Vol. 5 No. 3 July Aug Sept 1998 $3.75 (Newsletter Employees & Alumni Association of the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Intake Class 2000 Servicewide Hiring Freeze Excellence for the 21st Century irector Stanton, facing the challenges of budgets, actions of he best traditions of the Congress, downsizing and implementation of restructuring, NPS are being perpetu­ expressed his concern and commitment to employees' welfare ated in the Servicewide k D T in a July 8 message to regional directors. Highlights follow: Intake Trainee Program. In August, a new class of entry- a "We are currently faced with two situations involving the outplacement level trainees started a two-year "g of NPS staff; the transfer of lands and operation of the Presidio to the developmental program by first c Presidio Trust and the downsizing of the Denver Service Center (DSC). attending a four-week Funda­ In both cases, we are challenged with the placement of staff at these e mentals of the NPS course. The locations into positions throughout the Service. As a result, I am Ol training took place at the Horace "3 instituting a Servicewide hiring freeze effective immediately. M. Albright Training Center in The Presidio Trust is now finalizing plans to accept the functional Grand Canyon NP, AZ. The operation of the Presidio in July. The Trust is determining whether or g focus of the course is on both the not functions currently being performed by NPS staff will continue to be operational aspects of the NPS as a, performed by the NPS or whether these functions will be accomplished well as the profound value of in another manner. Due to provisions in the legislation establishing the public service. The 34 servicewide intakes and four southeast region interns who Presidio Trust, career employees of the NPS cannot be separated due to The National Leadership Council participated in the Servicewide Intake Trainee Program. Pictured the Trust's assumption of responsibility for the Presidio... However, it is (NLC) reinstituted the intake left to right—front row: Timothy Townsend, Scott Martin, Gary estimated that as many as 50 permanent employees will need to be program from its prior existence Busteed, Jason Ross, David Underwood, Randy Cleaver, Rachel placed elsewhere. Approximately 25-30 of these employees are in in the 1960s and 70s to ensure Mazur and David Szymanski. 2nd row: David Quirino, Cidney occupations similar to those employed at DSC. It is for this reason enhanced employee skills for the Webster, Anna-Catherine Super, Wendy Ross, Alan Nash, Katie that.. .these employees will be included in the outplacement activities new century and a continuing Bliss and Heather Yates. 3rd row: Cindy Nielsen (course facilitator), undertaken by the Service. high level of commitment to the Peggy Rover, Justin Pursley, Johanna Lombard, Elizabeth Kerwin, In response to the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) mission of NPS. The NLC has Ruth Rhodes, Andrea Messan, Epifania Suafo 'a, Rose Cortez, study of the NPS Construction program, the Denver Service Center will now directed that a new class of Jennifer Flynn, Chris Perry (program manager). 4th row: Lavell be implementing a reduction of staff with principal focus on the design approximately 35 intakes be Merritt, Thomas Parrack, Donald Burrell, Eric Sheetz, Roland Foss, and construction supervision programs. This effort will result in a hired and trained every year. Dave Brueland, Daniel Abbe, Juan Gomez. 5th row: Jose Santiago, reduction of approximately 50% of the current staff of DSC. A core Within three years we expect to Jennifer Spaulding, Gisella Burgos, Carlin Morris Timmons, Amanda Austin, Dawn Adams. Not pictured: Betty Browning staff of approximately 250 to 300 employees would remain to accom­ have intake trainees or graduates (training manager) and Gayle Hazelwood (course facilitator). plish the line-item construction program as well as other planning and continued on page 9 design work. It is our expectation that the transition to a new DSC will be completed by FY 2000.. .addressing the changes recommended by Christmas in Paradise NAPA. During my recent meeting with DSC employees, I indicated that we are By Jody H. Wood car up as close to the already- Now we started roaming the reviewing a variety of options to assist them. One of these options, Early Wife of the Superintendent, occupied garage as he could when house, replacing soaked towels Out authority, has recently been offered to employees in San Francisco War in the Pacific NHP he came home. and checking for damage. In and I am extending this opportunity to all NPS employees in Denver also. upertyphoon Paka hit the We were ready. between rounds, we reassured and island of Guam on Dec. 16 entertained the kids, listened to An Outplacement Services Team (OST) is being established in both No problem. After all, we lived in Sand 17, 1997. Andersen reports on the radio and prepared DSC and Golden Gate/Presidio. It will be the responsibility of both Navy housing, a sturdy, concrete Air Force Base reported sus­ dinner. We finished cooking just teams to implement the outplacement procedures and for clearing house. And we had "typhoon tained winds at 180 mph, with as the power went out, ate by vacancies from the freeze. The attached documents (Note: Attached to glazing" on all the windows, meant gusts up to 236 mph. The storm lantern-light and listened to the the original memo, not here) outline the policies and procedures for to withstand winds up to 200 mph. was the strongest to hit Guam in storm. The wind was as loud as an submitting your vacancy request to both OSTs...Should there be no As added protection, we dug up 20 years and would have taken approaching freight train and we match available from either the DSC or Presidio, you will be authorized some of the old pre-glazing the world's record for recorded jumped every time an unidentified to fill your position through other means. Relocation expenses will be window shutters and applied them windspeed if the National flying object hit the boarded paid by the benefiting office. Weather Service had concurred to most of the largest windows. windows. with the Air Force. Some of the smaller windows were 1 know you share with me the deep concern for the welfare of our fellow left unboarded, but we weren't I guess it was inevitable that employees in the DSC and the Golden Gate/Presidio and I am confident My family has weathered several worried. We had been through something would eventually hit that you will work with me to assist these employees to find alternative typhoons (otherwise known as Supertyphoon Omar in 1992 with the unboarded ones, as well. placements whenever possible." deep Pacific hurricanes), so we no shutters at all. This storm Shortly after dinner, something assumed this one would be fairly couldn't be that bad and it is always (we never found out what) hit the routine. We bought extra nice to be able to see outside since unprotected row of windows near drinking water, batteries, canned the house gets very dark and a bit the entertainment center. A 15" x foods and gas for the generator. claustrophobic with all the win­ 22" pane shattered spectacularly. We stored more water in plastic dows boarded. (I guess the manufacturers of that hampers in the bathtubs. In typhoon-glaze were only expect­ anticipation of extended, island- Once the shutters were up, we had ing wind, not 200 mph coconuts!) g? wide power failure, we did all our done all we could and settled in to The glass scattered in sharp c wait. By mid-afternoon on the 16,h, laundry and anything else that shards, but the glazing peeled off g, would require electricity ahead of winds had kicked up enough to in one sheet. (Perhaps it was just time. We got out plenty of drive water under doors and the glazing they rated, not the c towels, flashlights, and the kids' around window frames—even the glass!) battery-operated radio. We closed, locked and shuttered ones. I With rain now blowing in through brought inside anything out in the But we expected this. We had g the broken window in torrents, Ed ft, yard that might blow away, and already stuffed towels under doors Singing MWR interpretation managers at workshop, Minnehaha and I scrambled to move the video we tied down whatever was left. and windows and pulled furniture Falls, MN, led by Charlie Maguire, MISS. Tim Blank, OZAR; cabinet, peel the carpet back My husband, Ed, made sure the away from outer walls and curled Tom Richter, MWSO; Jean Schaeppi, SACN; Lynda Lancaster, park was secured and tucked the backed the rugs. Continued on page 5 VOYA; Bob Petersen, DAAV and Kelly Collins, FOSC. Q/4€wsletter

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Shenandoah NP and Ranger Nick Giguere. "Groups states? That the first park also was Petroglyph NM is on the Wilder­ Travel itinerary highlights ARAMARK Sports & Entertain­ that participate will have the the largest south of Alaska used to ness Society's list of the most women's history: "Places Where ment, Inc. have agreed to satisfaction of seeing real im­ be true, but after the passage of the endangered public lands in the Women Made History" is a new manage nuisance pests using provements to trails and campsites California Desert Protection Act in country. The monument made the on-line National Register of integrated pest management in the upper Hoh." Projects will 1994, Death Valley NP (DEVA, list because of a bill signed by Historic Places travel itinerary. (IPM) methodologies at guest involve various aspects of trail and formerly a national monument) President Clinton that gives the This itinerary was launched to facilities in the park. Although camp area maintenance and are eclipses Yellowstone in acreage. city of Albuquerque authority to coincide with the celebration of this is not the first IPM plan for a particularly suited for groups of We're holding at 2,219,790.71 build a road through the monu­ the 150lh anniversary of the first concessionaire, it is one of few hikers wishing to spend at least acres, while DEVA now includes ment. This is the second year the Women's Rights Convention held in the system and represents a eight hours working. Individuals 3,367,267.68 acres, according to Wilderness Society has published a at the Women's Rights NHP in step in helping get industry on who volunteer more than 16 hours official NPS statistics. Since 1979, list of endangered public lands. Seneca Falls, New York. The board with reducing pesticide will be presented with a 12-month seven Alaskan parks and preserves Last year the list included ten sites; itinerary focuses on 74 historic usage and thinking and working VIP pass, allowing waiver of places in NY and MS associated holistically. IPM was formally entrance and camping fees, with varied aspects of women's instituted as the means for including the Wilderness User history including five NPS conducting pest management on Permit fee. units—Women's Rights NHP, federal properties by a presiden­ Lowell NHP, Adams NHS, tial order signed in August 1979. All projects will be completed in Eleanor Roosevelt NHS and Unlike many government the vicinity of Glacier Meadows Minute Man NHP. Minute Man? initiatives that come and go with and Olympus Guard Station and Did they mean Minute Man? Ah changing administrations, IPM will be overseen by park rangers yes, because it includes the home has lasted through the years stationed in those areas. Tools of Louisa May Alcott! because the system's approach is necessary to complete the project effective and helps reduce the will be provided. Individuals must In July, Rocky Mountain NP need for chemical pesticides. For bring their own camping gear and i rangers and other park staff copies of the ARAMARK IPM food however, and may wish to relocated a full-curl bighorn ram plan, contact Robbie Brockwehl, bring their own work gloves. 1 from the popular Forest Canyon the park's concessions specialist. overlook (11,600 feet) on Trail New exhibits explaining the Ridge Road. The ram was Olympic NP—Supt. David history of the Santa Fe Trail originally relocated last summer Glacier NP—Retired Supt. Bob Haraden presents a color photo Morris is seeking volunteers for opened in July at the Santa Fe after becoming attracted to the of an oil painting of Steve Mather. The gift was presented at the completion of needed projects in Trail Museum, which is part of the area by the sweet taste of annual alumni picnic. L to R: Supt. Dave Mihalic, Glacier NP; the wilderness of the upper Hoh Trinidad History Museum in antifreeze from overheated Asst. Supt. Butch Farrabee; and retired Supt. Bob Haraden. Valley. "We hope to call upon Trinidad, Colorado. In addition to vehicles and food scraps. the time and talents of experi­ documenting the history of the Antifreeze is also known to enced and hardy wilderness trail, the exhibits also tell the story attract other small mammals and have also outsized Yellowstone: fifteen were named this year, hikers," said Glacier Meadows of southeastern Colorado. Incorpo­ is normally fatal. The ram Bering Land Bridge, Denali, including Arctic National Wildlife rated into the new exhibits is the returned this summer, leading as Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Refuge, Alaska; Cumberland Santa Fe National Historic Trail many as four younger rams to the Noatak, Yukon-Charley Rivers, Island National Seashore, Georgia modular exhibit, which was area. Attempts at aversive and the biggest of them all, and Mojave Desert, California. designed to be adaptable to conditioning, including firecrack­ Wrangell-St. Elias; the park different museum spaces. The NPS ers, proved unsuccessful, which 8,323,617.68, the preserve G/46wsletter Long Distance Trails Group The Washington Monument goes led to the relocation of the 4,852,773.31. into the second phase of its facelift dominant ram. The younger rams Employees & Alumni Association participated throughout the exhibit to restore the 112-year-old, 36,000 of the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE planning process and provided have so far not returned. over 4,000 in Challenge Cost- In the small-but-important cat­ stones that make up the 555-foot, 5 Board of Directors Share program funding toward the egory, the NPS includes a number 1/8 inches high obelisk. The A Vicksburg NMP visitor found Chesley A. Moroz, President of sites that occupy less than one monument is expected to remain an unexploded Civil War projec­ Gary E. Everhardt, Chair project for the conservation of trail acre of land. These include Edgar open during the repairs. Private Terry Carlstrom, Vice Chair era artifacts. tile about 100 yards north of Fort Theresa G. "Terry" Wood, Secretary Allan Poe NHS; Federal Hall in companies are paying for most of Garrott on the evening of July 15. George J. Minnucci, Jr., Treasurer New York; Ford's Theatre NHS the $9.4 million restoration, about At Glacier NP, retired Supt. Bob The shell was left undisturbed David L. Moffitt and the McLeod Bethune House, $3 million from government funds. Haraden presented a large color and Park Historian Terry Kitty L. Roberts both in Washington DC; John F. The monument reopened in May Gene S. Scovill photo of an oil painting of Steve Winschel and Park Ranger Dean Kennedy NHS in Massachusetts, after being closed for four months Mather. The painting, which hangs Reasoner examined the shell on and the smallest park, Thaddeus for interior work that included Editor in the lobby of the Desert South­ scene and determined that it was Kosciuscko NHS, in PA, which repairing the aging elevator and Jennifer M. Allen west SSO in Santa Fe, was made a 14-lb PDR James type II rifled Volunteer occupies .02 of an acre. From The ventilating system. The final phase from the most famous photograph canon shell with a percussion Chester O. "Chet" Harris Buffalo Chip, Yellowstone NP. of repairs, set to begin late next of the first director on horseback at fuse. It measured about eight year, will refurbish the observation Membership Coordinator Logan Pass in 1929. The painting inches by four inches. An areas at the top of the monument, Amy K. Quinn was photographed by SSO Supt. In February, Wyoming Governor explosive ordinance disposal install new exhibits and clean and Trust Fund Loan Administrator Jerry Rogers, and framed courtesy Jim Geringer filed suit in U.S. team from Camp Shelby was Eric R. Schoener polish the 193 commemorative of Anne McPherson Tracy. District Court against Secretary of called in to dispose of the shell. the Interior Bruce Babbitt over the stones that line the interior. The shell was fitted with plastic The Newsletter is a quarterly Director Mather had a special right to vaccinate elk on the explosives and detonated. Visitor publication for National Park interest in Glacier. He purchased Service employees and retirees. The the site for the park administrative National Elk Refuge south of The Glacier NP Web site received traffic was delayed about 30 lh E&AA is a non-profit, membership offices from his own pocket and Grand Teton NP. The suit asks its 100,000 cyber visitor in July. minutes for safety purposes. organization dedicated to promoting directed the final location of the the court to declare that Wyoming Traffic on the site has steadily the values of the NPS family and has a right to control disease in increased over the last two years preserving its treasured resources. Going-to-the-Sun Road. The gift The number of reported mountain The Newsletter is available to non- was presented on August 23 wildlife located on the NER, and to since the Web site was first placed lion sightings has increased members and other organizations during the annual alumni picnic. It control, manage and regulate on-line in May 1996. In 1997, the significantly recently, possibly lh for $15.00 per year. will help keep his memory alive at resident wildlife in the state, 100,000 Web site visit did not because of the continued hot and Glacier and help remind visitors of specifically on the NER. This case occur until mid-September. Acting dry weather in the area. Accord­ Published by Mather's great contributions to has many implications. If Wyo­ Supt. Butch Farabee attributes the ing to Larry Henderson, supt. Eastern National ming wins the suit, federal increase to possibly the addition of 470 Maryland Drive America's national parks. Guadalupe Mntns. NP, the Suite 1 authority over wildlife could be several new features such as animals have come close to challenged on national lands bicycling and fishing information, Fort Washington, PA 19034 Did you know that Yellowstone visitors and staff on several Phone: (215)283-6900 throughout the nation. Wildlife bird and mammal checklists, and a NP is often—but now mistak­ occasions. The have displayed Fax:(215)283-6925 could then be subjected to indi­ new trail section. neither fear nor any intention of E-mail: [email protected] enly—described as the largest vidual state control. From Wilder­ moving on. Because of this ©1998 Eastern National national park in the lower 48 ness Profile, Yellowstone NP. 2 Employees & Alumni Association NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Focus on the Parks activity and recent problems on the management of the park's through the park's visitor center use the Lamar Valley (which has resource," said Morris. As we between lions and visitors, the herd. Two horses died during the that day—a one-day total that no closures) near the dens and are recognize the park's 60-year park has issued a hiker alert, roundup—one ran into a fence and topped the visitation for the entire very visible. Many visitors park history, we open a new accessible advising visitors and employees broke its neck. month of July 1997. in this area to view wolves and loop trail, which we hope will be alike to be vigilant and watch for other wildlife. Giving protection well used by area residents and lions and to exercise extreme Fort Laramie NHS WY restored On August 15, American and to this small area—where there visitors alike," he continued. care when encountering them. to a natural condition five hundred Canadian officials recognized 30 are no trails or human use—has feet of the Laramie River that runs years of international cooperation no impact on visitor use but Nicodemus NHS was officially They were still plowing snow in through the site. Bank barbs, in managing and preserving the instead provides many'visitors dedicated on August 1. The July at Lasson Volcanic NP. The which had been installed following Chilkoot Trail by exchanging with the opportunity to see dedication was part of the park experienced record snowfall a 1983 flood had accelerated proclamations designating the park wolves. Park biologists are community's 120th annual during the winter and spring. The erosion, were removed and the and its Canadian counterpart as a concerned that if the area were homecoming celebration. total accumulation for winter was deeply eroded bank was single international historical park. opened while the wolves are still Nicodemus was settled in 1877 802 inches, or 75 feet of snow. recontoured with the excavated The 33-mile trail runs from Dyea, there, some visitors would go in by African-Americans who left Equipment and operators from material, covered with biodegrad­ to Lake Bennett, and is most to see the wolves more closely. the South for true freedom and Crater Lake NP, Death Valley able erosion control fabric and notable as having served as a route This harassment would likely self-government on the north­ NP, Sequoia Kings NPs, seeded with native grasses. The for gold seekers in 1897 and 1898. cause the wolves to leave the area western Kansas prairie. After Whiskeytown NRA, Yosemite river restoration will enable the Klondike Gold Rush NHP is on and spoil viewing opportunities many hardships and the failure of NP and the California Depart­ Fort Laramie to conduct an the American side; Chilkoot Trail for many other people. As soon as the railroad to come through the ment of Transportation assisted archaeological study of the Adobe NHS is on the Canadian side. The the wolves move away from the town, residents persevered and with snow removal. Only a week Corral site, while allowing the international designation is the dens, the area will be reopened. Nicodemus still survives. It is the later, on July 17, the official high river to continue to migrate first for an NPS unit in Alaska. This is likely to occur within the only remaining all African- temperature in Death Valley NP naturally across its valley as it did next month. American town west of the reached 129 degrees Fahren­ in the fort's heyday. A CBS crew recently interviewed Mississippi. The park preserves heit—the highest temperature Dan Lenihan, program manager of "Birthday Party for Olympic historic structures in the town and recorded in Death Valley and Camp Hoover, the mountain the NPS Submerged Cultural National Park" Supt. David will interpret the role, which possibly the U.S. in the past 85 retreat of President Herbert Resources Unit, about the NPS Morris issued a cordial invitation Nicodemus played in American th years, and only five degrees off Hoover was open to the public investigative work at the USS to the public to attend the "60 history. Director Bob Stanton, the all-time recorded temperature during "Hoover Day," an annual Arizona Memorial, which was Birthday" party for Olympic NP. Regional Director Bill Schenk for the U.S. of 134 degrees, set in event in Shenandoah NP, held on featured on the CBS Evening The party was held on August 10, and Sam Brownback were among Death Valley on July 10, 1913. the weekend closest to the former News with Dan Rather. "Our" Dan 1998, at the Olympic NP Visitor the speakers. The park, which This year's heat wave has been President's August 10 birthday. just returned from spending two Center in Port Angeles. The was established on November 12, underway since July 15, when a Camp Hoover, a National Historic weeks working with Supt. Kathey newly completed Living Forest 1996, is presently being managed temperature of 124 degrees was Landmark, is undergoing a four- Billings and her staff in reviving Trail was officially opened and by Fort Lamed NHS. recorded. All temperatures were year restoration of the remaining the Memorial's dive program and dedicated at this time. "This is recorded in the shade. The park buildings and cultural landscape to getting the monitoring stations re­ truly a community event," said sent along a plaintive note: "Send the early 1930s design, which was established. The Unit conducted Morris. "Several organizations, ice!" Oh, yes—a post script: influenced by President Hoover's research in the 80s. ABC and NBC including the park, have planned Supt. Dick Martin was super at wife, Lou Henry. The Hoovers have indicated an interest to this party, and together we invite Wrangell-St. Elias a few years used this summer retreat fre­ feature a story in the near future. everyone to join us in celebrating ago during the big Alaskan cold quently to escape the pressures of the park's first 60 years of snap. During that period, he public life. They also often found The NPS and Fund for Animals stewardship of this magnificent experienced a wind chill tem­ the camp's natural setting more have signed an agreement regard­ perature of 125 degrees below conducive to sensitive government ing the removal of feral zero. That means he's experi­ business than the formal setting of burros from Mojave NP, enced a temperature range of 254 the White House. Even foreign CA. The Service will degrees during his career. He statesmen were brought to this capture the non-native offers to send an ice cube to retreat. When he left office in animals and transport them anyone who can beat that range. 1933, President Hoover donated from the park to the the land and cabins to the newly Fund's Black Beauty The City of Rocks NR cel­ created Shenandoah NP. Ranch in Murchison, th ebrated its 10 anniversary by Texas—a 2,000-acre hosting a Fourth of July celebra­ A yearlong celebration of the 150th refuge for homeless tion in Almo, Idaho. Volunteers anniversary of the first women's animals. They will then and employees constructed floats right's convention culminated with either be adopted or live and dressed in pioneer clothing, a series of events at Women's out their lives on the honoring the immigrants who Rights NHP from July 10-19. ranch. The Fund will take ventured through the area on the The celebration was coordinated up to 300 burros per year California Trail in the late 1800s. by the park and Celebrate '98, an £5 for the next four years, and S3 Almo residents support the park umbrella organization consisting accepted a first shipment and continued to offer old- of numerous community groups. of 100 burros this month. Y fashioned hospitality to the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton During this fiscal year, the visiting rock climbers and visited the NPS-owned M'Clintock park rounded up 418 visitors. house on the evening of July 15, burros; a total of over I then attended a reception at the 1,000 animals have been g Cape Lookout NS (NC) Horse park's visitor center which removed since the burro a. Roundup—The roundup of feral honored the descendants of the eradication program was horses was completed in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments. begun 13 months ago. Julia Holmaas, Indian Dunes NL and Shane Lind, Arkansas Post spring. A total of 180 were On July 16, Clinton joined New NM enjoy a game of the national parks edition of Monopoly. caught and checked for equine York Governor George Pataki, Only one wolf den closure infectious anemia (EIA). Three Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, remains in effect in In Time for Christmas horses tested positive for EIA Director Bob Stanton, Northeast Yellowstone NP. All other Here's another way to learn about our national parks—play Monopoly. and were transferred to a private Regional Director Marie Rust, closures are now open to This new board game features photos of parks. It also has pewter tokens foundation that maintains a Park Supt. Josie Fernandez and the public. The one small such as a ranger hat, a boot, a cannon, canoe, tent and a bear, while the quarantine site for horses. Celebrate '98 Chair Mary Anne closure that remains in game pieces are green tents and brown ranger stations. A portion of the Legislation is pending which Krupsak at the inaugural event of effect is in the upper profit will support park projects. Cost is $35. For additional information, would allow the Foundation of the three-day period, which was Lamar Valley area where or to order, call 1 (800) 821-2903. Shackelford Horses to maintain attended by a crowd of 14,000 the Druid Peak wolf pack the site and have some influence people. About 7,600 people passed has a den. 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Alumni News architectural heritage of the United del Oro, 1452 So. Ellsworth Rd., favorite restaurant, Denny's, Charles E. NCR/WASO Peterson, States. Mr. Peterson has received #2454, Mesa, AZ 85208. where he knew all the waitresses F.A.I.A, many life achievement awards, and vice versa. Partly, I suspect, Celebrates founder of the including the National Trust's Reed W. Jarvis, retired PWRO due to his always wearing his August 25 Peterson coveted Crowninshield Award chief ranger, returned from Cairo, University of Missouri football (1966). He was advanced to jacket and "Tiger" cap. He says he Archive and Egypt, where he helped set up the The "1916 Society" of the fellowship in the American is beginning to feel a little Library of first ambulance helicopter service National Capital Region hosts Early Ameri­ Institute of Architects in 1962. In on the tip of the Sinai Peninsula. housebound. an all employee and alumni 1979 he received an AIA medal He also produced an operation Charles E. Peterson can Building event on August 25 each year. Technology for his "vision and determination'' policy and procedures manual. Marc Sagan honored us with his This year a home-styled, bring- and Historic Preservation at the in having established HABS, "a Reed is at home at 8666 Southeast "all seasons" letter, with appropri­ your-own picnic was the event th University of Maryland, College priceless archive in our architec­ 75 place, Mercer Island, WA ate credit given to wife Jean. Jean theme. Park Libraries was honored at a tural history." He was awarded the 98040. is the one who keeps their Over 150 personal invitations luncheon by the University of AIA Presidential Citation in 1990. Leesburg manor house, garden were sent out to Alumni and Maryland on May 20. Mr. and sheep in order, as well as Nancy and Bill Ehorn (former Friends of the NPS. Regrets Jim and Evah Dunning report presiding over the League of Peterson launched his profes­ supt. at Redwood NP) gave Craig were received from Mr. and this is their 10"1 summer of Women Voters. He tries to find sional career with the National and Cathy Johnson a "welcome Mrs. Bob Stanton who were on Airstream caravaning, which has birds, grasshoppers and dragon- Park Service in 1929. He began back to Crescent City" retirement travel, Mr. and Mrs. George taken them to all the states, work as a restoration architect in party on September 26. flies to photograph. Marc and Ray Hartzog, Sr., and Chet Harris, 1931 at the Moore House (where provinces and territories of Price are continuing the consulting also on travel. Cornwallis signed the British Canada. November 13 marks their The E&AA volunteer had an and they break bread (at least th The George Washington capitulation) in Yorktown, 50 wedding anniversary. They opportunity to visit with 95-year- annually) with former HFC'rs Memorial Parkway, Fort Hunt Virginia. In 1933, Mr. Peterson will celebrate with family and old Harry Robinson in Columbia, Allan Kent, Dave Wallace and originated the Historic American friends in Fresno and a ten-day Bob Johnson, who are in or near site, Virginia, hosted this year's MO. Harry's big news was that he activities. It was probably the Buildings Survey (HABS). Mexican Riviera cruise to Frederick, MD. We were pleased no longer has a MO state driver's hottest day of the summer, but Today the HABS program of the Acapulco in December. Now to note that Sagan is now able to license. He said the loss can be both employees and alumni winters are spent in Mesa, AZ. put words and pictures on the NPS continues to produce attributed to the fact that one day turned out to share the anniver­ They would enjoy hearing from same page. All in full color! measured drawings, large format while backing his big Ford out of sary program. Regional photographs and written histories you. Their permanent address is ,h his drive, he just kept backing up Director Terry Carlstrom and of historic sites, structures and still c/o M. Maples, 4269 N. 4 St., and came to rest against a tele­ wife Mary were hosts. They objects that are significant to the Fresno, CA 93726; winter is Valle phone pole. We ate at Harry's shared the honor with co-host and park Supt. Audrey Calhoun, whose staff coordi­ nated and presented a variety of New Places the past three years, Karren has resigned effective July 4 to pursue Doerner, a North Dakota native programs for the participants. Marty Ott, on special appoint­ been supt. at Abraham Lincoln his own landscape architectural and second-generation NPS Ms. Terry Wood, secretary for ment for 2 years, Utah Coordina­ Birthplace. Before that she was firm. employee, earned a Bachelor of the E&AA, was our esteemed administrative officer at Mam­ Arts degree in history at Minot tor for the NPS, has been Dennis Brookie (landscape guest and was heard to make moth Cave NP, Saguaro NP and a State University. appointed deputy director of the architect) resigned to obtain a the observation, "it's too hot!" contract specialist at North Everyone agreed. Utah State Dept. of Natural position in the private sector at Dale Thompson, chief ranger at Cascades NP. She began her NPS Resources. His portfolio will PBS&J Construction Services July Lake Meredith NRA/Alibates career as a clerk-typist at The "1916 Society" is best include the Division of Wildlife 24. Flint Quarries NM was a member Cuyahoga Valley NRA in 1979 known for its evening dinner Resources, Water Resources, of a NPS team sent to assess the and also worked at Big Bend NP. Jack Highland (landscape programs on August 25, which Water Rights and Parks and training and assistance needs of Karren succeeds Bill Harris, now architect) is leaving DSC and has become a tradition for the Recreation. Marty can be the Venezuela national parks. reached at the Department of acting facility manager at Cape accepting a term position at Marsh Region and the Washington Natural Resources, 1594 West Hatteras NS. Billings. Office. The picnic concept is not new, however, and it North Temple, Suite 3710, P.O. Rick Obernesser, chief ranger at Billy Garrett, chief of architecture provides an opportunity for a Box 145610, Salt Lake City, UT Cape Cod NS for 4'Y years, has New Faces at DSC, was named deputy general more casual gathering in a 84114-5610(801)538-7200. been selected assistant chief supt. at Gateway NRA. John Russell became the first park. Bruce Powell supt. at Golden ranger at Yellowstone NP. He full-time interpretive park ranger Spike NHS has been designated replaces Mike Murray who was Cynthia Young, chief of resource at the City of Rocks N RES in This year's agenda featured acting Utah coordinator until named assistant supt. at Cape Cod planning at DSC, was named Almo, ID. He was formerly the park interpretive programs further notice. in October. Born in upstate New assistant supt. at the Statue of district executive for the Boy coordinated by Park Rangers Liberty NM. Larry Norris, formerly with the York and raised in California, Scouts Grand Teton Council. Walter McDowney and Gary DSC, has joined the Natural Obernesser has worked at Bob Krumenaker, chief of natural Pollock. These programs Yosemite, Great Smokies, Glen Dawn Bosh, from Great Smoky included Civil War music Resource and Technology Team and cultural resources at Mountains NP, has joined the in the IMSO, Denver. He is the Canyon and Petrified Forest. Shenandoah NP, will be in a provided by Park Ranger and Information Management & vocalist, Colleen Mastrangelo, team's first research coordinator Josie Fernandez, supt. at unique split position as deputy Telecommunications staff, Santa of Antietam NB and a tour and and will assume a number of Hopewell Furnace NHS since associate regional director for Fe, as a computer specialist. history of the fort by Park responsibilities in direct support April 1996, has been named supt. Planning, Resource Stewardship Ranger Jay Johnstone. In of park units in the Southwest of Women's Rights NHP. She and Science in NERO and national Bradley K. Flint, an appraiser addition, there was the Untold cluster. He has worked through­ replaces Joanne Hanley who has coordinator of Director Stanton's with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Story (you had to have been out the West and Southwest. been named supt. of four national NPS Natural Resources Initiative. Service in Fallon, Nevada, has there) by Park Ranger Greg parks units in southwestern PA. joined the Intermountain Region Tomie Patrick Lee has been John A. Doerner, chief of Land Resources Program Center Marsh. named superintendent at Glacier Tom Ulrich has been promoted to interpretation at Little Bighorn in Santa Fe as appraiser. As the day gradually moved Bay NP & PRES in Alaska. chief, interpretation and resource Battlefield NM, has been selected historian at the monument. "The Don Barry was confirmed June into evening, the participants Amy Schneckenburger's management at Florissant Fossil historian's position is high profile 26 as the assistant secretary for were invited to join with local (project manager) last day with Beds NM. at Little Bighorn," remarked Supt. fish, wildlife and parks. residents in enjoying the big DSC was July 3. Amy has Linda Lutz-Ryan has been Neil Mangum. He began his NPS band sound of the Tom accepted a project manager Kendra Hogan entered duty in selected to establish the Florissant career in 1986 working as a Cummings Orchestra from position with Yosemite NP. engineering at the DSC in June. Fossil Beds National Monument's volunteer for Fort Union Trading Alexandria, VA. first Environmental Education Karren Brown will take over as Post NHS. In 1989, he worked as a The Society is fast at work to Program. Cape Lookout supt., October 11. seasonal interpreter at Little begin plans for the 83rd, see you Bighorn Battlefield and a year later According to Regional Director Shawn Bryant has been named there! he received his first permanent Belson, Karren was selected for facility manager at Florissant position working in the Division of —Dave Linderman, NCRO the post based on the outstanding Fossil Beds NM. job she did during a five-month Interpretation as chief interpreter assignment as acting supt. For Dave Duclos (landscape architect) and acting museum curator.

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Christmas in Paradise continued from page 1 gency room. An x-ray showed wind down. As soon as we tree until the gifts, sent by relatives marvelous shiner that prompted further, and search for something nothing broken, but the area is still reasonably could, we checked who'd adjusted to the fact that we snide comments by just about to cover that hole. We had to try tender, six months later. outside for damage. We had only weren't coming after all, started everybody) spent the next two several things before Ed finally minor damage, including a tear in trickling in a week or two later. months after the storm working came up with a board that would After tending the eye and chang­ the roofs insulation, which later overtime up to seven days a fit. By that time, we were both ing out of our sodden clothes, we It did not take long for folks to resulted in the Navy re-roofing the week. He supervised his equally soaked to the skin, and leaves picked up glass, swept up water, notice that, although employees whole house. We got off pretty hard-working staff, thirty had blown in with the water, and arranged a towel-and-bedding were having trouble trying to do lightly, considering how many temporary employees, and a making the floor treacherously dike to contain the water still laundry or keep food cold, the park people had lost entire homes. BAER (Burned Area Emergency slippery. coming in. Nine-year-old, Andy, had a nice big generator. The directed activities by flashlight, Ed hauled out our generator and Arizona Memorial Museum Rehabilitation) team as they As Ed rushed back and forth in while his six-year-old sister, Tobe, set it up. Then, even before the all- Association bought a washer and strove to clean, inventory, and the near-dark, he slipped and fell, fell asleep on the couch. clear had been given, he grabbed dryer, and the US Fish and rehabilitate the park. The units hitting his head on the corner of his facility manager, Ron Wilson, Wildlife Service (which shares are all open again, but there is the table. He struck hard enough The wind dropped as the eye of and left to check out the park. office space in the same building), still a lot of work to be done. to make him woozy. Still, he the storm passed, but not by They navigated the eleven miles donated a freezer for the employ­ Our house and family is back to ignored the purple, ballooning much, because it passed over the through flooded roads choked ees and their families. I signed up normal—except we never did get flesh above his left eyebrow and northern tip of Guam, which with debris. There were no for my turn. The kids and I camped to the States for vacation, and the blood running down his face placed us in the eyewall for operational traffic lights. Power out at their dad's office one that window is still not fixed. as he struggled to close that hole. virtually the entire passage—and, strangely, this storm had a double lines and poles were down across morning to do laundry and enjoy (The Navy, in their infinite Once he found the right board, eyewall. We heaved a sigh of the roads. Almost all the the air conditioning. wisdom, has declined to fix it, as we had no way to secure it. The relief when the wind switched breakaway street signs had either But even though the wash was they plan to let a contract to re-do house, as 1 mentioned, is con­ direction. Usually one half of a been blown flat or were missing. done, the house was still too hot, windows in our neighborhood crete. Nails don't work, and typhoon is worse than the other, Ed and Ron arrived safely at the bugs and mildew had set in, "sometime within the year!" Or, power tools are fairly useless depending on how the home sits, park and found the visitor center/ humidity curled paintings, photos more likely, after we move.) The without power! (And believe me, and we figured we'd been through admin building swamped. The sea and book edges, and someone tried window continues to sport its duct tape does not fix every­ the worse half already. wall had broken; bringing the to steal our generator. We had original jury-rigged board thing.) While he ran around ocean (along with a foot-deep secured it to a plant rack with a cover—with one addition. We looking for something that would Other buildings had blocked the layer of sand and rocks, and a few steel cable, so the would-be thieves had to resort to duct tape after all. work, I held the board against the house for the first half of the boulders) into the lower level, only succeeded in bending the It now covers the cracks to keep head-high window frame. It took storm, but as wind direction which contains a parking garage rack. But annoyances like that, out the wasps. all my strength (and considerable reversed for the back half of the and storerooms. Windows had combined with the heat, tended to weight) to keep it there and even storm, there was nothing on that broken and an upper door blew make everyone crabby. Nights so, every other gust still blew me side but a big open field. Even off. The park units themselves were sweltering and cold showers backwards, sometimes as much though we got less water in the were pretty devastated. had lost their appeal. Though our Issues of the 90s as a foot, before suddenly house during the back side of the candlelight church service on abating and clunking me back storm, the winds were stronger. While my spouse poured his Christmas Eve was cozy and Personal Watercraft against the shard-studded We worried that one of the walls energy into salvaging things at the poignant, all we really wanted for Proposal window frame. might not stay up. (Our wall park, we coped with the aftermath persevered, but a few walls went on a more personal level. We kept Christmas was electric power! A proposed rule for managing The whole window-fiasco went down in other concrete Navy the generator filled. It had only And the Navy came through! Personal Watercraft (PWC) on for over an hour while the use in units of the National homes in different housing areas. enough oomph to run the fridge Somewhere in the night of Christ­ kids watched from the safety of Park System was published in The park's history association and lights, and sometimes the mas Eve, they reconnected us to the mounded furniture in the the Federal Register Septem­ employee was living in one of stove and microwave, if we turned electricity. When we awoke on middle of the room, where they ber 15 and available for a 60- these.) something else off. On TV, all we Christmas morning, there was day public review and played with flashlights and could watch were videos. power! We turned the tree-lights comment period. The pro­ shouted encouragement. Ed As the storm continued, we posal would prohibit PWC carried Tobe to bed and tucked The kids and I mopped up water on, turned up the air conditioner finally secured the board with use in national park units Andy in with his flashlight. Then and hung the towels outside. We and celebrated. pieces of aluminum bookcase unless the NPS determines we sat listening to the radio in the brackets wedged into the window opened the windows and braced Once again, we were lucky. We that this type of water-based frame with a hammer. dark. the front door open, trying to were among the very few with recreational activity is catch a breeze while leaving most electricity by Christmas. It took appropriate for a specific park Finally, with the window As the evening deepened past of the insect population outside (a three months to fully restore power site based on that unit's blocked, we could get down to midnight, only one radio station futile effort). The kids helped drag to the entire island and many park enabling legislation, resources sorting out the mess—beginning remained on the air. The voice in yard debris out to the curb. employees had to wait weeks and values, other visitor uses with Ed's face. In the bathroom, the night was Wally Hollis of Initially, they reveled in the longer than we did. and overall management by flashlight, I saw how bad it KTWG Transworld Radio, novelty of brushing their teeth objectives. However, the rule was. He thought his eyebrow broadcasting Christian music. I No electricity also meant no traffic allows continued use of with a glass of water and flushing ridge was broken and the flesh think it is safe to say that everyone lights. Guam police and National PWCs at 13 park sites under a the toilet with a bucket. Water was had swollen to a ghastly, lemon- with a radio on Guam was glued Guardsmen directed traffic. The simple method of local rule­ restored after three days, but sized lump. An inch-long gaping to that station. Instead of signing storm had hit two days before making by the park superin­ power was off at our house for tendent, who could regulate gash just below the eyebrow off, Wally chose to stay on for a schools would have let out for almost ten days, so we used use through area closures, drained blood down his face. He fifteen-hour shift through the Christmas vacation. With those operating conditions and other storm. He served as everyone's flashlights and lanterns at night two weeks to repair facilities, our still felt a bit light-headed. methods if necessary. That link to life, hope and solace. We when we turned off the generator. kids, who attend school at the Air Swell! Except in extreme category includes 11 man- listened while people called in We had planned to go to the States Force base, only missed three days situations, no ambulance would made national recreation from their bathrooms where for Christmas with relatives, but of school. However, public schools respond in Condition One, nor areas, including Amistad, they'd dragged the phone—the the airport closed and our flight had to delay their January post- Bighorn Canyon, Chickasaw, could we drive to the nearest only safe place to be because the was canceled. We hadn't deco­ Christmas opening a month, since Curecanti, Glen Canyon, Lake hospital emergency room. We rest of the house had collapsed. rated for the holiday and we had those schools that weren't de­ Meredith and Padre Island were stuck until the storm passed We listened while people prayed planned to do our shopping in the stroyed, were still being used as National Seashore in the and the roads were cleared. So I and made song requests and asked land of Wal-Mart and Toys R Us. shelters. The Air Force also opened Intermountain Region. checked his pupil responses by to pass on reports to or from We were ready for the storm, but up unoccupied housing and created flashlight, and we cleaned up his family members they could no not Christmas. So we hurriedly a new, temporary village for some face. With a butterfly bandage longer contact. Strangely, though put up a tree and some inside of those who lost homes. Tuskegee Airman NHS? that nicely closed and held the the station's generator did not decorations. Outside decorations Moton Field—the small gash, I bandaged the area. It Incredibly, though so many homes have enough fuel to last, it were pointless. Those that hadn't airport that served as a turned out that this was all the were lost, there was no loss of life. somehow managed to keep on been taken in had blown away. No training site in World War II treatment he ever received, Unless you count one horse that running, four or five hours after it one bothered to replace them, for the all-black air corps unit because too much time had had to be put down after a barn should have run down. since there was no electricity. We known as the Tuskegee passed to suture the wound when roof fell on it. Airmen—may become the We finally went to bed and, in the had a few presents for the kids, he finally arrived at the emer­ My husband Ed (sporting a continued on page 7 morning, the storm had begun to but it was pretty bare under the

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The Class of 1998 Retiree Larry Nash, supt. Roger Williams N MEM, stopped by the 1998 Regional Freeman Tilden office September 1. He was here Award Winners to attend the retirement luncheon for Richard "Rich" Jamgochian, Freeman Tilden's book Interpreting Our Heritage provided a philosophical basis for interpretation. The a long-time employee of Eastern Freeman Tilden award, a creation of K.C. DenDooven and Paul Pritchard in 1982, is awarded annually to a National. In recent years, Rich NPS employee who is chosen from those nominated by their regional directors. A nominee's work must have also served as plan administrator enhanced the public understanding of a park and the NPS mission, been creative, original and significantly for the E&AA Trust Fund. We advanced the practice of interpretation and education, demonstrated a significant effort beyond the normal thank him for his help and will day-to-day operations and made a positive difference in the experience of park visitor or off-site park audi­ miss him. ences. The following individuals have each received a plaque, and will attend The Association for Interpreta­ John Chapman Rich McCamant, chief inter­ tion Workshop in Anchorage, AK on October 22. At that time, the "Best of the Best" will be anointed, preter at Guadalupe Mountains receiving the National 1998 Freeman Tilden Award. John Chapman from assistant NP will retire effective Novem­ supt., Rocky Mountain NP where ber 3, ending a 34-year career he began as a seasonal employee. with the NPS. The McCamants His wife Jean is retiring from the will remain in Carlsbad where U.S. Forest Service. His first wife Karen teaches school. permanent job was park ranger at Letters, anecdotes, tall tales, Crater Lake NP, then on to g photographs or other whimsical o Guadalupe Mountains NP, Capulin -a nonsense (or perhaps even Volcano NM, Glacier Bay NP & ft. something nice and congratula­ 5: CO PRES, RMRO and back to Rocky tory!) for a retirement album Mountain NP. Northeast Region should be sent to Supt. Larry Patrice Ferrell, park ranger Henderson, Guadalupe Moun­ Bill Gibson from supt. Dayton Midwest Region Richmond NBP tains NP, HC 60, Box 400, Salt Aviation Heritage NHP. Bill also Travis White, park ranger "Penguins Across the USA " Flat, TX 79847. served at Saratoga NHP, Sagamore Cuyahoga Valley NRA Hill NHS, Gateway NRA, Glen "Sherlock Bones Children's Jerry Chilton chief ranger, Program " Canyon NRA, Gila Cliff Dwellings Herbert Hoover NHS will retire NM and Morristown NHP. effective October 2. He has requested no party, no fuss and James M. "Jim" Brady, from the park is honoring that request. supt. Glacier Bay NP & PRES, However, they did not want the after a 36-year career. Jim was one rest of you to miss the opportu­ of rhe "founding fathers" of the nity to get your last digs in. Association of National Park Please send your messages Rangers. Jim and wife, Gwen, g directly to Jerry c/o HEHO, PO lived and worked in ten different s g Box 607, West Branch, IA NPS parks and offices and now are -s: o ft, >«: 52358. at home in Durango, CO. CO ft,

Scott Evans, PR-airplane pilot at Thomas B. Carroll, park manager, IIntermountain Region Voyageurs NP, after a 34-year Palo Alto Battlefield NHS, Jeffrey T. Kartheiser, Alaska Region career with the feds. He began his effective May 30. park ranger Mary Ann Porter, park ranger career as a Forest Service Saguaro NP Glacier Bay NP & PRES Susan S. Rawlins, secretary, Lake seasonal, served in the Peace "Cactus Rangers Program' "Tlingit Culture Outreach Meredith NRA, effective June 2. Corps and at Wupakti NM, Program " Albright Training Center, Joshua Tony Satroplus, motor vehicle Tree NM and Point Reyes NA. operator, Capulin Volcano NM, He was a 1996 recipient of the effective January 3. DOI Valor Award. Bernandette Tavarez, custodial Marrey Beyeler, fire program worker, Guadalupe Mountains NP, assistant at Bandelier NM, to re­ effective March 31. g enter the medical field. Her new Albert Dominguez, maintenance life will be in the ER at St. o worker supervisor, Fort Union ft, Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, Trading Post NHS, effective ft, NM. January 3. co 1

Craig Johnson retired on Joseph Figg, maintenance me­ Southeast Region National Capital Region September 3 from Gates of the chanic, Lyndon B. Johnson NHP, Pacific West Region Milagros Flores Roman, Sally E. Griffin, Artie, AK. He had previously Lee Taylor, park ranger historian effective November 30. supervisory park ranger worked in Redwoods NP and Fort Vancouver NHS San Juan NHS Catoctin Mountain Park Channel Island NP. Celia Gomez, museum technician, "Cultural Resources 1797 British Invasion of Puerto "National Park Links to Carlsbad Caverns NP, effective Education Through Living Rico Commemoration the Chesapeake Bay " Phil Klos, DSC electrical February 28. History Program " engineer, effective July 3.

Sparks, are the proud parents of a spirits. Get well wishes may be and lacerating his cheek. A ranger encouraging, although it is a very In the NPS Family son born June 22. Ryan Matthew sent to Charles at 94 East ascended to his location and slow process. While he has a lot Sparks weighed in at 7 lbs. 11 oz. Peakview Place, Parker, Colorado helped him to the summit. He was of breaks and fractures, his vital Regina (facility manager) and Baby and parents are doing great. 80138. treated at the scene, then taken to a organs and brain are not injured. John (interpretive ranger) Heiner local medical facility, where he He is able to move both legs and are the proud parents of a baby Charles Banks with the Contract­ Park employee Vincent received 14 stitches and under­ arms, although the arms are in boy, Zachary William, born ing Services at the DSC has Littlewhiteman was injured while went molar reconstruction. casts and one leg has broken September 13, at 5:25 p.m. in leukemia and has been undergoing attending a simulated rescue bones. Bob has had five surgeries Alpine, Texas. Mom, Dad and chemotherapy five days a week as training session on August 19 at On August 10, Park Ranger Bob on his arms, legs and jaw. We are big brother Jake are doing well. well as receiving blood transfu­ Badlands NP. Littlewhiteman had Healy, Salinas Pueblos Missions hoping that this is all the surgery sions and platelets. He is expected rappelled down a fixed rope and NM, was seriously injured in a he will need. Because of the Nellie Lance, structural engineer to be out of the office for several was climbing back up, when a vehicle accident. He has been surgery, his jaw is wired shut and in the Engineering Department at weeks. Although he is feeling very rock dislodged by his rope struck hospitalized ever since. Bob is will remain that way for another DSC and her husband, Sam tired and week, he is in good him in the face, breaking a molar progressing each day, which is week and a half. continued on backpage 6 Employees & Alumni Association NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Requiescant in Pace Hilmar T. Sallee, 87, at George Washing­ Debbie Hosti, wife of Fort Pulaski Mainte­ sons Martin Allan and Bruce. Betty may be Jr. of Winchester, VA, and his sister Lynn ton University Hospital of injuries sus­ nance Chief Mike Hosti, three grandchil­ reached at 2017 Patricia Drive, Globe, AZ Ella (Salisbury) Richardson of Greeley CO. tained when he was struck by a car near his dren and three great-grandchildren. 85501 (520) 425-2007. Memorials may be made in Dan's name to home in Washington, DC. He held a local chapters of the Humane Society, and master's degree in theater and drama from Ralph W. "Bill" Hoffmeyer, June 16, a Franklin D. Pridemore, 66, August 3 at his the E&AA Education Trust Fund. the University of NC, and did graduate long-time seasonal interpretive park ranger, home in Sevierville, TN. Frank was a Life work at the University of CA. He taught following a long fight with cancer at his Member and strong supporter of E&AA. He Homer Taylor, 70, August 29. He retired drama at the University of Miami and the home in Shenandoah Valley, VA. Bill retired in 1994 as assistant superintendent at from Mammoth Cave NP in 1983 as a University of OR and was a theater started with the Service in 1974 and worked Great Smoky Mountains NP after a 34-year carpenter and woodcrafter. Before transfer­ manager in New York City before joining at New River Gorge NR, Saint Croix NSR, career. During that time, he had been ring to the park he worked for the Great the NPS as a theater manager. His assign­ and Shenandoah NP. He is survived by his superintendent at Mammoth Cave NP and Onyx Job Corps as a carpentry instructor. ments included work with the opening of wife Marty, and daughters, Kate and Gulf Islands NS in the southeast, and the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap Farm Naomi. Friends of the family are establish­ Catoctin Mountain, Greenbelt Park and the Laura Brinkmeyer, 17-year-old daughter Park. He also managed productions at ing a trust for the education of Kate and Baltimore Washington Parkway, all located of District Ranger Mike and Linda Carter Baron Amphitheater, Rock Creek Naomi. Contributions may be sent to Wheat in the Maryland, Washington, DC area. He Brinkmeyer was found dead early on the Park and the reopening of Ford's Theatre Union, P.O. Box 1187, Harrisonburg, VA was a native of Middlesboro, KY, and morning of Sunday, September 27 follow­ NCR in the 1960s. After his retirement in 02134-1245. served in the US Air Force for four years. ing an extensive, all-night search of the the mid-70s, he volunteered at several He started his career as an historian at Woolum area of the park. The search was parks including Glacier NP, Chiricahaua Cumberland Gap NHP in 1960. He also begun on Saturday night when Laura failed NM and Gulf Islands NS. He was also worked at Fort Frederica NM, Kings to return home from a day hike near the active in the Audubon Society and a Mountain NMP and Kennesaw Mountain family's residence within the park. Track­ generous supporter of the E& A A Educa­ NB. Survivors include his wife, Claudette ing dogs followed a trail, but were called tional Trust. He leaves no immediate and son, Vincent. Memorials may be made off during the night due to the dangerous survivors. to the NPS E&AA Trust Fund. cliffs in the area. After sunrise Sunday morning the body was found atop a bluff William "Bill" A. Dennin, 87, at his home Robert "Bob" P. Wood, died of cancer overlooking the Buffalo River. A small in Falls Church, VA on May 29. After August 14. Bob began his 32-year career in caliber handgun was found at her side. The graduation from high school, he joined the Yellowstone in 1959, moved to Glacier NP, state medical examiner's office has U.S. Marine Corps and served as the island and became the resource management examined the body and handgun. No government surveyor in Guam and at the specialist for Grand Teton NP in 1969. In suspects are being sought at this time. The U.S. embassy in Peking, China. When he addition to being an expert on bear manage­ investigation has been turned over to the returned home he worked in the War Plans ment and fire ecology, he knew the grasses state police. We extend our sincere Office in California. After being dis­ and wildflowers and had a special interest in sympathy to Mike, Linda, their son Allan charged he settled in Washington, DC and Earl Jackson birds. Bob was the "answer man," a biolo­ and the park staff. Condolences may be worked in the Department of Agriculture, gist admired for his extensive knowledge, sent to the family at Route 2, Box 192, St. the General Services Administration and Luther Earl Jackson, 88, July 5 in Globe, his willingness to share and his humility. Joe, AR 72675. Memorials in Laura's the Department of Interior. He retired as AZ. Earl held a master's degree in archeol­ Because of his concern for raptor conserva­ name may be made to her favorite chari­ the supervisory architect for the NCR, ogy from the University of AZ. In the late tion, his family has suggested that anyone ties: World Wildlife Fund (P.O. Box NPS. His many projects included the 1920s he worked as a seasonal at Chaco who would like, memorial donations may be 96555, Washington, DC 20077-7795), restoration of Ford's Theatre, the design of Canyon NM as a laborer stabilizing ruins. In sent to the Raptor Research Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife (1101 14,h Street, bridges on the George Washington the early 1930s he worked several summers 12805 St. Croix Trail, Hastings, MN 55033. NW #1400, Washington, DC 20005), or Parkway and information kiosks on the supervising archeological excavations of The Nature Conservancy (1815 No. Lynn Mall. He retired in 1969 with 40 years of Castle A at Montezuma Castle NM. His first Daniel "Dan" E. Salisbury, 51, August 26, St., Arlington, VA 22209). service. Bill is survived by his wife of 60 permanent position was as custodian (Supt.) in Pinehurst, NC where he had relocated years, Velma, his daughters Donna Sexton, Montezuma Castle NM. Other assignments after his retirement in 1994. Born in Wash­ Amalia "Molly" Vigil, September 27, who and Nancy Bazylewiez, both of Falls were Tumacaacori NM, Pinnacles NM, and ington, DC, he graduated from J.E.B. Stuart retired from the former Southwest Re­ Church, seven grandchildren and three as a park naturalist in the Southwest H.S. in Falls Church, VA, later earning a gional Office, Santa Fe, NM, as program great-grandchildren. National Monuments headquarters in Globe, degree in accounting from William and and budget assistant in 1977. She had AZ. He took an early retirement to become Mary University, Williamsburg, VA. Dan worked in the Santa Fe office for 27 years. Thomas "Buck" Kight, 84, former Fort the executive director, Southwest Parks and was a well-respected assistant director and Molly will be fondly remembered for Pulaski NM employee, July 4. He was a Monuments Association, Globe, AZ, key player in the "Hall of Heroes." He devoting her personal time in life to raising long-time resident of Tybee Island and retiring from that position in 1981—all the enjoyed his cats (and kittens) as much as his her five brothers and one sister. worked for 20 years at Fort Pulaski as a while writing a (30 year) nature column for game of golf. He was also a generous woodcrafter, retiring in 1987. He is the Arizona Silver Belt newspaper. Survi­ supporter of the E&AA Education Trust survived by two daughters including vors include his wife of 63 years, Betty, and Fund. Dan is survived by his father, Ernst,

the early 1940s. The pilots fought prejudice urchins, a working gristmill and even an Stephen Barr's article on the survey in Issues of the 90s just to get into the war but went on to adobe oven where kids can prepare local the Washington Post: "In general, the compile a distinguished combat record over food specialties. To kick off the project, a survey showed Americans to be less continued from page 5 the skies of north Africa and Europe. Called nationwide contest to design an official critical of government in a variety of newest addition to America's National the "Lonely Eagles," the Tuskegee Airmen Discovery Center logo is being held. The ways than they were just a few years Park System. A study by the NPS has flew more than 15,500 sorties, completed logo should illustrate the fun of visiting a ago.. .The polling found improved public concluded that the airfield qualifies as a 1,578 missions, destroyed 409 enemy national park and being outdoors. U.S. assessments of specific departments and aircraft, sank an enemy destroyer and national historic site. Details of the ten- residents between the ages of 8 and 14 are agencies in the government, with seven th knocked out numerous ground installations month study was presented at the 27 eligible. The centers have been made receiving better ratings than they did in on strafing runs. They came home from the Tuskegee Airmen National Convention possible through the National Park Founda­ the mid-1980s...The highest favorability war with 150 distinguished flying crosses, in August. Officials taking part in the 11 tion and a $1.5 million grant from The ratings went to the U.S. Postal Service, one Legion of Merit, one Silver Star, 14 the National Park Service, the Centers for a.m. presentation included Alabama Coca-Cola Foundation. For a list of the Bronze Stars and 744 Air Medals. Disease Control, the Defense Depart­ Gov. Fob James, Congressman Riley, participating parks or more information ment, the Food and Drug Administration, Tuskegee University President Dr. contact: WASO Public Affairs at (202) 208- NASA and the Federal Aviation Benjamin Payton, NPS Director Robert 4988. Discover the National Parks Administration...The survey showed Stanton and NPS Southeast Regional government workers, in particular, are Director Jerry Belson. The study, The National Park Foundation announced that visitors will soon enjoy hands-on From the Department of well-regarded by most of the public..." conducted in cooperation with the State The NPS had a favorability rating of of Alabama and Tuskegee University, "National Park Discovery Centers" at 12 Intermittent Good News National Parks. These centers are going to 85%, second only to the Postal Service, outlines four alternatives for commemo­ The Pew Research Center for the People with 89%. Although the NPS was allow visitors to explore science, culture and rating the Tuskegee Airmen. The pioneer and the Press has released a new survey on number one in 1987, its favorability history by actually participating in learning aviators of the all-black fighter group public attitudes toward the federal govern­ rating was only 80% at that time. organized and trained at Tuskegee during activities. Some of the activities will include ment. The following excerpts are from "touch tanks" with hermit crabs and sea

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Kudos and Awards

John Martinez, maintenance worker at Jill Cowley, Southwest SSO, NM was coordinate the first comprehensive natural Georgi L. Wellington, Mammoth Cave, San Antonio Missions NHP, was selected awarded $300 to explore theoretical aspects inventory at a large U.S. National Park. KY was awarded $2,000 for on-the-job as one of the five finalists for the San of cultural landscape management issues training in construction and professional Dick Lazeres, Columbia Cascades SSO, Antonio Federal Executive Board "Em­ that directly affect park management. services contracting at the DSC. WA was awarded $1,875 for network ployee of the Year" Award. He was William J. Crockett, Wolf Trap Farm, VA operating system and application server Linda Z. Wright, Columbia Cascades honored for the high caliber of his work, as was awarded $886 to attend the 15th Annual training. SSO, WA was awarded $2,500 to examine well as his contributions to the community. International Crowd Management Confer­ and test organizational development Given that there are 80,000 federal Robert Masson, Morristown NHP, NJ was ence. theories relative to the NPS. employees in the San Antonio area, John's awarded $650 for graduate studies in selection as a finalist is quite an accom­ David B. Dahlen, Mather Training Center, ecology at Rutgers University. —Victoria Clarke, WASO plishment. WV was awarded $2,960 to present a NPS George Mettao, American Memorial Park, Interpretive Development workshop at the Zandy-Marie Hillis-Starr, biological War in the Pacific NHP, Saipan, MP was 1998 Australia Congress. technician at Buck Island Reef, was awarded $521 for skills-based training in the awarded the newly created Trish Patterson- Jeff Denny, Carlsbad Caverns NP, NM was field of maintenance. SCA Award. This award honors achieve­ awarded $687 for museum collections Randy W. Mitchell, John Muir NHS, CA ments in natural resource management in training. small parks. Zandy-Marie's contributions was awarded $986 for advanced carpentry studies at the William Penn Mott, Jr. include the establishment of a sea turtle Mary H. Doll, Wright Brothers NM, NC E&AA Benefactors Training Center. monitoring program that has received was awarded $550 to attend the 1998 National Congress on Aviation and Space national and international recognition. She Julie A. Nagle, Pacific-Great Basin SSO, The following donations have been Education. instituted a program with volunteers and CA was awarded $1,125 to complete received this quarter. Thank you for visiting scientists to document the effects Gerald A. Fabris, Thomas Edison NHS, NJ computer systems engineering certification your support. of Hurricane Hugo (1989), document was awarded $4,000 to continue studies. baseline conditions and monitor subse­ ethnomusicology studies at Columbia Education Trust Fund Antonio Nepaial, War in the Pacific NHP, quent reef recovery. University. Saipan, MP was awarded $521 for skills- Alaska Superintendents' Conference Applications for the 1998 Albright-Wirth Robert Gal, Cape Krusensteern NM, AK based training in the field of maintenance. The American Legion Awards were received from employees was awarded $2,921 to complete reporting Flagstaff Area NPS Employees Sarah Olson, Weir Farm NHS, CT was throughout the Service. Those applications requirements on an archeological reconnais­ Association awarded $550 to develop an electronic that met qualifying standards were indi­ sance survey of the Noatak N PRES. Intermountain Region Superinten­ vidually evaluated based on its merit. distribution house specifically for children. dents' Conference Vanessa K. Gilder, Independence NHP, Proposals deemed enterprising and Lonni R. Pelto, Apostle Islands NL, WI Mammoth Cave Administration PA was awarded $3,300 to document NPS Women's Organization pragmatic for funding at a level appropriate was awarded $ 1,000 for advanced computer African-American contributions to the Pacific West Region Superintendents' to the project were recommended. Awards troubleshooting training. listings are as follows: Nation's Capital, 1790-1800 for inclusion in Conference the interpretive programs. Gerald Peterson, Fort Vancouver NHS, White Sands Concession Dean Alexander, Kalaupapa NH, HI was WA was awarded $2,000 to research men's James Arnott Sandra J. Girard, Pictured Rocks NL, MI awarded $7,000 to train 12-18 maintenance ready-made historical clothing imported by Donald Bill was awarded $1,500 for competency employees in basic historic preservation the British-based Hudson Bay Company Cherrie Brice training in the field of administration. techniques and preventative building between 1825 and 1860. Deborah Cox maintenance. Betsy G. Haynes, Booker T. Washington John & Margaret Faulkner Brian S. Reedy, Friendship Hill NHS, PA Margaret Freeman NM, VA was awarded $ 1,500 for a re­ Roger J. Andrascik, Voyagers NP, MN was awarded $ 1,000 to attend the Historic Carol Gandy search-oriented detail at Tuskegee Institute. was awarded $2,590 to attend Penn State Landscape Institute's summer program, Jane Hail Executive Programs. George D. Herring, Jr., Cabrillo NM, CA "Preserving Jefferson's Gardens and Carlock Johnson Beth Aukstikalnis, Thomas Edison NHS, was awarded $1,390 for 90 hours of Landscapes", University of Virginia. Maxine Johnson Monica Kehm NJ was awarded $1,550 to complete Spanish language immersion training. Patricia S. Reischl, Golden Gate NRA, CA Sally Ketcham coursework for physically-challenged and W. Thomas Hoots, Jr., Pacific Islands SSO, was awarded $2,000 to attend the Women's Jeanine Kiely learning-disabled audiences. HI was awarded $740 to attend an elec­ Executive Leadership Program. Preston Kirkendall tronic journalism course at Hawaii Pacific Kenneth Knipp Gloria L. Baker, Monocacy NB, MD was Patti Reynolds, Abraham Lincoln Birth­ University. Louise Lucke awarded $1,500 to compile and replicate place NHS, KY was awarded $278 to attend primary resource information of Monacacy Rheba Massey Nancy Hori, Columbia Cascades SSO, WA the Annual Kentucky Association Environ­ Sandra McCown NB. was awarded $1,321 to enhance archival mental Ed. Conference. Margareth Merrill materials and management technique skills. Steve & Susan Moore Richard L. Bennett, Guadalupe Mountain Marvin S. Richards, Shenandoah NP, VA NP, NM was awarded $2,000 for training Don & Patty Neubacher Stephen T. Horton, San Francisco Mari­ was awarded $ 1,460 for technologically- in computer networking software. Randall & Kathleen Pope time NHP, CA was awarded $1,400 for advanced training in water treatment. Alice Pyle research on the State Harbor Commissioners David K. Blackburn, John Muir NHS, CA Ernesto O. Sanchez, Pacific Land Re­ Gail Reader and the development of the San Francisco was awarded $ 1,400 to attend summer sources Program Center, CA was awarded Irene Reigle waterfront. Jim & Elaine Royal school in Nineteenth Century Studies. $900 for computer-aided design, technical James Shiner Gary Bremen, Biscayne NP, FL was Lee Jameson, Cuyahoga Valley NRA, OH training and implementation of a digitized awarded $797 for a correspondence course was awarded $ 1,400 to assess the benefits geographical information system. Southeast Region Superintendents' of performance-based sustainable design Conference in magazine and newspaper writing. Frank Sannino, Columbia Cascades Land concepts and contracting. David Thompson Kathleen Bucco, Kenilworth Aquatic Resources Center, WA was awarded $900 to Joseph Turner Gardens, DC was awarded $1,500 for R. Craig Johnson, Gates of the Arctic NP attend the Autodesk University 1997 Betty Wendel resource materials for an interpreters & PRES, AK was awarded $1,385 for Techno-Fest symposium. Gilbert Wenger emergency recovery techniques training for Mark & Clara Willis workshop on the Chesapeake Bay Agree­ Althea Soldano, John Muir NHS, CA was ment. pilots. awarded $200 for advanced training in E&AA Robert P. Cherry, Blue Ridge Parkway, Jennifer L. Jones, Abraham Lincoln desktop publishing. Birthplace NHS, KY was awarded $380 to NC was awarded $1,580 to conduct Gary V. Tallely, Lincoln Birthplace NHS, K.C. Publications attend the Annual Tennessee Environmental research on cattle-grazing impacts on KY was awarded $240 to finalize a Parks as PhotoAssist, Inc. Education Conference. freshwater stream systems. Classrooms traveling trunk proposal. Mary Ellen Jennings John King Barbara E. Cumberland, HFC, WV was Norrie L. Judd, Hawaii Volcanoes NP, HI John K. Turano, Point Reyes NS, CA was Katherine Ziegenfus was awarded $6,000 for formal training in awarded $3,685 for certification in the care awarded $175 to receive training in grant collections care and maintenance. and conservation of natural science writing and ways to identify alternative materials at Cambridge, England. Keith R. Langdon, Great Smoky Moun­ funding sources for maintenance projects. tains NP, TN was awarded $2,000 to 8 Employees & Alumni Association NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

FDR's Retreat

bout 2:30 in the afternoon, July 1, on its open flagstone porch that the King and own cottage, he carefully designed it all on 1938, the traveling White House Queen were offered their very first hot dogs, one floor with no threshold barriers. So far A press corps was assembled on a chosen by Eleanor Roosevelt over her as I know, there is no other historic wooded hilltop overlooking Franklin D. mother-in-law's strenuous objections to structure anywhere in the United States that Roosevelt's mother's place at Hyde Park. demonstrate to Royalty that Americans had specifically commemorates the achieve­ They had been summoned to a most their own cuisine. (The King savored his and ments of a disabled person. asked for a second; the Queen is said to have unusual press conference. The President Geoffrey C. Ward thought her mouth too tiny to even take one himself soon arrived, driving up the steep Dutchess Hill HSR hillside at the wheel of his hand-controlled bite.) a, Ford. This was "Dutchess Hill", he told the Winston Churchill came to the cottage reporters—"Don't leave out the 't'", he several times during the war. Madame said—and he wanted them to know that he Chiang Kai-shek visited Roosevelt on his Intake Class 2000 was planning to build himself a small hilltop. So did Crown Princess Louise of continued from page 1 cottage on its summit. The walls were to be FDR at hilltop cottage with Sweden, Queen Wilhemina and Princess Ruthie Bie and Fala. built from fieldstone taken from the old Juliana of the Netherlands, Princess Martha in over half of our park areas. This major walls that twisted through his woods. He'd of Norway, Canadian premier MacKenzie effort will provide an improved and one day; so had his long-time secretary, been thinking of building here for twenty King, Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins, and systematic succession-planning tool for Marguerite LeHand. And there was contro­ years, he said. It was the spectacular views scores of other important figures in the the benefit of the Service. that had drawn him. "Right there," he said versy within the President's family, as well: Roosevelt administration and the Allied Many readers of this E&AA Newsletter gesturing across the slow-moving Hudson, Sara Delano Roosevelt, already appalled that leadership. were prior intakes and would recognize 410 feet below, "is the north of the Catskill her daughter-in-law had felt it necessary to Range. This is the south of the Catskill. build herself a cottage at Val-Kill, was The President's hilltop retreat is, so far as I program components used in the current Back here, is the Berkshires. I can actually wounded to learn of his own. am aware, the only presidential home ever class. Selections are made from the most designed by a President other than the two highly qualified candidates and competi­ see into Connecticut and Massachusetts." Still, FDR loved the time he found to spend designed by Thomas Jefferson—Monticello tion is stiff. Once selected, trainees attend Over the ensuing weeks, as construction in the small stone structure he called and Poplar Forest. A full scale restoration of a long-term developmental experience at continued, he doled out more information variously—"Dutchess Cottage," "hilltop Top Cottage will help visitors understand the Albright Training Center. But unlike about his plans. He was himself the cottage," and "Top Cottage." It was initially more fully the complex dynamics of the the intake Programs of the 1960s and 70s, architect, he said, though he'd had an meant to be his private retreat after he left Roosevelt family, whose three strong- the class of 2000 is interdisciplinary with "associate," Henry Toombs of Georgia. the presidency in 1940, a place to write his minded personalities in the end each representatives from all major career The cost would be no more than $16,000. memoirs. required a separate dwelling of his or her fields. Administration, maintenance, There would be no air conditioning, no That, of course, was not to be, and Top own. interpretation, visitor protection, resource telephone, no screens on the porch, no Cottage saw a great deal of history being The cottage has still more symbolic impor­ management and a subsistence specialist formal landscaping—"...just the trees..." made between its completion in 1939 and tance. More than half a century after FDR's are represented in the program. Participa­ and the tranquil view. the President's death in 1945. It was death most people still don't fully grasp the officially opened just weeks before the tion of the different career fields is one of Licensed architects denounced the Presi­ fact that he was unable to stand, let alone world went to war with a picnic for King the greatest strengths of the current dent for claiming to be an architect when walk, unaided, entirely dependent on his George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England, program. he had no license. Margaret L. Suckley, the valet for his most basic needs. Determined to marking the climax of the first visit by a president's devoted and unmarried cousin, be more independent in the privacy of his So what does an intake from the class of had hoped to share the cottage with him British monarch to the United States. It was 2000 do? While performing regular duties at their assigned parks or offices, they will also attend training courses, receive 150,000 search and rescue missions carried filled with 500 of their best family-tested ongoing coaching from highly regarded Off the Press out by the NPS since Yellowstone was recipes. These are home-cooked recipes from supervisors, participate in special projects established as the first national park in 1872. the folks that work for the NPS in Denver. It Wilderness by Design and assignments and go on detail Farabee participated in roughly 1,000 search, includes many exciting and diverse creations Ethan Can- assignments to other parks and offices. rescue and emergency missions while that were collected from their folks' travels University of Nebraska Press All trainees maintain a career portfolio, stationed at Glen Canyon, Lake Mead, Death throughout different cultural areas. Send which consists of records from their Ethan Carr, a historical landscape architect Valley, Yosemite and Grand Canyon $9.75 to Mary Estep, NPS, 12795 W. Almeda developmental experiences as well as at the Denver Service Center, has written National Parks. Published by Roberts Parkway, Lakewood, Colorado 80228. For samples of work that illustrate their skill Wilderness by Design - Landscape Rinehart Publishers, 6309 Monarch Park more info., call (303) 969-2370. enhancement. One of the more exciting Architecture and the National Park Place, Niwot, Colorado 80503, and available Cooking by Design elements of the program is their final Service, an important new history of the at most bookstores for $19.95. physical development of America's The Harpers Ferry Center Social Activities project, which is presented to an intake Take Down Flag & Feed Horses national parks. This comprehensive study Committee (HFCSAC) has enlisted friends review panel shortly before graduation. Bill Everhart examines the place of our national parks in and families to put together a very special These projects demonstrate their newly University of Illinois Press the larger context of the American park cookbook. Profits from this book, entitled acquired skills and provide a product of movement and in the history of planned Take Down Flag & Feed Horses by NPS Cooking by Design will be sent to the family value to the National Park System. "park development," or landscape architec­ retiree Bill Everhart is the first volume of Ranger Joe Kolodski, who was killed in Examples of projects from the last intake ture. devoted to the daily work of staff members the line of duty. The multicultural recipes in class include: an equestrian study at at Yellowstone NP. Divided into two parts, Cooking by Design encompass a wide variety Shenandoah NP, initiation of a The book was written for the NPS Park the first chronicles daily life at Yellowstone of recipes—from those homegrown in the servicewide Junior Ranger Web page and Historic Structures and Cultural Landscape and the second details the savage fires that eastern United States to exotic recipes from a home schooling study especially program, as the National Historic Land­ hit the park during the summer of 1988 and around the world—making the cookbook a relevant to NPS families in isolated parks. mark Theme Study of the National Park its aftermath. The book is published by the sampling of the diverse heritage within the Service Landscape Architecture. The It is interesting to watch the trainees University of Illinois Press, 1325 South Oak NPS family. The cookbook features recipes historic landscapes described in the book change during their program experience. Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820. from the Harpers Ferry area NPS employees have been designated National Historic The camaraderie grows as the group Hardbound copy sells for $42.50 and and their families and friends as well as from Landmarks by the Secretary of the Interior gathers at various events of the two-year paperback for $18.95. the employees of the Great Smoky Mountains as a result of this study. The book is program. Their commitment to what we NP where Ranger Kolodski worked. available for $45 at bookstores or through Eastern National offers one-stop shopping. All of are as an agency deepens as they partici­ the University of Nebraska Press, P.O. Box the above books are available at our warehouse—Th e HFCSAC will be selling the books for pate in NPS, private vendor or not-for- 880484, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0484 America's National Parks Warehouse, 470 $10.00 locally and will add a $2.00 shipping profit developmental experiences. Maryland Drive, Suite 2, Fort Washington, PA 1 (800) 755-1105. Add $4 shipping and fee for mail orders. To receive your books in If you would like to learn more about the 19034-9684. Or call toll-free: 1 (800) 821-2903. 50 cents for each additional copy. time for the holidays, please place your order intake program, check out our Web page by November 2 (all money must be received at http://www.nps.gov/intake. Also, if you Death Daring and Disaster Recipe Books by November 13). Checks, made payable to Charles R. (Butch) Farabee, Jr. visit a park with an intake, be sure to stop Home Cookin' HFCSAC, should be mailed to the attention by and say hello. Your encouragement for Roberts Rinehart Publishers of Juanita @ Harpers Ferry Center, P.O. Box The Denver-based NPS Employee Associa­ this group of new trainees is appreciated! Death Daring and Disaster, by Charles R. 50, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 25425. For tion has gathered and published recipes titled (Butch) Farabee, Jr., assistant supt. at more information, contact Juanita Gustines at —Intake Program Manager, Home Cookin'. It is available for $8.00 plus Glacier NP, consists of 375 exciting tales of (304) 535-6011, or Chris Perry, MTC $1.75 shipping & handling. The cookbook is heroism and tragedy drawn from nearly [email protected], or Diana Cummins at [email protected]. 9 How Parks Manage Fires On August 30, Glacier NP location, it is being monitored by managed for resource benefit. monitored two small woodland Fire Lookouts at Numa Ridge and Each fire is evaluated according to fires in the North Fork area. The Huckleberry Mountain. a variety of environmental, social fires occurred naturally from The second fire, Logging Flats, and political considerations. The lightning strikes, and were originated from lightning on the decision whether to suppress a fire approximately . 1 acres or less in evening of Friday, August 21. First or to manage it occurs within a size. They did not pose any threat reported by residents of short time frame, generally two to human life or structures, and it Polebridge, the fire was visible hours after the fire is first reported. was unlikely that either of these from the outside North Fork Road. A fire management committee fires would achieve significant Because of its close proximity to then must evaluate the decision size, unless the fall fire season is the inside North Fork Road, fire and confirm that the fire meets the extended by continued dry and/or monitors from the park were able criteria of wildland fire (to be windy weather. to visit the fire several times to managed for resource benefit). The Quartz 2 Fire was discovered collect information about it. The committee also helps create a in mid-August, and probably According to federal fire policy, wildland fire management plan, originated from a thunderstorm in wildland fires, formerly called which defines a maximum Chickasaw National Recreation Area employees "made a difference " by late July. Because of its remote Prescribed Natural Fires, will be manageable area for the fire and volunteering to tutor third grade students. Pictured L to R: Jim Bratcher, Don makes projections for anticipated Wollenhaupt, Gail McCurry, Betty Wagner, Rosalind Jones, Becky Weems and long-term growth, expansion and/ Jerry Underwood. Wanted: Contributions to the or other changes in fire activity. Chickasaw NRA—Making E&AA Newsletter a Difference In the NPS Submit information, stories and news release or other important photos to E&AA Newsletter, information. Family During this past school year, eight employees volunteered to tutor 470 Maryland Drive, Suite 1, continued from page 6 third grade students. After attending a training course that gave Fort Washingon, PA 19034 We will use as many submis­ pointers on the best way to tutor elementary students, the employees Information can also be faxed sions as possible on a space- We don't know what the next reported to the Sulphur Elementary school once each week during to (215) 283-6925, orcc:mail available basis. Time steps are for Bob, exactly. their tour of duty. Tutors worked with the same student, one-on-one, to Eastern National, or sensitive materials and those Probably the Trauma for 30 minutes each week for twelve weeks. E-mail to received first will receive Surgical ICU for a while Students were tutored in English, reading, math, science and spelling [email protected]. priority. We may hold submis­ before being moved to a subjects. Tutors used flashcards for math. Sometimes they reviewed sions for use in a later issue. medical floor. Whatever the spelling and vocabulary words, or listened as the student read aloud Photographs are welcome. On The deadline for the next issue steps, it will be a long or helped compose sentences. Tutors tried to develop a trusting the back of the photograph is Friday, Dec. 11. recuperation process. relationship with their students. By using praise and encouragement, please identify who is in the Anyone who would like the tutors helped the students gain confidence. photo, who took the photo and Please contact Jennifer Allen to send cards and get well All of the volunteer tutors enjoyed the experience. "It was a good your name and address if you with any questions about wishes: Bob Healy, c/o feeling to know you might be making a small difference in a child's would like the photo returned. submissions at (215) 283-6900. University Hospital, life. The students thrived on encouragement," expressed a participat­ Please include, if possible, a Trauma Surgical ICU, ing tutor. summary of the event at 221 Lomas NE, which the photo was taken, Albuquerque, NM 87106. They all plan to volunteer again next year.

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