John Eliot Allen

Now, did he come during the time where you were training, was he giving you a talk about… 

No, we didn’t have much training. I mean, we were given a briefing by Swartzlow who was the chief ranger-naturalist. And Swartzlow said this is what you’re going to do and he says, you have so much time off, you can do your own research if you want to, but everybody will rotate on all these things, so everybody will get a chance to give lectures in the lodge. You’ll all get a chance at the “head of the lake trail,” you’ll get the boat trip; you’ll get the rim drive, and so on.

So that was between the times that Warren Moody had been in that position?  

I don’t remember the name Warren Moody, that wasn’t the name of the chief ranger?

He was a seasonal who, I guess, after Libbey left, was his fill-in for one summer, and then John Doerr came in ’36. 

That was after me, you see, I was ’35. I don’t even remember the name of the chief ranger.

Canfield… 

Canfield that was it!

He would have been superintendent because Solinsky got himself into trouble.

I remember the name Canfield, but, we never met the ranger staff, we had our own little group of ranger-naturalists, which one of the neat things about it… Swartzlow handled it and they never interfered with us. Swartzlow did the job of getting cars for us, to run the boat, getting people to run the boat, and that sort of thing, you know.