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15. Oregon Forest Nursery
15. Oregon Forest Nursery of Edward Sekermestrovich — printed p. 25 — recorded February 6, 1980 at Corvallis, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 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
- Narrator
- Edward Sekermestrovich
- Recorded
- February 6, 1980 · Corvallis, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Royal G. Jackson, Karen Thomas
- Printed pages
- p. 25
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Royal G. Jackson: Did it damage your ambulance?
Edward Sekermestrovich: I busted a wheel.
Royal G. Jackson: What did you do?
Edward Sekermestrovich: We put another wheel on. Take off.
Royal G. Jackson: Kept going?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Kept on going, yes. And then when I got up there they just said, "How did it happen," and I said, "I'll be darned if I know." "Well, you got to get a new wheel and tire. We'll put it on." They don't say much to you; they were nice about everything.
15. Oregon Forest Nursery
Royal G. Jackson: Let's go back to Vern McDaniel. What other experiences have you had with him?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Oh, he was a pretty nice fellow, other than that. I always liked him. But I don't think he liked me [Laughter] because I wouldn't take some of the guff.
Royal G. Jackson: What kind of guff did he hand out?
Edward Sekermestrovich: He'd act like he owned the whole place, to me. He'd even try to be more than our officers was at camp. You know what I mean, make believe he could run them around. That's what I thought and maybe it wasn't so, but that's the way I always look at it. I'd see him in town today or tomorrow, I'd talk to him; we always talked together as far as that's concerned. The only thing I had against him that time was squealing on me, that was enough for me.
Royal G. Jackson: He wasn't that much older than you, was he? Was he about your age?
Edward Sekermestrovich: He's ten years older, I think.
Royal G. Jackson: So at that time you were around twenty-one, he must have been in his early thirties.
Edward Sekermestrovich: Thirties, I'd say or thirty-five, or some place around there.
Royal G. Jackson: Did a lot of the boys work directly under him on the project, under his supervision?
Edward Sekermestrovich: No, he only had one.
Royal G. Jackson: One boy?
Edward Sekermestrovich: One fellow. This one fellow, he was just like me, an assistant leader, that's the way he got his. He'd stay up there at the same building; he didn't have to come down to camp.
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 Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
- This page
- Sekermestrovich 1991. 15. Oregon Forest Nursery, p. 25. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m04-sekermestrovich/15-oregon-forest-nursery/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Sekermestrovich 1991, p. 25 — Monograph #04:25
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