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Midwest Region News Release

|Use a “short-hand” version of the site name here (e.g. Palo Alto Battlefield not Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Site). |

For Release: March 20, 2009

Contact: Patty Rooney

Phone: 402-661-1532

Timothy S. Good selected as Superintendent for

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

OMAHA, Neb. — Timothy S. Good, currently a Management Assistant in the National Park Service (NPS) Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, has been selected as Superintendent for Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, Mo. Good will assume his new post June 7, succeeding Michael M. Ward, who became Superintendent at Voyageurs National Park in International Falls, Minn., in August 2008.

“Tim’s extensive background in history and education, as well as his ability to work with diverse park partners, will serve him well in this new assignment,” said David N. Given, Acting Regional Director of the NPS Midwest Region. “His breadth of experience, from interpretation to information technology and budget, makes him a strong addition to the Midwest Region management team.”

A 21-year NPS veteran, Good began his career in 1988 as a seasonal Fee Collector at Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Washington, D.C. He became a temporary Park Ranger at Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site in the District in 1989, attaining permanent status in 1994. Good then served a 14-month detail for the NPS Washington Office Information and Telecommunications Division, duty stationed at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La., where he helped develop the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, a computerized database of 6.3 million soldier records and several thousand unit histories. He returned to Washington, D.C., in late 1995 as a Park Ranger on the National Mall. In 1996, Good transferred to Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Ill., where he served initially as a Park Ranger, then as a Computer Specialist. From 2001-2003, Good was an Information Technology Specialist at Cuyahoga Valley

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National Park in Brecksville, Ohio. He served as a Management Assistant at Dayton Aviation National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio, for 2 years before assuming his current position in 2005.

While at Ford’s Theatre, Good was honored as the National Capital Region’s Freeman Tilden Award recipient, recognizing outstanding contributions to the public through interpretation. The award, created in 1982 and sponsored in partnership by the NPS and the National Parks Conservation Association, is named for Freeman Tilden, whose writings have had considerable influence on interpretation and education programs within the NPS. Good also received the Albright-Wirth Grant Award for 1994-1995. Named for two NPS Directors, Horace M. Albright and Conrad L. Wirth, the grant program is a developmental program sponsored by the National Park Foundation that bestows grants to NPS employees to pursue career-enhancing goals.

“I am thrilled at the opportunity to work at a site which commemorates one of our greatest Americans.” Good remarked. “The St. Louis area is extremely fortunate to have, with the Grant site and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, two outstanding National Park Service sites.”

A Baltimore, Md., native, Good graduated from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind., with a Bachelor of Arts in American History, and attained his Master of Arts in History through the University of Durham, England. Good and his wife, Cindy (McAdams) of Baton Rouge, are proud parents of Trevor, 4, and Cybelle, 1.

Good’s passion for Lincoln history led him to author three published books, Lincoln for President: An Underdog’s Path to the 1860 Republican Nomination (McFarland & Co., 2009), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President (McFarland & Co., 2007) and We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts (University Press of Mississippi, 1996).

Authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1989 and comprised of nearly 10 wooded acres in present-day St. Louis, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of our 18th President. This is where Grant met his wife Julia Dent - at White Haven, her family farm - in 1843, and began a long association with the property that lasted until just before his death in 1885. Throughout the turbulence of the Civil War and Grant’s presidency, White Haven was home.

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