Soap Creek Valley · Monograph #2 · 12 of 30
New York City
New York City of Paul M. Dunn — printed p. 13 — recorded November 2, 1978 at Peavy Hall, Oregon State University campus, Corvallis, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Jackson, Royal G. and Jennifer A. Lee 1990. Paul M. Dunn. Biographical Sketch and Story of the Adair Tract, Benton County, Oregon. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #02, 2nd printing. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 53 pp
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- From
- #2 Paul M. Dunn
- Narrator
- Paul M. Dunn
- Recorded
- November 2, 1978 · Peavy Hall, Oregon State University campus, Corvallis, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Royal G. Jackson, Jennifer Lee
- Printed pages
- p. 13
- Original
- http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/02_Dunn/Jackson-Lee_1990.pdf
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Paul M. Dunn: No, Bob left Corvallis in 1950 for graduate study at Columbia, and finished in 1951 and joined U.S. Steel in July 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: What about Jim?
Paul M. Dunn: He finished here in Business in 1951. He received a scholarship to New York University and received a master's degree in Merchandising in 1952. Then he entered the Naval Reserve Program and was commissioned in 1953, and spent the next three years with the Navy, based at Pearl Harbor. He was married June 14, 1953. At that time, and they lived in Pearl Harbor. So both sons finished the University and graduate work, and were employed by the time we left here.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: And Jim is currently with the OSU Foundation?
Paul M. Dunn: That's right.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Director of OSU Foundation?
Paul M. Dunn: Director of Development for the University, and Executive Secretary of the Foundation.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: How were your years in New York; were those good times for you and your family?
Paul M. Dunn: Yes, but it took us awhile to get oriented and acquainted with living in New York, but we came to enjoy it. My associates in the St. Regis Paper Company were great people, and I was extremely busy. Living in New York wasn't as pleasant as living in Corvallis for Mrs. Dunn, because I traveled over sixty percent of my time, and she was left alone. But she adjusted to the situation very well. She went with me to many of the meetings that I attended during my career, and also we saw quite a bit of the night life in New York; shows, particularly.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Did you live right in New York City?
Paul M. Dunn: Not at first. First we lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, then we moved to New Jersey, but the last three years we lived right in New York City; we had an apartment at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, which was very close to my office. The program with St. Regis was very interesting, and it was one that in a sense, I was able to start from scratch. There had been a forestry professor who was a consultant to the Company for several years, and he had initiated a small program, that we called technical forestry -- providing information to the field personnel and being the liaison with the executives in the New York office. But that had been on a small scale basis. I was
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Jackson, Royal G. and Jennifer A. Lee 1990. Paul M. Dunn. Biographical Sketch and Story of the Adair Tract, Benton County, Oregon. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #02, 2nd printing. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 53 pp
- This page
- Dunn 1990. New York City, p. 13. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m02-dunn/new-york-city/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Dunn 1990, p. 13 — Monograph #02:13
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