Take a look at some of my favorite memories and accomplishments I’m very proud of. At the end of the day, being a husband, father, and grandfather is my greatest accolade by far.
The (almost) Hills family in 2019. Dais, Etal, Helen, Natalie, Lura Joy, Laura, Brian, Joe, Jonathan, Lamar, Thalia, Alessia, Ethan, Manning, Lelu, Kaia, and Ben.
Laguna Beach News Post article by Barbara Diamond on our family's history in my hometown when I returned to live here in 1999.
Divers Cove 1955
Hills clan at Stanford for Helen's graduation.
I'd like to say I'm a man of few words.
Howard and Lura Hills with five of 12 grandkids, including two youngest prospects for Laguna schools.
Family Wedding in 2018
Son, Dais, visiting me at the Department of Interior Office.
Hills clan at Stanford for Helen's graduation.
Original Laguna Beach Tram driver, 1968
LBHS yearbook senior photo
46 years married to Lura
With daughter Helen and grandson Ben, LBHS Wall of Honor. My 2024 Memorial Day Memory
Selfie on the beach in Kosrae in front of our little shack.
After Lura and I were married this was our first house in the Village of Lelu.
Howard Hills (back row, first from left), Senior Advisor to President Biden’s Special Envoy to Pacific, Ambassador Joseph Yun (front row second from left), and Senator Kenneth Kedi, Speaker, Republic of the Marshall Islands National Parliament, U.S. State Department, August 2023.
Having lunch with Granddaughter Alessia, whose mom (our daughter in-law) is Milken Educator Award winning teacher, on our way to LAX for her gap year in Europe, including ancestral Calabria between freshman and sophomore year in college. Reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" with her as Junior at Whitman High School in Bethesda MD was as good as it gets for grandpa.
Howard Hills, disembarking with State Department treaty negotiations team colleague at Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor, after crossing international dateline twice in three days during strategic negotiations with Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Micronesia
Arriving back in Frankfurt on my way home to my family in Washington after signing trade and investment treaties with Russia in Moscow and capitals of 11 former Soviet Union satellite client states that became independent republics after collapse of Russian communist empire.
Grandparent’s Day at my granddaughter Kaia’s school in Charlotte NC, where Howard researched comparative strengths and weaknesses of School Board models under state codes
With Natalie and Lura Joy at Francis Scott Key School in Washington DC, where Lura and I were on PTA for 18 years.
Departure from Saipan after dancing into wee hours at Governor's house (Governor and his wife to my right, their grand daughter to my left.
My dance partner
Panthers vs. Commanders (2017)
Some would say I'm always ready for adventure
