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Conrad L. Wirth (1899 - 1993) was a U.S. administrator. He served as the director of the National Park Service between 1951 and 1964. Trained as a landscape architect and previously employed by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Conrad L. Wirth joined the NPS as an assistant director in 1931. With the coming of the New Deal he supervised the service's Civilian Conservation Corps program in the state parks. His administrative ability marked him to succeed Demaray, whom he served as associate director before advancing to the top job in December 1951. Wirth's crowning achievement was Mission 66, a 10-year, billion-dollar program to upgrade park facilities and services by the 50th anniversary of the NPS in 1966. After the 1961 change of administrations Wirth fell out of favor with Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall and departed in early 1964. He died in 1993. Wirth grew up in a park environment – his father was park superintendent for the city of Hartford, Conn., and later the city of Minneapolis. Wirth took a degree in landscape architecture from what is now the University of Massachusetts. He first came to Washington, D.C., area to work for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Albright had him transferred into NPS, where he was put in charge of the Branch of Lands. He went on to supervise the Interior Department’s CCC program. A member of the National Geographic Society’s Board of Trustees, he was also active in conservation and park Service alumni affairs.[1][2] [edit] Further reading
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