Aug. 14, 2003
 Donald J. Winn, chief congressional liaison for the Federal
Reserve Board and top adviser to its chairman, Alan Greenspan,
died Aug. 14 at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington,
D.C., of pancreatic cancer, at 66.
During his 30 years on the board, Mr. Winn served under
four Federal Reserve chairmen; he was head of congressional
liaison
during Greenspan’s chairmanship and also that of his
predecessor, Paul Volcker.
A former Jesuit seminarian, Mr. Winn was a 1961 graduate
of Boston College where he also earned his master’s
degree in philosophy. He then taught philosophy and logic
at Holy Cross in the early 1960s and, subsequently, obtained
a bachelor’s degree in divinity and a licentiate in
philosophy from Weston (Mass.) College.
Deciding not to seek ordination, Mr. Winn relocated to
Washington, D.C., to pursue a degree at Georgetown University
Law School.
In 1968, he began working as a legislative assistant in the
office of former Woonsocket, R.I., Congressman Fernand J.
St. Germain. During this time, he also served on the staff
of the House subcommittee on bank supervision and regulation.
In 1974, he joined the Federal Reserve as a special assistant
for congressional liaison; he was named director in 1980.
In 2001, Mr. Winn also became the director of the Office
of Board Members, which includes the board’s public
affairs office and administrative support personnel for the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Mr. Winn is survived by his wife, Barbara; two sons; a
daughter; two brothers, including Neal E., M.D., ’59 and James
C. Jr. ’67; and a sister. His father was the late James
C. Sr. ’27.
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Rev. William J. O’Halloran, S.J., special assistant
to the president, offers the following tribute upon the death
of Mr. Winn:
My recollections of Donald Winn remain vivid after these
many years. He was a Jesuit scholastic (seminarian) assigned
to teach philosophy at Holy Cross during his regency in the
early 60s. He would have been known to his students as well
as to the young men he prefected on corridor as “Mr.
Winn, S.J.” Twenty-six years of age, he was not too
much older than his students when he arrived at the College.
He was bright, demanding as a teacher, good company, good-natured
and funny. During his theology studies and in preparation
for the priesthood, after a lot of soul searching and consultations
with his Jesuit superiors, he decided that ordination was
not for him. He kept in touch with his friends in the Society
and enjoyed a distinguished personal and professional career.
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