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President’s Message
Rostrum 2012
AIA Newark and Suburban Architects A Section of AIA New Jersey
AIA New Jersey is a Chapter and Region of the American Institute of Architects
JANUARY 2012
Issue 1
The Rostrum
The official newsletter of
the Newark & Suburban
Section of AIA-NJ
Published monthly
Submit events, case
studies, photos, comments,
or other content for
consideration to:
rostrum.ns.aia@gmail.com
President’s Message 1
Upcoming Events 1
Mentorship NOW 2
Regional Director’s Report
3
Toys for Tots Success 4
Inside this issue:
January Events
The evening of January 21,
2012, the AIA Newark & Suburban Past Presidents
banquet will be held at the Manor in West Orange, NJ.
Sponsorship information is available. If you haven’t
received your invitation in the mail, you can register: http://www.aians.org/event/2012-past-presidents-banquet
Citizen Architect Taskforce meeting to be held at the
Publick House in Chester, NJ at 6 PM on Tuesday, 10
January 2012. Interested? For more information contact Judy Donnelly, AIA
or Ken Fox, AIA.
me to meet a dynamic group
of professionals committed
to serving its members as
well as to the advancement
o f the a r ch i te c tu ra l
profession. It is the goal of
the Newark and Suburban
Architects Officers and
Trustees to encourage
awareness of the profession
through education and
fellowship. So I encourage
the membership to attend
our general meetings,
educational opportunities,
and special events planned
throughout the year.
I am excited about the New
Year and welcome the
opportunity to meet more of
you – our members. Please
take the time to visit with
me at one of our general
meetings. I welcome the
opportunity to learn your
thoughts and ideas about
Newark and Suburban.
Finally, I want to thank my
predecessor, Yogesh Mistry,
AIA, who did a magnificent
job in 2011. I will welcome
his support, insight, and
guidance in 2012.
Kevin
McCormick,
AIA, LEED®AP,
AIANS
President,
2012.
Happy New Year! I am
honored to be the President
of Newark and Suburban
Architects for 2012. I hope
it is a prosperous year for
our organization and all of
our members. I look
forward to the events we
have planned for the
upcoming year and hope to
see a lot of new faces.
I was born, raised and have
lived my whole life in New
Jersey. I am a graduate
from the School of
Architecture at NJIT and
practiced architecture for
nearly ten years. For eight
years now I have worked
wi th Skanska – an
international construction
management firm with its
US headquarters based in
Parsippany. I am married,
have two young children and
now live in Millington.
As a member of the Newark
and Suburban Board, I have
had the opportunity to serve
as Trustee, Secretary, First
Vice-President and President
-Elect. Over the past few
years I have been involved
in the planning of our annual
G o l f O u t i n g a n d
CANstruction competition. I
have found participating on
the Board to be a rewarding
experience. It has enabled
CoAD Alumni Pay it Forward through Mentorship NOW
minority of the associate membership, as people deal
creatively with the recession by inventing their own jobs.
For those on a traditional
career path, the seminars will provide a refreshing
point of view by informing attendees on topics not
usually emphasized in current practice.
If you are interested
becoming involved or donating your time (or
money), please contact e ither Cla ir Wholean
clairmarie@gmail.com, or J o h n C w i k l a a t
jacaianj@verizon.net
CoAD Alumni involved in Mentorship NOW:
Priya Shah Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NJIT B. Arch. 2007
Jason Peist, Assoc. AIA, NJIT B. Arch. Fall 2008
Donna Miller, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD&C, NJIT B. Arch. 2009
Jennifer Mortensen Carson, Assoc. AIA, NJIT M. Arch. 2011
Ian Siegel, Past President of AIAS at NJIT, Current Student in B. Arch. (Expected 2012)
Mentorship NOW Planning Team volunteers:
Clair Wholean, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA, AIA-NJ Regional Associate Director 2011-2012
John Cwikla, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, First V.P. NS, &
Emerging Professionals Chair
Jerome Leslie Eben, AIA, AIANJ Regional Director
Nicole DeCandia, Assoc. AIA, IDP Coordinator, NJ
John Kanengieter, Assoc. AIA, EIT, LEED AP
Peter Kozielski, AIA
Jason Lutz, Assoc. AIA
Lauren Thomson, Assoc. AIA
and i n t e r e s t s . Th i s information offers clearer
insight when assembling groups with similar interests,
a n d w i t h i n s i m i l a r
geographic areas of the state.
Mentoring groups will have four professional levels
i n c l u d i n g e m e r g i n g
professionals, mid-level l i c e n s e d , m i d - l e v e l
unlicensed, and seasoned professionals. Fellows will
be involved, ideally with the ideal goal of one per group.
Mentoring through cross-generational communication
will facilitate bridging the
gap between different experience levels. Groups
will be assembled based on information provided in
applications.
As a supplement to the small mentoring groups, the
commi t tee w i l l p lan b imonth ly educat ional
seminars where all are i n v i t e d , f e a t u r i n g
presentations given by professionals in other fields.
Mentorship NOW can join
existing CoAD programs, l e c t u r e s e r i e s , a nd
mentorship programs to increase the quality and
quantity of these resources. One goa l o f the se
interdisciplinary seminars is to foster interest in
alternative career paths for
architects, a growing
NJIT College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) Alumni
and current architecture students are developing a
mentorship program along
with education programs that appeal to emerging
professionals and current students. Mentorship is an
essential feature of the d e v e l o p m e n t o f a n
architect’s career. The form of mentorship has changed
considerably over time, from
its beginnings as an apprenticeship, to the
current environment, with nearly limitless possible
mentoring relationships.
The program, Mentorship NOW, utilizes today’s
technology such as social media and promotes
interpersonal communication t o d e v e l o p c a r e e r
r e l a t i o n s h i p s a n d interactions. Learning
through mentorship has
evolved from a narrow path to a complex range of
possibilities. This organized program streamlines the
current process into a more p r o d u c t i v e f o r m o f
mentorship relevant to young interns/students
today.
The technical component of the Mentorship NOW
program is the online database. This database
allows program participants
to log pertinent information
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AIA Newark & Suburban
Board Members
Officers
KEVIN McCORMICK, AIA
President
LOUISE ADDONIZIO, AIA
President-Elect
JOHN A. CWIKLA, AIA
First Vice President
LISA SAN FILIPPO, AIA
Secretary
STEPHEN ROONEY, AIA
Treasurer
YOGESH MISTRY, AIA
Past President
Trustees
Trustee 2012
JUDY DONNELLY, AIA
Trustees 2013
CHRISTY DIBARTOLO, AIA
ALEX GOTTHELF,AIA
ELLEN HARMON,
ALLIED MEMBER
NATASHA SUZANSKY, AIA
Trustees 2014
PAUL TIAJOLOFF, AIA
RONALD WESTON, AIA
JASON PEIST, ASSOC. AIA
Honorary Affiliate
DAN BISCHOFF
Section Administrator
JULIE PAGNOTTA
aiaadmin@verizon.net
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I have just returned from the final 2011 National
Board Meeting. This is the completion of my first of a
three year commitment as
your Regional Director. It has been an eye opening
experience to witness the way OUR institute is
organized and how your leaders focus on the
important issues that face the organization and in turn
on OUR profession as
ARCHITECTS.
The year started with the
appointment of Robert A. Ivy, Jr., FAIA Executive Vice
President/CEO of the
Institute. I am sure many of you know of Robert’s
accompl ishments wi th McGraw-Hill and as Editor of
Architectural Record. We could not have a better
manager than a man who has been an advocate for
the profession for his entire
career, first as a practicing architect and later, in his
role with McGraw-Hill. Robert was a member of the
Board over a decade ago, so he is experienced with the
way the operation works. In this position, he is charged
with the day-to-day running
of the institute, managing the many departments,
which include over 200 employees and a budget of
nearly 60 million dollars.
I am part of the Class of 2013. We call ourselves the
“Original 13” in honor of the original founders of AIA
some 154 years ago. We, of course, come from all over
the country, and are made
up of firm owners, (large and small), corporate
architects, and educators. A good mix, for sure, and we
have made it our mission to increase the public ’s
understanding of what we do for a living and the
architecture we create. Our
first year was about getting familiar with the process and
wo r k i ng on va r i o u s committees.
At this last meeting, I
chaired a Class Dinner where we had a discussion
about entering our middle year of service: what we do
next? I am glad to report that the emphasis of this
energetic group will be on the Emerging Professional
(EP) and the mentoring
process. Our goal is to help increase the participation of
our young people into the organization and service the
needs of the profession that
they will inherit. I have been a proponent of EPs, as
I fondly refer to them, and I hope that the 2012
leadership of the Sections
will see fit to send as many of these young people to
AIA’s best program, the Grassroots Leadersh ip
Conference, held in early March.
At Grassroots, I will have the
opportunity to hold an annual Regional Meeting. I
have asked Phil Simon, AIA’s Director of Communication
to have Ned Cramer, Editor of ARCHITECT (the magazine
of AIA) to be available to us. I have had numerous
requests from members about the approach of the
magazine and its newswire service. Please join me for
this important meeting (time
and meeting room, will be provided via a future E-mail
to attendees) and have your concerns and questions
answered.
Jerome Leslie
Eben, AIA
AIA NJ
Regional Director,
2011-2013
Regional Director’s Report
Fifth Annual ‘Toys for Tots’ Drive a Success
OBJECTIVES:
The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help less
f o r t u n a t e c h i l d r e n throughout the United States
experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active
role in the development of one of our nation’s most
valuable resources – our
children; to unite all m e m b e r s o f l o c a l
communities in a common cause for three months each
year during the annual toy collection and distribution
campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the
future.
John A Cwikla, AIA, LEED AP
BD+C
2011 Treasurer, AIA NS
2012 First Vice-President, AIA NS
U.S.M.C. Reserve
Toys for Tots Program
MISSION:
The mission of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys
for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during
October, November, and December each year, and
distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy
children in the community in
which the campaign is conducted.
GOAL:
The primary goal of Toys for
Tots is to deliver, through a
new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less
fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming
responsible, productive, patriotic citizens.
AIA Newark & Suburban Architects recently held its
Fifth Annual ‘Toys for Tots’ toy drive at our annual
meeting. Through our e-
mail updates and online registration, we asked all
attending members to bring a new, unwrapped toy in
December.
Once again our members, vendors and sponsors didn’t
disappoint. Throughout the evening, we collected over
40 toys, which filled more than three large Toys for
Tots boxes. It warms one’s heart to see that even in
tough economic times,
people will make a small sacrifice so that someone
less fortunate can enjoy a little bit of holiday cheer. I’m
sure all of the toys were greatly appreciated by the
boys and girls that received them.
AIA Newark & Suburban
Architects would like to thank all our members,
vendors and sponsors for supporting this worthwhile
cause, and look forward to
next years event.
For more information
regarding the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots
Program, please read on
below.
Happy Holidays!
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