Terence Harkness
At the ASLA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, October, 2007) Professor Terry Harkness received the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal, which is the nation’s highest honor for excellence in education. The full citation which is on-line at http://www.asla.org/awards/2007/medals/awarded/harkness.html, underscores how “Harkness’ passion for teaching continues to inspire many leading designers in the profession today.”
Gary B. Kesler
At the ASLA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, October, 2007) Professor Gary Kesler
was awarded the ASLA President’s Medal, “in recognition of his sustained, unselfish, and devoted service to the Society at the national level for over 30 years. Through his skill as a tenured professor and leader of the Society, Gary has followed in the footsteps of Jot D. Carpenter and other leading educators to promote the values of our academic system for the profession and concern for future recruitment of landscape architects.”
Amita Sinha
On September 27, 2007, Professor Amita Sinha was presented with a plaque of recognition by the Eco-Development Foundation, New Delhi, India for "major contributions to research on and raising awareness of cultural landscapes of South Asia."
Gary Kesler and Terry Harkness after receiving
their medals at the 2007 ASLA Annual Meeting. (Photo by Sarah Harkness Wotherspoon.) 
