(Classified) BONE UP ON ASIA, AREA OF FATHER'S NEW JOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300280040-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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/f~ilsrnans Bone Up on Asia,
Area of Father's New Job
By PAT SALTONSTALL C P.YRGHT
12-year-old Amy and 14-
year-old Hoyt probably will
find at the year's end that,
they've become at least junior
experts on Far Eastern
affairs. The three are stu-
dents at Rosemary Elemen-
tary, Leland Junior High and
Sidweil Friends Schools, re-
spectively.
ing new job, most families
would break out the cham-
pagne.
For the Roger Hilsman
family in Chevy Chase, Md.,
it's time to break out the
books.
That's the first action
she'll take, said the wife of
the new Secretary of State
for Far Eastern Affairs,
whose appointment was an-
nounced last week by Presi-
dent Kennedy.
"We'll bone up on Asia,"
she said of herself and their,
four children, "and we'll start
with a good map of Asia. ]ice
husband spent time out there
and lived in the Philippines,
but I have never known mauL4
Asians," added the pretty
brunette.
Breaking out books is an
old habit for the Hilsmans.
When a new puppy joined
their family some years ago,
they -were off to the library
for a book on puppy-paxpper-
ing. Her first pregnancy
prompted another trip to the
library, and when they. once
bought a house by the water,
they scurried after how-to
books on sailing.
As for the whole family's
propping up books, that's not
quite accurate, since one
member is much too busy
propping up ' her bottle of
milk to be perusing Asia.
Six-week-old Sarah will
get her Far East facts a bit
later. Six-year-old Ashby,
Concern for Togetherness
As mercurial as a ray of
sun and as precious, the bal-
ance between time spent on
his consuming job and that
spent on his family worries
the new assistant cabinet
officer's wife.
Worth working for, neces-
sary to find and quite within
the family's ability, this bal-
ance often means, however,
that the quality of the time
spent together is improved,
she has found.
Sanitized
Mrs. Roger Hilsman, wife of the newly ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of State for For
Eastern Affairs, describes changes which her
husband's job will bring to family life.-Star
Stnff Phntr,
The cl ' lrc,i are keenl Their three-month course
nterested in their father's at Johns Hopkins University
work, and he tends to be landed them jobs as drafts-
ore relaxed with them than, men at an 4ircraft plant. It
in former days when he wa& was then when she was 14
he continued in an interview
held in her home.
This period was during
early '61, and it meant rising
at 5:30 a.m., keeping the
house quiet for Daddy, and
next to no social life. This
ended with Mr. Hilsman's
appointment as director of
intelligence and research for
Baltimore-born, the former
Eleanor Hoyt a t t e n d e d
schools there and a year at
Barnard Cniie re. It was dur-
ing Word War II that she
and her clc