News from Alums
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Image from a project Elizabeth French Fribush’s firm did at UVA, involving daylighting existing piped storm drainage to create a stream
Class Agent: David Paine (david_paine@verizon.net) n Don Richard writes that he is retired as of the end of September. 1978
Class Agent: Susanna Adams (susanna.adams@earthlink.net) 1979
Class Agent: Lila Fendrick (team@fendrickdesign.com) n See page 7 for news about Art Collins. 1980
Class Agent: Byrne Kelly (kelly80@csld.edu) 1981
Class Agent: Elizabeth French Fribush (Elizabeth.fribush@phra.com) n Elizabeth French Fribush, a senior landscape architect with Patton Harris Rust & Associates in Chantilly, VA, reports, “We’ve definitely seen a slowdown in the DC Metropolitan area for the past couple of years. Since there has been much less mixed-use, office, and residential development, my firm has been doing more federal work, such as with the Navy (Naval Academy, Navy Yard redevelopment). We are working on several Metrorail stations and some transit-related mixed-use projects. We also have been doing some recreational facilities parks.” 1982
Class Agents: Suzanne Barclay (smbarclay@optonline.net), Susan Van Buren (vanburen82@csld.edu) n John Hanning, based in Montpelier, VT, is working on two self-initiated enterprises: Archimedes Aerospace LLC, which provides low-level aerial photography and mapping, which he describes as “picture your ironing board flying sideways.” He has been talking with the Audubon Society about using the technology to identify bird nests
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without disturbing the ground. The other enterprise is Renewable Energy Resources, Inc., based in Bennington, VT, which makes a pelletized fuel out of switch grass with a mobile processing unit. 1983
No Class Agent—how about you? n Priscilla Davies Brennan worked on “some good projects in Landscape Renovation this summer.” She also has two children in college; she says, “I sent my daughter to Gettysburg College as a Legacy child (I am an alum ’79) as well as my son Will, a junior at Moravian College.” n Bruce Carnahan recently installed an Amelanchier laevis in Phyllis Croce’s side garden; “The skies,” Phyllis says, “opened up just as we turned to load his equipment back into his truck.” n Erik Van Lennep spent time in Amsterdam in the spring, “talking with various people about setting up a new training program for Change Makers, using eco-restoration as a primary vehicle for learning design and entrepreneurial skills.” 1984
No Class Agent—your name here! n See class of 2010 for news of Gary Bachman, class of 1986 for news of Shari Bashin-Sullivan, and class of 2011 for news of Dave Jacke.
1986
No Class Agent—we need you! n Donna Eldridge and husband Bob Cleaver (a landscape architect who attended Rutgers) are partners at Cleaver Design Associates in Lafayette, CA. “We’ve been in business 15 years this October,” she writes. “We work extensively with Shari Bashin-Sullivan ’84 and her husband Richard’s company, Enchanting Planting and try to keep in touch with and partner with Dave Evans ’76. Our daughters, Maddie and Eliza are 15 and 13. Maddie is a sophomore in HS and Eliza is in seventh grade
1985
No Class Agent—how about you? n Nancy Knox writes, “I continue to work as a parent outreach coordinator at Burlington (VT) High School. I reach out to parents with information about school activities and events. I also work with teachers and staff to connect to low-income and ELL parents to help them get connected to the school so they can support their student’s success. Our district is in a
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refugee resettlement community, so our population of ELL students grows every year, with more challenges to bring students and families up to speed with our American educational system. I am also still active with our local tree stewardship group Branch Out Burlington - we recently got some great press for our efforts to raise awareness about the 9/11 memorial trees we planted at each of our schools back in September 2002. BOB continues to be a leader in Vermont tree stewardship groups and we are now partnering with student groups from UVM on three projects - our annual ‘tree walk,’ connecting with school groups, and a first ever landscape inventory process happening in Burlington. I have one son who is a freshman at University of Rochester and another who is a high school sophomore...to use the cliché—‘my how time flies!’” n Stephen Seiler, a field project specialist with the Natural Area Reserve System, Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife, is “saving the most endangered species and habitats throughout the Pacific Rim.” He reports, “a few landscape architects here are beginning to use native Hawaiian plants in their designs. Most others still use exotics that are often invasive.”
Priscilla Davies Brennan with her family