In 1976, Stanton returned to Washington, D.C., as Assistant Director, Park Operations. He served from August 1997 until January 2001. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Change your address, phone number, e-mail address. He took a full-time position with the National Park Service in 1966, as a personnel management and public information specialist in the headquarters at Washington, D.C. During his decade’s long distinguished career, Bob Stanton received three honorary doctorate degrees, and numerous awards, to include the department of the interior’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Award. He will also comment upon how leadership will guide the future of the agency. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1963, from Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, did graduate work at Boston University, and George Washington University, and has completed numerous programs in conservation, management, and executive leadership. In 1966 he accepted a full time position as a personnel management and public information specialist in NPS headquarters in Washington, D.C. In 1978 he was selected as Deputy Regional Director of the National Capital Region, a position he held for eight years. Robert G. "Bob" Stanton (born September 22, 1940) is a retired career civil service administrator who served for almost four decades in the United States National Park Service.He was the first African American to be appointed as the Director of the Park Service, serving 1997-2001. It is important to learn from these women and men, and honor them for their efforts in serving the people and touching the lives of many. Stanton was a career civil-service employee of the agency, having served as superintendent of National Capital Parks-East and Virgin Islands National Park and then in various management positions in the NPS Headquarters and National Capital regional office. He most recently served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior. Robert G. Stanton 1940– Federal government official, conservationist. A year later he was appointed superintendent of Virgin Islands National Park, St. Thomas, and in 1974, he became Deputy Regional Director of the Southeast Region in Atlanta, Georgia. Stanton is one in a long line of shining examples as to the dignity and value of personal self-determination and unwavering diligence. In 1990, community members formed the Friends of Meridian Hill Park and invited NPS representatives, including then-Regional Director Robert Stanton, to work collaboratively in re-establishing the park’s former glory. In 1969, he moved to National Capital Parks-Central, as a management assistant, gaining experience in the regional operations, where many of the properties are ones of historic and cultural significance. He continues to promote his life-long interest in national parks and advancing opportunities for young people, making substantial contributions. In 1974, he was promoted to Deputy Regional Director of the Southeast Region, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Stanton began his Federal career as a seasonal park ranger at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, during the summers of 1962 and 1963, when he was completing college. He will also comment upon how leadership will guide the future of the agency. In 1970, Stanton became superintendent of National Parks -- East, in Washington D.C. and Maryland, which made him the first African American to be appointed superintendent in the NPS.
"Biography: Robert G. Stanton", Press Release, National Park Service, June 6, 2000. Robert Stanton was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 15th director of the National Park Service (NPS) in 1997 and served until the end of the Clinton Administration.
Stanton would remain in that position until 2001. Personnel Mgt./Public Information Specialist, This page was last edited on 9 May 2020, at 00:10. He took a full-time position with the National Park Service in 1966, as a personnel management and public information specialist in the headquarters at Washington, D.C. In 1970, he was promoted to superintendent of National Capital Parks-East. Stanton was a career civil-service employee of the agency, having served as superintendent of National Capital Parks-East and Virgin Islands National Park and then in various management positions in the NPS Headquarters and National Capital regional office. He later did graduate work at Boston University and George Washington University. In 1974 he took over as deputy regional director for the NPS Southeast Region in Atlanta and two years later returned to NPS headquarters as assistant director for park operations. Stanton went to the Friends of Meridian Hill meetings and supported such efforts as improving lighting and trimming back plantings to reduce the number of areas where criminal activity might occur. Stanton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, where he grew up in Mosier Valley, one of the oldest African-American communities in the state.
He also worked to improve the agency's public programs to better serve minority populations. [3][lower-alpha 1]. Directors of the United States National Park Service, Press Release, Biography, National Park Service, June 6, 2000, Historic Listing of National Park Service Officials; U.S. Department of the Interior; May 1991; pg 148. In 1966 he accepted a full time position as a personnel management and public information specialist in NPS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Three years later, he became a management assistant at National Capital Parks-Central and then in 1970 became superintendent of Virgin Islands NP. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/hisnps/NPSHistory/direct.htm, https://carlsbad.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Stanton_(park_director)?oldid=4664, Superintendent, National Capital Parks-East. View the profiles of people named Robert Stanton. Beginning as a seasonal ranger at Grand Teton National Park in 1962, Robert Stanton served the NPS as a ranger, superintendent, deputy regional director, assistant director, and regional director of the National Capital Region before retiring in January 1997. Robert Stanton, at the NPS Centennial plenary on Friday, April 8 at 5:15 pm, will talk about leadership and its evolution in the National Park Service. Stanton began his Federal career as a seasonal park ranger at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, during the summers of 1962 and 1963, when he was completing college. Robert Stanton’s career with the National Park Service began in 1962 when the secretary of the Interior appointed him as a summer seasonal park ranger at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. [1] Stanton is also an executive professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University.
IN 1987, he returned to headquarters, as Associate Director for Operations and in 1988 became Regional Director of the National Capital Region where he served until retirement.[3]. In 1974, he was promoted to Deputy Regional Director of the Southeast Region, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in a small African American community in the Mosier Valley outside Fort Worth. In 1976, Stanton returned to Washington, D.C., as Assistant Director, Park Operations.
Shortly after his retirement, and later that same year, Stanton was called back from retirement when he was appointed as the 15th National Park Service Director by President Bill Clinton. In 1970, he was promoted to superintendent of National Capital Parks-East. in 1963 from Huston–Tillotson University, a historically black university in Austin, Texas. Through this period, he has expanded the NPS development of private-public partnerships to achieve goals of recognizing and protecting cultural properties, as well as expanded recognition of properties and programs recognizing contributions by minority populations.[3]. In 1988, he was selected as the Regional Director of the National Capital Region, where he served until his retirement from career service in 1997. Stanton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, where he grew up in Mosier Valley, one of the oldest African-American communities in the state. He earned a B.S. He served almost nine years as the Regional Director for the National Capital Region before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the directorship. He did graduate work at Boston University and George Washington University.[1]. Photo credit: National Park Service.
He served from August 1997 until January 2001. in 1963 from Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black university in Austin, Texas.
African American history is made real and meta-rhetorical through the actions of such individuals. Copyright © Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks - All rights reserved. Meridian Hill Park in 2008. [2], Mr. Stanton began his Federal career as a seasonal park ranger at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, during the summers of 1962 and 1963. The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks. [3] Over his long NPS career, Stanton completed numerous programs in conservation, management, and executive leadership. One of the achievements of which he was most proud in those early days at Capital Parks, was the restoration of the Frederick Douglass home. Shortly after his retirement, and later that same year, Stanton was called back from retirement when he was appointed as the 15th National Park Service Director by President Bill Clinton. As Director, Stanton supported increasing staff diversity, as well as programs to ensure recognition of cultural and historic sites related to contributions of minority peoples in the United States. Also its first African American director, Stanton has taken particular interest in increasing the diversity of the service's staff and public programs to better serve minority populations.
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