Background
Sally McGuire Muspratt holds a Graduate Certificate in Landscape Design from Radcliffe College (1993), a certificate in Landscape Maintenance from UMass Extension (2002), a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. from Newnham College, Cambridge.
Volunteer activities
She chairs the Civic Development Committee of the Garden Club Federation of MA. She is on the Boards of the Arboretum Park Conservancy and the Community Outreach Group and on the advisory committees of The Kelleher Rose Garden and the Park Overseers of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. She also serves on the West Roxbury Main Streets Design Committee. She is past Chairman of both the Landscape Design Study Classes and the Landscape Design Council of the National Council of State Garden Clubs.
Professional Activities
Sally consults on civic plantings, designs residential and public gardens, lectures, and writes.
Awards
In 2001 Roslindale Gardens she received the Mass Horticultural Society Award for Urban Design.
In 2002 she received a silver medal from the MHS for “Outstanding Horticultural Community Service in New England.”
In May 2005, she won the Presidential Citation from the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts for creation of four workshops exploring problems clubs encountered in public landscaping, as well as National Garden Clubs Award #68 for Videos of Workshops.
In May 2006, West Roxbury Main Streets recognized her as West Roxbury Main Streets Volunteer of the Year for her public improvement work on Centre Street.
At the annual meeting of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts on June 7, 2007, Joan W. Schofield, past chairman of the Landscape Design Council, presented the Landscape Design Council Award for Excellence in recognition of outstanding civic accomplishment to Sally Muspratt.
In November 2007, she was recognized at the annual meeting of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for “invaluable volunteer service in support of the Kelleher Rose Garden and as a member of the Rose Garden Advisory Committee.”