2011 Board of Directors Election

Welcome to the 2011 election of the SCA Board of Directors! We appreciate your participation!

Please vote yes or no on the entire slate of candidates, which includes proposed new board members as well as members running for a third term. SCA board terms are three years.

You may vote only once. The election will close May 15, 2011 at 11:59. Thanks!

Names and terms of candidates:

First term:

Peter Ives
Peter was born in west Texas and raised in New Mexico, living in many small towns in that region as a child. He has in BA in Geography with a minor in History from the University of New Mexico, 1970; was in the USAF 1971-1973 in England and took courses in Masters program in International Relations. Once back in Albuquerque, he took classes in Art History and worked as Library Information Specialist in Government Publication & Maps, running the Map Room's map and atlas collection for three years. He earned his MS in Library & Information Science from U. of Illinois in 1983. After working a year at the Illinois Dept of Energy & Natural Resources, he was hired by the Universary of New Mexico’s William. J. Parish Memorial Library as a Business Librarian in 1984. He retired as its Collections Manager in 2009, having spent the better part of his career doing reference and collection management for Business and Economics, plus 15 years also as Geography selector.

Travis Ratermann
Travis Ratermann is the Survey Historian for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, located in Little Rock, AR. He has a B.S. in Historic Preservation from Southeast Missouri State University and a M.S. in Historic Preservation from Ball State University. As the Survey Historian, Travis is involved with reviewing Residential and Commercial District Surveys from throughout the state. In the past, Travis has surveyed the Historic Roadside markers located in the eastern portion of South Dakota. Travis has also surveyed Historic Route 66 from Chicago to St. Louis through a grant from the Route 66 Corridor Preservation program, as part of the Illinois State Historic Preservation Office, where he surveyed historic roadbeds of the famed Route 66, but also it’s iconic architecture which can be found in most of the small communities that once flourished along the road.

Third term:

Nicolette Bromberg
I am the Visual Materials Curator for the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections and previously was the Visual Materials Curator for the Wisconsin Historical Society and Photo-Archivist for the University of Kansas, Kansas Collection. I do a lot of work collecting resources and helping researchers to find roadside related materials for their book, magazine and documentary projects. I put together a small online exhibit "Researching the Roadside" in honor of the SCA conference held in Seattle.  http://content.lib.washington.edu/roadside/

Richard Gilbert
I have been a historic preservation enthusiast for as long as I can remember. As a child growing up on the Jersey side of the New York metropolitan area, I cultivated an appreciation for the early- to mid- 20th century urban and suburban landscapes and architecture in which I spent my formative years. I mourned the passing of such landmarks as the first Helen Hayes Theatre in Manhattan, as well as such ephemeral institutions as the venerable Plainfield-Edison Drive In Theater, my local Grants store, and the Jerry Lewis Cinema in Carteret, NJ.  In college, I formalized my interests in film and the built environment by achieving a degree in Media Study with an Art History minor from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2003, I received a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Washington in Seattle, with certificates in urban design and historic preservation. As an SCA member, I was instrumental in making SCA 2004 - Seattle a success, designing the conference t-shirt, conducting the Highway 99 tour, and directing the production of the tour map. Playing such a vital role in the SCA conference reaffirmed my belief in the efficacy of the organization's important work in the preservation community, and strengthened my determination to be more involved in bringing the mid-20th century into the 21st century.  Since 2004, I have been the SCA's webmaster, a role I hope to continue to play well into the future.