The Foreign Service Journal, March 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2015 71 human rights. He served as a board mem- ber of the Union of Concerned Scientists and was also a member of the American Foreign Service Association. In 2002, Amb. Meeker moved to Ocracoke, N.C. Active in the commu- nity, he chaired the Ocracoke Planning Advisory Board for many years. He also believed in physical fitness and, as long as his health allowed, swam in the ocean every day he could. Amb. Meeker was predeceased by his first wife, Christine Halliday, who died in 1958. He is survived by his wife, Beverly Joan Meeker, and six children. From his first wife, Christine, they are: Richard Hal- liday Meeker of Portland, Ore.; Charles Carpenter Meeker of Raleigh, N.C.; and Sarah Louise Meeker Jensen of Los Ange- les, Calif. His three children with Beverly are: Eliza Ann Hunt Meeker of Paris, France; Dr. James Edward Weeks Meeker of Portland, Ore.; and Benjamin Chester Gilman Meeker of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The family suggests donations in Amb. Meeker’s memory be made to the Ocracoke Preservation Society at info@ ocracokepreservation.org or (252) 928- 7375. n Hugh Orville Muir, 82, a retired FSO with the U.S. Information Agency, died of complications from a stroke on Nov. 4 at Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax, Va. Mr. Muir was born on Aug. 20, 1932, in Washington, D.C. He grew up in Chevy Chase, Md., where he attended Woodrow Wilson High School. He graduated from Syracuse University School of Journal- ism and received his M.S. from Columbia University. Mr. Muir began his newspaper career at the New York World-Telegram and Sun in 1955. When the paper folded in 1966, he relocated to Vienna, Va., where he worked briefly on the news copy desk of The Washington Post before joining the Foreign Service. After two years in Washington, D.C., he was posted to London as an informa- tion officer. He returned to Washington to become chief of the Africa regional desk at Voice of America. In 1981, he was posted to Nairobi as East Africa Bureau chief. There, he and his wife of 61 years, Phyllis, enjoyed many exhilarating safari trips.