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® WGHT RIDDER Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. Director and Retired Chairman /CEO (305) 376 -3870 bcc: Robert E. Chisholm ✓ October 17, 1995 Eugene J. Mackey, III FAIA, Chair 1-996 Jury of Fellows The American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 -5292 Dear Mr. Mackey: u1' Knight - Ridder, Inc. One Herald Plaza Miami, Florida 33132 -1693 It is my privilege to serve as a reference for Robert E. Chisholm AIA as his nomination is being considered co be a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. I have known Bob Chisholm for approximately three years. My closest opportunity to observe Bob Chisholm's work is through his brilliant and energetic commitment to Community Partnership for Homeless. ® Bob Chisholm led a team of volunteer architects who designed our beautiful first Homeless Assistance Center on a pro bono basis. With his help we were able to get an enormous amount of "in kind" contributions, including landscaping, design and implementation worth approximately $200,000, which will provide one of the most attractive places for homeless in America to begin their return to a normal life. Bob is competent, energetic, professional and committed to the cause of the homeless. He is warmly regarded in the Miami community as an outstanding architect and a man of strong character. In my pre- retirement career as chairman of Knight - Ridder, Inc. with $2.5 billion in revenues and 25,000 employees, I have had significant opportunity to observe competent executives at the professional level. I would place Bob Chisholm in the top one percent of all of the executives I have known or worked with in my business career. It is my honor and privilege to support his nomination to be a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Si � ►�// ® Alvah H. Cha man, Jr. AHC /jrm