James Bausch Hendry

James B. Hendry, a development economist and retired World Bank official, died on Friday April 25, 2014, at his home in Heron Point, a continuing care community in Chestertown, MD. He was 92 years of age. Dr. Hendry, for many years a resident of Bethesda, MD, served in the World Bank as economist, Division Chief, Senior Project Department Economist and Assistant Director of Agricultural and Education projects in Eastern Africa. For the last three years of his World Bank career, Dr. Hendry served as the Bank’s Ombudsman, and also as a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporate Ombudsman Association. After retirement, he served for three years as the Association’s Executive Officer. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Hendry taught at Washington University (St. Louis) and Michigan State University. While at the latter institution, he held a research and teaching assignment with the Michigan State/AID-sponsored project in Viet Nam from 1957 to 1959, and subsequently with the Harvard Advisory Group stationed in Dacca, East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Earlier service abroad included two years in China, 1947 to 1949, with the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and the Economic Corporation Administration (Marshall Plan). Dr. Hendry is the author of “The Small World of Khanh Hau,” a book on the economy of a village in the Mekong delta of Viet Nam based on field studies in that region, and “A China Story: from Peip’ing to Beijing” a memoir of the period during which a nationalist Party dynasty in China was replaced by a Communist Party dynasty. He also compiled an “Ombudsman Handbook” for the Corporate Ombudsman Association, and published chapters in books and articles on economics and development. Dr. Hendry was consultant to various organizations including the Ford Foundation, Foreign Service Institute, the Institute for Defense Analysis, US Senate Small Business Committee, World Bank and United Nations Development Programme. Since his retirement Dr. Hendry has been active in Community affairs, serving on Boards of Directors for the Montgomery Hospice Society and the Peninsula United Methodist Homes of Maryland. Dr. Hendry was a graduate of the College of William and Mary and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Columbia University. During World War II, he studied Japanese, first at Yale University under the ASTP program, and later at the Military Intelligence Language School at the University of Michigan. He served with the Occupation Forces in Japan through 1946. Survivors include his three daughters, Nancy Hendry of Bethesda, Khati Hendry of Summerland, B.C. and Susan Manley of Bethesda; five grandchildren; and a sister, Dorothy Gerrish, of Charlton, MA. Services with Military Honors will be held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery.

James Bausch Hendry

November 17, 1921 - April 25, 2014