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<br />Rey Personnel <br />Carol Drake Mehls, Western Historical Studies' president and <br />project manager, not only serves as financial manager but as an <br />active contributor to WHS projects. Dr. Mehls has a Ph.D. <br />in the history of the American West and recently taught material <br />culture courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and <br />has curated the historic costume collection on a part-time appoint- <br />ment, at Colorado State University. This allows her to bring a <br />greater appreciation of historic research needs to her job as <br />project manager as well as acting as a valuable resource in the <br />research and report preparation phases of WHS projects. For many <br />studies she fulfills the role of assistant historian, working <br />closely with the preparation of the inventory forms and site <br />evaluations. However, those skills as an historian do not diminish <br />her effectiveness as a manager, a role she relies upon her five <br />years of banking experience and MBA equivalent to fulfill. Also, <br />she has nearly nine years experience as the president and project- <br />/business manager for WHS, a period through which she has seen to <br />it that the company has never missed a deadline. Projects managed <br />include the Aurora History Project, Louisville, Colorado, Survey <br />and Nomination Project, the Dinosaur National Monument Historic <br />Resource Study, the Canyonlands, Arches and Natural Bridges <br />Historic Resource Study, the Grand Teton Historic American <br />Engineering Record Survey(on-going), the Iowa 3-County Survey, a <br />survey of Weld County farms and many smaller projects. She took a <br />National Park Service short course on the National Register of <br />Historic Places and historic survey as project manager of the <br />Dinosaur National Monument Historic Resources Study, as well as <br />attending Colorado SHPO seminars on the National Register and <br />historic properties. This experience makes her familiar with <br />National Park Service and SHPO procedures, experience that will be <br />used to best advantage in WHS projects both as a historian as well <br />as project manager. <br />13 <br />