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This year’s excitement has included three awards for recognition of our unique hands-on preservation-training program and for the invitation to go to San Francisco and train federal employees at the Presidio. A recent Media Release explains more.
We received two awards on the weekend of May 19th, 2001 for outstanding achievements in the field of historic preservation. California Preservation Foundation (CPF) presented their "Presidents’ Award to the college in San Diego at their annual conference. Our first "Three-Minute Success Story", titled "The Jewels of Humboldt", was accepted by kind "yeas" and "boos" with plenty of smiles and claps. Our program was well received with many inquiries about what we do and how we could help train others out of our immediate region. Thanks to all.
Meanwhile, that Sunday back home, the Eureka Heritage Society presented college president, Dr. Casey Crabill with their annual award for our HPRT program.
On October 5th, we went to the state capital where Dr. Crabill accepted the "Governor’s Historic Preservation Award", from the California State Office of Preservation - SHPO.
During this summer, faculty traveled to the San Francisco Presidio to assist in the development of hands-on education curriculum for employees and potentially National Park employees and Conservation Corp members. This is a new twist in the concept of "Distance Learning", one that will take instructors a great distance to teach. We are in final stages of an official agreement that will start training on a full-time basis through June 2002. We will be teaching CT 15, one of our courses and using buildings on the Presidio as a student project.
Another exciting first happened during this summer. One of our HPRT students, Mary Kathryn Roundtree was hired by the Presidio Trust as an intern to work on projects specifically focused on preservation compliance and in the development of an ongoing training program for Trust employees. We are proud to see students hired to use their training and skills on meaningful projects. Mary Kathryn enjoyed her work and the Trust benefited from her presence.
Needless to say, with new curriculum on the horizon, requests to reach beyond our campus to teach and prestigious recognition from around the state, and student job placement, we are excited and looking forward to the upcoming school year.
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