So you essentially pegged most of them.
Yes, at least the ones that were on the township maps and maps developed from aerial photography. I didn’t have a computer to do this work so it was all done by hand, and it was a lot of work. I compiled the list, and after the name of each lake, I would put numbers indicating any references and any literature about these particular lakes. For example, you’re interested in Wallowa Lake; you find it and the entry gives the township and range. There are series of numbers after it, maybe 17, 35,45 or something, and those numbers relate to the bibliography. You would then go to the bibliography and find 35 and obtain a citation for a study that was done on Wallowa Lake. I thought it had some usefulness because people who were interested in the lakes of Oregon, not only to know where these lakes are located and what physiographic region, but what’s available as far as other research studies.
Did masters students work with you on this project, like Jim Malick and Owen Hoffman?
It was just me on that one. Owen was gone by that time. Malick was still there working on his masters, but he was working independently after I graduated. He finished his masters in ’71 and then went to the University of Washington for his doctorate.
Were there just the three of you under Donaldson?
Yes.
A very small department.
Yes, it was just the three of us. Jim Malick and I worked together, he was looking at the zooplankton in Crater, Waldo, Woahink and Odell lakes.
You were interested in phytoplankton?
Yes. I also wanted to describe general limnological features and some basic water chemistry. We were doing zooplankton totals for Jim and primary production. One of the problems we had related to facilities. When I arrived at OSU I was close to appalled at the lack of facilities to do research. Donaldson was in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. There was virtually no facility to do limnological research. I didn’t realize this until I arrived and then realized that I made a mistake. I wished I had gone to the University of Washington where they had a bona fide limnological program under Tommy Edmondson.
Where were the facilities?
It was in an old building they called Extension Hall. It was sort of kiddy corner from Oceanography. Maybe three or four stories, it was brick. There was a little building they called the annex, and it was a former residence. Some of the professors had their offices there and they had a little lab.
