Tom Papandrew was with Belt Collins for 33 years.

Tom Papandrew has left Belt Collins to take a position as general administrator for the Manoa Punahou Catholic Community in Honolulu, Hawaii. LASN spoke with him on his way to work.

?EUR??,,????'??It doesn?EUR??,,????'???t feel like I retired,?EUR??,,????'?? he laughed, noting he?EUR??,,????'???s been working 70 hour weeks with the Catholic parishes of St. Pius X and Sacred Heart, and with the Korean Catholic community.

?EUR??,,????'??I?EUR??,,????'???m still putting all my landscape experience to use, as we have several building projects and 300 to 400 volunteers.?EUR??,,????'??

The Belt Collins firm is 50 years old this year. Mr. Papandrew?EUR??,,????'???s partners, Jim Bell, Joe Vierra and Ray Cain are still active with the firm; Paul Hirota retired in 2002.

Mr. Papandrew was ASLA president, 1993-1994. His experience was in land use planning, master plan studies, landscape architecture, urban design, and site planning and development.