Sherwood G. Moe ’44

Sherwood G. Moe ’44, of Tiverton, R.I.; Aug. 2, at the age of 101. He was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating. Toward the end of World War II, he was a commanding officer of a military police unit responsible for containing Japanese POWs. He was subsequently promoted to captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. He went on to earn a master’s degree in international and public affairs at Columbia University. From 1948 to 1954, he lived in Paris, France, to support the Marshall Plan as executive assistant and economist for the Embassy to France. He then worked with the United Nations as the executive assistant, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and moved to Beirut, Lebanon. He returned to New York and was promoted to the director and senior adviser, UNRWA Liaison Office. He later transferred to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as special assistant to the executive director until his retirement in 1982. He was a long-term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was engaged as a consultant to coauthor a monograph on the early history of UNICEF profiling Henry R. Labouisse, UNICEF executive director from 1965 to 1979. He is survived by two sons, including Christopher ’77; two daughters-in-law; five grandchildren; and a great-grandson.