Contact Information
Email contact: roofreports@gmail.com
Address to send information: 3701 Sacramento Street San Francisco, California 94118
A Roof that worked - for over 100 years
Kistler Farm Residence, Export, PA, completed in the 1880's. by my g-g-grandfather Jonathan Kistler - with a Slate Roof that lasted over 100 years!
The house has 13’ floor to floor heights, and it’s three brick walls with two airspaces (one filled with hay) that make up the exterior walls sit on a large, limestone base.
My g-g-grandfather fired 96,000 brick for the house. The windows have rounded corners at the top and were traded for with a large load of bales of hay – this was a Swiss Dairy Farm.
A barn was completed earlier, in 1840, was 5 stories high and reputed to be the largest one in
What Education Needs to get back to: The Principles of the One-Room Schoolhouse
Pictured:
Schooled there were numerous members of the area, including a Great Uncle who was schooled in medicine at Johns Hopkins in the 1910’s, and who practiced medicine until he was 94, an uncle who later became a major league pitcher, etc.
The Schoolhouse is now a National Monument, moved to the campus of
Who trained me in the basics of roofing and waterproofing:
In the early 1980's, I had the unique pleasure and honor to have been trained for over two years by Matt Hitlin, the architect/former Johns-Manville 27-year rep, and Roof Consultant with Law Engineering & Testing in Atlanta.
Matt wrote the "Bible" of Roofing, as members of the Roof Consultant's Institute (RCI) have told me....he started the International Roofing & Waterproofing Association (IRWCA), now part of the RCI.
So what did he teach me in those two years' worth of consulting on the Southern Company Services Corporate Headquarters Building that I worked on?
How to detail all kinds of roofing and waterproofing in various conditions, including but not limited to - get this, for those of you in the roofing industry! - Terne Stainless Steel Batten Seam Roofing running up and down through trusses over a snaking one-acre atrium, with Pilkington shear glass walls (3 foot deep glass vertical fins every 5 feet...) at either end, one end going down through limestone waterfalls at the base of 11 stories.....and that was just one set of conditions.
And we aren't even getting into the specifications issues that architects trained me to do at Toombs Amisano & Wells and Thompson Ventulett Stainback in Atlanta.just the best, guys!
Thanks go to Matt, for teaching me so wonderfully, and with the basics - something that seems severely lacking today.
And many thanks go to those in the Atlanta Architectural community - the great and good ethical guys with the best design and detailing experience - who took me on when women did not do architecture, who were willing to teach, train and take care of one of their own. They are all our treasure.
Brief Professional Background:
Georgia Tech, BS – Major in Architecture
Georgia Tech, Master of Architecture, 6-year professional Master of Architecture Degree
Service, Honors and Awards:
Three-time elected member, Georgia Board of Directors, American Institute of Architects from the Atlanta Chapter of the AIA. Member, State Convention Committee.
Three-time elected member of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, 12th Assembly District, California, one term elected Vice Chair Special Events.
Principal, Campbell Pope & Associates, Architectural Firm, Atlanta, Georgia
President, Chantilly Properties, Atlanta, Georgia
Principal, Campbell & Associates, San Francisco, California
Emerson Award, Third Prize, Retail Design; National Institute for Architectural Education, New York City
Award for Excellence of Studies (Master's Thesis), Atlanta Chapter, American Institute of Architects,
Governor's Honors in Art, State of Georgia, after 10th grade year.
Selected Competition Winner, Watercolor, American Society of Architectural Illustrationists.
Published in American Architects, as one of three Georgia Architects.
Published in Marker Magic, John Wiley Press and in succeeding editions.
Published in The Illustrated Room. Published in Knife & Fork Magazine.
San Francisco Restaurant featured in Dwell Magazine, the NY Times Food Section and the Food Network, 2009-11.
Published in The Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Published in San Francisco Bay Area Houses.
Published in Who's Who In the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who of American Women, and Who's Who in Science & Engineering, multiple years.
PUBLICATIONS RE: THE ROOFING SCAM
Report of the California State Auditor from my reports to them, at the behest of my attorneys:
The California State Auditor was not allowed to investigate and make their report for 6 years after the first report to them, due to the fact that they are controlled by Politicians, the California Legislature and the California State Attorney General.
Published in
Published in SF Weekly, cover story, “The Fix Is In”, Feb. 26, 2003 (distribution over 600,000). Located here: http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-02-26/news/the-fix-is-in/
Published in The Valley Advocate,
Published in the
Published in the
On NBC Network News Hidden Camera, WLWT NBC TV, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 2001 and February 27, 2003 in two stories on the roofing scam in Cincinnati Public Schools. Located herein:
"Roofers May Cash In at Local Schools: Schools Spend Millions on New Roofs", at: http://www.wlwt.com/news/790350/detail.html
Personal:
Photo: taken in my yard at home in Atlanta.
My family has been in the
Two of the families came from
Today, the original large brick home just north of Greensburg, PA marks the spot where the 200-acre land grant farm with five-story barn was located, and where half the land and more is still owned by the family.
Eight generations lived off this land; mine is the ninth and among the cousins, many are still in that area and the rest of us are literally scattered between four countries - the
I have lived in eight cities prior to moving to San Francisco, and have traveled extensively, including traveling to Eastern Europe while still Iron Curtain, Western Europe, Mexico, the Carribean and Canada. I lived for most of my life - 32 years - in
