Oh, really?
Sub-professional. All the permanent interpreters were quote “professional” in those days. Of course that classification has fallen by the wayside.
You were a sub-professional because it was a seasonal?
Right, that was the way it was structured, very interesting. I did a lot of work in geology and taxonomic work at Petrified Forest.
So there was a certain part of your work time that was visitor contact, but also in a museum doing some…?
It was all visitor contact in those days in the museum and then any research you did was on your own in the evenings or weekends, whenever you would get time.
But they encouraged research?
Oh, yes they encouraged it. I would get credit for it at the college level. So it was a federal job much like what you do here with HSU today, good program. We had, as a side line, a very interesting group in that particular college at that time. One professor, Dr. Allen, was a friend of Dr. Bryant at Grand Canyon, so we all had entered into the National Park Service from several different directions. Russ Dickenson was one – our former Director, Paul Spangle, Myron Sutton. The last time I ran into Paul Spangle he was one of the bosses in the Service Center in Denver. Had spent ten years over in the mid-east, Jordan, I believe, doing studies. Myron Sutton was quite an author. Those folks, I believe, are all retired now.
