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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 2008, page 80 In Memoriam Donald Alford Weadon, Jr. (1945-2008)By Andrew I. Killgore
DON WEADON, who died in the early hours of March 23, following a series of strokes, was born in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in Westport, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. degree from Cornell University, a J.D. degree from the University of California and a master’s degree from the Harvard Business School Adjunct Program at the Iran Center of Management Studies in Tehran, Iran. In 1984 he opened a law firm, Weadon Associates, in Washington, DC, and went on to open branches in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Beijing, China and Hanoi, Vietnam. He also formed a foundation to support Vietnamese orphans. A great raconteur, Donald Weadon was a man of extraordinary energy and creativity. At Cornell he sang in the Glee Club, managed the club’s year-long world tour and was the president of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He also was a member of the Cornell University Trustee Council. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years, completing his duty as flag lieutenant to the admiral commanding the Military Sealift Command, Far East. He was an adjunct professor of foreign trade law at George Mason University in northern Virginia and at Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco. He lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on international high-tech ventures, and contributed articles to scholarly journals, newspapers and blogs, often on issues involving Iran and the Middle East. In 2004 he co-authored an article with William D. Beeman in the Providence Journal in which he wrote, “Iran has outmaneuvered the United States diplomatically regarding its nuclear program, and there is little that neoconservatives within and surrounding the Bush administration can do about the situation except gnash its collective teeth.” Weadon recommended dealing rationally with Iran on nuclear-containment issues. Don Weadon is survived by his wife, Suzanne Hayden Cameron Weadon, a stepson, Albert “Allen” F. Cameron IV, and a sister. Andrew I. Killgore is publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. |
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