MSHP News Fall 2008 - Ball State University

Second-Year Student Updates- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Derek RohdeDerek interned at the University at Buffalo Archaeological Survey, where he performed CRM archaeological investigationsthroughout Western New York. His most memorable experiences include the trips to the National Trust and O'Brien Conferencesand also the always exciting get-togethers with everyone from the program. Derek is glad that everyone in the programbonded really well and feels like everyone is part of one big "preservation family." What Derek likes about the program is theability to take courses outside of the College of Architecture and the opportunity to have a graduate assistantship.Chris PrattChris spent the summer living and working in the Boston area where she was employed as a monument survey intern withMount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark and the first large-scale designed landscaped cemetery in the nation.When she wasn’t surveying historic gravestones, creepy mausoleums, and cast iron fences, Chris lounged on the nearby beachand worked diligently on her thesis. Her thesis examines the availability and use of manufactured and imported buildingmaterials in central and southern Indiana before 1850.After graduation, Chris will continue at Ball State where she is pursuinga second master’s degree in Anthropology with a focus in Historical Archaeology. In other news, she and her husband, Justin,are eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child in February.Sheri RepovichSheri Repovich spent this past summer in Spokane, Washington working at the Campbell House, a historic house museum.The Campbell House is run in conjunction with the Museum of Arts & Culture. The internship consisted of writing a HistoricInterior Restoration Plan and designing and building museum displays for the "Spokane Time Line" gallery. Her favoritememories at Ball State have been the National Trust trips and time spent with friends outside the classroom.Kayte ChadbournKayte Chadbourn worked her summer internship with Colorado Preservation, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. For the EndangeredPlaces Program she travelled around the state giving public presentations about the non-profit and how nominating sitesto Colorado's Most Endangered Places List would benefit the preservation process. She also visited previously listed sites,updated the program's website, and put together a brochure that described the seventy sites already listed. Her favorite partof the summer was helping to stabilize an 1881 railroad depot for two weekends with volunteers in the mountain town ofComo. She is very thankful for the experience and has enjoyed her time in the program with her fellow MSHP students.Ashley ThomasAshley worked at Ball State University’s Center for Historic Preservation over the summer for her internship. Her favoriteexperience while in the preservation program is the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma.She is writing her thesis on the history and rehabilitation of country grain elevators in Delaware County, Indiana. Aftergraduation she plans on finding a job that fits with her love of rural structures and landscapes.Shawn NiemiQuickly making Indiana his home away from home, Shawn spent most of the summer days in nearby Tipton County.His internship with Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana as an architectural surveyor was highly rewarding andprovided a unique opportunity to explore Indiana’s rural landscape. Capping his summer was a trip to Guatemala,where he volunteered at a local orphanage. More recently, the student/faculty trip to Oklahoma provided severalmemorable moments, including a visit to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower.Emilie EggemeyerEmilie served her internship at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency in Springfield, Illinois. In particular, she worked inthe State’s National Register of Historic Places office and spent her time reviewing, editing and writing National Registernominations, as well as travelling throughout the state checking out interesting properties. Behind-the-scenes tours on thesetrips were her favorite! Her favorite Ball State moments have to be all the fun times spent with classmates working in thestudio. After graduation, she hopes to find a preservation job in the Midwest to stay close to her family and she plans onreturning to Germany sometime in the near future.Travis RatermannTravis worked For the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency in Springfield, Illinois. He worked in conjunction with the NationalPark Service's Route 66 Corridor Preservation program to survey the abandoned Route 66 roadbed segments throughoutIllinois. From gun shots to windmills he saw all of his home state of Illinois over the summer. From here he doesn’t knowwhere he’s going, but hopes it involves a job.J.P. HallJ. P. Hall is originally from Naperville, Illinois, but has spent much of his life in northern Indiana. His first love is history whichfuels his passion for historic preservation, art, and architecture. J. P. did his internship for the Center for Historic Preservationat Ball State and developed a Cultural Heritage Tourism study for Noblesville, Indiana. This study further instilled in J. P. thebenefits historic preservation can have within a community both economically and culturally.