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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview
Location and Date:
At John's office, Portland State University
campus, Cramer Hall, Portland, Oregon, September
24, 1991
Transcription:
Transcribed by Darci G. Gomolski, with assistance from
Anton Briefer, 1994
Biographical
Summary (from the interview introduction):
John Eliot Allen
is an emeritus professor of geology at Portland State
University. While a graduate student, Dr. Allen spent
the summer of 1935 as a ranger naturalist at Crater Lake.
The interview centers on that experience, but attempts to
put it in the context of a career largely devoted to
teaching Oregonians about the geology of their state. Died
1996.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center":
Taped interview along with notes. Donated a considerable amount of CRLA related
file material and photos. I interviewed him in his office at Cramer Hall. There
we indulged in some “time travel” and he gave me a number of items which pertain
to the geological story of Crater Lake. Most of these can be
found in the park’s history files. The others are housed in
the park’s library, where several of his more than 200
publications can be found.
To the reader:
John Eliot Allen
is an emeritus professor of geology at Portland State
University. While a graduate student, Dr. Allen spent
the summer of 1935 as a ranger naturalist at Crater Lake.
The interview centers on that experience, but attempts to
put it in the context of a career largely devoted to
teaching Oregonians about the geology of their state.
I interviewed him
in his office at Cramer Hall. There we indulged in some
“time travel” and he gave me a number of items which pertain
to the geological story of Crater Lake. Most of these can be
found in the park’s history files. The others are housed in
the park’s library, where several of his more than 200
publications can be found.
Stephen R. Mark
Crater Lake
National Park Historian
March 1994
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