Did they live only at the park?
Yes, they were just at the park. We kept all the files here [Medford] until they moved a lot of the old ones into the Federal Records Center. We kept some of the necessary ones that we had to work with continually, but all the old ones went somewhere back east (9). The rangers and naturalists kept their records in the park, but most of the files were kept in the administrative office.
Did you send them to the records centers every few years?
No, just that one big shipment was it.
When was that big shipment, in the ‘60’s?
Oh, it was the early ‘60’s. I don’t remember just when.
Where did you live in Medford before you moved to the park?
At first we rented a housed located on 9th and Cottage, in which the owners had an apartment on the upper floor that they used for brief periods. They sold the property in 1960 and we had to move. We found and bought a nice place on Highland Drive and were very happy there for over 30 years.
Did you hang on that place while you were at the park for those couple of years you were at Crater Lake?
Yes. My wife stayed down here in Medford and the youngster went to school down here. I went back and forth on weekends. After that ’64 flood I had to go clear down to Klamath Falls and back around in order to get into town because the bridges were washed out all along the way out there (10).
Did you also handle accounts for Oregon Caves (11)?
We had the whole works to start with until it was all transferred to the region.
