Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Enzo GrilliInternational Economist
Enzo Grilli, 63, a professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a former economist at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, died Oct. 28 of a heart attack at his home in Chevy Chase.
At SAIS, his areas of expertise included Latin America, the European Union, globalization and international trade. His book "The European Community and the Developing Countries" (1994) described Europe's development policies as "regional in scope, colonial in geographical emphasis and discriminatory in their effects." A reviewer described the book as "incisive" and "particularly timely."
Dr. Grilli was born in Genoa, Italy, and received a law degree from the University of Genoa in 1965. He received a master's degree in 1969 and a doctorate in 1975, both in international economics, from SAIS.
From 1978 to 1980, he was director of the Economic Research Department of the General Confederation of Italian Industries in Rome. He held a number of positions in the Italian government, including director general for budget and economic planning for the Ministry of Budget and Planning, a position he held from 1982 to 1984.
At the World Bank, he was head economist and director of development policies. He later represented Italy and other constituency countries (Portugal, Greece, Malta and Albania) as an executive director of the boards of the World Bank (1993-1995) and the International Monetary Fund (1995-1997).
He had been a member of the SAIS faculty since 1976, when he began as an adjunct professor in the International Economics Program. In 1998, he became the AGIP Chair in International Economics at SAIS's Bologna Center, and in 2000, he became a professor of international economics in Washington. A consistent favorite of SAIS students, he won the SAIS Excellence in Teaching Award in 1997 and 2001.
Survivors include his wife of 35 years, Marlie Grilli of Chevy Chase; and two daughters, Vola Grilli of Los Angeles and Mary Grilli of Philadelphia.
Johnie L. ShanksService Station Owner
Johnie Lawrence Shanks, 96, former foreman of the Andrews Air Force Base electric shop and owner of two auto service stations in Prince George's County, died of prostate cancer Oct. 29 at the Hospice of the Treasure Coast in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
After his retirement from the Air Force, Mr. Shanks owned and operated a gas station in Forestville from 1963 to about 1967. He then opened Johnie's Auto Clinic in what is now Capitol Heights and ran that business until 1969, when he retired a second time.
Born in Berryburg, W.Va., he worked as a truck mechanic in his home state during the early 1930s and moved to Baltimore in 1934. During World War II, he was recruited to work as a civilian mechanic as part of the original aircraft and field maintenance team at Camp Springs Army Air Field, which became Andrews Air Force Base. He worked there through 1963.
A member of Odd Fellows Forest Lodge 41 since 1944, he left the organization when he moved to Florida in 1994.
His wife, Mildred McIntyre Shanks, died in 1992. A son, Richard Francis Shanks, died in 1994.
Survivors include a son, Larry Lee Shanks of Bowie; a brother; two sisters; five grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
Ernst P. HallChemical EngineerErnst P. "Ernie" Hall, 81, a retired chemical engineer at the Environmental Protection Agency, died of septic shock Oct. 31 at Hanover Hospital in Hanover, Pa.
Mr. Hall was born in Clarksburg, W.Va., and graduated from West Virginia University in Morgantown. He received a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954.
He moved to the Washington area in 1966 to work for the Federal Water Quality Administration, which became part of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. He retired in 1992.
Mr. Hall was a member of the American Chemical Society and a past president of the Northern Virginia React Club, a CB radio organization.
His marriages to Mary Louise Hall, E. Carolyn Hall and Suzette S. Hall ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Chivy Renegado Hall of Littletown, Pa.; three children from his first marriage, Ernst Paul Hall Jr. of Baltimore, Barbara A. Hall of Endicott, N.Y., and Sandra H. Earl of New Castle, Pa.; and three grandchildren.
Diane Klinejohn JonesElementary School TeacherDiane Klinejohn Jones, 68, a Montgomery County elementary school teacher, died of ovarian cancer Nov. 3 at her home in Middletown.
Mrs. Jones taught at Aspen Hill, Lakewood and Stone Hill elementary schools from 1973 to 1998. She loved teaching and was active in the Montgomery County Education Association.
She was born in Baltimore, grew up in Towson, Md., and graduated in 1959 from the University of Maryland, where she was president of her sorority, Gamma Phi Beta. She lived in Derwood until moving to Middletown after her retirement.
Mrs. Jones was a member of Middletown United Methodist Church, Faith Circle, the Mid-Valley Homemakers Club and Rose Hill Garden Club.
Survivors include her husband of 46 years, Rem Jones of Middletown; two daughters, Kathleen Lambros of Walkersville and Suzanne Klinejohn-Jones of Sabillasville; and two grandchildren.
Mary Winona HarrisCharles County TeacherMary Winona Harris, 74, a former middle-school teacher in Charles County, died Oct. 29 at Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton. She had Alzheimer's disease.
Mrs. Harris was born in Nashville, Ill., and moved to the Washington area in the mid-1960s, living for many years in Accokeek. She had studied at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Massachusetts before graduating from the University of Maryland. She received a master's degree in education from U-Md. in 1975.
In 1967, she became a special education teacher in Nanjemoy. The next year, she joined Gen. Smallwood Middle School in Indian Head, where she was primarily a sixth-grade teacher. She was named Teacher of the Year in 1970 and retired in 1991.
When she was a teacher, Mrs. Harris sometimes invited needy students to her home for meals, her husband said.
She was a member of the National Education Association and the Maryland State Teachers Association. She was a member of Providence-Fort Washington United Methodist Church and was her church's liaison to the Oxon Hill Food Pantry. She sang in the choir and was a member of the church administrative board.
A daughter, Deborah P. Harris, died in 1973.
Survivors include her husband of 54 years, Harold "Hap" Harris of Accokeek; three children, Sharon J. Harris of Palm Springs, Calif., Douglas L. Harris Sr. of Upper Marlboro, Ramona H. Jose of Dunkirk; a brother; a sister; three grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
D. Andrew GraftonRetail Executive, Scout LeaderD. Andrew "Andy" Grafton, 50, an executive with Washington area department stores who also held leadership positions with the Boy Scouts, died Oct. 30 from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident in Newtown, Pa. He had moved to Newtown several months ago. He lived for more 20 years in Fairfax City, where he and his family continued to maintain a home.
Mr. Grafton was born in Havre de Grace, Md., and seldom used his first name, Darrell. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 1978, he began his career at Woodward & Lothrop Inc. and became manager of the store at the Landmark Mall in Alexandria.
When Woodward & Lothrop was bought by the May Co. in 1995, Mr. Grafton was described in a Washington Post article as a "much-loved store manager."
He held executive positions with the Hecht's and Strawbridge's chains in the May Co., advancing to regional vice president. He became senior vice president and regional director of stores for Macy's when Federated Department Stores acquired the May Co. this year.
For almost 25 years, Mr. Grafton was a scoutmaster and leader of Boy Scout Troop 187, based at the Fairfax United Methodist Church. A former Eagle Scout, he helped more than 70 Boy Scouts achieve that rank, the highest in scouting.
He also served on the executive board of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts. As provost of the University of Scouting, he coordinated a program that trained hundreds of adult scout leaders. He received the Silver Beaver award from the National Capital Area Council for his service to scouting.
Survivors include his wife of 24 years, Christanne Doub Grafton of Newtown and Fairfax; and two daughters, Kimberly Anne Grafton and Sarah Elizabeth Grafton, both of Fairfax; his mother, Mary Katharine Grafton of Clinton; and a sister.
William C. CooleyConsulting Firm FounderWilliam C. Cooley, 81, a mechanical engineer and authority in jet propulsion technology who owned and operated an engineering consulting firm in Rockville from 1968 to 1984, died Oct. 27 at Anaheim (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Cooley's firm, Terraspace Inc., focused on hydraulic engineering -- water jet technology in particular. In the mid-1970s, the company developed a water cannon to help tunneling efforts during rail-line construction.
The business later created a hydraulically powered mechanical rock breaker for use in urban areas where blasting was discouraged.
He received a dozen patents in his field and in 1985 won the WaterJet Technology Association's top prize. In 1998, he gave a keynote address to the fifth Pacific Rim International Conference on Water Jet Technology in New Delhi.
William Crockett Cooley was born in Lakeland, Fla., and raised in Randolph Center, Vt. He graduated from Green Mountain College in Vermont before joining the Navy V-12 program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering in 1944.
He received a master's degree in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 1947 and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1951.
During the 1950s, he was a research engineer for North American Aviation in Los Angeles and a nuclear propulsion engineer for General Electric in Cincinnati.
From 1959 to 1963, Dr. Cooley was chief of the space propulsion and auxiliary power program at NASA in Washington. He went on to serve as technical director of the engineering firm Exotech Inc.
He was a former associate professor of computer science and engineering at George Mason University and a former board member of its Learning in Retirement Institute. He also was a volunteer tutor to high school students.
In 2004, he moved to Newport Beach, Calif., from Chevy Chase.
His avocations included skiing, tennis, ballroom dancing and writing poetry.
His marriages to Anne Waterman Cooley and Edna Hammer Cooley ended in divorce.
Survivors include four children from the first marriage, Jean Cooley of Forks, Wash., Brian Cooley of Mequon, Wis., Stuart Cooley of Newport Beach and Laura Cooley of Seattle; a brother; and three grandchildren.
William T. GreenvilleBusiness OwnerWilliam Thomas Greenville, 82, president of Applied Natural Systems, a business he started with his brother in 1980 to manufacture a soil-stabilization product used in road building, died Nov. 1 at Holy Cross Hospital. He had complications from prostate cancer.
Mr. Greenville spent most of his early career as an estimator for Edward G. Scharf, a construction-cost consulting business.
He was born in Hannibal, Mo., and raised in suburban Maryland. He was a graduate of St. John's College High School in Washington.
During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe. While with the Chemical Warfare Service in 1944, he received the Silver Star for actions near Saint Malo, France.
The citation credited Mr. Greenville for saving the lives of a dozen U.S. soldiers by effecting the surrender of Saint Malo's German-held citadel without further strafing and bombing by U.S. attack planes. At one point, he risked his life by racing to an exposed area and waving identification panels he removed from vehicles to get the attention of the planes.
His other decorations included the Purple Heart.
He was a member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kensington and its Holy Name society. He was a longtime Kensington resident and moved to Silver Spring two years ago.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Modeste Majewski Greenville of Rockville; two children, Catherine R. Camut of Rockville and William T. Greenville III of Huntington Beach, Calif.; and three grandchildren.
Thomas F. CroninPost Office EmployeeThomas Francis Cronin, 87, who retired in 1971 after 30 years as an accountant and mechanization specialist with the old Post Office Department in Washington, died Oct. 24 at Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital in Fort Worth. He had ischemic colitis.
Mr. Cronin was a native Washingtonian and a 1937 graduate of Gonzaga High School.
A former Silver Spring resident, he left the Washington area after retiring and lived in Pennsylvania and Florida before moving to Fort Worth in 1999.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Dorothy Beard Cronin of Fort Worth; two daughters, Karen Cannon and Fay Scramlin, both of Burleson, Tex.; a sister, Rita Rourke of Frederick; six granddaughters; and six great-grandchildren.
Lawrence Bruce TaishoffBroadcasting PublisherLawrence Bruce Taishoff, 73, former president and publisher of Broadcasting magazine, died of respiratory failure Nov. 1 at Washington Hospital Center. He had diabetes.
Mr. Taishoff, whose father, Sol Taishoff, founded the Washington-based trade publication in 1931, led it from 1973 until 1996. The 75-year-old publication is regarded as the bible of the industry, chronicling the history of radio, television, cable and satellite, and considered unparalleled in its coverage of broadcast regulation.
The magazine was bought in 1986 by the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Corp. for $75 million, and Mr. Taishoff stayed on for another decade as publisher, then chairman. Times Mirror sold it to Cahners Publications, now Reed Business Information, in 1991.
After the sale of the magazine, Mr. Taishoff, who had always considered broadcast ownership a conflict of interest during his magazine years, briefly co-owned Chuckie Broadcasting. He also became involved in real estate investments in the Washington area.
Mr. Taishoff was born in Washington, graduated from Duke University in 1955 and served in the Army's 101st Airborne Division in Germany. He joined Broadcasting in 1958 and gravitated to the business side of the publication, soon taking over its publishing operations.
Accredited as a White House correspondent and a member of the White House Press Association, he was for many years co-author of the radio and television segment of the Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year. He was a trustee of the Washington Journalism Center and a board member of the National Press Foundation.
His interest in the Broadcast Pioneers organization led to his financial support of the Library of American Broadcasting, now at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The Taishoff family's real estate interests multiplied alongside the magazine business, and Mr. Taishoff was among a group of Washington executives in the 1980s who tried to lure a professional baseball team back to the city. He had homes and offices on the western shore of Maryland and in Naples, Fla., as well as in metropolitan Washington.
He was a member of Woodmont Country Club, the Cosmos Club, the Society of Professional Journalists and Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity.
His marriages to Nancy Lee Stucky and Pamela Sherwood Taishoff ended in divorce.
Survivors include three sons from his first marriage, Robert Paul Taishoff of Annapolis, Randall Lawrence Taishoff of Cerrillos, N.M., and Jonathan Bradford Taishoff of McLean; and seven grandchildren.