Véronique Paquet Appointed Spa Director for Springs Eternal Spa at the Historic Bedford Springs Resort

BEDFORD, PA, June 13, 2007 -- Véronique Paquet has been named spa director for the Springs Eternal Spa at Bedford Springs Resort, the landmark property dating to 1796, which is scheduled to reopen in July. She previously served as the spa director at Sundara Inn & Spa at Wisconsin Dells. Under her leadership, the property unveiled the first spa residential community in the Midwest. During her tenure at this destination spa, it was rated by Travel & Leisure magazine as the #3 spa in the nation, receiving extended notice on ABC’s Good Morning America.

Paquet previously worked for Noble House Hotels & Resorts serving as spa director at the Inn & Spa at Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Little Palm Island Resort & Spa in Little Torch Key, Florida. She also served as guest recreation & activities director at Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego, California.

Earlier in her career, Paquet worked in communications and media relations. She began her professional life working with the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado.

Paquet is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor’s degree in world history and political science. She is fluent is English and French. Ms. Paquet has relocated to Altoona, Penn.

About Bedford Springs Resort
The historic Bedford Springs Resort, which dates to 1796, is undergoing a comprehensive renovation and expansion program to create a 216-guestroom Four Star-quality destination resort.

The National Historic Landmark resort has hosted such distinguished guests as Aaron Burr, Daniel Webster, and seven US Presidents, including James K. Polk, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ronald Reagan (while Governor) and James Buchanan, who used Bedford Springs as his Summer White House. In 1857 in the Grand Lobby, President Buchanan received the first transatlantic cable from England’s Queen Victoria.

A classic “springs resort” with many of the original buildings and architectural elements still in place, the restored and expanded Bedford Springs Resort will feature six restaurants, including the Crystal Dining Room, the Frontier Tavern, the 1796 Room, Che Sara Sara Café, the Turtle Shell, as well as over 20,000 square feet of meeting and event space with pre-function areas to accommodate a wide variety of groups. The property will also feature a restored 1905 swimming pool and solarium – one of the first in America, and the new Springs Eternal Spa complex, which will total 30,000 square feet and have a full range of treatments designed around the seven unique springs that are part of the property and the history of the resort. There will also be a fitness area and a full service salon.

Outdoor amenities include the restoration of the A.W.Tillinghast (1912) / Donald Ross (1923) 18-hole golf course and a new pro shop. Ross, widely considered the father of American golf architecture, re-designed the Tillinghast course and added his signature features, such as small greens, serpentine bunkers, “doughnut” bunkers, false fronts on greens and more. Also, the resort will offer an outdoor pool, sun decks, a snack bar, 25 miles of hiking trails, 265 miles of rural mountain biking trails traversing the 2,200 acres of natural wooded landscape, and the Resort Rascals children’s program.