James Ross McKeever

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Ross McKeever was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1931, and at MIT from which he took a degree as Master of City Planning in 1936. He held a Carnegie Foundation Research Fellowship in City Planning for two years. His professional positions included instructor in city planning at MIT, staff technician for the Cambridge Mass. Planning Board, city planner for the Greater Boston Development Committee and for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, city planner for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Assistant and Associate Director of the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC. He was the author of many publications in his field and was a member of the Cosmos Club. During WWII he served in the Navy.