In the following biographical sketches, each member's name is followed by: (1) the year elected to the Academy (Founders were elected in 1980); (2) highest earned degree, degree-granting institution, and year granted; and (3) current or (if retired) last professional position and location.

In noting professional service and accomplishment, several organization titles are abbreviated as they occur frequently. Full titles are as follows:

SAMDAHL, DIANE M. Elected 2005. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1986. Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Georgia.

Dr. Samdahl received a B.S. in Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin and a M.A. in Sociology at the University of Washington before obtaining her Ph.D. in Leisure Studies at the University of Illinois. Her work focuses on leisure in everyday contexts with particular attention to populations that have been marginalized by mainstream culture on the basis of race, gender, or sexual orientation. A unifying theme throughout her work is that cultural factors shape and oftentimes limit personal expression in leisure, and that issues of power and control must be added to insights about enjoyment and motivation if we are to understand leisure's meaning for different segments of our population. Many of Dr. Samdahl's publications engage in a reflexive examination of North American leisure sciences including several articles and a book chapter that critique leisure constraints research. Dr. Samdahl has co-authored one book, The Diverse Worlds of Unemployed Adults: Consequences for Leisure, Lifestyle, and Health. In addition to teaching in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Program she is affiliated with the Women's Studies Institute and the Qualitative Inquiry Program at the University of Georgia. Dr. Samdahl was awarded the SPRE Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.

SCHLEIEN, STUART J. Elected 1995. Ph.D. Maryland, 1982. Professor and Department Head, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Stuart J. Schleien, Ph.D, CTRS/CPRP, is a Professor and Department Head of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 1997. Dr. Schleien has made a significant impact on recreation/leisure and sports programming in the United States and throughout the world. As a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and leader in the field, he has developed best practices that have helped parents and professionals design inclusive recreation, sports, friendship, and volunteer programs for children and adults with diverse skills and abilities. He has specific expertise as a systems change agent for inclusive recreation services, helping agencies manage successful organizational change and development. Dr. Schleien has published extensively on recreation and friendship skills development and the social inclusion of individuals with disabilities in community settings. He has written seven books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on these topics. His most recent text, entitled Community Recreation and People with Disabilities: Strategies for Inclusion (2nd edition), is used in recreation and park settings, schools, and universities across the globe. He has presented his work throughout the U.S. and Canada, and in Australia, England, Germany, Israel, and Sweden. He was recognized as the "Researcher of the Year" by the Minnesota Recreation and Park Association, and "Educator of the Year" by the Minnesota Association for Retarded Citizens. In 1996, he was the recipient of the "Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Award for Excellence in Recreation and Park Research," the most prestigious award bestowed upon a researcher by the National Recreation and Park Association. Dr. Schleien made a keynote address to a world audience before the 5th Paralympic Scientific Congress for the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, a keynote address at the Lund University (Sweden) 2003 Conference on Inclusive Communities, and a presentation at the 2003 Sweden Paralympic Games in Stockholm in October 2003.

SCOTT, DAVID. Elected 2007. Ph.D., Penn State University, 1990. Professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University.

Dr. Scott graduated from Purdue University and holds advanced degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the sociology of leisure, with specific attention to recreation specialization and serious leisure; leisure constraints; and people’s use and non-use of publicly funded park and recreation services. Articles of his have appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Applied Behavioral Science Review, Environment and Behavior, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, Managing Leisure, Leisure Sciences, Play and Culture, and Society and Leisure. Dr. Scott served as editor for the Journal of Leisure Research from 2002 to 2007. He was the 1994 recipient of the Willard E. Sutherland Award presented by the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration for a paper he had published in the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. He was also recognized as a Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University.

SEARLE, MARK S. Elected 1994. Ph.D., Maryland, 1988. Vice President and Provost, Arizona State University West.

Dr. Searle's research interests have been focused on social psychological aspects of leisure behavior with particular attention to the issues of aging and constraints on leisure. Most recently, he has expanded his focus to include the linkage between health and leisure behavior. He is the co-author of Leisure Services in Canada: An Introduction, the first Canadian text of this nature, and is past co-editor of the Therapeutic Recreation Journal. In addition, Dr. Searle has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Leisure Research, Schole, Therapeutic Recreation Journal, and Recreation Canada and the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies, Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute, and the Manitoba Parks and Recreation Association. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Park and Recreation Administration's Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Province of Manitoba's Prix Award for Research.

SESSOMS, H. DOUGLAS. Founder. Ph.D., New York, 1959. Professor, Leisure Studies and Recreation Administration, North Carolina.

Dr. Sessoms' scholarly interests include acts of professionalism such as certification, accreditation and professional preparation; sociology of leisure; and the nature and role of the leisure service delivery systems. He has contributed significantly to our literature and authored, co-authored or edited several text books. He is a Past-President of the Academy and Past-President or Chair of the NRPA/AALR Council on Accreditation, SPRE, the National Examination Certification Committee, and the North Carolina Recreation and Park Society. He has received NRPA's National Literary Award and Distinguished Professional Award, the University of Illinois's Brightbill Award, New York University's Distinguished Alumnus in Recreation Award, Distinguished Fellow Awards from SPRE and the North Carolina Recreation and Park Society, and the Southern Region Harold D. Meyer Award.

SHAW, SUSAN M. Elected 1992. Ph.D., Carleton University, 1983. Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies, Waterloo.

Dr. Shaw's research interests focus on the relationship between leisure and gender, including time use, the distribution of leisure, time stress and health, constraints on women's and men's leisure, developmental aspects of leisure during adolescence, and leisure and the family. She is co-author of the book A Leisure of One's Own: A Feminist Perspective on Women's Leisure, and has published research articles in leisure, sociology, adolescence and family studies journals. She is currently an Associate Editor for Loisir et Société, and was President of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies from 1993 to 1996. Dr. Shaw received the Allen V. Sapora Research Award in 1998, and is the 1999 recipient of the National Parks and Recreation Association's Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Research Excellence Award.

STEBBINS, ROBERT A. Elected 1996. Ph.D., Minnesota, 1964. Professor, Sociology, Calgary.

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, received his Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. He is presently Professor in and former Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He has also taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Texas at Arlington. He served as President of the Social Science Federation of Canada in 1991-1992, after having served as President of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in 1988-1989. His research interests include humor, work, leisure, the work and leisure dimensions of deviance, and the leisure basis of francophone communities outside Quebec. He has published or in press numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as 27 books. Most of his work in leisure studies has centered on serious and casual leisure (terms he coined in 1982), as expressed in research dating from 1973 on amateurs (actors, magicians, musicians, archaeologists, astronomers, baseball and football players, and stand-up comics), hobbyists (barbershop singers, cultural tourists), and career volunteers (urban francophones). Work in these areas completed before 1992 is summarized and theoretically elaborated in Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992). In 1998, he completed an adult education guide to serious leisure entitled After Work: The Search for an Optimal Leisure Lifestyle, and in 1999 was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book is The Organizational Basis of Leisure Participation: A Motivational Exploration (2002).

STEWART, WILLIAM. Elected 2005. Ph.D. Arizona, 1987. Professor, Recreation, Sport, and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Bill Stewart conducts research associated with park and natural resources development and teaches courses in the University of Illinois’ environment program. His goals for both teaching and research are to facilitate the development of parks and other environmental settings to improve quality of life and community well being. Bill has been involved with research projects that assess information from park users, community residents, and various other stakeholders. His research is focused on the public’s ability to make sense of landscape change, to understand the representation of meanings of place and community, and explore strategies for social learning. Bill is Director of the Park Planning and Policy Lab, and Chair of the Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems (HDES) program, both at the University of Illinois. The HDES program sponsors a bi-weekly seminar comprised of an interdisciplinary collection of campus researchers interested in aspects of people, society, and natural landscapes. During Spring 2006, Bill Stewart is a visiting faculty in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at University of Waterloo. He has received a Fulbright Research Chair in public policy; his sabbatical objectives are to learn about Canadian landscape values, understand their connections to landscape change, and explore strategies used in Canada for community-based decision-making within a park and natural resource context.

STOREY, EDWARD H. Elected 1986. Ph.D., Illinois, 1964. Professor (Chair 1971-1978), Leisure Studies, Ottawa, retired.

Before becoming Professor and Chair at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Storey was Professor at Penn State, Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Illinois. At Illinois he directed the Field Service, conducted and wrote numerous municipal planning studies, and contributed significantly to the development of park districts and municipal recreation and park services throughout the state. He was active in several state, provincial, and national organizations, and has been consultant for several public and private agencies. Former member of Canada's National Historic Sites and Monuments Board, he authored "Toward a National Policy on Fitness and Recreation" for Canada's Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport, SPRE's national policy statement, "Education for Leisure," and co-edited the International City Management Association's Managing Municipal Leisure Services. He has delivered numerous addresses and received several professional service awards.

STUMBO, NORMA J. Elected 2004. Ph.D., Illinois, 1985. Professor, Kinesiology and Recreation, Illinois State.

Norma J. Stumbo received her Ph.D. in Leisure Behavior/Therapeutic Recreation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985; she received her masters and bachelors degrees in Recreation and Park Administration/ Therapeutic Recreation from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1979 and 1978, respectively. She is currently a professor at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where she has taught since August 1984. She has also taught subjects at the University of Queensland (Australia), the University of Western Sydney (Australia), and the Southern Institute of Technology (New Zealand). She previously served as the associate dean for Undergraduate Instruction and the interim director of General Education as well as the Recreation and Park Administration program director at Illinois State. She has written and edited several books including: Therapeutic Recreation Program Design: Principles and Procedures (4th and 3rd editions) with Dr. Carol A. Peterson; Client Outcomes in Therapeutic Recreation; Client Assessment in Therapeutic Recreation; Professional Issues in Therapeutic Recreation; the Study Guide for the National CTRS Certification Examination (1st , 2nd , and 3rd editions) with Dr. Jean Folkerth; Leisure Education I: A Manual of Activities and Resources (1st and 2nd editions); Leisure Education II: More Activities and Resources (1st and 2nd editions); Leisure Education III: More Activities and Resources; Leisure Education IV: Activities for Individuals with Substance Abuse, and Intervention Activities for At-Risk Youth. She has also published many refereed articles in Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Annual in Therapeutic Recreation, American Journal of Recreation Therapy, Journal of Expanding Horizons in Therapeutic Recreation, ADOZ Bulletin, Annals of Leisure Research, and Tourism Review International, as well as numerous non-refereed articles in professional magazines and presentation abstracts in research conference proceedings. She has presented over 300 research and educational sessions and scores of keynotes at state, national, and international conferences and conventions. In 2004, she keynoted the 7th National Diversional Therapy Conference (Australia) and the Access and Inclusion Workshop at the WLRA Congress (Australia), in addition to workshops and presentations at the University of South Queensland (Australia), the University of Queensland (Australia), the 8th Biennial World Leisure Congress (Australia), the British Columbia Therapeutic Recreation Association (Canada), the Therapeutic Recreation Ontario Conference (Canada), the American Therapeutic Recreation Association Annual Conference (USA), the Midwest Symposium on Therapeutic Recreation (USA), the Nebraska Therapeutic Recreation Association (USA), and the Illinois Association of Recreational Therapists (USA). She is currently a member of the National Therapeutic Recreation Society-National Recreation and Park Association, the American Therapeutic Recreation Association, the Illinois Recreation Therapy Association, the Diversional Therapy Association of New South Wales, the Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, Parks and Leisure Australia, and the World Leisure Association. She has been recognized with the Jorndt Research Award (Outstanding Graduate Student/Faculty Mentor Award) (ISU), Outstanding University Researcher Award (ISU), Scholarly Achievement Award (ATRA), Lighthouse Award (ISU), Citation of Merit/Alumni Award (University of Missouri), Excellence in Writing (Illinois Parks and Recreation Association), CAST Outstanding Researcher of the Year (ISU), Research Excellence Award(Illinois Therapeutic Recreation Section /IPRA), and Outstanding Young Women of America.

STYNES, DANIEL J. Elected 1986. Ph.D., Michigan State, 1976. Professor, Park and Recreation Resources, Michigan State.

With a background in mathematics and systems analysis, Daniel Stynes specializes in the application of quantitative methods to recreation and tourism. He has taught research methods and comprehensive planning courses at Michigan State since 1976. Dan has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Leisure Research and Leisure Sciences, and as a member of the SPRE Board from 1988 to 1991. Dan has published numerous research articles and reports covering the applications of mathematical and economic models to recreation and tourism. These include spatial distribution and use estimation models, forecasting models, valuation techniques, market segmentation, and economic impact. His recent work focusing on the economic impacts of recreation and tourism may be seen at his economic impact website or his homepage.

TINSLEY, HOWARD E.A. Elected 1985. Ph.D., Minnesota, 1971. Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Southern Illinois University.

Dr. Tinsley currently serves as a member of the City Council in Mukilteo, Washington, and as Senior Editor of Volume 1 (Mental Health and Personal - Emotional Counseling) of the Encyclopedia of Counseling. He has taught at the University of Oregon, University of Florida, and Southern Illinois University (where he was director, graduate training program in counseling psychology) and been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota, and was a licensed psycohologist in Illinois (now inactive) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Vocational Experts (now inactive). Tinsley is former Editor, Journal of Vocational Behavior, former Guest Editor, Journal of Counseling Psychology, former Advisory Editor, Contemporary Psychology, and former Associate and Book Review Editor, Journal of Leisure Research. He has served on the Editorial Boards of nine prominent psychology journals and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Test Corporation of America, and reviewed manuscripts for 26 psychology research journals. He is the lead editor of the Handbook of Applied Multivariate Statistics and Mathematical Modeling, author of 20 book chapters and more than 140 publications dealing with leisure, vocational psychology and psychological measurement. Dr. Tinsley is a recipient of the research award of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association and the Allen V. Sapora Research Award for research excellence in leisure psychology. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Western Psychological Association, and American Psychological Society, he is a former Chair of the American College Personnel Association Commission on Assessment, a former member of the Board of the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs, and a former President and secretary-treasurer of the Academy of Leisure Sciences.

UYSAL, MUZAFFER S. Elected 2004. Ph.D. Texas A&M. Professor, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Tech.

Dr. Muzaffer (Muzzo) Uysal is a professor of tourism in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from the University of New Haven and a BS from Ankara Academy of Economics & Commercial Sciences. Muzzo has extensive experience in the travel and tourism field, authoring or co-authoring a significant number of articles in tourism, recreation and hospitality journals, proceedings, book chapters, and four monographs and one book relating to different aspects of tourism marketing, demand/supply interaction and international tourism. He also has conducted workshops and seminars on similar topics and field research in several countries. Muzzo is a member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and serves as co-editor of Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of eight journals, including Journal of Travel Research, and Annals of Tourism Research as resource editor. He has received the College of Human Resources' Outstanding Research Award and the Pamplin College of Business Teaching Excellence award. His current research interests center on tourism demand/supply interaction, tourism development and marketing, and international tourism.

VAN DER SMISSEN, BETTY. Founder. J.D., Kansas, 1952 and Re.D., Indiana, 1955. Professor, Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources, Michigan State.

Dr. van der Smissen, a member of the bar, is author of a 3-volume reference book (1990 with 1995 supplement), Legal Liability and Risk Management for Public and Private Entities. In addition to teaching and researching in the law, she has compiled research and scholarly materials on recreation, as reflected in a series of 12 publications while Professor at Penn State, three from symposia she directed: Evaluation Strategies: Assessing Outdoor Program Outcomes; Indicators of Change in the Recreation Environment; and Research: Camping and Environmental Education. She was one of the founders of the Journal of Leisure Research. For a number of years, Dr. van der Smissen also compiled and published Theses and Dissertations in Recreation and Parks, and Research in Camping, Interpretive Services and Environmental Education. She is the principal editor of The Management of Park and Recreation Agencies, a 1999 833-page reference manual based on CAPRA standards for agencies, as well as author of 16 chapters in various books. She has been active in the development and implementation of accreditation standards, particularly for academic curricula, camping, adventure programs, and public park and recreation agencies. A former President of the American Camping Association, Trustee of NRPA, and member of the academic Council on Accreditation, she was AALR's first Nash Scholar Lecture Award recipient and also received AAHPERD's R. Tait McKenzie Award and SPRE's Distinguished Fellow Award. A member of the agency Commission on Accreditation, she served as its first chair in 1993-94. She is a member of, and has served on, the Board of Directors of the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration.

VAN DOREN, CARLTON S. Founder. Ph.D., Michigan State, 1967. Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M.

Dr. Van Doren was the first Editor of the Journal of Leisure Research and Co-Founding Editor of Leisure Sciences. His interests are reflected in a co-authored text (in press), Travel and Tourism, An Anglo-North American Perspective, and in other principal publications edited or co-authored, such as Land and Leisure and Statistics on Outdoor Recreation. Dr. Van Doren has served on NRPA's Research Advisory Board, SPRE's Board of Directors, and as a Trustee of the U.S. Travel Data Center. A Distinguished Fellow of SPRE, Dr. Van Doren has received the Family Camping Federation's Research Award, the Sapora Research Award from the University of Illinois, and NRPA's National Research (Roosevelt) Award.

VASKE, JERRY J. Elected 2000. Ph.D., Maryland, 1980. Professor, Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism, Colorado State.

Jerry J. Vaske is a Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism at Colorado State University, and a member of the Human Dimensions in Natural Resources Unit. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Since his arrival at CSU in 1992, he has developed and taught the undergraduate and graduate courses in research methodology, as well as theory courses applying concepts in social psychology to natural resource management. Jerry's areas of theoretical research interest include norms, crowding, and substitutability. Areas of applied research interest focus on the integration of social and ecological disciplines in the human dimensions of natural resource management. He has authored or co-authored 3 books, including the 2-volume Visitor Impact Management (VIM) series, and over 60 articles in journals such as Leisure Sciences, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, International Journal of Wilderness, Journal of Environmental Education, Journal of Field Ornithology, Wildlife Society Bulletin, Society and Natural Resources, Environmental Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Analysis, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Sociometry. He is the founding co-editor of the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife.

Voelkl, Judith. Elected 2006. Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University. Professor, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Clemson University.

Judi Voelkl's research focuses on quality of life issues among older adults residing in nursing homes. She has conducted a number of studies aimed at furthering our understanding of the time use and quality of daily experiences among elders. Currently she is working with several nursing homes undergoing culture change and is examining the efficacy of staff training on the frequency and quality of elders' involvement in recreation activities both within their homes and the community-at-large. Judi has served as Co-Editor of the Annual in Therapeutic and Associate Editor of Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Leisure Sciences, and Activities Directors Quarterly. In 2005 she was awarded the Scholarly Achievement Award from American Therapeutic Recreation Association. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (2006-2008). During her leisure time she enjoys walking her dog, quilting, meditating, and playing with her nephews.

WATSON, ALAN E. Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Research Social Scientist, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Dr. Alan Watson is the Research Social Scientist at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, the national center for wilderness research supported by both the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture, located on the University of Montana campus, Missoula. Dr. Watson is a transdisciplinary scientist with primary responsibility for integrating social and ecological sciences in efforts to plan and manage for optimization of protected area benefits. Dr. Watson is Affiliate Faculty at the University of Montana, College of Forestry & Conservation, the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland; he has also served on graduate committees at Colorado State University and Evergreen College. Dr. Watson is the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Wilderness (since 1994), served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Leisure Research (12 years), and has served as Guest Editor of the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, Journal of Leisure Research and Leisure Sciences. He also serves as the Science Symposium Chair of the World Wilderness Congress (Bangalore, India, 1998; Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2001; Anchorage, Alaska, 2005) and is frequently requested for international consulting services and training, including service to South Africa, Finland, Brazil, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. Dr. Watson was a Fulbright Scholar at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland in 1999, and a Fulbright Senior Protected Area Specialist at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2003.

WEISSINGER, ELLEN M. Elected 2000. Ph.D., Maryland, 1985. Professor, Health and Human Performance, Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ellen Weissinger is Professor of Health and Human Performance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she completed her undergraduate degree in 1980. She earned an MA at the University of Iowa in 1982 and a PhD at the University of Maryland in 1985. Ellen conducts research about motivational factors that influence people's leisure choices, including several studies investigating why some people experience boredom in their free time. She has also written about conceptual and measurement issues, and has published three psychological scales used by researchers in her field. Dr. Weissinger was editor of the Journal of Leisure Research for two terms, from 1996 to 2001. She teaches graduate courses in educational research methodology at UNL, and an undergraduate course entitled "Leisure in American Life." Dr. Weissinger formerly served as Associate Dean of the College of Education at UNL, and Associate Director of the Buros Institute for Mental Measurements.

WILLIAMS, DANIEL R. Elected 2002. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1984. Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Prior to joining the Forest Service in 1998, Dr. Dan Williams was Associate Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Illinois and previously taught forestry and park management at Virginia Tech and the University of Utah. In 1999 he received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study the impacts of globalization on the meaning and use of Norwegian Natural landscapes, and from 1993 to 1998 he served as editor of the journal Leisure Sciences. His research involves the application of environmental psychology, consumer behavior, and cultural geography to recreational and amenity uses and perceptions of natural environments, public lands planning and policy, and ecosystem management. His recent investigations include the impact of globalization on personal and social-symbolic meanings of wildlands, leisure identities and summer cottages in Scandinavia and the United States, and the meaning and value of arctic wilderness.

WILLIAMS, JOHN G. Founder. M.S., Illinois, 1956. Director, Parks and Recreation, Sunnyvale, CA, retired.

John Williams spent 30 years directing public park and recreation programs in Decatur (GA), DeKalb County (GA), Baltimore (MD), Dade County (FL) and Sunnyvale (CA). In addition, he taught graduate Park and Recreation Administration courses at San Jose State University and co-authored two texts and several articles and chapters on administration and management of leisure services. In addition to the Academy, he is a founding member of AAPRA and has served as President of APRS, Georgia Recreation Society, and Maryland Recreation and Parks Society, and as a Trustee of NRPA. He is a recipient of the Brightbill and Alumni Distinguished Service Awards from Illinois, Distinguished Professional Service Award from San Jose State, the APRS Distinguished Fellow Award, and NRPA's National Literary Award, among others. He is currently enjoying a post-retirement career building homes in Sonora, California, and doing Christian prison counseling.

WITT, PETER A. Elected 1984. Ph.D., Illinois, 1970. Professor and Elda K. Bradberry Chair of Recreation and Youth Development, Texas A&M.

Dr. Witt's major research interests are in the areas of youth development, youth recreation services, and program evaluation. He is co-developer of the Leisure Diagnostic Battery (with Gary Ellis), co-editor of Recreation and Leisure: Issues in an Era of Change (with Tom Goodale), and co-author of Recreation Programs that Work with At-Risk Youth (with John Crompton). He is also finishing a book on Recreation and Youth Development (with Linda Caldwell). Witt is the editor of the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, and has been editor of the Journal of Leisure Research, Therapeutic Recreation Journal, and the Journal of Leisurability (founding editor). Witt is the 2004 recipient of the Robert W. Crawford Achievement Prize from the National Recreation Foundation for his work in the area of youth development. He has received NRPA's Distinguished Professional Award and Roosevelt Research Awards; SPRE and TRAPS Distinguished Colleague Awards; AALR's Outstanding Achievement Award; and the Sapora and Brightbill Awards from the University of Illinois. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Park and Recreation Administration (President 2004) and has served on the Board of the Texas Recreation and Parks Society and SPRE. Dr. Witt was previously at the University of North Texas where he was Associate Vice President for Research and Chair, Recreation and Leisure Studies, after teaching at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

ZUZANEK, JIRI. Elected 1984. Ph.D., Charles (Czechoslovakia), 1970. Professor, Leisure Studies and Sociology, Waterloo.

Prior to appointment at Waterloo, Dr. Zuzanek taught sociology at universities in Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and New York. His interests in the sociology of leisure, mass culture, fine arts audiences and participants, and life quality among the elderly, are reflected in his four books and about 70 articles and chapters in edited works. His work has been supported by over 30 grants, mainly from Canadian government agencies involved in the arts, communications, commerce, fitness, international relations, social science research and statistics, and others. Dr. Zuzanek has been Associate Editor or reviewer for several sociology and leisure journals and has reviewed grant proposals for the Canada Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies. He has given invited papers throughout the U.S. and Canada and a dozen other countries.