Going to the AIA convention? Join Dean Gary Hack at the Penn Alumni Reception on Friday, May 20, 6-7:30pm at The Four Seasons, Acacia Ballroom; co-hosted with AIA-PA and other Pennsylvania schools. RSVP to the PennDesign Alumni Office.

At the reception we'll honor the Penn alums who will be elevated to the AIA College of Fellows on May 20: Gregory Clement C'73 MArch'75, Hyman Myers BArch'64 MArch'65, Michael Prifti C'76 MArch'79, and James Williamson MArch'73.

Congratulations to PennDesign student Kevin Fennell MArch'05 MLA'05, who won the PA state-wide competition for the 2005 John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship.

New paintings and drawings by Gutman professor and fine arts chair JOHN MOORE are on view at Hirschl & Adler Modern, 21 East 70th Street, New York through June 3.

Fête, 2004, oil on canvas, 72 x 84"

1990s
Urshula Barbour MFA'94
reports that her studio, Pure+Applied, designed The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). Their exhibition "Big&Green" at the National Building Museum received a merit award from the Society of Environmental Graphic Design. Pure+Applied is working on a book on architecture for humanity co-published by Metropolis Books and DAP, and a catalogue on the work of Aernout Mik for the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Emmanuelle Chammah-Slossberg MArch'97
is an account director at the New York ad agency The 7th Art. She has received her LEED certification and is working on the Bank of America Tower (world's most sustainable skyscraper- LEED Platinum) designed by Cook+Fox. She has seen several classmates recently: Pars Moghbel works with Adam Weinstein; Jeff Young is at SOM; Amy Lopez-Cepero is practicing in NYC; and Charles Norman works for Millenium Partners.

J. Christopher Frey MS'97
has formed Keystone Preservation Group, a specialized consulting firm in Doylestown, PA that focuses on all aspects of historic preservation, including architectural conservation, materials analysis, construction administration and documentary research.

Daniel Heyman MFA'91
is participating in the exhibition Challenge #4 at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia through May 21. Daniel served on the PennDesign Alumni Association board from 2000-2003. To view more of his work, visit www.danielheyman.com.

Robert Saarnio MS'94
has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellowship to study US and Italian heritage-site management.

Jean Kessler Wolf MS'93
has been named executive director of The Woodlands, an 18th-century mansion and 19th-century rural cemetery in Philadelphia.

1970s
Uri Avin MArch'76 MCP'76 CRT'76
has been named practice leader for regional growth management at PB PlaceMaking, a subsidiary of Parsons Brinckerhoff that assists in the development of sustainable communities; he is based in the Baltimore office.

Zenos Frudakis BFA'72 MFA'73
reports that his life-size bronze sculpture of former ClubCorp president Robert Dedman was dedicated at Pinehurst Resort, NC, on April 18. Current work in progress includes The Honor Guard sculpture for the US Air Force Memorial, scheduled for dedication in 2006 at Arlington National Cemetery.

Michael Harrison MArch'79 MCP'79 CRT'80
would be happy to meet PennDesign/GSFA graduates traveling to Sydney, Australia. Michael is a director of Architectus Sydney, where his work has included the Central Sydney Plan. Recently he traveled to Japan and met up with Satoru Kiasawa, Tadao Kamei and Keiko Matsumoto. Satoru has taken over his father's role as Buddhist priest in a 350-year-old temple between Kyoto and Osaka; he is the 17th generation of his family to run the temple and during the week he also works as an architect. Tadao is principal design architect at Nikken Sekkei.

Eleanor Hubbard CW'67 MFA'71
reports that her recent paintings can be seen at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 37 West 57th Street, New York and, this summer, on Martha's Vineyard at Etherington Fine Art, where a show of her work opens August 11.

Jo Margolis BFA'72 MFA'76
has won first place in the Lebanon Valley College 34th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, in which three of her works are exhibited.

Stephen Tsou C'75 MArch'77
and his wife, Dr. H. Jiuan Heng are happy to announce the birth of their second child, daughter Amy, in Singapore. Stephen is the senior director of the M. Moser Group for regional business development.

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