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Morrison, Hoeninghausen to serve on travel council
This document was published online on Monday, February 18, 2008
Two appointments to the Park County Travel Council were made by the county commissioners.
They selected incumbent Yellowstone Park representative Rick Hoeninghausen, the only Yellowstone applicant, for reappointment and also chose new at-large member Scott Morrison of Cody.
Selections were made during the regular commission meeting Feb. 12.
Interviews were conducted with all candidates except Hoeninghausen prior to the selections.
Before the vote selecting Morrison, commission chairman Tim French asked each commissioner to select three top choices to fill the at-large vacancy, Park County Clerk Kelly Jensen said.
She said the three who made the first cut included Morrison, Tim Mahieu and Jamie Parsons.
Discussion then concerned the merits of each candidate, all of whom the commissioners felt were good choices.
PCTC member Hamilton Bryan spoke from the audience in favor of Morrison, telling the commissioners he felt Morrison's marketing experience would benefit the council, Jensen said.
Commissioners then cast their votes, favoring Morrison over the other two candidates.
Morrison lived for a time at Valley Ranch on the upper South Fork where he worked as a fishing, hunting and trail guide 1981-84.
He met his wife, Gina Bluher of Cody, at the ranch in 1981.
Morrison spent 10 years as a guide before learning graphic arts skills in the Sun Valley, Idaho, area.
He moved to Bozeman in 1991 and worked for an advertising agency before starting his own advertising business in 1994.
He continues that work in Cody, specializing in the outdoors industry.
The Morrisons have two children.
Hoeninghausen has served on the PCTC for a decade and currently is vice chairman of the group.
“Of all the boards and associations on which I serve, this is by far the most enjoyable,” Hoeninghausen said in his application.
He works for Xanterra Parks and Resorts in Yellowstone, and has lived and worked in Idaho, North Carolina, Florida and New York prior to 1998.
Other applicants for the vacant at-large PCTC position included:
€Michael Christiansen, a Powell native and former Jackson resident who with his wife owns Shoshone Lodge on the North Fork.
€Tim Mahieu of Cody, a member of the Cody Stampede Board and a financial advisor with Raymond James Financial at Shoshone First Bank.
€Jamie Parsons of Wapiti, who assists with the marketing of Copperleaf Subdivision and is a former co-owner and manager of Bill Cody Ranch on the North Fork.
€Gerald Schaeffer of Cody, former senior partner in Communi Graphics Inc. of St. Louis, Mo., an advertising and graphic design firm where he worked 1975-89.
The two appointees named will serve three-year terms on the PCTC.
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