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Jack Robertshaw Fellow Award

About the Jack Robertshaw Fellow

The Jack Robertshaw Fellow is a recognition given to honor one of the Founding Board Members of the Smart Growth Partnership and is awarded to a student or small group of students, who excel(s) in their community development work within any Westmoreland County community. Each recipient receives a scholarship.

2019 Jack Robertshaw Fellow Award

Pictured above from left to right: Bob Stackiewicz, Delmont Visionary Committee; Annamarie Stackiewicz, Delmont Visionary Committee and Recreation Board; Austyn Diaz, IUP student; Heather Lash, IUP Student, John Turack, Penn State Extension and Smart Growth Partnership; Sara Ritter, IUP student; Rob Malley, Delmont Visionary Committee and Westmoreland County Historical Society Board Member; Shelly Tichy, Delmont Visionary Committee and Westmoreland Conservancy; Dr. Whit Watts, Smart Growth Partnership Board Member and retired IUP professor; Pam Simpson, Delmont Council Member and Delmont Visionary Committee; and Jeff Richards, Westmoreland County Parks and Recreation.Heather Lash, Sara Ritter, and Austyn Diaz worked on the Westmoreland Heritage Trail Connections: Export to Delmont and Salem Township collaboration with the Delmont Visionary Committee, Westmoreland County Parks and Recreation, and the Smart Growth Partnership.

The students developed mapping and analysis of alternative possible routes for the Delmont Community and Westmoreland County Parks and Recreation Westmoreland Heritage Trail (WHT) to eventually fully connect from Trafford to Saltsburg. A missing link for this significant trail corridor has been the area where the WHT would cross PA Route 66 near Delmont.

Community leaders in Delmont envision this trail coming through or connecting to Delmont’s Historic District and connecting to a new Delmont Library and Community Center as a desirable destination.


2018 Jack Robertshaw Fellow Award

Evan Zavada worked with the Scottdale Task Force and Scottdale City Council to study the Business Retention and Expansion in the area. He also worked with the Annie Quinn and the Jacob’s Creek Watershed Association on trail and waterway projects.


2015 Jack Robertshaw Fellow Award

Pictured above: Evan Tobin, IUP graduate student, with John Turack, Smart Growth Partnership Executive Director; Leanne Griffith, Smart Growth Partnership; and New Kensington Mayor, Tom Guzzo

During the course of his independent study, Evan Tobin produced two products — “OPEN Arnold” and “TACTICAL URBANISM: New Kensington Better Block as a Case Study” — that can be used towards further development in both of those cities, and that can be used as a go-to guide for adopting the strategies that he examined in other communities.


2014 Jack Robertshaw Fellow Award

Pictured above: Dana Keith, IUP student; with John Turack, Smart Growth Partnership Executive Director; and Jarod Trunzo, Latrobe Community Revitalization Project, Executive Director

Dana Keith worked with Nick Felice and Jarod Trunzo, successive executive directors for the Latrobe Community Revitalization Program, on developing feasible designs to improve their Main Street, Depot Street and Ligonier Street area of downtown.

Her focus looked at what would be involved in returning Main Street and Depot Streets to two-way traffic or other methods of traffic calming and ways to slow the speed of traffic. She created a 3D model of downtown with traffic calming, a bike lane and a new downtown park where a local business burned down.

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