The Foreign Service Journal, November 2007

World War II and served in the Army, rising from private to major in the transportation corps. He served in England, France and Germany. After the war, he received a mas- ter’s degree in political science and economics from Harvard University in 1948. He taught political science and Russian history at Claremont Men’s College in California, and then returned to the Washington, D.C., area in 1951. Mr. Ide joined the for- mer Bureau of the Budget as an econ- omist and, in 1952, began working overseas for the federal government in Copenhagen, Paris and Karachi. From 1956 to 1964, he held a vari- ety of positions in the old Economic Cooperation Agency and later at the U.S. Agency for International Devel- opment. In 1961, he was named dep- uty regional operations director for the Near East and South Asia at USAID. In 1964, he left his position as a deputy assistant administrator at USAID headquarters to become mis- sion director in the Dominican Re- public, also serving as counselor for economic affairs. In 1965, he was transferred to New Delhi as deputy director of the USAID mission there, and in 1969 was assigned to Kath- mandu as mission director. He returned to headquarters in 1974 as deputy director for public affairs. He also taught at the National War College before retiring from the Foreign Service in 1980. Though Mr. Ide’s post-government work was in real estate investment and management, he also enjoyed the arts. He sang in the Wareham Chor- ale and played the flute. He also did watercolor painting, acted in commu- nity theater and served as president of the Vienna Arts Society. He volun- teered for what is now Capital Hos- pice, the Northern Virginia Men- tal Health Institute, Housing Coun- seling Services of Washington and OAR of Fairfax County, and also help- ed out in the Pennywise Thrift Shop in Vienna. Mr. Ide attended an Episcopal N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 69 I N M E M O R Y