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Archaeology and the Casemates

Fort Monroe: Interpreting Diversity and Multiple Stories

Look at That! -- What is a Viewshed and Why is it Important?

Wherry Housing: Recent Past

David L. Ames, Professor of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, Geography and Material Culture Studies, directs the Center for Historic Architecture and Design and coordinates the graduate concentration in Historic Preservation in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. A member of the Executive Committee of the Winterthur Program in Material Culture, he is on the admissions committee of the Doctoral Program in Preservation Studies. He teaches courses in historic preservation and land use and environmental planning. He is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Material Culture Studies and a principal investigator in the University Transportation Center.

Much of his research deals with scenic and historic highways including writing a nomination for a Delaware Underground Railroad Historic Byway and developing policies for protecting Delaware's viewsheds from negative visual intrusions. With the University Transportation Center, he is evaluating the current state and resiliency of the Northeast BOSWASH transportation corridor. For the UD Coastal Initiative Research Program, he has evaluated the impact of development on heritage resources in Sussex County and is presently working with that county on heritage tourism as an economic development strategy. He is co-author of Evaluating America's Historic Suburbs for the National Register of Historic Places and has a book forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press, Design & Historic Preservation. A professional photographer, he is photographing Delaware's historic coastal fortifications for the Historic American Building Survey.

William A. Armbruster is the executive director of the Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority. Before joining the Fort Monroe Authority, Mr. Armbruster was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army where he headed up a section of the Army entitled "Privatization and Partnerships." Armbruster led a staff of 40 and leveraged some $970 million in initial equity into more than $9.8 billion in additional private capital. He has been responsible for policy and oversight of the Army-Community Heritage Partnership Program, the Office of Historic Properties, and partnerships with local governments.

For the past six years, Mr. Armbruster has been working with more than 25 other military installations all across the country that, like Fort Monroe, have been affected by (the Pentagon's Base Realignment and Closure plan) actions. Before joining the Department of the Army, Mr. Armbruster worked from 1994 to 2001 on Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) matters affecting Fort Pickett, VA. From 1994 to 1996 he was executive director of the five-county reuse authority and then from 1996 through 2001 served as executive director of the Fort Pickett Redevelopment Authority. Mr. Armbruster was executive vice president of Roanoke Lumber International from 1991 to 1996, executive director of Emporia Downtown Redevelopment Corporation from 1989 to 1991 and served as a Blackstone town councilman from 1992 to 1995.

Armbruster served 26 years in the Navy. He retired as a captain and Naval Intelligence Officer. He received the Legion of Merit with Gold Star, the Bronze Star with 'V' for combat valor, the Meritorious Service Medal, a Joint Service Commendation, a Navy Commendation, the National Defense Service Medal, a Combat Action Ribbon and Republic of Vietnam Theatre Ribbons.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Science in international affairs from George Washington University.

Mike received his BA in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary, his M.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Kent State University and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia. His areas of specialty are in the following: Prehistory of Eastern North American, Paleoethnozoology, Lithic Analysis, Public Archaeology, Settlement Modeling, Archaeological Methods, Public Education and Outreach. Mike has been the Virginia State Archaeologist, Department of Historic Resources, Division of State Archaeology Head since 2006. He is responsible for the Archaeology of the Commonwealth including Statewide Research Design, Outreach, State Agencies, Collections, and Public Interface and is also on the Threatened Sites Committee Oversight.

Virginia's Department of Historic Preservation has joined forces with the Archeological Society of Virginia and the Council of Virginia Archaeologists to implement a public education program which trains the vocational community in the methods, theory, and values of modern archaeology. This "Certification" Program has ca. 25 graduates and almost 100 enrollees and has been incorporated by DHR into its Public Field School efforts in partnership with sister state agencies, universities, public school systems, private foundations, and federal programs.

Joanne received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina. She is a former board member of the Virginia Conservation Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Committee. She is a regional Trustee of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and serves on the boards of the Wetlands Board and the Norfolk Mayoral Study Commission.

Joanne is active in her community and is the former chairman of the Norfolk Health Welfare Recreation Planning Council where she is currently a board member. She is a former president of the Junior League of Norfolk - Virginia Beach and a founder and co-chairman of the Norfolk Preservation Alliance. She is the chairman the Chrysler Museum's Friends of Historic Houses. She serves on the board of Citizens for Fort Monroe National Park.

Barbara has dedicated her career to the field of historic preservation. She has worked for the past 25 years as a preservation architect, planner and historian. She has lectured extensively, organized many conferences, serves on a variety of nonprofit and advisory Boards, teaches, writes and is the author of two books. Barbara just completed her term as the President of the Association for Preservation Technology International (APT), where she led the efforts of the organization's Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation and created the Technical Committee on Modern Heritage. She has been involved in the AIA for her entire career, and is the former Chair of the Seattle Historic Resources Committee. She is one of the leaders of the National Trust's Sustainability Program and the co-founder of the national coalition on sustainable preservation formed between the Trust, APT, AIA and the National Park Service. She received the National AIA Young Architect of the Year Award in 2002 and under her leadership; APT received the National 2007 AIA Award for Collaborative Achievement for their sustainable preservation efforts. Barbara was elevated to Fellowship in the AIA this year as "the leading national architect and policymaker for the integration of preservation values into green building practices, demonstrating that artistic, scientific and cultural aspects of preserving historic buildings are crucial to a sustainable future." Barbara has an architecture degree from SUNY Buffalo and a Master's in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. She has been the Executive Director of a landmarks organization in Buffalo, ran her own architecture firm for many years in NYC, served as the Regional Historic Preservation Officer for the Northwest Region of GSA and currently is the Chief Architect for the 29 historic sites operated by the National Trust where she oversees such iconic landmark sites as Philip Johnson's Glass House, Drayton Hall in Charleston, and Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House.

Robert A. Carter serves as Director of the Community Services Division of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR), the Commonwealth's state historic preservation office. He is chiefly responsible for directing the work of DHR's five regional offices based in Richmond, Newport News, Roanoke, Stephens City and Sweet Briar College. He also oversees the Department's financial, technical and training assistance programs for Virginia's local governments and private preservation organizations.

Bob has worked at DHR in a variety of positions since 1980 including staff historian, editor, survey and register supervisor, chief of preservation services, chief of staff and director of DHR's Winchester and Capital region offices, before assuming his present duties in 2001.

He holds degrees in history from Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Virginia, where he received his doctorate in American history in 1988. He has taught preservation planning at the undergraduate and graduate level at Virginia Commonwealth University and American history at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and the University of Virginia.

Carter served as principal investigator and author of two major reports to the Virginia General Assembly and published numerous articles in DHR's agency magazine Notes on Virginia. More recently he served as a contributing author of The Chesapeake Voyages of John Smith, 1607-1609, which was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2007. He represents DHR on the Working Group of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Water Trails Network.

As Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN), Tanya Denckla Cobb is an experienced mediator and facilitator in environmental public policy. She is certified by the Virginia Supreme Court to mediate Circuit Court cases and to teach basic mediation. At IEN since 1997, Denckla Cobb designs conflict resolution and collaborative problem-solving processes, mediates and facilitates multi-party issues, conducts research, and teaches and trains. She works on a broad range of community and environmental issues, including watershed planning, heritage, national forest recreation, siting new facilities, transportation, coastal zone management, agriculture, biosolids and food. She designs and facilitates strategic planning - for nonprofits and large multi-stakeholder gatherings such as the first Heritage Forum in Virginia, the Waste Solutions Forum, the Virginia Food Security Summit, and the Governor's Natural Resources Leadership Summit.

Prior to working at the IEN, she worked for the federal government in international labor rights, and served as Executive Director of two urban forestry nonprofit organizations. She authored "The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food" (2004) (previously published as "The Organic Gardener's Home Reference" (1994) and "Gardening at a Glance: The Organic Gardener's Handbook on Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts and Herbs"(1991)). She is now working on a book about community food projects in the United States.

Pamela Cressey is the City of Alexandria Archaeologist and teaches at The George Washington University for more than 30 years she has conducted community archaeology in partnership with the Alexandria Archaeological Commission, the Friends of Alexandria Archaeology, the City staff in the Office of Historic Alexandria and other departments, as well as thousands of volunteers.

Doug Domenech (pronounced DOM-en-etch) was appointed Virginia's Secretary of Natural resources on January 17, 2010.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Domenech was the Senior Vice President of Artemis Strategies; a Washington, DC based bipartisan government relations and strategic communications firm. He was also a principal at Chrysalis Energy Partners, a green energy consulting firm focused on onshore and offshore renewable sources including biomass, wind and solar.

Domenech served in the George W. Bush Administration at the U.S. Department of Interior from 2001 to 2009. While there he held positions as Deputy Director of External and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House Liaison, and in 2005 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Interior, the number two staff position in the Office of the Secretary. In this position he worked with senior managers for all nine Interior Bureaus, had senior oversight of the US/UNESCO World Heritage Program administered by the United Nations, and oversaw the Interior Crisis Action Team.

Mr. Domenech also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Insular Affairs where he managed U.S. relations with seven insular areas including US Territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and US Freely Associated States of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands. Policy issues addressed in this role included energy, security, economic development and health.

Prior to serving at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Mr. Domenech had a long career in natural resource management. Upon graduating from college in 1978 he served as the Acting Director of the Timber Harvesting Management Program at Alabama A&M University where he conducted field research funded by the USDA Forest Service and Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1981 he went to work for the Forest Resources Association, a national technical trade association which represents produces and consumers of raw wood material. He began as the Southwestern Division Forester in Jackson, MS, and then moved to become the Southeastern Division Forester in Charleston, SC. He later became the Director of Forestry Programs at the FRA's headquarters in Washington, DC from 1990-1993.

Mr. Domenech was appointed by Governor George Allen to the Goose Creek Scenic River Advisory Board and the Commonwealth Competition Council. Under Governor Jim Gilmore he was appointed to the Virginia Board of Forestry. He also formerly served on the Advisory Council of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico.

He received his Bachelors of Science in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Virginia Tech in 1978.

Bryna is a Vice President, serving as the Director of Sustainability Planning & Design, for Moseley Architects. As such, she works closely with Moseley Architects' architectural staff, engineering staff, and clients from the early planning and design phases through building construction to ensure that the most energy efficient and environmentally responsible design solutions are considered and implemented where feasible. She has more than a dozen LEED Certified projects in her portfolio, and is working on at least 60 more.

Bryna studied Biology and Environmental Science at the University of Virginia, and earned her Master's Degree in City Planning (specializing in Environmental Issues) at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the staff at Moseley Architects, Bryna worked as the Director of Environmental Research and Planning at William McDonough + Partners. She is an Associate Member of the American Institute of Architects. Bryna was the founding Chairperson for the James River Green Building Council, and served for 6 years on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Sustainable Building Network. In addition, she served for 8 years as the Chair for the Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group and sat for 6 years the LEED Steering Committee for the US Green Building Council. She is currently the vice-chair of the LEED Steering Committee. She has "retired" from the LEED Faculty after 5 years, having trained thousands of professionals in the art and science of high performance building.

Tanya Gossett is the Preservation Planner for the American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service in Washington, DC. She is currently coordinating a Congressionally-mandated assessment of conditions at Civil War battlefields nationwide.

Bryan Clark Green, Ph.D. is an architectural historian and Director of Historic Preservation for Commonwealth Architects. He conducts existing condition surveys and documentation of historic buildings and structures; writes historic structure reports; investigates historic building materials; writes National Register Nominations (individual, historic district, and multiple property documents); prepares preservation plans; prepares historic tax credit applications; oversees management of projects and staff; and writes narrative architectural histories. Outside of his work with Commonwealth Architects, Dr. Green remains professionally active in both education and publishing. He gives lectures and seminars often on preservation issues and historic structures, and he serves on the Richmond Commission of Architectural Review and Urban Design Committee.

Among his publications are In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architectural Career of Thomas R. Blackburn (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006); he was the co-author of Building a President's House: Newly Discovered Architectural Plans for James Madison's Montpelier (the Montpelier Foundation, 2006), and Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion, which won the 2002 Gabriella Page Historic Preservation award from the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

He is a 1989 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, with a BA in History and Anthropology. From Notre Dame he went to the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where we received an MA and PHD in architectural history, and a certificate in historic preservation.

Joanna Wilson Green represents the Department of Historic Resource's Archaeology Stewardship program and serves as the Easement Program's archaeologist, focusing on battlefield conservation. She has studied cemetery preservation for most of her adult life, and has a particular interest in burial traditions, funerary iconography, and human skeletal analysis. Ms. Wilson Green holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Wyoming, and an MA in Physical Anthropology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She will be speaking about Virginia burial laws and how these laws do, and do not, protect historic cemeteries.

Louis Guy is an environmental engineer with more than fifty years experience throughout Virginia and neighboring states. In 1999 he retired as Utilities Director for the City of Norfolk, including responsibilities for the state's second largest municipal water utility.

A native of Norfolk, he holds a B. S. degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech.

His public appointments include The National Institute of Building Sciences by President Reagan, the Virginia State Water Commission by Governors Godwin, Dalton and Gilmore, and Norfolk Commissions to Commemorate the End of Massive Resistance and to advise the new Slover Library by Mayor Paul Fraim.

A lifelong history buff and active APVA member, he served seven years as a "Jamestown 2007 Ambassador" to promote Virginia's 400th birthday. He chaired the Chrysler Museum's Friends of Historic Houses and recently served five years as President of the Norfolk Historical Society. He is a founding member of the Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park.

After being nominated by President George W. Bush, the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Kay Coles James to be Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on July 11, 2001.

James served as the Chair of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) Principals. The JFMIP is a joint and cooperative undertaking of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the General Accounting Office, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Personnel Management working in cooperation with each other and other agencies to improve financial management practices in government.

James was chair of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council (CHCO), a group comprised of the selected officers from cabinet departments and other agencies. Each CHCO is accountable for the strategic alignment of the agency's work force to its mission, and will be given the responsibility of maintaining and effectively directing its human resources management policies and programs. James was also a member of the President's Management Council and Chair of the Council's Subcommittee for Human Capital / Workforce Management. The Council has been charged by the President to ensure the implementation of his bold agenda of reform. James was also appointed by the President to serve on the White House Fellows Commission.

Prior to coming to OPM James served as a leader and manager in Government on the Federal, state, and local levels and in private, non-profit, and academic settings. She served as a Senior Fellow and Director of The Citizenship Project at the Heritage Foundation. Prior to joining Heritage, James served as Dean of the School of Government at Regent University and as Chair of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. James served as Secretary of Health and Human Resources for former Virginia Governor George Allen where she designed and implemented Virginia's landmark welfare reform initiative. As Secretary, James was responsible for fourteen state agencies and over 19,000 employees.

Before serving in the Allen Administration, James was Senior Vice President of the Family Research Council. She has also served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for One to One Partnership, a national umbrella organization for mentoring programs. She served under President George H. W. Bush as Associate Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and as Assistant Secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was appointed by President Reagan and reappointed by President George H. W. Bush as member of the National Commission on Children. James has served on the Fairfax County School Board and the Virginia Board of Education, and the Focus on the Family Board.

James is President and Founder of The Gloucester Institute, an organization that trains and nurtures leaders in the African American community. She continues her public service by serving as a member of the Medicaid Commission and on the NASA Advisory Council.

A graduate of Hampton University, James is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, most recently the Doctor of Laws Degree from Pepperdine University. Former Director James is also the recipient of several awards and special recognitions, including the University of Virginia's Publius Award for Public Service, and the Spirit of Democracy Award for Public Policy Leadership from the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.

As a frequent commentator and lecturer, Mrs. James has appeared as a guest on every network morning show, several national news and talk programs, and her editorials have been featured in newspapers across the country. In addition, James is the author of three books; her award winning 1993 autobiography, Never Forget; Transforming America: From the Inside Out (1995); and a third book on the subject of marriage (2001).

Bert Jones has served as the Director of Engineering & Buildings for the Virginia Department of General Services since 2006. As Director of Engineering and Buildings, he is the State Building Official for State Owned property in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is also responsible for construction, maintenance, and operations of the buildings at the seat of government totaling approximately 6.5 million square feet. He began his professional career in 1985 after graduation from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Architecture, working for the private architectural firm of Ben R. Johns, Jr. Architect. He then worked for the Virginia Department of Corrections for over 18 years where he served as project manager, Chief Architect, and finally as Chief of Architectural & Engineering Services. Bert is licensed to practice Architecture in Virginia and is an ICC Certified Building Official. He currently acts as advisor to Virginia's Design Build/Construction Management Review Board, serves as Vice-Chairman for the Institute for Building Technology and Safety Board, and sits on the VFA Advisory Board.

Ms. Kilpatrick has served as Director of the Department of Historic Resources and State Historic Preservation Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia since February of 2001. Ms. Kilpatrick began at the department as Deputy Director in 1995 with extensive experience in state and federal government and a broad background in natural and cultural resource policy. She was reappointed by Governor Robert F. McDonnell as Virginia's State Historic Preservation Officer in April 2010.

Before coming to the department, Ms. Kilpatrick served in state government as Special Assistant for Policy and Legislation to the Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources with oversight responsibilities for historic resources, game and inland fisheries, marine resources, state parks, and recreation. Her federal service includes five years with the U.S. Department of Interior as Senior Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget from 1988-93. In 1984, she was confirmed by the United States Senate to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, and served as Chairman of the Committee on General Programs with policy and grant-making responsibilities for public programs conducted by museums, historical societies, libraries, radio, and television. Ms. Kilpatrick was publisher of The Yale Literary Magazine, America's oldest review, from 1980-88, and President of the American Literary Society from 1984-88.

Ms. Kilpatrick is a member of the Governor's Performance Leadership Group. She serves as well as a Trustee of Virginia's two national heritage areas, the Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation and the Journey through Hallowed Ground. Ms. Kilpatrick is also a member of the Policy and of the Property Management committees of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. She is also an advisor to the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and to the Tusculum Institute.

Ms. Kilpatrick is an alumna of Sweet Briar College. A native Virginian who resides on a family farm in Crozier in Goochland County, she has one son and is an avid hunter and horseback rider.

Since 1990 Elizabeth Stanton Kostelny has been a staff member of Preservation Virginia, the country's first statewide preservation organization founded in 1889. She began as its Curator of Collections, overseeing the collection management and exhibit installation for its statewide properties. She was promoted to Director of Museum Operations in 1994, to Director of Administration and Finance in 1997, with the responsibility of overseeing the Preservation Virginia's financial operations, to Acting Executive Director in August 2000, and then to her present position in February 2001 as Executive Director. She is currently responsible for supervising operations for all Preservation Virginia's statewide historic sites, programs, personnel, and collection of fine arts. Under Ms. Kostelny's leadership, Preservation Virginia has expanded its programs and shared its resources and expertise gained from more than one hundred years of experience with a growing professional and volunteer preservation community.

Through strategic mergers and partnerships, Preservation Virginia has been able to broaden its scope to help preserve not only the properties within its own portfolio, but also support through advice and technical assistance a growing number of communities and groups the preservation of historic places across the Commonwealth. With the approach of 2007 and the commemorative events, Ms. Kostelny led the effort for the organization to plan for the new facilities at Historic Jamestowne in partnership with the National Park Service. In addition, she served on the Commonwealth's Steering Committee to organize the eighteen months of events and coordinated with the local committees charged with implementing community and statewide efforts to honor America's 400th Anniversary. The new facilities at Historic Jamestowne and the many of the programs in the region will help to reinvigorate the Historic Triangle as a travel destination and economic engine for the region for years to come.

Ms. Kostelny was with the McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, from 1986 to 1990. Her education includes the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, with an M. A. in Art History; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, with graduate classes in English architecture, museum studies, and conservation; and Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia, with a B. S. in Art Education. Her professional memberships are with the American Association of Museums; Southeastern Museum Conference; and Virginia Association of Museums. Her volunteer experience includes leading a VAM Workshop on techniques for traveling exhibits in 1982; serving as a member of the Board of the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts from 1993 to 1998; serving as secretary and member of the Board of Directors of the John Marshall Foundation from 1994 to the present; and sharing her expertise at professional conference on the state, regional, and national levels.

In 2006, she was appointed by Governor Timothy M. Kaine to the Citizen's Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion and serves as the treasurer for the Council.

Mr. Nicholas M. Luccketti, a partner, has been surveying and excavating Virginia sites since 1974 for institutions such as the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Virginia Department of Historic Resources), the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA). At the James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc. (JRIA), Mr. Luccketti is responsible for preparing and managing budgets, directing Phase I, II, and III excavations, managing field crews, monitoring construction, creating predictive models, preparing reports, and representing clients. In addition, Mr. Luccketti served as the senior research archaeologist for five years at the APVA Jamestown Rediscovery Project that discovered the 1607 James Fort at Jamestown, Virginia. He was responsible for supervising and recording the excavations, writing the annual field reports, and was a co-author of three booklets produced by the APVA. In addition to his employment with the APVA, Mr. Luccketti was an adjunct faculty member at Christopher Newport University for four years where he taught a class on Historical Archaeology. As the president and principal archaeologist at the James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc., Mr. Luccketti was either the Principal Investigator or directed staff archaeologists in the successful completion of more than 150 Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III projects that have been approved by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

Rob Nieweg is the director and regional attorney for the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Southern Field Office, which provides service to preservationists in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. He has worked as a preservation advocate since 1989, when he directed Landmark West, a citizens group working to preserve Manhattan's Upper West Side. Since joining the staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1995, Rob has worked to preserve historic places and strengthen the grass-roots preservation movement in Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia -- his home state. Rob works closely with many historic preservation organizations, including Preservation Virginia, Preservation Maryland, DC Preservation League, and Preservation Alliance of West Virginia. Rob holds a B.A. in history from Vassar College and an M.S. in historic preservation from Columbia University. He is a graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School and a member of the New York State Bar. Rob, his wife Kelly Ferris, and their ten-year-old daughter Katie, live in Arlington County, Virginia.

Dr. Caitlin O'Grady is a conservator and conservation scientist specializing in the preservation and analysis of archaeological materials. At the Department of Historic Resources, Caitlin is the conservator for the Division of State Archaeology. She will be discussing the conservation of cemeteries and will focus on simple techniques including what to do and what to avoid during cemetery preservation and maintenance.

I spent the last 22 years working in cultural resource management and historic preservation. I currently serve as the County Archaeologist in Prince William County's Office of Planning. I am responsible for reviewing public and private development proposals for their effects to the County's historical, architectural and archaeological resources. This includes review of cultural resource reports; recommending mitigation of cultural resources, negotiating proffers; review and negotiating scopes of work for archaeological studies; monitoring field work; and coordinating work efforts with the Planning Office, other County departments, and with the County's Historical Commission and Architectural Review Board. For the Office of Planning I am the lead on all Section 106 reviews, as well as NEPA evaluations.

I graduated from Longwood College in 1988 and received a Master's in Applied Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2001. I have conducted archaeological investigations and cultural resource management projects in the Middle Atlantic region (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and Washington D.C.), Arkansas, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas. I have also conducted international historic preservation efforts assisting the Republic of Georgia and an oil company consortium preserve and mitigate cultural resources from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Medieval Age.

Mark Perreault received his B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1972 and served active duty in the Submarine Force from 1972-1977. In 1980 he received his J.D. from Washington and Lee University. Mark was a corporate attorney for Norfolk and Western Railway Company from 1980-1982. He started as corporate attorney for Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982 where he is currently the General Solicitor Employee Relations. He is a retired Captain, U.S. Naval Reserve, 1977-2002.

Mark was the former president of the Norfolk Preservation Alliance and is a current board member. He is a former board member of the Preservation Alliance of Virginia and is Vice- President of the Norfolk Historical Society.

Mark served as a member of the Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority National Park Service Review Panel in 2009. He has been the president of Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park starting 2008 to the present.

Lynn Rainville has spent a decade conducting historic research in Virginia. Dr. Rainville is currently a research professor in the humanities at Sweet Briar College where she directs the Tusculum Institute for environmentally sustainable historic preservation. She studies African American cemeteries and antebellum communities in Virginia. She has also created over a dozen websites to disseminate local history to the public.

Mr. Gary Robinson retired in September 2006 after more than 31 years of Federal Service. In his final assignment he was the Assistant for Competition and Partnerships in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Privatization and Partnerships. He also served as the Director of the Office of Historic Properties. In this position, he led Army efforts to compete work efforts that were not inherently governmental between in-house workers and the private sector. He also led the Army-Community Heritage Partnerships program that provided planning support to local communities to improve interactions with Army families - particularly as they related to historic downtown districts.

Mr. Robinson began his federal career in the Master Planning Office at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was promoted to Chief of the Fort Benning Environmental Management Office, and, in 1979, moved to the Army Environmental Office at the Pentagon. He later spent ten years working with the Army's Military Construction Budget, including presenting projects to the Congress for approval and appropriations. After serving for five years as Command Engineer for the United States Special Operations Command, he returned to the Pentagon as the Director, Office of Historic Properties, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment.

Mr. Robinson is now retired in the City of Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife Joyce. He serves as a volunteer member of the City's Board of Architectural Review.

Pamela Schenian is the acting director and architectural historian for the Department of Historic Resources' Tidewater Regional Preservation Office, as well as the CLG Program Coordinator for the state. She was the Cultural Resource Manager for Fort Monroe for seven years; is cross-trained in archaeology; has attended courses, seminars, and conferences on cultural landscapes; and authored a nomination for a historic turnpike segment from a cultural landscape perspective.

Jolene Smith is an historical archaeologist serving as the Archaeology Inventory Manager and DSS Accounts Manager at the Department of Historic Resources in Richmond. She will be giving an overview of the process for recording historic cemeteries in DHR's Archives.

Ron Thompson, RA, RRC has been a Capital Outlay Architect and State Roofing Policy Administrator with the Bureau of Capital Outlay Management (BCOM) for 22 years. Mr. Thompson is a registered Architect with over 38 years of experience in construction of state, local and federal government buildings in addition to commercial and residential buildings. He is a Registered Roof Consultant and serves as a Government Liaison and member of the Advocacy Committee with The Institute of Roofing, Waterproofing, and Building Envelope Professionals, (RCI, Inc). He has been a speaker on low slope and metal roofing, and has led various RCI, Inc courses. In his position with the state he oversees any changes to the State's Construction and Professional Services Manual concerning roofing; and is consulted on various roofing system policy and code issues brought to the attention of BCOM. The most recent changes in the state roofing policy include an additional section concerning vegetative roofing.

William W. Vodra is a Trustee on the Board of the Civil War Preservation Trust. His interest in the Civil War began in the 1980s, when he discovered an ancestor was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. Since, he and his wife have found over 20 direct and collateral ancestors who served in the Civil War.

Bill is also senior counsel with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP, where he has practiced law for over 30 years. His previous positions include Associate Chief Counsel for Drugs, FDA, 1974-79, and Assistant Chief Counsel, BNDD/DEA, 1971-74. Since joining Arnold & Porter, Mr. Vodra has practiced extensively in all aspects of FDA regulation and its impact on companies and individuals. He has also headed defense teams in several major product liability litigations and participated in advertising disputes between competitors.

Mr. Vodra earned his B.A. degree in economics at the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1965, and received his J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1968.

Cherilyn Widell has over thirty years of experience in historic preservation. She started her career as an historic sites surveyor in Frederick County, Maryland and founded both the Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions and the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions. In 1990/91 she was chosen to be a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Japan in Urban Conservation where she helped to save Frank Lloyd Wright's Freedom School in Tokyo. When she returned Governor Pete Wilson appointed her State Historic Preservation Officer of California where she was responsible for recovery from the Northridge Earthquake including repairs to the Los Angeles Coliseum. In 1998, she became the Federal Preservation Officer of the Presidio Trust where she developed a plan for the economic and environmental sustainable reuse of the Presidio of San Francisco, a National Historic Landmark District with over 460 historic properties.

Cherilyn Widell has over thirty years of experience in historic preservation. She started her career as an historic sites surveyor in Frederick County, Maryland and founded both the Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions and the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions. In 1990/91 she was chosen to be a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Japan in Urban Conservation where she helped to save Frank Lloyd Wright's Freedom School in Tokyo. When she returned Governor Pete Wilson appointed her State Historic Preservation Officer of California where she was responsible for recovery from the Northridge Earthquake including repairs to the Los Angeles Coliseum. In 1998, she became the Federal Preservation Officer of the Presidio Trust where she developed a plan for the economic and environmental sustainable reuse of the Presidio of San Francisco, a National Historic Landmark District with over 460 historic properties.