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It is just sad and maddening that a state with so much natural beauty and with so few people would be the state that is thwarting the national recognition of Landscape Architects.

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Oh well . . . their time will come . . .

And speaking of time and the passing of time, two events of note occurred that remind us that time does march forward.

The first is a news item (p. 158) that Ben Northcutt is stepping down as the executive director of the IECA (International Erosion Control Association). Ben has been the kingpin of that organization for the past 20 years. Over his tenure the association has grown from 300 to 3,500 members. The IECA has set itself as the educational and professional front for erosion control professionals around the world and his leaving will be a great loss for the group. Hopefully the person who takes over, yet to be named, will have the same sort of vision and drive that Ben had . . .

The second news item is the loss of a friend of LASN . . . Lloyd Reeder (see ?EUR??,,????'?????<

As the main salesman and advertising guy for Greenlee Lighting (now LSI) Lloyd was one of the first in the industry to give LASN a chance to prove itself. Lloyd and I had spent many a moment at trade shows across the country discussing the profession and working to make things better. One memory of Lloyd was taking a picture of the outside of the Peabody hotel, which was the host hotel for the ASLA show in Orlando back in 1989. To get the night shot we had to crawl through the bushes and get down on our stomachs in the wet grass, braving the mosquitoes and gators to take a time-lapsed shot that eventually made the cover . . . Lloyd had a great understanding of the profession and helped shape this publication in countless ways . . . He will definitely be missed . . .

So . . . Onward and upward as the world around us changes, some for the worse, some for the better and all with an eye to the future . . .

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