ASLA UTAH DECEMBER 2021 NEWSLETTER

UPCOMING EVENTS

ASLA Utah Sponsor Thank You Dinner Thursday, January 27th, 6:30pm-9:00pm *Recent covid test or vaccination card required :) RSVP HERE

UNLA Green Conference Jan. 18, 19, 20, via Zoom 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Jan. 25, 26, in-person Conference & Trade Show
Mountain America Expo Center, Sandy, UT **Come Visit ASLA Utah’s Booth! RESISTER HERE

Leadership Express

Adam Castor, Chapter President

Adam Castor, ASLA Chapter President

The Utah ASLA Memorial Scholarship

Aaron Johnson, VP Visibility & Public Affairs, & Geoff Ellis, Memorial Fund Chair

Over the past 50 years the Utah ASLA Memorial fund has been used to provide opportunities where previously there had been none. It has influenced landscape architecture in Utah, as well as helping to grow the profession on a national scale. Funds have been used in the construction of the ASLA National headquarters in Washington DC, and most recently it has provided a way for students to learn and grow in the profession.

Created in the memories of Happ Young and Karsten Hansen, pillars of the landscape architecture community in Utah, the purpose of the fund was defined as providing visibility for the profession and benefits to the general community in Utah. The Memorial Scholarship was established in 2012 for students in the LAEP Department at USU, with the first award granted in 2013.

The recipients to date have been:

2021-2022 Logan Hall - MLA in progress 2020-2021 Saul Karamesines - MsBRP in progress 2018-2019 Patricia Beckert - B+MLA in progress 2017-2018 Drew Hill - B+MLA 2016-2017 Emmeline Zenger - BLA '17

2015-2016 Hailey Wall - BLA '16 2014-2015 Sam Taylor - BLA '15 2013-2014 Kim Cloward Drown - MLA, '14

The Utah Chapter of ASLA recognizes the ever growing importance of the Memorial Scholarship within our community and is dedicated to helping it grow. Since 2012, the investments in the fund have done well, and we’ve been able to increase the scholarship amount from $1,000 to $1,500, making it one of the larger scholarships at LAEP. Even so, that amount does not go very far in today’s dollars, and we’d like to grow the fund to the point where it would provide a scholarship to cover an entire semester’s tuition.

To reach our goals we are excited to announce new opportunities for funding provided by our amazing sponsors and members, please reach out to Jenny Sonntag (uaslaexecutivedirector@gmail.com) to learn more! In addition, the Utah ASLA website will feature a brief history of the scholarship, highlight the past winners of the scholarship, and provide information on how members and sponsors can donate to the Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Go to: (utahasla.org/memorial-fund) for more information.

This fund has been touching the lives of students and the community for over 50 years! 2018 scholarship recipient Patricia Beckert said it best, “Since I was younger, I have the dream of getting higher education, but I did not have opportunities after finishing high school. In Peru, quality education is a privilege for the rich and powerful. Coming from another country, growing up in a single family household, and becoming the first generation in my family to go to college, I value educational opportunities because higher education is expensive, and this scholarship is helping me pay for part of my tuition this year.”

LAM - Landscape Architecture Magazine

Seth Bockholt, Past President

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