Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama—and 10 Honorary Fellows including Nicholas T. Grimshaw of the UK and Glenn Murcutt of Australia (2009 Gold Medal recipient). The College’s 1996 annual business meeting took place in Minneapolis, with a panoramic view from the upper level of the IDS Tower—the tallest building in Minnesota—designed by 19768 Gold Medalist Philip Johnson. Chancellor Bullock noted the College’s increased involvement with the AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF), especially through the College’s Regional Representatives’ network and YAF’s regional liaisons. Regional Representative and future Chancellor Albert W. Rubeling Jr. proposed the College host a golf tournament to increase fundraising capabilities. Rubeling volunteered to lead the effort using a model he had initiated for AIA Baltimore, which had become the most prolific fundraising event in the Chapter’s history and provided vital stewardship for Chapter initiatives. The Chancellor reported a substantial increase in the Fellows Fund, improved finances overall, and the awarding of grants totaling $49,800. The Investiture was held in Minneapolis’s restored 1920s Orpheum Theatre—91 Fellows and 11 Honorary Fellows were invested. Chancellor Jack DeBartolo Jr. presided at the 1997 annual meeting at the Plimsoll Club of the World Trade Center in New Orleans. The first Chancellor’s Cup Golf Tournament was held at the PGA course English Turn. Chancellor Debartolo reported that the College had awarded 10 grants totaling $60,000, and he estimated that the million-dollar goal for the College of Fellows Fund would be reached in 1998. The Investiture of 98 Fellows and 10 Honorary Fellows was held in the Loyola University Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. At the 1998 AIA convention in San Francisco, the Investiture was held, as it had been in 1960, in the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption. The Cathedral’s complex design had been conceived of by 1972 Gold Medalist Pietro Belluschi and a team including 1964 Gold Medalist Pier Luigi Nervi and local architects John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan, and Angus McSweeney. Ninety-eight architects were invested as Fellows and 10 as Honorary Fellows. The Bank of America Center’s Carnelian Room was the site of the annual business meeting, where the College celebrated reaching the mil-
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