I'll be around So I guess the remember
we're still missing one
where he come from Hawaii coming Oh well
yeah.
Oh really? Yeah,
I
know I
love that.
This is really haven't been working with him. I thought I could recognize
some of these are supposed
anyway. This is really amazing. Thank you.
But this is what item number one Agenda this morning is to get the 12 of
us with the class. Okay. And they have many dave right there. Really kind
of put this whole thing together to begin with. For those of you didn't
see it. The Elmore plaque for the naming of the bridges down there by the
bridge. Just this side of the
But these are the four years. I have heard your name. All kinds of.
Oh boy. Mm hmm. Yeah.
Okay.
Ready to do the group think.
Yeah,
that's just because it's a platform. That's pretty
good. Everybody
stop slowing down once again.
That's alright. That's
alright. So
hey Lauren from Hillary that women are not in charge
and trump are charged in that order.
Hillary
for forgiveness three times. I've seen her five times since the
inauguration and all of a sudden
thanks.
That was great. All right.
Okay guys, let's get one with you all celebrating.
Yeah, there's only 200 miles left to go
remember. Look here we go. 123,
1, 2, 3 celebrate.
I'm jerry Muskoka. I'm the guy who did all of this. I originated the
design. I did everything. None of these guys did anything. They just
watched me give me your name. I'm Bill close and I'm here. Class of 66 and
67 and we, I messed around with this and the fall of 66 he's a sun devil
fan. Yes from David Foot and I live in plano texas class of 67. Class of
67. I'm Finley and I live in Honolulu hawaii class of 67.
Congratulations. Thank you. But here was that 1998
Tomorrow Bill has this set up for a free lunch
Alumni association is going to have us as a group at a table and
my name is jerry Atwood. I was born in san Diego Ocean Beach in my beach
bum but I went to graduate from Scottsdale High School and then my
freshman year at College of Architecture at issue. 1000 people showed up
at my freshman class and today you're looking at only 12 of us that got
out a five year program. But I've never left the Valley have been here
ever since. And you remember Jim Elmore? Absolutely. Jim Elmore was my
first and only Dean
park Illinois.
The number of places around the country and my father was a minister
and eventually
third college, Arizona State University where I decided on architecture
stuck around, got my degree here
and now I'm located in Encinitas California, doing fine art.
Alright.
So I'm ned Sawyer, I was born in boston but came out to start grade school
here and have lived here ever since I happened to have grown up with Jim
Elmore son. We were in third grade together. So that influence influence
of the boomer house being under construction and the Edelman house and uh
the Shiprock uh interested into architecture because I lived in a monopoly
house and so uh graduated with six years at college and uh I'm still
practicing architecture because I loved steve Freeman, steve W. Freeman
from the class of 67 sq colleagues have architecture. Um I was going to
Camelback High School in phoenix and uh they asked me what I was going to
do, I said I guess I was going to college and they said well we see that
you make good grades and drafting and art you ought to be an architect and
I had nothing else in mind. So that's what I did. It took me eight years
in the five years curriculum. But I finally made it. My name is lee Peters
and I'm from actually doing Arizona near Prescott. And I
actually wanted to go to the university of Oregon where my dad graduated
100 years ago and uh they were heaven. Uh they lost their accreditation
and so my sister was going to A S. U. At the time. And so I said let's go
, so I bunked with her for a year and here I am 50 years later Jim Scalise
and came to a issue in 61 from michigan and Illinois Not knowing how to
spell architecture now. I are one uh, and have been living in the valley
for most of that 55
years, uh left the valley for a couple of years to teach elsewhere and go
to graduate school. But came back here, I went to high school in kalamazoo
michigan and in Marion Virginia and then came out, I went to michigan
state for a year, first decided I didn't like the cold and drew a line
where the snow stopped in the country and applied to sc Arizona State and
the university of florida. I came here, I went to graduate school at
Berkeley for a year and then taught in Kansas chances for two years and
then was on the faculty here for 17 years. How about a little reminisced
about bob McConnell, bob McConnell was really a good guy. He really knew
what he was doing and he let us do what we thought we wanted to do. That
was the biggest part of what he did. He literally told us with this real
slaughter project in so many words there it is. What can you do with it?
And he left the room that was our project. Well what's missing, I think is
the syllabus that he wrote. It seemed like it was a masterpiece. It was,
that was written after he told us that because he had compiled all that
yet and we only had 88 weeks to do it. And of course we looked at each
other and said, what did he just say?
And we said, well, let's break it into parts and figure out what it is
before we decide what we want to do with that. But we must have some
pretty good leadership in this studio. Yeah, I think everybody pitched in.
It was, it was 16 of us and I think everybody pitched in and
did their share and more. You know, some people got ahold of the light
airplane so we could fly it 40 miles. Some people had a jeep and drove it
, photographed it, hyped it. Nobody had a horse. So we didn't do that was
the original, but we literally, even people who have lived here really
never. That's the only thing that let's find out what it is to start
deciding on what to do with that of course is being too modest because we
always thought of it as the salt river came across some archives were real
cell Otto the term and that's what we ended up using what everyone knows
about
at that time. The issue library wasn't much to find anything in there.
Would have been a stroke of luck, I'd say in the stacks. They had those
old metal. Yes,
thank you.
Think someone
thinks
we want to go back to putting water in the river. Let's go back to
get a little bio on you.
Currently live in.
I came to you after two years of engineering at Purdue University
visited my oldest sister,
enjoyed the creativity of
getting into architecture.
Big fan of frank Lloyd Wright's, this was really a wonderful experience
and particularly when McConnell came in and said there's the salt river,
what are you gonna do about it? And I left the room because that was the
first
program
project
transforming.
I'm bob calhoun and I started in indiana ended up in southern California
with high school And I had a girlfriend at the time and she had an uncle
who had worked at Taliesin in 1940s and he lived in Arizona I think I
wanted to become an architect because I had a high school buddy who was a
event in his house, was designed by an architect and he lived next to that
designer who had a just a wonderful house and had a studio in his own home
and that's what I decided I want to do is build my own house and have a
studio. So
you know with that information my grades weren't the greatest of
California but A. S. U. Accepted me. So I came over here in 1959
got married in 1960 had a child in 1962
went back to California for a couple of years and then came back to a. S.
U. In 62 graduated in 67.
I graduated with a wife, two Children and went to work. So where are you
now? I still live in Arizona up in Scottsdale and built my own home and
took a couple of years. Um 4800 ft more than we need now. Uh We have five
, four kids at the time and we moved in.
My only departure out of the country was sometime in Saudi Arabia and
sometime in Iran and great experiences getting to and from and being over
there and that had to do with business dealings in Arizona for the people
that I work for, which is the home builder, I have my own business for
about 10 years. And when the economy turned sour back in 86 I went to work
for Anderson to Barlow and pond out of Tucson and was with them for about
15 years and basically management positions and then they got sold to
floor daniel and the marketing changed, People have changed and we then
went decided to go to work for three D. International in Houston texas, in
the local office in phoenix. So then I got into the program and project
management and I worked there for about 15 years and retired at the age of
17,right