Our presentation and workshop at Guelph in 1995 created opportunities to teach classes at several universities and led to an invitation to speak at the ASLA National Board meeting. Lines of communication opened here are valuable to you and the profession. Things have changed a great deal in twenty-five years. With the present technology we can exchange information and work together in cyberspace. Though we might be hundreds or even thousands of miles apart, we can maintain a global network through the Internet.
Student organizations can study in a global university setting.
Distance learning brings with it broader curriculum possibilities, and new opportunities, especially for those students anxious to put theory into practice. I am here today to talk about those opportunities, a world full of opportunities, where people living in extreme conditions need the kind of help landscape architects can offer. Compelled by news accounts of the massive destruction in Bosnia, I quit my job as an urban planner for the city of Birmingham and made my way to Sarajevo in the summer of 1994 to offer what aid I could. But the devastation I encountered was immense beyond my imagination, and begged for a united effort. In the years since that first trip to Sarajevo, traveling across this country to organize students in aid of Bosnia, I have found myself in neighborhoods that remind me of the devastation I saw in Bosnia.