Foundation elects hoard of directors and selects slate of officers

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Foundation
elects
hoard
ofdirectors
and
selects
slate
ofofficers
for2007-08
served as chairwoman of the Amelia
Jh e F oundat ion' sb o a rd o f d i re c to rs
I elected its officers for 2OO7-2008 Earhart Festival in Atchison for the
at the organization's 39th annual
past 11 years.
meeting in Charlottesville in August.
Seaberghas a bachelor's degree in
Four individuals assumed new roles
En g l i sh w i th an emphasi si n anci ent
as of October 1 and will hold those
and medieval literature.
positions for a year. Additionally,
of
Colorado
James Brooke
four people were elected to fill vacant
Springs, Colorado, is the foundation's
positions on the
president elect. He has served on rhe
board of directors
board since 2005 and is chairman of
and two were rethe organization's Third Century
electedto the board.
Campaign.
Their terms begin
Brooke completed 20 years of naOctober 1 and vary
val serviceas a Navy pilot in 1991.,and
in length from one
since that time has worked in the aeroto three years.
spaceindustry overseeingengineering
Karen Seabergof
programs both in
Seaberg
Atchison, Kansas,
the United States
is the foundation'snew president.She
and abroad. He
has servedon rhe founiation's board
recently served as
of directorssince2OO3and previouslv
senior director of
wa sc hair wom anof th e o rg i n i z a ti o n t
Space and StrareGovernance Committee. She is a
gic Operations for
travel consukant at the Travel Center
ARINC Engineerof Atchison, and co-owner of Long
ing Services overseeingthe program
Jo h n S ilv er sof A t c h i s o n .Sh ei s o n th c
Brooke
managingExecutiveCommittee of the
performance, fiRiverHouseRestauranrin Atchison.
nancesand operationsfor 150 people
Seaberg was chairwoman of
in 13 locations throughour rhe wesrthe Atchison Lewis and Clark
ern United States.He received his
Bicentennial Committee and served
bachelor's degree from Virginia Polyon the Executive Committee for
technic Institute and holds a Ph.D. in
the "Heart of America: A Journey
U.S. diplomatic history and national
Fourth"
Bicentennial Signature
security affairs from Tufts University.
Event. She served as chairwoman of
Brooke has lived in Colorado Springs
the Governor's Kansas Lewis and
for more than sevenyears.
Clark Bicentennial Commission and
Chris Howell of Topeka, Kansas,
representedKansas on the National
was elected vice president. He has
Council for the Lewis and Clark
served on the board since 2005 and
Bicentennial'sCircle of StateAdvisors
is
chairman
of
for four years.
the
foundation's
Her long involvement in her
Diversity Advisory
local community includes being a
Committee.
He
charter member and president of
is deputy director
Theatre Atchison rr *.ll as service
and chief financial
on the Atchison Area Chamber of
officer of the Kansas
Commerce, the Tourism Council,
Arts Commission.
the Riverbend Regional Healthcare
He
works
to
Howell
Board, the
Atchison
Hospital
promote historically
Bo a rd and t he A t ch i s o n R i v e rfi o n t
and culurally
accurare education
Development Committee. She has
and arts education programs and
Treasurer
ClaySmithvolunteers
in the
foundation's
WilliamP.Sherman
libraryand
Archives.
projects about Native American
tribes, specifically the tribes located
in Kansas. He also promotes and
supports the Native American arts
industry in Kansas. He serves as the
Kansas Arts Commissiont liaison
to the four resident tribes of Kansas:
the Prairie Band Potawatomi, the
Iowa Tribe of Kansas,the Sacand Fox
Nation of Missouri and the Kickaooo
Tribe oi Kansas.He is a graduateof
Emporia StateUniversity in Emporia,
Kansas.
Clay Smith of Great Falls,Monrana,
was elected to serve a second year as
treasurer of the foundation. Smith is
a past presidentof the PortageRoute
Chapter, and past chairman of the
foundation's
Investments/Finance/
Audit Committee. He retired as a Lt.
Col. from the U.S. Air Force in 1984
after serving 22 years. He worked
as vice president for enrollment,
management and student services
at Saint Martin's College in Lacey,
\(ashington, for seven years before
taking the same position ar the
University of Great Falls in 1998.He
reti redi n2002.
Larry
McClure
of Tualatin, Oregon,
will serve as secretary
of the foundation.
He was electedto the
board in 2006 and
serves as chairman
of the organization's
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Education Committee' McClure, a
retired educator,joined the foundation
in 1998.He is particularly interestedin
how schoolscan incorporate the Lewis
and Clark story into learning activities
and has promoted teacher awareness
as a member of the Oregon ChaPter's
board of directors and on behalf of the
foundation. He volunteers as director
of the Tualatin Heritage Center in his
hometown.
After nearly two years as foundation president, Jim Gramentine will
serve a year on the
Executive Committee of the board as
past president. The
eady resignation of
Patti Thomsen as
president in January
2006 led Gramentine to assume the
Gramentine
role of president
nine months early. He graciously accepted the nomination to serve a seconcl term.
The six elected members of the
board of directors are Jim MallorY,
Phyllis Yeager,Jay Buckley, Margaret
Gorski, Dick Villiams and Jane
Randol Jackson.
Mallory, a resident of Lexington,
Kentucky, completed his first threeyear term on the board of directors
and will continue to serve through
September2010.He is chairmanof the
foundation's Eastern
Legacy Committee,
whose primary purpose is to work with
Congress to extend
the Lewis and Clark
Historic
National
include
to
east,
Trail
and
preparatory
the
Mallory
of
routes
return
Lewis and Clark. Mallory is a retired
business executive who worked as a
corDorate account executiveand in in,r"ri-.nt real estate.He served on the
Kentucky Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission and is a past president of the Ohio River ChaPter' He
served on the Bluegrass Council Boy
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and as vice president of properties for
the organi.zation. He has a bachelor's
degree in economics from Missouri
Valley College.
Yeager, from Floyds Knobs, Indiana, served three years on the foundation's Executive Committee as secretary and was re-electedto a three-year
term on the board. She also served as
secretary of the National Council for
the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and
was co-chairwoman of the council's
Forward
Legacy
Committee. Yeager
served on the Locust Grove Lewis
and Clark Committee for its Lewis and
HomecomClark
ing, the executive
board of the Falls
Yeager
of the Ohio Lewis
and Clark Bicentennial Committee
and is a two-time past president of the
Clark-Floyd Counties Convention
and Tourism Bureau. She has a bachelor's degree in elementary education
from Montana State UniversitY and
taught school in Anchorage, Alaska.
She has owned and operated several
with her husband.
businesses
tVilliams of Omaha, Nebraska, was
elected to a three-year term on the
board. He served as manager of the
Lewis and Clark National Historic
Trail for the National Park Service
from 1991,to 2006 and is now retired'
He worked to develop Park Service
partnerships and managed the Challenge Cost Share
program. \Williams
was involved in
much of the national planning for the
bicentennial and the
Park Service'sCorps
of DiscoveryII project. He also worked
for the Park Service
as a park ranger and program manager
in areasincluding Yellowstone, Joshua
Tree, Big Horn Canyon, CaPe Lookout and Homestead National Monu-
ment. He serveson the foundation's
Eastern Legacy Committee. Villiams
has a bachelor's degreefrom the University of Northern Iowa.
Buckley is an assistantprofessor
of history and director of the Native
American Studiesprogram at Brigham
Young University.
He has a Ph.D. in
history from the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln,
and master's and
bachelor's degrees
from
history
in
BrighamYoungUni-
Buckley
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as an editorial assistantfor the Center for Great Plains Studies and completed his Ph.D. under the direction
of Lewis and Clark historian Gary E.
Moulton. Buckley's monograph, V/l/liam Clarb, Indian DiPlomat, will be
releasedthis winter. He co-authored
By His Own Hand? The MYsterious
Deatb of Meriwether Lewis and has
published numerous articles on various asDectsof the Lewis and Clark
Expedilion. Buckley has servedon the
foundation's Archives Committee and
has a solid working knowledge of the
collections in the foundation's William P. ShermanLrbrary and Archives.
He was the Portage Route ChaPter's
in 2004.He will
Scholar-in-Residence
term.
a
two-year
serve
Gorski is the tourism and interpretation program leaderfor the U.S'D'A.
Forest Service'sNorthern Region' She
lives in Stevensville,
Montana. She has
worked for nearly
30 years in various
assignmentsin three
national forests and
three national parks
in the \7est. Gorski has worked as
Gorski
a district ranget on
district recreation staff, as a recreation planner, as a landscapearchitect
and a seasonalnational park rangernaturalist. Many foundation members
know Gorski best for work she did
L&C
Foundup
in her previous position as the Forest
Service'sLewis and Clark Bicentennial
national field coordinator. For eight
years she directed the agencyt strategic
planning for and involvement in the bicentennial.Shehas a master'sdegreein
landscapearchitecture from the University of California at Berkeley and
a bachelor'sdegree in forest resources
outdoor recreation from the University of r$Tashington.She will serve a
two-year term.
Jane Randol Jackson of Cape Girardeau,Missouri, was electedto serve
a one-year term on the board. She is
the director of the Cape Girardeau
County Archive Center, and serves
as chairwoman and docent at the Red
House Interpretive Center in Cape
Girardeau. She is the founder and
president of the foundation's Cape
Girardeau Chapter. Jackson is chairwoman of a working
committee to establish
the Missouri
Lewis
and Clark
Network, which replaces the Missouri
Bicentennial Commission. She planned
and conducted two
Jackson
Grampa \Woo cruises
at the close of the bicentennial. She
has a master's degree in French from
Middlebury College and a bachelor's
degree in education from Southeast
Missouri StateUniversity.
The foundation's 15-member board
meetsin person three times a year. In
2008, they will meet January 26th in
Denver, Colorado; May 1Oth in KansasCity, Missouri; and August 9th in
Great Falls, Montana.
Also serving on the board are Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs of Helena,
Montana, who has one year remaining in her first term, and Bill Stevens
of Pierre, South Dakota, and Peyton
"Bud" Clark of Dearborn, Michigan,
who both havetwo yearsremainingin
their first terms.
Nominations for next year's elections are due by November 30,2007.
-Wendy Raney
proposed
Development
atarch;
Extension
legislation
ln late August, City of St. Louis
Iofficials announced a plan to revamp
the cityb riverfront by obtaining a
portion of the Jefferson National
Expansion Memorial
from
the
National Park Service.
The Park Service owns 91 acres
that include the arch, an underground
museum, park grounds and the
Old Courthouse. City officials are
interestedin the northern and southern
thirds of the park, but acknowledgethe
center, which includes the arch, should
not be included in their plan. St. Louis
Mayor Francis Slay and former U.S.
SenatorJohn Danforth are among the
project's most vocal proponents. Slay
has likened the project to Chicago's
newly developed Millennium Park
along Lake Michigan, which opened
in 2004 with a music pavilion, skating
rink and bicycle rentals. Slay said that
among the general possibilities they
are considering in St. Louis are an
amphitheater, cafes and restaurants,
fourrtains, bicycle rentals, sculptures
ano an aquarrum.
That would be a departurefrom the
original idea of a wide-open riverfront
memorial to Thomas Jefferson that
dates back to 1933. Areas of interest
for commercial development include
the sites of the McNaii House to the
south of the arch (where Meriwether
Lewis rented in 1808and later \flilliam
and Julia Clark lived), and to the
north. \Tilliam Clark's 1818 home and
museum. Development potentially
could
spoil
Jefferson National
Expansion Memorial's plans to place
wayside exhibits at key points for the
sites of historic structures. as well as
iPod and GPS-driven programs that
would provide backgroundinformation
on the sitesfor walking tours.
Development would require an act
of Congress,along with broad political
and public support. Removing land
from the National Park Servicewould
be an unprecedented move, and
therefore will attract the attention of
federal officials, Park Service staff,
advocacy groups and the general
public across the country. The plan
already has garnered the supporr
of U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill
of Missouri. Senator Kit Bond and
U.S. Representatives lVilliam Lacy
Clay and Russ Carnahan have stated
that the plan needs more review and
extensive public comment. Robert
Archibald, president of the Missouri
Historical Society, and Peter Raven,
director of the Missouri Botanical
Garden, have been tapped by the city
to prepare a road map for community
input and planning.
The Park Service does not take an
official position on pending legislation
until a congressional hearing, but
P.ggy O'Dell, former superintendent
of the Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial, said the arch grounds are
part of the memorial and were designed
very specifically to complement the
structure of the arch.
People interested in submitting
comments on the potential development should contact members of
Missouri's congressionaldelegation.
Trailstudylegislationintroduced
Bills have been introduced in the
U.S. House and Senate calling for a
study to determine the feasibility and
suitability of extending the Lewis and
Clark National Historic Trail east to
include Lewis and Clarkt preparatory
and return routes.
U.S. Senator JiBunning of
Kentucky introduced S. 1991 and the
bill currently has one co-sponsor.IJ.S.
Representative Jo Ann Emerson of
Missouri, and 13 original co-sponsors,
have introduced H.R. 3616. For text
of the legislation and information
on the status of the bills, visit http:
//thomas.loc.gov. Please consider
contacting your delegation to urge
their support and ask them to sign on
as co-sponsors of the legislation.
-Wendy Raney
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