ANNUAL BANQUET AND AWARDS
• 2007 Investiture Banquet • LAIGW Distinguished Service Award
Each year, the George Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha International holds a significant social event on a mid-week evening in October. The Annual Investiture Banquet provides an opportunity for active members of the chapter to welcome new members who are formally inducted during the evening, to celebrate the recipient of the chapter’’s annual Distinguished Service Award as well as chapter-nominated recipients of awards presented by LAI, and to socialize with other members, spouses and guests in a more leisurely setting than is possible at the monthly luncheons always scheduled in the middle of busy work days. The banquets are held in unique settings, including the newly restored Conservatory of The United States Botanic Garden on the National Mall, the prestigious Cosmos Club in downtown Washington, D.C. and most recently at the Stephen Decatur House Museum on Layfayette Park.
2007 BANQUET
The 2007 Investiture Banquet will be held on the evening of Wednesday, October 16, 2007, at a location to be determined. Chapter members will receive an independent invitation to the banquet with reservation instructions. Along with the induction of new members, national and local awards will be given out.
The Board of Directors of the Chapter established the Distinguished Service Award in the late 1990s to honor chapter members who have made extraordinary contributions in their land economics fields as well as in areas of public and professional service. The award is presented to one individual each year for a breadth of achievements and contributions over a lifelong career, not for an individual achievement or contribution, regardless of its importance. The award is presented and the recipient honored at the chapter’s annual Investiture Banquet.
The recipient of the 2007 award will be selected during this year by the chapter’s Board of Directors.
2006: No Award Presented
Tersh Boasberg is senior partner in his own law firm specializing in land use; historic preservation; non_profit organizations; tax, housing and real estate law; public and private dispute resolution; federal grant and loan programs; environmental litigation, and legal and government consulting. Currently, Boasberg serves as chair of the Historic Preservation Review Board and board member of the D.C. Commemorative Works Committee. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. His past service has included terms as commissioner and chairman of the D.C. Zoning Commission, chair of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, founder of Preservation Action, president of the National Center for Preservation Law, president of the Cleveland Park Historical Society, and trustee of the National Building Museum. Along with his other accomplishments, Boasberg is coauthor of the three_volume Historic Preservation Law and Taxation and author of numerous articles concerning historic preservation. Most notably, in the 1980s he helped spearhead a visible national effort to save portions of the Manassas Civil War battlefield from commercial development. This successful effort led to the creation by the U.S. Congress of the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, charged with identifying the nation’s most significant and threatened battlefields. Federal funding to save them soon followed. Boasberg has received awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Preservation Honor Award 1989), the Piedmont Environmental Council (Environmental Conservation 1994), and the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (Outstanding Service Award 1997). He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Boasberg has been a resident of the District of Columbia since 1964. He became a member of Lambda Alpha International in 1990.
The recipient of the 2004 award will be Kenneth R. Sparks, Executive Vice President of the Federal City Council. The Council is a prestigious association of 200 top business, professional and civic leaders, and is involved in many activities designed to enhance the Nation's Capital. Members of the President's Cabinet and other Federal officials serve on the Council in an ex-officio capacity.
Over the years, the Council has assisted in bringing to fruition such projects as the METRO, Union Station, the Convention Center and the Ronald Reagan World Trade Center. Most recently, the Council was instrumental in bringing the MCI Center to Washington, DC. The Council has also been active in education reform, public finance, housing, and criminal justice matters.
During his 28-year tenure at the FCC, Mr. Sparks has held a variety of additional appointments. From 1988 to 1991, he directed a Presidential Commission overseeing development of the new $700 million United States International Cultural and Trade Center in Washington (now the Reagan Trade Center). He recently chaired a METRO task force that developed a funding plan for the rail and bus system's capital improvement needs. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Excellence in Municipal Management at GWU, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Hospital Center Foundation and the Helen Hayes Awards. Mr. Sparks has served as the Secretary of the Economic Club of Washington since it's inception in 1986.
Mr. Sparks was a Washingtonian of the Year in 1987 and has been honored on several other occasions for public service.
2003: No Award Presented
2002: No Award Presented
2001: Charles H. Atherton, FAIA
Charles H. Atherton has been secretary and chief administrative officer of the Commission of Fine Arts since 1965. Over the years he has been involved in virtually all major federal architectural projects in Washington, from Smithsonian museums on the National Mall to the many memorials throughout the Capital. Some of these projects, such as the Franklin Delano Memorial and the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue, have spanned his entire career.
In addition to his regular duties with the Commission, he has served in many related capacities such as a member of the National Capital Memorial Commission, the National Endowment of the Arts program to indemnify foreign works of art on loan to U.S. museums, and the U.S. Mint’s Commemorative Coins Advisory Committee.
His work in the private sector has included board positions on the Parks and History Association, the Historic American Buildings Survey Foundation, the Navy Art Foundation, and the Historical Society of Washington, the latter of which is currently involved in launching a new City Museum of Washington in the old Carnegie Library on Mount Vernon Square.
He has had a continuing interest in architectural history and preservation, both officially as administrator of the review board for the Historic District of Georgetown, and unofficially in a number of advisory roles involving Tudor Place and the Octagon, both designed by William Thornton, and most recently Government Island in Stafford County, Virginia, the source of much of the stone for the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
Educated at Princeton University, he has a BA in Architecture (summa cum laude) in 1954, and an MFA in 1957.
He is a registered architect, and was made a member of the College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects in 1984. He also served as President of the Washington Chapter of the AIA, and has received its Centennial Award. The Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service was presented to him by the District of Columbia Library.
He was made a member of Lambda Alpha International in 1985.2000: Norman M. Glasgow
Norman M. Glasgow, one of the foremost real estate authorities in the metropolitan Washington area, has devoted his over 50 year legal career to municipal law, land development, and land use regulations, including zoning, planning growth management, economic and environmental, building and fire code, mineral resources, transportation and improvement of delivery of public services. As the legal “architect” for much of the development over this period, he has helped to shape the community’s evolution into a major urban center. This legal involvement has spanned every type of urban development and renewal, including mixed use development, office, residential and shopping center projects and establishment of a new town. He has represented a number of institutional clients including major universities in the city, international organizations and quasi-governmental organizations.
Mr Glasgow, a partner in the firm of Wilkes, Artis, Chartered, is an active community leader involved in the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Washington Building Congress, the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Association of Business Economics, and the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards.
Mr. Glasgow has served on a number of committees such as the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for the rewriting of the D.C. Zoning Regulations and the D.C. Building Regulations. He has also served on several special and advisory committees and task forces as an appointee of the Governor of Maryland. Governor Schaefer appointed him as a member of the Economic Growth Resource Protection and Planning Commission, and Governor Glendening reappointed him for a second term.
A graduate of the University of Maryland (B.S.) And the George Washington University (L.L.B. and J.D.), he is a member and past president of the George Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha. Previously, he received both the International Award and the George Washington Chapter Outstanding Member Award from the Lambda Alpha International and the chapter.1999: Robert Gladstone
Robert Gladstone is founder and chairman of Quadrangle Development Corporation, a large regional real estate development, investment and management company focused exclusively in the Washington metropolitan area. Properties constructed or acquired by Quadrangle include office buildings, hotels, mixed-use complexes, suburban office parks and residential development.
Mr. Gladstone also founded Gladstone Associates, a national economic consulting firm, and served as its president and chairman until 1982. His career as an economic consultant, specializing in urban development and real estate analysis, has included assignments throughout the United States, for public institutions as well as private parties.
Mr. Gladstone is currently director of Medstar Health and chairman of the Washington Hospital Center Foundation and the Downtown Washington Business Improvement District. He also is presently trustee and co-chairman of the Economic Development Committee of the Federal City Council and trustee of the Greater Washington Research Center.
Mr. Gladstone received his Bachelors Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Masters Degree from the University of North Carolina.
Mr. Gladstone was initiated into Lambda Alpha International in 1966.1998: Maybelle Taylor Bennett
Currently Director of the Howard University Community Association, Ms. Bennett is coordinating the Howard University - Fannie Mae LeDroit Park Initiative. The Initiative involves the development of university properties into single family homes for purchase by employees of the university, area residents and municipal employees.
In April of this year Ms. Bennett concluded the fourth of her four year terms on the Zoning Commission for the District of Columbia as a Mayoral appointee under Mayors Marion Barry and Sharon Pratt Kelly. She has also served as the Zoning Commission member on the Board of Zoning Adjustment. She chaired the Commission for a total of seven years throughout her tenure and as chair encouraged numerous joint meetings of the Commission and the Board in the interest of creating a smoother working relationship and collegial internal decision-making around administrative and regulatory issues which affected both agencies.
Ms. Bennett has been asked most recently to chair the Downtown Action Plan Task Force by Mayor Marion Barry.
Ms. Bennett received her undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from Vassar College and her Masters of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University. She has worked in the field of urban planning both in the city of New York with the New York State Urban Development Corporation and in Lagos, Nigeria, with the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation.
Ms. Bennett was initiated into Lambda Alpha International in 1984.1997: Carol Thompson Cole
(Award then called “Chapter Member of the Year”)
Carol Thompson Cole has served in the District of Columbia Government for twelve years and has been responsible for the implementation of progressive innovations as a manager, coordinator and in staff positions. She rose through the ranks in the District Government to serve as City Administrator/Deputy Mayor for Operations from 1988 through 1991. She had previously served as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development for one year following one year as Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the Mayor.
She is President of the Curtex Group, a company that provides services in the areas of construction management, general contracting, architecture and engineering, environmental services and management consulting.
In March, 1996, Ms. Thompson Cole was appointed Special Advisor for the District of Columbia, Executive Office of the President of the United States. In this position she has played a key role in development ways the Federal Government can assist the District of Columbia achieve financial stability, reliable services and economic growth. She manages the D.C. Task Force which includes officials from the Office of Management and Budget and Departments of Education, Health and Human Service, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor, Transportation, and Treasury. This task force has produced the President’s widely applauded legislative initiative that sets forth a new partnership between the Federal Government and the District of Columbia.
Ms. Thompson Cole presently serves the George Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha as a member of the Board of Directors and chair of the Committee on Economics and Real Estate Finance.