For more information on the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, please contact any one of the current Officers.

President
Cari Goetcheus 
cgoetch@clemson.edu


Vice-President
John E. Zvonar 
john.zvonar@pwgsc.gc.ca


Treasurer
USA: Nancy Brown
nancy_j_brown@netzero.com

Canada: Wendy Shearer
wshearer@mhbcplan.com

Secretary
Andrea Lucas
andrea@tree-haus.com


For more information on becoming a member please contact the Alliance's Membership Coordinator

Debbie Smith
Debbie.Smith@nps.gov

New Board Members

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.

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.

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.

Dan Nadenicek
(bio forthcoming)

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