For Immediate Release               Contacts: Joan Anzelmo, 202/208-6843
                                           E. Blaine Cliver, 202/343-9573
 
          NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DIRECTOR ROGER KENNEDY SELECTS
                        NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE
       NATIONAL CENTER FOR PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING
 
      National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy announced the selection
 of John Robbins as the new Executive Director of the National Center for
 Preservation Technology and Training located at Northwestern State
 University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.  Robbins assumes the position on
 September 4, 1994.
 
      Robbins is a resident of Oxford, Mississippi, where he is sole
 principal of an architectural firm specializing in historic preservation.
 During his career, John has had extensive experience in the preservation
 field, including previous work for the National Park Service where he was
 affiliated with the Denver Service Center, and with the North Atlantic
 Historic Preservation Center as project architect on the restoration of the
 Statue of Liberty.  During his ten years with the Park Service, Robbins won
 awards for his work on Fort Stanwix and the Lowell National Historical
 Park.  Robbins has been active in preservation in Mississippi as well as in
 other states including California, New York, and Pennsylvania.  A graduate
 of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in
 1975, he was recipient of the first Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship in
 Historic Preservation in 1990.  Robbins is a member of the American
 Institute of Architects, Society of Architectural Historians, the
 Mississippi Heritage Trust, and the Mississippi Historical Society.  He
 will be moving to Natchitoches with his wife Laura Elkins and their two
 children.
 
      The National Center was created by the 1992 Amendments to the National
 Historic Preservation Act to coordinate and promote preservation research,
 distribute information, and provide training in preservation skills and
 technologies.
 
      For further information concerning the National Center and the new
 executive director, contact E. Blaine Cliver, Acting Executive Director,
 National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, National Park
 Service, P.O.Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127.
 
 
                                  -NPS-
 
 
                                                              July 25, 1994
 
 posted by request of the Acting Executive Director
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