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PRiSi!WATJON EASTERN JVEWSUTIIR July 1998 )olumi!S Numbed .The Newsletter pf the Eastern Michigan pnlver5itf rrolif30i _:.,:,i_.;•;•;-\;-,•:;-;i; B}storic'~re8er\'ati~n'""-•.,,L.-.,,. __ ,-·-i:·-•i•-.;,.•<-<:•>::');;j:•:-,_,,,;,,.-,;, 0•-;;;,,._.,.;;.:.,;,-<:,-•-;;o. --• '--• ,-.o,;.o;_.,,,,,, __ .. -_, .. ,_,,,- "'·,,,.,.,.,,_._,,. ,,.,._,,.,1•·"·'"· Thoughts from the Director of -----------t,l.:::::-s: Preservation Eastern, by Philip Smith Summer is a time to relax and let the cares of the school year 1998-99: flutter away. It is a time that 1 hope most of you use to take much needed vacations. Of course us preservationists neve.· seem to A Year to Remember travel anywhere without picking up on some of the local preserva­ This coming year will be a memorable -tion issues or visiting some historic sites. This is as it should be, one for the Historic Preservation Program. for ifwe are committed to preservation we need to use the extra It marks the beginning of the 20th anniver­ time that we have in a way to make ourselves better preservation­ sary of the program, and the closing of a ists, and one way to accomplish this is to always be ready to learn chapter, actually the first book, in our his­ what others have accomplished in our field of stndy. tory as at the end of the year our co­ I say this in this newsletter because this issue is aimed at those founder, and leader for this entire period, incoming students who are interested to taking the plunge into his­ Marshall McLennan, will retire. It also is toric preservation. It isn't as interesting to test the waters with just the beginning ofEMUs "Sesquicentennial" your big toe. You need to make a big splash, as we all do in order honoring the filet that we will celebrate 150 to keep government officials and other citizens aware of the impor­ years as an institution. So you see what I tance of historic preservation. mean. For incoming students, a word of advice. Go to a camera store In this issue you will find a plethora of and get yourself a good quality camera. As you travel around Yp­ information about the upcoming year in­ silanti, Michigan, and other areas during your stndent life here at cluding classes, the new student orienta­ E.M.U. try to carry this camera with you at all times. There are tion, recent job placements, fubulous site constant reminders oflost preservation chances all around us. visits, Preservation Eastern, alumni up­ Take pictures ofbuildiogs, barns, environmental sites and other dates, internship opportunities, germane cultnrallandscapes, for in many cases you might be getting the last conferences, and much more. Enjoy the picture of a structure before it is tom down. The old J.H. Hudson's rest of your snmmer and we'll see you in building in Detroit is set for demolition. Unfortnoately, govern­ September. ment officials see the building as a liability to the city. They don't understand what we in preservation see in such a building. While you study here, you will have many chances to expand your laiowledge out of the classroom. I suggest that you do as much as you can with extra projects. Classroom learning is just part of the educational experience. I hope that this issue of our newsletter gets you pumped up so that you contact the museums or .REMEMBER... organizations listed here and become active in the decision making SCHOOL STARTS SEPTEMBER 2 process. There are also conferences at both the local and national levels. These are great opportnoities to network and further your AND koowledge in preservation issues. NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION Our stndent organization, Preservation Eastern, meets twice a IS SEPTEMBER 4 month. Please plan on attending meetings and becoming active so that we continue to work on projects that the students are inter­ AT COBBLESTONE FARM!!! ested in and want. Contact Ted Ligibel I hope the final weeks of summer vacation find you exploring at (734) 487-0232 or wonderful historic sites, and !look forward to meeting all of the new students on September 4th at Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor Phil Smith at (810) 231-1178 for orientation. for more information. Inside this issue .... • Cobblestone Farm offers many opportunities to students • Stories of Cullur.ll Landscape Interpretation • Updates on Historic Preservation alumni We sure bad fun this spring!! Thanks Ted! • Special Course offering this Fall Preservation Eastern Newsletter July 1998 Page 2 Life after EMU: Who's Where? jobs... jobs ... and more jobs An Alumni Potpourri ! This has been another very good year for recent/imminent KefrY Adams is site and interpretation manager of the HP Grads. Among those with new positions in our multi­ historic John Patterson Home in Dayton, Ohio, and lives on the faceted field are Audra Bellmore who has the enviable job of grounds of the estate. Lloyd Baldwin is winding down his Archivist for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in work as preservation construction supervisor for the restoration Oak Park . Janna Baron has landed in progressive Kane of the University of Michigan's famed "Detroit ObservatorY," County, lllinois where she is serving an internship at the perhaps the oldest of its kind in the US. Lauren Cohen had a Garfield Historic Farm. Sally Bund is deeply immersed in second child; she and husband, Jordan, and their children live the monumental task of processing and organizing over 7000 in Phoenix, Arizona. Kevin Coleman is Architectural architectural records of modern architect Gunnar Birkerts in Historian for the ACS Group in Columbus, Ohio, and is still her position as Architectural Records Consultant to the Uni­ writing the definitive piece on Stephen Mills, (with apologies to versity of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library. Rob Burg is MarY Culver). One of the principals of the ACS Group is now Site Historian for both the Hartwick Pines and North Deborah Dobson-Brown, a 1980s graduate of our program. Higgins Lake State Parks in Michigan. Rob oversees opera- LMfY Darling bas departed EMU to assume a position as . lions of the logging museum at Hartwick and the CCC Mu­ Michigan Director ofMarketing, Development and Technical seum at Higgins; look on page 104 of the July/August, 1998 Services for the International Masonry Institute, headquartered issue of Historic Preservation magazine for a "Rob in ac1ion" in Ann Arbor. Brenda Laakso has returned to her beloved S!OfY. Upper Peninsula, and has been appointed Site Historian of the Rhonda Deeg has historic Fayette Townsite on the magnificent Garden Peninsula landed one of the choic­ Congratulations to in Lake Michigan. Chris Owen has just left this region to est jobs of aU and is now all ofthese recent begin a new phase of his career with the huge Cultural a denizen of Frank Resource Management firm of Michael Baker Jr., Inc. in Lloyd Wright's Taliesen grads, and take Pittsburg. He will be concentrating on historical and East at Spring Green, heart new and environmental review starting with a proposed new Ohio River ) Wisconsin where she is crossing. Kimber VanRY is married to Amy Gossow and living developing, and execut­ current students. in Brooklyn while working in New York City. Kimber is ing, a long-term restora- Manager ofthe Historic Collection and Photo Research tion/ maintenance plan for the entire campus! Michelle Supervisor at FPG baternational, a large stock photo agency. Goldstein is the Preservmion Planner for the City of Aod Susan Wineberg is, well, Susan Wineberg, as interesting, Rochester HiJJs, MI. Julie Letendre bas become site manager involved, and helpful as ever. for the Historic Fairbanks House in Dedham, Mass; she and her husband, Ken Cormier, live on the grounds in a quaint ********************** 1920s bungalow. Bruce Lynn is Site Interpreter and Devel­ * * opment Director at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in ! uY~-~#dt ! prisrine Paradise, Michigan. Marla Overbiser meanwhile has just been named Historic Review Officer for the City of * A marriage made at EMU! * In September, Kirk Bunke and Julie Dirkse, Detroit, filling the position recently vacated by our own Chris ! ! Owen (see alunmi section). Lisa Porstman holds an intern­ * who met each other as students in our * ship with the GSA in Washington, D.C. where she has been * program, will "tie the knot" at the vintage * Terrace lim in hisroric Bay View, Michigan; surveying and assessing federally-owned historic * * art/sculpture in the DC area; she made quite an impression * we think this is a first in the historY of the * on National Trust personnel on a recent tour ofrheir main of­ * program. * Also in Seprember, Chris Owen will rnarfY fices ar DuPont Circle. Susan Rothstein is doing yeoman ! ! his long-time sweetheart Melissa Viggiano in service as the preservation planner for Crosswinds Develop­ * * menr Corp. * their home town of Youngstown, Ohio. * Gretchen Walter was named Program and £rhibit Devel­ * And, Robin Radzinski was married to * Brian Astifun on July II in her home town of oper for The Edison Instirute's Henry Ford Museum/ Green­ * * Wooster, Ohio; they have relocated to the field Village in Dearborn. And Wendy Winslow has re· * * Quad-city area of Iowa to begin the big job moved to Wesr Virginia where she works as a preservation ! ! ) planner with the West Virginia Department of Transporta­ * search....