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Historical Photos
This month we look at some of the hard-working NPS employees who have been
taking care of our parks for the past 100 years. For former NPS employees, some
of these faces and names of former colleagues may be quite familiar (in fact,
some may be you in your younger years). For current NPS employees, these are
people who helped pave the way (for good or bad) for the National Park Service
you know today. For most, while you may have encountered some of these
employees during your past travels to our national parks, most are the men and
women who worked behind the scenes to "...to conserve the scenery and the
natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the
enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them
unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." We owe them our thanks
for all their accomplishments.
Interagency Resources Division (clockwise from top, left): Lawrence Aten (Chief);
Hardy L. Pearce—Planning and Survey Branch Chief, Theodore Pochter—Planner and Patrick W. Andrus—Historian;
James L. Collins—Technician, Beth M. Grosvenor—Historian, Bruce MacDougal—Architectural Historian and
William B. Bushong—Historian; Stephen M. Sheffield—Planner; Arthur L. Steward—Deputy Division Chief.
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Preservation Assistance Division (clockwise from top, left): Lee Nelson—Chief and Ward Jandl;
Carol A. Minick—Grants Operations Specialist; Kay D. Weeks—Technical Publications Writer/Editor; Tony M. Knapp—Staff
Curator; Susan I. Dynes—Architect; Ann Hitchcock—Branch of Curatorial Services Chief.
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HABS/HAER Division (clockwise from top, left): Robert J. Kapsch—Chief; Kenneth L. Anderson—Architect;
Donald C. Jackson—Engineer; Eric M. DeLony—Architect; Christopher Stroik—Architectural Technician; Steven A. Erickson—Architectural
Technician; Douglas K. Blye—Architectural Technician; Julie D. Perkins—Architectural Technician.
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History Division (clockwise from top, left): Edwin C. Bears—Chief; Carolyn Pitts—Historian;
Benjamin Levy—Historian; Barry Mackintosh—Historian; Harry A. Butowsky—Historian; James H. Charleton—Historian.
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Historic Architecture Division (left to right): Hugh C. Miller—Chief; Randall J.
Biallas—Assistant Chief Historical Architect; Alicia D. Stamm—Historian.
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Architectural Assistance Division (left to right): Victor A. Carbone—Chief;
Bennie C. Keel—Assistant Director, Archeology and Michele C. Aubry—Archeologist; Marilou E. Reilly—Archeological
Program Assistant; Murlene F. Lash—Secretary to the Assistant Director
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Anthroplogy Divsion (top, left to right): Douglas H. Scovill—Chief; Miki Crespi—Anthropologist;
Cultural Resources Management (center); Ranger Skills Class (bottom).
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Park Superintendents. (top row, left to right): George Von der Lippe, John E. Cook, Dale B. Enquist, Julis A. Martinek, Fahy Whitaker;
(center row, left to right): John A. Townsley, John C. (Jack) Raftery, T. Stell Newman, Robert D. Barbee; (bottom row, left to right): Eugene J.
Colbert, Vernon E. Hennesay, Herbert S. Cables, Robert S. Armstrong.
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Park Superintendents. (top row, left to right): Juin A. Crosse, Robert C. Haraden, Gentry Davis, Ray C. Foust, James Sleznick, Jr.;
(center row, left to right): Don H. Castleberry, Ernest W. Ortega, Neal A. Guse, Jr., Lorraine Mintzmyer, Lynn H. Thompson; (bottom row, left to right):
Theodore R. (Ted) Thompson, W. Franklin Wallace, Robert L. Warren, Vincent Ellis, Merrill D. (Dave) Beal.
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Park Superintendents. (top row, left to right): Jimmie L. Dunning, Boyd Evison, Robert L. Stanton, Warren D. (Denny) Beach;
(center row, left to right): Donald R. Harper, Robert L. Burns, James M. Thompson, Donald F. Gillespie; (bottom row, left to right):
Herbert Olsen, Lawrence C. Hadley, W. Douglas (Doug) Lindsay, Mohammed Khan, Joe Antosca.
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Freeman Tilden Award Winners (1988-1994, list not complete)
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Klondike Gold Rush NHP's first (1977) group of seasonal interpreters and rangers
posed at the old White Pass depot, which served as the park's visitor center that year. Richard Hoffman, the
park's first superintendent, is seen at left. To his left are Russell Plaeger, Meg Jensen, John Jackson, Janet
Ross, Craig Juleen, and Linda Chesney. Ross and Jensen were Chilkoot Trail rangers; the other four were
Skagway interpreters. The dog was named Rolfo.
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Horace M. Albright Academy, Ranger Skills VIII, Spring 1982
(NPS photo)
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In 2004, Denali's management team, left to right, included Mike Cobbold, Safety Officer, Kris Fister, Public Affairs, Dutch Scholten, Chief of Maintnenance, Philip Hooge, Assistant Superintendent for Resources, Science and Learning, Paul Anderson, Superintendent, Blanca Stransky, Chief of Interpretation, Mike Tranel, Chief of Planning, Julie Wilkerson, Chief of Administration, Elwood Lynn, Assistant Superintendent for Operations, Donna Sisson, Chief of Concessions, Hollis Twitchell, Chief of Subsistence and Cultural Resources, and Pete Armington, Chief Ranger.
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Left to right: Greg DeBaun, Gary Miller, Joy Zaher
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Left to right: Spirit Trickey, Michael Allen, J.T. Reynolds
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Left to right: 1st row, Barb Garner, Valerie Reeves, Laniece Sawvell; 2nd row, John Pound, Pam Livermont, Vona Cuny;
3rd row, Jeanne Berry, Connie Wolf, Marcia Huether; 4th row, Linda Livermont (top), Linda Harvey (bottom), Amanda Pierce, Barb Sawdy
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Ranger workforce, Minuteman Missile NHS.
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Left to right: 1st row, Tiffany Potter, Kean Miyata, Colleen Smith; 2nd row, Kelly Bulyis, Brian Coupland, Tom McDermott, Julie Hannaford, Mike Gardiner
(L to R: 1st row, Tony Sisto photos; 2nd row, Teresa Ford, Teresa Ford, Mike Gardiner, Teresa Ford, NPS, from ©Ranger: The Journal of the Association of National Park Rangers,, Vol. 15 No. 4, Fall 1999,
©Ranger: The Journal of the Association of National Park Rangers,, Vol. 15 No. 4, Fall 1999
and ©Ranger: The Journal of the Association of National Park Rangers,, Vol. 14 No. 2, Spring 1998)
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Left to right: Rocky Mountain National
Park Staff, ca. 1938-40, Back row, Dave Canfield, Slim Radcliffe, John
McLaughlin, Barton Herschler, Ernie Fields, Ray Gregg, Merle Potts, Jack
Moomaw, Fred McLaren, George Fry
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Mesa Verde National Park Ranger Force
with Supt. Nusbaum and Director Albright, season 1929. Top: (l to r)
Devlin, Rice, Bush, Spingarn, Dougherty, Canfield, Armstrong, Miss
Jessop and ?; Bottom: Hart, Frank, Dalton, Rife, Albright, Nusbuaum, Finnan,
C.R., Donohue and ?.
(George A. Grant photo, NPS HPC-000179)
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Mount Rainier National Park Ranger Force, c1930s.
Top: (l to r) Oscar Sedergren (?), ?, Preston P. Macy, Frank Greer,
Davis; Bottom: Carl Tice, Charles Brown, Harold Hall, Herm
Barnett.
(NPS HPC-001534)
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Group of Custodians and Superintendents taken at Casa Grande after Mr. Frank Pinkley's death, showing the vacant chair, 1940.
(George A. Grant photo, NPS HPC-001113)
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Director William Penn Mott and the National Park Servce Regional Directors in Washington, DC, ca. 1980s
(Bill Clark photo, NPS HPC-001354)
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Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Police School No. 70
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Park staff in front of 1908 bronze plaque, Wesleyan Chapel Block groundbreaking day, October
19, 1991. Standing L-R: Jim Schumacher, Vivien Rose, Al Manino, Ron Naragon, Sylvia Manino, Leroy
Renninger, Karen Wilson (DSC), Marcia Lerkins. Front, L-R: Mary Kelly Black, Toni Dufficy, Mary Ellen Snyder,
Pat Dantona, Linda Canzanelli, Terry Roth.
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1966 PRNS staff photo. Front row, left to right: chief ranger Gordon Patterson, Howard Knight,
Doris Omundson, Ron Autri, Dan Stout, and Lee Otter. Top row, left to right: Harry Wills,
unidentified, Superintendent Les Arnberger, and Robert Barbee. Note Omundson's sex-typed
NPS attire.
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L-R: Louis Corbley, a Mount McKinley National
Park ranger, was the first NPS employee to visit Katmai National Monument, in
1937. The photo appears to have been taken in 1964. (File 27-8, in DENA
Collection); Mount McKinley National Park Superintendent Grant Pearson,
taken near the park headquarters in October 1956. (File 27-36, DENA
Collection)
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L-R: Superintendent James Cole who
shaped the boundaries and layout of Joshua Tree National Park. Chief of Planning
Thomas Vint wrote: "He has what the National Park Service grew up on." (JTNP
photo archives, reference files); Robert "Bob" Moon became the first chief
of natural resources for Joshua Tree in the 1980s. (Photo courtesy of Bob
Moon); Superintendent Ernest "Ernie" Quintana steadfastly opposed the
landfill project in spite of orders from the upper echelons of the National Park
Service to desist. (Photo courtesy of Ernie Quintana)
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1st row, L-R: John Cook, Superintendent of
Hubbell Trading Post NHS from 1966-1969; Bernard G. Tracy on 12 August, 1969. He
was superintendent at the historic site from 1969 to 1971. John Cook is the man
on the right. (NPS photo by David Brugge); Kevin McKibbin, who served
first as acting superintendent and then was the fourth superintendent of Hubbell
Trading Post NHS, 1971-1974. Friday Kinlicheenie, who started working at the
trading post in about 1915, is shown here with Kevin. (NPS Photo by Fred
Mang, SWRO Library. NG. 74-1782-4-10). 2nd row, L-R: Thomas G. Vaughan,
Superintendent at Hubbell Trading Post NHS from 1974 to 1977; Juin Crosse,
Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post NHS from 1978-1980; Barry Cooper,
Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post NHS from 1984 to 1986. 3rd row, L-R:
Douglas C. McChristian, Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post NHS from
1986-1987; Charles D. Wyatt. Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post NHS from
1987 to present (NPS photo by Edward M. Chamberlin. 25 August, 1990. HUTR
Neg. R328#8)
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Regional Directors Meeting, Eastern Office of Design and Construction, Philadelphia, Pa., July 16, 1964
(Jack E. Boucher photo, NPS HPC-000362)
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Washington office staff: (l to r) Asst. Dir. C.L. Wirth; Associate Dir. Arno B. Cammerer; Chief Clerk R.H. Holmes; Dir. Horace M. Albright; Asst. Dir. Dr. H.C. Bryant; Senior Asst. Dir. A.E. Demarary; Asst. Dir. G.T. Moskey; Ed. Miss I.H. Story, 1932.
(George A. Grant photo, NPS HPC-000484)
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L-R: Susan Gail Estes, Park Ranger, introduces a
snake to day campers in Oxon Run Parkway, 1965; Sonja Johnson, seasonal ranger,
patrols the South Kaibab Trail, 1978; Ranger Pat Grediagin on patrol at
Canyonlands, 1978
(L-R: Abbie Rowe photo, NPS HPC-000522; Claire C. Ralston photo, NPS HPC-000523; Claire C. Ralston photo, NPS HPC-000525)
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Yellowstone National Park Seasonal Rangers - L to R, Top - King, Rynaarson, Troutman, Ranger Joffee; Lower - Cottier, Cogswell, (George A.) Grant, 1922
(NPS HPC-000660 photo)
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Superintendent's Conference at Mesa Verde NP., 1925.
(James V. Lloyd photo, NPS HPC-000835)
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L-R: Forest S.Townsley, Daniel Hull, Washington B. Lewis, Stephen T. Mather, Ansel Hall, Earnest P. Leavitt, Horace M. Albright, and Alexander in front of the Yosemite Post Office, 1926.
(James V. Lloyd photo, NPS HPC-000840)
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L-R: Ranger Vicky White explains the Seacoast Weapons at Fort Point, 1980;
Ranger with children on the beach at Golden Gate, 1980; Ranger Rolle greeting visitor at the House where Lincoln died (Petersen House), 1967
(L-R: Richard Frear photo, NPS HPC-001047; Richard Frear photo, NPS HPC-001048; M. Woodbridge Williams photo, NPS HPC-001056)
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Superintendents Conference, Hot Springs National Park, 1932
(Deluxe Studio photo, NPS HPC-001105)
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L-R: Alice A. Newton, Registrar, Division of Conservation, Harpers Ferry Center, packing a group of ceramic objects for Appomattox Courthouse NHP, 1997;
F. Smith on the National Mall, c1990s; Textile Conservator Jane Merritt is wet cleaning a hand-hooked chair cushion from Acadia National Park. She is using a pH meter to test the quality of the water used in the treatment, c1990s.
(L-R: Gary Kable photo, NPS HPC-001315; Steven C. Ruth photo, NPS HPC-001664; Steven C. Ruth photo, NPS HPC-001665)
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Clockwise: Rangers erecting a sign - Sign reads: NOTICE/Dogs and Firearms Prohibited on National Park Service Trails/Park Boundry 12 miles ahead. With a holder for brochures and/or map, 1966;
Ranger Kesner, Twin Sisters Peaks Fire Lookout, Rocky Mountain National Park, 1916; F. W. Schmoe, Park Naturalist and his office at Paradise Valley, Mount Rainier National Park, 1928; Mount Rainier National Park. Ranger Keith Miller and his Park Patrol Car, c1950s.
(Clockwise: NPS HPC-001679 photo; NPS HPC-001719 photo; Stone photo, NPS HPC-001813; NPS HPC-001822 photo)
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L-R: Ranger Carol Kiser hands our audio tour "wands" at the information kiosk at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The "wands", which are no longer used, provided an automated tour of the park, 1980;
History comes alive for young America at the visitor center at Yorktown Battlefield, Virginia, 1958; Twilight talk, Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, c1970s;
(L-R: Richard Frear photo, NPS HPC-001954; Jack E. Boucher photo, NPS HPC-001955; N.G. Messinger photo, NPS HPC-001974)
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1st row, L-R: Robert Lopenske, senior architect, Denver Service Center; Andy Ringgold, superintendent, Cape Code NS; Don Herring, Division Chief, Engineering and Safety Services, WASO;
2nd row, L-R: Pat Smith, Housing Officer, WASO; Merrie Hinson, housing manager, Yosemite National Park; John Reynolds, manager, Denver Service Center.
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Clockwise: Doug Houston, Wildlife Biologist, Olympic National Park; Darryll Johnson (left in photo), Sociologist, Cooperative
Park Studies Unit, University of Washington; Ed Schreiner, Botanist, Olympic National Park; Gary Machlis (left in photo), Sociologist, University of Idaho and
Gerry Wright (right in photo), Wildlife Biologist, Cooperative Park Studies Unit, University of Idaho; Gary Larson, Aquatic Biologist, Cooperative Park
Studies Unit, Oregon State University; Dave Peterson, Research Biologist, Cooperative Park Studies Unit, University of Washington
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1st row (L-R): David Liboff, Administrative assistant, Rocky Mountain NP; Sharon Hind Maddox, Administrative assistant, National Capital Parks-Central; Marci Philips, Administrative assistant, Antietam/Monocacy NB; Alvino Reyes, Personnel Management specialist, Redwood NP,
2nd row (L-R): Ann Marie Fender, Superintendent Navajo NM; Linda Stoll, Superintendent Pecos NHP; Mary Karraker, Superintendent Capulin Volcano NM; Sue Kozacek, Gila Cliff Dwellings NM,
3rd row (L-R): Superintendent Kevin Buckley (left) and Chuck Pellicane, Gateway NRA; (l-r): Tanna Chattin, Virginia Salazar, Dawn McGilvrey, Mary Gibson, Maria Esche and Mary Bradford, Southwest Region.
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Superintendent's Conference, Yellowstone National Park, Sept. 18 25, 1929.
Standing on Walk and Grass: Ansel Hall, Frank Kittredge, Arno B. Cammerer, Horace M. Albright, Roger Toll and Tom Vint;
Thomas Boles, Charles (White Mtn) Smith, Frank (Boss) Pinckley, Thomas J. Allen, Charles Goff Thompson, John D. Coffman, Minor Tillotson, Edmund Rogers and Samuel Woodrine;
3rd Row: unknown, Jesse Nussbaum, Owen A. Tomlinson, John T. Needham, Walker Collins, Al Solinsky, unknown, Arthur Burney, Antoin J. Snyder, Ross Eakin;
4th Row: unknown, unknown, Joe Joffe, unknown, Eivind Scoyen, Charles Gable, Joseph Dixon, Dorr Yeager;
Top Row: Harry Hommond (PHS), unknown, Harry J. Liek, unknown, Carl P. Russell, unknown, unknown.
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L-R: 1st Row: Jack Morehead, Richard Marks, James Sanders;
2nd Row: Wayne French, Donald R. Brown, Pete Peterson, Donald R. Field;
3rd Row: Wanda Amparada, Becky Griffin, Bill Ruback,
4th Row: Jean Matthews, Dennis B. Fenn, Bruce M. Kilgore, Thoms O. Hobbs.
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1st Row: Eisenhower NHS Staff;
2nd Row: Bobby Eakins, (right) tractor operator on the grounds crew at Jefferson NEM, teaches American Sign Language to a group of coworkers, John Patterson and
Dewey Henderson, Ula Williams, the workshop instructor provided by OPM, looks on. Lester B. Lucas, custodial worker, works with
another group in the background while Carl Smith, landscape gardener, taught other signs to the third group;
3rd Row: (L to R) ]ohn L. Bryant, ]r, Robert F. Toalson, Marc Sagan, William C. Forrey, William Penn Mott;
4th Row: (L to R) Kim Johnson, Curt Sauer, Malcolm Fogleman and Stan Steck.
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L-R: 1st Row: Joe Evans, Dave Stimson, Rebecca Bigby;
2nd Row: Jay Sahd, Dustin Aughenbaugh, William W. Taylor;
3rd Row: David F. McAllister, Gordon Zwick, JoAnn Kyral;
4th Row: Douglas McChristian, William R. Shields, Kim E. Sikoryak, Michael Whatley.
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Unit of Excellence Award presented to Chickamauga and Chattanooga
National Military Park employees on November 5, 1973. Left to right:
Edward E. Tinney, James Richardson, Superintendent Donald Guiton,
William Suttle, Mark Eidemiller, Harold Harvey, Dave Thompson,
Veldon Chapman, B.B. Cantrell, Ralph Mullinix, and Lewis Fincher.
Courtesy of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
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The seventeenth session of "Introduction to Park Operations," held from July to
September of 1965, was the second to admit women — Elaine Hounsell and Jo Ann
McKelvey Morris, seen here in the center of the second row.
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