Yes, I am.
He was moving back and forth twice a year, winter and summer. The administrative office was in the old federal building here in Medford (5). The personnel man, and accountant, procurement and property management were under me in that office.
Do you remember the names of those people who worked in the administrative office when you were hired?
Well, Marion Anderson was my personnel officer, Basil Curtis was procurement and property, but I can’t think of the accountant right now. Leroy Marcroft was handling the administrative work when I came, but soon quit and moved over on the coast somewhere.
Who was the Secretary?
I believe Mae Hammack to start with, but I forget who took her place after she got sick. George Woodley was in the warehouse at Crater Lake, so he was back and forth with purchasing. After they started field purchase orders it simplified a lot of purchasing. He [Woodley] could write a field order for items and didn’t have to go through us until the accounting for them went through.
You want to know where I lived up there. Well, to start with before they finished the [Steel Circle] housing, I was in one of those little cabins at Sleepy Hollow. I then moved to the far end of the four plex (6).
I forget the name of the administrative officer that was at the park before I came, but he was gone before I arrived. I don’t know my successor, either, because that was probably the Klamath Falls Group Office. You asked how difficult was moving your office twice a year. It was just the superintendent who moved back and forth so we had all of the files, records and accounting and so on down here. When they moved us to Crater Lake in ’65 the regional office took over the accounting. Just the personnel officer, procurement and property, the secretary and I went up there. The superintendent held on to a little cubbyhole in the Federal Building in Medford for awhile (7).
Was there also an assistant superintendent at various times?
Neal Guse was on for a while and then Don Robinson (8).
