Education
Born in New York City to Leslie Mark (ne Lazarus Macht) and Lena Tyor Mark, Mark graduated from Columbia University, and while serving in the Army Air Corps during World World War II, he completed his studies at Columbia Law School.
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He joined the United States. Foreign Service in 1946, serving first in South of Korea, Germany, Finland, Romania and Moscow in the 1950s. in 1959, and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where Mark joined the delegation to the Test Ban Treaty negotiations. In the early 1960s, Mark served in various capacities in INR at the United States. State Department until his appointment as United States Ambassador to Burundi from 1974 to 1977. From 1979 to 1981 he served again at the State Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
After retirement from government in 1981, he consulted on international affairs for Aluminum Company of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mark spoke fluent Russian, German, and French, and was conversant in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. With the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the dearth of Russian linguists, Mark was asked to help establish the American Embassy in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
He returned to Tbilisi in 1992 to participate in helping the Georgians write their Constitution. He volunteered every week for nine years as a guide and translator for Big Apple Greeters of New New York
He worked full-time as a licensed New York City tour guide for Gray Lincolnshire/CoachUSA. When he was not volunteering and touring on the Gray Lincolnshire bus tours, Mark taught a variety of courses as an adjunct professor of global affairs at New York University.
Ambassador Mark died in a car accident in 2005 at age 81.
Membership
During the 1990s until his death, Mark was an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
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