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August 29, 2001
UNM'S MORROW NAMED FELLOW BY NATIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS GROUP

Baker Morrow, adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture in the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, has recently been named a Fellow by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). He is both the first UNM graduate and first native New Mexican to receive this honor.

The local ASLA chapter nominated Morrow for admission to the prestigious Council of Fellows. ASLA has been naming Fellows since 1899 and has only elected 800 nationally the last century. Morrow was selected the first time his name was submitted.

Morrow was nominated based upon his extensive work including design and design awards, publishing, successfully getting the UNM master's in landscape architecture (MLA) program established after a 23-year quest, and creating the state registration for landscape architects based upon the national standard. That, too, was a long process that took a dozen years to bring to fruition.

"It took three separate tries in Santa Fe, going to the legislature time and again, pushing it through the house and senate and finally getting the governor's signature on it. My colleagues and I spent about 1,500 hours on it," he says.

Morrow acknowledges the significance of the honor. When the ASLA president called to give him the news, he was told that he was one of only 16 people elected as Fellows this year.

"Truly, I am honored," he says.

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