The staff of the US Embassy in Yerevan remembers the late Harry Gilmore, the first US Ambassador to Armenia, not solely as a good ambassador, but a caring man. 

US Chargé d’Affaires Clark Price said, at Wednesday’s tree-planting ceremony in memory of Ambassador Gilmore—and in the memorial park of Parakar village in the Armavir Province of Armenia—, that the first US ambassador to Armenia had ordered to install a washing machine at the embassy for one of his employees.

Price said an embassy employee had just been hired, she had a newborn baby, she lived in the ninth floor of a building, and since water was in short supply in Armenia at the time, she carried water up nine floors to wash her baby’s nappies.

When the ambassador had heard about this, he had ordered to install washing machines in the embassy so that this staff member could bring the nappies and wash them in the embassy.

Ambassador Harry Gilmore had passed away in April at the age of 77.

He served in Armenia from May 1993 to July 1995.