2018 Cooperative Hall of Fame – Honoring ROC USA’s Paul Bradley & Remembering Roger Willcox

ROC USA’s founding President, Paul Bradley, has been voted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame! He will be inducted during a ceremony at the Hall of Fame dinner May 2, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

View all the event information here.

As CDI celebrates our partner Paul Bradley, we also remember our former board member and Co-op Hall of Famer, Roger Willcox. Roger Willcox (1920-2017) was involved with housing cooperatives and communities for over six decades. In his later years he continued to work as a lower income primarily co-op housing consultant and as president emeritus of the Community Cooperative Development Foundation (CCDF) and the National Association of Housing Cooperatives (NAHC) which he helped found in 1960.

He also founded and served as Secretary and consultant for the Connecticut Valley Cooperative Housing Association (CVCHA). From 1952 to 1971 he was CEO and President of FCH Services, the operating subsidiary of the Foundation for Cooperative Housing, later known as the Cooperative Housing Foundation. From 1969 through 1977, he was also CEO for TechniCoop, Inc. During those years he helped create moderate and lower income housing cooperatives of all kinds, serving more than 55,000 family members.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1941 with a major in economics and from MIT with a M.S. in City Planning in 1947. A second-generation housing cooperator, he lived with his family in the Village Creek Homeowners Association (VCHOA) cooperative in Norwalk, CT, an early integrated community which he helped organize in 1949. He received the Jerry Voorhis Memorial Award in 1985 and was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame in 1986.

We are very proud to say he served on CDI’s board from 2006 to 2012.