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Environmental Design Capstone Class earns Citation of Merit for Chickasaw National Recreation Area Project

The cover of the Chickasaw National Recreation Area report.

Environmental Design Capstone Class earns Citation of Merit for Chickasaw National Recreation Area Project

The Environmental Design Capstone class from the 2016 Spring Semester received a “Citation of Merit” from the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office of the Oklahoma Historical Society during Oklahoma’s 29th Annual Statewide Preservation Conference in Oklahoma City in June 2017.

The recipients included Mr. Ken Ruhnke and Ms. Cheri Killam-Bomhard of the National Park Service and the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, instructors Hope Mander and Ron Frantz, and 5 undergraduate students in Architecture and Environmental Design.

The student work focused on the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Sulphur, Oklahoma, and occurred during the 100th Anniversary Year of the National Park Service.

Learn more about the project on the Institute for Quality Communities website.


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