Robert Benton

That would help a lot. I sort of shoulder most of the burden [in doing compliance].

And you can’t be. With your background, you can’t go down and go to war with a carpenter.

Right.

A historic preservation type can, because they know what carpentry is all about. Anyway, that would be totally wonderful.

When you initiated renaming the buildings, Sager, Steel, and Canfield, what was behind the selection of those three names? Why did they come to the forefront rather than other names?

Of course, Steel speaks for itself. Canfield was one of those old superintendents that did a lot of really neat things, not only in Crater Lake but other places. Dave Canfield has been a legend in the Park Service for a long time. He probably drank a little too much bourbon on occasion, but he certainly contributed a lot to the Park Service. Surprisingly enough, I expect, [he contributed] more than a lot of people would think at Crater Lake. Sager was one of those guys that, in the early history of Crater Lake, was an important figure.

Did you meet him while you were in Washington?

Yes.

Okay. I know he was chief of the landscape architects for a time in the ’60’s.

I met him briefly.