AMBASSADOR’S WIFE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 2

AMBASSADOR’S WIFE

American Woman

Visits City

Mrs Amory Houghton, wife of the former United States

Ambassador to France, yesterday arrived in Christchurch with her husband during a brief holiday tour of the Dominion.

Mother of five children, the eldest of whom is 40, and grandmother of 11, Mrs Houghton has had a varied and interesting life, in which church, girl scouts, needlework, and travel have played a large part.

Before accompanying her husband to their four-yeer appointment to Paris in 1957. Mrs Houghton had already travelled with him through most of Europe, and also to Britain, Africa and South America. This is their first visit to New Zealand.

While not on the move from their home in New York

State, Mrs Houghton has among other commitments, her work as a member of the National Girl Scouts’ Board of the United States. This interest she was able to continue while in France, making new contacts with the movement there.

Another activity in which she has been specially interested is a needlepoint decorative project in the American Protestant Cathedral in Paris This was inspired by a similar venture undertaken in the Washington Cathedral by Episcopalian women from all over the United States.

Mr and Mirs Houghton will return home by way of Australia and Tokyo.