L. Edward Lashman

Background

Lashman, L. Edward was born on June 6, 1924 in New Orleans. Son of L. Edward and Edith Ruth (Deutsch) Lashman.

Education

Student, University North Carolina, 1942. Student, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1951—1952.

Career

Partner Caire Associates, New Orleans, 1946-1951. With Chief Information Officer and American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1951-1967. Assistant to secretary, director congress liason Housing and Urban Development, Washington, 1967-1969.

Managing partner Urban Housing Associates, Denver, 1969-1970. Vice president University Massachusetts, 1970-1975. Director external affairs, senior planning counselor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1989.

Secretary administration and finance Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1989-1991, chairman Massachusetts board regents public higher education, 1986-1988. Chairman Commonwealth Land Bank, 1975-1977, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, Boston, 1977-1979. Retired, 1991

Acting executive director (pro bono) Massachusetts State Lotterty, 1999.

Contract mediator United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Contract arbitrator United States Postal Service.

Achievements

• L. Edward Lashman has been listed as a noteworthy Arbitrator, mediator, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Executive committee Denver County Democratic Party, 1952-1964. Chairman Colorado Urban League, Denver, 1961-1963. Acting chief operating officer (pro bono) Judge Baker Children's Center, Boston, 1993-1994.

Director National Housing Conference, Washington, 1969-1975. Vice president Handel & Haydn Society, Boston, 1982-1984. Chairman Housing Needs Committee, Town of Weston, Massachusetts, 2001-2006.

With United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Arbitration Association, Massachusetts Association Mediation Programs, Norfolk and Suffolk County Superior Court Mediation Panels, Joint Labor Management Committee Mediation Panel.

Interests

• Avocations: fly fishing, cooking, photography.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Gitt Fichman, June 6, 1948 (deceased August 1984). Children: Deborah, Rebekah, David W. (deceased February 1993), Judith. Married Joyce Blicher Schwartz, July 25, 1987.

Father:

L. Edward Lashman

Mother:

Edith Ruth (Deutsch) Lashman

Spouse:

Joyce Blicher Schwartz

Spouse:

Elizabeth Gitt Fichman

child:

Rebekah Lashman

child:

Deborah Lashman

child:

David W. Lashman (deceased February 1993)

child:

Judith Lashman