HISTORIC PRESERVATION GROUP TO GIVE AWARD

Jacqueline Holt, park curator of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, N.C., will receive the 1999 Arthur H. Mattingly Award in Historic Preservation.

Holt will receive the award at the annual banquet Saturday of the Historic Preservation Association at Southeast Missouri State University. The banquet in the University Center Missouriana Room will begin with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the program at 8 p.m.

Banquet tickets are $18; student tickets are $12. Reservations can be made by calling (573) 651-2180.

The Arthur H. Mattingly Award is given annually to recognize outstanding professional achievement by a graduate of Southeast's historic preservation program.

Prior to the banquet, Holt will present a program on "Museum Work in the National Park Service" at 10 a.m. in Carnahan Hall, Room 109.

Holt is a 1986 graduate of Southeast. She has been employed by the National Park Service since 1986.

In her position as curator of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Holt has full responsibility for the management of a museum collection that includes more than 200,000 objects. She manages three storage facilities, three visitor center exhibits and six living history sites in the Parkway.