Carl B. Amthor, Chief Financial Officer For Science Association, 74, Washington Post
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Carl B. Amthor, 74, Chief Financial Officer For Science Association
Carl B. Amthor, 74, an executive specializing in planning, marketing and
finances who served as chief financial officer of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science from 1987 to 1997, died February 22, 2009, at
the Sunrise of McLean, Virginia, assisted living facility. He had
Parkinson's disease.
At the nonprofit AAAS, Mr. Amthor played a leading role in the conception
and execution of its headquarters at 1200 New York Ave. in Northwest
Washington DC.
The city approved about $52 million in tax-exempt D.C. revenue bonds to help
finance the 200,000-square-foot project, which was designed by prominent
architect Harry Cobb of what is now called Pei Cobb Freed and Partners. A
highlight of the building, which opened in 1996, was its emphasis on
reducing energy consumption in everything from the elevators to the lighting
and cooling systems.
The New York Times wrote that AAAS was attempting to bring "many once-exotic
techniques into the development mainstream" and cited the organization's
stated wish that the building "be perceived as the embodiment" of the
advancement of science.
Carl Burleigh Amthor was a native of Port Washington, New York, and a 1955
industrial administration graduate of Yale University. He received a
master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. From
1956 to 1958, he served in the Army, working in communications intelligence
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Early in his career, he was corporate controller at Cummins Engineering, a
multibillion-dollar diesel engine manufacturer in Indiana, and vice
president and treasurer of the Center for Naval Analyses, a think tank in
Arlington County, Virginia.
From 1974 to 1985, he was a vice president at Associated Universities, a
Washington-based consortium that manages major science laboratories across
the country. Mr. Amthor then spent two years as president and chief
operating officer of the Pace Group, a small McLean firm specializing in
interior office design.
He was a resident of Great Falls, Virginia, before moving to Sunrise,
Virginia, about four years ago, and he was a member of St. Francis Episcopal
Church in Great Falls.
He enjoyed playing tennis, skiing and running, and he completed the Marine
Corps Marathon in 1978. He also was a sports car enthusiast who had owned
two Alfa Romeos during his lifetime. He was a skilled carpenter, and in the
late 1970s, he helped design and build his Great Falls home with a solar
heating system.
His marriage to Gara Grosse Amthor ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 22 years, Jacqueline Hamilton Amthor of
McLean; two children from his first marriage, Lindsay Yotsukura of
Brookeville, Maryland, and Geoffrey Amthor of Atlanta, Georgia; two
stepchildren, Mark Hamilton of Carbondale, Colorado, and Paul Hamilton of
Glenwood Springs, Colorado; and seven grandchildren.
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Adam Bernstein