J. Max Bond Jr., 73, the architect who designed the Sept. 11 memorial museum in Manhattan and the site of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s tomb, died Feb. 19 of cancer, said a partner at his firm, Davis Brody Bond Aedas.
Bond, one of the nation’s leading black architects, was an associate architect for the memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and principal designer of the below-grade museum under construction at ground zero.
He led the Architects Renewal Committee of Harlem before founding his firm. The committee built the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, where the civil-rights leader is buried. His other works include the Studio Museum of Harlem.
Victor Kenneth Heyman, 73, a Defense Department official during the counterculture 1960s who emerged in later years as a widely recognized “folk angel,” died Jan. 6.
His generosity ranged from financial backing of folk music venues and festivals to no-strings loans to down-on- their luck musicians, to thousands of acts of random kindness.
The native Washingtonian, served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Southeast Asia programs in the 1960s. Starting in the late 1970s, he and his wife operated a direct-mail company with clients from arts organizations to politicians.
While Heyman traced his interest in folk music to the genre’s revival after World War II, he became more interested in singer-songwriters who often were hard to categorize: folk/acoustic/roots/Americana/pop. Heyman, who reviewed CDs for Sing Out! magazine, would sing the praises of a new artist, always with great enthusiasm.
