The narrators who were recorded, the interviewers who asked, and the transcribers, auditors and editors named in the front matter of the fifteen monographs.
Where they lived
The narrators' home sites, as Bob Zybach plotted them on Map 9 of the 1999
thesis. The valley's history in these books is told from these addresses.
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Basemap: USGS The National Map. Pan and zoom with the mouse or the + / −
controls; select a marker for its name and a link.
Bessie Murphy1894-11-06–1991-04-06 · Botanist; seed analyst, Oregon State University Seed Laboratory; farm-raised homemaker · 5 sessions
Charles Hindes1921–? · logger, timber cutter and log truck operator · 3 sessions
Charlie Olson1898–1993 · Farmer, auto mechanic, sawmill worker, school bus operator · 2 sessions
Donald M. Dickey1914-10-20–1990 · Fish and Game Management graduate, Oregon State College (1942); Oregon Game Commission; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 35 years in rodent control; developed and sold Ortho Rodent Bait · 1 session
Edward Sekermestrovich1918–? · CCC enrollee, truck and ambulance driver and assistant leader, Camp Arboretum; later used-car repairman, Corvallis Lumber Co. worker, and head millwright · 1 session
Lorna GrabeFormer schoolteacher (one-room rural school two years, small town school one year); long-time worker for the Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation from 1974 · 1 session
Marvin Rowley1928–? · Forester; logging contractor; manager of the Oregon State University (McDonald-Dunn) Research Forests, 1946–1986 · 6 sessions
Maxine DickeySchool teacher - Berry Creek School (1938-1940), Airlie (1940-1942), Mountain View School, Lewisburg; genealogist · 1 session
Neil Elton Vanderburg1923-07-09–? · Farmer, sawmill hand and timber faller; later farm owner near Independence, Oregon · 5 sessions
Norman Hindes1919–? · logger, spar-tree rigger and high climber, log truck owner · 3 sessions
Paul M. Dunn1898-10-15–1988 · Forester; Dean, School of Forestry, Oregon State College 1942-1955; first Dean, School of Forestry, Range and Wildlife Management, Utah State University; first Utah State Forester; technical director of forestry and vice president, St. Regis Paper Company · 2 sessions
Roy Cook1916–? · son of Wanda and Ernest Cook; logger / forest worker · 2 sessions
Velma Carter Rawie1916–? · farm wife and dairy farmer; store clerk; homemaker · 1 session
Wanda Marcks Cook1895-03-26–1991-08-21 · farm wife; cosmetologist, owner of the Cameo Beauty Shop, Portland · 1 session
William A. Davies1908-01-22–1985 · Professor and Head of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University (1946-1973); Manager, OSU Research Forests (1959-1973) · 2 sessions
Wilma "Willie" Rohner1925–1998 · farmer; photographer of the appendix Camp Adair photographs · 1 session
About 1,311 other people are named somewhere in these books — neighbours, teachers, loggers, children, the dead. They do not have pages of their own; they are findable through the Series Index, where each name carries the pages it
appears on.
