Edward Stone's recent remark, "Landscape Architecture is the most joyous way a person can spend their professional life," is probably a great explanation of the reasons why he and his firm, EDSA, are recognized around the world. As ASLA Medal awardee (1994), Ed Stone has been very active in ASLA affairs. Installed as an ASLA Fellow in 1974, Stone has served on the executive committee of the Board of Trustees, as chair of the National Awards Committee and on the Task Force on Professional Practice. He was Vice President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation during his term on the Board of Directors, from 1984 to 1988. He is registered in eighteen states" from Massachusetts and Connecticut to Texas, Arizona and California, and all along the Eastern Seaboard from Florida north to Pennsylvania. Another area where Ed Stone has served his fellow Landscape Architects was his stint on the National Commission on Fine Arts. He was first appointed by President Richard Nixon, and then both Presidents Ford and Carter realized his value on the Commission and reappointed him. From the time that he founded EDSA in 1960, Ed Stone has been active in other positions which have obviously had a bearing on the way the profession of Landscape Architecture was viewed by "outsiders." On a national scale, he assisted on the Committee for a More Beautiful Capital in Washington, D.C. (1965-1968) and served as a jury member of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Design Award Competition?EUR??,,????'??+ besides his work on the Commission of Fine Arts. Although his thirty-six years of EDSA design credits include all types of award-winning projects around the world, his tourism-related work, specifically, has garnered tremendous attention. A list of those projects includes designs in France and Spain and throughout the Caribbean, as well as a number of projects in the United States. "In each of these projects, I've been a part of the team in my own office," Stone said modestly. "We have partners in charge of each project, and I am just a resource person for them." In discussing some of his "favorite" projects. Stone specifically mentioned two at Disney World, the Caribbean Beach Resort and the Disney Vacation Club. "I've been working with Disney for about twenty years. I started with the group in Orlando," he said. EDSA's work on their "own home town!" remains one of Stone's favorite projects in this country. The City of Fort Lauderdale retained the firm to design and implement an integrated system of improvements to what was one of the most beautiful beaches in Florida. Too much "spring break" had resulted in deterioration of both public and private development along the beach front. The EDSA master plan for the Beachfront Revitalization project's goal was to create a completely new urban image which would reduce the city's association with college masses at spring stimulate complementary private sector redevelopment, and reestablish Fort Lauderdale beach as a world-class destination resort. Judging from the accolades the firm has received, his expertise has been invaluable! And . . . Stone loves his profession and the people in it. "I think by and large that Landscape Architects are the neatest popple in the world. They are less egocentric and more interested in doing something of quality than they are of blowing their own horn. They revel in their creativity rather than personal aggrandizement," he concludes. For his more than thirty-five years as a leading Landscape Architect and a goodwill ambassador for his profession... Edward D. Stone, Jr. certainly deserves to be labeled a "Master of Landscape Architecture." LASN DISNEY'S CARIBBEAN BEACH RESORT IS JUST ONE OF EDSA'S AWARD-WINNING THEMED ENVIRONMENTS. A BARREN AND FEATURELESS SITE WAS CONVERTED INTO AN HISTORICALLY THEMED TROPICAL GARDEN AT THE HYATT REGENCY ARUBA (SEE ALSO PAGE 35)