The Foreign Service Journal, March 2010

74 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A R C H 2 0 1 0 moving to Hawaii in 1933. He was a news editor at the Honolulu Advertiser through 1944. There he designed sev- eral front pages that warned of grow- ing tension between Japan and the U.S., including the Nov. 30, 1941, edi- tion that reflected a wire service report speculating on a possible Japanese strike in the next week. A week later, Japan attacked the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor. During his tenure with the Adver- tiser , Mr. Hutchinson served occasion- ally as a war correspondent for the Overseas News Agency and the United Press wire service. He was then re- cruited by the Office of Strategic Serv- ices and sent to Calcutta to work with members of resistance movements in Burma, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. After World War II, he joined Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters command in Tokyo, editing the gen- eral’s monthly reports on nonmilitary activities during the occupation of Japan until 1952. He was also editor of the official U.S. Army history of non- military activities during the occupa- tion. In 1952, Mr. Hutchinson joined the Foreign Service. His first posting was to Tokyo as publications officer. He then returned to Washington, D.C., where he became deputy director of USIA’s international press service and, later, inspector general. He also served in Pakistan, Libya and Nigeria. In 1970, when President Richard Nixon began planning his overture to China, Mr. Hutchinson was sent to Hong Kong to head the USIA office there. He retired in 1973, returning to the Washington, D.C., area. In retirement, Mr. Hutchinson wrote his memoirs, several papers on local history and helped prepare a his- tory of Gaithersburg. He was presi- dent of the Appalachian Trail Club in the early 1980s and enjoyed hiking on that trail. He also enjoyed hiking in the United Kingdom, Norway, Italy, Costa Rica and Eastern Europe. Mr. Hutchinson’s first wife, Jean Helen Meyasaki, died in 1939. Survivors include his wife of 68 years, Kimiyo Funamori Hutchinson of Gaithersburg, Md.; a daughter from his first marriage, Pamela Murphy of Okmulgee, Okla.; three children from his second marriage, William E. Hutchison III of Junction City, Kan., Penelope E. Cochran of Germantown, Md., and Harvey A. Hutchinson II of Mobile, Ala.; 16 grandchildren; and 35 great-grandchildren. Michael T.F. Pistor , 79, a retired FSOwith the U.S. Information Agency and a former ambassador, died on Dec. 24 at his home in Bethesda, Md. Mr. Pistor was born in Portland, Ore., but grew up in Tucson, Ariz., and graduated from the University of Ari- zona in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to 1954, achieving the rank of first lieutenant. He began his professional life in the private sector in 1956, working in New York City as a writer with a consumer magazine, Car Life . Within three years he became its editor, the position he held when he joined USIA in 1959. In a 36-year career with USIA, Mr. Pistor rose to the position of counselor, directing many of the major elements of the agency. In his years of govern- ment service he played a key role in ex- plaining to audiences around the world many of the most complicated and controversial events affecting Ameri- can life and policies in the latter half of I N M E M O R Y CHANGE OF ADDRESS Moving? Take AFSA With You! Change your address online at: www.afsa.org/comment.cfm Or Send change of address to: AFSA Membership Department 2101 E Street NW Washington, DC 20037