The Board of Directors and Senior Management of The National Monuments Foundation have been carefully developed from a cross-section of individuals who are committed to the mission of creating self-sustaining destination landmarks which benefit the citizens of the United States. The following is a brief biography of each of the Board and Honorary Board members. The Directors are actively engaged in the operation of the Foundation, and are key advisors with expertise and influence on a global level.

Rodney M. Cook, Jr., President

Rodney M. Cook, Jr. is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, 1978. He initiated the campaign which successfully saved the 6000 seat Fox Theater. In 1982, he established Rodney M. Cook Interests, a design/development company. In 1987, he established PolitesCook Architects which designed the Newington Cropsey Museum, NY, housing the largest American collection of Hudson River School paintings (Arthur Ross Award to founder.) He is a Founding Trustee of The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Architecture and organized the design and construction of the Princes’ Olympic Games Monument in Atlanta with Anton Glikine, et al. His preservation efforts currently involve the establishment of the Russian National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is on the boards of directors of the Hearst Foundation/Hearst Castle, Atlanta Landmarks (owner of the Fox Theater), Institute for Classical Architecture, The New York Philomusica, and Public Broadcasting PBS Atlanta. He has lectured at the University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, Hearst Castle, the Kremlin Armory, Tolstoy estate Yasnaya Polyana, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, Moscow, National Building Museum, Washington DC, The US Senate, and the Russian Embassy, Washington. His work has been published in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times of London, Pravda, Izvestia, The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard, and USA Today.

English, Alexandra, Emily, Rodney Cook, Jr. Family

Cullen Hammond
Attorney, Hammond, Tarkenton & Dinopoli. Mr. Hammond is also Chief Council for Nationwide Insurance Company. Mr. Hammond has been involved in historic preservation in the Southeastern region, having served on the Board of Directors of Historic Rhodes Hall, headquarters of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.

Rawson Haverty, Jr.
Vice President, Haverty Furniture Company and Director of Haverty Real Estate. All Haverty’s stores are the property of this 100+ year-old company which is the third largest furniture retail company in the US. Mr. Haverty also sits on the Board of The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA and his museum background is of extraordinary benefit to National Monuments Foundation as it pursues its history museum component.

Rawson Haverty, Jr.

Pamela Rollins
Ms. Rollins is a noted philanthropist with a keen interest in education. She has been significantly involved with The Lovett School, Berry College, and Emory University among other educational institutions. Her experience will assist The National Monuments Foundation to create a superior teaching facility. Ms. Rollins also worked to save the historic Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA.

Rodney M. Cook, Jr. , Jonathan Grayburn, Pam Rollins, Hugh Petter

Robert Tolleson
President and CEO of CPO Commerce Inc., California. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, Mr. Tolleson has lived all over the world, primarily Asia, and has a significant background in education and the arts. He maintains strong connections to the American philanthropic business community.

Robert Tolleson

Arol Wolford
President, ROI Corporation. Mr. Wolford established one of the largest construction data companies in the world. His interests in the built environment rival the Prince of Wales, having established companies that restore forgotten historic buildings in urban centers, giving them new uses. The Wolford family sponsors The American Institute of Architect’s annual gold medal awards.

Tom Glenn and Arol Wolford (right)

Colin Amery - Head of the World Monuments Fund, United Kingdom
Mr. Amery is a Founding Trustee of the Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Architecture. He is a preservationist, urbanist, and author of numerous books on architecture, as well as the architecture critic for The Financial Times of London.

Colin Amery

Tommy Bagwell - Chairman and CEO of American Proteins, Georgia
A philanthropist with strong interests in education in Georgia and the United States, Mr. Bagwell is a pivotal figure making advances in this field. He also has a strong interest in classical architecture. His association with The Carter Presidential Center has taken him around the world as an emissary and elections monitor and observer.

Rodney Cook, Jr., Tom Glenn, Susan Eisenhower, Arol Wolford & Tommy Bagwell on the Bagwell Yacht Chantal Ma Vie

Richard H. Driehaus - Driehaus Capital Management, Chicago
Mr. Driehaus is a noted preservationist and architectural enthusiast, having restored the Abraham Lincoln summer White House in Washington DC for the National Trust. He has established the important Driehaus Prize, administered by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, and was a patron of the Chicago Millennium Park on Michigan Avenue.

Rodney Cook, Jr., Priscilla Roosevelt, Richard Driehaus, Susan Eisenhower, & Thomas Gordon Smith

Susan Eisenhower - President of Eisenhower World Affairs Institute,
Washington DC
Ms. Eisenhower is a member of the Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a key international figure concentrating on making urban centers viable. As a consultant to the United States Department of Defense, Ms. Eisenhower also pursues the stabilization of the world’s nuclear arsenal.

Tom Glenn - President of The Glenn Family Foundation, Atlanta
The Glenn Family has enriched Atlanta like few families in its history. They have built universities, hospitals, churches, and corporations among others, all concentrated on improving the quality of life. Mr. Glenn has also recently created an enlightened program at The Westminster Schools for philanthropy which will become a catalyst for other similar programs around the United States.

Anne Randolph Hearst - Philanthropist, New York
Board President of Hearst Castle Foundation, an American historic house/museum in San Simeon, California. Ms. Hearst is the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, a noted American journalist, politician, and architectural aficionado who at one time owned The Atlanta Constitution which his son Randolph (father of Ms. Hearst) ran. The Hearsts are supporters of local Atlanta educational institutions as well, having endowed Oglethorpe University.

Anne Randolph Hearst, Rodney Cook, Jr. & Remar Sutton

Remar Sutton - Author, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
A Georgia native, Mr. Sutton is an international figure with strong connections to the business, cultural, and philanthropic world. He is a strong proponent of education, and his books focus on educational pursuits. Mr. Sutton is also an authority on Scandinavian baroque architecture.

Priscilla Roosevelt - Author, Washington DC.
Noted architectural theorist and scholar focusing on Russian classicism, Ms. Roosevelt has been involved in historic preservation globally and is a fixture on the international lecture circuit. Her book Life on the Russian Country Estate is a photographic basis for the establishment of the Russian National Trust for Historic Preservation. The New York Roosevelts are related to the Georgia Bulloch Family, builders of Bulloch Hall, near Atlanta (below).

Vladymir Tolstoy & Priscilla Roosevelt

Thomas Gordon Smith - Former Chairman, School of Architecture,
University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
Visionary educator who estabilished the premiere classical school in the United States, if not the world. Chairman Smith established close associations with the Prince of Wales’s Institute, the University of Miami, the St. Petersburg Academy, Yale University, and Moscow Institute, establishing these institutions as centers of world classical architectural thought. His practice also thrives and is based in New York and South Bend.

Thomas Gordon Smith

Alex E. Suarez - Chairman and CEO of Family Office Bankshares Inc. (IN Organization), a South Florida-based bank holding company in the formation stage, Atlanta. Mr. Suarez was the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Midtown Bank & Trust Company. He is active in various civic and philanthropic causes in the Atlanta and Midtown communities, including membership on the Board of the Piedmont Park Conservancy and the Emory University Board of Governors.

Alex Suarez (left) & KP Reddy

Carolyn Lee Wills - Philanthropist, Atlanta.
A key figure in the Atlanta business, education, and arts communities, Ms. Wills was a major force in saving the historic Fox Theatre and sits on the board of Atlanta Landmarks, owner of the 6000 seat theatre.

Tom Wolfe - Author, New York.
The definitive American author chronicling our time, Mr. Wolfe’s books The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House, dissecting the global arts and architectural communities, establish him as an intellectual who fully understands the import of the mission of The National Monuments Foundation for the nation’s cities.

Rodney Cook & Tom Wolfe