Background
Steiner, Richard Lewis was born on November 4, 1913 in Baltimore. Son of Bernard Christian and Ethel (Mulligan) Steiner.
Steiner, Richard Lewis was born on November 4, 1913 in Baltimore. Son of Bernard Christian and Ethel (Mulligan) Steiner.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Yale University, 1936. Master in City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939. Postgraduate, Harvard University.
Postgraduate, Johns Hopkins University.
Consultant Town Planning Board, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1938. Rural road inventory and traffic analyst Connecticut Highway Department, Hartford, 1938. Project planner United States Housing Authority, Washington, 1938-1941.
Director Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, 1946-1954. Deputy commissioner Urban Renewal Administration Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, 1954-1957, commissioner, 1957-1959. Director Baltimore Urban Renewal and Housing Agency, 1959-1967.
Special consultant to secretary Housing and Urban Development, 1967-1968. Professor city planning Howard University, Washington, 1968-1970. Visiting professor community planning School Social Work and Community Planning University Maryland at Baltimore, 1970-1974, planning assistant to university chancellor, 1974-1978, urban consultant, 1968-1982.
Past member Mount Vernon Place Architectural Advisory Commission. Visiting lecturer city planning and urban renewal University Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University, University North Carolina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maryland Institute Art, Graduate School United States Department Agriculture, New York University, Practicing Law Institute.
Past board directors National Housing Conference, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore. Past vice president Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. Past vice president and board directors Transitional Living Council Center Maryland.
Vice president, board directors Family and Children's Services of Center Maryland, Baltimore. Past member planning advisory committee University Maryland Hospital, Baltimore. Member Sherwood Gardens Committee, Guilford Association, Baltimore.
Board directors, past president Maryland Partners of the Alliance. Past member housing committee Maryland Commission on Aging. Past member Baltimore Mayor's Task Force on Population Migration, Baltimore Area Housing Council.
Former member advisory commission Problems Metropolitan Society United Presbyterian Church of United States of America. Emeritus member board visitors, past 1st vice president, chairman executive committee Maryland State School Deaf. Honorary trustee Baltimore Museum Art, president, 1969-1971.
Past president, honorary board member Maryland School for Deaf Foundation. Member Annapolis, Maryland Power Squadron. Elder, former deacon and trustee First and Franklin St. Presbyterian Church, Baltimore Served from ensign to lieutenant Commander C.E.C., United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1945.
Fellow American Society of Civil Engineers (president Maryland section 1965). Member Engineering Society Baltimore, Maryland Association Engineers, American Institute Certified Planners (past president Washington and Baltimore chapters, Distinguished Service award 1977), National Association Housing and Redevelopment Officials (past governor, M. Justin Herman Distinguished Service award 1975), American Planning Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology City Planning Alumni Association (past president), Tau Beta Pi, Lambda Alpha, Sigma Xi (associate). Clubs: 14 W. Hamilton St., Center (Baltimore).
Mory's (New Haven); Johns Hopkins.
Married Madeline Kelser Sadler, January 17, 1969 (wid. August 1988); children by former marriage: David, Roland, Carol, Stephen (deceased).