Barbara S. Dixon and Suzanne L. Turner are new Co-Chairs of The Cultural Landscape Foundation Board of Directors
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Barbara S. Dixon and Suzanne L. Turner are new Co-Chairs of The Cultural Landscape Foundation Board of Directors
Kurt Culbertson, Shaun Duncan and Doug Reed stepping down as Co-Chairs
Washington, DC (April 25, 2013) – The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) today announced that Barbara S. Dixon and Suzanne L. (Susan) Turner have become Co-Chairs of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. They take over from Co-Chairs Kurt Culbertson, Shaun Duncan and Doug Reed who are stepping down. The fifteen-year-old Foundation provides people with the ability to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, conference, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide. Ms. Dixon joined the Foundation’s Board in 2004 and Ms. Turner joined in 1999.
“Barbara and Susan have been actively engaged Board Members and I look forward to the leadership, intellectual rigor and resourcefulness they will bring as Co-Chairs,” said TCLF founder and president, Charles A. Birnbaum. “I also wish to thank out-going Co-Chairs Kurt, Shaun and Doug whose wisdom and counsel have been indispensible and who have helped the foundation achieve extraordinary results.”
Mrs. Dixon began her career on Wall Street in 1970 at a firm called Hayden Stone, which later morphed into Shearson Lehman Brothers where she became a Managing Director. Her expertise is in futures trading, as a money manager (CTA). She managed several commodity funds, lectured about the futures markets throughout the US, in London, and in Tokyo, and wrote a weekly market letter for Shearson Lehman clients. Mrs. Dixon left Lehman in 1992, and after a brief period at Smith Barney, she left Wall Street. Mrs. Dixon has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Futures Trading Advisors, the Board of Directors of the New York Futures Exchange, the Board of Directors of FINEX and a trustee of the Futures Industry Institute. A graduate of Vassar College and a history major, Mrs. Dixon considered a career in urban planning before she became drawn to trading. Since leaving Wall Street she has been a Vice Chairman of New Yorkers for Parks, an advocacy/research organization that promotes the import of well maintained, well programmed parks for New York City. Mrs. Dixon lives in Manhattan and Stonington, Connecticut, on a 260-acre farm called Manatuck. Manatuck was a featured Garden Dialogues destination in 2012, which was recorded and can be viewed on YouTube.
Susan Turner, FASLA, who holds a BA in Art History from Emory University and an MLA from the University of Georgia, is professor emeriti of the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University, where she served as interim director, graduate program coordinator, and associate dean of the LSU College of Design. She is currently principal of Suzanne Turner Associates, a firm specializing in cultural resource history and management, community preservation planning, and landscape design. Mrs. Turner has a long-standing interest in the preservation and interpretation of historic and cultural landscapes. Among her projects are Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia and the Hermann-Grima House in New Orleans in Louisiana, Bayou Bend Gardens and Rienzi in Houston, Texas and Drayton Hall near Charleston, Virginia (with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates). She has consulted on historic landscape projects in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Illinois. She has authored many book chapters and journal articles, and is author of The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown Plantation (LSU Press, 2012), and co-author of Houston's Silent Garden, Glenwood Cemetery, 1971-2009 (Texas A&M Press, 2010). Mrs. Turner serves on board of Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority, and is secretary of Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
The Cultural Landscape Foundation provides people with the ability to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations.