AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin has been ranked fifth in the nation in both its undergraduate and graduate programs by DesignIntelligence, a journal that produces the only recognized rankings for accredited bachelor's and master's programs in architecture in the United States.
The graduate program ranking is the highest achieved by a public university in the nation.
The undergraduate program in interior design, the smallest in the nation, was ranked 10th. The two-year-old graduate landscape architecture program was ranked 12th. Fritz Steiner, dean of the School of Architecture, was recognized as "one of the most admired educators of 2010," based on input from hundreds of design professionals, academic department heads and students.
DesignIntelligence is the bimonthly journal of the Design Futures Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank whose executive board includes representatives from some of America's most widely known design firms, schools and manufacturers.
We have great hope that all of our fellow classmates from the class of 77 will go into the following website to send words of encouragement to classmate Allan Howard. Allan is fighting cancer. This website allows you to read Allan's story, check updates and send him notes in his guestbook.
Please take a minute to go to this website to show Allan your love and support.
It is with Sadness that the Wharton Club of Houston reports the passing of David Shindeldecker, WG '73.
DAVID CALVIN SHINDELDECKER passed away in his sleep on the 25th of October 2008, while at a pheasant hunting lodge in South Dakota. He was 59 years young. He was a beloved son, husband, father and friend. He was born in Ohio on the 7th of January 1949, and educated at Ohio University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a lifelong businessman and philanthropist. He was the Chairman, President & CEO of The Redstone Companies and oversaw an operation that included Redstone Hospitality (The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa; Houstonian Lite; Shadow Hawk Golf Club; The Houstonian Golf & Country Club; Redstone Golf Club; BlackHorse Golf Club), Redstone Capital Partners private equity and Redstone Real Estate.
His humanitarian and philanthropy efforts involved a long affiliation with the YMCA of Greater Houston, as well as the National YMCA as Chairman Elect of YUSA. He loved the sport of golf both as a player and his involvement with the Houston Golf Association. He was instrumental in helping to establish The First Tee Houston/Redstone, an organization that brings accessibility of the game of golf to underprivileged area youth while teaching nine core values of life. He loved the outdoors and actively pursued hunting, fishing and hiking. His favorite places to pursue these activities were in the mountains of Colorado, the plains of the Midwest and the Texas coast near Rockport.
He is survived by his wife and lifelong companion, Pamela K. Shindeldecker; a daughter, Alison Zykorie and her husband Jeremy Zykorie; a son, Alex Shindeldecker and his wife Ashley Shindeldecker; a grandson, Maxwell Shindeldecker. He is also survived by his father, Ansel Shindeldecker; a sister, Vicki Milledge and her husband Jon Milledge and a nephew, Scott Mikesell; and a brother, John Shindeldecker, his wife Laura Shindeldecker, nephews, Luke and Joel Shindeldecker, and a niece, Emily Shindeldecker.
A memorial service will be conducted at eleven o'clock in the morning on Thursday, the 30th of October, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. Immediately following the memorial service, a reception will be held at The Houstonian, 111 N. Post Oak Lane in Houston. For those desiring, memorial contributions in David's name may be made to YMCA, Shindeldecker Family Youth Center, 19915 State Highway 249, Houston, Texas 77070; Lucky Leash Rescue, Inc., P.O. Box 56482, Houston, Texas 77256; or to any no-kill animal rescue group of one's choice.
Lee Hill Kavanaugh became a feature writer for The Kansas City Star decades after her first career as a professional bass trombonist. She performed as a jazz musician on cruise ships and in DIVA: No Man's Band, playing concerts around the U.S. and Europe.
But a chance encounter with Ernie Pyle's grave in Honolulu, his stories and a newspaper column in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin attracted her to journalism.
Hired by The Kansas City Star in 1997 as a jazz reviewer, she has since become the newspaper's first female war correspondent, writing stories from Iraq, Afghanistan and New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
Lee has won two Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Awards.
The award is considered one of the most prestigious journalism awards in the nation because it can preclude winning a Pulitzer Prize. Three former Pulliam winners have won Pulitzer Prizes. She has won awards from the Missouri and Kansas press associations, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and the Military Reporters and Editors Association.
She lives in rural Missouri in a log cabin with her husband, daughter and a menagerie of animals. She still plays bass trombone with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra.
Renowned Environmental Planner and Landscape Architect Visits Macedonia
June 16, 2008
U.S. Speaker Frederick Steiner (Class 1967), dean of the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin will be in Macedonia through Saturday, June 21, to meet with faculty and students as well as government officials about landscape architecture and environmental planning. In the U.S., he has previously worked with local, state, and federal agencies on many kinds of environmental plans and designs, including an analysis of watershed level growth management on part of the U.S.-Mexico border, a master plan for a landfill site in Phoenix, Arizona, and the implementation of the U.S. Natural Resources Conversation Service agricultural land evaluation and site assessment system. Public events: Landscape Architecture: Theory and Practice from the United States, (American Corner Skopje - June 17, 2008) & (American Corner Tetovo - June 18, 2008).
We received a very sad news from our classmate Robbi Detmer (Treise). Her 24yr old son, Gary Hartsock, died recently in an automobile accident on 6/21. She asks for prayer.
Please email belmontreunion77@yahoo.com if you would like Robbi's address. It is also in the directory passed out at the 30 yr reunion for those wanting to send a card. Her son's memorial is also on the Florida Today newspaper website. He certainly had Robbi's sparkling smile and beautiful nature.
Renowned Environmental Planner and Landscape Architect Visits Macedonia
