It’s boarded up now.
Oh. Too bad. I had a hand in helping plan those. Then there had been plans for exhibits at various points around the rim, and down at Pumice Desert and the Pinnacles area. I was very much involved in the text for those and the drawings and my good friend Jeff Adams helped me write texts. If he didn’t know what I was trying to say, I re-did it. After the exhibits were constructed in San Francisco, the park crews put them in place on the stone pedestals. The original stone pedestals are still there, I believe, but not the original exhibits. I don’t know what generation we have now. But anyway, this was a significant improvement in the interpretation of the lake. Revision of several booklets, including the Ruhle Road Guide to Crater Lake National Park, also happened. A lot of my winter time was spent planning for the following summer and going through employment applications.
So, as chief, you really controlled the hiring?
That’s correct.
This was also a time when 101 Flowers of Crater Lake got off the ground and several other publications which I don’t remember right now.
Was the book published in Eugene?
No. it was from a Seattle outfit. The author had been a seasonal employee (7).
Were the kinds of people you hired largely college faculty or grad students?
Pretty much thought some of them were school teachers. I think we had a rather high caliber of employees there. We expected quite a lot out of them, and this included how they wore their uniforms. I remember one saying something about, “well, they don’t have to do that at some other park.” And the answer was, “well, this is our, and this is what we’re going to do.” Although the seasonal employees thought that quite a bit was expected of them in the way of performance and appearance, they had a pretty high esprit de corps, too. One thing that added to that were the parties that we had every now and then.
