People in the News

Howard ‘Bud’ Hittenrauch – August 15, 2002

Howard “Bud” Raymond Hittenrauch, 71, North Albany, died Aug. 7, 2002, of natural causes at Crater Lake National Park.

 

The fight for Crater Lake/Winning National Park Status Wasn’t Easy – July 28, 2002

The fight to create the park stretched on for 17 years. Plans for a park languished as opponents in Congress said the park would be too expensive and local opponents agitated to use the land for timber, mining and sheep farming.

 

W.F. Arant – Crater Lake’s first superintendent – May 13, 2002

Everyone who visits Crater Lake National Park and enters from the south entrance station has driven toward the lake and seen a sign alongside a bridge that, maps tell, crosses Goodbye Creek.

 

Old stories about W. F. Arant and Steel come back again and again for family -May 13, 2002

Whenever Arant family members get together, even 100 years later, the subject of W.F. Arant, also known as William Franklin, and his tumultuous final months as Crater Lake National Park’s first superintendent come up.

 

‘How Crater Lake came to be’ A Klamath Indian legend Special for the Herald and News – February 25, 2002

One day, Great Spirit Beings pushed ice through a hole in the sky to build a great mountain, Moyaina (Mount Mazama). Then the spirits climbed down to Earth and created the Klamath terrain by digging tunnel-like caverns beneath the earth and pushing up the Cascade Range.

 

Making tracks at Crater Lake: guide shares insights with snowshoers; his knowledge of the lake is legendary – February 24, 2002

Lloyd Smith forged quickly ahead, not because he was competitive but, as he had explained earlier, so that he could stop, catch his breath and once the rest of group of snowshoers caught up with him, talk without gasping.

Gerald L. ‘Gary’ Hathaway – December 12, 2001

Gerald L. “Gary” Hathaway, 59, died Dec. 11, 2001, in Klamath Falls. Cause of death was not given.

Carl Fredrick Wilson – December 09, 2001

Carl Fredrick Wilson, 97, a former Klamath County resident, died Dec. 6, 2001, of natural causes in Salem.

 

Manager John Miele to retire from Crater Lake – November 27, 2001

Back in the 1990s, when most of his supervisors and the park staff advocated the demolition and removal of Crater Lake Lodge, Miele thought it should be rebuilt in the unfulfilled vision of its creators. It was.

Golec – September 10, 2001

Wayne R. Golec, 55, died Monday, September 10, 2001 while hiking at Crater Lake National Park. Survivors include his wife, Donna Golec. Complete arrangements will be announced by Davenport’s Chapel of the Good Shepherd, directors.

Crater Lake was crossed much earlier, by George – April 01, 2001

For years historians have debated whether Theodore Roosevelt, the president who proclaimed Crater Lake a national park in 1902, actually visited the lake.

Paul Fritz left a unique legacy for the Park Service – January 29, 2001

We have reached a time when many conservation legends of the 20th century are disappearing. David Brower, the environmental giant, is a recent example. Now we’ve lost a lesser-known but very influential conservationist. Paul Fritz died quite suddenly on Christmas Eve from an undiagnosed brain tumor.

Paul G. Metzen – December 5, 2000

Paul G. Metzen, 93, died Dec. 2, 2000, at his Lakeview home.

Naked lady sculpture at Crater Lake since 1917 – September 28, 2000

I remember when I was a small child living in Eagle Point, we drove to Crater Lake. On the way up, we turned on a gravel road to the left, I think. We viewed a naked lady carved on a rock. We had so many ideas how she got there. Do you have any information on this and how would we get there now?