The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), an organization that assists its member state registration boards in carrying out their duties and provides a certification program for individual architects, installed its newly elected officers and directors at its 82nd annual meeting and conference in Seattle July 1. The officers were elected June 23.

NCARB Board of Directors 2001–2002

President C. William Bevins, AIA Charleston, W.Va.

First Vice President/President-elect C. Robert Campbell, AIA Albuquerque

Second Vice President Robert A. Boynton, FAIA Richmond, Va.

Treasurer Frank M. Guillot, AIA Burlington, Vt.

Secretary H. Carleton Godsey, AIA Louisville

Past President Peter Steffian, FAIA Boston

Director, Region 1 Douglas K. Engebretson , FAIA Springfield, Mass.

Director, Region 2 Dennis L. Astorino, AIA Pittsburgh

Director, Region 3 Robert E. Luke, AIA Meridian, Miss.

Director, Region 4 Daniel A. Redstone, AIA Southfield, Mich.

Director, Region 5 Melinda E. Pearson, AIA Lincoln, Neb.

Director, Region 6 Cornelius (Kin) DuBois, AIA Denver

The new president, C. William Bevins, AIA, of Charleston, W.Va., is an owner/vice president of ZMM Inc., a Charleston-based architecture and engineering firm.

Bevins has been instrumental in the development of the computerized examination that is administered to architecture licensure candidates throughout the U.S. and Canada, noted an NCARB release. He is also leading the organization's efforts to negotiate agreements with a number of nations through which qualified U.S. and foreign architects may practice in each other's country and will continue NCARB's outreach with the groups' regulatory counterparts worldwide. Bevins is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

In addition, during the Seattle conference, NCARB awarded its Presidential Medal for distinguished service to six people who have "made significant contributions to the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare through their service to NCARB and to the practice of architecture." AIA-member recipients include Alan W.T. Baldwin Jr., AIA (as previously reported in AIArchitect) and Michiel M. Bourdrez, AIA, NCARB's director of professional services. The other awardees are Pamela J. Hill, an architect and educator from Bozeman, Mont., honored for her work to strengthen the link between education and practice; Petr Bílek, current president of the Czech Chamber of Architects, who was recognized for his long-term service to his country's architecture community and his efforts to establish professional ties with U.S. architects; Stephen Sands, cited for his service to the California Board of Architects; and Mary de Sousa, NCARB's controller, noted for her management of NCARB's finances.

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