And I specifically refer to several young men I will always remember, how good they were, how faithful they were and what they became in later life. I would like to particularly pay tribute to Howard Buford, who was my landscape assistant at Crater Lake, who was a very innovative and mentally active young man. Any job that he was given; he applied himself and did excellent work. I remember especially Howard in charge of our furniture making shop which we had down at Annie Springs. Howard was very good, very dedicated, and eventually when he left the government service, he took position as city planner with the city of Eugene, Oregon. He did an outstanding job as planner for the city, and has had a park named after him which he designed himself. I speak highly of Howard and the success that he gave to his work and to his loyalty and honesty. Another fine gentleman that I enjoyed working with was Edward Meola. He was a dedicated man, had many creative ideas, was good on wrought-iron work, was also a good on sign planning and construction and execution in the field. Ed later entered the State Park system in Salem, Oregon, where he has an excellent career. I have another young chap, an architect by the name of Roland Gibbs, who graduated from the University of California in 1933. After he left the three C and worked four years with me in the summer months, he went into private practice and in time became on of the prominent architects of that city. I think he died some two or three years ago, but he was an outstanding AIA (American Institute of Architects) Member, and a highly qualified and gifted architect.
I had another young architect by the name of Roger Armstrong. He was more inclined toward the writing and research field of architecture. He was a studious man. He spent several trips over to Europe and he published an interesting book on the Cathedrals of France. He made drawing of each Cathedral, gave a historical reference to the book in his reference and I think this embraced some 35 Cathedrals which were all bound in one edition. He received man noble comments for this accomplishment of his writing and assembling this excellent material. I’ll always remember on little landscape architect, his name is Al Lathrop, he had a very keen mind, but he was physically deformed. By that I mean he was small in stature and had other conditions which most of us were most fortunate not to have. Whenever I gave Al a job to do, he always was loyal to doing the job; he won’t the respect of the men that worked for him. Al Lathrop passed away several years ago, but I’ve always admired that young chap. He was a gifted landscape architect; he did very well in working for the city of Eugene under Howard Buford and was a very dedicated young man. I have another friend, Bob Goodall who was a landscape architect. He was excellent in design and was unusually good at public contacts. He later became a prominent landscape architect in New York City and did many outstanding residential, school layouts and related planning. He was a nationally prominent man.
