Carter H. Hills
Carter H. Hills, retired diplomat, Arabist, Washington, D.C., on December 8, 2009. Hills graduated from the College with honors and earned an M.A. from Princeton in 1950. He received an Aramco fellowship to study Arabic and Middle East Studies at the American University of Cairo and was a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Hills, a Navy WWII veteran, was appointed under the Eisenhower Commission to the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency, where he worked in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt in the 1950s. He subsequently worked in the Department of State's Bureau of International Organizational Affairs. During his tenure at the Department of State, Hills worked in Washington, D.C., Paris (with the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) and Rome. In Rome, he was deputy and acting U.S. permanent representative to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization before permanently joining FAO. For the remainder of his career, Hills was responsible for negotiating agreements and overseeing FAO's programs in the Middle and Near East, including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states. Hills spoke six languages. He is survived by his wife, Joan; daughters, Sarah, Jennifer and Alison '96; and four grandchildren.