Irving Licht, USAID Economist, 88

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601646.html

Irving Licht USAID Economist

Irving Licht, 88, an economist with the U.S. Agency for International
Development [USAID], died of complications from a series of strokes
July 15 [2008] at the Montefiore nursing home in Cleveland [Ohio]. He
lived in Washington [DC] until moving to Ohio about two years ago.

Mr. Licht was born in Cleveland and graduated from Ohio University. He
served in the Merchant Marines during World War II.

After the war, he came to Washington and worked as an economist with
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1947 to 1951. During this
time, he also helped establish in Logan Circle one of the first
interracial cooperative rooming houses in the District.

n 1952, Mr. Licht went to Burma to work on development issues with
Robert R. Nathan Associates, an international economic consulting
firm.

He returned to Washington [DC] in 1957 and joined the U.S. Agency for
International Development. He served in Togo, Chad, Upper Volta (now
Burkina Faso) and Ivory Coast before retiring in 1975.

His wife of 25 years, Babs McAllister Licht, died in 1977. A son from
that marriage, Gordon Licht, died in 1993.

Since 1996, Mr. Licht divided his time between Washington [DC],
Cleveland and Florida.

Survivors include his wife, Riviann Joseph Licht of Cleveland, whom he
married in 1996; and a daughter from his first marriage, Ellen Licht
of Santa Rosa, California.

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Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb