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In Memoriam — 2007 Timothy Besingi
He was regional extension educator, specializing in community economics, for University of Minnesota Extension since March, 2006, serving 12 counties in southwest Minnesota. Mr. Besingi had 27 years of teaching, planning and community development experience, including international work. Friends recall that he revered education for its power to improve the quality of people's lives, a lesson learned at his father's side traveling from village to village in his native Cameroon. To him, there was no greater calling than that of teacher. Mr. Besingi is survived by his wife, two daughters, and one son. The family had delayed relocation to Minnesota until the family completed their education. In addition to his immediate family, Tim is survived by his father and stepmother, his mother, one sister, and 10 brothers. Three brothers reside in the United States; the other family members are in his native country, Cameroon. Funeral arrangements are pending in Ohio and Cameroon. A memorial in Marshall, Minnesota, is also pending. A trust account was established to defray the expenses of travel and final arrangements both in Ohio and his native Cameroon. Contributions to the fund can be mailed to: First Independent Bank, Attn: Trust Account for Tim Besingi, 105 South Market St., Marshall, MN 56258.
During his career, Mr. Bryant worked for the Federal Housing Authority in Los Angeles with Richard Alexander, and in Philadelphia with many planners and architects at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Temple University when he was in private consulting. An archive of his plans for a variety of housing projects is housed at Temple. "He was a colorful and conplex man with a complex history," Kendall Bryant wrote. "He set out to do something important in his life with a purpose few of us have to change the world and he did in his own way." Mr. Bryant promoted the restoration of Philadelphia through establishing Queen Village and other neighborhood associations. He was important in the cooperative housing movement and developing housing for the elderly and other nonprofit affordable housing activities. Mr. Bryant is survived by three sons, three daughters, two brothers, a sister, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to Unitarian Universalist Home, 224 W. Tulpehocken St., Philadelphia, PA 19144.
Mr. Burr made preserving Southwest Florida's natural habitat his life's mission. A native Floridian, he started his career with the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council in July 1975. He became the planning director in July 1985 and executive director in 2002. While Mr. Burr was executive director, the planning council received an award of merit from APA's Florida Chapter for outstanding coordination of the Big Water Heritage Trail project. Mr. Burr was a volunteer for numerous environmental and planning organizations, such as the Calusa Nature Center, Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed, and the Southwest Florida Amphibian Monitoring Network. He is survived by his wife, Derek; a daughter; his parents; and two siblings.
Mr. Fulk earned a degree in planning from Arizona State University in 1980. He interned at Scottsdale and worked for Cochise County and Sierra Vista, Arizona. He was hired by the City of Glendale in 1984 and spent his career there until taking medical retirement in 2002. He began in Glendale as a planner, and later served as development service manager and planning manager for current planning. He enjoyed music, reading, movies and traveling. He had a great love for the desert and chose to spend his last days at a desert hospice. Mr. Fulk is survived by his mother, brother, and two sisters. Services were held January 22, 2007, at Messinger Indian School Mortuary.
Mr. Galloway was known as a tireless advocate for the College of Architecture and for Georgia Tech in a period of growth and expansion both nationally and internationally. In his most recent role as co-chair of the Peachtree Corridor Task Force Technical Committee on Planning and Design, he combined his professional knowledge in city planning with his belief in community service and his commitment to urban issues. From 1986 to 1992, he was chair of the Planning Accreditation Board, which conducts the planning accreditation program for all academic planning programs in North America. Mr. Galloway came to Georgia Tech in 1992 from the College of Design at Iowa State University, where he served as dean and professor from 1985 to 1992. He also held faculty and administrative appointments at the University of Rhode Island and the University of Kansas. He completed his undergraduate degree in sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, in 1962. After subsequent work with the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission and service in the U.S. Army during the Cuban missile crisis, he went on to complete his master's and Ph.D. degrees in urban planning at the University of Washington in 1969 and 1972, respectively. He is survived by his wife, Sharon Perry Galloway, their three children, and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, the Reverends Ruth (Jones) and Roy Galloway, and sisters and brothers. A memorial service was held March 16 on the Georgia Tech campus. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to the Dean Thomas D. Galloway Memorial Fund for the College of Architecture in care of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., 760 Spring Street, N.W., Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30308.
Dr. Gil was a professor at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, for 30 years until his retirement in 2003. His family recalled that he was a life-long proponent of "communities of loving care," believing that people of all faiths could learn to live together in a way that supported each other and protected the planet. He was also an author of the Planners Press book Planning Made Easy, which he coauthored with Enid Lucchesi and William Toner. Dr. Gil was born in Chernovitz, Ukraine, in 1934, and was a Holocaust survivor. He earned his master's in community planning at the University of Cincinnati and his doctorate in public administration from the University of Illinois. In 2004, he retired to Boca Raton, Florida, where he was a member of the Carlebach Minyan at the Boca Raton Synagogue. His memorial service was held there on April 15. He is survived by his wife Enid; his children Naomi Abramovitz and Daniel Shimon Gil; a sister and brother; and six grandchildren.
Born in St. Louis, Mrs. Hardin earned a master's of urban and regional planning from Virginia Polytech Institute and State University in Blacksburg in May 1993. She earned her BA in public policy studies from Duke University. Mrs. Hardin worked for the City of Annapolis Department of Planning and Zoning since January 1996 and was the chief of comprehensive planning there since 2000. She rewrote the Annapolis zoning code and was in contact with numerous community groups, the planning commission, and Annapolis City Council. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, and her interests included cooking, gardening, and swimming. She is survived by her parents, Terrance and Shelley Dittmer of Orlando, Florida; her husband of 10 years, Ed Hardin; daughters Natalie and Andrea Hardin; one brother; and one sister. She was the mother of the late Lillian Hardin, twin sister to Andrea Hardin, who died in 2007. A memorial fund has been established, and contributions may be made to: Hardin Family Memorial Fund, c/o Severn Saving Bank, 200 Westgate Circle, Suite 100, Annapolis, MD, 21401 or sent to Jane C. Holschuh, Annapolis Planning and Zoning Department, 145 Gorman Street, Third Floor, Annapolis, MD 21401.
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A member of the UB faculty from 1969 until his retirement in 1999, Prof. Jammal was an author, teacher, and speaker in the field of complex problem solving in planning and design, the application of futures studies and forecasting methods, planning in developing countries, and negotiation and conflict resolution, the university reported in its news release. In recent years, Prof. Jammal participated in The Millennium Project, commissioned in 2002 by the United Nations secretary general as a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers. Prof. Jammal was born in 1930 in Cairo, Egypt, of Lebanese descent, and earned a bachelor of science degree from Cairo University before receiving master's degrees in both planning and architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. He joined the faculty of the UB School of Architecture and Planning in 1969 and from 1970-79 served as chair of the Department of Environmental Design and Planning, where he initiated the undergraduate program in 1970 and the graduate program in urban planning in 1976. In 1979 he was appointed director of the school's Comparative Studies in Developing Planning Education Program. Prof. Jammal is survived by his wife, Viviane; a sister, Mona Kaminski; and a brother, Nabil. A mass of Christian burial was offered on November 17 at St. Rose of Lima Church in Buffalo.
Among his articles and books are two from APA's Planners Press: A Career Worth Planning: Starting Out and Moving Ahead in the Planning Profession, with Natalie Macris (2000); and What Do I Do Next: A Manual for People Just Entering Government Service, with Albert Solnit (1980) — the 15th best-selling book from Planners Press, 1978-2003. Mr. Jones received his bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and his Master's of City Planning (MCP) from U.C. Berkeley in 1957. After graduation he worked for the City of Oakland, and soon after he founded the planning consulting firm of Warren W. Jones and Associates in Berkeley. Douglas Duncan joined him in 1966, and the firm name changed to Duncan and Jones. From 1972 to 1987, Mr. Jones was director of continuing professional education in planning and environmental design at U.C. Berkeley Extension and also taught part-time in the university's graduate city and regional planning program. Heavily invested in guiding the extension, he left his planning practice to Douglas Duncan in 1979. In the 1980s, Mr. Jones founded Solano Press, a California publishing house specializing in land use, planning law, urban affairs, and environmental subjects. The company flourished over the past two decades under his leadership and continues to produce books, reference guides, and manuals for planning professionals, attorneys, college students, and public officials. Donations in Mr. Jones's name may be sent to Shamli Hospice, P.O. Box 287, Gualala, CA 95445. A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2007, the College of Design lost one of its most dedicated professors with the passing of School of Planning Professor Mary R. Kihl. In a note to the department, Planning professor Subhro Guhathakurta summarized what many of her students and colleagues knew about Mary. "I have been struck by her compassion, generosity of spirit, dedication to her students and colleagues, as well as to the institution of academia over and over again," he wrote. "She was one of the hardest working persons I have known — and mostly she did this without conditions and expectations, out of her own decency and concern for others." Mary Kihl came to Arizona State University in 1996 from Iowa State University where she had established her expertise in the transportation and urban planning fields. While at ASU, Mary held the positions of Professor of Planning, Director of the Herberger Center for Design Excellence, Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Intermodal Transportation Systems, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity, and Interim Director of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture. In fact, during one particularly busy year, Mary held all of those jobs simultaneously — a testament to her amazing work ethic. In 2004, Mary returned to a focus on teaching, continued leading the Transportation Systems certificate program, and for a short time, acted as interim director of the PhD Program. Obviously, she did not slow down her pace, taking on the Planning Graduate Capstone Studio, mentoring PhD students, redoubling efforts for her own research and writing on transportation issues, chairing the Curriculum Committee for the ASU Faculty Senate, and again always making time for undergraduate students, colleagues, and members of the community from the professions and civic and governmental arenas. Mary was recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2003 and in January of this year received the Leadership Award by AZTech for "demonstrating academic and research excellence." She was involved in many organizations, including as a member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council, American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, Advanced Public Transportation Systems of ITS America, State of Iowa Department of Transportation, Architectural Research Council Consortium, Urban Land Institute, Lambda Alpha, Harrington House Center for University Design, AZTech Executive Board, and the Maricopa Association of Governments. Mary held five degrees: an AB from Juniata College (1963), MA from University of Michigan (1964), PhD in History from Pennsylvania State University (1968), Ph.D. in Transportation Planning from Pennsylvania State University (1975), and an MURP (Urban and Regional Planning) from the University of Pittsburgh (1977). In addition to teaching at ASU and Iowa State, Mary has also been on the faculty of the University of Nebraska and University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. In all of this, Mary was also a dedicated wife and mother, raising two children, Ann and Christopher Kihl, with husband Young W. Kihl, an emeritus professor of political science at Iowa State University and a specialist in foreign policy, Asian security, and US/Korea relations. Mary Kihl affected so many students, friends, and colleagues with her genuine concern and interest in their work, their challenges, and their successes. Professor Guhathakurta speaks for all of those who came into contact with her in saying, "I am just grateful that I had the privilege of working with her. Her spirit has touched us in many ways, and I hope that will continue to live within us." An award in her name — the Mary R. Kihl Leadership Fund — has been opened and gifts can be donated by contacting Trista Dunagan, Director or Development, College of Design (trista.dunagan@asu.edu). This scholarship will be used to foster leadership in urban planning.
Mr. Livingston, a fourth generation San Franciscan, was a consultant to the city and county of San Francisco from 1953–1959. In 1959, Livingston & Blayney, City and Regional Planners, set up offices on New Montgomery Street (and later on Gold Street) in San Francisco. Beginning a statewide practice in 1960, the firm prepared general plans for dozens of cities including Eureka, Chico, Healdsburg, Petaluma, and Carpinteria to name only a few. Mr. Livingston was a colleague of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, and they worked together on many plans, including a master plan for the California State Capitol (1962). Other Livingston plans included the Navajo Nation master development plan, Window Rock, Arizona (1960), "core area plans" for Davis and San Jose (1961), an Overall Program Design for the Lake Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (1970), and an open space plan for the San Diego region (1972). To celebrate APA’s 25th anniversary, the editors of Planning magazine chose 25 outstanding articles published in the 25 years from 1979-2003. Mr. Livingston's "Confessions of a Planner" was selected as the outstanding article for 1980. Mr. Livingston received APA's Distinguished Leadership Award in 1987. Read more about Mr. Livingston's life and career at www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/BACJTTP7O.DTL&o=0.
Memorials may be made in Mr. Maddock's honor to Mercy Hospice of Horry County, PO Box 50640, Myrtle Beach, SC 29579.
Mr. Meyerson, who is credited with being the only city planner to become president of a major research university, held that post at Penn from 1970 to 1981. He was acting chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s and later served as president of the State University of New York at Buffalo. A New York native, Mr. Meyerson was a 1942 graduate of Columbia and received a master's degree in planning from Harvard in 1949. He worked at the Chicago Housing Authority and the Philadelphia Planning Commission and taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Berkeley. After leaving the Penn presidency he became the University Professor of Public Policy Analysis and City and Regional Planning. "I was fortunate to be one of Martin's students at Penn," said California planning consultant Naphtali Knox, FAICP. "After I received my MCP in 1957, Martin was my mentor. What I remember most about Martin was his good humor and his real and obvious interest in his students. About 10 of us were sitting around a conference table during one of his seminars, debating a housing topic. Martin listened to each point, then summarized cogently, and with a single question, moved the discussion to the next level. He had an innate ability to listen, absorb, summarize, feed back, and redirect. Beyond the subject matter, I learned a lot just watching and listening to Martin." Gary Hack, AICP, dean of the School of Design, is housed in a building named in Mr. Meyerson's honor in 1983, described him as a "remarkable leader. He was part of that generation of people who transformed planning from a technically oriented field to one that took account of social and political issues as well." Most important, says Hack, even as a university president and later when he was involved in international affairs, Mr. Meyerson never stopped thinking of himself as a city planner. Mr. Meyerson is survived by his wife Margy, the research director of the American Society of Planning Officials in the 1950s, and two sons.
He was a professor of architecture and planning from 1972 to 1992 at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he helped develop a degree program in urban planning. A native of Swatow, China, where his father directed a shipping company, Professor McDougall graduated from the University of Hong Kong School of Architecture and received a master's degree from Cornell University. In the 1960s, he worked with the Wilsey, Ham and Blair planning firm to develop the communities of Foster City and La Costa (San Diego County). As the principal of his own firm, he developed Redwood Shore and also designed the acclaimed renovation of Solano Avenue, in Albany and Berkeley, including its benches, lights, and brick crosswalks. Professor McDougall was also an accomplished water colorist and was an authority on the history of Macau. A memorial gathering was held May 13 at at the War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco.
Mr. Mickelsen is survived by his wife, Lin, and two sons, Dane and Ky; his parents; and a brother and a sister. More than 500 people attended his memorial service August 24 at Riverfront Park in Cottonwood. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Brian Mickelsen Memorial Fund for the benefit of his sons' college education at Chase Bank, Cottonwood Branch, account #2742111038.
Mr. Osgood graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in architecture and later received his master's degree from Georgia Tech. He served in the U.S. Navy and retired as a commander. He retired from the City of Phoenix as a planner in 1999. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; daughter, Diane Anderson; son, Steven; three grandchildren; a brother and a sister. A memorial service was held September 9, 2007, at St. Matthew United Methodist Church in Mesa. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Boy Scouts of America Grand Canyon Council, 2969 N. Greenfield Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85016; or to St. Matthew, 2540 W. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ. An online guestbook is available at www.legacy.com/AZCentral/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=93992123.
Ms. Rosenbohm earned her bachelor's degree in architecture and a master's degree in urban planning at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She is survived by her husband, David, and son Tyler Ashton. Other survivors include her parents, a niece, and two nephews. Funeral services were held November 28, 2007, at Davis Funeral Chapel in Leavenworth, Kansas. Burial was in Sunset Memory Gardens, Leavenworth. Memorials may be directed to the Tyler Ashton Rosenbohm Fund.
For more than 30 years he was active in the planning profession and served as director of HUD for the 14-state midwest region.
Dr. Voss received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1971. He taught at the University of California, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University, before coming to Ohio State University, where he was a professor from 1971 to 1979 and chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State from 1981 to 1997. Dr. Voss served as an advisor and project manager for various United Nations projects and task forces. He was the author of Human Settlements: Problems and Priorities, and contributed numerous articles to professional journals throughout his career. Dr. Voss is survived by his wife, Jean P. Voss, two daughters, and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a granddaughter. A tribute honoring Dr. Voss was held at the Ohio State University Faculty Club on December 2, 2007. Donations will be received by The Jerrold R. Voss Scholarship Fund (#647491) and The Jerrold R. Voss Director's Fund (#647497) at the Knowlton School for Architecture. Mail a check (payable to OSU with the scholarship fund noted at the bottom) to Lindsey Margaroli, Knowlton School of Architecture, 275 West Woodruff, Columbus, OH 43210. Share memories and thoughts of Dr. Voss on this Ohio State University web page: http://knowlton.osu.edu/jerryvoss.
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Mr. Besingi was an active member in the Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association and was involved in a recent project with the Minnesota Design Team in March 2007.
That ordinance, developed in 1997, was the first such ordinance in Arizona and served as the basis for current strong state legislation requiring citizen participation, according to Jon M. Froke, AICP, the planning director of Glendale, Arizona. 
The following tribute was written by her colleagues:
Mr. Mickelsen served the City of Cottonwood for more than two decades. He was first hired as the town's planning director in 1984 following his graduation from Northern Arizona University and was later promoted to assistant city manager. He was named city manager in 1993. Mr. Mickelsen was active in the Arizona Chapter of APA and served as secretary of the Arizona Housing Finance Authority.
