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7/20/2010, 11:49 AM
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Melvena Heisch and SHPO Staff Honored
Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, Melvena Heisch, and her staff received the "Cyrus Avery Award" from the "National Route 66 Association" during that organization's awards banquet on June 19th. The event was held at the Downstream Casino at Quapaw, Oklahoma.
The award recognized Heisch and the SHPO staff for their efforts over the past 25 years to record historic Route 66-related resources and roadbed segments through survey efforts in the 1980s and in 2002. In addition, SHPO has successfully nominated dozens of Route 66-related properties to the National Register of Historic Places.
Route 66 Association President Jim Crowley observed that Heisch and the SHPO staff "have always stood out from the crowd," and that the selection "was one of the easiest things we have ever done."
Melvena Heisch and SHPO Staff Honored
Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, Melvena Heisch, and her staff received the "Cyrus Avery Award" from the "National Route 66 Association" during that organization's awards banquet on June 19th. The event was held at the Downstream Casino at Quapaw, Oklahoma.
The award recognized Heisch and the SHPO staff for their efforts over the past 25 years to record historic Route 66-related resources and roadbed segments through survey efforts in the 1980s and in 2002. In addition, SHPO has successfully nominated dozens of Route 66-related properties to the National Register of Historic Places.
Route 66 Association President Jim Crowley observed that Heisch and the SHPO staff "have always stood out from the crowd," and that the selection "was one of the easiest things we have ever done."