Career Accomplishments

Paul M. Dunn: There's no doubt that the efforts toward the energy crisis will be of benefit to forest resources because there is a considerable potential in wood and wood products to be of value and benefit to everybody associated with the forest industry. That's primarily the situation.

Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Why did you choose to come back to Corvallis after living in New York for so long?

Paul M. Dunn: A simple reason, we like it here. We like the Northwest and the Willamette Valley, so we came back here to live.

Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Did it have anything to do with being associated with the School of Forestry and being involved in their activities?

Paul M. Dunn: Not basically. Primarily we returned here because it's a good place to live, and we have a good many friends here. The relationship to the School just followed.

Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: As you look back on your career, what were some of the major accomplishments that you feel you carried out?

Paul M. Dunn: Over the years I've been able to carry on a satisfactory forestry program. First with Utah State University. I was able to move along with that program and get it established in keeping with the needs of the times and to develop a good working program. While there, I was able to assist in getting some legislation which created a State Board of Forestry in Utah, and I served on that Board for several years. While here at OSU, I was able to carry on, expand, and further develop a potentially sound program associated with the Forestry School and also the expansion of the land area, both of which are in good shape at the present time. I was able to see what was originally a small program in forest research expand during the period I was here, and subsequently it has grown to a much larger degree. At least I was a party to those accomplishments. A lot of people were involved in all of those things at Utah State and at Oregon State. What has happened was not a result of the activities of any one person, particularly me.

Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Certainly you were a leader, though.

Paul M. Dunn: Well I had a responsibility of leadership and with the help of others I was able to carry it out.

Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Why do you think that people like you are a success and others aren't? What qualities do you possess that the rest do not?