Background
Swansen, Donna Maloney was born on July 8, 1931 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Arthur Anthony and Ella Marie Rose (Warner) Maloney.
Swansen, Donna Maloney was born on July 8, 1931 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Arthur Anthony and Ella Marie Rose (Warner) Maloney.
AS in Integrated Liberal Studies, University Wisconsin, 1956. AS in Landscape Design, Temple University, 1982.
Bridal consultant Richard W. Burnham's, Green Bay, 1951-1954, 57-58. Assistant buyer Shreve Crump & Low, Boston, 1958-1959. Buyer Harry S. Manchester, Madison, Wisconsin, 1959-1962.
Partner Corson Borie & Swansen, Ambler, Pennsylvania, 1976, Swansen & Borie, Ambler, 1977-1982. Owner, operator Donna Swansen/Design, since 1983. Vice president Energy Islands International Inc., East Troy, Wisconsin, 1963-1994.
Co-founder Friends of Rising Sun, Ambler, Ambler Area Arts Alliance, 1975—1976. Founder, 1st president Plant Ambler, 1973—1983, since 1997. Chair Do It, Dig It exhibit Temple University, 1987.
Judge Temple University, 2002, Bucks County Beautiful Flowers Show, 2002, Association Professional Landscape Designers, 2002. Democratic candidate for judge elections, 1988. Active Gwynedd (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting of Friends, since 1974.
Judge Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2002. Search committee for chair department landscape architect and horticulture Temple University, 1987, curriculum review committee, 1993. Advisory committee Green Bay Botanical Garden, since 1993, Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, since 2000, advisory board, since 2000.
Member Association Professional Landscape Designers (certified, co-founder, 1st president 1989-1991, board directors 1989-1995, 1st president Landscape Design Network Philadelphia 1978-1985, Distinction award 1996, judge international design competition 2002-2003, 06), Sigma Lambda Alpha (charter member).
Married Samuel Theodore Swansen, June 27, 1959. Children: Jessica Swansen Bonelli, Theodor Arthur Swansen, Christopher Currie Swansen.