I agree with what you’re saying. Crater Lake is really a special place. Everyone I talk to. It’s amazing that people are still good friends after 50 years even they may have only worked together for a very short time. I think Crater Lake has a lot to do with it.
(DR) That’s right. Did you talk to Amy Finch?
No.
(DR) She’s a party you should talk to. Her husband was assistant chief ranger and she’s a neighbor to Ethel Wilkinson (19).
Footnotes:
- Canfield had formerly been chief ranger at the park, succeeding Bill Godfrey in 1931.
- Ranger Dormitory, known as the Steel Center since 1987.
- The first experimental plowing of roads took place during the winter of 1930-31.
- Caretakers hired by park concessionary R.W. Price.
- Hughes played for the University of Oregon and later for the Chicago Cardinals.
- Those were riding breeches. Trouser replaced them in 1946.
- The Crater Wall Trail, which went to the shore from the Rim Village.
- House 24. The “Circle” refers to an island of plantings which has since been paved because of winter operations.
- Ernest P. Leavitt, Superintendent from 1937 to 1952.
- Nancy E. Doerr, John Doerr’s widow.
- Guy Hartell, heavy equipment operator, worked at the park from 1936 to 1941, and from 1956 to 1971. He died in 1990. Richard O. “Dick” Varnum mixed Gang (Roads) foreman worked at Crater Lake from 1936 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1965. He died in 1994.
- House 19 and 20, respectively.
- Secretary of the Interior from 1933 to 1946, who visited the park in 1935.
- Hillory Tolson served in this capacity from 1933 to 1951.
- The park was kept open during the winter on an experimental basis beginning in 1936.
- Martin Palmer, the park mechanic.
- Francis Lange was Resident Landscape Architect from 1934 to 1939. Rudy Lueck served as a lodge caretaker, equipment operator and park ranger at Crater Lake from 1929 to 1940. Robert E. Benton was Park Superintendent from 1984 to 1991.
- Davidson built both houses as a private contractor but utilized some material from the park. One is located at 201 Crater Lake Avenue and the other is 1202 E. Main.
- Amy Finch was interviewed by Steve Mark on the telephone in May 1989. Her husband B.R. Finch was a ranger at Crater Lake from 1933 to 1940. Ethel Wilkinson was the Superintendent’s Secretary from 1927 to 1947. She lived in Jacksonville in August 1988.
