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San Antonio, Texas O C T O B E R 2 - 5 , 2 0 2 1 AICA MileStone Spring 2021 issue San Antonio, Texas O c t o b e r 2 - 5 , 2 0 2 1 Planning for the AICA 70th San Antonio International beautiful area this coming Annual Meeting in San Anto- Airport is located just north of September. Registration and nio, TX, is well underway. San Antonio making for easy Design Contest forms will be travel for those who will be electronic—like last year. We The Menger Hotel, is an his- flying in. For those driving in, will be sending links for those toric hotel, located right near major interstates go through forms soon. We have im- the Alamo. The Menger is a San Antonio. proved the Design Contest great facility with good meet- entry form from last year and As always, our Design Contest ing space, good food and ex- you will be able to send more will play an important part of cellent rooms. San Antonio is than one image of an entry on our meeting and it is not too a fun town to visit with the the same form. Below are a early to start collecting photos Alamo and the Riverwalk. few photographs of the histor- of your work to enter into the Plans include educational ic Menger Hotel. We look for- Contest. sessions on Sales and Mar- ward to seeing all our mem- keting plus hand-drawn Please begin making your bers after the pandemic can- lettering. plans to be with us in this celed last year’s meeting. Inside this issue: Executive Director’s Remarks Page 2 Member Happenings-birthdays Pages and more 3, 6 Samanid Mausoleum Pages 4-5 Design Traditions for Today Pages 7-8 Previous Designs of the Month Pages 9-10 Composting Human Remains Page 11 More information about San Anto- Page nio 12 Page 2 MileStone Spring 2021 Executive Director Comments Dear Friends—2021 is bring- wedding (who says you can’t The MileStone ing better news for Covid-19. get married after being di- Many restrictions are being vorced for over 30+ years!). Published by The American Institute of lifted and with the vaccine The flight experience was OK Commemorative Art now available, there is hope except for the masks and 3 N. Milpas St., at putting this pandemic our flights were less crowd- Santa Barbara, CA 93103 behind us. 805-966-7373 ed than normal and the air- Cell 805-886-8384 During the pandemic, many ports were certainly quieter of our AICA members have than in past years. Jed A. Hendrickson, CM, AICA reported they are busy (and Executive Director & Editor Air travel is working and some too busy!) which is a flying to our meeting in San Deborah C. Hendrickson great sign that our industry Antonio this fall should be Institute Secretary and Assistant is making it through all this safe and relatively easy. Editor difficulty. Manufacturers I have spoken to also report For those that prefer to The AICA Board of Governors brisk orders. All good news drive, San Antonio is well considering a year ago, it located for many of our Executive Officers Bill Boone, CM, AICA, President members. seemed as if everything Brent Sears, AICA, Vice-President would grind to a halt and We are looking forward to Steve Sanderson, AICA, Treasurer many worried about the fu- our gathering in San Antonio Mike Murphree, AICA, Past- ture of their businesses. President and in the meantime, we Our members have also hope you all have a good been busy helping the indus- Spring! Directors Monica Johns, CM, AICA try—please see the update on page 3. AICA membership Terry Joy, AICA Jon Reece, AICA provides a way for us to Jed & Debbie Harvard Wood, IV, AICA share thoughts and ideas Dustin Anderson, AICA, Associate and I am pleased that our Member Representative members also reach out to the memorial industry in general to share knowledge. AICA Mission Statement: Debbie and I have missed To Promote Excellence in meeting with members last Commemorative Art and to En- hance Design and year and are looking forward Professional Knowledge Through to our annual meeting in the Exchange of Ideas Within an San Antonio. Planning is Atmosphere of Trust coming together and we will have high quality education and training. San Antonio is a great city and we will enjoy our stay there. Mark the dates Oct. 2-5, 2021. Debbie and I recently flew to Salt Lake City, Utah, to par- ticipate in my oldest sister’s Page 3 MileStone Spring 2021 Member Spotlight AICA Birthdays John Scott Mar 2 Dobby Grossman June 25 Dustin Anderson Mar 5 Josh Bell July 9 Dave Pace Mar 6 Jim Peterson July 15 Dave Anderson Mar 26 Jason Campbell Aug 9 Jim Peterson Mar 30 Maria Schlitzberger Hall Aug 22 Jon Reece Mar 31 Kevin Laird Aug 27 Harvard Wood May 1 Tony Watson Sept 2 Kimberly Schlitzberger May 27 Mike Murphree Sept 15 Troy Caldwell June 13 MBNA Convention Highlights AICA Members MBNA’s recent virtual convention highlighted a number of presentations done by AICA members. Our AICA President Bill Boone, CM, AICA, Logan Monument Jon Reece, AICA, Quiring Monuments Bran Oswalt, AICA, Brown Memorials Monica Johns, CM, AICA, Johns-Carabelli Co. Terry Joy, AICA, Joy Monument. Jim Gast, AICA, Gast Monument Michael Johns, CM, ACIA, Johns-Carabelli Co. Craig Hall, spouse of Maria Schlitzberger Hall, CM, AICA, Schlitzberger and Daughters Monument Jonathan Modlich, CM, AICA, Modlich Monument Co. Colleen Scott, daughter of John & Julie Scott, AICA, High Cross Monument Drew Bott, CM, AICA, Bott Monument Tony Watson, CM, AICA, Watson Signs and Monuments Jed Hendrickson, CM, AICA, Santa Barbara Monumental Co. It is wonderful to see the skills and talents of AICA members helping to teach and elevate our industry. I should mention that MBNA’s immediate past president is AICA member Ken Reeson, AICA, Summit Memorials; Jonathan Modlich, CM, ACIA is MBNA’s President-Elect. Serving as Vice-Presidents are Katie Gast-Crook, AICA, Gast Monuments and Sean Longstreth, AICA, Longstreth Memorials. Serving as MBNA Trustees are Nathan Lange, CM , AICA, Northland Monument; Aaron Fraehle, AICA, Design Memorial Stone; Nick Gast, Gast Monuments and Jason Campbell, CM, AICA Campbell Monument. The Founders of AICA hoped that AICA would influence the memorial industry and help it grow and progress. I think they would be very proud of what AICA members are able to do. Thank you to all AICA members who influence our industry in many capacities! Page 4 MileStone Spring 2021 Masterpiece: Samanid Mausoleum (AD 943) A Final Resting Place, Both Beguiling and Beautiful MARAUDING THROUGH Central Asia in the archaeologist rediscovered it and began exca- 13th century, Genghis Khan either failed to vating. notice or ignored a small, squat structure in The walls of the symmetrical structure he un- Bukhara, an ancient Silk Road city in what is earthed, nearly identical on all four sides, are now Uzbekistan. Even as he destroyed Bukha- faced with a basket-weave pattern fashioned ra, he left standing the little mausoleum built from baked brick-in contrast to the stucco for the grave of Ismail Samani, a member of surfaces that were prevalent at the time. The the Samanid dynasty (819-1005)-a Persian cube is surrounded at the top by a decorative clan that made Bukhara a celebrated center (and therefore in- of Islamic culture accessible) arcade rivaling in glory of 10 arched nich- the caliphate in es per side, each Baghdad, from one flanked by col- which it was large- umns and set in a ly independent. rectangular frame. From a distance, The niches match Samanid mausole- in shape the large, um does seem un- recessed arches derwhelming. below, at ground Beige in color, it's level, that pierce a slightly tapered each side of the cube-a reference mausoleum like to the Kaaba at doorways-though Mecca-measuring about 33 feet on each side only one functions as an entryway to the in- and topped by a dome, which symbolize the side. The small niches follow the design of heavens. But up close the tomb’s exquisite the arches, but in a simplified version. brickwork, both inside and out, is unusually At each corner of the mausoleum is a three- beguiling. The building, probably begun quarter column, also covered in the bas- around 892 and completed by 943, breaks ketweave pattern and slightly tilted inward to architectural and engineering ground, too: it’s act as a buttress. Above the gallery arcade, also a prototype for later Islamic tombs. And hugging the inset dome, are four little bee- it is “the best surviving example of 10th cen- hive-shaped, cupolas, one near each comer. tury architecture in the whole Muslim world,” UNESCO says. The exterior walls are punctuated with deco- rative designs. Most notably, a row of brick Luckily, in addition to surviving the Mongol circles frames the arched portion of the four invasions, the mausoleum withstood the ar- recessed "doorways" and surrounds the top of ea's numerous earthquakes. Over the centu- the arcade. Scholars have suggested that ries, it had gained protection from flooding they refer to the sun-a symbol common in Zo- and other shifts of nature that buried most of roastrianism, (continued on page 5) it in dirt and sand until 1934, when a Soviet Page 5 MileStone Spring 2021 (from page 4) structure grows upward with even more which was the religion practiced by much of sides until it becomes a circle. the local population before the Arab con- Brick squinches, here decorated with win- quest of Central Asia in the seventh and dows and patterns mimicking those below, eighth centuries.
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