Alumni News William “Bill” Creevy, Jr., MFA 68 Bill Creevy is a widely exhibited New York artist who has had his work represented in many group shows, both nationally and abroad. Bill’s painting style is representational and he is at home in still life, landscape and figure painting. Bill is the author of two books on art technique: The Pastel Book and The Oil Painting Book. Both a writer and an artist, Bill has had articles and in American Artist, Pastel Journal, Art in America and Artist’s magazine. His awards and honors include the National Art Master’s Award for Pastel Teaching sponsored by American Artist magazine and the Max Beckman Teaching Fellowship from the Brooklyn Museum. Bill is also a signature member and Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America. He is listed in “Who’s Who in American Art.” W. Barry Graham, BArch 68 After 42 years of professional practice, W. Barry Graham retired in March, 2012. After graduation from LSU with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1968, he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design in City Planning and began full-time employment at RTKL Associates in Baltimore, MD in June, 1969. After 19 years, he left RTKL and joined Ellerbe Becket in Minneapolis, MN in September, 1988. In 2000, Barry joined Hammel, Green and Abrahamson in Minneapolis in December. The majority of his career has focused on the programming, planning, design
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and management of healthcare projects. In 2008, Barry enjoyed being one of eight of the 13 architectural graduates of the LSU class of 1968 who were able to meet at LSU, enjoy a lunch hosted by the dean and attend an LSU football game. He says, “It was a reaffirmation of the value of the education that we all received and a celebration of the strong friendships that developed while attending LSU.” Richard C. Rome, BLA 68 Before graduation with the BLA, Richard accepted a position with M. Paul Friedberg & Associates in New York City where he worked primarily on projects for urban parks and playgrounds. The early part of his career included working for Kansas City Parks and Recreation, the Florida architecture a firm of Reynolds Smith & Hills, Inc., and the planning firm of Urban Consultants, Inc. in Montgomery, AL. A decade later, he received a commission that led him back to landscape architecture: A Saudi prince hired him to design a residence, allowing Richard and a partner opened their own firm, Upchurch-Rome, LA, Inc. While self-employed, Richard taught part-time at Auburn University, which later hired him as a full-time faculty member and where he later served as the Department Chair of the undergraduate program in landscape architecture. In 1989, he earned an MLA from the University of Texas at Arlington and was hired by UTA where he earned tenure and remained in Arlington for a
decade. In 1999, he accepted the position of director of the Landscape Architecture program at FAMU where he remained until his retirement in 2010. Russell Washer, BArch 70 President at Washer Hill Lipscomb Cabaniss (WHLC Associates) Russell’s expertise is the programming and design of projects combining his natural tendency to consider the “big picture” with his attention to detail. This translates into successful projects that are cohesive and concept driven yet responsive to logistical and functional concerns. WHLC along with Schwartz/Silver Architects was recently selected to design the new high-tech library for downtown Baton Rouge, LA. WHLC’s previous projects have included healthcare and research, residential and hospitality, commercial, planning-graphic, education, mixed use and civil projects. Philip “Pete” D. Melby III, BLA 70, MLA 72 A landscape architect and gardener, Pete has developed programs, preliminary designs, and sustainability plans for four buildings that use 70% less energy than they would have had they been traditionally designed. This high level of energy savings was accomplished by using regenerative techniques that are incorporated into the buildings and site design. Three of the buildings were built on the Mississippi State University campus. As he developed the energy use reduction system, Pete also wrote Regenerative Design
Techniques with coauthor Tom Cathcart. He also developed a home food production poster which shows the implementation, and management of a food garden in a home landscape by a family for a year. William Lake Douglas, BLA 72 Professor of Landscape Architecture Lake Douglas’s book, Public Spaces, Private Gardens published by LSU Press won the David R. Coffin Publication Grant and J.M. Kaplan Fund, both prestigious publication awards. Stephen M. Caplinger, BLA 74 Stephen Caplinger is currently acting as the Owner’s Representative and Director of Design & Planning for Edwards Communities Development Company and Edwards Student Housing Company and is responsible for all master planning, project management, architectural design coordination and landscape architecture for several large scale multi-family apartment communities across the country. Current projects are in Columbus and Dublin, OH; Boulder, CO; Tampa, FL and Raleigh. These high end multi-family communities include timeless architectural design, structured parking, health & fitness clubs and extensive landscape amenities. Francis “Hal” Hofheins, BArch 74 Francis is the Architecture Manager at RADIX Construction, Inc., a full service, commercial construction management and general contracting firm with
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