Résumé

Partner, Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay and Associates, Landscape Architects, Watertown, MA, 1964- c. 1975.

Teaching

Assistant Dean, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, New York, New York.

Instructor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Continuing Education Program, Cambridge, MA, 20 years.

Professional Activities

Director, American Institute of Architects Board of Directors; Urban Land Institute (ULI); Member, Wellesley Design Review Board, Wellesley, MA; Member, Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee on Capital Expenditure, Newton, MA;

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1984;

College

Cadet, United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT, 1952. (See New London, Connecticut, City Directory, 1952, p. 290.)

Relocation

He was born with the unusual last name "Disosway," which he changed.

In 1940, Kenneth lived with his parents and baby sister at 695 East 19th Street in Brooklyn, NY, a property that the family owned and the US Census indicated had a value of $8,500. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: T627_2615; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 24-2591, accessed 08/09/2017.) His family continued to live at this address when he graduated from high school in 1950.

In 1993, DeMay lived at 225 Elm Street, Concord, MA.

Parents

His father was Harry Flandreau Disosway (b. 07/26/1887 in Brooklyn, NY-d. 10/21/1953 , an insurance broker working in New York, NY, in 1940. His mother, Lelia Estala "Stella" Pazmino, managed the household. Stella (born c. 1901-d. 07/23/1960 in Harvard, MA), of Ecuadorian descent, was 14 years younger than her husband when they married on 06/17/1931 in Brooklyn, NY. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: T627_2615; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 24-2591, accessed 08/09/2017 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Brooklyn; Indexed Number: 2, accessed 08/09/2017.) He had a younger sister, Linda Disosway Rapp, (born 12/16/1939 in Brooklyn, NY).

Spouse

DeMay married twice; the second marriage was to Eilza Tan.

Children

With his first wife, he had three sons: Dwight of Carlisle, MA, Mason of Oakland, CA, and Thayer of Los Angeles, CA, brother of Linda Rapp and brother-in-law of James Rapp of Kennett Square, PA.