Summer 2010
POST Honors Frank Crossman
Frank Crossman
- Congratulations to Frank Crossman of Palo Alto, who was
named POST’s 2010 Volunteer of the Year at an event in March at Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards in Saratoga. He was chosen from among more than 180 volunteers who were honored at the event.
- Frank has been invaluable advising POST staff and land volunteers about GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. The equipment is used in mapping and monitoring POST-owned land as well as private land over which POST holds conservation easements. With his wife, Donna, Frank converted stacks of paper easement records into electronic form. In addition, he leads three conservation easement monitoring teams and helps with special events.
- Frank, who moved to Palo Alto in 1966 from Connecticut, became a POST land volunteer in 2007. “Initially I volunteered for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, but as I made the connection between having public land and understanding how that land is acquired, I found POST and became steadily more involved,” he says. The Crossmans have been generous donors to POST since 2002 and are members
of POST’s Skyline Society.
- As part of Frank’s responsibilities, he monitors an unusually complex set of easements covering Bolsa Point Ranches. In 2009, when POST secured an easement over 493 acres at Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, Frank led the team that prepared the first
conservation easement monitoring report.
- Says Frank, “Working with the POST staff and
volunteers, especially those volunteers who have been
with POST for many years, is a great privilege.”
POST Toasts Volunteers . . .
