John Milner Associates, Inc. has just received an Honor Award from the Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the “Park Road 4 Cultural Landscape Report and National Register Nomination.”  Laura Knott was the project manager and Liz Sargent, was the principal investigator.  They are both members of AHLP.

Park Road 4 is a scenic parkway constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Burnet County, Texas. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department commissioned John Milner Associates, Inc., to prepare a cultural landscape report and National Register nomination as the first steps toward preserving this important historic resource. Park Road 4 is under consideration for listing on the National Register of Historic Places for 2010.

Nancy Brown
Nancy J. Brown, ASLA, is the first landscape architect to bring her expertise to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the federal agency that oversees preservation in the United States.  Her previous work with the National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, and University of Virginia (UVa) provided her with background in both cultural landscapes and compliance issues.  Brown served in leadership positions for the ASLA’s Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network and the US/ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes.  A certified landscape architect in Virginia, Nancy holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from UVa.

Carrie J. Gregory
Carrie J. Gregory is a Historic Preservation Project Director for Statistical Research, Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She has a B.A. in Anthropology from San Diego State University, California and an M.A. in Historic Preservation from Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland.  She is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and meets the U.S. Secretary of Interior’s professional qualifications standards in architectural history.  Ms. Gregory has worked on a variety of architectural, archaeological and landscape projects in the U.S. Southwest and Southeast.  Born and raised in San Diego, California, her area of interest is cultural landscapes, encompassing rural and urban places of an ethnographic or historic nature.

Susan Hitchcock
Susan Hitchcock is a historical landscape architect for the National Park Service’s Cultural Landscapes Program. She is a 1997 graduate of the University of Georgia’s School of Environmental Design, where she studied both landscape architecture and historic preservation, with an emphasis on landscape preservation. Her thesis was a study of the residential design work of Hubert B. Owens, the founder of the School of Environmental Design. Special areas of interest are southern garden history and Colonial Revival gardens. She is a founding member of the Georgia Historic Landscape Initiative and serves on the Acquisitions Committee of the Cherokee Garden Library, the Advisory Committee for the Garden Club of Georgia’s Historic House and Garden Pilgrimage and Historic Landscape and Garden Grant, the Founders Garden Board, and the Eatonton Georgia Historic Preservation Commission.

Achim Jankowski
Recently retired from Public Works and Government Services Canada, Achim Jankowski’s public service spanned close to 25 years.  In 1982 Achim worked as a Park Landscape Architect in Gros Morne National Park on the west coast of Newfoundland, and then had a short term hiatus in private practice in Ottawa.  He has been privileged to work with many fine people over the years, and in many interesting and wonderful places of national historic significance and natural beauty.

Achim will continue his membership in the Alliance because it is a diverse and wonderful group, and he wants to remain involved in the conservation of historic landscapes.  As well, he has been accepted to join the Education Committee, and work with Anne Hoover and Hugh Miller, in furthering our outreach to students in the preservation field of studies.

Rachel Leibowitz
Rachel Leibowitz joined the International Society of Arboriculture headquarters staff in 2011 as Science and Research Manager. Between 2007 and 2011, she served as a historian in the History Programs Division of the Texas Historical Commission (SHPO) in Austin, preparing nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and reviewing federal undertakings under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. She also taught a graduate seminar, "Cultural Landscape Preservation," at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she also serves on the board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

Rachel was awarded the first doctoral degree in landscape architecture, with an emphasis in history and theory, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; for her dissertation research on the New Deal-era cultural landscape of Window Rock, Arizona-the capital of the Navajo Nation-Leibowitz received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the ACLS/Luce Foundation, the Newberry Library, and the American Philosophical Society. She also holds a Master of Architecture degree, with a thesis in historic preservation, from the University of Illinois, and holds degrees in fine arts from Washington University in St. Louis and Tulane University.

Dan Nadenicek
Daniel J. Nadenicek, Dean of the College of Environment & Design, came to the University of Georgia in 2008 from Clemson University where he chaired the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and was Director of Historic Preservation for Clemson’s Restoration Institute.

Since coming to the College of Environment & Design in August 2008, he has worked with alumni, faculty, staff, and students to create a new strategic plan with a major focus on community engagement in Georgia and at the national and international level.  In June of 2009 he visited Nanjing Forestry University to begin negotiations on a new exchange program, which led to a signed agreement in November 2009. 

Dean Nadenicek started his academic career with the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota in 1990. He taught at the Pennsylvania State University for 11 years, where he also served as Director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History.

He is a widely published scholar in the areas of historic preservation, landscape architecture and urban design.  His publications include more than 90 articles, reviews, reports and proceedings.  He is writing a book about conservation work of 19th Century American businessman Frederick Billings, and he has written several book chapters.  Nadenicek has presented more than 75 lectures, papers and panel presentations, including presentations in Italy, France, Turkey, China, Germany, and Canada.  He has helped organize several major national conferences and symposiums including international conferences dealing with the topics of sprawl, historic landscapes, linear parks, and community design and planning.

Debbie Smith
Debbie Smith is Chief of the Historic Landscapes Program at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) in Natchitoches Louisiana.  The National Park Service Center focuses on the development and distribution of technologies that enhance the preservation and conservation of historic resources.  Prior to NCPTT, Smith worked for the National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (OCLP).  Her work at the OCLP included preservation planning and maintenance projects for sites that included Minute Man National Historical Park, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake Shore, Longfellow National Historic Site, and Denali National Park and Preserve.  She is a 1999 graduate of the University of Michigan's Landscape Architecture Program.  Smith credits the Alliance Annual Meetings for the significant role they played in her early understanding and appreciation of historic landscapes.

Mary Tivy
Mary Tivy holds a PhD in cultural history, a MA in Museum Studies and a BA in Anthropology. Most of her professional life has been spent working in museums with anthropological and historical collections. She has taught in the field of museum studies and history and published extensively on the representation of the past in museums. She currently works as a heritage consultant with a specific interest in cultural heritage landscapes. She is also pursuing studies in landscape design from the University of Guelph.

Brenda Williams
Brenda Williams, ASLA, is a historical landscape architect and associate with the consulting firm Quinn Evans Architects. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor of science degree in landscape architecture in 1988 and received her M.A. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. Her master's thesis focused on the integration of cultural and natural landscape management at South Manitou Island, a portion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan. She spent three years working for the National Park Service Midwest Regional Office, helping to update the List of Classified Structures. Since joining Quinn Evans in 1998, Ms. Williams has complete numerous cultural landscape reports, site designs, and master plans for historic landscapes throughout the Midwest and National Capital Regions. She has a great love of vernacular landscapes, particularly those in the Lake Superior region.