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Gary D. Taylor (MCRP 1996 Community and Regional Planning), assistant professor and extension specialist in community and regional planning at Iowa State University, received the Chapter Presidents Council 2008 Leadership Award for Chapter Professional Development Officer Recognition from the American Planning Association at its national conference in Las Vegas. He was honored for his leadership and dedication to training the professional and citizen planners of Iowa.

 

 

 

 

 

3.22.08
Patricia (Buckley) Hibbs (BS 1971 Art Education) retired from the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Public Schools after teaching K-6 art for 35 years. During this time, she also served with the Gifted and Talented programs throughout the district. Patricia will continue to work for La Crosse as a consultant and substitute teacher. Patricia and her husband, Paul, have two children, Andrea and Andrew. She places a great value on Iowa State and its global influence on the future of education.

3.16.08
John Burright (BA 1984 Art Education) was named director of bookstore operations at Kansas City Kansas Community College in January 2008. He previously was the art and supplies buyer for the KU Bookstore at the University of Kansas. John and his wife, Diann, live in Lawrence, Kan. 

3.15.08
Patricia (Coulter) Ray (BA 1975 Interior Design) is the manufacturer's representative for Constantine Commercial in Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lexington, Ky. She has been in this position for nearly two years. 

3.14.08
African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945, edited by Dreck Wilson (BS 1971 Urban Planning), has gone into a second printing. The book is published by Routledge.

3.13.08
Debra Arter (BA 1978 Art Education) recently completed her MFA in visual arts at Vermont College. Her piece 'The Book of Bacon” will be included in the Maine Biennial at the Center for Contemporary Art in August 2008. She credits her time in Ames for the idea of combining printmaking with cured meat.  

 

3.13.08

Thomas Groth (BS 1969 Applied Art) is currently a professor of advertising at the University of West Florida. Before taking this position, he spent 13 years as a professor at ISU. His students have won the National Student Advertising Championship a record four times. Thomas has also received many creative advertising awards and honors, including three solo shows.

 

Jack E. Leaman (BS 1954 Landscape Architecture & MCRP 1982 Community and Regional Planning), FASLA, AICP, Mason City, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the highest honor given by the organization. He was nominated by the Iowa Chapter of the American Planning Association will be inducted during the APA's national conference in Las Vegas in April. An article on Leaman appeared in the Feb. 18 edition of the Mason City Globe Gazette, available online.

 

 

 

Michael J. Meehan, AIA, LEED AP, and Tim Schroeder, AIA, LEED AP (both BAR 1994 Architecture), are among 10 architects nationwide to receive the American Institute of Architects' 2008 Young Architects Awards.

 

Michael is the professional development manager at BWBR Architects in St. Paul, Minn., where he manages employee education, development and evaluation processes. In the past 10 years, he has taught ARE review seminars for AIA Minnesota and guided more than 400 interns through the graphic sections of the exam. As the 2007 chair of the Young Architects Forum Advisory Committee, Michael helped coordinate the YAF 15 Summit (recognizing the committee's 15th anniversary) and oversaw creation of a 10-year strategic plan. He sits on the board of directors of a civic group formed in 2006 within his historic neighborhood of Northfield and is a member of the Northfield Zoning Code Advisory Group.

 

 

Tim, in 2000 at age 30, became a vice president of Neumann Monson Architects in Iowa City and has led many of the firm's sustainability endeavors. He created Iowa's first green-roof project, first LEED-certified school and first LEED-certified public building, and was the recipient of AIA Iowa's first Sustainability Award. Tim also served on the Iowa Architectural Foundation Board and the editorial board for the award-winning Iowa Architect magazine, for which he recently became editor-in-chief.

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy Thompson (BFA 2001 Integrated Studio Arts) will earn her MFA in Integrated Visual Arts from Iowa State this year. A collection of 19 oil paintings and pastel drawings, the culmination of her graduate study, is on display now through Feb. 10 in the Pioneer Room of the Iowa State Memorial Union, 2229 Lincoln Way, Ames. The work in this exhibition reflects scenes from the Whiterock Conservancy, a 5,000-acre reserve in the Middle Coon River Valley near Coon Rapids, which has been protected and preserved by the Garst family. Meet Nancy and view her work at a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Pioneer Room.

 

Jan Svec (BA 1972 Architecture), Des Moines, editor and project designer for Wood Magazine, and his brother, Ben Svec, of Falls Millwork, Kelley, received an Honorable Mention Award in Custom Woodworking Business (CWB) magazine's 2008 Design Portfolio Awards competition. This recognition was for the pair's custom-designed sanctuary furnishings for the new St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Norwalk. The furnishings include the altar, processional cross, ambo, chairs and tabernacle. Details and photographs of the project will be featured in the December 2007 issue of CWB. 

 

 

Rich Reace, ASLA (BLA 1994 Landscape Architecture), has been named entitlements manager for BSW International, Tampa, Fla. In this role, he is responsible for site acquisition, due diligence, planning, entitlement process, and the construction of commercial infrastructure. He previously served as senior land entitlement project manager for Centex, Dallas, Texas. 

 

A building designed with the help of Dave Leighly, AIA, LEED AP (BA 1985 Architecture), was dedicated by former President Bill Clinton on Oct. 23. Leighly, a project architect and code specialist with BWBR Architects, St. Paul, Minn., was a member of the design team that created the new Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The four-story, 110,000-square-foot facility features unique amenities such as therapy pools, sensory relaxation rooms, women's- and beginners'-only fitness rooms, and a conference center with demonstration kitchen. Leighly has been with BWBR for eight years and is a 20-year veteran in the industry.

 

 

 

Art Educators of Iowa has named Peggy Bang (BA 1972 Art Education) as Iowa's 2007-2008 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. As such, she is also Iowa's nominee for the Western Region Art Educator of the Year award from the National Art Education Association. She will be recognized at an award ceremony that will be part of the State AEI Conference in Boone on Oct. 13. More information about the conference is available at www.artedia.org.

 

Peggy teaches at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City. She has served on the board of the MacNider Art Museum, also in Mason City, for the past 21 years. Peggy has also been a member of the Art Educators of Iowa board and was the first statewide coordinator of Youth Art Month. A community advocate for historic preservation and restoration, Peggy was actively involved with the restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Stockman House in Mason City.

 

Kristi Nelson (BFA 2004 Graphic Design) is a new account planner/senior graphic designer at J.D. Gordon Advertising, Sioux City. In her role as account planner, Nelson researches data to produce advertising ideas and marketing strategies to resolve business problems in innovative ways. As a senior graphic designer, her duties include the concepting, design and production of print, Web, out-of-home, point-of-sale and other promotional elements. Nelson previously was a senior graphic designer for the Shelter Company in Des Moines and a marketing assistant for Long Lines in Sergeant Bluff. She is working on her MBA degree specializing in marketing at Wayne State College, Nebraska.

 

 

 

 

Michael R. Broshar (BS Architecture 1978), InVision Architecture, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, an honor awarded to members who have made contributions of national significance to the profession. He is chair of the 2006 AIA National Convention in Los Angeles, is AIA national vice president for 2006-2007, served on the Board of Regents of the American Architectural Foundation, chaired the AIA Continuing Education Strategy Work Group, and has participated on the AIA Long-Range Planning Advisory Group and the AIA Component Relations Committee. In Iowa, Broshar has served as president of AIA Iowa and chair of the Iowa Architectural Foundation. He will be invested in the AIA College of Fellows at the national convention in LA on June 9.