Burton S. Sperber Title: Founder, Chairman and CEO Company: Environmental Industries, Inc. Location: Calabasas, Calif. Years in Profession: 56 Member of ASLA since: 1984 ASLA Chapter: Southern California Category: Service to the Profession Most Notable Project: ?EUR??,,????'???? Founded Valley Crest Landscape Nurseries, Inc. in 1949. Founded Environmental Industries as holding company to operating units in 1969. "You can't make a guy happier than this has made me. I am surprised, shocked and thrilled. I have received dozens of letters and notes from people who said that I helped them as they were developing their careers. It is tough to make an old man excited . . . this made an old man excited."