Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to Robert H. Frowick While Serving as Deputy Chief of the United States Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

The President today accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Robert H. Frowick, of Texas, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, in his capacity as Deputy Chief of the United States delegation to the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Follow-up Meeting.

Mr. Frowick began his career as an intelligence analyst at the Department of Defense, 1957-1958. He joined the Foreign Service and was assigned as consular/political officer at the American consulate in Montreal, 1960-1962. Mr. Frowick returned to the Department in 1962 for a year, and from 1963 to 1964, he took Romanian language training at the Foreign Service Institute. He was assigned as political officer in Bucharest, Romania, 1964-1966. From Romania, he was detailed to the advanced academic degree program at Yale University for a year. In 1967 he served as an intelligence research specialist in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. From 1969 to 1973, he was political-military affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in Paris, and returned in 1973-1975 as political-military affairs officer in the Bureau of European Affairs. Mr. Frowick was a visiting fellow at Stanford University, 1975-1976. He became deputy chief of mission, U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1976, to be followed as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, 1979-1982. Since 1982 he has been political counselor at the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.

Mr. Frowick graduated from Indiana University (A.B., 1953; M.A., 1957) and Yale University (M.A, 1959). He served in the United States Air Force, 1953-1956. Mr. Frowick's foreign languages are French, Romanian, and Italian. He is married to the former Ann Louise Powell, and they have six children. Mr. Frowick was born December 12, 1929, in Des Moines, IA.