Envoy to Costa Rica

Appointed by President Eisenhower to be United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, Robert C. Hill '42, Assistant to the Vice President of W. R. Grace & Cos., becomes the second full ambassador from New Hampshire. The late John G. Winant, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, was the other. Mr. Hill left for Costa Rica soon after his appointment.

A native of Littleton, N.H., Mr. Hill was given a banquet by fellow-towns-people there on October 30, just before his departure, when some three hundred came to wish him well in his new assignment. Among the Government officials who spoke at the dinner were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, Congressman Norris Cotton, and Lane Dwinell '28, president of the State Senate. Stearns Morse, Dean of Freshmen, represented the College.

Mr. Hill, whose brother Karl '38 is Assistant Dean of Tuck School, joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1944, when he was sent as vice consul to Calcutta, India. He was later assigned to U.S. Army headquarters, in the China-Burma-India theatre and New Delhi, as a State Department representative with the rank of captain.

Before joining the W. R. Grace & Cos., Mr. Hill was associated with the National Confectioners Association in Washington. In 1946 he was named Chief Clerk and Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Banking by the late Senator Charles W. Tobey, chairman. Mr. Hill knows both diplomatic procedure and the South American setting, having dealt with ambassadors from Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Panama and Bolivia on matters concerned with importations of metals and sugar; shipping and loans.

ROBERT C. HILL '42