WARREN T. LINDQUIST

SEAL HARBOR – The Honorable Warren T. Lindquist, 84, died Nov. 15, 2003, at his home in Seal Harbor after a short illness. Mr. Lindquist was born June 18, 1919, in New York, raised and educated in Boonton, New Jersey, and was graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. He served as an officer in the “Fighting Irish” 69th Infantry Regiment in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. After the War, he served a tour of duty in Paris, France, as the Assistant Military Attache. He returned to civilian life and had a distinguished career in banking and urban development in both the public and private sectors. He was a principal associate of David Rockefeller, responsible for oversight of Mr. Rockefeller’s interest in such commercial projects as L’Enfant Plaza, Washington, D.C.; Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, Calif.; Interstate North, Atlanta, Ga.; and Fazenda Bodoqena, a 600,000 acre cattle ranch in Brazil. He also worked at joining public and private interests at the local, state and national level to promote economic development. He was executive director of the Downtown Lower Manhattan Association where one of his major accomplishments was conceiving the idea of and directing the study that led to construction of the World Trade Center. He also organized and served as the first chief executive officer of the New York City Community Preservation Corporation, a non-profit lending institution that developed a successful $100 million community housing rehabilitation and mortgage finance program. He played a key role in developing Morningside Gardens in Manhattan, the first major non-segregated middle-income Title I housing project in the United States. He was a key force in the establishment of both the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the New York State Urban Development Corporation. He also served as the staff director of the Urban Investment Task Force of the National Urban Coalition. He served as a board member or trustee of public interest groups in the field of regional and local development, including the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York, and the National Council for Urban Economic Development. He was a member of the American Arbitration Association, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, the National Urban League, the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the New York Urban Coalition, as well as a trustee of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, the Union Dime Savings Bank, and the South Street Seaport Museum. He founded and served as Chairman of SCETAM, Inc., a company providing Regional Economic Development planning services. During the Reagan Administration he returned to full time public service as first the General Manager of the New Community Development Corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and then as the first Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, also in HUD. At the close of the Reagan Administration he retired to his home in Seal Harbor where he resided with his wife, Muriel McMahon Lindquist, and pursued recreational interests including sailing and golf. He will be dearly missed by the entire Lindquist Clan consisting of his wife, Muriel; his 10 children, Michael, John, David, Joanne, Brian, Diana, Peter, Nancy, James and Eric; 12 grandchildren, Heather, Tana, Marilyn, Erika, Dana, Sarah, Becky, Jesse, Karin, Daniel, Anna and Robert; four great-grandchildren, Lilly, Murielle, Quinton and Aidan. A private family service will be held in Seal Harbor. If you wish, please make donations to the Hospice of Hancock County, 14 McKenzie Ave., Ellsworth, ME 04605 or Hancock County HomeCare, P.O. Box 156, Blue Hill, ME 04614. Arrangements by Fernald Funeral Chapel, 1139 Main St., Mount Desert.