SCIAA Receives National Preservation Award For Hunley Work

SCIAA Staff Recognized by National Preservation Award

By Christopher F. Amer

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, along with the numerous other federal and state agencies, organizations, and companies, was nationally recognized when it received the first annual National Trust for Historic Preservation /Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Joint Award for Federal Partnerships in Historic Preservation for its work on the H.L. Hunley and raising that historic submarine. John Nau, III, Chairman of the Advisory Council presented 21 awards during the one-and-a-half hour ceremony that was the centerpiece of the 2002 National Trust's National Preservation Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio.

Award recepients.

Figure 1: H.L. Hunley award recipients (Front Row, Left to Right):

Mr. John Miglarese (SCDNR), Ms. Elizabeth Johnson (SCDAH), Mr.
Christopher Amer (SCIAA), Mr. Philip Grone (Department of State), Rear Admiral Silva (US Coast Guard), Lt. Colonel Frank Randon
(USCOE), and Dr. William Dudley (USNHC). (Back Row, Left to Right) Mr. John Nau III (presenter), Mr. Warren Lasch (Friends of
the Hunley), Richard Moe (President, National Trust for Historic Preservation), William Hart (Chairman of the Board, National Trust
for Historic Preservation), Mr. Clive Cussler (Novelist), and Mr. Daniel Schwall (Titan Maritime) (Photo courtesy of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation).

Recipients of the Hunley award included SCIAA, SC Department of Natural Resources, SC Educational Television, SC Hunley Commission, US Department of Defense, National Park Service, US Navy, US Coast Guard, US Army Corps of Engineers, Friends of the Hunley, National Geographic Society, National Underwater and Marine Agency, Oceaneering International, and Titan Maritime. Oceaneering International designed the truss system that supported the historic submarine during the lift and transport to the lab, while Titan Marine actually conducted the lift. After the ceremony, the recipients were treated to a sumptuous dinner at the exclusive Union Club.

Maritime Research Division, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, USC