Review Board Members

HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS

Don Clare

Don was raised in Kenton County but chose to raise his family in Boone County. Don moved the Big Jimmy Ryle log house to a ridge overlooking the Ohio River in the suburbs of Rabbit Hash. He resides in this extraordinary reconstructed home with his wife Sue, and their daughters Callie and Caitlyn. Don has been a member of the Historic Preservation Review Board since its beginning in 1986, serving as Chairman for ten years. He is an Emergency Room Registered Nurse by profession and an archaeologist by avocation.

Don began the Rabbit Hash Historical Society in the 1980s, and set about creating the Rabbit Hash Museum, dedicated in 1992. The museum holds a wonderful collection of Boone County pictures, documents, and artifacts. The Rabbit Hash Historical Society has gone on to produce a series of publications and reprints about Boone County history and prehistory, sponsor the rebirth of the Friends of Big Bone Association, and begin the rehabilitation of the National Register East Bend Church.

Pat Fox

Pat is the current Chair of the Historic Preservation Review Board. Pat is from the Woolper Creek area of Petersburg. Pat began a teaching career in 1971, and has taught English at Scott High School since 1979. She was a member of the Scott Site-Based Management Team from 1994-1997. She is married to Patrick Lense, and is the mother of Jason Rehkamp, a student at N.K.U.

"My personal life finds comfort in the outdoors. Hiking, biking, and recently, backpacking have enabled me to interact with nature and the historic landscape. Pat and I love the country around us, and are particularly intrigued by not only the land but by the people who once lived throughout western Boone County and the built environment they left us. We are environmentalists at heart, and hope that the natural beauty and history of Boone County can be preserved for generations to come."

Bridget Striker

Bridget was born and raised in Upstate New York and moved to Northern Kentucky in 1996. Bridget and her husband, Mike, have lived in Burlington, Kentucky since 2000. After receiving her B.S. in Anthropology, Bridget spent several years as a staff archaeologist and GIS mapping specialist for an environmental consulting firm in Cincinnati. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2001 with her MLS in Library Sciences. Since that time, Bridget has been a Reference Librarian at Boone County Public Library's Lents Branch in Hebron. Due to her involvement with the Local History Collection at the Library, Bridget has recently been appointed Local History Librarian. The position is the first of it's kind in Boone County.

In addition to being a member of the Historic Preservation Review Board, Bridget is also the Vice-President and Board Member of the Johnson-Wilson Cemetery Stewards Association (JWCSA). JWCSA is the only non-profit cemetery preservation organization in Boone County.

Butch Wainscott

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Pat Wingo

Pat is the most recent appointee to the Historic Preservation Review Board. She was raised in Cincinnati and moved to Northern Kentucky nine years ago. She has a degree in History from the University of Cincinnati and completed the Historic Preservation Certification Program at the University as well. She served as the Historic Preservation Officer for the City of Newport for three years and as the Economic Development Director there for five years, retaining supervision of the Historic Preservation Department and Main Street Program. In 2004 she was appointed City Coordinator of the City of Florence and became a resident of Florence that same year.

Preservation began as an avocation, eventually leading her to pursue training so that she might work in the field. Early work included field work to complete the historic property survey forms for the Lee-Holman Historic District in Covington, Kentucky, which became listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and the Elizabeth Township Rural Historic District, Miami County, Ohio, which became listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Additionally, Pat co-authored with Rita Walsh, The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities: Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Transcripts of Oral History Interviews as part of the a project to establish the national historic context of seven ordnance installations on a state and local level.

Pat lived in several historic homes in Cincinnati and that hands on experience kept her in touch with the challenges and rewards of historic home ownership. She still maintains her interest in historic preservation and is pleased to be able to volunteer her time to the community through the Historic Preservation Review Board. Pat looks forward to expanding her knowledge of Boone County and she and her husband Tom have decided to spend more time learning more about Boone County with the help of the Boone County Heritage Tourism Map.

Although their children are grown, life at home continues to be hectic with the seemingly never ending renovations to their Florence home, caring for their eight animals and cherishing their time with their two grandchildren, Jackson and Olivia, both born in 2007.

Robert Schrage

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Thomas Schiffer

Tom was raised in Kenton County, Kentucky and spent most of his professional life working in Cincinnati…the last twenty years of it as a Manager of Plant Services in the chemical industry. He has a BS degree from UK in Industrial Management. He spent many years as Environmental Manager at Emery Industries…successfully bringing them into compliance with clean air, clean water and solid waste disposal. Part of his responsibility was community outreach. Plant safety became his passion…successfully working to bring about a cultural change in safety awareness among employees.

His avocation of the shooting sports has brought him into intimate contact with the outdoors and conservation issues. He has served as President of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (1989-1992), Chairman of the Board of the Annie Oakley Foundation (current), Secretary and Vice President of the Boone County Historical Society in the 1980s. He did much hiking in Boone County in the 1960s upon moving to Boone County, with accent upon historical aspects of the paths taken. For the past decade, he has pursued boating in his two steam-powered launches…exploring Boone County’s nearly forty miles of river front and numerous creeks.

In 2002 he wrote a book Peters & King, published by Krause and has written extensively for widely circulated periodicals for nearly thirty years. Most recently, he has done extensive writing under the direction of Bridget Striker, Boone County History Coordinator for the Boone County Public Library.

He has maintained an avid interest in photography and has illustrated his writing thereby. He is married to Carol Wasson Schiffer (the girl next door and retired school-teacher) and they live on Gunpowder Creek and have two grown sons.