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Award Recipients Honored at LAF’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Dinner

ASLA CEO Nancy Somerville and Grant Jones

 

On June 10 at LAF’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Dinner at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, LAF recognized first recipients of its new LAF Medal and Founders’ Awards. With Independence Mall as the backdrop, Dennis Carmichael, FASLA, Chair of the 2016 Award Committee presented the two awards before the crowd of 450 LAF friends and supporters.

Grant Jones, FASLA, co-founder of Jones & Jones Architecture and Landscape Architecture, took the stage to receive the first LAF Medal, which is conveyed to a landscape architect for distinguished work over a career in applying the principles of sustainability to landscapes. As the keynote speaker at the dinner, Grant delivered an inspiring speech full of history, wisdom, hope, and charges for the future.

The Earth is our client, our partner in a life relationship. The landscape is not a fuzzy, vague, or indefinable thing; it's as real as your mother and father, and it's got to be everything to you.

Grant Jones, FASLA, Jones & Jones Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Grant Jones receives the first LAF Medal from Awards Commitee Chair Dennis Carmichael.
Grant Jones receives the first LAF Medal from Awards Committee Chair Dennis Carmichael.

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) received the first LAF Founders’ Award, which is conveyed to a firm, agency, or organization that demonstrates a significant commitment to preserving, creating, or enhancing landscapes over a sustained period of time. ASLA Executive Vice President and CEO Nancy Somerville accepted the award and then turned the tables, issuing a Philadelphia-style proclamation from the ASLA Board of Trustees expressing its sincerest appreciation to the Landscape Architecture Foundation in celebration of its 50 years.

ASLA's CEO Nancy Somerville and President Chad Danos deliver a Philadelphia-style proclamation.
ASLA's CEO Nancy Somerville and President Chad Danos deliver a Philadelphia-style proclamation.

LAF was so honored to recognize these innovators that have made a significant and sustained contribution to the LAF mission of supporting the preservation, improvement, and enhancement of the environment.

More photos from LAF’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Dinner can be found here.

LAF is grateful to the many individuals and organizations that provide financial support towards fulfilling our mission to support the preservation, improvement, and enhancement of the environment.

Much of what LAF is able to accomplish would not be possible without the thought leadership and financial investment of our major supporters, including ASLA, which provides over $125,000 of in-kind support annually.

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