Aug. 8, 1997 Contact John R. Crosiar (541) 346-3135 EUGENE--Robert Z. Melnick, dean of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts, will deliver the 1997 UO summer commencement address at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Memorial Quadrangle on the west edge of the UO campus. Nearly 850 degree candidates are eligible to participate in commencement, which will be held outdoors, rain or shine. Tickets are not needed for the free public event. Melnick will speak on "Responsibility." A professor of landscape architecture, Melnick was appointed dean in March 1996 after serving nearly one year as interim dean following the departure of Jerry Finrow for a similar post at the University of Washington. A fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Melnick currently is the vice chair of a National Park Service board on preservation technology and training. He is co-editor of Landscape Journal and serves on the national board of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Melnick joined the UO faculty in 1982 after working at Kansas State University and for the National Park Service. An outstanding teacher with an extensive record of both research and creative practice, he also has been a principal in the Land and Community Associates since 1985. The American Society of Landscape Archivists presented Melnick its Honor Award in 1992. The State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry awarded Melnick a master of landscape architecture degree in 1975. He received his bachelor's degree in 1970 from Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Among summer term's 842 UO degree candidates are 732 slated to receive bachelor's degrees, four certificate recipients, 72 master's degree candidates and 37 completing doctoral degrees. One law student also is slated to receive a doctor of jurisprudence degree. -30- #H-2025/Local,Hometowns