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[William Carter Ide, 88, died July 27, 2007. Mr. Ide served for many years with USAID in New Delhi; his seven children attended AIS in the 1960s and 1970s, and his wife, Helen, taught Spanish at the school.] Obituary from the Washington Post, August 7, 2007 William Ide; Longtime Foreign Service Officer
William Carter Ide, 88, a former Foreign Service officer, real estate investor and artist, died July 27 of a heart ailment after a fall at his home in Vienna. At the Agency for International Development, Mr. Ide was mission director in the Dominican Republic and deputy mission director in India during the 1960s, and mission director in Nepal from 1969 to 1974. He then was deputy director for public affairs for AID and taught at the National War College. After his 1980 retirement from the Foreign Service, Mr. Ide became active in real estate investment and management. He was born in Redlands, Calif., and graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. He interned for the federal government in Washington until the outbreak of 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 master'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, then returned to the Washington area in 1951. Mr. Ide joined the old Bureau of the Budget as an economist and in 1952 began working overseas for the federal government in Denmark, Paris and Pakistan. From 1956 to 1964, he held a variety of positions in the old Economic Cooperation Agency and later for AID, rising to regional director for the Near East and South Asia. His post-government work was in real estate, but he also enjoyed the arts, singing in the Wareham Chorale and playing the flute. He also painted watercolors, acted in community theater and served as past president of the Vienna Arts Society. He volunteered for what is now Capital Hospice, the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, Housing Counseling Services of Washington and OAR of Fairfax County, as well as the Pennywise Thrift Shop in Vienna. Mr. Ide attended an Episcopal church in Vienna and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax. He enjoyed reading the social sciences and humanities and was interested in his family genealogy: He was a descendant of Nicholas Ide, who was at Plymouth Rock with Miles Standish, and William Brown Ide, the only president of the California Republic. Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Helen Louise French Ide of Vienna; seven children, Gretchen Ide Kossack of Shrewsbury, Mass., David Chandler Ide of Arlington County, Jennifer Taylor-Ide of Franklin, W.Va., Rebecca Ide Lowe of Ojai, Calif., Peter McDonald Ide of Falls Church and Tunis, Susan Ide Patton of Vienna and Nicholas Carter Ide of McLean; and 11 grandchildren. -- Patricia Sullivan Cards and letters to Mrs. Ide may be sent to
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