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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer and Date: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian.
Interviewee:
Wayne Howe and wife Jean.
Interview
Location:
At Crater Lake National Park headquarters with
wife Jean on September 1, 1988 and subsequent interview at
interviewee residence, Roseburg, Oregon.
Transcription:
Transcribed by Darci Desharnais Gomoliski,
1993-1994
Biographical
Summary (from the interview introduction)
Wayne Howe began his
National Park Service career at Crater Lake in 1946 and retired 30 years later
as the Associate Regional Director for Operations in Seattle. During that
career, he was one of the few people in the NPS to go from a GS-3 fire control
aide to a GM-14 even serving as acting regional director for a few months in
1975. He continues to stay active in the Employee and Alumni Association of the
NPS and Friends of Crater Lake.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center
taped interview
(from Crater Lake National Park interview); notes from
subsequent interview at his residence in Roseburg, 10128188. Loaned photos for
copying and donated other items. File includes considerable correspondence and
some news articles. Slide of Wayne Howe and Jean Howe taken during follow up interview.
To the reader:
Wayne Howe began his
National Park Service career at Crater Lake in 1946 and retired 30 years later
as the Associate Regional Director for Operations in Seattle. During that
career, he was one of the few people in the NPS to go from a GS-3 fire control
aide to a GM-14 even serving as acting regional director for a few months in
1975. He continues to stay active in the Employee and Alumni Association of the
NPS and Friends of Crater Lake.
This interview took place
on a warm afternoon at Crater Lake. It was this interviewer’s first on tape, so
some editing was necessary. Mr. Howe subsequently loaned the park a number of
this photographs and has been very gracious in answering my questions whenever I
see him. Copies of those photographs, as well as our correspondence and some
field notes, are in the park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
(Crater Lake National Park Historian)
February 1994
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