Harriet HubbardCivic Activist
Harriet Hubbard, 91, a Washington civic activist who worked more than six decades on preservation concerns, died Oct. 27 at her home in the District. She had pneumonia.
With an interest in zoning and city planning, Mrs. Hubbard helped champion passage of the 1950 Old Georgetown Act, which made the entire village a historic district.
After several years in Switzerland, she returned to the Washington area in the mid-1960s and became involved in demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
Through the Dupont Circle Citizens Association, she grew active again in historic preservation. She fought against a plan to introduce a series of freeways across the city.
She helped preserve a residential feel in much of the Dupont Circle area.
In recent years, she unsuccessfully protested the Washington Convention Center.
She was born Harriet Bissell in New York City and was raised in Pittsburgh. She was a 1935 history graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Early in her career, she was a private secretary to author Theodore Dreiser.
Her first and third marriages, to Christopher Ludwig Fouler and Nathaniel King, ended in divorce. Her second husband, Arctic explorer and Weather Bureau official Charles Joseph Hubbard, died in a plane crash in 1950.
Survivors include three children from the second marriage, Aries Roessler of Lausanne, Switzerland, John H. Hubbard of Ithaca, N.Y., and Dana Hubbard Davis of Washington; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Elliott Warrick Lucas Sr.D.C. Public Schools Official
Elliott Warrick Lucas Sr., 87, a teacher and principal in D.C. public schools, died Nov. 7 of lymphoma at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had been a lifelong Washington resident until moving to Chevy Chase in August.
Mr. Lucas grew up in Washington, where he participated in swimming and diving competitions as a child. He was a 1935 graduate of Armstrong High School.
Having demonstrated mechanical ability as a student, he enrolled in the Army in 1940 and became an airplane mechanic with the storied 99th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. The unit was better known as the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American fliers and support troops that compiled an outstanding service record in World War II.
