Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Arthur Tyler PortDefense Department Official
Arthur Tyler Port, 89, a Defense Department official who served NATO as the assistant secretary general for defense support from 1967 until shortly before retiring in 1974, died Jan. 3 at the health center at Falcons Landing retirement community in Sterling. He had congestive heart failure.
While assigned to NATO, Mr. Port was chairman of several committees, including one that appropriated funds for airfields, communications and pipelines. He was also involved with the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors to standardize the weapons systems procured by the member nations for NATO's defense.
After retiring, Mr. Port did consulting work on NATO affairs for the Stanford Research Institute and Logistics Management Institute.
He was born in Chicago and raised in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was a 1937 cum laude graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and a 1940 graduate of Yale University law school.
He served in the Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II and later, as a civilian, was a special consultant to Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. He also was a consultant on psychological warfare and special operations, which played a role in the creation of the Army's Special Forces at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Among his later assignments was director of the office of security policy at the Defense Department and deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations and logistics.
His honors included two Defense Department distinguished civilian service awards.
He moved from Reston to Falcons Landing in 1996.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Aline Gooding Port of Falcons Landing; two children, Cynthia Hosmer of Napa, Calif., and Christopher Port of Manassas; a brother; and three grandchildren.
Leo Thomas 'Tom' HaleyNSA Intelligence AnalystLeo Thomas "Tom" Haley, 79, who worked about 15 years at the National Security Agency before retiring in the mid-1980s as a senior research intelligence analyst, died of cancer Jan. 12 at his home in College Park.
Mr. Haley, who lived in the Washington area since 1955, was a native of Salamanca, N.Y. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he graduated from Gannon University in Erie, Pa.
He worked at the Pentagon before joining the NSA in the early 1970s.
He was a longtime member of the Fort Meade and Patuxent Greens golf courses; a member of the American Legion and Moose Club; and a parishioner and volunteer at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in College Park.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Catherine "Kay" Haley of College Park; six children, Charles Haley of Bowie, Doug Haley of Millersville, Carol Willis of Fulton, Md., Matthew Haley of Adelphi and Paul and Peter Haley of Silver Spring; 17 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Arthur J. GalliganLawyerArthur J. Galligan, 79, a Washington area lawyer and longtime partner of the law firm now known as Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, died of complications from pneumonia Jan. 4 at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. He lived in Alexandria.
Mr. Galligan was born in New York City. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in geology from Columbia University in 1948 and received a law degree from New York University's law school in 1953.
He joined the New York law firm Dickstein & Shapiro in 1957. He was the third lawyer in the firm, which now has 375 lawyers in Washington, New York and Los Angeles.
Mr. Galligan was a partner in the firm's New York office until he moved in 1974 to Washington, where he remained as a partner until his retirement in 1995.
During the mid-1960s, he pioneered the development of procedures for the administration of consumer claims in an antitrust class action involving the antibiotic tetracycline.
At a peak moment during the Red Scare, Mr. Galligan helped represent blacklisted directors, writers and actors whose vividly pro-labor film "Salt of the Earth" (1954) was denied widespread exhibition. In later years, the film had a cult following because of its stance on labor.
For many years, Mr. Galligan served as counsel to the George W. Henry Foundation, an organization affiliated with the Episcopal Church that provided legal protection to gays and lesbians.
His marriage to Carol Galligan ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Maura Galligan of Alexandria; two children from his first marriage, Jessica Goldsmith and Zachary Galligan, both of New York; two children from his second marriage, Gregory Galligan of Alexandria and John Galligan of Washington; and three grandchildren.