Fifteen prestigious landscape architects have been elected as fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). They were invested formally at the Fellows Investiture and Dinner, November 23 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, CA.

To be selected as an ASLA Fellow is one of the highest honors the Society bestows. ASLA Fellows are elected for long term dedication to the society, and in recognition of outstanding contributions to the landscape architecture profession. Fellows are nominated for excellence in executed works of landscape architecture, administrative professional work in public agencies, professional school instruction, professional writing or direct service to ASLA.

Nominations for ASLA Fellows are submitted by local ASLA chapters to a special jury each year. There have been a total of 423 Fellows elected since the founding of the organization in 1899. The Investiture was held during the Society’s 86th Annual Meeting. The 1986 class of Fellows includes:

C. Christopher Degenhardt of San Francisco, California. Nominated by the Northern California Chapter for executed works of landscape architecture. As President of EDAW, Inc., Degenhardt’s long-standing focus of his work has been the management of EDAW’s major urban and waterfront development projects which include Sawyer Place, a 30-acre riverfront development in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington Harbour, a $100 million development project on a section of the historic Georgetown Waterfront.

Michael Laurie of Berkeley, California. Nominated by the Northern California Chapter for professional g school instruction and professional writing. An educator for over 25 years, Laurie goes far beyond the call of duty when introducing students at the University of California at Berkeley to the world of Landscape Architecture. As an author, Laurie published An Introduction to Landscape Architecture in 1975. The first edition of this comprehensive, sound theory of landscape architecture quickly became a mainstay in many courses and programs of Landscape Architecture throughout North America.

Wayne Iverson of San Mateo, California. Nominated for administrative professional work in public agencies. Because of Iverson’s dedication to his role as Forest and Regional a Landscape Architect with the U.S. Forest Service, there are still a variety of national forest resources and experiences for all of us to enjoy. His vigilance and concern for the visual elements of the natural scene made him the major contributor to the development of the USFS Visual Management System, and the Visual Capability system, both now standards of operation not only for the agency, but for practitioners around the world.

Jere Stuart French of Claremont, California. Nominated by the Southern California Chapter for professional school instruction and professional writing. Serving the longest tenure of any faculty member of the Landscape Architecture Department at California State Polytechnic University, Jere French has played a major role in shaping the curriculum and programs since its inception. As a distinguished scholar, French authored two excellent books, Urban Green and Urban Space. These publications have become very influential in the field, and are used for texts in many programs of landscape architecture across the country.

D. Lyle Aten of Lexington, Kentucky. Nominated by the Kentucky Chapter for executed works in landscape architecture and professional school instruction, Aten far exceeds promoting the understanding of landscape architecture in Kentucky and surrounding regions. He has been responsible for the design of more than 200 projects for real estate development in the mid-west and southeastern parts of the United States, including multi-use “neighborhood plans,” subdivisions, planned unit developments, and zoning consultation. He is presently the President of Scruggs & Hammond, and became Trustee of the Kentucky Chapter of ASLA.

Charles W. Cares of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nominated by the Michigan Chapter for excellence in professional school instruction. Cares has been actively involved with landscape architectural education for thirty years at the undergraduate and graduate level. His expertise in plants, planting design, history, and the American landscape has contributed to the excellence of the teaching programs that he has helped to develop and maintain. He has also been very effective and involved with the establishment of landscape architectural registration in the state of Michigan.

Phillip E. Flores of Denver, Colorado. Nominated by the Colorado Chapter for executed works of landscape architecture, Flores has been an outstanding public, private and academic practitioner. His professional work experience, first with the National Park Service, and for the past 15 years as President of Phillip E. Flores Associates, Inc., has resulted in a wide range of significant executed projects of landscape architecture. He has been extremely active in the redevelopment of the Denver Urban Core, and has played an active role within a variety of civic groups. His executed work and service to ASLA are testament to 25 years of outstanding achievement and effort.

Gerald D. Patten of Boulder, Colorado. Nominated by the Colorado Chapter for administrative professional work in public agencies. Patten presently manages the 560 person professional office responsible for the execution of the National Park Service’s planning, design, and construction program. He has also developed and implemented a planning process that has become a national model. His process integrated the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, sound resource preservation and design arts practices, and progressive public participation methods. He received the Department of Interior’s Meritorious Service Award for this important work.

Terry Gerrard of Bellevue, Washington. Nominated by the Washington Chapter for executed works of landscape architecture and direct service to the Society, Gerrard has maintained direct involvement throughout project design and implementation. His firm has assisted clients in developing a planning philosophy, and in designing a number of facilities which have been recognized both locally and nationally for their design excellence. An active member of ASLA since 1967, Gerrard is currently developing an ongoing scholarship program, and raising funds to support a scholarship fund which will annually support scholarships at two Washington area universities.

Clare A. Gunn of College Station, Texas. Nominated by the Texas Chapter for excellence in professional school instruction and professional writing, Clare Gunn has worked effectively in the realm of classroom teaching, research and extension over the past 45 years. He also pioneered the field of tourism development as the first extension education program in the U.S. As an author, Gunn has published two works: Vacationscape and Tourism Planning, which is in its third printing and is used as a basic text worldwide. He was one of six in the world to prepare a major agenda item for the first World Tourism Organization in Manila, Philippines, 1980.

Walter H. Kehm of Toronto, Ontario. Nominated by the Ontario Chapter for executed works of landscape architecture and direct service to the Society. Some of Kehm’s completed major assignments are in the areas of Recreation, Parks Planning, and Tourism. As project director, Kehm was responsible for the master plan of the first 300 acre urban oriented provincial park in Canada. Each voluntary effort by Kehm on behalf of professional societies, including ASLA, CSLA, and OALA has focused upon a multitude of issues confronting the profession. As director of the LAF, Walter helped develop student “seed” grant programs, and preparation of guidelines for judging proposals and publications.

Thomas P. Papandrew of Honolulu, Hawaii. Nominated by the Hawaii Chapter for excellence in executed works of landscape architecture and direct service to the Society. As the Director of Planning for Belt, Collins & Associates, Papandrew has been involved in land planning, and master plan studies for resort and residential developments in Hawaii, throughout the Pacific, and around the world. His work includes the resort and recreation planning for the Island of Sentosa in Singapore. He has been actively involved in ASLA at both the chapter and national level, serving as National Vice President in 1983 and 1984, as well as the Chair for the 1985 Annual Meeting.

Harry W. Porter, Jr. of Keswick, Virginia. Nominated by the Virginia Chapter for professional school in struction and direct service to the Society, Porter is credited with expanding and improving the Landscape Architecture Division at the University of Virginia. He recruited promising students, competent faculty, expanded course offerings, and brought in world-known masters for lectures and seminars. He has given freely of his time for the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board’s (LAAB) accreditation teams, the National Council of Instructors in Landscape Architecture (NCILA), and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) right from his first year of ASLA membership.

Albert J. Rutledge of Ames, Iowa. Nominated by the Iowa Chapter for professional school instruction. As an educator for 25 years, Rutledge earned the CELA citation from his fellow educators for outstanding contributions to landscape architectural education. He also developed the present-day graduate program in landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. He recently authored an issues paper on graduate education which is being nationally circulated as the focus for the Council on Education’s move to define the role of graduate study in the continuum of education for landscape architects.

Thomas H. Wallis, Jr. of Winter Park, Florida. Nominated by the Florida Chapter for executed works of landscape architecture. Credited for 25 years in the private practice of landscape architecture, Wallis’s projects range from intimate private gardens to a dynamic international airport. These awards represent the fullest possible range of professional recognition at national, state, and local levels. His extensive practice has included the personal accomplishment of over five hundred constructed projects, with single project landscape budget ranges as high as $3,000,000.

ASLA is a voluntary professional organization which represents landscape architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has grown from 11 members in 1899 to nearly 8,500 in 46 chapters nationwide in 1986.