COUNCIL (LADAC) :DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS

With initial support in 1981 from San Diego landscape architect Michael Theilacker, “SLO Landscape” was created as a newsletter to keep alumni and friends in touch with the program. It was published annually or biennially by the department. Walt Tryon and Joe Dunstan wrote the first journal with student support. During the 1980s, students wrote “SLO Landscape.” with its last publication in 2009.

Under Dale Sutliff’s leadership as department head, the Landscape Architecture Department Advisory Council (LADAC) was created in September 2001. This body is composed of a majority of alumni and plays a key role in assisting the department in maintaining curricular currency in the profession as well as assisting in fulfilling its missions and goals.

Members of the LADAC are leaders in the profession, business or community who have a profound interest in the success of the Landscape Architecture program. Council members represent a wide scope of practice and come from all over California. Members also volunteer and participate in classroom activities and host faculty and students on department field trips.

The council’s mission is to provide advice, advocacy, access and leverage to assist with theacquisition of needed resources for the department.

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