Albert Koch, 53, Of Federal Reserve
Albert R. Koch, 53, deputy director of the Federal Reserve BoardÛªs Division of Research and Statistics, died Washington Hospital Center. Wednesday of cancer at the He lived at 5009 Upton st. nw.</br></br>Mr. Koch joined the staff of the Federal Reserve Board as an economist in 1946 after service in the Army Air Force in World War II.</br></br>On several occasions during his career with the Board, he had been loaned as a consultant to the Council of Economic Advisors and to the Treasury Department in which he served during late 1967 and early 1968 as acting deputy undersecretary for monetary affairs.</br></br>He was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1936,1 where he was elected to Phi' Beta Kappa. He later earned a doctorate in economics at Co-' lunibia University, having held two Social Science Research Council Fellowships.	!</br></br>Mr. Koch taught for a year at the Wharton School of Fi-j nance of the University of Pennsylvania and then was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic