So, you didn’t get your doctorate until almost the end of World War II.
Yes. And I decided within a couple of years that the job in Oregon was no longer worth while. They had a new director that I didn’t work with very well, and so I decided it was time to go into teaching. I went back to Penn State and taught there for two years and discovered I wasn’t an easterner! And so I got a job in New Mexico and I spent seven years at the New Mexico School and Bureau of Mines working as head of the department of geology, and then later as a senior geologist for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines. Similar to the work I’d been doing at Oregon. And then in 1956, my friends here at Portland State called me up and said, “Look, we want you to come here and start a department of geology.” And so that’s what I did.
Was this campus at this location in 1956?
It was in the old Lincoln High School, twenty eight hundred students in one building.
So, it had moved from Vanport because of the flood and then was on S.W. Main.
They were just finishing up the northwest quarter of Cramer Hall. They built this building in four sections and we didn’t move into this until 1971. This quarter of the building expanded. We were all in the northwest quarter of the basement: this is the northeast quarter. In fact, we have this whole floor now.
