Contact: Phil Hearn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A veteran Mississippi State administrator and teacher is being honored with the highest honor bestowed upon a landscape architect by the field's national professional association.
Cameron R.J. Man will receive the 2006 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal during the organization's annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., in October. Winners of other ASLA awards also will be recognized.
Man has served as professor and head of the university's landscape architecture department since joining the faculty in 1989. The programs he leads in landscape architecture and landscape contracting are the only ones of their kinds offered in the state.
The ASLA Medal recognizes lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession, the welfare of the public and the environment. It is the organization's highest honor bestowed upon a landscape architect.
"I am both amazed and humbled by receiving this honor," said Man. "To be honored by one's own profession has to be the high point of any professional career."
Man is being cited for his achievements in private practice, academic administration and instruction, and leadership in the profession. He also is recognized for the "remarkably high number of people within the profession that he has helped to educate."
Earlier this year, he also was honored as a member of the inaugural class of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Academy of Fellows during that group's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"The Mississippi State University Department of Landscape Architecture has been fortunate to have Mr. Man as department head for such a long time," said Michael Gammil of Hattiesburg, a trustee of the Mississippi ASLA chapter that nominated Man for the medal. "He is well known and respected in the landscape architectural profession."
Man holds a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and a master's in landscape architecture from the University of California at Berkley. His academic specialty areas are professional practice and housing.
Earlier in his career, he served as chair of the landscape architecture department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph in Canada. His professional practice includes principal interest in three firms.
Founded in 1899, the ASLA represents more than 16,500 members. It promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Professor Man at 662-325-3012 or cman@lalc.msstate.edu.