Ohio Chapter History
The Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has its roots in a historic three-state chapter that included Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. As the ranks of landscape architects grew, this tri-state chapter split into three single-state chapters that are still in existence today.
Home to many national officers of ASLA, the Ohio Chapter has been a leader in the profession of landscape architecture for decades. The Ohio Chapter hosted the 1985 National ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Cincinnati, and the 1995 National ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Cleveland.
National ASLA presidents elected from the Ohio Chapter include William Behnke, FASLA of Cleveland; Robert Mortensen, FASLA of Toledo; and the late Jot Carpenter, FASLA, former Ohio State University landscape architecture department chairman. Don Leary, FASLA from the Maumee Section of the Ohio Chapter has served as ASLA national Vice-President of Finance. Other past national Vice Presidents from Ohio include Virginia Russell, FASLA of the Miami Section and Kathleen Fox, FASLA of the Buckeye Section.
Current Fellows of the ASLA from Ohio include:
Bassett, James H.,1981
Behnke, William A., 1975
Behnke, William Lee, 2006
Bentley, John, 2008
Bonnell, Thomas H., 2001
Booth, Norman K., 1999
Breeden, J. Brooks, 2002
Cawrse, Craig, 2005
Creed, George E., 1984
Espe, Richard W., 2015
Fox, Kathleen M., 1997
Hills, Arthur W., 1999
Hiss, James E., 2004
Kinzelman, Brian, 2015
Knight, Charles L., 1995
Lasch, Mary Ann, 1998
Leary, Donald F., 2005
Manning, Christopher H., 2017
Martin, Eugenia, 2014
McKnight, Alan D., 2016
Meisner, Gary W., 1990
Mersky, Dennis J., 2010
Meyers, Richard J., 1982
Mickelson, Edwin, 2008
Myers, Keith A., 2011
Russell, Virginia Lockett, 1997
Schmalenberger, Tim, 2013
Smith, Jerry A., 2010
Walquist, Lawrence W., Jr., 2007
Zarfoss, Thomas F., 2004