Partnership as we have successfully completed several matching room projects, including the new room and 2014, room last week, and underway the front parlor, hopefully to open up next year. Tom has led critically important projects, stabilizing the iconic couple of and the staircase. He spearheaded the Historic Building information model, not to mention spending several nights in the new room counting and charting every nail and nail hole in that floor to answer the question is it the original floor . I am glad he has a job and not me. John holds a ba from the college of william and mary. Aba and classics from the college of william and mary. With continuing studies at the American School of classical studies at athens and the university of North Carolina chapel hill. Focus to shifted his more classical concerns of historic preservation, earning an and a from George Washington university. Prior to coming to mount vernon, tom served as architectural historian and administrator of histor