SPRING
2003
DEVELOPMENT
Bartow Wright Rankin Scholarship Established
by Anne Moser
On September 9, 1998, the University of Georgia lost a good friend and
a talented landscape architect, Bartow Wright Rankin
(MLA ’81). In the Fall of 2002, a group headed up by Bartow’s
wife Jennifer Rankin (BA english ’78)
and DG (Dale) McElveen Jaeger (MLA ’82)
launched the Bartow Wright Rankin Scholarship in his memory. Others involved
include David Albright, (MLA‘81), Martin
Haber (BLA ‘78), Dale Hayter
(MLA ‘79), Rob Jaeger (MLA ’80),
Lee Richardson (BLA ‘81) and Claudia
Woody Warren (BLA ‘78).
Bartow was a MLA student in the School of Environmental Design (now the
College of Environment and Design) from 1974 to 1978, completing his thesis
and graduating in 1981. After graduation, Bartow and his wife, Jennifer,
moved to Dallas, Texas where he worked at Lambert and Associates. Returning
to his hometown of Atlanta, Bartow worked with Heery International, Roy
Ashley and Associates, and later his own firm, Rankin and Associates.
Bartow’s work touched many. One client, Home Depot, was so impressed
with Bartow’s work at their Customer Support Center in Vinings,
that they planted a large tree recognizing Bartow on a bronze plaque as
the company’s landscape architect. Bartow’s work at the Fort
Buchanan Aquatic Center in Puerto Rico received a Merit Award in 1999
from the U.S. Army from a potential pool of over 1,000 projects worldwide.
Thus far, the scholarship has raised over $15,000 in gifts towards the
$25,000 goal. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a Master of
Landscape Architecture graduate student who is in financial need.
If you would like to make a gift, please make checks payable to the
University of Georgia Foundation. In the memo line, please indicate this
gift is for the Bartow Wright Rankin Scholarship.
This page last updated June 16, 2003.
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