THOMAS PATRICK KILLOUGH ("Patrick" or "Pat") is a writer, lecturer,
consultant and teacher. His interests include citizen inputs into foreign
policy, education, religion in public life and the history of the
League of Nations and the United Nations.

The Name "Killough" rhymes with WILLow, PILLow, BILLow. Killoughs
(also Kellochs, Kelloughs, Culloughs, McCulloughs, etc.) are a
subordinate sept of the Scottish Highland Clan McDonald. The new world
adventure began when two brothers came from County Down in Ireland to
Boston, Massachusetts in 1718.

From 1963 to 1983 Pat Killough was first a junior and then a
mid-career officer of the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State. He
served overseas in economic assignments in Hong Kong, Kabul, Saigon, Karachi, Baghdad, Bonn (Commercial Attache 1976-81) and in the United States on loan to the U.S. Commerce Department (1974-75) and to the City of
Detroit (Special Assistant to the Mayor for International Economic
Development) (1981-83).
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--From 1983 until his retirement in September 1991, Mr. Killough was a
member of the Senior Foreign Service, retiring with the rank of
Counselor (Brigadier General equivalent). He was successively

--(1983-86) Deputy Chief of Mission (popularly, Deputy U.S.
Ambassador) to Surinam;

--(1986-87) Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of Oklahoma and
simultaneously advisor to the Oklahoma Legislature;

--(1987-1988) Deputy in Washington to a political appointee managing
State Department relations with U.S. local, county and state governments;

--(1988-90) "POLAD TO CINCUSAFE" (Political Advisor to the
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Air Forces Europe) in Ramstein, Germany; and
finally

--(1991) Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Foreign

Affairs in Arlington, Virginia. Here he completed several years of
research into the role of private citizens in foreign policy-making, focusing
on the founding of the United Nations.

Abroad, Patrick Killough assisted refugees from Communist China,
founded a Rotary Club in Afghanistan, led the only World Affairs Council outside the United States, had his own monthly public affairs television interview program carried world-wide by Armed Forces Radio and Television
Services, wrote a book on German trade fairs and received awards from the City of Detroit and the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce and the Air
Force. 

He is a student of service clubs and other voluntary associations as
instruments of informal adult education. He also speaks on the
politics of parental choice in education K-12, religion in public life and other
U.S. domestic issues.
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Patrick Killough was born August 17, 1935 in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended St Vincent Academy in Shreveport, LA, Deer Park School in Texas and was graduated in 1952 from St John Berchman's High School in Shreveport (now Loyola College Prep).He holds degrees from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, was Fulbright Scholar (Greek and Philosophy) in Vienna, Austria and University Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

He was Diplomat in Residence, visiting professor of political science
(Norman campus) and later adjunct professor of human relations
(Ramstein campus) at the University of Oklahoma.

In retirement he has taught as an adjunct at the University of NC at
Asheville, Mars Hill College and Warren Wilson College. He has also
taught in various forums of adult education, including elderhostels. Recent
adult education offerings include:
 

* "Parental Choice in Education K-12,"
* "Freedom of Conscience and of Religion,"
* "The Jesuits,"
* "Graham Greene's Novels,"
* " Problems Our Next President Will Face" and
* "The Germans."

Graduate courses taught include
 

* "Hometown Foreign Policy" and
* "20th Century Peace Techniques."

Undergraduate courses have been
 

* "Introduction to Political Science,"
* "Comparative Politics" and
* "Democratic Policy-Making."

Future adult education offerings will include
 

* "Shakespeare and Religion" (October-November 2001,  Montreat College's MCCALL adult education program),
* "G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc"
* "John Henry Cardinal Newman"and
* "Philosophy Before Socrates."

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Pat Killough is a member of the
 

* American Foreign Service Association,
* Air Force Association,
* Ancient Order of Hibernians,
* Buncombe County, NC Beekeepers,
* Buncombe County, NC Republican Party (most recently, re-elected Chairman of Precinct #66, Swannanoa #3, voting place: Warren
Wilson College),
* Guilford County, NC Genealogical Society,
* NAACP, (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
* Trail of Tears Association,
* United Nations Association and
* World Federalists. 

He also served as the elected deputy chairman
of the Swannanoa, NC Community Council.

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Mr Killough speaks German and Dutch. Hobbies include hiking, chess,
group play readings and beekeeping. In retirement he has written for the Canyon Lake (Texas) TIMES GUARDIAN, Asheville (North Carolina) TRIBUNE, The John Locke Foundation and THE INDEPENDENT TORCH. He has done book reviews, articles and columns on history, religion in public life and other domestic and international policy topics. He was also founder and executive director of the Montreat (N.C.) Center For Religion and Public Life (RPL).

Rotary Clubs have been a major part of Patrick's life. He has been a
charter member of clubs in Kabul, Afghanistan and Canyon Lake, Texas (Rotary International District 5840).He has also been a member of clubs in Detroit, Washington, DC (twice),Karachi, Pakistan, Saigon, Viet-Nam, Bonn-Siegburg and Kaiserslautern, Germany, Black Mountain, North Carolina and Asheville-West (Rotary International District 7670), North Carolina. Both before and since retirement much time has gone to Rotary Youth Exchange.
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Since May 2001 Patrick has been learning the elements of web paging under the tutorship of Greg Engelhardt of Black Mt., NC and via the Barnes and Noble University--on line. Please bear with this beginner's false starts.

Patrick and his wife of 36 years, Dr. Mary Klein Killough, are parishioners of Saint Margaret Mary Roman Catholic Church in Swannanoa, NC. and of St Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, Canyon Lake, Texas. 

Mary and Patrick Killough have two grown sons, Atticus and Jason. 

Atticus Killough and his wife Kristen have four young sons: Gavin Patrick, Aidan Joseph, Brendan Michael and Ryan Matthew. In 2001 Atticus and family moved to Bedford, New Hampshire from Irving, Texas. Atticus works from his home on a variety of computer-based projects.

Jason Killough is married to Miss Linda Engle of Arlington, Texas. The wedding took place July 14, 2001. That was the anniversary of the birth in 1905 of Jason's maternal grandmother, the late Mrs Eva Smila Klein. It was also the Roman Catholic Feast of Blessed Kateri Tekawitha, "Lily of the Mohawks)." On July 2, 2002 the happy couple produced the first granddaughter of Patrick and Mary: Maria Therese Killough. Jason, Linda and Maria live in Dallas, Texas. Jason draws on his University of Dallas M.BA and extensive overseas business travel in his current position at the headquarters of Pizza Inn.

Write to patrick by email at killswan@earthlink.net

-OOO- 07/09/2002