Manager High School
Resume:
REFERENCES
Prof. Bruce Curler: History-Political Science Professor (retired)
Milton, WI 53563
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Frank Gombar: retired Teacher and Realtor, also Past President of the
Brodhead Historical Society
N3924 Park Road
Brodhead, WI 53520
Dr. Richard Striner, American History Professor
Washington College
300 Washington Avenue
Chestertown, MD 21620
Washington College Switchboard: 1-800-***-****
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Larry Wiedenfeld, Teacher
2025 Wall Street #6
Janesville, WI 53545-3459
SEMINARS, SPECIAL TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS
Fire Suppression (Wisconsin State Youth Conservation Camp), 5 hours
Stream Bank Rebuilding (Wisconsin State Youth Conservation Camp), 20
hours
Document Preservation (Rock County Historical Society), 6 hours
Interpretation and Historic Preservation (State Historical Society of
Wisconsin), 18 hours
Historic Preservation and Interpretation (ALHFAM and State Historical
Society of Wisconsin),
40 hours
Interpretation (ALHFAM), 24 hours
Publicity and Promotion (Wisconsin State and Local History
Association), 6 hours
State Environmental Public Interest Lobbying (Audubon Society, Nature
Conservancy and
Sierra Club), 24 hours
Congressional Environmental Public Interest Lobbying (Sierra Club), 40
hours
Interpretation (Virginia), 40 hours
Interpretation (West Virginia), 40 hours
Computer Competency: experienced in the use of Macintosh computers,
printers and scanners, and Microsoft Word software, e-mailing and use
of the Internet; some experience with DOS, Excel and Word Perfect
software
Dave Searles
607 E. 2nd Avenue
Brodhead, WI 53520-1114
Career Goals: National Park Ranger-Historian (Permanent) and U.S.
Senator
Education
Washington College: History major-M.A. degree, (18 semester credits)
Chestertown, MD 21620
U.W.-Whitewater: History-Political Science graduate student (39
semester credits)
Whitewater, WI 53190
Milton College: History-Political Science major (4.0 G.P.A. in major)
and minors in
Criminal Justice and Natural Resources, B.A. degree (29
semester credits)
Milton, WI
Fox Valley Tech. College: Conservation major and Police Science minor
(22
semester credits)
Appleton, WI 54913
University of Wisconsin: History major and Natural Resources minor
(37 semester
credits)
Madison, WI 53706
U.W.-Rock Center: History major (22 semester credits)
Janesville, WI 53546
Blackhawk Tech. College: Police Science major (34 semester credits)
Beloit, WI 53511
National School of Conservation: Park Ranger Course (30 semester
credits)
Washington, DC
American School: Canadian History course (3 semester credits)
Chicago, IL
Brodhead High School, Diploma, June 1974
Brodhead, WI 53520
Work Experience
Historian-Historic Preservationist
• American Heritage Service, Inc.: President, Public
Interest Lobbyist,
Environmentalist, and Independent College Recruiter
Brodhead, WI 53520-1114 608-***-****
* Harry S Truman National Historic Site: Park Ranger
223 N. Main Street, Independence, MO 64050-2405
• Brodhead Historical Society: Museum Host, Chair: Engine
and Caboose
Committee, Board of Directors, and
Chair-Heritage Committee
Brodhead, WI 53520
• Brodhead Historic Preservation Commission: Consulting
Historian
Brodhead, WI 53520
• Cass Scenic Railroad State Park: Park Ranger-Historian
P.O. Box 107, Cass, WV 24927
• Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site: VIP Historian
2 Mark Bird Lane, Elverson, PA
19520-9505 610-***-****
• George Washington Grist Mill Historical State Park, VA:
Park Specialist-Historian
(4.,5 months)
Alexandria, VA 22121
• Rock County Historical Society: Intern
Janesville, WI 53545
• Milton Heritage Committee: drafted a historic
preservation ordinance for the City
of Milton and passed by the city council
• Milton College Historic Preservation Committee: Student
Coordinator, nominated
the Milton College Historic District
Teacher
• Brodhead School System, Brodhead, WI 53520
• Kent County High School, Worton, MD
Parks and Recreation
• National Park Ranger-Interpreter: Cape Cod National Seashore
South Wellfleet, MA 02663
• Park Manager: New Glarus Woods State Park
c/o Sugar River Trail Corp., Brodhead, WI 53520
• Deputy Sheriff-Park Ranger: Blackhawk Lake Rec. Park
Highland, WI 53543
Editor-in-Chief
• Rock County Democratic Journal, Janesville, WI 53545 (two
terms)
• Milton College Wildcat, Milton, WI
• Fox Valley Tech. College Connection, Appleton, WI
Other Work Experience
• Student Assistant: Dr. W. Michael Bailey, Chair, Academic
Computing Committee
and Central Services, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
21620
• Grounds Crew: Rock County Fairgrounds, Janesville, WI 53545
• Youth Camp Counselor and Naturalist: Camp Lucerne, Neshkoro
and Pine Lake
Camp, Westfield, WI
• Security Officer: Wisconsin State Historical Society,
Madison, WI
• Shipping Clerk: I-K-I Manufacturing Co., Stoughton, WI 53589
Hobbies/Interests: bicycling, camping, collecting and studying maps
(since childhood with
over 6000 maps in collection), hiking, photography, running
(four miles per day),
traveling
Organizations
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Brodhead Historical Society
The Civil War Preservation Trust
Democratic Party: progressive; Wis. State Assembly special election
candidate; worked on
many political campaigns (I‘m no longer a member of the party
since the DNC sold out
to the rich, big business and corporate America. They also
decided whom our candidate
for president should be in 2000 rather than leaving that to the
grassroots membership.)
The Ecotopian Society (an environmental and progressive philosophical
and political
network:): Founder and President
Environmental Defense
Friends of the Brodhead Library (charter member)
Greenpeace
The History Channel Club (charter member)
Janesville Soccer Club (when I lived in Janesville)
League of Conservation Voters
Main Hall Preservation Society (Milton College)
Milton College Alumni Assn.
National Committee for an Effective Congress
National Historical Society (charter member)
National Parks Conservation Assn.
National Parks Foundation
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Nature Conservancy
Phi Alpha Theta-the History National Honor Society
Public Citizen
Save Mount Shasta
Scottish-American Heritage Society: Founder and President
Sierra Club: Chair of the Rock Valley Group (co-founder), WI (5 years)
The Trust for Public Land
21at Century Democrats
Blackhawk Tech College Police Science Club: Co-founder and Vice
President
U.W.-Rock Center Matrix, contributor, Rebels basketball team and
theatre productions
Fox Valley Tech College Student Senate and Clubs Council, Conservation
Club: President
and Political Action Committee: Chair
Milton College: Student Senate and Student Publications Board: Chair
and Advisor after
graduation
Washington College Ecotopian Society/TERRA FIRMA Ecology Club: Founder
and
President, Historical Society: Co-founder, Democratic Club:
President, DCC Rep. and
Discussions Coordinator, Elm: contributor, Student Senate:
Graduate Representative, and
Sane Freeze Peace Organization
WORK EXPERIENCE ADDENDUM-DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
Historian-Historic Preservationist
• American Heritage Service, Inc.
President and Historian-Historic Preservationist: historical
surveys, research, national register
nominations, photography, consultation, interpretation,
public interest lobbying, environmental,
consumer protection, and educational services; also
supervised one intern from U.W.-Platteville
for several months and volunteers and committee members
• Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Park Ranger: : interpretive tours of the Truman House in Independence
and the Truman Farm at
Grandview, MO, and serving at the visitor center desk at the
Truman
Visitor Center in
Independence
• Brodhead Historical Society
Museum Host: interpretive program on the 1948 Milwaukee Road
locomotive, 1941 Milwaukee
Road Caboose and general railroad history, a
display/exhibit, Chair-Engine and Caboose
Committee (coordinated interior restoration of caboose),
member of the Building and Grounds
Committee
• Brodhead Historic Preservation Commission
Consulting Historian: give advice to commission and individual
members, as well as concerned
citizens, concerning the Brodhead Historic Preservation
Ordinance and other historic preservation
and restoration matters
• Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Park Ranger-Historian: town site walking tours, locomotive shop
and rail yard tours, weekly evening
programs, creating Young People for Parks Program booklets
for Cass, research, program
scheduling, museum projects, public relations and
promotion, and roving interpretation
• Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
Volunteer in Parks Historian: museum and library work, visitor
center desk operations, opening and
closing the village, assisting with farm chores, trail
bridge construction, research, writing a
Researcher's Guide, giving researcher's programs, junior
ranger program, and educational projects
• George Washington Grist Mill Historical State Park
Park Specialist-Historian: drafted a historical prospectus and
an interpretive guide, research, collecting
fees, introductory interpretation program, publicity and
promotion, public relations, traveled to
visit and photograph other mills for the slide library,
brought in graphic artists to review and
propose new displays and exhibits, participated in a
college career fair, recruitment (I was
supposed to hire an assistant with the title of Park
Interpreter but the position was cut because of
budget cuts. I was also the highest ranking person at this
park. The Park Superintendent,
Assistant Park Superintendent and Chief Ranger worked at
another state park about 20 miles
away. Other employees working at levels below me at this
park included a Park Interpreter and
two Park Rangers.)
• Rock County Historical Society
Intern: completed the Rock County Historic Survey, research,
curatorial and archival work, displays
and exhibits
Teacher
• Brodhead Schools
Teacher: taught cultural studies (history and geography),
computer skills and science (nature and the
environment), supervising or co-supervision of
recreational activities, tutoring, planning and
arranging field trip activities; there was approximately
35 students in the program with an average
of 12 to 20 in attendance on an average day
• Kent County Schools
Home Teacher: taught a high school student in all subjects,
but mainly literature and social studies,
at his home
Parks and Recreation
• Cape Cod National Seashore
National Park Ranger-Interpreter: information desk, roving
interpretation and patrol, Old Harbor Life
Saving Station interpretive program, Beach Apparatus Drill
living history program, history/
nature talks/walks, campfire programs, children's
programs, bicycle patrol, audio-visual programs
• New Glarus Woods State Park
Park Manager: patrolling, managing, security, public
relations, historian, naturalist, information
guide, collecting fees, registering campers, taking
reservations, maintenance, purchasing supplies,
bookkeeping and accounting, banking receipts, answering
correspondence, supervised a park
ranger on busy weekends (holiday and special event weekends)
• Blackhawk Lake Recreation Park
Deputy Sheriff-Park Ranger: patrolling, security, perimeter
check, directing traffic, public relations,
historian, naturalist, information guide, helping the
maintenance crew out with the construction
of special projects, assisting the park aides with
collecting fees and registering campers,
successfully lobbied to get adjacent scenic lands added to
the park, supervised two or three
juvenile delinquent workers when working on special
maintenance construction projects and
supervised 2 to 5 park aides when the park manager and
assistant park manager were off-duty or
out of the park
Editor-in-Chief
• Rock County Democratic Journal: Vice Chair for Communications,
including serving as the editor-in-
chief of the Democratic Journal, a 16 to 24 page monthly
newsletter with a digest format; also,
media releases and public relations; supervised a news editor
and several other staff members
• Milton College Wildcat and Fox Valley Tech. College Connection:
researching, investigating and
writing articles, editorials and columns, assigning articles,
editing, photography, layout, distribution,
supervision of seven editors-news, features, sports,
photography, advertising, graphic arts, and copy, a
business manager and several other staff members
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Honors, Awards and Special Accomplishments
Accomplishments: I was a Democratic special election candidate for the
Wisconsin State Assembly. I have been encouraged to run most election
years since. I have served successfully in a number of positions. The
constitution that I wrote for the Democratic Party of Rock County in
1985 is a model for and has been adopted by other counties, districts
and other Democratic organizations. I was the founder and first
president of the Washington College environmental organization. It is
one of the largest and most active organizations on the Washington
College campus. I graduated from Milton College with a 4.0 in my major
and a 3.8 over all grade point average. I have a 3.7 graduate grade
point average. I consider these grade point averages as major
accomplishments considering the fact that I'm visually impaired and
that I barely graduated from high school.
Honors: Milton College Dean's List; the only transfer student in the
history of the college to do so within one semester of transferring. I
also tied for second place in my senior year at Milton College for
Student of the Year. I tied with Dave Krieg, Milton College's
All-American quarterback who went on to be an NFL quarterback. Scott
Michum, the Student Senate President came in first. The award is for
dedication and service to the college and the students. In addition, I
was honored by the Fox Valley Tech. College Student Government with the
Student Senate Attendance and Involvement Award.
Publications: Numerous published articles, editorials, columns,
letters-to-the-editor, public interest lobbying, and political position
papers
Hobbies/Interests: bicycling, camping, collecting and studying maps
(since a child with over 6000 maps in collection), hiking, photography,
traveling, walking (5 to 9 miles per day, depending on the day)
Theatre: set design and construction, back stage manager, production
photographer (I'm not an actor)
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE SERVICE
E410 23rd Street
Brodhead, WI 53520-2201
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Dedicated to the preservation of our architectural, cultural, historic,
and natural heritage. Providing historical survey, research, national
register nominations, photography, consultation, interpretation, public
interest lobbying environmental, consumer protection, and educational
services.
Board of Directors
President: Dave Searles: Historian-Historic Preservationist, Public
Interest Lobbyist and Environmentalist
Vice President: open
Trustees: Eric Carlson, Green Bay, WI and Theodore Odell, Brodhead, WI
A registered non-profit heritage corporation in the State of Wisconsin.
AMERICAN HERITAGE SERVICE DIVISIONS
Historic Preservation Division historical surveys, research, national
register nominations
Public Interest Lobbying Division lobbying for the public interest,
particularly in the areas of education, the environment, our heritage,
and social justice
Educational Services Division promoting the idea of a small, private,
liberal arts and sciences college education and encouraging a potential
student to attend a small, private, non-religious or no religious
requirements, co-ed, liberal arts and sciences college; maintaining a
list of AHS Approved Colleges, AHS Approved State Liberal Arts Colleges
and Approved Small Universities, and a library of college catalogs and
brochures on these colleges; tutoring; college internships; the
establishment of Prairie College, a small, private, non-religious,
co-ed, progressive and innovative liberal arts, sciences and
occupational careers college
Photography Division providing photography and photo conservation
services
Consultation Division make recommendations to people, groups and
organizations on how to prepare national register nominations, write
historic preservation ordinances, advice on other preservation and
heritage matters
Interpretation Division advice on what type of interpretation plan a
park, historic site or museum should have, how to implement such a
plan, oversee interpretive programs, evaluate interpretive programs,
etc.
General Services Division research services in the areas of history,
government, politics, geography, the environment, travel, etc.;
consumer protection
A list of college courses and publicshed articles available on request.
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