Who's Who

CPA WELCOMES NEW PRESIDENT

A New Year, A New President

The beginning of a New Year also brings the beginning of Charles (Chuck) Schroer’s term as President of the Board of Trustees of CPA. Mr. Schroer has served on CPA’s Board of Trustees for fourteen years, and is a past President of the agency.  He has a great deal of experience in leading organizations.  He is also a current trustee for the Corporation for Findlay Market and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Mr. Schroer is a Member of Frost Brown Todd, LLC and practices in the areas of commercial real estate and development law.  He was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009-2010 for Real Estate Law.  He served as general counsel to the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority from 1996 to 2002.  Many exciting initiatives lay ahead for CPA under the experienced direction of President Chuck Schroer.

CPA would also like to thank former President Lynn Jacobs for her dedication and energy that she has devoted to the agency.  The agency has had many accomplishments under the leadership of Mrs. Jacobs and is very lucky that she has agreed to remain on the Board of Trustees as Past President.  CPA looks forward to the future of preservation with such passionate people leading the cause.

­Staff

BOBBIE McTURNER
Executive Director

B In Color_1We are very pleased that Bobbie McTurner has joined us as Executive Director. Bobbie’s life and work reflect her passion for historic preservation. She earned a master’s degree in art history and a historic preservation certificate from the University of Cincinnati in 2006, specializing in the study of historic and modern architecture, and receiving numerous awards. After graduation she completed a year-long internship at CPA, where her skills, dedication and professionalism greatly impressed all who worked with her. Bobbie then joined Environment & Archaeology, LLC, a cultural resources consulting firm, as an architectural historian. Working as an independent consultant, she also prepared National Register nominations for historic properties in Ohio, earning high praise for her work from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office. Bobbie has been a committed and capable CPA volunteer, most recently as a house chair for the 2008 spring tour. We look forward to having Bobbie join our staff and know she will bring new ideas and energy to our organization.

Margo Warminski
Preservation Director

Margo WarminskiAs CPA's Preservation Director, Margo Warminski coordinates the technical preservation-related tasks at CPA. Her areas of responsibility include research, advocacy, providing design-review opinions, assisting with easements, educating the public about preservation through monthly programs and assisting with agency ev­ents and publicity.

Ms. Warminski has worked in the historic preservation field in the Cincinnati area for over twenty years. Prior to joining CPA, she worked as a historic preservation consultant specializing in historical research, architectural surveys, and nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. Her special interest is urban vernacular architecture: buildings that tell the stories of ordinary people. From 2000 to 2004 she worked with us as a part-time consultant. In addition to preparing Register nominations and preservation tax credit applications, her many tasks included researching and writing the program for our annual May house tour.

Ms. Warminski holds a B.A. in English language and literature from the University of Michigan and studied Community Planning, with a concentration in historic preservation, at the University of Cincinnati. Not only is she an accomplished preservationist, but she is also an excellent writer! When she isn't busy at work, she is restoring a 1907 workingman's cottage in the East Row Historic District of Newport, Kentucky, of which she is the second owner.

Rebecca Stone
Office Manager

Rebecca attended University of Cincinnati, where she majored in Real Estate and earned a Business Administration degree. She has over 20 years of office management experience. She has also worked as a real estate agent, and she’s a Notary Public. As if all of that wasn’t enough, Rebecca also has a passion for preservation and recently bought a historic house.

Meet Ashleigh Bagget
CPA’s New Program Coordinator

Ashleigh Baggett is excited to join the staff of the CPA as our new program coordinator.  Ashleigh graduated magna cum laude this past June from the University of Cincinnati, earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture and certificates in historic preservation and in business Spanish.  While at UC she focused on historic preservation and participated in studios on revitalizing Greenhills, Northside, and the University YMCA. 
Through the co-op program at UC, Ashleigh worked for architectural firms in Boston, Chicago, and Dayton on projects to adaptively reuse or preserve historic structures.  For the Dayton firm, Ashleigh prepared many grant applications and National Register nominations and did research to help preserve a Dayton historic treasure.  Two terms as Vice President of Operations for the UC chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority provided Ashleigh with great experience creating and coordinating large events for students at UC. 
 

Officers, Board of Trustees

Charles E. Schroer
President

Lynn Jacobs
Past President

Susan Haas
Vice President

Timothy M. Burke
Secretary

John P. Mellott
Treasurer

Trustees

Laura Johnson Dorl
H. Richard Duval
Jamie Gerdsen
Nancy Gollobin
Edward Horgan
John Heuser
Jenni McCauley
Maureen McDermott
Paul Muller
Phillip J. Nuxhal
Gail L. Paul
Mary Piper
Martin E. Rahe
Lisa Sauer
Kenneth C. Segal
Patrick Snadon
Lisa Stephens
Arthur Sturbaum
Margaret K. Valentine

Advisory Board

Dr. Compton Allyn
Ann Antenen
Trudy K. Backus
Ronald T. Bates
John A. Bentley
J. Leland Brewster, II
Christopher A. Cain
Myron L. Dale
Edward Dohrmann
Charles Fleischmann, III
Bruce Goetzman
Margaret E. Hammelrath
Cornelius W. Hauck
Anthony W. Hobson
Thomas Huenefeld
Ken Jones
Peter E. Koenig
Walter E. Langsam
Stewart S. Maxwell
Alfred A. Moore
H.C. Buck Niehoff
Mrs. John A. Ruthven
James Tarbell
Mrs. John B. Tytus
Margaret H. Wyant