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William Donohoe to receive Alumni Award & Discuss Urban
Planning
William C. Donohoe received a B.A. in History from Western Michigan University in 1959 and a Teaching Certificate in 1962. After graduation he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in Ethiopia where he met his wife, Margaret O’Brien Donohoe. After two years in Washington, DC and Richmond, Kentucky, with the Council of the Southern Mountains at the beginning of the War on Poverty, they both returned to the Horn of Africa, this time to Somalia as Peace Corps Staff. This experience created strong interest in physical development, as it impacted people and neighborhoods, and resulted in two years of graduate work in Urban Planning at the University of Rhode Island.
Following a 1968 Summer Internship with the New York City Planning Department he returned in 1970 to work for the next eleven years. He began as an assistant planner and subsequently ran the Borough Offices in Staten Island and Queens. During his last year with the Department (1980-81) he was its Executive Director. In 1981 he went to the Battery Park City Authority and served as Executive Vice President for the next five years. Following another five year stint with a private development company, he went in 1991 to the Architectural Firm of Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn where he remains as a Principal. EE&K is a full service architectural firm specializing in urban redevelopment and large-scale design. He continues to be involved in business development, and the planning and public approval of large scale development.
Bill Donohoe will make a presentation to history faculty and students and others who are interested on Friday, October 19, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Meader Rare Book Room of Waldo Library.
Bill Donohoe and Margaret O’Brien Donohoe will be the guests of the History Department at the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Achievement Award Reception and at the WMU Alumni Association’s Alumni Award Banquet on October 19, 2007.