Weisenburger Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
K-State Professor Ray Weisenburger has been awarded the
Kansas Preservation Alliance 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Named in honor of a dedicated Alliance board member, the
Muriel Golobay Lifetime Achievement Award was created to recognize individuals
who distinguish themselves by furthering the cause of preservation in Kansas.
Weisenburger received the award at a ceremony during the
Kansas Preservation Alliance’s 31st annual meeting on June 3.
Both a registered architect and landscape architect in
Kansas, Weisenburger is a professor of landscape architecture and regional and
community planning at K-State. He served as associate dean of the K-State
College of Architecture, Planning and Design from 1993 to 2005. Weisenburger
began his teaching career at K-State in 1964 and has completed his 46th
year of service in the classroom. Among the courses he teaches are Urban Design
and Preservation Theory. He has lost track of the number of students he has
introduced through the years to preservation.
Weisenburger was recently instrumental in establishing the
Kansas Preservation Alliance’s Brick Streets and Sidewalks Preservation
Program. He has served on the Kansas Preservation Alliance’s Board of
Directors. He was vice president from 1987 to 1989 and president from 1989 to
1992. He also served as the Alliance’s liaison to the American Institute of
Architects Historic Resources Committee from 1996 to 2007.
Weisenburger was appointed to the Kansas State Historic
Sites Review Board in 1981 and served until 1986. He served as a member of
Manhattan’s Urban Area Planning Board from 1981 to 1999, serving as chair from
1985 to 1987 and 1995 to 1996. He also served on Manhattan’s Historic Resources
Board from 2004 to the present. Weisenburger’s long, varied and ongoing record
of service to historic preservation in Kansas has been characterized by
competence, professionalism and excellence.
Founded in 1979, the Kansas Preservation Alliance is the statewide
non-profit advocacy organization for historic preservation.
For more information, contact:
Dale Nimz, Executive Director, Kansas Preservation Alliance,
Inc., 785.979.8398
CAPD@ksu.edu, 785.532.1090