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The Newsletter of the Employees & Alumni Association of the National Park Service Spring/Summer 2015 • Vol. 22 • No. 2 Arrowhead Published by Eastern National Focus on the Parks from Los Angeles were battling irrigation serve a number of significant objects. Nine and agriculture interests from the San objects associated with Kalaupapa were President Obama Establishes Joaquin Valley for water storage and diver - conserved, including a crib from Bishop sion licenses in the Kings River watershed. Home, an end table, a large poi board, Waco Mammoth NM Early assessments prepared by the Federal three ledger books from the American Power Commission showed the potential Japanese Association Hall, an Ed Kato for 19 dams and reservoirs on the south sketch and a birth certificate and passport resident Obama has designated be more than 65,000 years old. In ad - fork of the Kings River. Cedar Grove and of a Hansen’s disease patient. Pthe Waco Mammoth Site in Texas dition, both the excavation area and Tehipite Valley would be inundated—sim - One of the most unique pieces to be as one of the nation’s newest national the land around it offer an excellent ilar to Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite. conserved was the Bishop Home crib dat - monuments, permanently protecting opportunity for further exploration When these assessments proved unre - ing to the 1920s. Throughout the 20th the site where the extremely well-pre - and paleontological and geological re - liable, tourism and preservation interests century, infants born at Kalaupapa were served fossils of a herd of Columbian search. The NPS will conduct a man - seized the opening and began lobbying separated from their parents after birth for mammoths and other Ice Age animals agement planning process, working for preservation. A compromise negoti - fear that infants would contract Hansen’s have been found. Waco Mammoth closely with its two partners, commu - ated by Secretary of the Interior Harold disease. Hundreds of babies were born in National Monument is one of three nity residents and other groups that Ickes, under the direction of President Kalaupapa only to be removed from the new national monuments announced have devoted themselves to preserving Roosevelt, led to development of water by President Obama on July 10, 2015 settlement and raised by ohana (family) the site for many years. storage facilities in lower stretches of the that help tell the story of significant elsewhere. The Bishop Home crib is the “The National Park Service is proud Kings River, thereby preserving the pris - events in American history and pro - last one in existence and serves as a pow - to work in partnership with the City of tine upper watershed as a national park. tect unique natural resources for the Waco and Baylor University to protect, erful reminder of this story. benefit of all Americans. The monu - preserve and, most importantly, share • History came alive at the Fifth Annual Kalaupapa’s museum collection, first ment will be managed by the National the remarkable Waco Mammoth Na - Everglades National Park Vintage Day on managed in 1987, contains over 364,000 Park Service in cooperation with the tional Monument with the American March 7. Over 50 volunteers and six paid objects and archival documents, primarily City of Waco and Baylor University. people and visitors from around the staff brought to life the “dreamers and representing the late-20th-century expe - The other two sites—Berryessa Snow world,” said NPS Director Jonathan schemers” who left a legacy on Everglades riences of residents within the Kalaupapa Mountain National Monument and Jarvis. “The Waco Mammoth National NP ’s landscape. One highlight was a po - Settlement. As with any tropical environ - Basin and Range National Monu - Monument will engage students, visi - litical speech by early 20th-century Florida ment, the threats to wood, metal and ment—will be administered by the tors and scientists alike with the story Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, paper objects are great with heat, humid - Bureau of Land Managment and/or of these extinct mammoths. As the who promised to “save” the Everglades by ity, salt air and termites. This project is the USDA’s Forest Service. National Park Service prepares to cele - draining them (portrayed by Chief of Re - first of its kind at Kalaupapa as part of ef - The area in Texas provides a rare brate its centennial in 2016, this new source Education and Interpretation Alan forts to mitigate these threats. chance to understand and interpret the addition to our Park Service family will Scott). Conservationist Marjory Stoneman behavior and ecology of the extinct • The Border Patrol’s Ajo Station has in - help more Americans develop lifelong Douglas (portrayed by Katy Dimos) pro - Columbian mammoth. The oldest fos - relationships with parks as places where creased the size of its Horse Patrol Unit vided a rebuttal with the perspective of sils identified at the site are thought to they can discover amazing things.” n (HPU), resulting in more horseback pa - time and called for restoring the Ever - trols through Organ Pipe Cactus NM glades water flow. and less use of motorized patrol vehicles in Other voices from the past included the park wilderness. The unit uses wild Seminole leader Osceola, railroad tycoon • A unique public-private partnership gress recognized the need with a LWCF horses captured on Bureau of Land Man - Henry Flagler, author Zora Neale has blossomed in the California desert appropriation of $2.3 million to acquire agement lands. The horses are trained at Hurston, conservationist Arthur Marshall over the last decade that has led to the land at Joshua Tree and Mojave. Most of the Arizona Department of Corrections’ federal acquisition and permanent the land identified for acquisition is and martyred bird warden Guy Bradley. Also on hand were farmers, scientists, gator Florence West Facility and the Colorado preservation of over 15,000 acres of pri - owned by MDLT. Pacific West Region’s poachers, land speculators, workers from Department of Corrections’ Cañon City vate in-holdings across the vast land - (PWR) Lands Division is working to pur - the Civilian Conservation Corps, Cold prison for the Border Patrol for use on scapes of Death Valley NP , Joshua chase over 100 tracts from MDLT at War-era soldiers, conservationists and early public lands, including the monument. In Tree NP Mojave N PRES market value. The well-established col - and . park rangers. This year’s event represented addition to its regular patrols, the HPU laborative relationship that PWR Lands The parks and preserve were established over 1,000 Volunteers-In-Parks program has been collaborating with the monument and MDLT enjoy greatly facilitates the under the California Desert Protection Act hours as participants researched, rehearsed to develop an equestrian virtual trail sys - of 1994, but in the years that followed, ap - transfer of these critical lands to federal and presented their characters. tem. Riders will be able to download way - propriations for land acquisition didn’t al - ownership and protection. Since August points from the Organ Pipe Cactus website ways arrive when landowners wanted to 2014 alone, the PWR Lands Division has • More than 40,000 people gathered at to guide them on horseback along routes sell or when critical habitat was threatened finalized the acquisition of 11 tracts con - the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge laid out virtually through different areas of by development. Enter the Mojave Desert taining approximately 200 acres within next to the Selma to Montgomery NHT the park. “We are working towards having Interpretive Center for the bridge-crossing Land Trust (MDLT). Founded in 2005 by Mojave N PRES. There is one other ben - these trails open for use by fall,” says mon - Jubilee (held from March 6 through 9) to concerned local citizens, MDLT’s mission efit to this public-private partnership—all ument Supt. Brent Range. is to acquire critical habitat for permanent proceeds from the sale of MDLT’s lands commemorate the 50th anniversary of preservation in the Mojave Desert, a need to the NPS will be used by MDLT to “Bloody Sunday,” a watershed moment in continued on page 2 that cannot always be met with public dol - purchase more in-holdings from willing the civil rights movement. Local, state and lars. MDLT went to work securing private sellers in the three desert parks. Now federal officials attended a ceremony com - funds from philanthropic foundations, that’s an investment any public-private memorating the anniversary. nonprofit organizations and individual partnership would envy. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of men, donors and by 2006, had acquired its first women and children attempted to march Kings Canyon NP Upcoming Meetings property for gifting to the NPS. • marked its 75th from Selma to Montgomery to protest birthday in 2015. On March 4, 1940, Eight years and 234 transactions later, Jim Crow laws that restricted African & Events President Franklin Delano Roosevelt MDLT has transferred, mostly by dona - Americans from registering to vote. As the signed legislation creating Kings Canyon protestors crossed the bridge from Selma Rocky Mountain NP Employee/Alumni tion, over 15,000 acres to the NPS, and NP. The new park encompassed 454,000 into Dallas County, they were met with a Reunion —As part of its centennial cele - more is on the way. As of January 2015, bration this year, Rocky Mountain NP will acres of pristine Sierra Nevada wilderness. wall of state troopers and a posse organ - MDLT held over 10,000 acres in the be hosting an employee/alumni reunion Kings Canyon NP absorbed lands that ized by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark. three desert parks and plans to convey all were once part of General Grant NP, which at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Officers ordered the participants to dis - Park, Colo., on Sept. 18 and 19. Former of them to the NPS over time. was established in 1890 and abolished perse and return to their homes or their Rocky Mountain NP employees and in - In 2011, Secretary of the Interior upon designation of Kings Canyon NP. churches. The officers and posse then beat terns are invited to join the festivities, re - Salazar called for a collaborative, land - It was quickly expanded by presidential the protestors with nightsticks and cattle scape-scale proposal to identify critical in - discover the park and connect with old proclamation to include Redwood Canyon prods and dispersed them with tear gas. and new friends. For more information teragency land acquisition needs in the and its magnificent giant sequoia groves. and to register for the reunion, visit Mojave Desert, using the Land and Largely forgotten is the 60-year struggle • Kalaupapa NHP hosted two Harpers www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisint/ Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) as the at the turn of the 20th century to create Ferry Center conservators in March, Curtis employee-alumni-reunion.htm. funding vehicle. In fiscal year 2014, Con - the park. Powerful hydroelectric interests Sullivan and Theresa Voellinger, to con - 2 Arrowhead • Vol. 22 • No. 2

Focus on the Parks continued from front page • Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Cul - • Between April 8 and 12, more than ture, Europe & External Affairs Fiona President Launches Kids in Parks 20,000 visitors came to Appomattox Hyslop joined students from New York Court House NHP to attend events com - City’s Stephen T. Mather Building Arts memorating the 150th anniversary of the & Craftsmanship High School for some Initiative, Creates New Sites landscaping at Hamilton Grange N surrender at Appomattox and the effective MEM during NYC Tartan Week 2015 end of the Civil War. Programs included n February 2015, as part of Presi - near the site of the historic Pullman in April. In 1998, the U.S. Senate de - commemorative ceremonies, interpretive Ident Obama’s commitment to pro - town in Chicago, a location iconic for clared April 6 to be National Tartan Day its history of labor unrest and civil programs and living history demonstrations. tect our nation’s unique outdoor to recognize the contributions made by rights advances. Pullman National Park staff planned and presented “real- spaces and ensure that every American Scottish-Americans to the United States. has the opportunity to visit and enjoy Monument will be Chicago’s first time” interpretive programs over the The Grange is named after Hamilton’s them, he launched an “Every Kid in a NPS unit. The other two national course of the event. Union and Confeder - ancestral home in Scotland. In addition, Park” initiative that will provide all monuments are Honouliuli National ate living history encampments with nearly Hamilton collaborated with famed early fourth grade students and their families Monument in Hawaii, the site of an 1,000 participants provided infantry, cav - Scottish-American architect John McComb, internment camp where Japanese with free admission to national parks alry and artillery demonstrations, including Jr. to design and build the home. American citizens, resident immigrants and other federal lands and waters for surrender ceremonies for each. In 1999, two pipe bands and a small and prisoners of war were held captive The surrender ceremony program at - but enthusiastic group of Scottish Amer - a full year, starting with the 2015-2016 during World War II (which will be tracted thousands and ended with a na - icans marched from the British Con - school year. In the lead up to the 100th managed by the NPS), and Browns tional “Bells Across the Land” to mark sulate to the UN for their first parade. birthday of the National Park Service Canyon National Monument in Col - the anniversary of the war’s end; bells Since then, Tartan Day has grown to be in 2016, the president’s Every Kid in a orado, an historic site of extraordinary rang in hundreds of locations, from the culminating celebration of over 10 Park initiative is a call to action to get beauty with world-class recreational Hawaii to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. days of events that take place throughout all children to visit and enjoy America’s opportunities that attract visitors from A ceremony represented a funeral for New York and includes hundreds of unparalleled outdoors. around the globe (which will be coop - Hannah Reynolds, an enslaved woman pipers, thousands of marchers and many President Obama also announced the eratively managed by the Bureau mortally wounded at Appomattox just more thousands cheering from the side - creation of three new national monu - of Land Management and USDA’s hours before her emancipation. The lines. This year’s parade was on April 11. ments. He made the announcements Forest Service) . n “Footsteps to Freedom” program eulo - Mather High School is a new career gized her life and the institution of slavery and technical education high school for hands-on skills training in the specialized that died with her. The program ended bubbling through the cave, the River Styx, newal. Reclaiming the land after decades building arts and landscape trades, fo - of surface mining left much of it open with the lighting of 4,600 luminaries rep - is now designated as the nation’s first-ever cused on high-quality craftsmanship and subterranean National Scenic River. grassland. In 2012, a multi-year effort was resenting each person in Appomattox historic preservation. Partnering with the “We welcome and encourage our neigh - begun to reintroduce trees, reestablishing County who was emancipated as a result NPS, students work directly in the trades bors, visitors and partners to discover some - woodland habitats and windbreaks and of the surrender. of carpentry, masonry/plastering, deco - thing new at Oregon Caves National creating a living memorial. rative finishes and landscape management. Monument and Preserve,” said Supt. Snitzler. Park rangers and partners invited volun - teer planters to play an active role in culti - • At a ceremony on April 10, Oregon’s “Find what this place, which belongs to you, means to you. It might be a hike through vating a living memorial, to “find their senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, park” and to share their efforts. This was Arrowhead and a member of the House of Represen - sun-streaked fir forests, a new flower you found amid an explosion of wildflowers in the largest effort to date. Over 400 volun - tatives, Peter DeFazio, officially cut the rib - teers, including 126 who were 24 years old The Newsletter of bon dedicating the new Oregon Caves the Bigelow meadows or it might be a selfie the Employees & or younger, planted 22,000 seedlings over National Preserve. The legislation, written of you on top of Mount Elijah posted to In - Alumni Association stagram. Connect with this special place in 32 acres. Since 2012, over 2,000 volun - of the National Park and championed by the congressmen, was teers have provided nearly 9,000 hours Service ways that are memorable to you.” signed into law by President Barack planting 70,000 seedlings across 105 acres. The Arrowhead is a publication for Na - Obama on Dec. 19, 2014. The new lands • Flight 93 N MEM , the Friends of Plant a Tree also plays a major role in tional Park Service employees and retirees. add 4,070 acres to the existing 480 acres Flight 93 National Memorial, the Na - reintroducing the American chestnut to The E&AA is a nonprofit, membership of Oregon Caves NM. Together, the two tional Park Foundation and their partners Appalachia through a partnership with organization dedicated to promoting the parks are managed as Oregon Caves values of the NPS family and preserving kicked off National Park Week and the the American Chestnut Foundation. The its treasured resources. The Arrowhead National Monument & Preserve . Find Your Park Campaign (a public aware - memorial is the location of the single is available to non-members and other The new addition protects the watershed ness and education campaign celebrating largest planting of restoration American organizations for $15 per year. that flows underground into the Oregon the NPS Centennial) on April 17 and 18 chestnut trees anywhere in North Amer - Caves and protects many acres of the richly with the fourth annual Plant a Tree refor - ica, with 3,500 seedlings planted since biodiverse lands around the caves. The leg - estation event. The memorial’s architect 2012. The hope is to help the American DeboraDhi rYeacntdoarlsa, Chair George Minnucci, Secretary/Treasurer islation also introduces something new envisioned the site’s 2,200 acres as an en - chestnut, nearly wiped out last century, Jack Ryan within the existing monument—the creek tire memorial landscape and a place of re - to thrive in this next century. n

JennifEedr iMto.r Allen [email protected] Bequest Protects Land in National Parks

ALsasuirsat aRnotb Eindsioton r Submitted by E&AA Life of the park as the country’s benchmark ership Council, stated, “Ben Thompson [email protected] Member Richard G. “Dick” Ring wilderness. His efforts were instrumental was a pioneer in establishing the essential in shaping the park’s purposes: to maintain role for science in protecting park re - ust before the end of 2014, National Trust FundH Leiodai nW Ahditme inistrator the wild and undeveloped character of the sources while making them accessible to [email protected] JPark Trust (NPT) received word of an area and provide opportunities for visitor the public. Thompson understood early on extraordinary bequest of $500,000 from recreation characterized by solitude, dis - that national parks must develop a profes - John Michael Kauffmann, a longtime covery, challenge and self-reliance while sional level of understanding of their re - MembBeorsnhnipe SCtoetosordn inator NPT supporter. John passed away peace - [email protected] experiencing the natural environmental in - sources in order to achieve that difficult fully in November 2014 at the age of 91. tegrity and scenic beauty of the central mission. That legacy is all the more impor - He served for many years as a park plan - Brooks Range.” tant in today’s changing landscape.” E&AA Trust Fund Trustees Dan Brown ner for the NPS. In that role, he assisted John’s estate has instructed that the E&AA Life Member Denis Galvin, for - George Minnucci in the establishment of Chesapeake and bequest be used for park land acquisition mer NPS deputy director, added, “Thomp - Deborah Yandala Ohio Canal NHP and Cape Cod NS. In Heidi White in a manner that honors the legacy of son made substantial contributions to 1972, the NPS relocated John to Alaska John’s mentor, Ben Thompson, former Mission 66, a decade-long (1956 to 1966) to study areas under consideration for NPS assistant director for resource plan - program that is remembered for its compre - Publisher Eastern National designation as national parks, monu - ning. Thompson, a close colleague of hensive rehabilitation of the infrastructure 470 Maryland Drive, Suite 1 ments and reserves. His work con - George Wright, was a University of Cal - of the national parks.” Fort Washington, PA 19034 tributed to the passage of the Alaska Phone: (215) 283-6900 ifornia biologist. In the 1930s, he ac - The NPT will be working closely with Fax: (215) 283-6925 National Interest Lands Conservation companied George Wright and Joseph John Kauffmann’s estate and the NPS to www.eandaa.org Act (ANILCA), permanently conserving Dixon on the first wildlife surveys of the identify and protect important property ©2015 Eastern National more than 100 million acres. national parks and subsequently helped in the National Park System that pays According to E&AA Life Member Dick to establish the program of Biological To contribute stories or photos for con - tribute to the outstanding contribution sideration, or for E&AA contributions, Ring, NPT’s park projects director, who Research and Management in the NPS. and legacies of two pillars in the NPS please see page 8. served as the first superintendent of Gates E&AA Life Member Mike Soukup, di - family: John Kauffmann and Ben of the Arctic NP & PRES, “John’s extraor - rector of science at the Schoodic Institute Thompson. Visit www.parktrust.org to dinary vision and insight led to the creation at Acadia NP and member of NPT’s Lead - learn more about NPT. n Vol. 22 • No. 2 • Arrowhead 3

Class of 2014/2015

Lane Baker , superintendent, Southeast Burial Ground NM to Keweenaw NHP to general superintendent for Golden Gate Arizona Group (Chiricahua NM, Coro - Mammoth Cave NP to White House Vis - NRA, which includes management of nado N MEM and Fort Bowie NHS), itor Center to Washington Monument. “I Muir Woods NM and Fort Point NHS. Dec. 27 after over 30 years. have been one ‘hard-wired’ exhibits spe - Before leaving Golden Gate NRA, Frank cialist for several years, a job that has given said that it was with mixed emotions that Gail Bishop , superintendent, Little me purpose,” says Cynthia. “Not only he was leaving the NPS, but a once-in-a- River Canyon N PRES and Russell Cave have I had an opportunity to work in some lifetime opportunity presented itself that NM, Nov. 28 after over 38 years. of America’s Special Places, I worked with he could not pass up—he is now president Gail started her career as a graduate in - some very knowledgeable, passionate and and CEO of the Yosemite Conservancy, tern in the Southeast Regional Office in sincere colleagues at HFC and in parks.” the San Francisco-based primary non - 1975. In 1977, she moved to Washington, Cynthia plans to be quite busy in re - profit partner of Yosemite NP. D.C., where she worked at Ford’s Theatre tirement: getting into good physical and NHS. She served most of her career as mental shape; spending more time with Captain John “Wayne” Dewey , re - chief of interpretation at Gulf Islands NS her husband, Dale, and son, Nathaniel; gional law enforcement specialist for In - in Florida and Mississippi, where she keeping up with friends and family; an - termountain Region, U.S. Park Police, worked from 1986 to 2012. tiquing; and gardening. She plans to re - Dec. 27 after 27 years. Beginning in the late 1980s, Gail’s ef - main in Lovettsville, Va., at least until her forts to work with park volunteers and rep - husband is eligible to retire. She invites Hugh Duffy , project manager, Design resentatives of businesses, government everyone to keep in touch with her at and Construction Division, Denver Serv - agencies and nonprofit organizations [email protected]. ice Center, Dec. 27 after 34 years of fed - helped to organize the Mississippi Marine NPS eral service, 31 of them with the NPS. Kelley Collins , chief ranger and chief of Debris Task Force. The task force cleaned JERRY BOCK interpretation and resource manage - up marine debris from Mississippi beaches, Jerry Bock , comptroller, Harpers Ferry Mary Dyer , law enforcement ranger, ment, Fort Scott NHS, Jan. 2 after over including the offshore islands. This work Center (HFC), Jan. 24 after 25 years of Cuyahoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 after 30 years. resulted in a national “Keep America Beau - federal service, six of them with the NPS. 26 years. After graduating from Southern Illinois tiful Award” for the organization and per - Zeph Cunningham , park ranger, Blue Joel Timothy Fellows , telecommunica - suaded the State of Mississippi to be the University, Jerry worked in the banking in - Ridge Parkway, and incident com - tions specialist, Alaska Regional Office, first state to enact legislation to protect the dustry. While earning his MBA at the Uni - mander, Eastern Incident Management Jan. 30 after 17 years. marine environment from dumping trash versity of California, Berkeley, he attended Team (IMT), March 21, after 22 years. within state waters. a federal job fair and was soon hired by the Like many park rangers in the NPS, In the early to mid-2000s, Gail’s du - EPA’s San Francisco regional office. Zeph’s love of this agency began with an ties were heavily focused on recovery While attending a symposium, he dis - internship. “When I finished that first in - projects related to the damage to three covered Shepherdstown, W.Va., and soon ternship and realized I could make a ca - bought a historic house in the center of visitor centers from Hurricanes Ivan and reer of the Park Service, that was my town. He also transferred to Washington, Katrina. For her work, she was honored mission,” said Zeph. “I remember being D.C., first for a job at the EPA, then for with the Sequoia Award in 2009. so thrilled at the idea!” That experience During her career, Gail also worked at DOI in the Bureau of Reclamation and, led first to a position as a seasonal inter - Pea Ridge NMP and Big Thicket N later, the Minerals Management Service. preter in fee collection and, from there, PRES and served as acting superintend - Jerry joined HFC as chief of the Pro - a career in law enforcement at Blue ent of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace grams and Budget Office in 2008. He led NHP. She was superintendent of Little the staff through the processing of ARRA Ridge Parkway. He started working sea - River Canyon N PRES and Russell Cave funds for major construction at HFC, the sonally and became permanent in 1997 NM for over two years. departmental transition to FBMS and re - after five years of seasonal tours of duty. structuring the HFC accounting system. During Zeph’s 22 years with the NPS, E&AA Life Member William N. “Bill” Jerry will miss working with close-knit 15 years were spent, in addition to his Black , superintendent, Ozark NSR, staff and the challenges of solving com - park ranger duties, serving on the Eastern Jan. 3 after 40 years. plex mathematical problems inherent in IMT, most of those as incident com - Bill graduated from Purdue University the budget world. Besides tending to his mander. He is most proud of what the with a degree in wildlife management. He 1799 house, four cats and garden, he team, under his leadership, accomplished. began his NPS career as a seasonal park plans to continue learning and practicing The team supported 31 major inci - NPS technician at Cumberland Gap NHP, fol - yoga and do lots of traveling. He also dents/events at 34 different parks over 15 MARY FICKER lowed by a season at Castillo de San Mar - serves on the Historic Shepherdstown years. One of the more challenging inci - Mary Ficker , park ranger, Ozark NSR, cos NM. He also worked as an assistant Commission, the municipal water board dents was the Hurricane Sandy response, Feb. 28 after over 32 years. where the team supported 17 New York wildlife refuge manager with the Fish and and (potentially, after retirement) the Mary began her career in the summer and New Jersey NPS units with a staff of Wildlife Service in Florida and Alabama. board of Fairness West Virginia. of 1978 as the first seasonal reservation nearly 500 for over 30 days. Bill’s first permanent NPS appointment clerk at Ozark NSR. She spent several Gayleen Boyd , administrative officer, Zeph will use his incident manage - was at Great Smoky Mountains NP as a law seasons as a fee collector at Round Harpers Ferry NHP, Dec. 30 after ment skills as logistics chief on a national enforcement ranger. He went on to be - Spring, and when she graduated from 42 years. IMT for the U.S. Forest Service. “I have come administrative officer at Chickasaw East Tennessee State University with a loved working for the National Park NRA and a few years later, moved into the John Brucksch , staff curator, Harpers double major in biology and criminal jus - Service and am proud of what this administrative officer/assistant superin - Ferry Center, Jan. 3 after over 37 years. tice, she was hired as a park technician. agency stands for. It has been a dream tendent position at Isle Royale NP. She began work as a seasonal law enforce - Earnest Bush , maintenance worker, Cuya - come true,” he said. “The experiences In 1992, Bill became superintendent of ment park ranger in 1982 and was hired Fort Smith NHS. During his 20 years here, hoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 after 20 years. I’ve had with the NPS Incident Manage - continued on page 4 he was instrumental in revitalizing the park. ment Team have given me the skills and Lynda Carter , secretary, Facility Man - qualifications for a new opportunity with “Our goal was to make Fort Smith one agement Division, Great Smoky Moun - of the best small parks in the System, and a sister agency that was too good to pass tains NP, Jan. 2 after 50 years of federal up.” The Eastern IMT members will I like to think we accomplished that service, 31 of them with the NPS. through the work of a great staff of ded - miss Zeph’s leadership and friendship icated employees.” He served as super - Cynthia Mann Coffelt , exhibits special - but wish him well on his new adventure! intendent of Ozark NSR since 2012. ist, Northeast Region Group, Harpers Zeph lives in Virginia, with his wife, Kelly, The Arrowhead Store “Looking back on 40 years, I have Ferry Center (HFC), Jan. 31 after 36 who works for the NPS as a budget analyst, and daughter, Lillian. He can be reached at The Arrowhead Store is administered fond memories of chasing bears, shooting years of federal service, over 26 of them by Eastern National at the NPS’ re - [email protected]. cannons and all the other crazy things we with the NPS. quest to nurture the pride and spirit did,” he says. “But it was always the great Cynthia’s first federal jobs were at the Frank Dean , superintendent, Golden that is the hallmark of those who have people I worked with that made it such a Federal Aviation Administration, Central Gate NRA, March 1 after over 39 years. made the NPS a leader in the fields of worthwhile life. Many are gone now, but Intelligence Agency and Minerals Man - Frank began and ended his career at conservation and preservation. Arrow - I hope I passed on a little of the spirit of agement Service. In 1988, she began her Golden Gate NRA, with many interesting head products feature the official logo the NPS to some of the generations that NPS career at HFC, where she moved up and exciting stops between. His first park of the NPS and are not available for will be filling in behind me.” the ladder job by job, including secretary, ranger job was in 1976 as a seasonal hire purchase by the general public but may be purchased by NPS employees Bill and his wife, Judi, a retired teacher, project assistant, task order program liai - on Alcatraz Island. During his long career and alumni and our partners, such as will return to Fort Smith to be near their son, technical assistance program special - with the NPS, Frank held key leadership cooperating association employees children. In retirement, he and Judi plan ist, technical assist program specialist roles in many spectacular places, including and volunteers, who help us protect to enjoy time with their family, travel to (exhibits) and temporary detail exhibits the Erie Canalway NHC, Saratoga NHP, park resources and serve the public. national parks they haven’t yet visited and specialist (general). She became an ex - Grand Canyon NP, Yosemite NP, Sequoia Visit the Arrowhead Store at maybe spend a little time lounging on a hibits specialist in 2010. and Kings Canyon National Parks, Point www.ArrowheadStore.com today, beach somewhere. He can be reached at While at HFC, Cynthia worked in nu - Reyes NS and WASO. and see what’s new! [email protected]. merous national park areas—from African Over the past five years, Frank served as 4 Arrowhead • Vol. 22 • No. 2

Class of 2014/2015 continued from page 3 Fire Island NS, Maryanne was responsible he became the branch chief responsible for PJ Lewis , project manager, Southeast for dune restoration projects and became all of NPS construction appropriations. In Region Media Development Group, as a permanent law enforcement park the community liaison for local natural re - 2008, he served as acting superintendent Harper’s Ferry Center (HFC), Jan. 3 ranger the following year. Mary spent source projects. She restored dunes using of Perry’s Victory and International Peace after 35 years of federal service, 33 of many years as a park ranger in the Upper native plants she established in a nursery Memorial, where he inaugurated the park’s them in the NPS. Current District of the park. on the beach. At Assateague Island NS, first celebration of Canada Day and au - After graduating from Santa Clara During her more than 30 years at Ozark she managed and enforced the public thorized installing a third flagpole to fly the University in 1976, PJ took a seasonal NSR, Mary was active in many aspects of hunting program in the Maryland section Union Jack alongside the Stars and Stripes job at Glen Canyon NRA. This led to park operations. She became one of the of the park. At William Howard Taft and Maple Leaf. seasonal positions at Point Reyes NS, park’s D.A.R.E. officers and taught drug NHS, she worked closely with the com - Marcus returned to WASO in time to Cape Cod NS, Valley Forge NHP and abuse resistance programs for 12 years. munity of Mount Auburn in Cincinnati. implement the $750 million American Great Smoky Mountains NP. He also She also used her teaching skills to present Maryanne became superintendent of Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He co - spent three seasons in northeast Utah environmental education programs in the (then) Edison NHS in 1992. Under her ordinated a nationwide effort that imple - with the BLM and U.S. Forest Service. Salem schools. When the D.A.R.E. pro - leadership, the park worked with the Na - mented over 800 recovery projects. PJ’s first permanent NPS job was as in - gram ended, Mary took over the role of tional Trust for Historic Preservation to When the Division of Cultural Resources terpretive ranger at Vicksburg NMP be - fee collection supervisor as part of her park place the site on their annual “endan - was looking to set up a business office, fore moving on to Cape Hatteras NS. ranger duties and loved helping to manage gered” list. In partnership with the Edison in addition to organizing their business While there, he helped design a new vis - the park campgrounds. Innovation Foundations, she leveraged operations, he helped multiple WASO itor center for Ocracoke Island. Then, Though she grew up in Virginia, Mary $2.4 million of federal dollars into a $12 offices convert to FBMS and developed with very little turnaround time and a fell in love with the Ozarks and considers million multiphase project that will reha - a sustainable strategy to digitize and pro - grand total of $3,000, he designed and the area home. She met her husband, Jack, bilitate Edison’s historic structures, con - tect over 3,000 linear feet of documents produced the visitor center exhibits. On in Eminence, Mo., and together they serve and preserve the artifacts, improve comprising two of the nation’s most sig - a recent visit to Cape Hatteras NS, PJ was raised a son and a daughter. She and Jack accessibility and create open curatorial stor - nificant historical collections: the Na - pleased to see that those “temporary” ex - will remain in the area following her re - age and cutting-edge interpretive media tional Register of Historic Places and the hibits from 1987 are still there. tirement, except to travel to visit their chil - and programming. She and the staff National Historic Landmark properties. That exhibit experience helped PJ land dren or attend bluegrass music festivals. worked with the Olmsted Center for In mid-2013, with sequestration in full a job at HFC as an exhibit producer. His Landscape Preservation to establish his - swing, Marcus was charged with ending proudest achievement was development Sylvia Flint , program analyst, Cuyahoga toric plant inventories, establish and nur - the furloughing of over 700 employees of new exhibits for Manzanar NHS. Valley NP, Jan. 2 after 32 years. ture specimen plants at the Arnold in the U.S. Park Police. When PJ and the exhibit team began Martin Gallery , law enforcement lead Arboretum of Harvard University and cre - Marcus and his family are moving to work on the interpretive center, Manza - park ranger, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal ate a tree maintenance program. Summerlin, Nev. He will be taking them nar NHS was a new park with a one-per - NHP, Jan. 3 after 38 years of govern - In 2007, Maryanne was named the as - on a 10-day tour of China—his two son staff. The partner group had high ment service, 36 of them with the NPS. sociate regional director for resources, adopted daughters’ native country. expectations and challenged the team to stewardship and science for the Northeast Martin served two years in the U.S. Lisa Ruth Holzapfel , outdoor recreation Army and began his NPS career with Region, providing her the opportunity for a glimpse into each of the Northeast Re - planner, Alaska Regional Office, Jan. 29 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP in 1978 after 12 years. as a park technician with the Visitor Serv - gion parks via the Resource Stewardship ices Division. He went to the Federal Law Directorate. Retirement will be filled with Marty Huseman , chief ranger, Lake Enforcement Training Center in 1979 and more time for family, friends and travel Roosevelt NRA, Oct. 31 after over started his law enforcement career. He has and a return to teaching English as a sec - 30 years. held several positions at Chesapeake and ond language. She says, “I leave happy Ben Jacobs Ohio Canal NHP, including as the West - and still in awe of the privilege of working , leader, Division 3, fire manage - ern Maryland district ranger, but his most in our nation’s parks.” ment program, Sequoia and Kings Canyon noted position was as a canine handler. National Parks, Oct. 31 after 32 years. Kim Glass , contracting officer, Pacific In 2006, Martin created a canine pro - West Regional Office, Dec. 31 after over Dave Knight , maintenance worker, Cuya - gram in the park and acquired a black 30 years of federal service, hoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 after 23 years. Labrador Retriever named “Samson” that he trained as an explosives detection dog. Barbara Goodman , superintendent, E&AA Life Member John Latschar , Martin and Samson became a team that Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jan. 3 after over 37 years. was requested and used by numerous Jan. 3 after 33 years. John served in the Vietnam War and ob - parks within the National Capital Region Barbara has been the superintendent tained his Ph.D. in U.S. history. He served (NCR) and for special events outside the of Timucuan Ecological and Historic as the first superintendent of Steamtown region. The pair also worked with adjacent Preserve for 17 years. She earlier served NHS (1988) and in various capacities at law enforcement agencies and responded as superintendent of De Soto N MEM the Denver Service Center. From 1994 to Suzy Lewis to incidents in the surrounding commu - and as a program manager in the Office 2009, he was superintendent of Gettys - PJ LEWIS nities. In March 2014, at the age of eight, of International Affairs. burg NMP and Eisenhower NHS. Under Samson succumbed to leukemia, leaving his leadership , in partnership with the tell a complete, unbiased story. In 2001, Throughout her career, Barbara has during development of the exhibits, the Martin without his constant partner. been involved with community and park- Gettysburg Foundation (which John Martin was the recipient of the 2004 helped to found), the NPS raised over 9/11 attacks occurred. “The fear and dis - related organizations. Within the NPS, crimination that occurred after 9/11 NCR Harry Yount Award. He worked in she served on the Southeast Coastal Net - $100 million to build a new park museum law enforcement until the age of 70 and and visitor center for Gettysburg NMP. closely paralleled the story we were telling work Executive Board, the National Park at Manzanar,” PJ recalls. Drawing from was the oldest commissioned park ranger John’s awards include superintendent of Foundation’s Superintendent’s Council, that realization, the design team con - with the NPS—an amazing accomplish - the year for Northeast Region (NER) in the NPS Partnership Council and was a cluded the exhibit with examples from re - ment since he suffered near fatal gunshot 1991 and 2001, NER superintendent of founding member of the Southeast Re - cent history that were similar to the events wounds in Vietnam in 1968 and spent gion’s Leadership Council. the year for natural resource stewardship in seven years in major surgeries and rehabil - of that day and the bombing of Pearl Har - 2003 and NER superintendent of the year bor in 1941. Even now, visitor comments itation from the wounds. He plans, in his Jo Jo Haller , IT specialist, Harpers Ferry for cultural resource stewardship in 2000. for Manzanar NHS are very important to retirement, to continue working in some Center, Jan. 3 after over 36 years. In 2009, he was awarded the National PJ. The comments confirm that, “We did manner of canine program with his new Park Service Preservationist of the Year young German Shepherd, “Chance.” Sheba Harris , budget analyst, Cuyahoga well. People get it. They make the con - Valley NP, Jan. 3 after 33 years. Award by the Civil War Preservation Trust. nection between then and now.” Marci Garrison , administrative officer, For the Civil War Sesquicentennial, John PJ became an HFC project manager in Craters of the Moon NM and PRES, E&AA Life Member Marcus Hathaway , and NPS Chief Historian Bob Sutton ed - 2007 and within a few years, headed Jan. 8 after 15 years. chief of the Division of Construction ited a new official NPS handbook, The HFC’s Southeast Region Media Devel - Funding, Budget Division, WASO, Jan. 3 Civil War Remembered, published by East - opment Group. He says of his years at E&AA Life Member Maryanne after 37 years. ern National (EN) in 2011. They followed HFC: “If you spend so much time on Gerbauckas , associate regional director Fresh out of college in 1977, Marcus that up with another official NPS hand - one place, it’s nice to spend it with really for resource stewardship, Northeast spent 10 years crisscrossing the country in book, American Indians and the Civil nice, good people who are like an ex - Region, Feb. 27 after over 42 years. various jobs in interpretation, resource War , and, in partnership with Rick Beard, tended family. You don’t get that in a lot Maryanne’s NPS career began as a park management and administration. In 1987, they wrote Slavery in the United States: A of jobs.” He looks forward to an active ranger at Statue of Liberty NM and Ellis he set off for Alaska for 13 years, seven of Brief Narrative History —both published retirement, especially traveling around Island. She progressed through assign - them in the Budget Office in Anchorage by EN in 2013. the country with his wife visiting their ments in both the protection and resource followed by six years as the chief of admin - In retirement, John will continue on large extended family. management fields at Acadia NP, Fire Is - istration at Denali NP & PRES. as a volunteer to help complete a Na - land NS, Assateague Island NS, Colonial At the start of the new century, Marcus tional Historic Landmark Theme Study Dan Manning , maintenance worker, NHP, the Northeast Regional Office and moved to Washington, D.C., where he on Reconstruction. “I speak for many,” Cuyahoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 after William Howard Taft NHS. spent the last 14 years working for the Bob Sutton said, “who wish John the 20 years. As resource management specialist at WASO Budget Office. Shortly thereafter, very best in retirement.” continued on page 5 Vol. 22 • No. 2 • Arrowhead 5

Class of 2014/2015 continued from page 4 tor for performance management, South - in her contributions to society and says, with the Boxelder Civilian Conservation east Region, Dec. 31 after 26 years. “I would like to go back to university and Center at Black Hills National Forest and pursue an absolutely new field or continue during this time, volunteered every Thurs - Holly Rife , chief ranger, Catoctin on with anthropology.” Lynette can be day at Mount Rushmore N MEM, gaining Mountain Park, Dec. 31 after 23 years. reached at [email protected]. experience operating the visitor center, con - Connie Rousey , legal instruments exam - ducting informal interpretation and pre - E&AA Life Member Brenda St. Martin , iner, Land Resources Division, Southeast senting talks. The love of interpretation was superintendent’s secretary, Pictured Rocks Regional Office, Jan. 3 after 42 years of born. The first national park offering Faye federal service, 38 of them with the NPS. NL, Dec. 31 after over 34 years. a field interpreter position was Chamizal N Brenda served at Pictured Rocks NL MEM. Mount Rushmore followed, mak - Barbara Samora , biologist, Mount since August 1980. She began her NPS ing her the first permanent woman ranger Rainier NP, Jan. 3 after 39 years. career as a clerk typist for the ranger di - hired there. She was subsequently opera - vision. Brenda’s time at the lakeshore has E&AA Life Member Edie Shean- tions supervisor at Mammoth Cave NP, spanned most of its evolution—from a Hammond , superintendent, Hopewell district interpreter at Chesapeake and Ohio developing park to the established na - Furnace NHS, Jan. 3 after over 38 years. Canal NHP and Gulf Islands NS, chief of Edie started her career in 1975 as the tional park it is today. interpretation at Martin Luther King, Jr. director of public affairs for the old Cindy Swaggard , law enforcement NHS and, finally, joined Ozark NSR. North Atlantic Region. Her first assign - ranger, Cuyahoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 Faye will remember the mentors who ment with the NPS involved dealing after 28 years. had enough faith in her abilities to guide with President Gerald Ford’s well-publi - her along the way: Jim Popovich, Bernie cized trip and fall at the Old North Karla Tanner , chief of interpretation Valencia, Joy Lyons, Joe McGown, Mick NPS Bridge at Minute Man NHP. Despite and education, Colorado NM, Dec. 31 Holmes, Kathy Kupper, Judy Forte and TERESA MCKINNEY that traumatic beginning, she persevered after over 30 years. Gail Bishop, just to name a few. “I’ll miss Teresa McKinney , park ranger, Ozark and served in that position until 1995. the passion and dedication of my NPS NSR, Feb. 28 after 24 years. Gregory Timeche , utility systems repair In 1995, Edie moved to Philadelphia co-workers toward the Park Service mis - Teresa began her NPS career as a law operator, Denali NP & PRES, Jan. 3 with the creation of the Northeast Re - sion of ‘preserving the resources for fu - enforcement ranger in 1991 at Lincoln gion and became the director of commu - after 42 years. ture generations,’” she says. Home NHS. She spent several years at nications and tourism. After a year at E&AA Member Kathy Tustanowski , Many of Faye’s former subordinates Buffalo NR and Jefferson National Ex - Independence NHP as deputy superin - administrative officer, Blue Ridge Park - that she has mentored and coached pansion Memorial before joining Ozark tendent, she became the superintendent way, Dec. 24 after 30 years. along the way are now permanent NPS NSR in 1998. She is one of the few park of Hopewell Furnace NHS as well as Kathy began her NPS career in 1984 as a employees moving up and dedicated to rangers in Ozark NSR’s history to have Northeast Region’s tourism director. seasonal park technician on Alcatraz Island the mission. “Makes me feel good that worked in all three of the park’s districts. While at Hopewell, Edie revitalized at Golden Gate NRA. She worked subse - the organization is in good hands and I During her career, Teresa served as the the park, accomplishing significant quent seasons in interpretation at John Muir was a part of it,” she says. Equal Employment Opportunity coun - preservation projects, incorporating nat - NHS and Eugene O’ Neill NHS. In 1988, Faye’s retirement plans include contin - selor and evidence custodian for the ural resources and recreational opportu - park. She also served on the Midwest Re - nities into the park mission and, most she was a secretary in the Division of Inter - uing historic preservation work on her gion Special Events and Tactical Team. importantly, creating an open and wel - pretation at the (then) Western Regional 1923 Craftsman in Poplar Bluff, Mo., Teresa grew up in the Ozarks and plans coming environment at the park, which Office, followed by a program clerk for traveling, antiquing, crafting, volunteer - to remain in the area and enjoy time brought in diverse individuals and maintenance at Whiskeytown NRA. She ing, working and spending quality time spent with her daughter and husband, changed the demographics of visitation. worked as an administrative assistant at with family and friends. She can be Golden Gate NRA, Presidio Planning Of - reached at [email protected]. Bill, who is the Upper Current District Richard Shockley , engineering equip - fice (1990) and supervisory management ranger at Ozark NSR. ment operator, Ozark NSR, Dec. 31 Mary Beth Wester , superintendent, Fort assistant for the Division of Maintenance at after over 14 years. Frederica NM, Dec. 31 after 30 years. John Morris , interpretive program man - Grand Canyon NP (1991). Mary Beth began her career in 1985 as ager, Alaska Regional Office, Dec. 31 Rosalind Sorrell , procurement, Chick - In 1993, Kathy joined Joshua Tree NP a park technician at New River Gorge NR. after 34 years. asaw NRA, Jan. 2 after over 32 years. as the administrative officer, followed by She served from 1993 to 1998 at Canyon - John is a longtime Alaskan with multi- administrative officer at Nez Perce NHP Lynette Sprague-Falk , visual informa - lands NP as a supervisory park ranger and, agency experience, most of which is with in 1996. Subsequently, she became tion specialist, Cuyahoga Valley NP, from 1998 to 2001, as the director of vis - NPS. He worked for the Alaska Division comptroller for Yellowstone NP (2002); of Parks, BLM and at several NPS units Dec. 31 after 24 years. itor services at Jefferson National Expan - supervisory budget and programs analyst including Mount Rainier NP, Kenai Lynette started her journey with the fed - sion Memorial. From 2001 to 2007, she for Harpers Ferry Center (2004), which Fjords NP and the Anchorage Intera - eral government in 1982 as a library aid at served as the Midwest Region recruitment also included a temporary promotion to gency Visitor Center. He was one of the Fort Lewis in Washington. She was pro - coordinator. She was selected as superin - the administrative officer; and adminis - first seasonal rangers hired to work in moted through the years to a GS-7 library tendent of Fort Frederica NM in 2007. trative officer at Shenandoah NP (2008). Alaska’s national parks in 1981. technician for the Fort Lewis library system “It has been an honor and a privilege to She detailed to Independence NHP as John also worked actively on a national and managed the community library at work for this incredible agency over the last the acting administrative officer (2012) basis over the past 10 years to interpret Madigan Army Medical Center. She 30 years,” says Mary Beth. “I have met and has served as administrative officer many people, visited wonderful areas, and train others in communicating about worked in the private sector from 1997 climate change in the national parks. Al - at Blue Ridge Parkway since 2012. worked at incredible, precious sites, helped until 2002, when she returned to the Kathy’s son, Cody Marsh, got his first though he is leaving the NPS, he’ll remain a few visitors and staff along the way and Madigan Army Medical Center as a library permanent job with the NPS in 2014 as a engaged in the continuing efforts to facil - made a great many friends across the U.S. technician in the medical library. Addition - law enforcement ranger at Lincoln Home itate this necessary civic conversation and abroad. I believe the success of this ally, Lynette served two years in the U.S. NHS. He says, “As my mom retires, I am about the future! agency is in the hands of all employees as Army in the Army Security Agency (Morse just beginning. We are ‘passing the torch’ well as area stakeholders. They must keep Lloyd Morris , chief ranger, Virgin Islands code interceptor) and Signal Corps (pho - from one generation to the next.” the NPS mission always present in their NP and Virgin Islands Coral Reef NM, tography lab technician) with last duty at “I have always known my mom to be mind, even with the day-to-day challenges Jan. 3 after 35 years. White Sands Missile Range. the hardest working woman I know,” of park operations. It is not an easy task, Lynette began her NPS career at Cuya - said Cody. “She has no doubt immeasur - but the reward is well worth the effort.” Paul Motts , interpretive park ranger, hoga Valley NP in 2008 as a GS-7 interpre - ably helped to make the NPS a better Mary Beth plans to “hang out” with Cuyahoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 after tive assistant (office automation). She agency for all of us to work for and for her husband, Randy Wester, who retired 28 years. became a visual information specialist in people to visit. Perhaps her biggest influ - two years ago, and their crew of dogs and 2014.“I have had the honor and responsi - ence has been as a role model to me on Valerie Naylor , superintendent, Theodore cats. The couple will pursue their interests how to work hard, be fair and forthright Roosevelt NP and general superintendent bility of leading Local 2062, National Fed - of scuba diving, kayaking, motorcycling and work every day to support and carry for the North Dakota Group National eration of Federal Employees, for the past and gardening and plan to stay in forward the mission of the NPS for fu - Parks, Oct. 31 after 35 years . three years, and I hope that I have con - Brunswick, Ga. They may be reached at tributed to improved working conditions ture generations. Job well done, Mom!” [email protected]. Terry O’Halloran , chief of interpreta - for the bargaining unit employees and es - Scott Van Houten , interpretive park tion, Nez Perce NHP, Jan. 3 after over Gary White , maintenance worker, Cuya - tablished positive relationships with man - ranger, Cuyahoga Valley NP, Dec. 31 after 33 years. hoga Valley NP, Nov. 15 after 25 years. agement that will continue into the future,” 24 years. she said. “I have had the pleasure of con - Carol J. Peay , IT specialist, Office of Lou Whiteaker , plant ecologist, Mount tributing to the National Park Service mis - Faye Walmsley , chief of interpretation, Property and Space Management - Rainier NP, Dec. 31 after over 27 years of sion, and this had been very rewarding.” Ozark NSR, Dec. 19 after over 31 years of Herndon, Va., Jan. 3 after over 37 years federal service, nine of them with the NPS. Lynette plans to travel and spend more federal service, 29 of them with the NPS. with the federal government, over 24 of Faye’s first federal job was as a U.S. Cus - Patricia S. Wooliver , secretary/executive them with the NPS. time with family in her retirement, includ - ing her husband, Michael, and daughters, toms inspector at Chicago’s O’Hare Air - assistant, Alaska Regional Office, Jan. 3 Jerry Pendleton , assistant regional direc - Chloe and Crystal. She plans to be active port in 1984. She later got a permanent job after 36 years. n 6 Arrowhead • Vol. 22 • No. 2

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John H. Baker , 81, Oct. 30, at St. park. He was always helpful in teaching interest in the history and preservation of Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. new interpretive rangers whenever he was natural and historical places. She graduated A professional civil engineer and land asked. Much of his research remains in the from the College of William and Mary surveyor, John spent the majority of his park library and is still used by park staff. with a degree in history in 1943 and mar - career with the NPS. He was responsible Bob’s survivors include his wife of 44 ried Jay Ford that same year. for the design and construction of major years, Chris; three sons: Jeffrey, Darren and Marian immersed herself in her father’s elements of Mesa Verde NP, including Erik; two grandsons: Jimi and Bane; and massive collection of correspondence and park access roads leading up the mesa, three siblings: Lyn, Karl and James. documents from his lifetime at the forefront of the conservation movement. She became gravity water systems from Morefield E&AA Life Member Mary Ellen Canyon, campgrounds and amphithe - his “pen,” recording his memoirs and rec - Jennings , 89, Dec. 31. ollections. Her first marriage ended in ater. He served the NPS in California, Mary Ellen retired from the NPS Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and New 1970, and she married Ros in 1972. They in 1985 as administrative officer at moved to the foothills east of Albuquerque, York, retiring in 1986. Assateague Island NS. She was a veteran N. Mex., where she focused on research and John was predeceased by his first wife, of the U.S. Marines and past vice com - writing. She completed several magazine ar - Diane, and a son, John. Survivors include mander of the American Legion Unit ticles, small books and a historical recount - his wife of 25 years, Gloria; a daughter, 22. She was employed by the DOI for 30 ing of the early years in the NPS entitled Cynthia; and a granddaughter, Julia. Do - years. Mary Ellen was a member of the Creating the National Park Service: The nations in John’s memory may be made Christ Episcopal Church. Missing Years . She was featured as an oral to the Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org). Mary Ellen’s survivors include two Dorn Family Photo historian for PBS’s The National Parks: sons: Charles William and John Edward; America’s Best Idea. In 2014, Ros and E&AA Life Member Frank Johnson CHUCK DORN three grandchildren; three great-grand - E&AA Life Member Charles Walter Marian moved to California to be near Betts , 87, April 11. children; and one brother. Memorial “Chuck” Dorn, Sr. , 66, Feb. 6, due to Marian’s daughter, Susie. While attending Colorado A&M, Frank contributions may be made to the Christ complications resulting from cancer. Marian’s survivors include her husband met his future wife, Kathy Thebus, and they Episcopal Church, 16 Amiss Avenue, Chuck served as a Contra Costa County of 42 years, Ros; her two children: John married in 1950. They both began working Luray, VA 22835. Animal Control (CCCAC) officer and re - Ford and Susan Ford Isaacson; five grand - as seasonal employees at Rocky Mountain serve sheriff’s deputy in 1970. He rose to E&AA Life Member Ruby M. “Bee” children; six great-grandchildren; and NP in 1952 before Frank became a per - the rank of lieutenant with CCCAC and Long , 89, April 18. Ros’s two children, four grandchildren and manent ranger at Yosemite NP in 1956. was the president of the California Animal Bee graduated from the University of 11 great-grandchildren. Over an eight-year period, he was stationed Control Officers Association. He pioneered Denver in 1947 and married Kenneth in just about every area of the park. the creation of county spay/neuter/vacci - Long in 1948. They were married for In 1964, Frank and his growing family nation clinics and public outreach/infor - 60 years. moved to Grand Canyon NP, where he mation programs. Regularly heard on the Bee joined the NPS in 1972 as a pro - was the assistant chief ranger. In 1968, he radio with the “Pet of the Week,” he gram clerk with the Southwest Team of the became chief ranger at Grand Teton NP. worked tirelessly to improve state humane Denver Service Center (DSC). In 1974, In the 1960s, Frank took up flying. He laws and was a true “Friend to Animals.” she became program assistant with the bought an airplane and gained his com - In 1986, Chuck began working for the DSC Southeast and Southwest teams. She mercial and instrument ratings, over the NPS at Grand Canyon NP and Death Val - retired from the NPS as a program analyst years amassing over 3,000 hours as a ley NP as a short order cook and retail sales in the DSC Program Control Division in pilot. He took his skills and plane with clerk with the Fred Harvey Company. He 1988. Bee loved her friends in the NPS and him to Crater Lake NP in 1975, where served in a variety of seasonal park ranger was proud to have been a part of the NPS he was superintendent, and to Alaska in and maintenance positions at the Grand mission. For many years, she participated in 1978, when he became superintendent Canyon. He secured permanent federal em - luncheons with local alumni. Bee’s daugh - of (then) Mt. McKinley NP (Denali). ployment in 1987 as an emergency services ter, Bonnie Semro, also worked for the His piloting experience proved a much- dispatcher and was known as the “Voice of NPS as a natural resource specialist in the appreciated skill in Alaska, where he be - the Grand Canyon.” He also served as a Intermountain Region and retired in 2012. came a dual-function ranger/pilot. court liaison and South Rim patrol ranger. Bee’s survivors include her daughter, Frank retired as superintendent from Chuck graduated from the Federal Bonnie; two sons: Randy and Gordon; Law Enforcement Training Center and Denali NP & PRES in 1980, and he and two grandchildren; brother, Robert; and Yosemite NP’s Horse Patrol Academy. Squire Family Photo Kathy moved back to his hometown of many nieces and nephews. She was pre - He joined Petrified Forest NP in 1992, deceased by her husband, Kenneth, and Fort Collins, Colo. In 1991, they built a DON S. SQUIRE working his dream job as a horse and a son, Barry. Condolences may be sent E&AA Life Member Don Sanders second home in Driggs, Idaho. Al - road patrol ranger. He could as easily be to the Long family at 9305 Blue Moun - Squire , 92, May 12, in St. George, Utah. though retired, Frank stayed very busy. found delivering an interpretive program tain Drive, Golden, CO 80403-8304. Don served in the U.S. Army during Many people with the NPS today will to kids as preventing fossil wood theft WWII in the Pacific Theater. He was remember Frank and Kathy from the fi - and was happiest on the days he saddled E&AA Life Member Herbert “Herb” awarded two Bronze Stars. He graduated nancial workshops they presented for 20 up for patrol into the beautiful Painted Olsen , 89, April 8. with an associates degree from Dixie Col - years, beginning in 1985, to over 6,000 Desert on his favorite park horses Morgan, Herb had a 43-year career with the lege in St. George, Utah, in 1951 and mar - NPS employees at 60-plus park areas and Sunny or Pintado. NPS, retiring in 1993 as chief of cultural ried Dixie DeMille in the St. George Utah at the annual ANPR Ranger Rendezvous. After a 20-year NPS career, Chuck be - resources management, North Atlantic Temple in 1953. Frank’s survivors include his wife, came an investigative assistant with the Regional Office. He was a decorated Don began his NPS career as a sea - Kathy; two sons: Don (wife, Jan) and federal Office of Personnel Management WWII veteran who served in the U.S. sonal ranger at Zion NP and Bryce Tom (wife, Beth); and four grandchil - in 2008. He retired from federal service Navy, and he graduated with a master’s Canyon NP. He then briefly worked as dren. Donations in Frank’s memory may in 2011, moving to Hollister, Calif., when degree from Columbia University. Dur - an officer for the Provo Police Depart - be made to Front Range Hospice, the his wife, Karen Beppler-Dorn, transferred ing his NPS career, Herb also served as ment before embarking on his life’s pro - to Pinnacles NP as superintendent. Shriners Hospital for Children or the superintendent of Cape Cod NS. fession with the NPS. He worked at Lake Chuck’s survivors include his wife, Employees and Alumni Association of Herb’s survivors include his wife, Mead NRA, Yosemite NP and Lassen Karen; two sons: Charles, Jr. and David the National Park Service. Bobbie; son, David (wife, Diane); Volcanic NP and retired in 1980 as su - (Kerry) Dorn; two grandchildren: Shelby daughter, Lisa (husband, Daniel); and perintendent of Walnut Canyon NM. E&AA Member Edward J. “Ed” (Alyssa) Dorn and Krystal Dorn; sister, five grandchildren. Donations in Herb’s Upon retirement, Don moved back to Donnelly , 91, Feb. 21. Mary (Tom) Garry; dog, Bonnie; “prayer memory may be made to Lower Cape his hometown of LaVerkin, Utah. He lost Ed joined the NPS in 1955 in the re - cat,” Emily; and many, many friends. Outreach Council (lcoutreach.org); his beloved wife of 30 years, Dixie, in gional office in Omaha, Neb., where he Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org); or Robert J. “Bob” Hoff , 67, April 28, 1984. He was a member of the Lions served as the assistant personnel officer for Habitat for Humanity (habitat.org). two years. He then accepted a position peacefully at home. Club, American Legion and local car clubs. with the Department of the Navy. In Bob began his NPS career in 1970 at Marian Albright Schenck , 93, April He loved attending and entering car shows 1965, he returned to the NPS as the re - Bandelier NM. He went on to work at 17, in Red Bluff, Calif., of natural causes. with his restored vintage Chevy pickup and gional personnel officer in the National Carlsbad Caverns NP, Fort Union NM, Marian was the daughter of past NPS Mustang convertible. He enjoyed travel - Capital Region. Ed retired in 1979 as as - WASO, Fort Smith NHS and Lyndon B. Director Horace M. Albright. Many in the ing, served faithfully in the Latter Day sociate director, Administration, National Johnson NHP. He later returned to Carls - NPS family knew Marian and her husband, Saints church and was a great fan and sup - Capital Regional Office. bad Caverns NP, where he worked as an Roswell “Ros,” who is an E&AA life mem - porter of his children and grandchildren. Ed’s survivors include Marguerite, his interpretive supervisory park ranger and re - ber. Marian spent her early childhood in Don’s survivors include three children: wife of 67 years, and Michael and Vicki tired in 2005 as the park’s historian. Yellowstone NP and Yosemite NP, where Devin (Robin) Squire, Diane (Bart) Donnelly, his son and daughter-in-law, of Bob met his wife, Chris, at the cavern her father was superintendent and field di - Merrill and Dayna (Richard) Leavitt; 10 Littleton, Colo. Donations in Ed’s mem - during his first assignment. Even in retire - rector for the NPS. She grew up sur - grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; ory may be made to the Iowa Chapter of ment, Bob never lost his love of Carlsbad rounded by her parents’ acquaintances in three brothers; and two sisters. In addi - the American Diabetes Association, 4430 Caverns NP and created an online blog the NPS, historical societies and other gov - tion to Dixie, he was predeceased by 114th Street, Urbandale, IA 50322. where he shared information about the ernment agencies, which led to an intense three brothers. n Vol. 22 • No. 2 • Arrowhead 7

New Places & Faces

Diane Bedell , to visitor services assistant, White Sands NM, Gila Cliff Dwellings NM Tim Reid , from chief ranger, Yellowstone Dennis A. Vásquez , from superintend - Klondike Gold Rush NHP (Seattle Unit). and Chamizal N MEM, to safety and oc - NP, to superintendent, Devils Tower NM. ent, Guadalupe Mountains NP, to super - cupational health manager, Yosemite NP. intendent, Petroglyph NM. Nathan “Nate” Benson , from national Jeff Reinbold , from superintendent, Na - fire ecologist, to lead, Fire Science and Kym Hall , from deputy superintendent, tional Parks of Western Pennsylvania Whitney Walp , to automotive worker, Ecology Program, Branch of Wildland Glacier NP, to superintendent, Colonial (Flight 93 N MEM, Johnstown Flood N Cuyahoga Valley NP. Fire, National Interagency Fire Center, NHP. MEM, Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS, Boise, Idaho. Fort Necessity NB and Friendship Hill Bob Wilbur , to chief, Park Facility Man - Frank Hays , from superintendent, West - NHS), to assistant director for partnerships agement Division, WASO. Amy Brooke Bracewell , from site man - ern Arctic National Parklands (Bering and civic engagement, WASO. ager, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove NHP, Land Bridge N PRES, Kobuk Valley NP, Dale Wilkerson , from administrative of - to superintendent, Saratoga NHP. Cape Krusenstern NM and Noatak N Mike Reynolds , from superintendent, ficer, Natchez Trace Parkway, to superin - PRES), to associate regional director for Lava Beds NM and the Tule Lake Unit tendent, Shiloh NMP. Dan Buckley , from superintendent, resource stewardship and science, North - of World War II Valor in the Pacific NM, Craters of the Moon NM & PRES, to William “Bill” Wright , from chief east Region. to superintendent, Death Valley NP. chief, Branch of Wildland Fire, Division of ranger, Grand Canyon NP, to superin - Fire and Aviation Management, National Rita Hennessy , from assistant superin - Wendy Ross , from superintendent, Knife tendent, Chickasaw NRA and Oklahoma Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. tendent, Appalachian National Scenic River Indian Villages NHS, to superin - state coordinator. Trail, to program manager, National tendent, Theodore Roosevelt NP. Scott Burch , from management assistant, Trails System. David Yim , from chief ranger, Jewel Crater Lake NP, to superintendent, Na - Cave NM, to field ranger, Cuyahoga tional Park of American Samoa. Bryant “BG” Horvat , from supervisory Valley NP. n park ranger, Carlsbad Caverns NP, to chief Chris Church , from project manager, to of interpretation and education, Cape Servicewide resource stewardship strat - Lookout NS. egy coordinator, Denver Service Center. Chris Hughes , from chief of science and Stephen Clark , from chief ranger, resource management, Glen Canyon E&AA welcomes the Northeast Region, to superintendent, NRA and Rainbow Bridge NM, to su - following new members: National Parks of Western Pennsylvania perintendent, Timucuan Ecological and Kay Barnett, William P. Burke, Nealy (Flight 93 N MEM, Johnstown Flood N Historic Preserve. MEM, Allegheny Portage Railroad Dean Carruthers, Kevin Cochary, NHS, Fort Necessity NB and Friendship Bill Justice , from superintendent, Bob Eckert, Doris Fanelli, Denise Hill NHS). Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP, to Germann, Deirdre Gibson, Tammy superintendent, Vicksburg NMP. Goodwin, Jean Henderson, Jeffrey Michael Creasey , from superintendent, Obirek, Joel Ossoff, Staffan Peterson, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP; execu - Dr. Joy G. Kinard , from central district Garry Traynham and Monique Van tive director, National Park Service Stew - manager, National Capital Parks-East, to Landringham. ardship Institute in Woodstock, Vt.; and superintendent, Charles Young Buffalo overseeing the management of Saint Soldiers NM. Gaudens NHS, to superintendent, Na - Darrin Knapp , from warranted contract - tional Parks of Boston (Boston NHP, NPS Boston African American NHS and ing officer, to branch chief, Contracting Boston Harbor Islands NRA). Services Division, Denver Service Center. LAURA ROTEGARD Benefactors Laura Rotegard , from superintendent, Carol Dage , from chief of cultural Erik Kreusch , from Archeological Sites Horace M. Albright Training Center, to The following donations were resources, to superintendent, Harry S Management Information System coor - superintendent, Pictured Rocks NL. received this quarter. Thank you Truman NHS. dinator, to cultural anthropologist, Northeast Region. for your support. Doyle Sapp , from superintendent, Aaron LaRocca , from supervisory park Horseshoe Bend NMP, to superintend - Juin Crosse Adams ranger, Clara Barton NHS and Glen ent, Guilford Courthouse NMP. Nicholas B. Clinch Echo Park, to chief of staff, George BJ Dunn Washington Memorial Parkway. Denis Galvin Anonymous Christine S. Lehnertz , from regional di - In memory of Frank Betts rector, Pacific West Region, to superin - Marcia and Bob Blaszak tendent, Golden Gate NRA. Julie Burness Jennifer Lorich , from facilities service Fred Caresia assistant, Wind Cave NP, to Facility Elizabeth Dale Management Software Systems specialist, Marjorie Fry Cuyahoga Valley NP. Roger Gunlikson Judith L. Harkins Ethan McKinley , from chief of com - Sally J. Hart mercial services, Northeast Regional Of - Joan Jarratt fice, to superintendent, First State NHP. William Willis Jenney, Jr. Virginia Johnson Simone Monteleone , from cultural re - Ann Parks source program manager, Rock Creek Bob and Anita Peterson Park, to chief of resource management, NPS James B. Poore George Washington Memorial Parkway. Susan E. Provenza KEVIN EADS Richard Moore , from chief ranger, Isle Sean Shelley

Kevin Eads , from chief of resource manage - Royale NP, to deputy regional chief NPS Harry H. Sloat, II ment, to superintendent, Pea Ridge NMP. ranger, Pacific West Regional Office. WL Walker OWEN SIMCOE Lisa E. Eckert , from superintendent, Jason Newman , from transportation Owen Simcoe , from park ranger (pro - In memory of Colorado NM, to superintendent, Bryce planner, Park Facility Management Divi - tection), Golden Gate NRA, to park Howard E. Haiges, Jr. Canyon NP. sion, Transportation Branch, WASO, to ranger (protection), North District, Larry N. Kilborn chief of lands, planning and design, Natchez Trace Parkway. In memory of Nancy Finley , to associate regional di - George Washington Memorial Parkway. rector for natural resource stewardship Blanca Alvarez Stransky , from superin - Gregory F. Zeman and science, Midwest Region. John A. Noel , from chief, Division of tendent, Perry’s Victory and International National Park Employee Interpretation, Education and Partner - Peace Memorial, to deputy superintendent, Association of Vicksburg Steve Gibbons , from acting superintend - ships, to deputy superintendent, Chesa - George Washington Memorial Parkway. National Military Park ent, to superintendent, Lassen Volcanic peake and Ohio Canal NHP. Todd Suess , from acting superintendent, Elizabeth Joyner NP. Prior to his acting assignment, Steve William Justice to superintendent, Mojave N PRES. was the coordinator for the National Nat - Wayne Prokopetz , from chief of research Richard Martin Prior to his acting assignment, Todd was ural Landmarks program within the Pacific and resources management, Dinosaur NM, William Nichols deputy superintendent of Olympic NP. West Region. to superintendent, Big Thicket N PRES. Shirley Smith Myron “Griss” Grissom , from safety and Pedro Ramos , from superintendent, Big Seshu V. Vaddey , to chief, Resource Infor - Tracy Trichell occupational health manager, Carlsbad Cypress N PRES, to superintendent, mation Services Division, National Infor - Rosie Wince Caverns NP, Guadalupe Mountains NP, Everglades NP and Dry Tortugas NP. mation Services Center, Lakewood, Colo. E&AA ARROWHEAD Off the Press Contribute Your e encourage our E&AA mem - Stories to the bers to take advantage of the fies hundreds of post offices in WInternet to keep abreast of the infor - 110 NPS areas and contains Arrowhead Newsletter mation that the NPS is providing many unique facts and stories on www.nps.gov. The DOI also pre - pares a weekly video, “This Week at about the people and places. Submit information, stories and photos to E&AA Interior,” on YouTube that focuses on Readers will discover: Arrowhead , 470 Maryland Drive, Suite 1, Fort Wash - current activities that are of interest ington, PA 19034. Information can also be emailed to to the public. 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