The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2017

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2017 67 as the U.S. representative to the European Union with the rank of ambassador, serv- ing until 1979. Amb. Hinton served as the assistant secretary of State for economics, energy and business affairs from 1979 to 1981, when he was appointed U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. He sharply criticized the human rights abuses of that government during the next two years. President Ronald Reagan named him U.S. ambassador to Pakistan in 1983. There, Amb. Hinton worked with Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq to supply the Afghan mujaheddin, who were fighting the Red Army in their homeland. In 1987 President Reagan designated Ambassador Hinton a Career Ambas- sador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service, and named himU.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, where he served until 1989. In 1990, he was appointed U.S. ambas- sador to Panama, and worked there to restore the economy and strengthen relations following the ouster of Panama President Manuel Noriega. Amb. Hinton retired in 1994 after a remarkable 49-year diplomatic career. His memoir, Economics and Diplomacy: A Life in the Foreign Service, a volume in the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training’s Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series, was published in 2015. He was widely considered among the foremost Latin America experts in the State Depart- ment. In retirement, Amb. Hinton lived alternately in the United States (mainly Washington, D.C., and nearby Pennsylva- nia) and in San Jose, Costa Rica. His first marriage, to Angela Peyraud, ended in divorce. He second wife, Miren de Aretxa- bala, died in 1979. Amb. Hinton is survived by his third wife, Patricia Lopez Hinton; 12 children (Deborah Ann Hinton, Christopher Roesch Hinton, Jeffrey Joe Hinton, Joanna Peyraud Hinton, Veronica Jean Hinton, Pedro Arrivillaga, Guillermo Arrivillaga, Miren Arrivillaga de Aretxabala, Maria Louisa Arrivillaga Reglemann, Juan Jose Arrivillaga, Sebastian Asturias Hinton and Deane Patrick Hinton); 13 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the International Rescue Committee. n Frederick Irving, 95, a retired Foreign Service officer and former ambas- sador, died on Nov. 13 in Amherst, Mass. Born in Providence, R.I., onMay 2, 1921, the sixth child of eastern European immi- grants, Mr. Irving worked full time in high school and college to support his family. On graduation fromBrown University in 1943 he joined his four older brothers in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as the navigator on a B-24 bomber crew based in Italy. On his 37thmission, the plane was shot down over Hungary. Mr. Irving credited the Tuskegee Airmen with saving his life because they circled the plane until the crew could bail out. Captured by Hungarian partisans, Mr. Irving was turned over to the German Army and interned at Stalag Luft III, the site of the “Great Escape.” InMay 1945 he was liberated by Patton’s Army, two of his brothers among them. He received the Purple Heart and several other military honors for bravery. Mr. Irving maintained that experiencing the horrors of war convinced him to spend his life working to prevent wars. After recovering at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Mr. Irving earned a master’s degree fromTufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy andmarried his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Petrie. Mr. Irving entered federal service in 1946 as an economist at the Bureau of the Budget under President Harry Truman, whomhe credited with teaching himhow to communicate clearly and succinctly. He joined the State Department in 1951, serving successively as an administrative management specialist, deputy director for administration in postwar Vienna and executive director for German-Austrian affairs. He was commissioned into the Foreign Service in 1954. He became deputy execu- tive director of the Bureau of European Affairs in 1956, moving to acting executive director a year later. In 1957 he became director of the Office of the Budget, and two years later was assigned as special assistant to the under secretary of State for economic affairs. He was then detailed to the National War College. In 1960 Mr. Irving was posted toWel- lington as chief of the economic section. He returned toWashington, D.C., in 1962 to serve as deputy executive director of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Mr. Irving’s career at the State Depart- ment was characterized by his passionate commitment to equal access to justice, opportunity and respect for all people, regardless of gender, race, religion, nation- ality or country of residence, and to his active work tomake those values real. He created the people-to-people programs within the State Department, which included, among other groundbreaking activities, hosting the first athletic teams fromChina to visit the U.S.—the famous “Ping Pong Diplomacy.” In 1965 Mr. Irving was named executive director of the Bureau of European Affairs, and in 1967 he was posted to Vienna as deputy chief of mission. He returned to Washington a year later to serve succes- sively as deputy assistant secretary for operations and deputy assistant secretary of educational and cultural affairs. President Richard Nixon appointedMr. Irving U.S. ambassador to Iceland in 1972.