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Tower Grove Park is owned by the City of St. Louis and governed by a special Board of Commissioners appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court. The current commissioners are:
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Board of Commissioners
Cheryl D. S. Walker, President
Michael R. Spotanski, Vice President & Treasurer
Robert W. Sellers, Assistant Treasurer
Jane P. Gleason
Anne C. Stupp
Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson
Emeritus Commissioners
Dennis G. Coleman
Robert J. Gaddy
John D. Haffenreffer
R. Crosby Kemper III
Susan R. Lammert
Eugene J. Mackey III
Thomas Purcell
Dr. Peter Raven
Robert P. Stupp
John A. Karel, Park Director
and Secretary to the Board |
The Past Superintendents / Directors
of Tower Grove Park
During Henry Shaw's lifetime, he himself served as
de facto superintendent of Tower Grove Park. Upon Shaw's death
in 1889, James Gurney, the horticulturist he had brought to
St. Louis from London, succeeded him, becoming the first official
park superintendent. Gurney's son, James Gurney, Jr. assumed
the position on his father's death in 1920. When James Gurney,
Jr. died in 1943, his daughter Bernice E. Gurney returned
to St. Louis to take on the position. On her retirement in
1976, Bernice Gurney was succeeded by Robert F. Denison. In
1987, John Karel became the fifth director of Tower Grove
Park.
Click
here for a schedule of the 2012 Board of Commissioners
Meetings.
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