Jere Stuart French

Background

French, Jere Stuart was born on January 18, 1929 in St. Louis. Son of Charles Lewis and Elizabeth Park (Smith) French.

Education

Bachelor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1951; Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Michigan State University, 1956; Master of Arts, California State University, Fullerton, 1970.

Career

Intelligence officer, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, 1951-1952; landscape architect, F.B. Stresau, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1956-1957; professor landscape archaeology, California State Polytechnic U., Pomona, 1965; dean College Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic U., Pomona, 1979-1983; principal, Boltz, French & Moore, Pomona, 1958-1960; principal, Environmental Planning Associations, Pomona, 1960-1963; private practice landscape archaeology, Claremont, California, 1963-1994. Author: The Public Park Movement in the Age of Industry, 1971, Urban Green, 1973, Urban Space, 1978, Urban Space Revised, 1983, City Landscape, 1983, The California Garden, 1993, End of Fall, 1996.

Achievements

• Jere Stuart French has been listed as a notable Landscape architect by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Fifty Years on the Hill

Membership

Member trees and parkways commission City of Claremont, 1966-1968, park commission, 1968-1971, archaeology commission, 1975-1979. With United States Naval Reserve, 1952-1953. Fellow American Society Landscape Architects (Bradford Williams medal 1970).

Member Audubon Society (editor The Skimmer since 1998), Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Sigma Delta Pi, Sigma Lambda Alpha (Distinguished member since 1982).

Interests

• Avocations: environmental causes, birding.

Connections

Married Joan Marion Edwards, January 16, 1953. Children: Daniel, Susan, Cecily, Andrew.

Father:

Charles Lewis French

Mother:

Elizabeth Park (Smith) French

Spouse:

Joan Marion Edwards

child:

Daniel French

child:

Andrew French

child:

Susan French

child:

Cecily French