The Foreign Service Journal, April 2005

In 1939, Ambassador Hillenbrand entered the Foreign Service, and was assigned as a vice consul to Zurich. In 1940, he was sent to Rangoon, where he met and married Faith Stewart. When the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942, the Hillenbrands were trans- ferred to Calcutta, and in 1944, to Lourenco Marques. After the war ended, Dr. Hillen- brand served in Bremen (1946-1950), Washington, D.C. (1950-1952), Paris (1952-1956), Berlin (1956-1958) and again in Washington, where he was first director of the Office of German Affairs from 1958 to 1962, and then director of the Berlin Task Force from 1962 to 1963. In 1962, Amb. Hillenbrand was awarded the Department of State’s Distinguished Service Medal, and pro- moted to the rank of career minister (the youngest Foreign Service officer ever to attain that rank). He was assigned to Embassy Bonn as deputy chief of mission (1963-1967), and appointed ambassador to the Hungar- ian People’s Republic (1967-1969). Amb. Hillenbrand became assistant secretary of State for European Affairs in 1969. He was appointed ambas- sador to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972, serving with distinc- tion until 1976. Upon retiring from government service, Amb. Hillen- brand was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit, the highest civilian honor, by the West German government. In 1977, he began a second career as director general of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs based in Paris, where he worked and resided until 1982. He then accepted the position of Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations at the University of Georgia, which he held until 1997; when he retired for the second time, he became the Dean Rusk Professor Emeritus. While at the University of Georgia, Dr. Hillenbrand was direc- tor of the Center for Global Policy Studies (1983-1991) and co-director of the Center for East-West Trade Policy (1987-1997). He also served as chairman of the Fellowship Selection Committee of the Robert Bosch Foundation in New York, N.Y., from 1983 to 1992 and as hon- orary chairman from 1992 to 1996. He served as a trustee of the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta from 1983 to 1987, and as chairman from 1987 to 1990. He also sat on the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, North America (1990-1994). Amb. Hillenbrand was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Foreign Service Associa- tion, the Diplomatic Advisory Com- mittee of the American Council on Germany and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He was the author of numerous books and articles, includ- ing: Power and Morals (1949), Germany in an Era of Transition (1983), and Fragments of Our Time: Memoirs of a Diplomat (1998). He was also co-author/editor of The Future of Berlin (1980) and co-editor of Global Insecurity (1982). Amb. Hillenbrand’s wife of 62 years, Faith, died in May 2004. He is survived by his three children, Ruth Quinet of Seattle, Wash., David Hillenbrand of Toronto, Canada and Savannah, Ga., and John Hillenbrand of Athens, Ga., who remember him for his kind and generous nature, his extraordinary ability to extemporize on virtually any subject, his intellectu- al curiosity, his love of travel and fine dining and his enchanting smile. He was the loving grandfather of Derrick Quinet, Stuart Hillenbrand and Joseph Hillenbrand. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Mary’s Hospice, P.O. Box 6588, Athens GA 30604. Calista Cooper Hughes , 90, a former political leader and state offi- cial and the widow of FSO Morris Nelson Hughes, died July 10 in Humboldt, Neb., where she was born. Mrs. Hughes graduated from the University of Nebraska as a political science major in 1935, and then lived for a year in Tokyo, where her broth- er, FSO Charles Cooper, was posted. There she met Morris Hughes: they were married in Humboldt in 1936. Mrs. Hughes accompanied her hus- band to Addis Ababa in 1936, which they fled in 1937 as Italian forces sur- rounded the city. They were trans- ferred to Tirana, from which they were evacuated in 1939, just ahead of invading Italian troops. They were posted to Mexico Ctiy (1939-1942), Havana (1945-1948), Bern (1949- 1951), Reykjavik (1951-1953), Tunis (1953-1956) and Paris (1956-1961). Following her husband’s retirement in 1961, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes returned to Humboldt. There Mrs. Hughes taught high school French and served on various local and state com- missions. She was elected to the uni- cameral Nebraska state legislature in 1964, serving until 1969. She was appointed state health planning direc- tor in 1969, and held that office until 1974. From 1975 to 1977, she was an adviser to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In the summers of 1978 and 1979, she raised funds to bring more than 150 young musicians to study and perform at a local college. She was the first pro- gram director for an ongoing concert series, and was appointed to many state and local charitable, advisory and educational commissions and boards. Mrs. Hughes leaves two daughters, Mary Solari and Judy Leech; a son, Morris Nelson Hughes Jr., now consul general in St. Petersburg; 10 grand- children; and 11 great-grandchildren. 56 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / A P R I L 2 0 0 5 I N M E M O R Y