Denis P. Galvin

[2] While still in school there, he worked part-time at Fenway Park selling hot dogs, which carried with it the fringe benefit of free admission to Red Sox games.

[3] In 1985, Galvin was appointed to the Service's second highest position as Deputy Director, and served in that and several other posts over the rest of his career in the NPS Headquarters office in Washington.

He served as deputy director for a combined total of nine years, spanning the Reagan, Clinton, and George W. Bush Administrations.

[1][a] As such, he was called upon to officially represent the Service in more than 200 formal Congressional hearings before the United States Congress on Capitol Hill.

"[6][7] In 2001, he received the Federal Government's Presidential Rank Award, "for exceptional achievement in the career Senior Executive Service," and in 2011 was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

[8] We who have shared National Park Service Careers know it is a struggle to protect resources for present and future generations against the clamor of competing uses and values.

Congressman Nick J. Rahall II, upon the occasion of Galvin's retirement in 2002, said: "For many people, both within and outside of the National Park Service, Deny is 'Mr.