Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Carl John BondelTechnology Specialist

Carl John Bondel, 52, a technology and computer specialist with ExxonMobil and other companies, died May 18 of melanoma at his home in Reston.

Mr. Bondel came to the Washington area 30 years ago to visit his sister. On a whim, he applied for a job at the Twin Bridges Marriott in Arlington. He met his future wife in the personnel office.

He worked in front-office management and with the Information Systems Division of Marriott from 1977 to 1984. After a year as a technology consultant, he joined the former Mobil Oil Corp. (now ExxonMobil), where he worked for 18 years in several positions with the marketing systems group, eventually becoming a senior project manager.

From 2004 to 2006, he was a consultant with Software AG in Reston.

Mr. Bondel was born in Port au Prince, Haiti, and came to the United States when he was 5. He grew up on Long Island, N.Y., and attended a French-language school in Switzerland. He was a graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

He volunteered with Reston Interfaith, a nonprofit organization that provides support to the needy. He enjoyed travel, the beach, cooking and wine.

Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Mary Louise Bondel of Reston; two daughters, Elise C. Bondel and Laura M. Bondel, both of Reston; his mother, Georgette Bondel of Boca Raton, Fla.; and two sisters, Careen Hubbard of Boca Raton and Florence Bosch of Rockville.

-- Matt Schudel

Raymond J. LynchFTC Judge

Raymond J. Lynch, 97, an administrative law judge for the Federal Trade Commission, died of cancer June 8 at his home in Bethesda.

Mr. Lynch's cases included disputes about price-fixing of household glass products and a 1973 decision that Wonder Bread's claim to "build strong bodies 12 ways" was not false advertising.

"Even by age 5 to 7 there are substantial numbers of children who are skeptical about television commercials," he wrote. By age 8, "children generally exhibit a clear, consistent and widespread reaction that television commercials cannot be taken as literally true."

Born in Clinton, Iowa, Mr. Lynch graduated from the University of Iowa, where he also received a law degree in 1935. He became an assistant county attorney there until World War II, when he served in the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps in Washington.

After the war, he became an attorney in the Agriculture Department and in 1948 was named an administrative law judge for the old Civil Aeronautics Board. In 1960 he moved to the FTC, where he worked until his 1975 retirement.

He was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Bethesda. He also volunteered with Meals on Wheels.

He enjoyed travel, golf, fishing and passing his pastimes on to his grandchildren. A lifelong Democrat, he avidly followed politics until a few weeks before his death.

His wife of 63 years, Mary Catherine McCormick Lynch, died in 2000.

Survivors include three daughters, Mary Rae Costabile of Chevy Chase, Holly Hasman of Rockville and Anne Gagen of Ladue, Mo.; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Paula A. JamesonLawyer

Paula A. Jameson, 62, a lawyer in communications law and public service, died of renal cancer June 8 at her Arlington County home.

Ms. Jameson, who worked most recently at the Children's Defense Fund as its operational manager, previously was senior vice president and general counsel for the Public Broadcasting System.

At PBS, she played a major role in improving program distribution via satellite. She also worked to continue federal support when it was under challenge in Congress. Previously, at Dow Jones, where she was house counsel and director of the legal department, she helped launch the company's online publishing service and satellite distribution.

Ms. Jameson was born in New Orleans and grew up on Army posts across the nation and world. She graduated from Louisiana State University and received a law degree in 1969 from the University of Texas.

She began her career in the D.C. city government as an assistant corporation counsel, enforcing child-support orders, and later was an attorney for the National Capital Housing Authority. In 1973, she started a four-year stint with the Fairfax County attorney's office, before joining Dow Jones in New York.

Ms. Jameson left the publishing company in 1986 to work at PBS's Alexandria offices until 1998.

She became a partner at the Washington law firm of Arter & Hadden, where she worked on intellectual property and media law. In 2000, she left for Nashville to work as vice president and general counsel for 18 months at Gibson Guitar Corp. She returned to the Washington area to operate her own law firm until 2003, when she joined the Children's Defense Fund for a little more than a year.

The hub of a large circle of friends, Ms. Jameson enjoyed cooking for dinner parties. She loved music and traveling and was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. Ms. Jameson, who never married, adopted two boys.

Survivors include her sons, Paul Andrew Jameson and Peter Jameson, both of Arlington; two brothers; and a sister.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Ralph H. VogelSenior Adviser

Ralph H. Vogel, 82, senior adviser of the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, died June 2 at his home in Falls Church. He had pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.

When he retired at 79, Mr. Vogel was one of the oldest active U.S. government employees.

Mr. Vogel was born in San Francisco and graduated from Harvard College, where he received a commission in the Navy through the ROTC program.

He began working with the War Department in 1942 and subsequently worked as a civilian in the departments of the Army and the Navy. He came to Washington in 1949 while employed by the Department of the Navy and a year later became a Foreign Service officer in the educational and cultural affairs bureau.

In 1965, Mr. Vogel was named staff director for the Board of Foreign Scholarship, where he was instrumental in the growth of the Fulbright program into a worldwide educational exchange. His article "The Making of the Fulbright Program" appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 1987.

He received a law degree from George Washington University in 1953 and was a member of the D.C. Bar. For many years he served in the Navy Reserve and retired with the rank of lieutenant commander.

His wife, Alberta Sherberth Vogel, whom he married in 1950, died in 2002.

Survivors include a brother.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb