College of Design-Design Achievement Award

BAR 1988, Architecture

New York City, New York

Scott P. Murphy began his career in architecture working for world-renowned architects Richard Meier & Partners and Frank O. Gehry & Associates as well as the award-winning Des Moines firm Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck. He then moved on to international theme-park design and found his way to Hollywood, first in television set design and then in art direction for more than 20 popular feature films, including most notably Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lolita and Men in Black.

Between film projects, Murphy has served as art director for four seasons of HBO's critically acclaimed series The Sopranos. His work on The Sopranos has received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Art Direction. In 2004, he was the senior visual director for jewelry designer David Yurman. Currently he is the production designer of the NBC prime-time series Surface.

Murphy is also a member of the College of Design's Architecture Advisory Council.

2005 Jen Yen

MFA 1993, Graphic Design

PhD 1995, Industrial Education and Technology

Touliu, Yunlin, Taiwan ROC

Dr. Jen Yen is an associate professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design and head of the Graduate School of Computational Design and Department of Digital Media Design, all at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC. She has received more than 15 government grants for her research on semiotics and design education, and published 45 papers in journals and conference proceedings. She recently developed a brand identity system, marketing promotion projects, and exhibition and packaging designs for two new theme buildings at Janfusun Fancy World, one of Taiwanï¿½s top amusement parks, and is currently working with Nice Corporation on content for an interactive virtual reality game.

Dr. Yen also established an annual fine arts festival in Yunlin County and has developed a new course on Chinese typography, the first to be offered in Taiwan.

2004 Lois E. Bennett

BS 1974, Interior Design

Bowie, Maryland

Lois Bennett is the senior expert in interior design for the National Capital Region of the US General Services Administration. She has worked on many noteworthy government projects, including offices for former President George H. W. Bush in Houston, and office space for Vice President Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. Bennett co-managed the development and occupancy of the Adaptable Workplace Laboratory at GSA's headquarters, which is an occupied, working platform for research studies on flexible building systems infrastructure, organizational change, and workplace productivity.

Bennett's current work focuses on long-range strategic workplace planning for GSA's customer agenciesâ€"mainly new federal buildings and major renovations. Her expertise in high-performance sustainable workplace environments, including raised floor and underfloor air, ensures that many of these projects will be on the cutting edge of design. She is also a key player in the development of GSA's Workplace 2020 process and workplace research program.

Bennett's projects and expertise have been published in Buildings Magazine, Archi-Tech Magazine, and Interiors Magazine. She was president of the Council of Federal Interior Designers (CFID) from 1990 to 1992 and oversaw CFID's merger with two other design associations to form the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in 1994. More recently, Bennett served several years on the Interior Design Advisory Board for Iowa Stateï¿½s College of Design.

2004 Michelle L. Kaufmann

BAR 1993 Architecture

Sausalito, California

Michelle Kaufmann is the principal of mkarchitecture, specializing in residential and commercial projects including health and wellness facilities, restaurants and nightclubs. Prior to founding her own firm in 2003, Kaufmann served as the project architect for a range of international projects in association with Frank O. Gehry + Associates and Michael Graves Architects.

Kaufmann's new "Glidehouse" designâ€"an environmentally friendly, efficient and affordable modern, modular homeâ€"was featured in the August issue of Sunset Magazine. Other work by mkarchitecture has appeared on HGTV and in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Inc., Money, Time, Atomic Ranch, Paper, Prefab Modern (Jill Herbers/HarperCollins), The Green House (Christopher Hawthorne/Princeton Architectural Press), and The Fit Home (HarperCollins).

Kaufmann received her Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 1997. She was a member of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council from 1996 to 1998.

2004 Mark D. Masteller

BS 1978, Landscape Architecture

Ames, Iowa

As chief landscape architect for the Iowa Department of Transportation, Mark Masteller heads the Roadside Development Section of the DOT's Office of Design. Masteller's notable recent achievements include overseeing the designs of the state's new interstate rest area buildings, and sharing oversight for the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program and Projects Program.

The interstate rest buildings have won several awards, including from the Iowa Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Council of Engineering Companies of Iowa. The Living Roadways programs involve a unique public-private partnership between the DOT, FHWA, Trees Forever, and the Iowa State University department of landscape architecture that provides planning and design assistance to small Iowa communities, as well as funding for projects. They won 2003 Federal Highway Administration Awards for Environmental Excellence in the Livable Communities category.

Masteller and his staff are working to convert Iowa's older roadsides from non-native plants to native prairie species. His office coordinates the conversion of several thousand acres each year under this effort to change the face of Iowa to the traveling public.

Masteller is a lifetime member of the ISU Alumni Association.

2004 Travis Parker

BS 1998, Community and Regional Planning

Arlington, Virginia

Travis Parker is a development specialist and zoning expert in the District of Columbia Office of Planning, where he works with interdisciplinary government committees creating plans for the neighborhoods, public resources, and transportation systems of the nation's capital. He is his department's representative to the federal government's White House Area Transportation Plan as well as the DC Convention Center Area Strategic Plan and Uptown Destination District Plan.

Parker's background includes diverse geographical and political planning environments ranging from small-town Newton, Iowa, through South Bend, Indiana, to the rapid-growth suburban environment of Loudoun County, Virginia. His past work has included participation in three major comprehensive planning efforts, and he is responsible for significant zoning code changes in Loudoun County and South Bend.

Parker is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association. He has a Master of Public Administration degree from George Washington University.

2003 Spencer E. Crews

BS 1980, Landscape Architecture

Omaha, Nebraska

Spencer Crews, executive director of Lauritzen Gardens, has led the transition of Omaha's botanical center from a small, volunteer-based project, to a multifaceted, revenue-generating facility. He was instrumental in a successful $17 million campaign that resulted in the completion of the gardens' beautiful Visitor Center and ongoing development. Crews has more than 25 years of garden experience, specializing in landscape architecture, horticulture, and botanical garden management.

Crews served as chairman of the department of horticulture for East Central College, Union, Missouri, and as manager of horticulture at Powell Gardens near Kansas City. Other botanical garden experience includes Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.

He is an annual member of the ISU Alumni Association.

2003 Larry D. Hulse

BS 1977, Urban Planning

Des Moines, Iowa

Larry Hulse, director of the Des Moines Community Development Department, is a certified planner with more than 25 years of experience in regional planning, urban development, revitalization, redevelopment, and growth management. Prior to coming to Des Moines in 2000, he held positions in planning in Marshalltown; Manhattan, Kansas; and Westminster, Colorado.

Throughout his distinguished career, Hulse has demonstrated a commitment to urban design standards that foster controlled growth while increasing residents' quality of life and improving construction standards. He has a Master of Public Administration degree from Kansas State University, and is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Hulse is a lifetime member of the ISU Alumni Association.

2003 Melanie Parks

BA 1981, Craft Design

Des Moines, Iowa

Mel Parks, the owner of Elements, Ltd., a jewelry studio and gallery in Des Moines, both designs custom jewelry and promotes the work of many other talented metalsmiths. Her own work has appeared in numerous national and regional exhibitions, and she is a member of the Iowa Designer Crafts Association and the Society of North American Goldsmiths.

Parks is also a freelance photo stylist with more than 20 years of experience working in print, film and video. Clients have included Jenn-Air, Maytag, Meredith Corporation, Pella Windows and Winnebago.

2003 Bryce D. Pearsall

BAR 1971, Architecture

Phoenix, Arizona

Bryce Pearsall, managing principal in the DLR Group, exhibits diverse professional leadership that covers the broad spectrum of team management, design, and project leadership. He has helped the DLR Group organization become one of the largest and most successful architectural and engineering firms in the country, with offices throughout the United States. In recent years, the firm has received numerous national, state and local awards.

Pearsall has an extensive background in a range of project types, including public, commercial, institutional and educational. His project leadership and design work have been published in national and international professional publications, including Architectural Record, Architecture Magazine, American School and University, Architekt + Wettbewerbe (Stuttgart, Germany), Lï¿½Industria Delle Construzioni (Rome, Italy), and Progressive Architecture. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, vice chairman of the National AIA Large Firm Roundtable, former chairman of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council, and a member of the ISU College of Design Dean's Council.

Pearsall is a lifetime member of the ISU Alumni Association and Order of The Knoll.

2002 Leslie T. Beck

BS 1978, Landscape Architecture

MCRP 1999, Community and Regional Planning

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Les Beck has devoted his professional life to improving environmentally based land-use planning in Iowa.

He currently serves as director of Linn County Planning and Development in Cedar Rapids, where he has helped develop and implement the Linn County Rural Land Use Plan and Interim Development Ordinance. These establish a tiered growth management system that requires joint city/county fringe-area planning and minimum levels of services to be provided concurrent with new development.

Among many other duties as director of Story County Planning and Zoning in Nevada, a position he held from September 1983 to October 2000, Beck chaired the Mapping and Policy Support (MAPS) Committee and managed GIS development for Story County. The MAPS program was a winner of ESRI's Special Achievement in GIS Award for 2000.

He has served as the president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Planning Association and president of the Eastern Iowa Planning and Zoning Officials Association

2002 Graham Hanson

BFA 1989, Graphic Design

New York City, New York

Graham Hanson is the principal of Graham Hanson Design LLC in New York, a firm specializing in comprehensive identity creation, implementation, and management across all media. He is also a faculty member and thesis adviser in the graduate design communications program at Pratt Institute, and teaches a multidisciplinary senior-level seminar in the Parsons School of Design undergraduate program. He previously was at Vignelli Associates in New York.

Hanson's diverse background includes the creation of a directional and informational wayfinding system for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Harbor Circus, a large-scale, mixed-use retail complex in Kobe, Japan; the flagship Warner Bros. Studio Store in New York; and projects for Philip Johnson at The Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, and Trump International Hotel in New York. His work has been featured in more than 50 national and international design publications, and a retrospective exhibition of his work, "Breaking Boundaries/Expanding Limits," was held in Manhattan in April 2001.

He has served as vice president on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York.

2002 Ken Smith

BSLA 1976, Landscape Architecture

New York City, New York

Ken Smith is the principal of Ken Smith Landscape Architecture in New York and a design critic at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where he teaches courses in landscape architectural design and design technology. He received his MLA degree from Harvard University GSD.

His projects primarily are in the realm of urban public space, often exploiting existing, reworked, or complex urban sites. Current endeavors include a light rail project in San Francisco and streetscape projects in Harlem.

Smith won the Trust for Public Land's 2002 Santa Fe Railyard Park competition and received an Honorable Mention in the Van Alen Institute's 2001 Queens Plaza competition. He has been involved with a group of artists, architects, and landscape architects working to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, in New York.

2002 Rebecca Greco

BA 1976, Architecture

Minneapolis, Minnesota

As a principal for HGA, one of the nation's leading architecture and engineering firms, Rebecca Greco has directed the design teams for some of the firm's top corporate and institutional clients. In addition, she serves on HGA's Board of Directors and is chairwoman of its Strategic Planning Committee.

Greco has extensive experience in the master planning and design of corporate headquarters and has collaborated on numerous corporate projects for Cargill, Data Recognition, Ecolab, General Mills, Honeywell, McWhorter Technologies, Medtronic, and Wilson Learning. Her public work includes projects for the State of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.

She is president of the Minnesota Chapter of Lambda Alpha, an honorary international land economics society. Greco is also a member of the National Institutes of Health Technical Review Board, and is past treasurer and board member of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

2001 John Thompson

BA 1977, Architecture

MAR 1980, Architecture

Lake Oswego, Oregon

John Thompson has worked as a senior designer on large architectural projects for 20 years. He spent five years in the design studios of Skidmore Owings and Merrill before joining Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership in Portland, Oregon, where he has practiced for the past 15 years.

His work includes a diverse mix of architecture, planning, and urban design: for example, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington; the Central Platte Valley Urban Design Plan and Development Study for Denver, Colorado; and the new City of West Sacramento Master Plan for Sacramento, California.

2001 Susan Cosner

MCRP 1999, Community and Regional Planning

Panora, Iowa

Susan Cosner is one of the most active community planners in Iowa. Currently the Panora city administrator, she previously served as director of planning services for the Des Moines Water Works, as field services coordinator for the Iowa Department of Transportation in Ames, and as a public policy analyst and lobbyist for the Iowa League of Cities.

She is immediate past president of the American Planning Association's Iowa Chapter and was a member of the state Commission on Urban Planning, Growth Management of Cities, and Protection of Farmland, and the DOT's Iowa Rail Finance Authority. She also served five years on the state's City Development Board.

2001 Cynthia Knox

BA 1985, Graphic Design

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cynthia Knox is president of Minneapolis-based Kilter Incorporated, a design firm that helps companies of all sizes to market their products persuasively to young people. Clients have included Disney, IBM, Target, Morphic skiwear, Mercy Skateboards, and Fusion.com. Under Cynthia's leadership, Kilter's creative department has consistently garnered a number of national and international design and advertising awards.

Cynthia previously held positions at Dayton Hudson Corporation and Aveda Corporation. In addition to her degree from Iowa State University, she has studied at Richmond College in London and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She recently served as vice president for the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

2001 Kurt von Sternberg

BS 1980, Landscape Architecture

Springfield, Virginia

During his 21-year career, Kurt von Sternberg has successfully completed a variety of site designs and master plans in both the private and public sectors. Projects range in scale from individual residential design to large-scale comprehensive planning.

He founded his own consulting firm in 1989 and has served as a consultant, director of planning, and project landscape architect for a large number of East Coast firms.

He is currently the chairperson for the Landscape Architecture Professional Advisory Council at Iowa State University. He has served as president of the Potomac Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, as editor of the chapter's newsletter, and as chairperson of its Professional Networking Committee.

Kurt honors us with his continuing service to the Department of Landscape Architecture and the College of Design.

2000 Todd Waterbury

Portland, Oregon

Todd Waterbury studied graphic design at Iowa State as the first recipient of the Helen Beresford scholarship. He worked as a design intern and later as senior art director at the Duffy Group in Minneapolis, then became executive art director for Bloomingdale's Advertising in New York City, developing retail, packaging, and identity work.

Waterbury has been at Wieden & Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, for the past six years, where he serves as global creative designer for Coca-Cola sports advertising, Diet Coke, and Barq's campaigns. Additionally, his work has received accolades from and appeared in numerous design magazines and exhibitions.

2000 Kyle R. Swanson

BLA 1994, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Studies

Deceased

Kyle Swanson worked as a teaching assistant while pursuing master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, until his death in an automobile accident in March.

During his time at Iowa State, Swanson completed two internships with the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. He later served as a land conservation specialist and land stewardship program director for the foundation. He received an honorable mention in the CODA National Design Competition for the Georgia Dome site at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Swanson had recently received a Nature Conservancy grant to study the development of prairie and wetland vegetation fire management guidelines.

2000 Abdi Ismail Samatar

MCRP 1981, Community and Regional Planning

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Abdi Ismail Samatar is an associate professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and a senior fellow with the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa. He was previously on the geography faculty at the University of Iowa, and has received awards from both the U of I and U of M for his teaching and community outreach activities. He earned a PhD in rural development from the University of California-Berkeley in 1985.

Samatar has published two books and numerous articles and book chapters on development in Africa. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Social Sciences Research Council, and the Human Sciences Research Council, and grants from such organizations as the MacArthur Foundation and the United States Peace Institute.

2000 Tom Buresh

BA 1978, Architecture

West Hollywood, California

Tom Buresh is a principal of Guthrie + Buresh Architects, West Hollywood, California, and a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He previously worked with firms including Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Studio Works with Robert Mangurian, and Franklin Israel Design Associates. He received his Masters of Architecture from UCLA in 1985.

Among Buresh's honors are a Progressive Architecture Award in 1998, a Graham Foundation grant in 1990, and a Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome in 1986. He is a member of the College of Design's Architecture Advisory Council.

1999 James L. Sipes

MLA 1984, Landscape Architecture

Seattle, Washington

James Sipes is a senior associate with Jones & Jones, Architects and Landscape Architects, and a principal partner with Time Zone Productions, Inc., both in Seattle. From 1995 to 1999, he was an associate professor and director of the University of Oklahoma Division of Landscape Architecture. Previously, he held such positions as associate professor in Washington State University Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, visiting lecturer for Cornell University Department of Environmental Design, and landscape architect for the US Forest Service and National Park Service.

Sipes' work is widely published, and he presents at numerous professional conferences and forums every year. His professional service includes having served as the coordinator for the Landscape Architecture Foundation National Demonstration Projects, as a board member on the Norman, Oklahoma Parks and Recreation Commission, and as a member of the Oklahoma Urban and Community Forestry Council and the National Transportation Research Board's Landscape and Environmental Design Committee.

He has received an array of prestigious awards, including the American Society of Landscape Architects' (ASLA) Professional Merit Award and Tri-State (Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama) ASLA Award for "Chattahoochee Riverway" in 1999 and the ASLA Professional Merit Award and ASLA/Oklahoma Professional Honor Award in 1997 for "Los Angeles River: From Infrastructure to Amenity."

1999 Eugene L. Rauch

BFA 1985, Graphic Design

West Des Moines, Iowa

Gene Rauch began working for Des Moines-based Meredith Corporation as a graphic designer in the promotion art department in December 1984, prior to graduation from Iowa State. Since then, he has risen rapidly through the ranks to serve as art director for Meredith's Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publication (SIP), a position he has held for more than two years.

As art director, Rauch establishes and applies departmental goals, procedures, budgets, policies and maintains design, photography, and production quality standards for all 99 issues of Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications. He supervises the development of all new custom publishing projects, single-sponsor magazines, and art staff personnel and is responsible for the design and visual quality of all SIP bimonthly, quarterly, biannual, and annual newsstand covers. He is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Art Directors Association of Iowa as well as the Des Moines YMCA Camp Board of Directors.

1999 Dennis W. Stacy

BAR 1969, Architecture

Dallas, Texas

Dennis Stacy has 30 years of professional experience, the past 19 as president and principal of Stacy Architects, Inc., in Dallas. He has worked on projects that have received more than 45 awards and have been published extensively. Stacy was made a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1998, and his practice was named AIA/Dallas Firm of the Year in 1992. He is a prominent figure in the areas of community and planning policy and advocacy and plays an instrumental role in shaping a significant portion of the public planning projects in the Dallas region.

Stacy has served the Dallas Chapter of the AIA in many capacities, including as president in 1996. He has been chairman of the Texas Society of Architects Environmental Resource Committee and the Publications Committee, which publishes Texas Architect magazine. His community activities include having served as chairman of the City of Dallas Urban Design Advisory Committee, chairman of the Glenwood, Iowa Zoning Board of Adjustment, as a consultant to the South Dallas/Fair Park Inner-city Development Corporation, and as a member of the Advisory Council for the ISU Department of Architecture. He has also been involved as an area representative and regional screening chairman for the AFS Foreign Exchange Student program. He currently serves ad director of the Greater Dallas Planning Council.

1998 Paul Mankins

BA, Architecture, with distinction, 1985

Des Moines, Iowa

Following graduation from Iowa State University, Paul Mankins worked for the award-winning Des Moines firm Charles Herbert and Associates for four years before pursuing a master's degree in architecture at Yale University. During his graduate education, he worked for architectural firms in Hartford, Connecticut, New York, and San Francisco, returning to Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture in Des Moines in 1991.

Since then, Mankins has been deeply involved in the architecture profession, serving on the board of directors and executive committee for the Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and editing Iowa Architecture, the Midwest's leading journal of architectural design. He also has contributed to projects garnering more than a dozen awards for design excellence, including five awards in 1996. He currently is the project architect for the Meredith Corporate Expansion Project, a $26 million corporate office building and park on the western edge of Design Moines' downtown.

1998 Jeanne Massey

MCRP 1990, Community and Regional Planning

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jeanne Massey's professional accomplishments are many. Soon after her graduation from Iowa State University, she was hired as a planner by the South Hennepin Regional Planning Agency in Minneapolis, and in less than two years was appointed its director. She is responsible for overall financial, program, organizational and personnel management of the agency.

Massey has transformed the organization, improving the deliver of its service and facilitating the establishment of a complete network system to increase the efficiency of their operation. She has designed, directed and conducted numerous research projects, including demographic, social and economic trend studies and studies on social service providers and child-care needs in the South Hennepin region. She also has directed the planning and implementation of the Family Services Collaborative, a major systems restructuring initiative involving all local aspects of the public and private health, educational and social service sectors with the goal of creating an integrated system of services and supports for families and children.

1998 Chittamai "Kobe" Suvongse

MA 1985, Graphic Design

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Kobe has achieved a great deal in the short span of his career. Educated at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and later at Iowa State University, he has become a national trend-setter in communication and marketing design. He is currently a senior designer with Duffy Design in Minneapolis, where he works with clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, Chums, TDG, Jim Beam Brands, The Phillips Beverage Company, The Stroh Brewery, Einstein Brothers Bagels, and Yakima. In addition, he frequently gives his time for community pro bono projects.

Kobe has received several major awards for his creative design solutions. He has been recognized in the most competitive and prestigious exhibits in the world, including the American Institute of Graphic Arts, American Center for Design 100 Show, Graphis Publications, Communication Arts annual exhibit, and Industrial Design annual review (Gold Award).

1998 David Meyer

BS 1975, Landscape Architecture

Berkeley, California

David Meyer is a partner in the award-winning firm Peter Walker and Partners, Landscape Architecture, of Berkeley, California. His work with Peter Walker and his previous work with the firm Schwartz, Smith, Meyer has position him prominently in the national and international design scene, and yet David openly embraces his Iowa roots. He has been a guest lecturer and studio critic at Iowa State University on many occasions, and was feature in the 1992 Design Alumni Invitational exhibition. He is a member of the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture's Practitioner Advisory Board and served on a special four-person team of prominent practitioners and academics invited to evaluate the department's curricula.

Among Meyer's numerous awards are the prestigious American Society of Landscape Architects' (ASLA) Award of Excellence, given in 1997 to Schwartz, Smith, Meyer for the Village of Yorkville Park, Toronto, Canada, a 1996 Design Effectiveness Award from Apple Canada, Inc.'s The Financial Post, also for the Village of Yorkville Park; and several ASLA and American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor and Merit Awards. He has had winning entries in a number of competitions, including the International Jazz Hall of Fame in Kansas City and the Joslyn Art Museum Sculpture Garden in Omaha.

1996 Jane A. Sassaman

BA 1975, General Arts & Crafts

Chicago, Illinois

Jane Sassaman brings her love of fabric and color to exciting, bold, meticulously crafted works of art which "wow" viewers with texture, pattern, hue and composition. She has an impressive record of juried national and international exhibitions. Since 1989, her designs have been in every Quilt National, an alternate-year exhibition considered the most prestigious in defining and acknowledging the quilt as a work of art. Her work toured with Contemporary American Quilts, sponsored by the British Crafts Council.

Five of Sassaman's quilts hang in the Arthur Anderson corporate headquarters, Chicago. Other fiber work is in the Hyperion corporate collection, Glendale, California; featured in varied publications and catalogs including a 1995 feature article in Art/Quilt; and represented by several galleries. Awards include "firsts" in juried competitions and recognition for the "most powerful visual expression" in The Quilt: Celebrating Women's Visions and Energies.

1996 Mark C. Ackelson

BS 1974, Landscape Architecture and Recreation Resource Development

Des Moines, Iowa

Mark Ackelson is President of the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, a statewide organization building partnerships and educating to protect, preserve, and enhance Iowa's natural resources. During his tenure, INHF has protected nearly 40,000 acres of natural, wildlife, cultural, and recreational lands, including over 450 miles of abandoned railroad rights-of-way.

Ackelson is recognized nationally as a skilled negotiator with a proven record. Iowa's Resource Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP), co-founded by Ackelson, provides $300 million for conservation. Nationally, Ackelson is a founder and former chairman of the Land Trust Alliance, serves on the board of the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, and consults on private land conservation programs. He helped form and is on the board of the Iowa Environmental Council.

A good friend of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Ackelson lectures in classes, participates in reviews, provides internship opportunities, and identifies outreach opportunities for studios. A registered landscape architect, he has served on the Iowa Board of Landscape Architectural Examiners.

For his many successes in landscape resource protection, the College of Design recognizes Mark Ackelson with the Design Achievement Award.

1995 David W. Long

MPA 1988, Public Administration

MCRP 1988, Community and Regional Planning

St. Paul, Minnesota

David Long is a national leader in city planning. Now a senior planner with the Metropolitan Council in the Twin Cities, he has served in a number of national leadership positions in professional organizations. He was chair of the American Planning Association (APA) Black Community Division and won the APA's Division Achievement Award in 1994. He also edited the Black Community Division's newsletter, winning another APA award for those efforts.

In 1993, Long organized a series of community planning forums in cities across the country. He has served on the APA's Agency for America's Communities national steering committee, on the board of directors of the Minnesota APA and on the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Prior to taking his current position with the Metropolitan Council, he worked as a strategic planner for the council and as a senior planner for the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission.

1995 Mimi Wagner Askew

BLA 1983, Landscape Architecture

Glenwood, Iowa

Mimi Askew is a landscape architect with considerable expertise in community involvement and rural conservation planning and design. She has 10 years experience in both private and public practice, addressing a broad range of issues relating to land development and recreation planning. In her current appointment, Askew works with the National Resources Conservation Service in Iowa as part of the state planning team.

Askew's recent work has been highlighted by efforts to define the need and garner funding for a rural development initiative spanning seven countries in the Loess Hills. Her efforts resulted in the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, a major recreation and tourism project. Askew adroitly involved residents in planning and design projects and utilizing their expertise in visual preference testing, visual resource mapping, visitor services inventories, and route selection. The project earned recognition from both the American Society of Landscape Architects, Scenic America and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Askew currently co-chairs the American Society of Landscape Architects' Open Committee on the Rural Landscape, a national forum for discussion of the role of the professions in rural development.

1995 William D. Chilton

BA 1976, Architecture

Minneapolis, Minnesota

As senior vice president and project director for the international architectural, engineering and construction firm Ellerbe Becket, William Chilton leads planning efforts for domestic and international corporate and commercial projects.

Among the projects Chilton has overseen for the 700-employee, Minneapolis-based firm are a corporate headquarters master plan, a training center and a global data center for Dow Chemical, the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Leamington Municipal Transit Hub, the St. Anthony Falls Interpretive Plan and the Samarec corporate headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Chilton is highly respected in architectural circles, as witnessed by his numerous presentations at national professional conferences, his past presidency of the North Central Oklahoma Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and his memberships on the AIA's Oklahoma Council and Central States Regional Council. His service to his alma mater includes membership on the Iowa State University Architectural Advisory Council.

1994 Roger K. Hedrick

BS 1966, Landscape Architecture

Lafayette, Louisiana

A nationally known and respected planning practitioner, Roger Hedrick's accomplishments are synonymous with innovation and excellence. He has managed public planning and regulatory agencies for the City of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas; Galveston Island, Texas; and Grand Prairie, Texas. Mr. Hedrick has also served as Director of Operations for the Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City, Missouri.

Currently, Hedrick is executive director of the Lafayette Areawide Planning Commission (LAPC) and the Lafayette Council of Governments in Lafayette, Louisiana. As LAPC's first executive director, his responsibilities include establishing management and computer systems. In 1990, LAPC was the first planning commission in Louisiana to be recognized by the International City Management Association. Having also received a MPA in policy and planning, he currently is a PhD student in urban studies at the University of New Orleans.

Hedrick was honored by his planning colleagues in 1984 by being elected concurrently to the National Board of Directors for the American Planning Association (APA) and the National Commission for the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). In 1991, he was elected president of the Louisiana Chapter of the APA.

1994 Lynette L. Pohlman

BA 1972, in Applied Art

MA 1976, in Interior Design

Ames, Iowa

Lynette Pohlman has been the director of University Museums, Iowa State University, which include the Brunnier Art Museum, the Farm House Museum, and the Art on Campus Program, for the past 13 years. Pohlman has organized, installed and/or coordinated numerous exhibitions in her career including many College of Design Faculty Exhibitions and significant exhibitions of glass, the art medium for which the Brunnier Art Museum is best known and for which she has had input to building a handsome, noteworthy permanent collection. Exhibitions such as Sculptures by Vasa in 1980, Harvey K Littleton: A Retrospective in 1985, Dale Chihuly in 1986, Contemporary Glass: Comparisons and Contrasts in 1987; A Fragile Thread of Glass in 1988; Stephen Proctor: For the Gathering of Light in 1989; Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace: Recent Sculpture in 1993, and History of Glass, permanent collection installation, 1989-1995, have added to the prestige of the University Museums.

Two upcoming exhibitions underscore Pohlman's dedication to educating the public about ISU and the state. Campus Public Art: Images by King Au will debut at the Brunnier Art Museum in 1994 and scheduled for 1995 is Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills, current work by invited contemporary artists depicting the southwest Iowa geographical region. Her involvement with public art projects are numerous and include all campus acquisition since 1986, funded as part of Iowa's Art in State Buildings program. A walk inside or directly outside many campus buildings attest to her skill in working with the university community to enrich the environment.

Pohlman has past and present professional affiliations with the American Association of Museums, Iowa Museum Association, Iowa Arts Council and the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries. She also serves on a host of professional and community programs and boards.

Pohlman received the ISU Outstanding Young Alumnus Award in 1985.

1993 Jo Myers- Walker

BA 1971

MA 1980

Ames, Iowa

Jo Myers-Walker is a popular Iowa artist who is known coast to coast for her fanciful handmade paper, fiber and painted works of art. Many private and corporate collections include her work. MyersWalker is often described as resourceful, inventive, creative and prolific. As an independent studio artist she has shaped her inspirations into a successful business. Delicate watercolors, whimsical acrylic paintings, brightly painted fabric garments and small household appliances transformed into funky works of art are sold at museum and gallery shops and fashionable boutiques around the country. They have been purchased at prestigious juried exhibitions in Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco and Minneapolis, as well.

An advocate for the arts for young and old, Myers-Walker serves as artist in the schools for the Iowa Arts Council and volunteers for Ames Youth and Shelter Services Inc. She and her husband are foster parents for troubled youth, and she supports services for homeless women. Her spirit, artistic style, ability to combine business and pleasure, and her gift of involving others in the creative process make Myers-Walker a deserving recipient of the Design Achievement Award.

1993 Cary D. Johnson

BA 1971, Architecture

Chicago, Illinois

As vice-president and one of three principals in the Chicago Firm, Mekus Johnson Inc., Cary Johnson is responsible for overseeing the design and management of many of the firm's projects. Dedicated to meeting the complete design needs of its clients, Mekus Johnson offers both architectural and interior design services. It is one of the nation's premier design companies with numerous design awards and publications to its credit. Design solutions have been featured in Interior Design, Contract and Business Interiors. Clients include Citicorp/Citibank, Apple Computer, Inc., World Book, Encyclopedia Britannica, Baker & McKenzie, Coopers & Lybrand, Budget Rent a Car Corporation and Ernst & Young.

Johnson is a professional member of the American Institute of Business Designers and is associate member of the American Institute of Architects. He serves on the board of directors for the Chicago Design Industries Foundation for AIDS and is a member of the advisory board for Iowa State's interior design program. The college appreciates his advocacy of linkages between architects and interior designers and his support of women and minorities in the design professions.

1992 John A. "Jac" Coverdale

BA 1976, Advertising Design

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jac Coverdale is creative director of Clarity Coverdale Rueff, one of the hottest young ad agencies in Minneapolis. He successfully managed a pro bono membership campaign for the local YMCA which captured for the agency its first major account with the national YMCA and its first Gold Award at the 1982 New York Art Directors' Show. Coverdale and fellow ISU alumnus Tim Clarity established a niche in the American advertising market by mixing brashness and powerful visual images. Examples are McDonald's french fries ("What Exactly is your Idea of Affordable French Crusine?") to sell the Chez Paul Bistro in St. Paul, and Oreo Cookies ("Lose your Cookies") to sell physical fitness for the YMCA. Communication Arts calls their achievements "sensational."

Clarity Coverdale Rueff has clients as diverse as Cub Foods, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, North Memorial Trauma Center and the Olympic Festival. The firm has earned numerous Clio Awards, several Addys and many honors from professional associations. Coverdale has judged in the International Print Casebook Show, Des Moines Addys competition and Toronto Art Directors Club. He is past president of the Art Directors and Copywriters Club and a member of the Advertising Federation of Minnesota.

1992 Josiah R. "Jay" Baker

BA 1978, Architecture

Houston, Texas

Jay Baker is founder/president of Jay Baker Architects. He recently received national acclaim as the designer of the "Light Spikes," eight illuminated versions of the flags of the countries participating in Houston's 1990 World Economic Summit. Adopted as the local and international symbol of the event, the Light Spikes are now permanently displayed at the Houston Intercontinental Airport. Baker has received numerous local and state design awards and has had his designs published both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Texas Society of Architects, and President of the Rice Design Alliance, a non-profit extension of the Rice University School of Architecture, where Mr. Baker serves as a Visiting Critic.

Baker received the Master of Architecture from Rice University in 1980 and has lectured at Rice, the University of Houston and Iowa State. While at Iowa State, Baker was an Alpha Rho Chi Medalist, received the Senior in Architecture Award and was a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honorary.

1991 Stewart Buck

BA 1973, Advertising Design

MA 1975, Art Education

Des Moines, Iowa

A dedicated teacher and free-lance artist, Mr. Buck has helped students achieve creative fulfillment, and he has achieved success through commissions and recognition in regional juried and invitational exhibitions. For 15 years, he has taught art to students in grades seven through twelve in the Bondurant-Farrar Community Schools. In 1989, he was one of five finalists for the State of Iowa Teacher of the Year award. His district superintendent noted "the many awards earned by his students and the number of graduates going on to careers in the design field are a direct result of the influence of Mr. Buck's teaching."

Under the banner "Streamliner Studio," Mr. Buck has produced drawings and paintings with railroad themes, which have attracted wide attention. His work has been exhibited throughout Iowa, including the prestigious Iowa Artists Exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center and the annual Alumni Art Exhibitions at Iowa State University, where he has received several awards. In recent years, he has completed more than 50 works for private and corporate commissions, including The Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company and the Wisconsin Central Limited. He received the 1991 Design Achievement Award in recognition of his dedication to teaching and creative excellence.

1990 John J. Reynolds

BS 1964, Landscape Architecture

Littleton, Colorado

John Reynolds is manager of the National Park Service's (NPS) interdisciplinary Denver Service Center, which provides planning, design, construction and historical preservation services for all 354 national park areas in the U.S. and to countries around the world, as well. During his more than 25 years with the NPS, Mr. Reynolds has led studies resulting in the addition of IO million acres to the National Park System in Alaska. His proposal for international parks on both sides of the Bering Sea is being discussed for implementation by the United States and Soviet Union.

Mr. Reynolds was in charge of the Yosemite National Park General Management Planning Team, which first involved the public in developing envirom-nental compliance guidelines. He led efforts to integrate visual resource analysis techniques into planning for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Los Angeles, and he pioneered the development of ecosystem management techniques for North Cascades National Park in Washington. In recognition of his contributions to the profession, Mr. Reynolds was recently invested as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, one of the highest honors bestowed upon members.

Mr. Reynolds earned his Master of Landscape Architecture in 1966 from the State University of Forestry at Syracuse University.

1989 Jon K. Pickard

BA 1976, Architecture

New Haven, Connecticut

Changes in the skyline of some of America's major cities have brought recognition to Mr. Pickard, senior associate of the Cesar Pelli and Associates architectural firm. In New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco and Kansas City, his buildings and building complexes stand as significant contributions to the cities, to the firm, and to the profession of architecture. The American Institute of Architects recognized the Pelli firm as the 1989 Architectural Firm of the Year. Since his early years as a designer in Des Moines, Mr. Pickard has added impressive projects to the built environment. The scale and complexity of the projects, their siting, and the innovative treatment of forms, spaces, and materials have helped to make these landmark buildings exciting additions to the fabric of the cities in which they are found. Certainly, recognition of Mr. Pickard with the College of Design 1989 Achievement Award is most deserved.

1989 Robert W. Ross, Jr.

BS 1969, Landscape Architecture

Washington, DC

Robert Ross is chief landscape architect for the United States Forest Service, responsible for the development of land use planning policies and visual resource management programs for the 190-million-acre National Forest system. He is also the USDA's project leader in the preparation of national recreation strategies. His awards include the American Society of Landscape Architects' highest citation for project excellence and the USDA's Outstanding Achievement Award. He currently serves as vicepresident of the American Society of Landscape Architects and was co-chair of the "America the Beautiful!" conference hosted by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the White House Conference on Natural Beauty. Mr. Ross is a professional steward of the natural envirom-nent who has performed his role with unusual commitment and distinction.

1988 Jack E. Leaman

BS 1954, Landscape Architecture

MCP 1982, Community & Regional Planning

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Three themes emerge from an examination of Mr. Leaman's professional careerï¿½a concern for quality, an awareness of the need for both public and private sectors to participate in planning decisions, and an insistence upon public input. One of his first professional challenges was as a landscape architect working with Frank Lloyd Wright. Currently, Mr. Leaman serves as planning director for Colorado Springs, a Megatrends city. As former planning director for Mason City, Iowa, he earned for that community the Urban Strategy City recognition, one of the prototypes for the Federal Revenue Sharing Program. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects