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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer and Date: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview
Location:
Corvallis, Oregon, November 25-26, 1988
Transcription:
Transcribed by Amelia Bruno, 1994
Biographical
Summary (from the interview introduction)
Lawrence C. Merriam is an emeritus
professor of forestry at the University of Minnesota, though he continues to
teach at Oregon State University on a courtesy appointment. He never worked at
Crater Lake, but his father served as regional director in San Francisco from
1950-1963. His grandfather, John C. Merriam, has probably exercised the single
greatest influence on the formation of the park’s educational program.
This interview took place in Corvallis
represents the first of many visits with Dr. Merriam. One of the themes
emphasized on the following pages was his work with the state of parks in
Oregon. He has since published
Oregon’s Highway Park System 1921-1989: An Administrative History and we
have collaborated on other work involving wilderness, his grandfather, and the
John Day Fossil Beds.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center
Taped interview 11125-26/88. Notes from other
conversations, all at his residence: 911 8/89, 1/19/90,2/9/90, and 411319 1.
File
includes copies of published articles, correspondence, and copy of Herb Evison's
(NPS) interview with his father. Several donations pertaining to his father and
grandfather made to CRLA and other NPS units. Slide taken at the time of the
taped interview. Copies of his administrative history of Oregon State Parks are
in
the park library.
To the reader:
Lawrence C. Merriam is an emeritus
professor of forestry at the University of Minnesota, though he continues to
teach at Oregon State University on a courtesy appointment. He never worked at
Crater Lake, but his father served as regional director in San Francisco from
1950-1963. His grandfather, John C. Merriam, has probably exercised the single
greatest influence on the formation of the park’s educational program.
This interview took place in Corvallis
represents the first of many visits with Dr. Merriam. One of the themes
emphasized on the following pages was his work with the state of parks in
Oregon. He has since published
Oregon’s Highway Park System 1921-1989: An Administrative History and we
have collaborated on other work involving wilderness, his grandfather, and the
John Day Fossil Beds.
Stephen R. Mark
(Crater Lake
National Park Historian)
May 1995
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