And I’ll always recall how Dave, if there was a problem on getting one space to live in or something need in the way of equipment, we had refrigerators, stoves or anything to make his workers, or helpers I should call them, satisfied. Dave would go out of his way to help everyone and I think as a result of that, was due to those people that worked for him. They gave themselves. I never remember any critical words being spoken against Dave, all I can remember was good things, his good qualities and the help that he did. I’ll always remember from the landscaping point of view Dave was highly interested in following out the landscape and architectural needs of his park. He took particular pride in reviewing the plans with us, he had many fine suggestions from the practical point of view that we did not have because he had lived with these people throughout the year and I think he made people produce more. I never felt I was working on the snow plow. When Dave and I went up a couple of winter times it had a severe storm, Dave would always say to the fellows on the snow plow, “You’re doing a good job.” He said, “You’re getting rid of that damn stuff, somebody’s got to get rid of it.” Ha Ha! He said that. All the rangers and the office personnel and even many of the tourists spoke well of Dave Canfield, how he had helped them come into the park. Dave was very receptive to comments from the public and he instructed rangers to listen to any comments and any negative comments, he always wanted to hear and correct them accordingly. We all hated to see Dave leave in ’39.
He knew that he was entitled to advancement to a better position and by going back to Rocky Mountain they were very fortunate to have an excellent administrator to guide them in their work. He left many friends at Crater Lake and many of us were sorry to Dave leave, but we were proud to think that we were part of his progress to success.
