University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Architecture, Construction Management and Planning 33rd commencement program

COLLEGE DIPLOMA CEREMONY
College of Architecture, Construction Management and Planning University of Nevada, Las Vegas Saturday, May 11^1996
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE by Sir Edward Elgar
Mark Hoversten of Landscape Architecture
INVOCATION.. .. Randy Hale
Architecture
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Interim Assistant Dean
UNIVERSITY GREETING Robert Ackerman
for Student Services
MESSAGE FROM 1996 GRADUATES
Geoffrey Schaller, Landscape Architecture Kelliann Velasquez, Interior Architecture Lydia Brannin, Construction Management
DIPLOMA CEREMONY ADDRESS... Mr. Thomas
President, JMA Architects
GRADUATES Dr. William R. Wells
Interim Dean
FAREWELL ADDRESS TOWilliam R. Wells
Interim Dean
GRAND MARSHALL: Mr. Luther Strange
GRADUATE MARSHALL: Dr. Zouheir Hashem
UNDERGRADUATE MARSHALL: Werner Osterhaus
College of Architecture, Constrction Management and Planning
Master of Architecture
Cluck
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Daniel L. Ballard
David Michael Berg
Garcia
Henry Ortega Brian L. Qualls
Robert 1 oNMNMMsMin
Bachelor of Science
Architectural Design
Adejoke
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Eric Richter Flood (December, 1995) Marianne Vanessa Gaudy Victor A. Rodriguez, Jr.
Rochelle Diane Wallis;
Alison J. \yindolph-
Architecture
Brooke Chapman (August, 1996)
Cum Laude
Shirley Ho
UK Kang (^gusM^6)
Eric MatthevRS^^^B
Fu Guang Li
Nicholas Carl Seehafer (August, 1995)
Gerald Alan
Architecture-Construction Management Ballard
Ru Fuller Boothe, Magna Cum Laude
Lydia Marie Brannin
Mihaloliakos
Architecture-Housing and Land Development
Terence Hillard Capers SMuLusWZtzS)
Architecture-Interior Architecture and Design
Hasnaat Bukhari
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1 sBeyerl^ll earn HoustWWWW^I
Susan Jean Stachelek
Paula Velasquez
Kellie Linnea Wanbaugh (August, 1995)
ADMINISTRATION
William R. Wells, Interim Dean
Michael Interim Assistant Dean
Richard Beckman Jeanne Brown Hugh Burgess Randall Hale Zouheir Hashem Mark Hoversten Attila Lawrence Neil Opfer Werner Osterhaus
Reed Settle Michelle Stalk Eric Strain Luther Strange James Veltman
Staff
Shirley Mulvaney Susan Schiller Chris Drago
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE^ CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
of professional design education at UNLV began in the 1970s when local architects Julio Lucchesi, Robert FieldenSnd George Tate began explorations with tne University and the professional design community regarding the establishment of an architecture program. These exploratory studies led the University to contract Hugh Burgess, Dean of Arizona State University, to conduct a
. feasibility studyrar an architecture program at LSlV. From this feasibility study, the first architecture classes during 1981 with local architects
Tom Schoeman, George Tate and Ra®,ucchesi volunteering their time to teach courses. Ray Lucchesi assumed leadership of the program in 1982 developing a two-year experimental program and establishing funding fcWhe program. In 1985, year program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Architecture was approved by the University Board of Regents.
In 1986, Hugh Burgess vW selected to head the Architecture Studies program and develop undergraduate degree programs in Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Planning and Construction Management. The Architecture Studies program was placed in the newly established College of Engineering in 1988 under the administration ofDr. William R. Wells.
In 1989, the University Board of Regents approved a graduate professional degree program in architecture and in the 1990 fall semester, a two-year professional gradiHe study, leading degree, was added
program. As of March, 1996, the program has granted two M. Arch, degrees and has twenty-nine enrolled graduate students in the graduate architectural program.
In August 1994, the University Board of Regents separated the Architecture Studies program from the College of Engineering and recognized the College of Architecture, Construction Management and Planning as an autonomous academic unit containing the programs for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Planning and Construction Management, rajuly 1995, Dr. William Wells, again assumed leadership of the program as Interim Dean. During the fall semester 1995, the CWege had a total population of 305 enrolled design and construction management majors.
During the 1995-1996 academic the College has gained regional and national I stature through its symposia and design charettes on Las Vegas Architecture and
Sustainable Desert Development. A new building for the College is anticipated to begin construction during the summer of 1996 and the College, fortified with fresh new alumni, is looking forward to continued success and growth.
CEREMONY SPEAKER
THOMAS J. SCHOEMAN, ALA
Mr. Schoeman is Chairman College of
and
Board and President
ArchitectsTone of Las Vegas' leading architectural
Schoeman director of the JMA
commercial studio which has been responsible for
the masterplans for the Hughes Airport Center, and
Center and such significant Las
buildings as the.Household Credit Services
Processing, Center, Administration
a da Center,
Manufacturing LpckneedT^^^®
istrationhnd Complex, and Lincoln
Square
Mr. Schbeman^eceiv^W Bachelor of Fine
Arts froml^M University of New Mexico and also
did graduate study there. Registered as an architect
ana states, Mr. Schoeman is
Las Vegas American OR
Architects, and is active inTfe^pmmiffii^ervihg
as a Trustee for the Nevada
Director of tfie National Association
of Industrial and Office Parks, Past Chairman eV
Opportunity Village, and Past
Presidents Association of the UNLV Foundation.
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS