Mark Holl, President Mark was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.   He graduated with an emphasis in Media Arts in 1982, and promptly left the big city for Nacogdoches, Texas, where he attended Stephen F. Austin State University. While at SFA, he crammed four years of a Forestry degree into five; managing to be a vice president of the Sylvans Club and a Forestry representative to the Student Government Association. He graduated with a BSF in 1991. In 1986 he married the former Barbara Pratt, and they now have three beautiful daughters.   After several years in industrial forestry, insurance, the nursery industry, and several graduate level courses in Horticulture, Mark finally came home to roost at SFA, and has served as The Assistant Manager of Grounds since November of 1997. Mark is active in Nacogdoches community affairs, and serves as Vice President of the Christ Episcopal School Board, Chair of Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Stephen F. Austin State University Mast Arboretum and also the SFA Piney Woods Native Plant Center.   Other activities include serving as a member of the SFA Employee Grievance Review Panel and the Employee Discrimination Complaint Review Board. Mark is a member of the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, is a Texas Certified Nursery Professional, and also enjoys membership in the utterly unofficial University Landscape Managers Association.   In addition, he is the President of the Texas Urban Forestry Council. Mark is passionate about Urban Forestry specifically, and natural resource management in general, and counts as one of his accomplishments reforesting the SFA campus.   Mark has more hobbies than he can afford.   His favorite activities include fishing, hunting, gardening, home brewing, and attending his childrens sporting events.

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