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Inducted 1999    A
native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Rachel attended Miss Porters School, where
she participated in numerous sports, including tennis and field hockey.
She captained the varsity tennis team for two years and the field hockey
team her senior season. Rachel spent 1977 traveling the Midwest playing
in the junior tennis circuit and received a top 20 western ranking.
At Lake Forest College, Rachel spent her first two years as a forward for the field hockey team, which compiled a two-year record of 22-17-4. In her junior and senior years, she played tennis. During her two years, she won a total of three conference (ACM) titles, including the conference singles title both seasons and the conference doubles championship her junior year. She also qualified for the NCAA Tournament both seasons, becoming the first Forester women's tennis player to compete in the national tournament. As a junior she reached a number seven national ranking and as a senior she was named an All-American. Rachel was honored as the team's Most Valuable Player both seasons as she led her team to a 6-1 team record and a second place finish at the conference tournament her junior year and a third place finish her senior season. Rachel was also active at Lake Forest in theater productions and writing, for which she won the Gail DeHerder Memorial Prize for excellence in creative writing. After graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Rachel earned her Masters of Landscape Architecture and became a designer for Myers Schmalenberger Meisner, a landscape architecture firm in Cincinnati. She has earned the Merit Award for Graduate Education from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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