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LASN News October 198610-01-86 | News

National Officers Elected

Washington, D.C. – August 24, 1986 – Cheryl L. Barton of San Francisco, John B. Slater of Columbia, Maryland and Claire R. Bennett of Indianapolis have been elected national officers by the members of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Barton will be the new President Elect and Slater and Bennett will be Vice Presidents. They will officially take office at the Society’s Annual Meeting on November 25 in San Francisco. At that time Robert B. Martin of Minneapolis will be sworn in as President.

Barton is associated with EDAW Inc. and will also be a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley this fall. Prior to relocating to the San Francisco Bay area in 1985, she was director of environmental design at Gresham, Smith and Partners; earlier, she was director of landscape architecture with Miller, Wihry and Lee. Both firms are in Nashville, TN.

She has served as ASLA Vice President for public service and external affairs, chaired the 1983 Professional Awards program and represented the Society at the International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress in Japan.

John B. Slater is a private practitioner in Columbia, Maryland. He established Slater Associates in 1974. The firm has worked on commercial sites, public parks, and numerous residential planning projects including single-family detached, townhouses, garden apartments and high rises.

Claire R. Bennett now presides over a small award-winning corporation concentrating on industrial, commercial and residential site development. She and her projects have won awards at the national, state and local levels. She has been active in ASLA since 1972 and was a founding member of the Indiana chapter.

CLASS Fund Pays Off

Washington, D.C. – The LAF/California Landscape Architectural Student Scholarship Fund has initiated its scholarship program by making available three $2,000 prizes to landscape students for the upcoming academic year. Full-time students enrolled at the Pomona and San Luis Obispo branches of California Polytechnic University, and those individuals participating in the extension programs at UCLA and UCI are eligible for these financial prizes. The grants will be given to those students in need who show promise and commitment to the profession of landscape architecture.

The CLASS Fund was established in 1983 to contribute to the educational advancement of the industry through grants to deserving students and academic programs in landscape oriented fields of study in southern California. In addition to its educational objectives, the CLASS Fund is striving to improve inter landscape industry communication and to support the activities of related professional organizations.

“We are extremely pleased to announce the availability of these financial prizes,” notes 1986 CLASS Fund Chairman, Robert R. Cardoza, “and would like to encourage all eligible students to apply for the grants. CLASS Fund members have generated a great deal of support and enthusiasm for our objectives in recent years, and we are looking forward to expanding our scholarship program in years to come.”

The Washington D.C.-based Landscape Architecture Foundation will administer the grant process, for which applications must be postmarked by October 10, 1986. The awards will be presented by the Foundation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects, to be held November 2225 in San Francisco. The Landscape Architecture Foundation, which is celebrating its twentieth year of service to the profession, is a charitable educational and scientific research organization.

Regina’s Statuary

Gina Culbertson

Regina’s Statuary, a green industry supply house specializing in statuary, fountain and garden art, has opened for business under the ownership of Gina Culbertson.

“Regina’s Statuary has been established to provide a single professional source for quality decorator items to enhance the landscape,” according to the 20-year veteran of the landscape industry. “Catalogs and price lists are available, and I will be happy to assist (landscape architects) in making their selection.”

Serving landscape architects throughout southern California, Regina’s statuary is located at 212 Albert Place, Costa Mesa, CA 92627, (714) 548-9861.

Texas Xeriscape

The first annual Texas Xeriscape Conference will be held at the Marriot North in San Antonio, November 6-7, 1986. Sponsored by the City of Austin Resource Management Department and the South Central Texas Xeriscape Committee, the two day conference will cover all seven principles of Xeriscape. Topics will include “Xerigation: Getting Water to the Plants, ” ” High-Tech Xeriscape Management,” and will also feature a special session on “Implementing Xeriscape Programs in Your Community.”

For more information call David Tillman at 512-222-2204. Conference registration is limited.

ASIC National

Back to the Future is the theme for this year’s American Society of Irrigation Consultant’s National Conference. According to the association, the purpose of the conference is to bring together those involved in the various aspects of the green industry to examine up-to-date needs required to maintain the state of the art applications of business and technical aptitude. The assembly of speakers represents the collective best from private industry, the University system, and governmental facilities, who are finely tuned to the ongoing needs of our industry.”

The conference is held at the Hyatt Islandia, in San Diego, California, October 30 -November 2. For more information about the conference call or write to: ASIC, 3300 South Zuni Street, Sheridan, Colorado, 80110, (303) 781-0687.