Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors was established in 1966 by the Board of Trustees to increase the National Trust’s direct contact and communication with state and local constituents. It provides the Trust and the American preservation movement a nationwide network of more than one hundred volunteer preservation leaders, with two representatives from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 2005 at the request of the Board of Advisors, the Trustees passed a resolution specifically to expand the diversity and reach of Advisors by adding up to two Advisors from each of the six Trust regions, the goal of which is to develop collegial relationships with networks of individuals and communities not currently engaged in the preservation movement. Advisors may serve up to three, three-year terms, with performance evaluations taking place at the end of years 3 and 6. From its inception in 1966, 685 individuals have served on the Board of Advisors.
Advisors represent the skills, interests, backgrounds, accomplishments, and diverse constituencies involved in the preservation movement in the United States. They are selected after consultation with preservation partners in the affected states, and offer assistance to the National Trust through their personal skills, knowledge of issues, and familiarity with the state’s and region’s resources, leaders, government, media, and community organizations. Advisors provide valuable counsel on emerging concerns and trends, and in turn have stimulated the creation of program activities responding to a range of issues, including diversity, the recent past, heritage education, heritage tourism, and economic development. The Trust’s regional offices maintain a strong working relationship with each Advisor in his or her region and help to determine when and how the skills of an individual Advisor might best be matched to identified needs. The Resource Center in the National Trust’s Washington D.C. office supports the leadership of the Board of Advisors and coordinates the meetings of Advisors.
Advisors convene at least twice annually, once at the national preservation conference and again each Spring, either in different cities in their region, or in Washington, D.C., on a rotating basis. Since 1999, Advisors have sponsored educational sessions at the conference, using the opportunity to bring together the experiences of a group of individuals around a rising issue challenging preservationists and communities across the country. Spring meetings every other year in Washington coincide with the preservation movement’s Lobby Day activities, coordinated by a partnership of preservation organizations including the National Trust. Advisors are prominently active in such advocacy activities on a national, regional, and local level.
The Board of Advisors is governed by an annually elected Executive Committee of officers and the chairs of the regional boards of Advisors, plus four individuals from the at-large Advisor membership. The work of the Advisors is accomplished on specialized committees formed around specific issues in concert with staff of the National Trust. Additionally, Advisors serve on committees of the Board of Trustees and the National Trust’s Diversity Council at the invitation of the Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board of Advisors is an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees and a member of its Executive Committee.
Advisors Emeritus are former Advisors who have completed three three-year terms or who have served with distinction, and were elected to Emeritus status. Since the Board’s inception, 221 Advisors have become Emeritus.
Current Advisors (As of October 20, 2009)
Ann Bedsole
Samuel H. Frazier
Douglas F. Gasek
Arizona
Vacancy
Ruth Hawkins
Debbie W. Shea
Luis G. Hoyos,
Sally H. Hopper
Anita L. Mielert
E. Michael DiPaolo
C. Roderick Maroney
Kathryn S. Smith
Marion M. Almy
Ralph Johnson
George T. Neary
Georgia
Jeanne C. Cyriaque
Lani Ma'a Lapilio
Terri A. Schorzman
Jean A. Follett, Ph.D
Paula Robinson
Kevin Krulewitch
Timothy S. Shelly
Sam Erickson
Dan Tindall,
K. Vance Kelly,
Anne M. Arensberg
Helen Dedman
James R. Logan, IV
Jean Sayres
James M. Day
Edward A. Hobler
Valerie Talmage
Frank Ettawageshik
James A. Turner
Carolyn H. Sundquist
Stella Gray B. Sykes
Alex Thomas
David G. Richardson, AICP
Eric C. Youngberg, AICP
Robert L. Hawks
Mary G. Oliver
Douglas V. Duey
DiAnna R. Schimek
Melinda J. Gustin, SPHR
Doris C. Burke
Martha Fuller
Diane Allen
Ronald Magill
Ernest W. Ortega
Theresa A. Pasqual
Lisa Ackerman
Catherine Flickinger Schweitzer
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Benjamin F. Speller, Jr.
Donald S. Haugen
Franky Jackson
Amy Sakariassen
Kathleen H. Crowther
John E. Moore, Jr.
John M. Mabrey
Mary J. Oberst
August R. Carlino
A. Roy Smith
Fernando Lloveras
Keith W. Stokes
Martha Werenfels
Richard C. Youngken
Glenn F. Keyes,
Albert M. LeBeau, III
Stephen F. McCarthy
Carroll Van West
Margarita Araiza
Samuel L. Collins, III
Veletta A. Forsythe Lill
Utah
Don L. Stromquist, M.D.
Elizabeth Humstone
Robert A. McBride
Gerville Rene Larsen
Harry J. Warthen, III
Horace H. Foxall
Michael Sean Sullivan
Laura Kurtz Kuhns
Monica D. Miller, EDFP
Denise L. Hice
Christie M. Weber
Kurt Dubbe, AIA
Alvin Wiederspahn
Advisors Emeritus
Alice M. Bowsher
James L. Loeb
Douglas C. Purcell
Gwyn C. Turner
Marjorie L. White
Judith Bittner
Renee Blahuta
Robert A. Frederick, Chair, 1975-1977
Wilda Marston
Janet M. Matheson, AIA, CSI
Arizona
James E. Ayres
James E. Babbitt
Grady Gammage, Jr.
Linda L. Mayro
Elisabeth F. Ruffner
Carl H. Miller, Jr.
Cheryl Griffith Nichols
Parker Westbrook
Charles Witsell, Jr., FAIA
Claire Bogaard
Susan Brandt-Hawley
Linda Dishman
Bruce D. Judd, FAIA
Christy McAvoy
Timothy P. Whalen, Chair, 2007-2009
Betty M. Chronic
David S. Cohen
Ellen Kingman Fisher
Jon Schler
Nancy N. Campbell, Chair, 1987-1989
Jared I. Edwards, FAIA
Mary E. Findlay
David Shiverick Smith, Chair, 1967-1969
Terry J. Tondro
Kim Rogers Burdick
Mary Jane Elliott
Eldon du P. Homsey, AIA
Charles T. Lyle
Robert L. Raley
Charles I. Cassell, AIA
Carol Thompson-Cole
Roy Hunt
Joan W. Jennewein, Chair, 1981-1983
Nancy Liebman
Janet Snyder Matthews
Arva Parks McCabe
Herschel E. Shepard, Jr.
Janice P. Bi
Ben Grace
Bradley Hale
Mark C. McDonald
Paul Muldawer, FAIA
Eugene L. Surber, FAIA
Helen H. Cole
Spencer Leineweber
Barnes Riznik
Robert L. Aldridge
John L. Bertram
Sheri Freemuth
Julie J. Hyslop
Jerry T. Myers
Gerald W. Adelmann
Susan Snell Barnes
Maureen E. Gustafson
Amy R. Hecker
Edmund B. Thornton
James A. Glass
Kent Schuette
Randall T. Shepard, Chair, 1983-1985
J. Reid Williamson, Jr.
David L. Cordes
Curt Heidt
Marlys A. Svendsen
Joan E. Adam
J. Eric Engstrom
Dean Graves, FAIA
Robert A. Puckett
Richard DeCamp
Richard L. Holland
Barbara Hulette
David L. Morgan
Ann Early Sutherland
Winifred Byrd
Paul M. Haygood
Joseph F. Newell
Suzanne W. Turner
G. Bernard Callan
H. Grant Dehart, AICP
Edward T. McMahon
Philip B. Herr
Thomas Menino
Roger S. Webb
George Wislocki
Janese Chapman
William J. Kimball
Kathleen H. Wendler
William M. Worden
John L. Kuester
Charlene Roise
Alferdteen Brown
Susan H. Ivy
Samuel H. Kaye
Beverly T. Meng
Ronald W. Miller
Rufus A. Ward, Jr.
William L. Bruning
William Scott Meyer
Osmund R. Overby
James R. McDonald, AIA
Jeanette McKee
Judy McNally
Ellen Sievert
George Haecker, AIA
Nancy Hoch
Perry L. Poyner, AIA
Nevada
Andria S. Daley
Sue Fawn Chung, Ph.D
Ana B. Koval
William B. Hart
Michael C. Harvell
Barbara B. Pressly
Flavia Alaya
Constance Greiff
Mary Brown Hamingson
Michael C. Henry, PE,
Katharine Earnshaw Shuler
Victor W. Johnson, AIA
Katherine Ann Slick, Chair, 1989-1991
Kent Barwick
Henry McCartney
Julia S. Stokes
Anthony C. Wood
Edward H. Clement, Chair, 1979-1981
Richard Mathews
Joan W. Galleger
Barbara S. Lang, Chair, 1999-2001
Royce A. Yeater, AIA, Chair, 1985-1987
Sandra C. Hull
Ted J. Ligibel, Ph.D.
Emily Warren
Susan Guthrie Dunham, Chair, 1993-1995
Martin Newman
George Kramer
Richard H. Michaelson
Sharr Steele-Prohaska
Caroline E. Boyce
Mary Werner DeNadai, AIA, Chair, 1995-1997
Henry A. Jordan, M.D.
Jose R. Coleman-Davis Pagan
Arleen Pabón
Sean O. Coffey
Karen L. Jessup, Ph.D., Chair, 2005-2007
Alfred B. Van Liew
Howard E. Duvall
Helen C. Harvey
William Light Kinney, Jr.
Evelyn M. McGee
Vanessa Turner-Maybank
Jacqualyn Gist Fuller
Spencer Ruff
William R. Wyatt
James K. Huhta
William E. Kennedy, M.D.
Debby Dale Mason
Mimi Phillips
Karl A. Komatsu, AIA
Betty A. Massey
Virginia S. McAlester
Nancy Brown Negley
Paula Peters
Marcel Quimby, FAIA
Stephanie Jackel
Tina Stahlke Lewis, Chair, 1997-1999
Frank R. Pignanelli
Allen D. Roberts
Robert White
Paul Bruhn
Georgianna O. Brush
Thomas P. Salmon
Anthony J. Ayer
Barbara M. Hagan-Smith
George Tyson
FitzGerald Bemiss
Constance Chamberlin
Robert B. Lambeth, Jr.
Patricia L. Zontine
Karen Gordon
Joanne H. Moyer
Larry J. Nickel
Mary M. Thompson, Chair, 2003- 2005
Betty Woods Nutting
Brian D. Rude
William H. Tishler
James Davis
Lucille Clarke Dumbrill
Richard D. Wilder
