![]() Her service to FIDER was equally as committed, and started in the early 1970s as she guided its growth and direction, and served on the first accreditation teams. In 1993, she was recognized as a Fellow of IDEC. She made presentations on the IDEC history at the Annual Conferences in 1982, 1987, and 1992, and all of them were accurate, humorous, and memorable! She also was the first historian to truly organize materials for a presentation to the members. Her IDEC service included FIDER liaison, Corresponding Secretary, Newsletter Editor, and Historian. She was a founding member of IDEC and a strong voice for it in the profession. Subsequently, the university Board of Trustees established the Doris Burton Endowed Interior Design Scholarship.ĭoris is most remembered for her service to IDEC and the development of the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research (FIDER, now CIDA). In 1986, she retired as a Professor Emeritus from the College of Human Environmental Services, University of Alabama. In 1983, she was recognized with the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award at the university. During her tenure there, she was instrumental in the growth and accreditation of the interior design program and a well-known advocate for interior design education. In 1949, she began her college teaching career, most of which was spent as an interior design educator and later Department Chair at the University of Alabama. Some information for this memorial was obtained from digitized documents in the Case Western Reserve University Archives: 07Pl CWRU Communication Office Biographical Records 1826-2007 & 03Fl CWRU Human Resource Department, Faculty Employment Records 1934-1994.ĭoris Burton was a graduate of Iowa State University (BS), and Purdue University (MS) with a degree related to residential interior design. Memorial by Dorothy Fowles, FIDEC, FASID, FIIDA She was known as Cleveland’s First Lady of Interior Design. Many remember her as not only a woman of distinction, but also as a most dignified and gracious person. Victoria noted in a newspaper interview in 1972 that “…an interior designer is only successful to the degree that he understands, as an artist, how to point up and bring about that person’s ideas (the resident) and create a very good art form…It is also fundamental with any interior designer to know design in relation to architecture.” To have known Vicki and worked with her has been for me a privilege and inspiration.” She has touched virtually every facet of design education and the professions of Interior Design. We are only a few in the legion of her admirers. From the days of her tenure at Case Western Reserve, her pace-setting publications, to the founding of IDEC, she has evidenced continuing devotion to our organization and to quality education. Anna noted: “Who in interior design education is not familiar with the name Victoria Ball. She was named a Fellow of IDEC in 1979 in absentia by Anna Brightman. In 1963, she was a charter member of IDEC. For 11 years Victoria was a consultant on Committee 20 of the Inter Society Color Council. She also was a member of the American Home Economics Association, American Society for Aesthetics, College Art Association of America, American Home Fasion League, Phi Beta Kappa, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and American Society of Architectural Historians among others. Victoria was an associate member of ASID. She received a Distingyuished Alumna Award from Mather College, CWRU in 1963. She was the first recipient of the award in 1976. The Ohio North Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) named a design award after her to recognize outstanding contributions to the visual arts: The Victoria Kloss Ball Award. She continued to revise these volumes until the late 1990s. ![]() ![]() In 1980 she published two volumes that link architecture and interior design: Architecture and Interior Design: A Basic History through the Seventeenth Century and Architecture and Interior Design: Europe and America from the Colonial Era to Today. She wrote two texts: The Art of Interior Design (1960) and Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers (1963). Victoria was well known as an author and lecturer. She retired as Professor Emeritus at CWRU (1970) where she had taught and was head of the interior design program for forty-five years. Her early teaching was in nutrition in Home Economics departments. from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).
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