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Early life and family
Milford Wayne Donaldson was born in August 13, 1943 at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to Milford "Don" Donaldson, a Navy corpsman and Jean Donaldson, a Navy nurse. Immediately after his birth Donaldson's parents were ordered to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The Donaldsons lived in a Quonset hut on base for three years before finally moving to Oceanside, California, in San Diego County, where Wayne grew up with his younger brother, Robert "Bob" Calvin Donaldson. By 1950 Wayne Donaldson knew he would be an architect.

Education
After high school Wayne Donaldson went on to earn his Bachelors of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, in 1967; a Master of Science in Architecture from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, and a Master of Arts in Public History and Teaching from the University of San Diego. From 1966 to 1968 he also had the unique opportunity to attend undergraduate studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. In 2007 Mr. Donaldson received an honorary Masters of Architecture from The New School of Architecture in San Diego, which in 1980, he founded along with Dick Welsh.

Professional Career
Over the last thirty-five years, Milford Wayne Donaldson has established himself as a leader in historic preservation and the adaptive reuse of existing historic structures. His depth of knowledge unites nineteenth century building methods with state-of-the-art twenty-first century construction technologies.

Presently licensed to practice architecture in California, Nevada and Arizona , Mr. Donaldson began his professional career as an associate for the San Diego architectural firm of Robert Mosher and Roy Drew, Architects Mosher Drew Watson, from 1972 to 1978. He and his first wife Nancy then founded his award winning firm, Architect Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA (Fellow of the American Institute of Architects) in 1978, specializing in historic renovation, preservation and adaptive reuse of existing structures. In 2004 before his appointment as California State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), Donaldson renamed and sold his firm Heritage Architecture & Planning which is still located in San Diego. That same year Wayne Donaldson began and incorporated a new architectural firm, Architect Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA, Inc., A Professional Corporation, which is also still an active corporation.

In 1991, The California Council of the American Institute of Architects (CCAIA) acknowledged Donaldson for his statewide leadership in the interpretation of the State Historical Building Code which allowed the rehabilitation of historic buildings for affordable single room occupancy hotels. In 1992, Mr. Donaldson was inducted into the AIA College of Fellows. Later, following both the 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquakes and 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Mr. Donaldson lent his expertise to save historic buildings from unwarranted demolition. His efforts continue today as a 'Trainer in Emergency Response' for the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) Service Worker Volunteer Program.

Additionally, Wayne Donaldson has also instructed classes in architecture, first at his alma mater from 1969 to 1970, and later at Southwestern Community College (Chula Vista) from 1976 to 1984. Mr. Donaldson continues to lecture on preservation architecture at various schools, colleges and universities.

California Office of Historic Preservation
Milford Wayne Donaldson is currently serving as California’s State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). The first architect to serve as a California SHPO, Donaldson was appointed by the governor in April 2004. The SHPO serves as chief administrative officer of the California Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) in Sacramento and also as Executive Secretary of the State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC). Meeting four times a year, the SHRC is a nine-member state review board, appointed by the governor, responsible for identifying, registering, and preserving California’s cultural heritage.

Throughout his tenure at OHP Mr. Donaldson has taken an initiative and has moved forward to develop and maintain a working partnership with California's Indian tribes at both state and federal levels. Since all three, SHPO, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO), and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) share responsibility to be active at the local, state and federal level it is important that all three work together towards the same goals - preserving those traditional cultural values important to Indian country. In 2011 Donaldson began the process to include the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) as voting members of the ACHP which gives then the same voting rights as the SHPOs.(http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/winter11.pdf)

In addition to his other duties as SHPO, Wayne Donaldson has also personally driven several preservation projects he has felt a personal connection with. He first discussed Trestles Surf Break at San Onofre State Beach in his article "Wipeout at San O." (http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/spring%20newsletter_2008.pdf) The article brought to light serious impacts on a traditional cultural property should proper project mitigation not be in place when highway construction began. Trestles is currently in process to be nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

During Donaldson's tenure other notable designations have been made. In January 2010, under his leadership, the SHRC designated the objects left behind at the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site, to the California Register of Historic Resources.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
In June 2010, President Barack Obama appointed architect Milford Wayne Donaldson to be Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the nation’s lead agency on historic preservation. ACHP is an independent agency that works with federal, state, local, and tribal governments to address the requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), which mandates consideration of historic preservation values when planning development. The ACHP is also the primary policy advisor to the President and Congress on historic preservation issues and it helps carry out the inter-agency Preserve America Initiative, which encourages increased local participation in preserving the country’s cultural and natural heritage assets. Donaldson is the first architect to serve as chair in the 45-year history of ACHP.

In keeping with his ongoing state efforts to institute better historic preservation relationships between the federal government and Native Americans, Mr. Donaldson has also worked at the national level towards a goal that will assure the rights of Native Americans and Native Hawaiian Organizations to keep their cultural lands pristine, and that those rights are being taken into consideration when dealing with Traditional Cultural Properties and Traditional Cultural Landscapes. "Recognizing the importance of balancing the growing needs of development, while respecting the rights and traditions of Native peoples, the ACHP launched the Native American Traditional Cultural Landscapes Action Plan in November 2011. The Plan calls for the ACHP and the Department of the Interior (DOI) to do the following:  ♦&#160;Promote the recognition and protection of Native American traditional cultural landscapes both within the federal government and the historic preservation community as well as at the state and local levels; and ♦&#160;Address the challenges of the consideration of Native American traditional cutlural landscapes in the Section 106 review process as well as in National Environmental Policy Act reviews."

Affiliations
Mr. Donaldson has been associated with other historical preservation organizations; the National Trust for Historic Preservation, California Historic State Capitol Commission, US/ICOMOS. Taking the lead in preservation for the state, Donaldson is a former president of the California Preservation Foundation; "a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of California’s diverse cultural and architectural heritage," and also chaired the California State Historical Building Safety Board (SHBSB). In 1985, while serving with the SHBSB, Donaldson visited Mexico City after its devastating earthquake and has continued to develop unique seismic strengthening retrofit methods for historic buildings, specializing in adobe, sod, earthen and stone structures.

Personal
Milford Wayne Donaldson's deep passion and commitment to preserving California's unique cultural resources is also evident in his personal life. In December of 2004, for example, Donaldson restored and relocated a Futuro, a flying saucer-shaped home originally built in the 1960s. He had the 10,000-pound Futuro transported from the westernmost part of San Diego up to the top of the San Jacinto Mountains. Placed on a mountain top by a large crane Donaldson's Futuro was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen and is representative of a time period when use of plastics was expanding and portable inexpensive housing development was on the rise. "The Futuro House," Donaldson says, "is the first structural plastic house." Unfortunately the Futuro housing concept did not catch on, but is now an important part of 20th century architectural history.

Not always found on a mountain top in his free time, Donaldson restored and owns both a 1946 Stinson Voyager and a 1934 Stinson Reliant airplane. An avid aviator, Donaldson first became interested in flying as a young child spending free time building model planes. In high school and then college he flew gliders, and in 1972 began to soar the skies in a hang glider. In 1974 Donaldson few the Icarus II at Torrey Pines (picture) and during the late 1970s he worked on several of his own designs of inflatable plastic hang-gliders. In 1986 Donaldson received his Single Engine Land (ASEL) pilot's license and in 1988 acquired his first plane, a 1946 Stinson 108-1 Voyager. In 1996 Donaldson flew back to Stinson Field, Texas to attend the 50th anniversary celebration of the Stinson Aircraft;  Donaldson was the only pilot that flew from California to attend. Still actively flying, Donaldson is a past president and the current secretary of the International Stinson Club.

Wayne Donaldson and his second wife, Laurie, live in Sacramento in a signature Dreyfuss & Blackford Architects 1963 mid-rise condominium. Their family includes one daughter, Erica Lynn Donaldson and two sons, Jaret Blankenship and Nevin Blankenship. Donaldson is a registered Republican.

Articles of Interest
"Architect Honored for Preservation" (by Dirk Sutro, Los Angeles Times, 03/26/1992) http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-26/news/vw-6198_1_wayne-donaldson

"Close Encounter" (by Ann Jarmusch, San Diego Union Tribune, 01/02/2005) http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050102/news_mz1h2futuro.html

"Falling for Futuro" (by Dave Weinstein, The Eichler Network: California Modern) http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/falling-futuro

"To California, Moon Junk Is State Treasure" (by Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 01/29/2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/science/space/30moon.html

...authored by Milford Wayne Donaldson: "GET YOUTH INVOLVED to Build a Better Preservation Ethic – and Nation" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://www.achp.gov/Donaldson%20Article.pdf

"Native American Traditional Cultural Landscapes and the Section 106 Review Process: Questions and Answers" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://www.achp.gov/natl-qa.pdf

"The first ten days: emergency response and protection strategies for the preservation of historic structures" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://life.csu.edu.au/~dspennem/Disaster_SFO/SFO_Donaldson.html

As SHPO, Mr. Donaldson also writes quarterly for the California Office of Historic Preservation's newsletter, Preservation Matters. You can read and/or subscribe to Preservation Matters by accessing OHP's website: http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24985

Spring 2012 Volume 5 Issue 2 "Countdown to Disaster: Perspective in the Preservation of Cold War Era Cultural Resources" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/Spring%202012%20Vol.%205%20Issue%202.pdf Winter 2012 Volume 5 Issue 1 "Section 106: One of the Best Preservation Tools" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/2012winter.pdf Summer 2011 Volume 4 Issue 2 "Preserve Preserve America" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/summer2011.pdf Winter 2011 Volume 4 Issue 1 "ACHP, SHPO and THPO Partnership for Section 106" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/winter11.pdf

Fall 2010 Volume 3 Issue 4 "California’s Renewable Energy Challenge" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/fall%202010.pdf Summer 2010 Volume 3 Issue 3 "The Children of Haudenosaunee Confederacy" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/summer2010.pdf Spring 2010 Volume 3 Issue 2 "Walking the Walk: Fresno’s Fulton Mall" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/spring%20may%2010%20newsletter_2010.pdf Winter 2010 Volume 3 Issue 1 "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Preservation*" (*Carol J. Dyson, AIA) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/CorrWinter2010.pdf

Fall 2009 Volume 2 Issue 4 "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Helldiver 19866" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/fall09.pdf Summer 2009 Volume 2 Issue 3 "Common Ground: SHPOs and THPOs" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/summer2010.pdf Spring 2009 Volume 2 Issue 2 "A Culture of Reuse" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/spring09.pdf Winter 2009 Volume 2 Issue 1 "Countering the Dead Architects’ Society" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/winter09.pdf

Fall 2008 Volume 1 Issue 4 "Save Hangar One!!" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/fall%20%20november1%20newsletter_2008.pdf Summer 2008 Volume 1 Issue 3 "You’re Nominating Air? Torrey Pines Gliderport; National Register Boundary Increase" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/summer2008.pdf Spring 2008 Volume 1 Issue 2 "Wipeout at San O" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/spring%20newsletter_2008.pdf Winter 2008 Volume 1 Issue 1 "SHPO Perspective" &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/winter08r.pdf