In Memoriam — 2005

Charles Atherton
Urban designer and architect Charles Atherton died December 3, 2005, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 73.

As secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts until his retirement in 2004, Mr. Atherton oversaw the design of major monuments and federal buildings. He reviewed numerous major projects during his career, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the National World War II Memorial. He started at the commission as an assistant secretary in 1960 and retired the day the World War II Memorial was dedicated.

Edmund N. Bacon, FAICP
Renowned planner Ed Bacon, known nationally for his influential postwar work in Philadelphia, died October 14, 2005, at the age of 95. When he was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows in 2000, Mr. Bacon was honored for his "genius ... in convincing Philadelphia [to see] a future vision. He fundamentally influenced how our profession views American cities. Bacon brilliantly adapted Penn's plan to the late 20th century, leaving it for others to reimage it for the 21st century."

"I had the honor of visiting with with him only three times and I shall forever remember every visit," recalled planner Jim Duncan, FAICP. "The first was in the late 1970s in North Miami Beach when he was brought in as a special advisor. The second was in the late 1980s when, as APA president, I was honored and awed to sit between him and Jim Rouse (another icon) at a dinner in Washington, D.C. And our last visit was only a few months ago when I visited with him in his Philadelphia home. At the time he was as outspoken as ever, telling me that planning education and the Philadelphia mayor were way off course. His legacy to urban America will live on."

In 1964, Mr. Bacon appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which called Philadelphia's redevelopment "the most thoroughly rounded, skillfully coordinated of all big city programs in the U.S." His 1967 book Design of Cities remains one of the key texts for students, the Associated Press reported in its obituary of Mr. Bacon.

According to the Associated Press, Mr. Bacon maintained his influence long after his retirement as the city's chief planner in 1970. At 90, he lashed out at city leaders for banning skateboarders at a park adjacent to City Hall. He railed against a new waterfront hotel, plans to reconfigure the Benjamin Franklin Parkway leading to the city's art museum and the impending redesign of Independence Mall plaza, created in the 1950s with his oversight. Mr. Bacon also contested the lifting of a "gentlemen's agreement" in 1984 that skyscrapers couldn't be taller than the pedestal of William Penn's statue atop City Hall.

In 1933, as a 23-year-old graduate of Cornell University's architecture school, Bacon used a $1,000 inheritance from his grandfather to travel the world. His visit to Beijing influenced his style for the rest of his career. Beijing's groupings of black- and purple-roofed buildings leading to the red and golden buildings of the emperor's Forbidden City "taught me that city planning is about movement through space, an architectural sequence of sensors and stimuli, up and down, light and dark, color and rhythm," Mr. Bacon once said.

After returning from China, he studied city planning at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. He worked as a city planner in Flint, Michigan, but his push for public housing brought criticism, and that led him back to Philadelphia. Bacon became managing director of the Housing Association of the Delaware Valley, a nonprofit group advocating low-income development, and spearheaded efforts to create a commission that would oversee and guide city planning. He served in the Navy during World War II, then joined the commission's staff in 1946 and became its chairman three years later.

Mr. Bacon's renewal ideas gained momentum after reformers took control of City Hall in the early 1950s. His first major plan was Penn Center — a complex of high-rise office buildings, shops and restaurants to replace a railroad yard. The idea was considered radical and the complex was not executed exactly as Bacon and architect Vincent Kling envisioned. More space was devoted to offices and less to aesthetics, and it was criticized by some as bland, but it marked the birth of the city's urban renewal.

Many planners of his day had their critics. Many lambasted urban renewal as being indifferent, even hostile, to the poor. Mr. Bacon oversaw projects including the demolition of the decrepit wholesale fruit-and-vegetable market, which was relocated and replaced by a trio of I.M. Pei-designed high-rise apartment buildings called Society Hill Towers. After the work, people began renovating the run-down 18th-century rowhouses in the area, now one of downtown's wealthiest neighborhoods.

Mr. Bacon is survived by two sons, actor Kevin and Michael, and daughters Karin, Elinor, and Kira. His wife of 52 years, Ruth Bacon, died of cancer in 1991.

Frederick H. Bair, Jr.
Fred Bair, Jr., a planning pioneer and author who enjoyed a varied career in government and private practice, died February 14, 2005, in Auburndale, Florida. He was 89.

He is "part of a disappearing breed of generalist planners," wrote AICP President Daniel Lauber, AICP, in 2000 when he nominated Mr. Bair for APA's Distinguished Leadership by a Planner Award.

Click here to read more about Fred Bair.

Carole R. Bloom
Planner Carole Bloom, 59, died November 24, 2005, after a long battle with cancer.

Ms. Bloom was director of planning and zoning for Clay County, Missouri. Previously she had been director of the National Civic League's All-America City Award program. She worked as a neighborhood planner in the City of Littleton, Colorado's Community Development Department. Before becoming a professional planner, Ms. Bloom served for nine years on the Arapahoe County, Colorado, Planning Commission.

At APA's 2005 National Planning Conference in San Francisco, Ms. Bloom was "roasted and toasted" by the Resort and Tourism Division. According to the division's newsletter, toasts included recognition of her role in starting the division and chairing it from 1992 to 1996. The division announced that an annual award for excellence in design of a tourism project would be given in her name to a planning student.

According to the newsletter:

Carole is an unstoppable spirit. The roast was in recounting examples of her "no holds barred and nothing is sacred" approach to life. For the third time, Carole has been diagnosed with bone cancer. This time though there are no treatment options. Being the unstoppable person that she is, her approach: "I'm a planner," she said. "I'm planning my funeral." In so doing, it is reported that she left her funeral home director in a state of shock and awe at the frank and open way she personally organized all her final arrangements several months ago. For this zest in life, the R&T Division presented Carole with their first "I'd Rather Be Sitting on the Beach" award.

She is survived by her two daughters, Beth Ocheskey and Susan Williamson; two grandchildren; her mother, Pearl Miner, and three siblings. A celebration of her life was held in Littleton, Colorado on December 2, and a service was held December 5 at the First Christian Church of Grandview, Missouri.

Jessica Bullen
Planning graduate and bicycle advocate Jessica Bullen died July 3, 2005, three days after a car hit her bicycle from behind in the town of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin. She was 29.

According to The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, Ms. Bullen was riding on her purple Trek Sport bicycle when it was hit by a station wagon. She was wearing a helmet.

The newspaper reported that Ms. Bullen had just completed a graduate program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in urban and regional planning, and was named an AICP 2005 Outstanding Student by urban planning faculty. A native of Dexter, Michigan, Ms. Bullen also lived in Chicago and traveled extensively. Before coming to Madison she graduated with honors from Earlham University. She was active locally with a community garden and was a booster for public transportation and bicycle use.

Ms. Bullen is survived by her partner, Michael Fay; her father, William; her mother, Shirley; her sister, Laura; her grandmother, Elsie Bullen-Klepper; and many other friends and family members.

In lieu of flowers, her family is asking donations to be sent to the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin in her memory.

Frederick Buxton
Fred Buxton, a landscape architect for 52 years, died February 27, 2005, at his home in Houston, Texas. He was 78.

Mr. Buxton founded Fred Buxton & Associates in 1956 and won several awards over the years for his innovative work in Houston and the Texas area. He was responsible for all of the landscape architecture and the schematic design of the master plan for Texas A&M Research Park, and he designed three major plazas for the University of Houston.

In 2002, Mr. Buxton joined Knudson & Associates as the senior consultant in landscape architecture. He was known best for his innovative design of water conservation systems.

He is survived by two sons and a cousin.

Douglas Carroll, AICP
Dr. Douglas Carroll, retired planning director of the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Planning Board, died January 2, 2005. He was 57.

Dr. Carroll was a life member of APA and served on the AICP Commission from 1985 to 1988. As a commissioner he was chairman of the AICP National Membership Committee and Secretary-Treasurer for AICP. He also served on APA's Governance and Executive Committees. He was also very active in the North Carolina Chapter of APA.

He is survived by his wife, Cynatha Prosser, and two stepchildren, Michael Rabon and Amy Rabon Sebastian; his stepmother; four sisters; a brother; and five grandchildren.

He was a graduate of Appalachian State University and received a master's degree from the University of North Carolina and a master's degree from Harvard University. He also received a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a retired planning director of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Planning Board.

Tim Gauss offered the following memories of Douglas Carroll:

I knew Doug as a colleague with the City-County Planning Board of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina, from 1984 through approximately 1998 (when he retired from the Planning Board). Doug hired me when my wife and I came to North Carolina from California to allow my wife to attend graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill. Doug was the Planning Director, a post he held in Winston-Salem approximately 12 years, I believe.

I remember being struck by Doug's understanding of his role as Director as being primarily a manager and leader of people, rather than the most knowledgeable planner on staff. Doug felt that his strength was to accumulate capable staff and create an environment that let them exercise their professional training and commitment. He encouraged others to take on visible and responsible activities, such as representing the agency before the elected boards on important matters. This was in contrast to his predecessor who was involved in most details of the agency and was the only staff face before the Planning Board and elected boards.

During his tenure there were naturally a number of plans and policies adopted. Major substantive changes to the zoning ordinance in the areas of on-and off-premises signs and landscaping/bufferyards were adopted. The document of which he was probably most proud was the 1984 comprehensive plan for Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Vision 2005. Doug recognized the importance of this document as the basic planning policy document for the county and uncharacteristically was heavily involved in its production. The plan bore his imprint, being clearly written and printed in an attractive, high quality manner. The plan won awards from the North Carolina Chapter of APA and APA National.

One of the policy recommendations of Vision 2005 particularly important to Doug was the establishment of a Community Appearance Commission. The commission was established soon after the plan's adoption and continues to operate to this day. The Appearance Commission reflects an important professional concern of Doug's, namely aesthetics. Doug followed court cases in which the right of a jurisdiction to regulate land use based on aesthetics was defended or established. In many ways, he fought against the current of "functional, cheap development" prevalent in the southeast and other areas of the United States, where aesthetics and appearance were either not considered or considered an extravagance. His work on sign ordinance revisions and landscaping provisions also reflect his interest in this area.

Doug also reflected the concerns of the time in the areas of environmental protection and civil rights. Watershed protection was a major topic of discussion during his tenure (an important subject in the piedmont area of North Carolina); the Salem Lake Watershed Plan was prepared in the late 1980's containing impervious surface coverage standards which were later referenced in Statewide guidelines. In addition, Doug made an effort to provide equal opportunity to African Americans and women, both in hiring practices and in professional advancement.

Having earned his doctorate, Doug always valued strong scholastic work, particularly when done in a workday setting. He was particularly impressed when academic excellence was joined with hard work in public service. He recognized good writing and valued a good editor of his own work.

But my strongest memories are of Doug the person rather than Doug the Director/Planner. Doug was unusual in that he did not have a "professional" face. He did not intimidate colleagues with a cold, smooth exterior. He did not keep aloof or hide his feelings. He would rather make someone feel at home than put them in their place. He and his wife opened their house to staff on a number of occasions. He was proud to advocate on behalf of aesthetics or women, or drive an old clunker of a car to make the point that cars were a necessary evil, not a sign of success.

Dr. G. Douglas Carroll was Doug Carroll, proud to be born on a farm in eastern North Carolina; happy to repeat to staff and any one who would listen the same stories of his father, Kermit; his beloved Aunt Doris and his gorgeous wife Cynatha; his love and respect for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and his home state.

I should also say that Doug was a religious man, but he drew from his religion certain perspectives on life which helped to integrate his personality. A lifelong member of the Methodist Church, his faith led him to be personally humble, very generous to friends and those in need, hospitable to strangers, and with a strong sense of social justice. He was childlike, and often transparent, which often made his leadership role difficult in the political arena.

Doug is a proud son of the State of North Carolina; his life reflected well on what goodness and decency are.

Funeral services were held January 7 at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in High Point, North Carolina.

Memorials may be directed to Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 5289, High Point, NC 27262.

Graham S. Clark
Graham Clark, a planner in Portland, Oregon, died March 9, 2005, at the age of 41.

Clark's planning career began with Portland's Office of Transportation where he worked on the city's first Bicycle Master Plan, according to the Portland Bureau of Planning. After joining the Planning Bureau in 1996, he was instrumental in the successful public outreach program for the Hollywood and Sandy Plan, which won the APA's Current Topic Award in 2001 for integrating land use and transportation planning. He also drafted one of few zoning bonuses in the nation aimed at promoting eco-roofs.

At the time of his death, Mr. Clark was managing a project recommending improvements for the freeway loop in the Central City and a project for part of the burgeoning Pearl District, a warehouse district turned urban neighborhood. 

The Portland Design Commission recalled Mr. Clark's contributions as a planner:

Planning was not a job for him, but rather an expression of what he was as a human being. Each question put to him elicited a true and thoughtful response, full of examples, metaphors, and humor. He ministered to the community he loved without ever losing patience or cutting short his duties to teach, empathize, and to help solve whatever the problems were at hand. With Graham involved we were always confident that the complex issues were receiving the utmost in his careful consideration and that a creative and fresh solution was just around the corner ...

The Portland Planning Commission provided this tribute:

Graham was one of Portland's finest.  He gave the very best of himself — unswerving commitment, distinguished competence and pioneering creativity — so that young and old, native-born and newly-arrived, residents and visitors alike could experience the specialness of his hometown. In neighborhoods, parks, business districts and developments throughout Portland, Graham's efforts and accomplishments daily give breath to this city he loved so very much. People who will never know Graham are touched by him through his lasting, uniquely personal impact on Portland.

Mr. Clark held a master's degree in urban and regional planning from Portland State University, where he helped develop a guide for car sharing programs that later supported the emergence of car sharing in Portland.

He is survived by his wife, Hollis MacLean, and sons Aidan and Dylan. He is also survived by his mother, Margaret Stewart Clark, father and stepmother Dr. Roy and Susan Clark, brother Tim, and stepbrother Geoff.  

David A. Crane, AICP
David A. Crane, an architect and city planner for 50 years, died May 20, 2005, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 78.

In 1961, Mr. Crane was brought to Boston by Edward J. Logue of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the internationally known development administrator for Mayor John F. Collins, to support the massive physical transformation of the city that was underway, according to The Boston Globe. As chief planner, Mr. Crane and his staff crafted urban renewal plans for Boston's Government Center, the waterfront, Charlestown, the South End, the central business district, and many other neighborhoods.

Mr. Crane taught architecture at several universities, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Rice University. He inspired a generation of younger architects who became top names in the field. One of them, Denise Scott Brown, now a principal in the Philadelphia architecture firm of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, writes, in a book not yet published, ''His ideas place Crane in the forefront of 20th-century thinkers and philosophers on urban design."

Born in the former Belgian Congo, where his parents were missionaries, Mr. Crane moved back to the U.S. when he was about 14. At 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, then later enrolled at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he majored in architecture. Mr. Crane earned a master's degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1952.

After his years in Boston, Mr. Crane was dean of School of Architecture at Rice University in Houston from 1972-1977. Then in 1978, he opened an office in Cairo, Egypt, where he led the planning for a new city, Sadat City. He returned to Boston in 1979 and continued practice as a consultant to cities. In 1986, he moved to Tampa, Florida and until his retirement in 2002, he was a professor at the University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design.

Besides his son and former wife, Mr. Crane leaves two daughters, a brother, a sister, and three grandchildren.

A memorial service was held August 19 in the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge.

Samuel J. Cullers, FAICP
Samuel Cullers, who had an outstanding 50-year career after becoming the first African American to earn a graduate degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died September 28, 2005.

In 2002, when he was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows, Mr. Cullers was recognized for his work, "both internationally and across the country, [which] has demonstrated ability to apply research techniques and management skills to both public and private planning practice."

Mr. Cullers recalled his career in planning on the occasion of APA's 25th anniversary. Click here for his reminiscences.

Mr. Cullers was born in Chicago and attended Roosevelt College and Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. With the support of a John Hay Whitney fellowship, he entered the graduate program in city and regional planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he was active in the New England Chapter of the American Institute of Planners. He has continued to be active in Association affairs throughout the years and formerly was a member of the Board, then First Vice President, and most recently continued to serve as a member of AICP Exam Specifications Committee and of APA Community Planning Team for Greensboro, North Carolina.

His professional planning career was notable for its vareity. Starting as Deputy Director of Redevelopment in Hartford, Connecticut, Mr. Cullers went overseas as senior planner and subsequently Chief of Party for the Bangkok, Thailand, City Planning Project team. This was followed by an assignment as City Planning Advisor to the Ministry of Interior of Thailand. He returned to Chicago as Director of the Community Renewal Program. He then was recruited to bring U.S. techniques to Canada and direct an Urban Renewal Study for the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board for three years. At completion of this project he became Chief of Urban Planning for the California State Office of Planning. After serving as acting director of the office, he was offered the position of Vice President, Planning and Environmental Affairs for Engineering Science, Inc. In 1972 he resigned to open the firm of Samuel J. Cullers & Assoc.

Other professional activities include service on the APA Board of Directors, APA California Chapter Jury of Awards, and Council of State Planning Agencies, among others. He was elected to Lambda Alpha International, Honorary Land Economics Society, and was the founder of the Sacramento Chapter and served as International Vice President, West.

Numerous community activities have included board membership and chairing such entities as the Red Cross, United Way, YMCA, Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the Urban League, NAACP, Symphony Board, and others. He has served as a Visiting Executive, International Executive Service Corps, to assist with economic development in Ozd, Hungary.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Geraldine Lewis Cullers, sons Jim and Mark, and daughters Jackie and Adrienne.

John Edward Curfman
John Curfman, 73, of Sioux City, Iowa, died Tuesday, April 12, 2005.

He attended Kansas State University and graduated with a degree in architecture and city planning. The family moved to Waterloo, Iowa; Auburn, N.Y.; and in 1962 to Sioux City where he was planning director for Sioux City. He became community development director in 1979.

Mr. Curfman was president of the Iowa Planning Association, chairman of Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council, guest lecturer at South Dakota University Graduate School, member of Urban Land Institute, and member of the American Society of Public Administration.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters; two sisters; and two grandsons.

A service was held April 15, 2005, at Grace United Methodist Church, Sioux City. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Michael B. Fleming, AICP
Mike Fleming died July 7, 2005, at the age of 52 at his home in Munroe Falls, Ohio.

Mr. Fleming was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving as a corpsman and optician, according to the Record-Courier of Ohio. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in geography from Kent State University, and had worked as a planner.

He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Lorna (McBride), his mother, Audrey Fleming, two sisters, and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Charles, and a brother.

A life celebration was held July 13 at his home. Memorials may be made to the Animal Protective League of Portage County, 8122 Infirmary Road, Ravenna, OH 44266, or the National Fibromyalgia Association, 2200 N. Glassell St., Suite A, Orange, CA 92865.

Arnold H. Grotbeck
Arnold H. Grotbeck died July 8, 2005, in Fullerton, California, following an apparent heart attack. He was 64.

Mr. Grotbeck was a retired member of APA and was employed by the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, for almost 35 years as a planner. He was a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners until his retirement.

"Although Arne retired in 1999 after working for almost 35 years as Sheboygan's Senior Planner, he continued to work part-time as a Landscape Planner for the city, sharing his broad knowledge base and vast history of planning in Sheboygan and Wisconsin," wrote Paulette Enders, Sheboygan Director of Planning and Development. "He attended the last WAPA conference held in Sheboygan — where a good time was had by all! He will be sadly missed."

A native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Mr. Grotbeck earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Urban Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In his time in Sheboygan, he was also instrumental in starting the restoration of Heritage School, which provides an 1800s classroom experience. He was a member of Partners for Community Development and a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church where he was an assistant minister.

Mr. Grotbeck is survived by his wife Marilyn, four children, five grandchildren, two brothers, and one sister. He was preceded in death by two sisters.

Funeral services are scheduled for July 15, 2005, at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Sheboygan. A memorial fund has been established in his name for the American Heart Association and St. Peter Lutheran Church.

C. Britton Harris, FAICP
C. Britton Harris, Emeritus Professor of City and Regional Planning at Penn, died February 8, 2005, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 90.

Mr. Harris served the University of Pennsylvania in many capacities: as chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning and of the graduate group; as dean of the former School of Public and Urban Policy, and through joint appointments in several other departments and graduate groups.

Click here to read more about C. Britton Harris.

Toshio Ishikawa, AICP
Toshio Ishikawa, a planner in Hawaii and California, died August 6, 2005, at the age of 76.

"Tosh" Ishikawa was Maui County's planning director from 1975 to 1986. The Honolulu Advertiser noted that in that period, the Kapalua, Makena and Wailea resorts were being developed and a construction boom was launched in Kihei.

Architect Stan Gima told the Advertiser that Mr. Ishikawa was the first Maui planning director who was trained as a planner, and that he was respected for his professionalism.

Mr. Ishikawa was born in Maui, then moved to California after graduating from high school. He worked as executive director of the Pomona Redevelopment Agency in Los Angeles before returning to Maui, where he served as deputy director of the planning department for five years before being appointed to the top post. After retiring, he opened his own consulting firm. He served on the board of the Hale Mahaolu nonprofit housing agency and headed Ala Lani United Methodist Church's building committee during construction of a sanctuary in Kahului that opened in 2004.

Mr. Ishikawa is survived by his wife, Judith; sons, Michael and Spencer; daughters, Renee IshikawaDelizo and Paige Mamuad; two brothers, a sister, and six grandchildren.

Walter K. Johnson, AICP
Walter Johnson, an important planner in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, died August 18, 2005, at the age of 86.

In the newsletter of the Wisconsin Chapter of APA, Richard Lehmann wrote: "Walter was a pioneer in the modern era of planning in our state, the period that included many reforms in planning legislation and structure after the state learned from the huge growth of urbanization after World War II."

According to newspaper accounts, Mr. Johnson was born in 1919, in Buchanan, Michichan, and received a bachelor's in architecture from University of Michigan in 1942 and an SJD from the University of Wisconsin in 1960.

Among his accomplishments are the adoption of the first comprehensive long range metropolitan transportation plan for the Delaware Valley, justification and planning for the Philadelphia commuter rail tunnel, planning for the Vine Street Expressway and other major arterials, and the Philadelphia airport rail line. He was a life member of APA.

He was city planning director of Madison, Wisconsin, from 1946 to 1960, and then served as director of planning for the state of Wisconsin Conservation Commission, and deputy director of the Wisconsin State Department of Natural Resources in the early to mid-1960s. He was executive director of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission from 1967 to 1980.

Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife, Emily Ball Hallowell Phillips Johnson of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. His first wife, Dorothy, died in 1979. He is survived by his four children, by his wife Emily's three children, 12 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. He also survived by three brothers and a sister.

Memorial services were set for September 10, 2005, at Gwynedd Friends Meeting.

William M. Kwalick, AICP
William "Bill" M. Kwalick, died June 18, 2005, in Tavernier, Florida, at the age of 72.

According to The Independent, he was a native of Long Branch, New Jersey, who moved to Miami in 1975 and the Florida Keys in 1997. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Rutgers University and master's degree in government administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Kwalick served in the military, first with the Air Force and then with the Army, retiring as a captain in 1992. Besides holding a Florida license as a broker associate, he was a Florida certified manager of community associations and worked as property manager at the Kawama Homeowners Association in Key Largo, according to The Reporter of Tavernier.

At the time of his death, he was a member of the board of the Keys Jewish Community Center, first vice-president of the board of the South Dade Military Officers Association of America, treasurer of the board of the Rural Health Network, and a member of the board of the Health Council of South Florida.

He is survived by his widow, M. Teresa Kwalick, children Robert and Jane Kwalick and Anthony Gutierrez, and a brother, Dr. Donald Kwalick. He was buried in Neptune, New Jersey. A celebration of life service was held at the Keys Jewish Community Center in Tavernier.

Gill-Chin Lim
Dr. Gill-Chin Lim, Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at Michigan State University, died on February 9, 2005, of injuries sustained in traffic accident near the MSU campus. He was 58.

At MSU, Dr. Lim was also MSU Endowed Professor of Asian Studies in a Global Context, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and director of the Program on Humanistic Globalization. From 1998 to 2001, he served as the founding dean of the KDI School of Public Policies and Management in Seoul, Korea, and was Distinguished Institute Professor there ever since.

At MSU, Dr. Lim established the Council on Korean Studies as well as the Visiting International Professional Program. He was also a member of the board of directors of the International Council on Korean Studies.

He is survived by his mother and two brothers living in Korea.

Friends and colleagues have posted remembrances on the following web page: econweb.tamu.edu/kaea/membernews/eulogy/lim.htm.

David W. Long, AICP
David W. Long, chair of APA's Planning and the Black Community Division from 1992 to 1994, died of lung cancer October 7, 2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 52.

Mr. Long graduated from Park Point College in Pittsburgh, majoring in psychology and French. He completed graduate studies at Iowa State University in Ames where he simultaneously earned master's degrees in community and regional planning and in public administration in a two-year period.

In 1988, Mr. Long accepted a position with the Metropolitan Council and worked as a strategic research planner in the council's research division where he managed research projects and conducted policy analysis on the region's critical growth and equity issues. In 1991, Mr. Long he joined the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission where he worked on data and trend analyses and plan monitoring and evaluation. During his three years with the commission, Mr. Long coordinated the production of the 20-Year Regional Implementation Plan.

In 1996, Mr. Long joined William Smith in the development of a new planning, design, and research and policy analysis consulting firm, Biko Associates, Inc.  Between 1996 and 2001, Mr. Long served as the company's vice president and principal-in-charge of policy research and analysis. During this time, Mr. Long prepared plans to address homelessness in St. Paul; truancy in Minneapolis; adolescent access to alcohol in Hennepin County; affordable housing in Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Philadelphia; work-related transportation needs in Milwaukee; and economic development in south Minneapolis neighborhoods.

In the summer of 1990, Mr. Long became editor of the newsletter of APA's Planning and the Black Community Division. Under his direction, the newsletter served to rekindle interest in the division among the membership. Through his efforts, the newsletter won its first APA National Planning Award for a specific division project. Mr. Long was installed as the division's in the fall of 1992. Largely through his efforts, the division received a second National Planning Award for overall division programming.

Mr. Long left Biko Associates in 2001 to devote more time to Black Research and Information Network (BRAIN), Inc., a consulting firm he founded in 1995, and operated with his wife, Assata Brown. Among BRAIN's clients are the State of Minnesota, Hennepin County, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, Insight News, and the Metropolitan African American Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Long is survived by his wife, Assata Brown; their son, Daudi Long of Minneapolis; a daughter, Kera Long of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, five sisters, five brothers, and five grandchildren.

In April 2006, APA's Planning and the Black Community Division named its scholarship in honor of Robert A. Catlin and David W. Long. For more information or to download the scholarship application, visit www.planning.org/blackcommunity/scholarship.htm.

Linda Petrella
Linda (Louro) Petrella, 48, director of planning for the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, died April 5, 2005.

Petrella had been planning director since 1997. She was committed to neighborhood planning in Springfield. Her tenure was distinguished by development of a comprehensive signage zoning ordinance and development of GIS. She is remembered this way by Katie Stebbins of the Springfield Planning Department and Michael Piscitelli, AICP, of New Haven, Connecticut:

Linda worked tirelessly for each of Springfield's neighborhoods and for the city as a whole when she participated in regional or statewide projects. While many people selectively choose their battles, Linda chose them all. She successfully fought against the tide that always tried to put Springfield second.

To her colleagues and constituents, Linda Petrella was an angel among us, a person by whom we can measure our own honesty and integrity. Everything Linda put her signature on passed a very stringent smell test — something she was very proud of. The "easy way out" was never an option, which often frustrated others around the table. But in the end, Linda earned a deep respect from the community for her ethics, her uncompromising principles and her unwavering ideals.

The planning community appreciates not only her public accomplishments, including various development projects, neighborhood plans and community building efforts, but also her unwavering commitment to a first-class planning office. To that end, Linda led a comprehensive effort to improve technology, introduce GIS applications and streamline customer service.

In 2004, following her first bout with cancer, Linda was able to attend the APA New England Planning Conference in Springfield. To host the conference was a signature moment and she was pleased to see all of her colleagues converge in a place that she had put so much of herself into.

She is survived by her husband, Peter Petrella; her mother, brother, two half-brothers, and a half-sister.

Petrella earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Connecticut and her master's degree in community planning at the University of Rhode Island. Memorial contributions may be sent to Linda Louro Petrella '78 Endowed Scholarship Foundation, 2390 Alumni Dr., Unit 3206, Storrs, CT 06269-3206.

Services were held at St. Patrick's Church followed by a committal service in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford.

Larry O. Stid, AICP
Larry Stid, Deputy Commissioner of Community Development in Rochester, New York, died November 13, 2005, at the age of 66.

In remembering Mr. Stid, Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson noted his unique professional ability to balance the diverse perspectives of stakeholders in a local project and to find common ground among the often competing interests involved in regional planning issues. "The strong working relationships that Larry helped knit together among city operating departments were crucial to establishing the public-private partnerships that make Rochester a model for civic entrepreneurship," said the mayor.

According to a news release from the City of Rochester:

Mr. Stid earned a B.S. degree in landscape architecture and urban planning from Michigan State University, where he also did graduate work in natural resource development before joining the City of Jackson, Michigan, as senior planner in 1962. In 1968, he moved to the Rochester area to take a position as Deputy Director with the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Board. He served as Director from 1975 until 1977, when he left to become vice president of Keenan Landscape Designs. He was hired by the City of Rochester as Chief of Comprehensive Planning in 1978, became Director of the Planning Bureau in 1987 and was named Deputy Commissioner of Community Development in February 2003.

Mr. Stid was responsible for coordinating all city planning initiatives, including the city's comprehensive plan, neighborhood planning process, waterfront development plan, and center city master plan. In that capacity, he worked closely with citizens, neighborhood organizations, and interest groups, other levels of government, private developers and such outside agencies as the regional planning board and Center for Governmental Research. Mr. Stid was Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's representative to the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission.

He is survived by his wife, Mary, and two children, Christine and Jeffrey.

Israel Stollman, FAICP
Is Stollman, distinguished urban planner and key negotiator in the merger that created the American Planning Association, died February 2, 2005, in New Zealand at the age of 81. Mr. Stollman was APA's first executive director. Throughout his long career, he was known for his comprehensive view of the planning field and for his keen interest in ethics.

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Walter Thabit
Walter Thabit, a leader in advocacy planning, died March 15, 2005, at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.

According to a story in The New York Times:

Mr. Thabit approached urban planning as an activist. Working as a consultant and offering his technical skills, he helped members of more than a dozen communities in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania create their own development plans in response to city redevelopment proposals that threatened to displace many residents.

In 1964, Mr. Thabit founded Planners for Equal Opportunity, a progressive group with 600 members. It was succeeded in 1975 by the Planners Network.

Mr. Thabit received a bachelor's degree in design from Brooklyn College and master's degrees in sociology from the New School and in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working as a planning analyst in New York, he was director of the master plan section in Baltimore's Department of City Planning from 1954 to 1958. He then worked as a planning consultant. In the late 1960s he was New York City's planner for East New York, Brooklyn, and he later described the area's challenges in a book How East New York Became a Ghetto. From 1976 to 1980, he was senior planner for New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission, and from 1980 to 1988, he was an associate city planner in the city's Department of Transportation.

He is survived by his companion, Frances Goldin; sons Nikolai, Paavo, and Darius; a daughter, Alia; a brother; a sister; and two grandchildren.

Gary Vallem
Gary Vallem, long-time executive director of the Bi-State Regional Commission in Rock Island, Illinois, died on March 16, 2005, at the age of 58.

Mr. Vallem began his career with what then was called the Bi-State Metropolitan Planning Commission in 1970 as a planner after receiving his degree from Iowa State University. In 1981, he became only the third director of Bi-State and retired in 2001 as the agency marked its 35th anniversary. He also was involved in a wide variety of Quad-City community organizations, including United Way of the Quad-Cities Area.

He died in Crossville, Tennessee, where he and his wife, Jacque, were living.

Francis Violich, FAICP
Francis Violich, a founder of the influential Telesis Group and an AICP National Planning Pioneer, died August 21, 2005, at the age of 94.

In the late '40s and 1950s, Mr. Violich helped found Telesis, which AICP lauded as the "first volunteer-based group to bring multiple fields together successfully in a comprehensive approach to environmental development in a regional context." In 2001, AICP named Telesis a National Planning Pioneer. Violich himself was awarded Pioneer recognition in 1992.

A news release from the University of California, Berkeley, where Violich was emeritus professor, said Violich graduated from UC Berkeley in 1934 with a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. Two years later, he was awarded a Heller Charitable & Educational Fund fellowship for graduate studies in city planning at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he learned how to design urban places to resolve social inequality.

In 1941, he joined the landscape architecture and city and regional planning faculties at UC Berkeley. He served as chair of the department of landscape architecture and environmental planning from 1962-1964. Violich retired from UC Berkeley in 1976.

Mr. Violich published his first book, "Cities of Latin America: Planning and Housing in the South," in 1944. It was considered the first comprehensive work on planning and housing in Latin America and, after its publication, Mr. Violich was invited by what became the Organization of American States to start an exchange program on urban planning in the region.

He served as a planning consultant to Sao Paulo and Caracas and as an adviser to educational programs in Venezuela and Chile and to the Peace Corps, Pan American Union, Ford Foundation and other groups interested in urban planning in Latin America. Violich placed in the finals of the Prix De Rome twice and was a member of the American Academy in Rome.

Mr. Violich is survived by three sons, two daughters, 13 grandchilden, a sister, and a brother. His wife, Mariantonia Sanabria Violich, died in 1989. The couple was married for 43 years.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Francis Violich Dalmatian Fellowship Fund care of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning at 228 Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1850, Attention: Malla Hadley, Management Services Officer.

Alan M. Voorhees, FAICP
Influential planner Alan Voorhees died December 18, 2005, in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of 83. During his varied career, he was a pioneering transportation planner, university dean, airline founder, farmer, and Navy frogman.

Mr. Voorhees became a planner after an early interest in engineering. "When I was in high school before World War II, a family friend suggested that I go into civil engineering at Renssalaer Polytech," he recalled at a roundtable of APA charter members in 2004. "After the war, I visited a civil engineering office and saw a huge room filled with engineers. That wasn't for me. Instead, I went to MIT and took a planning program."

Mr. Voorhees was a charter member of the American Planning Association and a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. At his induction as as a Fellow in 2001, he was honored as "a pioneer in urban transportation planning, an influential writer on planning standards and methods, an effective president and leader of AIP, a contributor to historic preservation who was labeled brilliantly visionary, and a recipient of many honors, recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering."

At Rutgers University, the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center was created in 1998 as one of 13 research centers within the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. It includes the National Transit Institute, which was created by Congress in 1992 to design and deliver training and education programs for the nation's transit industry.

His name is on the nature preserve next to his Westmoreland Berry Farm, on land donated to The Nature Conservancy by the Voorhees family. He also founded the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois in 1978 in honor of his wife, who died in 2000. He was a trustee and honorary trustee of the Association for the Preservation of American Antiquities.

The Voorhees Center's biography of Mr. Voorhees notes his career milestones:

In 1961, he founded the transportation consulting firm of Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc., which grew to include 10 offices in the United States, as well as offices in Caracas, London, Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Toronto, and Zurich.

With Mr. Voorhees steering the course, the firm planned many of the metropolitan transit systems built in the free world in the 1960s and 1970s, including those in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia. In 1967, his firm merged with Planning Research Corporation, where he continued to work in transportation planning.

In the late 1970s, Mr. Voorhees moved his career into a new area to become dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Sciences at the University of Illinois-Chicago. In 1980, Mr. Voorhees' multifaceted interests took him in new directions. He founded Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), which has become one of the most successful commuter airlines in the country. ASA, now a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Inc., is part of the Delta Connection with hubs in Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth.

Throughout his prolific career, Mr. Voorhees has contributed extensively to the field of planning, service as president of the American Institute of Planners and chairman of the Transportation Research Board, the largest unit of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and has received honorary doctoral degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Voorhees College.

Mr. Voorhees was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is a veteran of World War II. He received both a silver and bronze star for his distinguished service in the Pacific as a Navy Frogman, the precursor of today's U.S. Navy SEAL.

Mr. Voorhees is survived by two daughters, Susan V. Hunt of McLean and Nancy Voorhees of Bethesda, Md.; one son, Scott Voorhees of London, England; two brothers, Ralph W. Voorhees of Highland Park, N.J., and Fred Zimmerli of Telford, Pa.; and six grandchildren.

Louis B. Wetmore, FAICP
Lou Wetmore, noted city planner, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, and a one-time president of the American Institute of Planners, died October 4, 2005 at the age of 92.

The Champaign Urbana News Gazette reported that Mr. Wetmore's career as a planner spanned four decades, during which he was involved in the formation of the Department of Housing of Urban Development, the Model Cities Program, and Chicago's Lakefront Plan.

He received a bachelor of architecture in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936 and was a graduate fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Birmingham, Michigan.

Mr. Wetmore joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1955 as professor of city and regional planning and head of the Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture. He led both professions through a major expansion of faculty, graduate programs, student enrollment, and a split into separate departments in 1965.

During a two-year leave from the university he served as deputy commissioner for the city of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development. He was lead planner for the 1966 Chicago Comprehensive Plan and led the formulation of the Model Cities Program. He returned to the university in 1967 and retired from there in 1976.

Mr. Wetmore received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Planning Association in 1987. He was one of the first Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners, described at induction in 1999 as one who "taught planning practice through comprehensive planning workshops, using real situations as opportunities for innovative practice and mentoring the profession's future leaders."

He is survived by his wife, Nancy Jean Barrows, four sons, eight grandchildren, a sister, and a brother. Memorial contributions may be made to the Episcopal Chapel of St. John the Divine, 1011 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820.

Arch Reese Winter, FAICP
Arch Winter, an architect and city planner, died March 8, 2005, at the age of 91.

Mr. Winter practiced architecture and city planning from 1941 to 1984, according to the Mobile Register. Retired architect Arthur Prince remembered Winter as a visionary who was lauded in other cities but never got the recognition he deserved in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. "I learned a tremendous amount from him, primarily integrity and simplifying everything," Prince said. "I have never known anybody with more integrity."

Mr. Winter received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Auburn University in 1935 and his master's degree in architecture from Catholic University of America in 1937. He did graduate research in city planning at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater of operations. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and served on its board of directors as well as state and national committees. He also had been a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

In 1996, the Alabama Architectural Foundation named Mr. Winter "Alabama Distinguished Architect." Other awards included AIA Gulf States Region Honor Award for the Isle Dauphine Country Club; the AIA Citation of Excellence in Community Architecture in 1965 for the Shreveport Downtown Plan; the Tennessee Society of Architects Medal of Merit in 1971; and the Mobile Historical Development Committee Certificate of Commendation in 1981.

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