Terry A. Schum AICP Receives 2024 Kea Medal Award
Terry A. Schum Honored with 2024 Kea Medal
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Kea Medal Is Chapter’s Highest Honor—Recognizes Leadership, Advocacy and Service to the Design Profession
Terry A. Schum, AICP received the Paul H. Kea Medal for Leadership and Architectural Advocacy at AIA Potomac Valley’s 2024 Design + Leadership Awards held at College Park City Hall on October 17, 2024.
Terry is being honored for her decades of service and achievement to the City of College Park, beginning in 1986, in the capacity of Economic Development Coordinator and in building the Department of Planning and Economic Development as Planning Director. During her tenure, Terry served under eight Mayors and eight City Managers and was instrumental in establishing the City’s Planning Department, the College Park Advisory Planning Commission, and the College Park City-University Partnership. Throughout her career, she collaborated with the Maryland-National Capital Planning Commission and the University of Maryland. Terry spent her career working with architects in both the public and private sectors with a critical eye and belief in design excellence. Terry’s leadership and initiative has had a transformational impact on the City of College Park and her influence is visible throughout the city.
As architects and planners, we serve the public by creating safe, coherent, rewarding, sustainable, engaging environments and architecture for the public well-being. Terry has devoted herself for almost four decades to the City of College Park in service to that calling and the remarkable result is the transformation of the city.
The Paul H. Kea Medal is AIA Potomac Valley’s highest honor and recognizes architects or non-architects in related fields who have made a significant and exemplary contribution to the profession, either through a body of work or a single contribution of great scope. Recipients may be cited for Service to the Profession; Leadership; or Architectural Advocacy that has furthered the public’s awareness or appreciation of design excellence. The medal is named for Paul H. Kea, FAIA, who began practicing architecture in 1912, moved to Hyattsville, Maryland, and founded the firm Kea, Shaw, Grimm & Crichton, a precursor to today’s Grimm + Parker Architects. A founding member of AIA Potomac Valley, Kea served as President of the Maryland Society of Architects and became a Fellow of the AIA (FAIA) in 1960.
Terry joins these previous honorees:
2022 – Helen Crettier Wilkes, AIA – Medal for Service to the Profession
2020 – Laurence A. Frank, AIA – Medal for Leadership, Service to the Profession, and Architectural Advocacy
2018 – Brian Kelly, AIA – Medal for Leadership and Service to the Profession
2017 – Gwen Wright – Medal for Architectural Advocacy
2016 – David Cronrath, AIA – Medal for Leadership and Service to the Profession
2015 – Clare Lise Kelly – Architectural Advocacy
2014 – Melanie Hennigan, AIA – Leadership, Service to the Profession; Raymond Skinner, Leadership, Architectural Advocacy
2013 – Carlo Colella, LEED AP – Architectural Advocacy; Carl Elefante, FAIA – Leadership, Service to the Profession
2012 – Samuel J. Parker, Jr., AICP – Leadership; John A. Carter, AIA – Architectural Advocacy
2010 – Dr. Royce Hanson – Leadership, Architectural Advocacy
2009 – Rollin B. Stanley – Architectural Advocacy; John M. Maudlin-Jeronimo, FAIA – Leadership, Service to the Profession
2007 – John Torti, FAIA – Leadership; William Bechhoefer – Service to the Profession; Eliot Pfanstiehl – Architectural Advocacy
2006 – Marshall Purnell, FAIA – Leadership; John P. Salmen, AIA – Service to the Profession; Douglas M. Duncan – Architectural Advocacy
2004 – Karl F. G. Du Puy – Architectural Advocacy; Steven W. Hurtt, AIA – Leadership; Steven J. Karr, AIA – Service to the Profession
2003 – Daniel W. Bennett, Jr, AIA – Service to the Profession; Richard G. Hawes – Architectural Advocacy; Stephen L. Parker, AIA – Leadership, Service to the Profession, Architectural Advocacy
2002 – Ralph D. Bennett, AIA – Leadership; John F. Corkill, Jr., AIA – Service to the Profession; Roger K. Lewis, FAIA – Architectural Advocacy
The award is named in honor of Paul H. Kea, FAIA, (1886-1968) who began practicing architecture in 1912, moved to Hyattsville, Maryland, and founded the firm Kea, Shaw, Grimm & Crichton, a precursor to today’s Grimm + Parker Architects. His firm built numerous banks, churches, schools and commercial buildings. A founding member of AIA Potomac Valley, Kea served as President of the Maryland Society of Architects and became a Fellow of the AIA (FAIA) in 1960. He served as President of the Prince George’s Chamber of Commerce and served on numerous church committees and community boards. He took a strong interest in architectural education and funded a Distinguished Professorship at the University of Maryland.
AIA Potomac Valley provides leadership, communication, education, and advocacy in support of architects and their constituencies in the Potomac Valley region. We empower members to advance their roles in service to society; act as a collective voice to help cultivate the future of the architectural profession; foster innovation and sustainability in design; and are a knowledge resource to members and the public, raising awareness of the value of the architecture profession. The chapter serves roughly 700 members in Allegany, Charles, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, Prince George’s and Washington counties in Maryland.
Founded in 1857, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) consistently works to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. Through more than 200 international, state and local chapters, AIA advocates for public policies that promote economic vitality and public wellbeing.
