Bruce Lindsey
May 10, 2006 at 9:07 am
Listen to the Podcast

Each year the faculty select a Thesis Prize from the studio work of the fifth year architecture students. Congratulations to nominees: Heather Hulgan, Mona Pedro, Phillip Hamilton, Charles Williams, Ben Strout and Michael Gibson, David Boettcher, Jessie Zenor, and Jennifer Thompson.

Congratulations to Logan Powell and Laura Keller for their award of the Thesis Prize for their work on bio-climatic design.

Bruce Lindsey
May 9, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Listen to the Podcast

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success. ~Robert Orben

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. ~Gary Bolding

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund

When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. ~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~Garry Trudeau

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~A. Lawrence Lowell

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~Fred Allen

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~Author Unknown

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep. ~W.H. Auden

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I’ve done and who I’ve been. ~C. Hoppe

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello.” I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones

Bruce Lindsey
May 3, 2006 at 9:02 am
Listen to the Podcast

Congratulations to the following for their receipt of scholarships and or awards at the annual Awards Day Monday May 1st.

AIAS:
Outstanding Student Honor Award, Logan Powell
Outstanding Faculty Honor Award, Christian Dagg, Paul Holley

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE:
Blackwell Prize in DRawing & Painting, Robbie Austin
Roger W. Rindt Memorial Scholarship, Jason Bouthillitte
Book Awards, Betsy Farrell, Joey Aplin, Jenna Thompson, Summer Thesis Award Laura Keller

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCHOLARSHIPS;
Don Logan Southern Progress Endowed Scholarship, Sara Faracho, Laura Sanders, Filipa Santos
The Garden Club of Alabama Endowed Scholarship, Rajesh Sawant, Cao Xi
Book Awards, Craig Letson, Eric Papetti, Andrew Cole-Tyson, Cao Xi, Jack Mazzola, Galen Newman, Nicole McDermott, Haley Runne

COMMUNITY PLANNING:
Arch R. Winter Fund for Excellence in Community Planning, Amy Banks
Book Awards, Manan Pathak, Emily Singleton

ARCHITECTURE
James Freeland Reeves Memorial Scholarship, Emily Phillips
William T. Warren & William T. Warren Jr. Endowed Scholarship, Anna Bevill
Fred Renneker Jr. and Bill Renneker Endowed Scholarship, Abigal Grubb, Lu Bai, Cassandra Kellogg
Frances & Gordon W. Holmquist Endowed Scholarship, Elizabeth Clayton, Jonathan Gilland, Adam Woodward
Paul Fraser Memorial Scholarship, Cayce Bean, Adam Woodward
Frank J. Sindelar Endowed Scholarship, Drew Merkle, Daniel Beeker, Raven Parmer, Terran Wilson
W.S. Ball Scholarship for Minority Students, Markus Buckner-Perry
Southern A&E Annual Scholarship, Steven Ward, Steven Wall
James Richard Wilkinson Memorial Scholarship, Anthony Vu
Jenkins Brick Scholarship, Nicholas Henninger
R. Mack & Jamie Freeman Scholarship, Drew Coshow
Seay, Seay & Litchfield Annual Scholarship, Ryan Stephenson
TVS Travel Scholarship, Jenni West
Timothy Andrew Smith Annual Scholarship, Christian Ayala
AL Architecture Foundation Scholarship, McKenzie Stagg
Book Awards, Jessie Zenor, Daniel Beeker, Michael Anglisano, Anna Bevill, Brittany Creehan, Ian Hoffman, Jason Blankenship, Matt Mueller, Drew Merkle, Christian Ayala, Rand Pinson, David Stone, Mary MacFadden, Samantha Coffey, Matt Murphy
Robert Lovett Memorial Book Award, Michael Claborn
Shelly Martin Memorial Book Award, Russ Gibbs

School of Architecture Writing Awards, Eric Papetti, Courtney Grunninger, Maria Sykes

Design Competitons
ALAGASCO, Joey Aplin Raleigh Sullivan, Bill Moore, Cayce Bean, Adam Woodard, Sam Chandler
Alabama Forestry Association, Arielle Hairston, Carrie Laurendine, Michael Aglisano, Sandra Wolf
Pella J,F. Day Design Competition, Cayce Bean
Alabama Masonry Institute, Ralph Merkle, Matt Mueller, Ryan Coleman

Merit Awards & Medals
Alpha Rho Chi Medal, Katie Simpson
American Institute of Architectures Certificate of Merit, Heidi Ann Schattin
American Institute of Architectures School Medal, Laura Keller
E. Walter Burkhardt Award, Laura Keller