William MacMullen
William MacMullen (CFA’73) of Hamden, Conn., has been the architectural capital projects coordinator for the city of New Haven for 10 years. Previously, he was executive director of the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum in Quincy, Mass., and had a hand in bringing the heavy cruiser USS Salem back to Massachusetts. He has worked at the architectural firms of Hugh Stubbins, Jose Lluís Sert, the Architects Collaborative, and CBT Architects in Boston. In 1981, he founded his own firm and produced a number of affordable housing developments in Massachusetts. William has also been the project manager for the Elm Haven/Monterey Place Hope VI housing development in New Haven and the Southfield Village Hope VI project in Stamford, Conn., under the Beacon Companies of Boston. An authority on naval construction and history, he was guest speaker at the National World War I Symposium in Norfolk, Va. He was recently appointed to the National Commission on the Commemoration of the Great War (WWI), in recognition of the contributions of New Haven Yale University to the conflict.
From the Fall 2017 issue.