William Reed Huntington; Quakers’ Man at U.N.

William Reed Huntington, 83, former Quaker representative to the United Nations. Huntington was active for years in the American Friends Service Committee, an organization of Quakers, and served as director of the U.N. Quaker program. During World War II, Huntington was co-director of a camp for conscientious objectors at Big Flats, N.Y. After the war he was co-commissioner for relief operations in Europe for American Friends. From 1961 to 1963, Huntington was director of refugee assistance operations in Tunisia and Algeria in connection with the French-Algerian war. He served after that as the Quakers’ U.N. representative. In Norwich, Vt., on Sunday of lung cancer.