Didn’t he die of a heart attack?
Stroke. He collapsed right there in the Administration Building. He was really well liked. He had a nice family. His family was younger. He was older. He was a portly man, very pleasant, treated everybody nice. He had a kind voice, that people just liked to hear. He had a lot of respect.
Right now we’re discussing the Superintendence of Einar Johnson (13).
The story goes that the Regional Director came into the park, into the Administration Building one day, and said, “This place looks old. Do something about it.” So the first thing he (Einar Johnson) did was put plastic on those little benches at headquarters (14). How many are still surviving? There were still four of them the last I saw, but are there still some in the lobby?
The rustic benches? There might be three that I know of.
There were still three there and one had gotten moved up when they put the window in that large room to the left of the fireplace. They were designed to sit in those four corners and that corner was taken up by the dispatch window (15). The idea was that we could run the radio and still take care of the visitors, and handle business. So they put the bench into the old room that was the school house back there (16).
