Lane Marshall (1937-2003) Lane Marshall, Dean of the Kansas State University College of Architecture and Design from July 1989 to August 1995, has passed away. Mr. Marshall was a well-respected member of the university, but resigned due to a hearing problem. He previously headed the department of landscape architecture at Texas A&M University, and taught at the University of Illinois and at Ohio State University. Marshall, born in Rochester, New York, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida (UF) and a master's from the University of Illinois. He received the first "Distinguished Alumnus" award from the UF College of Architecture and Design. Lane Marshall founded a landscape design firm in Sarasota, Fla., in 1961, and practiced there for 20 years. He received 20 honor and 11 merit awards from the Florida chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for his design work. Lane Marshall was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the organization's national president (1978-1980), and received the ASLA "President's Medal" for outstanding contributions.