Anna M. Eddings  

(aeddings@ou.edu) 
Received a B.A. degree in History from Northeastern State University in 1996 and a M.A. degree in History with an emphasis in Applied History from Oklahoma State University in 1998.  Her degree requirements at OSU included an internship with the Tulsa Urban Development Department, participating in the historic preservation functions of city planning.  Since 2000, she has been employed as Historian/Architectural Historian with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Cultural Resources Program.  Anna assists in fulfilling ODOT's obligations under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act by surveying areas of potential effect for transportation construction and enhancement projects to identify historic resources and assess their eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places.  This job entails writing Cultural Resources Survey Reports, completing Historic Preservation Resource Identification Forms, and conducting statewide historic bridge surveys.

Diane Eilenstein

 (Diane_Eilenstein@nps.gov)
A park ranger with the National Park Service at the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri, earned a bachelor of arts in social studies education from Northeastern in May 2000. She was a Student Conservation Association intern at the Carver National Monument during the summer of 1999 and did her student teaching at Charles Page High School in Sand Springs that fall. In the spring of 2000, Diane participated in the Student Career Experience Program, in which she was employed by the National Park Service in partnership with NSU at the Carver site. The following summer, she was employed full-time as a park ranger there, where her duties included interpreter, education program manager, and volunteer program manager. Diane considered her education at Northeastern a pivotal experience in her life. She wrote, "The outstanding faculty delivered challenging curriculum and the student teaching experience was excellent. I felt well prepared to enter the workforce as an educator. I chose to work for the National Park Service and use my background in education daily." George Washington Carver National Monument is the birthplace and childhood home of the famed scientist, educator and humanitarian. Born into slavery on the Moses Carver farm in southwest Missouri during the Civil War, Carver overcame racial barriers and other obstacles as he pursued an education. In 1896 he earned a Master of Agriculture from Iowa State College and moved to Tuskegee Institute where he built a career inagriculture, leaving a legacy of service to mankind. 

David Fowler

(murrellhome@okhistory.org),

Site Director of the George M. Murrell Historic Home, at Park Hill, Oklahoma, earned a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Native American Studies from Northeastern in 1996. After graduation David worked for Oklahoma Natural Gas, but in 2001 he made a career move because he wanted to do something more related to college training. "An opening came up at Fort Gibson, and I decided it was time to put my history degree to work," he explained. Employed by the Oklahoma Historical Society, David spent eight years as an historical interpreter at Fort Gibson Military Park, where he directed all the educational programs, the volunteers, and the collections. During his tenure he organized and participated in historical reenactments depicting life at the frontier post at various periods in its history. In addition to drawing large numbers of people to the site, the reenactments provided a new perspective on the important role the post had played in the pioneer era of Oklahoma. When the long-time director of the historic Murrell Home, the state's only remaining antebellum residence, retired in the summer of 2009, David was named to replace her. The appointment was a good fit, a native of Claremore and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, David is a descendant of the pioneers whose history he is responsible for preserving and presenting at the Park Hill site.

Lisa Conard Frost

(Lisa_Conard_Frost@nps.gov) 
is the superintendent at Washita Battlefield National Historic site, located in Cheyenne, OK.  Before transferring to Washita, Lisa served at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis.  An Oklahoma native, Lisa is a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation.  She holds a bachelor's gegree in history from Northeastern and a master's degree in human relations from the University of Oklahoma.  As the park superintendent, Lisa leads the NPS staff and oversees the entire park operations, including administrative, facility and interpretive management and preserving and protecting the cultural and natural resources for this and future generations. Washita Battlefield National Historic Site protects and interprets the setting along the Washita River where Lt. Col. George A. Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry on a surprise dawn attack against the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle on November 27, 1868. The attack was an important event in the tragic clash of cultures of the Indian Wars era. 

Amanda (Burnett) Pritchett

(murrellhome@okhistory.org) 
graduated from NSU with a Bachelor's degree in History and a Bachelor's degree in Meetings and Destination Management in 2005.  In 2007, she earned a Master of Arts degree in American Studies from NSU.  She is currently employed as a Historical Interpreter at the George M. Murrell Home, an 1845 historic house museum in Park Hill, Oklahoma.  As an undergraduate, Amanda interned with the museum and was then hired part-time.  After graduation, she went to work as a historian at the Five Civilized Tribes museum, working with collections and designing exhibits.  In 2007, she was hired at the Murrell Home as a full time interpreter and gift shop manager.  Her duties include management of museum collections, exhibit design, tours, event planning, education programs, and managing the museum's gift shop

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