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 that benefit the citizens of the United States. The Directors are actively engaged in the operations of the Foundation and are key advisors with expertise and influence on a global level. The following is a brief biography of each of the Board and Honorary Board members.

Rodney M. Cook, Jr., President
Rodney M. Cook, Jr. is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, class of 1978. His early work in Atlanta began while initiating the campaign that successfully saved the historic, 6000-seat Fox Theatre. In 1982, he established Rodney M. Cook Interests, a design/development company, and in 1987, he formed PolitesCook Architects, a firm that designed the Newington Cropsey Museum, NY to house 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 Prince’s Olympic Games Monument in Atlanta alongside Anton Glikine, et al. His preservation efforts have also involved the establishment of the Russian National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is on the board of directors of the Hearst Foundation/Hearst Castle, Atlanta Landmarks (owner of the Fox Theatre), Institute for Classical Architecture, The New York Philomusica, and Public Broadcasting PBS Atlanta. He has lectured at the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee, Hearst Castle, the Kremlin Armory, the Tolstoy estate Yasnaya Polyana, the Open Society Institute, the Soros Foundation, Moscow, the National Building Museum, Washington D.C., the U.S. Senate, and the Russian Embassy, Washington. His work has been published in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, The 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 widely 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 U.S. Mr. Haverty also sits on the Board of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, and his museum background is of extraordinary benefit to National Monuments Foundation as it pursues its history museum component.

Rawson Haverty, Jr.

Pamela Rollins
Philanthropist. 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 in creating a superior teaching facility. Ms. Rollins also worked to save the historic Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

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

Robert Tolleson
President and CEO of CPO Commerce Inc., California. A graduate of 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 that of 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 an interest in classical architecture, Mr. Bagwell is a pivotal figure in educational advancements in Georgia and in the United States. 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 the Chief Investment Officer and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and has been generous in a variety of philanthropic and business sectors. Having maintained an ardent interest in classical design and development, he established through the University of Notre Dame and his two charitable trusts the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. His historic preservation efforts include the restorations of the Ransom Cable House in Chicago, a 1905 Georgian Revival house in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; a design competition for the garden at Chicago’s Millennium Park; Roosevelt Park in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and the historic Nickerson Mansion, one of the finest residences ever built in Chicago and now home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

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

Susan Eisenhower
President of Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, Washington D.C. 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 the city's history. They have built universities, hospitals, churches, and corporations, among other influential, urban features, all concentrated on improving the quality of life in Atlanta. 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 and 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 Georgian (now The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) which his son Randolph (the 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 D.C. A 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. Chairman Smith is a visionary educator who has estabilished the premiere classical school in the United States. He has formed close associations with the Prince of Wales’s Institute, the University of Miami, the St. Petersburg Academy, Yale University, and Moscow Institute, helping to establish these institutions as centers of world classical architectural thought. His practice also thrives and is based in New York and South Bend, Indiana.

Thomas Gordon Smith

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, which dissect the global arts and architectural communities, establish him as an intellectual who fully understands the import of the mission of The National Monuments Foundation on the nation’s cities.

Rodney Cook & Tom Wolfe