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committees of our Society. This has not been 

 neglected, as our Society records will show. 



We are glad to report a much better public 

 appreciation of good landscape work and the 

 city planning idea (with the city zoning plans 

 as necessary thereto), since our Chapter was 

 formed. Our profession is more widely rec- 

 ognized and results will show greater advance 

 in the next ten years. 



Our Chapter now numbers four voting mem- 

 bers and three junior members. 



With the wider travel and acquaintance of 

 our members with members serving as park 

 commissioners, as city planners, at the State 

 University, together with memberships in 

 allied societies, chapters, the Minnesota Chap- 

 ter is bound to have more effective influence 

 in the years to come. 



P.^CIFIC COAST CH.'>iPTER 



The Pacific Coast Chapter was established 

 in Washington, D. C, in the spring of 1919, 

 as a Provisional Chapter of the American So- 

 ciety of Landscape Architects. President. W. 

 D. Cook, Jr., of Los Angeles, Vice-President, 

 Stephen Child, of San Francisco, and Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer, E. T. Mische, of Portland, 

 Oregon. There were no other members of 

 the American Society practicing on the Coast 

 at that time. A Constitution and By-Laws 

 were drawn up and submitted to the parent 

 body for their approval. 



Due to the unusual conditions prevailing on 

 the Pacific Coast in the practice of Landscape 

 Architecture, whereby many nurserymen and 

 engineers call tliemselves landscape architects 

 and contract for work, and due to the general 

 public failing to discriminate between the tech- 

 nically trained man practicing professionally and 

 the contractor type, our Chapter during its ex- 

 istence has made strenuous efforts to uphold 

 the ethics of the profession and to get rec- 

 ognition as a "profession" included under the 

 head of fine arts. Our limited membership and 

 the fact that the Executive Committee officers 

 were widely separated added to our difficulties 

 in getting concerted action. 



In 1920 the following were elected to mem- 

 bership in the Chapter: George D. Hall, Fel- 

 low of th< A. S. L. A., Charles P. Punchard, 

 Member, A. S. L. A.; and the Hon F. D. 

 Blanchard, in appreciation of his great activi- 

 ties in Civic Improvement was elected an Hon- 



orary Member. The Chapter keenly feels the 

 loss of Charles Punchard, whose untimely 

 death cut short the splendid work he was do- 

 ing. 



On January 18, 1921, George D. Hall was 

 elected Secretary, while E. T. Mische remained 

 our Treasurer. This action was taken in or- 

 der to expedite action through the Executive 

 Committee, and it is hoped that changes may 

 be made in our by-laws which cannot function 

 properly. 



An affiliation between the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Chapter of the American Institute of 

 -Architects and the Pacific Coast Chapter is an 

 accomplished fact and is tending toward a 

 better understanding between the two profes- 

 sions. This affiliation is in reality an associa- 

 tion only, our Chapter having carefully guard- 

 ed its entire independence of action as to any 

 resolutions or votes that may be passed. 



Our Chapter is also associated in the Joint 

 Technical Societies of Los Angeles, comprising 

 the local members of the American Society of 

 Civil Engineers, the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers, the .Vmerican Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers, the American Chemical 

 Society, the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers, the American Institute of Archi- 

 tects and the American Society of Landscape 

 Architects. The President and Secretary of 

 our Chapter are members of the Joint Com- 

 mittee representing the above Societies. Here 

 again we have carefully guarded our entire in- 

 dependence of action as to any resolutions or 

 votes, which may be of more than local im- 

 portance. 



"The Architect and Engineer," published in 

 San Francisco, carries the official listing of our 

 Chapter, and is very kindly publishing the 

 activities of the Professional Landscape Archi- 

 tect here on the Coast. "The California South- 

 land" is also doing much to help our cause, 

 and "Park and Recreation," of which E. T. 

 Mische is an Editor is proposing to do much 

 in this line. 



During the year 1921, our Chapter Member- 

 ship was increased by the election of John 

 William Gregg, Professor at the University 

 of California, and Frederick N. Evans, Super- 

 intendent of Parks at Sacramento, California, 

 both members of the A. S. L. A. 



Our Chapter is doing what it can to advance 

 the high standard of Professional Ethics and 

 Practice laid down by the A. S. L. A. but it 

 continues to urge that the parent body under- 

 take a broad and dignified publicity of the pro- 



