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Letter from the President
Jeffrey A. MilhamPresident
In 1989 we began our adventure into architectural lighting design education and gave our first grant to Penn State in the amount of $5,000. As of today, The Nuckolls Fund has given a total of $715,000 to advance lighting education in North America, and we are indeed proud of that accomplishment.
We have had a major change in the board this year. Having served for 22 years, since the very inception of the Fund, both as a board member and as our Treasurer, Gary Gordon decided to retire. Gary has been immensely valuable to the Fund through all its formative years and we are so grateful for all he has done. He has always had a remarkable commitment to lighting education and I'd like to share with you a quote from him. He recently said, "It has been my great pleasure to support Jim Nuckolls' fervent mission to increase awareness of the benefits of architectural lighting through design education." Gary has certainly served us well, and it has not been an easy task to fill the board vacancy, but I am very pleased that Paul Gregory has joined the board. Paul is founder and President of Focus Lighting in New York City. He has had a 30-year career designing lighting for projects in the US and around the world. He and his firm have been honored by multiple Lumen Awards as well as awards from the IALD and the ASID. We know that he will be an invaluable asset to the board.
In 2010, our $50,000 20th Anniversary Grant was given to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Kathy Ankerson as primary investigator. This year she moved to Kansas State University so that grant has been officially transferred at KSU. Work on the project, "Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum", has continued without interruption during that transition, and we anticipate the grant will be completed as per the original schedule in August 2012. The 2010 $25,000 grant to OTIS College of Art and Design is also continuing and their lighting design certificate program will be fully developed and delivered by the end of this year.
This year at our annual luncheon at LIGHTFAIR we gave a $10,000 Edison Price Fellowship Grant to Tina Sarawgi, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Study in Interior Design at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Ms. Sarawgi is pursuing an internship this year with the architectural lighting design firm of Light Defines Space. She has been included in all aspects of the work in that office full time this past summer and continues part time in the fall when she returns to teaching. As part of her grant, she plans to test the usability of her e-light learning modules she developed in her academic career to see how they stand up to the realities of a lighting design practice. She also plans to extend the e-light learning modules by adding strategies to achieve sustainable lighting design solutions.
The Nuckolls Fund gave its $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award to Ms. Leora Radetsky who is studying in the Ph.D. program at RPI's Lighting Research Center in Troy New York. The $5,000 Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award was given to Ms. June Park from South Korea who is studying lighting at Parsons The New School For Design in New York City.
Our financial success is dependent upon annual donors. Among the major contributors to the Nuckolls Fund this past year are the Jonas Bellovin Memorial Foundation; B-K Lighting and TEKA Illumination; the Designers Lighting Forum of New York; Enterprise Lighting Sales; Barbara Horton and Stephen Lees, the New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society; the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation; and Jack Zukerman in honor of Paul Gregory. Of course, we are always pleased to receive many smaller donations from individuals, firms and organizations. With less than 2% of our annual income used for expenses, when you donate to The Nuckolls Fund, your dollars directly support our grant and award programs.
I want to thank Bob Horner, Director of Public Policy for the IESNA who gave us his perspective on the issue of public policy as an alternate educational path at our LIGHTFAIR annual luncheon.
LIGHTFAIR will be in Las Vegas next spring and I hope you can join us there on May 9, 2012 for the announcement of the 2012 grants and awards at our annual luncheon. The Nuckolls Fund continues to search for creativity, diversity and innovative approaches to lighting education and our goal continues to be the development and expansion of programs in lighting education. It is with your continued financial support that we are able to pursue that ongoing mission.
Sincerely,
Sincerely,
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