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FIRM NEWS team of architects that helped to preserve an historic area Albert Kahn Associates Inc. has formed a new subsidiary com- around Greensboro, N.C., and for her work with the Charlotte pany, Kahn Manufacturing Solutions Inc., Detroit. It will spe- AIA, among other personal and professional accomplishments. cialize in manufacturing and industrial engineering. Martin Santini, AIA, past president of AIA New Jersey (1995- Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle (AVRP), San Diego, 1996), was elected as the next regional director for has established a Los Angeles office following the ac- AIA/New Jersey. Santini, who currently serves as quisition of Siegel Diamond , Los Ange- president of the Architects League of New Jersey, will les. succeed James Gatsch, AIA, in January 2002, as the Fox and Fowle Architects, City, will re- new representative from New Jersey to the national ceive a citation from the Urban Design Awards Pro- AIA Board. gram, which is sponsored by the Society of Ar- Howard Wertheimer, AIA, a partner with Lord, chitects/AIA and the New York chapter of the Ameri- Aeck & Sargent, , has been named chair-elect can Institute of Architects. It will receive the honor for of the Scientific Equipment and Furniture Associa- SANTINI its work on the Midtown East Master Plan in Long Is- tion (SEFA). The organization provides the scientific land City. In addition, Syracuse University has selected Fox & equipment and furniture industry with input from the design Fowle (led by senior principal and SU alumnus Bruce S. Fowle, community. FAIA, ’60) to design the university’s proposed 165,000-square- foot School of Management Building. MOVES WWCOT, Santa Monica, Calif., has been selected to plan and Vincent AmRhein, AIA, as project manager, to Beverly Prior design a new high school in Panorama City, Calif., which will Architects, San Francisco house more than 2,000 students when it is completed in 2005. John D. Casey, AIA, as associate vice president, to Cannon It is among the first “new generation of high schools” to be built Design, Washington, D.C. by the Los Angeles Unified School District in the last 17 years. Dan DiComo, AIA, as senior project manager, to Eppstein Centrally located in the San Fernando Valley, the four-story fa- Uhen Architects Inc., Milwaukee cility will be designed to serve as a high school with portions Jerry S. Raeder, AIA, as senior vice president, to 3D/Inter- accessible for community use, according to Chet Widom, FAIA, continued on next page WWCOT principal in charge of the project.

MEMBER NEWS Karen Kirks Alexander, AIA, KKA Archi- tecture, is a 2001 recipient of the Women in Business Achievement Award pre- sented by The Business Journal of Char- lotte and metropolitan area. She was rec- ognized for her efforts to help form a WWCOT has been chosen to design and plan this new high school in Van Nuys, Calif.

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continued from previous page Ed Cordes, AIA, as principal, B2HK Architecture (formerly Budd Beets Harden Kolflat • Architecture), Austin, Tex. national Inc., Washington, D.C. Stefani Danes, AIA, and Alan Schlossberg, AIA, to princi- David C. Scudder, AIA, as office director, to Gray Design pals; Jay Epstein, AIA; Peter Kastl, AIA; Emily Kelly, AIA; Fritz Group, Colorado Springs, Colo. Morris, AIA; and Ruxandra Panaitescu, AIA, to associates, Scott M. Smith, AIA, as project manager, to Woolpert LLP, Perkins Eastman, Cincinnati Ken Dean, AIA, to president; Stuart Barger, AIA, to chair- Joan L. Suchomel, AIA, as associate vice president, to RTKL, man of the board; Charles Kuyendall, AIA, to vice president, Chicago Barger + Dean Architects, Sarasota, Fla. Dennis Tanida, AIA, as associate, to WWCOT, Santa Monica, Betsy Downs, AIA, to president, OWP&P Design/Build Inc. Calif. David Hatton, AIA, and David C. Madeira, AIA, to regional directors, Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associ- PROMOTIONS ates, Cathryn H. Bang, AIA, as vice president, Cannon De- Steven Janeway, AIA, to director of design, sign, Los Angeles; John J. McDonald Jr AIA, as vice Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, president, and James V. Blount, AIA, as associate vice Mary M. Johannesen, AIA, to principal, Kitchen & president, Cannon Design, Boston; John William Associates, Collingswood, N.J. Rietz, AIA, as vice president, Cannon Design, Balti- David Levine, AIA, and Lynda Stone, AIA, to prin- more cipals, Becker and Becker Associates, Inc., New DOWNS Darragh Brady, AIA, and Joe Cellucci, AIA, to asso- Canaan, Conn. ciates, Ziger/Snead Architects, Fred Montes, AIA, and Irene Nigaglioni, AIA, to associate Jay Brotman, AIA, to partner, Svigals + Partners, New Ha- principals, PBK, Houston ven, Conn. Michael Ufer, AIA, to principal; Linda Bernauer, AIA, to se- Thomas A. Burke, AIA; William W. McConnell, AIA; and Ja- nior associate; and Michael Christopher, Assoc. AIA, HLM De- son C. Vetne, AIA, to associates, RTKL, Washington, D.C.; Bin sign, Dallas Cao, AIA, to associate, RTKL, Dallas; David Dafner, AIA, to as- Greg Zastrow, AIA, to studio director, senior living and resi- sociate, RTKL, Baltimore; Canny Hui, AIA, to associate, RTKL, dential, Eppstein Uhen Architects, Inc, Milwaukee. Los Angeles; Truby McDougal, AIA, to associate, RTKL, Den- ver; Hisaya Sugiyama, AIA, to associate, RTKL, Tokyo; Rich- Obituaries ard C. Watson, AIA, to associate, RTKL, Miami Charles D. “Chick” Grant, AIA, died June 9. Brad Clark, AIA, to principal; and Ron Gans, AIA; Marty A principal with Nichols Carter Grant Architects in Atlanta Haynes, AIA; and Tom Proebstle, AIA, to associates, Ellerbe from 1977 to 2000, Grant was responsible for his firm’s design Becket; Kansas City, Mo.; Jeff Frush, AIA, to principal; and Kit involvement with Amelia Island Plantation, Sawgrass, Grand Bottkol, AIA; Nancy Doyle, AIA; and Tim Powers, AIA, to asso- Cypruss Resort, Orchid Island, and Sandestin Resort during his ciates, Ellerbe Becket, ; David Owsiany, AIA, and 23 years with the firm. At the time of his death, Grant was the Steve Terrill, AIA, to associates, Ellerbe Becket, Washington, vice president of development for the West Florida operations D.C. of Arvida in Seagrove Beach, Fla. AIA

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