<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2">Susan Rhodes has been an active member of the Seattle lighting design community since the early '90s. It all began at Abacus Consultants and less than a decade later she and Denise Simpson teamed up to open their own business, LightWire in 2001. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2">Susan "Susie", winner of countless local and national design awards over the years, will be remembered for her no-nonsense attitude and straightforward "get the job done right the first time" approach to her designs. Susan's expertise came from her architectural engineering background which made her a unique type of lighting designer with a great balance between technical knowledge and conceptual design. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2">Always dedicated to her community through volunteering and organizing in hopes of keeping the community connected, Susan's favorite event was the IES Seattle Scavenger Hunt which raises funds for the GKL Memorial Scholarship, benefiting students and emerging lighting professionals. Susan loved stumping us with her amazing clues and hilarious ideas. Her creative talent for designing the hunt and all the fun that went with it will never be matched.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.1227px; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(40, 50, 78);" style="font-size:14px;line-height:15.1227px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(40, 50, 78);box-sizing:inherit">Susan leaves a large hole in our lighting community and will be greatly missed. With your donation today to the newly named Susan Rhodes IES Scavenger Hunt, you will help to carry on her work with an event that she loved.­­<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);line-height:16.6349px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);line-height:16.6349px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);line-height:16.6349px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3);-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;caret-color:rgb(33, 33, 33);color:rgb(33, 33, 33);line-height:16.6349px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit">

<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%">Susan Rhodes has been an active member of the Seattle lighting design community since the early '90s. It all began at Abacus Consultants and less than a decade later she and Denise Simpson teamed up to open their own business, LightWire in 2001. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%">Susan "Susie", winner of countless local and national design awards over the years, will be remembered for her no-nonsense attitude and straightforward "get the job done right the first time" approach to her designs. Susan's expertise came from her architectural engineering background which made her a unique type of lighting designer with a great balance between technical knowledge and conceptual design. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%">Always dedicated to her community through volunteering and organizing in hopes of keeping the community connected, Susan's favorite event was the IES Seattle Scavenger Hunt which raises funds for the GKL Memorial Scholarship, benefiting students and emerging lighting professionals. Susan loved stumping us with her amazing clues and hilarious ideas. Her creative talent for designing the hunt and all the fun that went with it will never be matched.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%">Susan leaves a large hole in our lighting community and will be greatly missed. With your donation today to the newly named Susan Rhodes IES Scavenger Hunt, you will help to carry on her work with an event that she loved.­­<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:2;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;line-height:16.6349px;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;line-height:16.6349px;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;line-height:16.6349px;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;line-height:16.6349px;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">

Illuminating Engineering Society Seattle Section

Susan Rhodes Scavenger Hunt Scholarship Fund 2024

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