James T. Schollaert
James T. Schollaert, 73, a retired foreign service officer and Washington lobbyist for domestic manufacturing companies, died of heart failure Sunday, February 17, 2013.
Mr. Schollaert, a longtime resident of Arlington, Va., was born in Raccoon Township and raised in Atlasburg.
He was a graduate of Bethany College, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School and the University of Virginia Law School. Following graduate school, he worked one year as an English instructor at West Virginia University. He joined the state department in 1966 as an economic officer, and his foreign service career took him to assignments in Austria, Czechoslovakia, the USSR, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan and Bosnia. During the 1980s, he was detailed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Surviving are Elizabeth Schollaert, his wife of nearly 48 years; his daughter and son-in-law, Stephanie and Mete Uz of Arlington; his son and daughter-in-law, Christopher and Alicia Schollaert of Raleigh, N.C.; a son, Charles Schollaert of Boulder, Colo.; six grandchildren; and his brothers, William Schollaert of Anthem, Ariz., and Robert Schollaert of Chambersburg.