| Members of the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation |
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John Goodenberger, Chair
John Goodenberger is an instructor at Clatsop Community College in the Historic Preservation and Restoration program, which he helped start in 2009. In addition, he is the owner of Historic Research and Design, a preservation firm in Astoria, has served as Senior Designer for Ecola Architects of Cannon Beach, and as a historic building consultant for the City of Astoria. Goodenberger’s newspaper column, Great City Rising, ran in the Daily Astorian from 1998-2005. Goodenberger is chair of the Lower Columbia Preservation Society and is active with a number of other preservation-related organizations.
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Robert Hadlow, Vice-Chair
Robert Hadlow is the Senior Historian for the Oregon Department of Transportation. He has researched and written on historic properties for over 20 years. His special interest is historic roads and bridges. Robert completed graduate school in US and public history at Washington State University in Pullman. In 2001, Oregon State University published his Ph.D. dissertation as Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C. B. McCullough, Oregon's Master Bridge Builder. Robert prepared the National Historic Landmark nomination for the Columbia River Highway Historic District (2000) and the multiple property National Register nomination for C. B. McCullough’s Major Oregon Coast Highway Bridges (2005).
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Mary Gallagher
Mary Gallagher has 20 years experience in identifying and documenting Oregon’s cultural resources. She graduated from Oregon State University with a Master‘s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. Integrating course work in the fields of archaeology, architectural history, and history, Ms. Gallagher worked as a consultant, Historic Resource Specialist for the Linn County Planning Department, and Adjunct Professor in the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon. Ms. Gallagher lives in Corvallis and currently is the Collections Manager for the Benton County Historical Society & Museum in Philomath.
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Jeff Lalande
Jeff Lalande holds degrees from Georgetown University, Oregon State University, and the University of Oregon specializing in history and archaeology. With over 30 years of experience in the field, LaLande taught courses in Southern Oregon and Northwest history at Southern Oregon University, and served with the U.S. Forest Service as a Historian and Archaeologist at the Rogue River National Forest. He was an active member of the Southern Oregon Historical Society Board of Trustees and Ashland Historic Commission, and continues to independently research and publish works on Southern Oregon History. He now works as an independent consultant.
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David Liberty
David Liberty is a cultural anthropologist and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. His interests are broad and varied and include: archeology, history, music, sports, reading, writing, sign language, hunting, fishing, ancient North American weaponry, repairing anything he owns that is broken and the eternal search for spiritual enlightenment. David currently hosts Native Nation, a monthly television program focusing on Indigenous issues and culture on Channel 11, and is the Assistant Director of the StreamNet Library in Portland, which collects and disseminates information about the fisheries of the Columbia River Basin and Pacific Northwest.
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Mary Oberst
Mary Oberst holds degrees in English Literature (1974) and Law (1984) and was an active supporter of Oregon history projects as first lady from 2003-2011, helping open Fort Yamhill State Heritage Area in 2006 and spearheading a successful fundraising campaign for the Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site that raised $1.5 million. Oberst was also an active participant in planning and promoting Oregon’s 150th birthday celebration in 2009 and served for several years as one of Oregon's two advisors to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Don Peting
Don Peting is a professor emeritus and former Associate Dean of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts, serving concurrently as acting director of the school’s graduate program in historic preservation. A native of Chicago, he was educated in architectural engineering at the University of Illinois and earned a Master’s degree in architectural design from the University of California at Berkeley. After joining the faculty at the U of O, he pursued a special interest in historic building technology.
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Gail Sargent
A native Oregonian, Gail Sargent has lived and worked in Oregon her whole life with the exception of a one year internship in Basil, Switzerland. Gail currently resides in Hermiston with her husband, Mark. She is principal of Sargent Architects, LLC. In addition to her passions for travel and preservation, Gail has served many years on city and county planning committees as well as 10 years on the Architectural Foundation of Oregon Board. Her son, Ben, is a graduate of Linfield College, and her son, Tim, attends Portland State University.
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Deb Schallert
Deb Schallert joined Portland General Electric Company (PGE) in 1995, bringing to PGE 14 years of experience in parks and recreation management and administration with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD). At OPRD, Schallert worked with the Governor’s Office of Natural Resources, the Oregon Economic Development Department, and the 1987 Oregon State Legislature, and also served as a park ranger and manager. Schallert now serves as the permitting manager for PGE’s proposed Cascade Crossing Transmission Project and manages licensing issues associated with lands, aesthetics and cultural resources / historic preservation.
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