enjoyed reading two daily newspapers and solving crossword puzzles. She is survived by her mother and a sister and brother-in-law.