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November 2, 2006
On the first floor of Mitten Hall at Temple’s Main Campus, the success of Temple alumni is pretty hard to miss — it’s right there on the wall for everyone to see.
In 2006, Frederick N. Schroeder, President of Schroeder Gardens, Inc., and Sharee Solow, Landscape Designer for Evergreen Landscape Associates, were inducted in Temple University’s Gallery of Success.
Sponsored by Career Development Services and the Division of Student Affairs, the Gallery began in 1998 with the intention of highlighting successful alumni/ae for the entire Temple community to honor.
Alumni/ae are honored with a photograph and a brief biographical sketch, which are prominently displayed in the Gallery for one year. In addition, there is a permanent display in the Career Development Services Center recognizing the legacy they left for current and future Temple students.
Frederick N. Schroeder, AMB ‘61
Frederick Schroeder graduated with honors from Ambler College in 1961 with an associate’s degree in Landscape Design. He received the award for Most Outstanding Student in his graduating class.
After receiving his degree, he enrolled in Michigan State University to continue his education in the fields of ornamental horticulture and landscape architecture. Schroeder was a member of the Delta Upsilon social fraternity as well as Pi Alpha Xi, the national honor society for students of Floriculture, Landscape, and Ornamental Horticulture. He had the opportunity to do independent study and take courses with Clarence E. Lewis, who is well known in the field of ornamental horticulture, having written many articles for American Nurseryman and other popular publications.
Schroeder graduated from MSU in 1963 with a bachelor’s degree in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design. After graduation, he returned home to Lancaster and took a position as a landscape designer and salesman with Erb Brothers. In 1971, he formed Headings and Schroeder, Inc, a tree and landscape contracting firm. In 1979, he formed Schroeder Gardens, Inc., of which he is president today. The business is run on a 50-acre Lancaster County farm — 90 percent of the staff are graduates in the field of horticulture.
Schroeder’s restoration projects in the Lancaster area include the Demuth Foundation, home of the famous watercolor artist Charles Demuth, the Rockford Foundation, the restored plantation of Gen. Edward Hand, adjutant general to George Washington, and a private garden featured in the book The Complete Garden Planning Manual.
According to Schroeder, one of his proudest moments was to have some of his nursery plants installed at the Ambler campus.
Sharee Solow, AMB ‘03 and '04
Sharee Solow grew up in Florida and moved to Manhattan, a couple of years after completing her BFA in Technical Theater at Florida State University, to continue working as a commercial costumer.
She and her husband, Jeffrey — Chair of Instrumental Studies at Temple — came to Temple in 1989 where she worked on productions with the Temple Opera Department while completing her Master of Science in Textile Marketing Summa Cum Laude from Philadelphia University in addition to a Certificate in Fund Raising Management from the University of Pennsylvania.
To combine business, art, and science, Solow chose Ambler College to focus her skills. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in both Landscape Architecture and Horticulture in 2003 and 2004 — she is a President’s Scholar, having graduated with a GPA above 3.75 in both degrees.
Active with many industry groups, Solow is currently an Associate-At-Large, PA/DE Chapter Executive Committee, American Society of Landscape Architects; Advisory Board, Montgomery County Extension Office, Creamery; and Vice President of the Ambler College Alumni Association.
Solow was a 2003 Certificate of Honor recipient from the ASLA for student achievement and a Golden Key International Honor Society recipient in 2002. She was president of Temple’s chapter of Sigma Lambda Alpha, the landscape architecture honor society, and a member of Pi Alpha Xi, the horticulture honor society. She was also actively involved in the design and construction of Temple’s “Green Roof Technology” exhibit at the 2002 Philadelphia Flower Show, which won Best of the Show in the Academic Educational category.
Certainly no stranger to the Ambler campus by any means following graduation, Solow has been a teaching assistant and adjunct professor for the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and regularly visits campus to tend the rock garden near the old headhouse.
Solow is a landscape designer for Carl Kelemen, FASLA, Evergreen Landscape Associates, who himself is an Ambler campus alum from 1972. Of course she might also be found scuba diving in the Caribbean or attending conferences.
Former Ambler College honorees in the Gallery of Success include the father and son team of Jack and Joe Blandy, AMB ’75 and ’00 respectively, in 2005; Jane G. Pepper AMB ’74 and Rodney Bierhuizen AMB ’02 in 2004; Ernesta D. Ballard AMB ’54 and Christopher C. Palmer AMB ‘01 in 2003, and William E. Mifflin AMB ’66 in 2002.
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