ASLA Inducts New President, Officers

From left: Paul Morris, FASLA, immediate past-president; Karen Hanna, FASLA, vice president of education; John Nicolaus, ASLA, vice president of communication; Amy Schneckenburger, FASLA, vice president of public affairs; and Patrick Miller, PhD, FASLA, president-elect.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ?EUR??,,????'??+ The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has inducted Susan L.B. Jacobson, FASLA, as its president for 2004. Ms. Jacobson is the founder and owner of Bartells/Jacobson Design, a private design firm in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A successful landscape architect in private and public practice since 1978, she opened her firm in 1990, specializing in public works, parks and recreation, and commercial landscape architecture projects.

She earned a bachelor of landscape architecture from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. She has been active in the ASLA since 1982, was elected to the ASLA Council of Fellows in 1995, and has held numerous ASLA offices at the state and national levels. Ms. Jacobson also presents lectures for the Garden Clubs of Illinois, the University of Illinois, the Chicago Chapter of Women in Architecture, and area schools. She has served on the jury for the Indiana, Texas, and Vermont ASLA chapters and for the University of Illinois student awards program.

ASLA also inducted Patrick Miller, PhD, FASLA, as president-elect for 2004 and three vice presidents to two-year terms: Karen Hanna, FASLA, vice president of education; John Nicolaus, ASLA, vice president of communication; and Amy Schneckenburger, FASLA, vice president of public affairs. Continuing service on the ASLA Executive Committee are: Paul Morris, FASLA, immediate past president; C. Edward Curtin, ASLA, vice president of finance; Don Brigham Jr., ASLA, vice president of information and practice; and Sadik Artunc, FASLA, vice president of membership.