M. Paul Brott, AIA, died of cancer September 14 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 67.

Brott was chairman and chief executive officer of Philadelphia-based Ewing Cole Cherry Brott. He joined the firm in 1993, working in Washington and Philadelphia, and was a consultant at the time of his death.

According to the Washington Post, Brott served in the Air Force from 1957 to 1960, and retired from the reserve in 1967 as a captain. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a partner and D.C. officer manager at the Philadelphia-based George M. Ewing company. He then joined Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall, and worked in its Washington and Los Angeles offices until 1993.

Brott was a member of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable and a delegate to the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services. He was also a fellow of the Society of American Military Engineers.

Brott attended the University of Virginia and was a 1957 architecture graduate of Howard University. He is survived by his wife, two children, a brother, and five grandchildren.

Christopher P. Ingrassia, AIA, collapsed at his home after jogging September 3. He was 39.

A senior associate with DeStefano and Partners, Chicago, Ingrassia began his career in Atlanta, working on a series of master planning, office, and residential projects. He then was an associate at the Chicago firms of Lohan Associates and Lucien Lagrange & Associates. He was also an active member of AIA Chicago's Housing Committee.

Ingrassia received his MArch from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989 and a BArch from Iowa State University in 1984. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, his father, brother, and two sisters.

Harold C. Munger, FAIA, died of a stroke July 17 in Toledo. He was 71.

A past president of AIA Toledo and AIA Ohio, Munger practiced for more than 50 years and led more than 900 projects, many in Ohio, including schools, libraries, churches, and government buildings. He earned numerous awards for his work and commitment to the profession. Among them were the 1987 Gold Medal Winner of AIA Ohio and the AIA Firm Award in 1995. His design for Toledo's Notre Dame Academy won the AIA Ohio 25 Year Award in 1991. He was recently honored by AIA Ohio with its first ever Mentor Award.

A 1951 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he was inducted into the College of Fellows in 1981. His father, Harold H. Munger, FAIA, was a 20-year-member of the Ohio Architects Registration Board and started the 74-year-old firm, Munger + Munger Associates, which will now be carried on by the family's third generation of architects, sons and partners Hal P. Munger, AIA, and David Munger, AIA.

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