NOVA's Historic Preservation Certificate

	Guest lecturer Chris Madrid French of the Recent Past Preservation Network discussing the issue of what is worth preserving. She also discussed the fate of the visitor’s center at Gettysburg National Park, created in the 1960s by famed architect Richard Neutra.
	Lori Kimball and Debbie Robison recently completed their internships and shared their experiences with the attendees. Lori tracked down stories and the histories of escaped slaves in Loudoun County, a much more difficult task that it first appears. Debbie painstakingly created a Historic Resource inventory for the Fairfax County Park Authority. Anyone interested in the historic resources in the county need look no further thanks to her tremendous efforts.
	Cate Magennis Wyatt, executive director of The Journey Through Hallowed Ground and presenter for August 2005 open house, with Beverly Blois and Dan Kent.
	Marshall Stewart (seated center) during his internship at the National Archives and Records Service preparing Freedman’s Bureau documents for microfilming. Also pictured are, from left, Cindy Fox, Chief of Military and Civil Records, Budge Weidman, Director of Civil War Conservation, and Giovanni Crocci, NARS volunteer.
	Lin Ezell and HIS 186 collections management students holding a class session in the NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Center board room, Dulles Airport, April 2005.
	Dennis Stanford, curator of archaeology at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, discusses Paleo-American culture and the Solutrean connection theory with students of HIS 193, prehistoric archaeology, February 2005.
	Margaret Good, interim executive director of the Waterford Foundation, explains her organization’s mission and activities to attendees of January 4, 2005 open house.
	Pauline Singletary, Mary Randolph, and Deborah Lee (l. to r.) discuss the activities and publications of the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library at the 17 August 2004 open house
	Paula Shapiro (2004 grad) and Eric Larson, former curator at the Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum, review display items for the museum's Waxpool General Store exhibit which Shapiro, during her internship, helped design and install.
	Anne Beaubien (2004 grad) and Lonnie J. Hovey, AIA, Director of Preservation, Architecture, and Construction in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, during Beaubien's recent White House internship, for which she received a special Award of Appreciation for her research activities.
	Rachel Summers (2000 grad), left, mentoring Louise Holland (2003 grad) during Louise's internship at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in McLean , where Rachel has been employed since completing the NVCC certificate program
	David Gibney, of Historic Restoration Specialists, demonstrates plastering for students in historic restoration techniques class at Mount Zion Church , Aldie, March 2003
	Lin Ezell, instructor for Collections Management and Fund-Raising for Preservation courses, discusses her day job (project manager for construction of the National Air and Space Museum’s Dulles Center) with 2003 grad Sam Swartz and Mike Henry, Colvin Run Mill manager and instructor for Intro Preservation and Museum Practice.
	David Gibney, president of Historic Restoration Specialists, illustrates use of period tools for students of Dana Shoaf’s Survey of American Architecture class, September 2002.
	Susan Heitmann, 2003 grad, clears topsoil around an 1820s gravemarker during her August 2002 internship at the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina.
	David Boyce, Oatlands Plantation executive director (and program advisory committee member), with Belinda Thomas, Oatlands associate director, and fall 2002 intern Tracy Scott in the mansion’s dining room.
	Childs Burden, president emeritus and board member of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, discusses the MHAA's mission and accomplishments with open house attendees, 20 August 2002
	Anne Horstman, executive vice president of the G. C. Marshall Center, on the steps of Marshall's Leesburg, Virginia home, Dodona Manor, together with 2002 preservation program graduate Elsie Blink, who researched 1950s period attire for future Dodona docents.
.	May 2001 graduates, from left, Marion Dobbins, Chester Ramey, and Gale Hopkins in full regalia for commencement ceremonies
.	Al Van Huyck, member and past chair of the Loudun County Planning Commission, explains 'green infrastructure' and other concepts to HIS 181 students, February 2001
	Advanced fieldwork (HIS 198) students Mike Seidelman and Rachel Dykhoff at Oatlands site, April 2000
	Marshall Faintich, vice president Orbital Imaging Corporation and member of preservation advisory committee, addresses November 2000 committee session held at Orbital headquarters, Dulles, Virginia.
.	Hon. Joan Rokus, former member Loudoun County Board of supervisors and current board member National Recreation and Parks Association, and Beverly Blois, program head and NVCC Humanities Division Chair, at November 2000 preservation advisory committee meeting at Orbital Sciences headquarters
	John Heatwole, award-winning author of "Shenandoah Voices" and "The Burning" chats with oral history techniques (HIS 182) students following his presentation to the class, September 2000.
	Edwin Bearss, former chief historian of the National Park Service, discusses his oral history interviews with former presidents Johnson and Carter with preservation program students, Balch Library, Leesburg, October 2000.
	Sam Levine plays a Civil War era over the shoulder saxhorn at May 2000 Open House.
	NOVA preservation student Marion Dobbins in discussion with Pvt. Carl Rawlins of the 54th Massachusetts, Colvin Run, February 2000.
	NOVA archaeological fieldwork students (HIS 188) at Oatlands Plantation site, April 1999.
.	Ben Morgan, USGS geologist who oversaw stratigraphic mapping of Loudoun County, with HIS 188 students and instructor Eugene Scheel (foreground), Oatlands Plantation, June 1999
	Stacked stone slave quarters, Arcola (Hazout tract), Loudoun County, June 1999. This structure was proffered to Loudoun County in 1998 and will be preserved as an interpretive center/museum.
	Jack Walter, preservation consultant and past director, National Trust for Historic Preservation, discusses "heritage development" with NOVA students and guests, Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, Virginia, April 1999.
.	David Boyce, Oatlands executive director, discusses the plantation's history with HIS 188 students, May 1999
	Archaeologist Dan Kent discusses Oatlands greenhouse, second oldest in North America, with HIS 188 students, June 1999.
	Eugene Scheel, extreme right, leads walking tour of Waterford, Virginia, for NOVA and Bucks County (PA) Community College preservation students, April 1999.
	Harry Butowsky, National Park Service historian, and member of NOVA's Preservation Advisory Committee, in after class discussion with students.
	David Clark, instructor for HIS 180 (Intro. to Historical Archaeology), and HIS 188 (Fieldwork), and Heidi Siebentritt, instructor for HIS 187(Interpreting Material Culture.)
	John Michael Vlach, George Washington University, guest lecturer for HIS 181, March 1999.

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