The Washington Post21 Jan 2010
Alexander Morton Maish, 89, an Army lieutenant colonel who retired from the military in 1967 after serving with the Automatic Data Field Systems Command at Fort Belvoir, died of pneumonia Dec. 25 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He lived in Arlington County.
Born in New York City, the son and grandson of Army officers, Col. Maish grew up in Washington. He was a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he had earned a presidential appointment.
He graduated in 1944 and was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers. He served in Europe at the end of World War II and in Tokyo and Manila immediately after the war ended. He later supervised the computer support provided to the National Bomb Damage Assessment Center in the executive branch and was appointed to integrate the multiagency effort that produced the National Fallout Shelter Survey in 1962.
After his military retirement, Col. Maish worked at Mitre Corp., where he designed computer support systems to be used for emergency planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military’s Pacific Command and the United Nations command staff in Korea.
He left Mitre in 1985 and worked for SRA International in Arlington, retiring in 1988.
He received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1949 and a doctorate in public administration from American University in 1976. He also did post-graduate work at the University of Virginia and graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Col. Maish was a member of the Cosmos Club, the Army Navy Country Club and St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington. He served as an officer and trustee of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at local and national levels.
His twin sons, Alexander Bourke Maish and Frederick Irving Maish, died in 2005 and 1989, respectively.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Elizabeth Irving Maish of Arlington; a daughter, Darby Maish Woolley of Austin, Texas; and three grandchildren.
— Patricia Sullivan
Contributor: Kenneth and Cynthia Love
Alexander Morton Maish, 89, an Army lieutenant colonel who retired from the military in 1967 after serving with the Automatic Data Field Systems Command at Fort Belvoir, died of pneumonia Dec. 25 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He lived in Arlington County.
Born in New York City, the son and grandson of Army officers, Col. Maish grew up in Washington. He was a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he had earned a presidential appointment.
He graduated in 1944 and was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers. He served in Europe at the end of World War II and in Tokyo and Manila immediately after the war ended. He later supervised the computer support provided to the National Bomb Damage Assessment Center in the executive branch and was appointed to integrate the multiagency effort that produced the National Fallout Shelter Survey in 1962.
After his military retirement, Col. Maish worked at Mitre Corp., where he designed computer support systems to be used for emergency planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military’s Pacific Command and the United Nations command staff in Korea.
He left Mitre in 1985 and worked for SRA International in Arlington, retiring in 1988.
He received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1949 and a doctorate in public administration from American University in 1976. He also did post-graduate work at the University of Virginia and graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Col. Maish was a member of the Cosmos Club, the Army Navy Country Club and St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington. He served as an officer and trustee of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at local and national levels.
His twin sons, Alexander Bourke Maish and Frederick Irving Maish, died in 2005 and 1989, respectively.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Elizabeth Irving Maish of Arlington; a daughter, Darby Maish Woolley of Austin, Texas; and three grandchildren.
— Patricia Sullivan
Contributor: Kenneth and Cynthia Love
The Washington Post21 Jan 2010
Alexander Morton Maish, 89, an Army lieutenant colonel who retired from the military in 1967 after serving with the Automatic Data Field Systems Command at Fort Belvoir, died of pneumonia Dec. 25 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He lived in Arlington County.
Born in New York City, the son and grandson of Army officers, Col. Maish grew up in Washington. He was a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he had earned a presidential appointment.
He graduated in 1944 and was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers. He served in Europe at the end of World War II and in Tokyo and Manila immediately after the war ended. He later supervised the computer support provided to the National Bomb Damage Assessment Center in the executive branch and was appointed to integrate the multiagency effort that produced the National Fallout Shelter Survey in 1962.
After his military retirement, Col. Maish worked at Mitre Corp., where he designed computer support systems to be used for emergency planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military’s Pacific Command and the United Nations command staff in Korea.
He left Mitre in 1985 and worked for SRA International in Arlington, retiring in 1988.
He received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1949 and a doctorate in public administration from American University in 1976. He also did post-graduate work at the University of Virginia and graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Col. Maish was a member of the Cosmos Club, the Army Navy Country Club and St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington. He served as an officer and trustee of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at local and national levels.
His twin sons, Alexander Bourke Maish and Frederick Irving Maish, died in 2005 and 1989, respectively.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Elizabeth Irving Maish of Arlington; a daughter, Darby Maish Woolley of Austin, Texas; and three grandchildren.
— Patricia Sullivan
Contributor: Kenneth and Cynthia Love
Alexander Morton Maish, 89, an Army lieutenant colonel who retired from the military in 1967 after serving with the Automatic Data Field Systems Command at Fort Belvoir, died of pneumonia Dec. 25 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He lived in Arlington County.
Born in New York City, the son and grandson of Army officers, Col. Maish grew up in Washington. He was a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he had earned a presidential appointment.
He graduated in 1944 and was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers. He served in Europe at the end of World War II and in Tokyo and Manila immediately after the war ended. He later supervised the computer support provided to the National Bomb Damage Assessment Center in the executive branch and was appointed to integrate the multiagency effort that produced the National Fallout Shelter Survey in 1962.
After his military retirement, Col. Maish worked at Mitre Corp., where he designed computer support systems to be used for emergency planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military’s Pacific Command and the United Nations command staff in Korea.
He left Mitre in 1985 and worked for SRA International in Arlington, retiring in 1988.
He received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1949 and a doctorate in public administration from American University in 1976. He also did post-graduate work at the University of Virginia and graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Col. Maish was a member of the Cosmos Club, the Army Navy Country Club and St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington. He served as an officer and trustee of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at local and national levels.
His twin sons, Alexander Bourke Maish and Frederick Irving Maish, died in 2005 and 1989, respectively.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Elizabeth Irving Maish of Arlington; a daughter, Darby Maish Woolley of Austin, Texas; and three grandchildren.
— Patricia Sullivan
Contributor: Kenneth and Cynthia Love
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