MEGAN GARDNER

Megan studied art, fashion design and the French language in Paris, France before completing her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She began her informal training in landscape architecture while working for The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, MA and then at William Fleming Associates in Winchester, MA. Success and inspiration during her initial training led her to pursue a graduate degree in landscape architecture.

During her graduate studies she served as intern for several years at Symmes Maini & McKee Associates in Cambridge, MA. She accepted full time employment upon graduation where she remained until 2002. Her projects ranged from large scale planning studies to detailed landscape developments. She was involved in numerous campus masters plans, complete K-12 site designs, and corporate planning and design solutions.

TIM GERRISH

Tim began his career with a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Horticulture from the University of Maine, Orono. There he was inspired to explore landscape architecture. After graduation, he attended the summer program at The University of Virginia and was exposed to historic landscapes. Following, he landed a landscape design position in Newburyport, Massachusetts where he had the opportunity to renovate and maintain several classic gardens, and practice traditional methods of landscape construction.

Tim’s graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, allowed him the opportunity to work for Geoffrey Cornish, renowned golf course historian and architect. Tim’s responsibilities at Cornish, Silva and Mungeam and then Mungeam Cornish Golf Design, included project management of several new courses and significant renovations. These included Sassamon Trace Golf Course in Natick, Massachusetts, the culmination of his Master’s Thesis project: Contours of Trash. Another was assisting with permitting and planning the first golf course in New England to receive the Signature Series in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program – Red Tail Golf Club in Devens, Massachusetts.

Currently Tim is an Instructor at the prestigious Stockbridge Winter School of Turf Grass Managers and has re-instituted the golf course design and construction course for degree students. He lectures on golf course design and construction at several Universities.