Soap Creek Valley · Timeline
1971–1995
1971–1995. 171 dated statements, each one printed exactly as it was said or written, with the narrator and the page.
- 1971/1972
'72, the horse club put new shingles on the school house and repainted it. So they really kept it up even though their main focus wasn't historical exhibits like it is now.
- 1972
Tony a fine instructor and counselor for Wood Products majors was the students' choice for the 1972 Aufderheide Award.
- 1973/1974
I think Pearl Bacon moved first, it was about 1973 or '74, around in there.
- 1973
This year the staff of the Annual Cruise takes great pleasure in dedicating the 1973 Annual Cruise to two very fine men, Bill Davies and Tony Van Vliet.
- 1973
You described to us how you and John Beuter took over the forest management and forest supervising jobs in 1973.
- 1973
Before 1973, there was no control of research projects that registered location and type of research.
- 1973
John Beuter and I began registering the research projects in 1973, and requiring the researchers to furnish data as to what they were studying.
- 1973
July 1 of 1973.
- 1973
Well, we stayed together then until 1973, July 1st, when I quit and went to work for the university as the full-time manager.
- 1973
He was selected in 1973?
- 1973
Marvin, how do you feel about changes from before 1973 and after 1973 in your life?
- 1973
Well, we’re trying that now, because in 1973 there was a drastic change in management.
- 1973
If you remember back to 1973, the mule deer population in eastern Oregon had been decimated for a variety of reasons.
- 1973
When I started in here in 1973 as manager, there were hardly any beaver dams above . . . there were maybe one or two above this road that goes across to the left up here, and in just a few years they worked up there.
- '73
Yeah, that building was there when we went to work in ‘73, and one of the first things I did was buy a metal detector to pick up bullets in the trees over on the Dunn Forest.
- 1973
US Endangered Species Act is adopted; spotted owls become local concern
- July 1973
When I took over as forest manager in July 1973, the Forest Management Team consisted of myself and one forest technician.
- July 1 1973
When I took over as research forest manager July 1, 1973, I had to rely on students to accomplish most of the labor-intensive jobs like planting, roadside maintenance, herbicide applications, fertilizing, inventories.
- 1974
I started my work in 1974, but the Foundation functioned for about 2 or 3 years with open houses
- 1974
so in the fall of 1974, I put a notice in the paper and sent flyers up and down the valley to the families and had an exhibit of my old textbooks
- 1974
And after I started in the Foundation in 1974, Louise Hollister and I went down to the school house and cataloged all the original books that were there
- 1974
have helped collect old photos, histories, early school text books, slates, and desks since 1974.
- 1974
The Annual Cruise continued until 1974, when it became difficult to finance the publication, and also to find enough students willing to take on the publishing and editing jobs.
- 1974
In 1974, I believe it was, we had a rash of vandalism, and illegal uses that prompted the sheriff to deputize me.
- 1974
In 1974 I was in Switzerland, and Switzerland has a system of walkways they call “Wanderways,” that lead from the cities through the forest and they’re posted.
- 1974-01
[from Oregon State Forester, Vol XXVII, no.1 January 1974]
- 1974-06-30
On June 30, 1974, George Jemison will retire a second time.
- 1975
'75.
- 1975
No, I don't have those. This one starts in 1975. I don't have the minutes of the earlier one.
- 1975/1990
So they're signed, dated and got a fifteen year history of minutes.
- 1975/1980
No, I did this about ten or fifteen years ago from our old record books from the early ... clerk's record books.
- 1975
Well, Barb Foster, Dick Foster, Marge Chandler, Archie Chandler, Lorna Grabe, Mona Luebbert, Louise Hollister.
- 1975
I just found this one this morning that I thought was one of the best open houses we ever had and that was back in 1975.
- 1975
About fifteen years ago [1975].
- 1975
About 1975, I walked through the stand and found many places where there were thick stands of Douglas-fir understory pushing their way through the oak canopy.
- 1975
I suppose when it was called a wildlife, or game refuge, which it was until 1975, this protected only game animals.
- 1975
We built this road in 1975.
- 1975
I did the same thing, back in 1975.
- 1975
Figure B.1 is a copy of the earliest agreement used to provide published content for the Soap Creek Valley Oral History Series, signed in 1975.
- 1975-01
and then in January, I think it was, that I called the neighbors together as many as I could get to reorganize the Foundation
- August 4, 1975
August 4, 1975 Interview
- 1975-10
It was a rainy day in October when you'd think nobody would come, but we had a fire going in the stove and we served hot spiced tea and cookies
- 1976
this is in about 19 ... well, this one isn't dated, but it's probably about '76 or so.
- 1976
"someone phoned Mona," that's Mona Luebbert, "and requested to move the school house to the Salem State Fairgrounds for a Bicentennial Project.
- 1976
In 1976, John Beuter was appointed head of the Forest Management Department.
- 1976-10-11
It was amended in 19 ... October 11, 1976. We got the deed from the North Corvallis Farmer's Union
- 1977
It's probably worth mentioning that Mary Bowman just said your house blew over in 1977, and she's the person living here now, so that would be over fifteen years ago, so that sounds about right.
- 1978-11-02
Interview conducted by Royal Jackson and Jennifer Lee at Peavy Hall on the Oregon State University Campus, November 2, 1978.
- 1978-11-02
Interview conducted by Royal Jackson and Jennifer Lee at Peavy Hall on the Oregon State University Campus, November 2, 1978.
- 1978-11-02
The interviews with Paul M. Dunn took place in Peavy Hall on the OSU campus on November 2, 1978 and September 18, 1979, with funding provided by the OSU College of Forestry and Homer Museum.
- 1979
Well, Hewelett-Packard came here about ten years ago, and so we had a big influx of people ten years ago.
- 1979
I was in Peru in 1979, and flew in a light airplane over a branch of the Andes that was about 9,000 feet high.
- 1979
Figures B.2 (1979) and B.3 (1980) document the College of Forestry oral history program (Jackson 1980), in cooperation with OSU Horner Museum (Berg 1983; Davies 1997; see Chapters I and II).
- 1979-08-03
Moore, Harriet. 1979 (August 3). Personal Interview with Royal Jackson. School of Forestry, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon. On file with the Homer Museum.
- 1980
And retired in 1980 and sold the bait business to a young fellow by the name of Doug Freeman.
- 1980
I was back there two weeks ago, three weeks ago; I took my neighbor up there to look at it. We built a dam up on top, too, by the nursery; we used to go swimming in there.
- 1980
It was first used for the cover of his 1980 book, McDonald-Dunn Forests: Human Use and Occupation.
- 1980
please refer to Jackson's 1980 McDonald-Dunn Forests: Human Use and Occupation
- 1980
Between the two of them, they worked until 1980.
- 1980
In 1980, the Forestry Club Cabin is still the focal point of Club activities at Peavy Arboretum.
- 1980
The year was 1980 or 1981.
- 1980s
During the 1980s, we had a group of students who called their group the Concerned Students of McDonald Forest.
- 1980-02-06
Interview conducted February 6, 1980 by Royal Jackson and Karen Thomas.
- 1980-02-06
The following interview with Edward Sekermestrovich took place in Corvallis, Oregon on February 6, 1980.
- 1980-06
A report submitted to John Beuter, Director of School Forests, School of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. June 1980. 404 pp.
- 1981
When Jeff Garver was hired in 1981, he became my third full-time assistant.
- 1981
These same needs exist today, and the 1981 Fernhoppers’ Banquet will see a few students breathe a little easier because, “I know where I’ll be come June.”
- 1981
Friday the 13th windstorm from the west
- April 25 1981
The dates of this year’s conclave are April 21 through April 25, 1981.
- 1982
During this time, up to 1982, with a helper and a secretary we did a lot of the forest work using student work crews and I supervised them, too.
- February 1982
I want to ask you about Colverson’s Peavy Arboretum plan from February 1982.
- 1984
another what I would consider a really visual historic building was an old barn that is down where Dailys are now. That was there just ... just fell down about five years ago.
- 1985
The funding has been renewed for another five year period to carry it through to 1985.
- 1985
The following summary of the history of Wells, Oregon was written in longhand by Velma Rawie for Loma Grabe of the Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation, c. 1985.
- 1985
The are working near Gales Creek, Oregon around 1985.
- 1986
the two school houses I visited back in Iowa when we were there three or four years ago that were set up as historic sites did not let you go
- 1986
There was when I left in 1986.
- 1988
Ken died just a year ago, so he's not living anymore, but he'd seen the ghost too.
- 1988
After a long and productive career, Paul M. Dunn died in 1988.
- 1989
"Soap Creek Valley, Summer, 1989" View from Lewisburg Saddle
- 1989
What's the purpose of the Foundation now in 1989?
- 1989
The purpose is still exactly as the constitution says, and we print that in every membership letter we put out.
- 1989
It's between twenty and twenty-five, the last time I talked to Louise, she said it was eighteen and she'd gotten several notes, several more memberships.
- 1989
Well, when we last spring, we were wanting some suggestions for ideas for raising money for replacing our foundation under the school house, someone suggested a blue grass concert.
- 1989
Doc Schell's place which was, I'm not sure the size of it, twenty to fifty acres was for sale this summer and the county should have bought that and made a park out of it.
- 1989
Well, I can't think of anything, we're still planning to go ahead with maybe the fun run again this year. We need to raise about $4500 more for the putting our foundation under the building
- 1989
We need, actually we need about $8500 and we have almost $5000, and that's from donations and fund raisers the last couple of years.
- 1989
There was once just shortly before we came here. Louise Hollister said her husband shot a bear out here
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was undertaken by Oregon State University (OSU) Research Forests in 1989 for the purpose of better understanding the history and culture of an area impacted by OSU forestry and agricultural practices for nearly sixty years.
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was undertaken by the Oregon State University's Research Forests in 1989 for the purpose of better understanding the history, ecology, and culture of an area that has been directly impacted by OSU land management practices for over sixty years.
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was undertaken by the Oregon State University's Research Forests in 1989 for the purpose of better understanding the history, ecology, and culture of an area that has been impacted by OSU land management practices for nearly seventy years.
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was undertaken by the Oregon State University's Research Forests in 1989 for the purpose of better understanding the history, ecology, and culture of an area that has been directly impacted by OSU land management practices for nearly seventy years.
- 1989
We're at the Lewisburg clearcut, at stop 9 on the tour [Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, Bob Zybach, OSU Research Forests cc: 1989] or stop 10.
- 1989
Angela was helping me work on this [Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, Bob Zybach, OSU Research Forests cc: 1989] and we're putting it together and right about ten o'clock [p.m.] I got a call from Lorna Grabe just around the corner and she changed all this information from what I had written, but she knew these dates for sure.
- 1989
Zybach, Bob. 1989. Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, Oregon State University Research Forests. 3lpp.
- 1989
The Glender barn in 1989. Photo by Bob Zybach.
- 1989
Gene Glender and Jan Meranda stand in front of a depression to the north of the Glender house. As a child, Gene was told that the depression was the site of an early day Tampico tavern.
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was undertaken by the Oregon State University's Research Forests in 1989
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was initially authorized in 1989 by Dr.
- 1989
The Soap Creek Valley History Project was undertaken by the Oregon State University's Research Forests in 1989 for the purpose of better understanding the history, ecology, and culture of an area that has been impacted by OSU land management practices for nearly seventy years.
- 1989
Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, OSU Research Forests and College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 1989. p:14.
- 1989
Fig. B.4 reflects the initiation of the Soap Creek Valley Oral History Series’ interviews by OSU Research Forests, in late 1989 and early 1990.
- January 26, 1989
January 26, 1989 Interview
- 1989-05-27
BZ 5/27/89 [date lettered on Bob Zybach's location note added to the 1857 Tampico plat]
- 1989-07-30
BZ 7-30-89 [date lettered on the back-cover tour map]
- 1989-10-28
The following interview was conducted by Bob Zybach with Wanda Marcks Cook at her home in Portland, Oregon on October 28, 1989.
- 1989-10-28
The following interview was recorded on October 28, 1989 at Wanda Cook's apartment in Portland, Oregon.
- 1989-11-05
Wanda Cook Note, November 5, 1989.
- 1989-12
In December 1989, Lorna Grabe (Grabe 1990; see Fig. 2, Tables 1 and 4) became the first person interviewed for the new oral history series.
- 1989-12-28
This interview was recorded in her home on Soap Creek Road during the afternoon of December 28, 1989 (the date printed on the cover is in error).
- 1990
Then subsequently the program was enlarged as interest and income grew, and the present facility down at the end of 30th and Philomath Road [Western Avenue in 1990] was established.
- 1990
[When Ed repeated this same statement to me over ten years later, his eyes were twinkling and he was grinning with obvious pride. BZ]
- 1990
Well, I can give you a pretty good idea. I'm 78 now, and I was about 17 or 18 years old when we moved up here, so subtract that from
- 1990
Our Cultural Resource Inventory [1990 OSU Research Forests "Human Use" Cultural Resource Inventory I recommended that those beaver ponds he opened for interpretation and also Sulphur Springs Trail be developed, so we're behind you on that time wise, but the thinking was in the same place.
- 1990
Attempts to relocate and return the tooth in 1990 resulted in an inability to locate it by the Museum's director.
- 1990
The following article appeared in the Rose Center for Seniors newsletter, probably in early 1990.
- 1990
Norman and LaVerna Hindes on their 50th Wedding Anniversary, Tillamook, Oregon, 1990.
- 1990
Local land ownership changes and population growth rates have been at least as great in the recent (1929-1990) 62-year period as in the previous (1853-1928) 76-year period.
- 1990
Bottom Left. Lorna Grabe (Grabe 1990) stands in front of Soap Creek Schoolhouse in period dress, April, 1991. Photograph by author.
- 1990-01
The interviews took place on OSU Research Forest properties in January and April of 1990 in the vicinity of Berry Creek and Forest Peak of the Dunn Forest tracts.
- January 4, 1990
January 4, 1990 Interview
- 1990-01-06
January 6, 1990 Tour
- 1990-01-20
Before we left Soap Creek up there on that Sunday [January 20, 1990 interview], when there was that big showing, I told you up yonder is a farm.
- 1990-01-29
Interview conducted January 29, 1990 by Bob Zybach and Angela Sondenaa, during a tour of Sulphur Springs and Soap Creek Valley area.
- 1990-05
Lorna Grabe Soap Creek Valley May, 1990
- 1990-05-15
[Interview conducted by Bob Zybach and Kevin Sherer at the Marcks' house, May 15, 1990.]
- 1990-05-15
This recording was made on May 15, 1990 at stop "F" on the tour map vi).
- 1990-05-15
Instead, her son Roy accompanied Kevin Sherer and I on a tour of the valley on May 15, 1990.
- 1990-06-11
Bob Zybach Corvallis, Oregon June 11, 1990
- 1990-06-16
The second interview with Charlie Olson took place in his home, near Summit in Lincoln County, Oregon on June 16, 1990.
- 1990-08
[EDITOR'S NOTE: I asked Mr. Sekermestrovich in August, 1990, if it was possible that the buildings were green. His wife said that she remembered them as green, and he agreed that they may have been that color.]
- 1990-08-08
Neil is pictured on August 8, 1990 at the home of Bob Zybach, Corvallis, Oregon.
- 1990-08-18
Interview conducted by Bob Zybach and Neil Vanderburg at the Green Valley Care Center, August 18, 1990, with Donald and Maxine Dickey.
- 1990-09-01
Bob Zybach Corvallis, Oregon September 1, 1990
- 1990-09-01
Map of the tour of Soap Creek and Berry Creek with Neil Vanderburg on September 1, 1990.
- 1990-09-01
[Interview conducted September 1, 1990 by Bob Zybach.
- 1990-09-01
J Hildebrand place, this second recording session with Neil Vanderburg, and today is September 1, 1990.
- September 29, 1990
September 29, 1990 Interview
- 1990-09-30
Patricia Dickey Creelman September 30, 1990
- 1990-10-02
Donald Dickey Eulogy read at funeral service, Trinity Methodist Church, Eugene, Oregon, October 2, 1990, by his daughter, Patricia
- 1990-11-03
Ida May Warner Sekermestrovich Corvallis, Oregon November 3, 1990
- 1990-12-18
Bob Zybach Corvallis, Oregon December 18, 1990
- 1991
Dunn Forests, OSU Research Forests and College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 1991. p:3.
- 1991
Charles and Beulah Schrepel Hindes on their 50th Wedding Anniversary, 1991.
- 1991-01-26
Map of the tour of Berry Creek and Oak Creek with Neil Vanderburg on January 26, 1991.
- 1991-01-26
Neil Vanderburg on the road to the Coote and Weinert's sawmill, January 26, 1991.
- 1991-02-23
Top Left. Marvin Rowley (Rowley 1996) stands next to the rootwad of a wind thrown Douglas-fir along the pioneer (and possibly Kalapuyan) ridge line trail dividing Bakers Creek and Oak Creek (see Map 2) during February 23, 1991 tour of Soap Creek Valley.
- 1991-04
Top Right. Bessie Gragg Murphy (Murphy 1995) and friend view catsears and other wildflowers on grounds of Soap Creek Schoolhouse (see Map 2 and Table 2) in April, 1991.
- 1991-04-08
Maxine Dickey Eugene, Oregon April 8, 1991
- April 9, 1991
[From the April 9, 1991 Corvallis Gazette Times]
- 1991-05-13
Kevin Sherer May 13, 1991 Corvallis, Oregon
- 1991-08-21
Wanda Marcks Cook died on August 21, 1991.
- 1991-10-11
October 11, 1991 by George Wisner.
- 1992
The house was moved in 1992, not long after Bob and I first began our search for the "lost" town of Tampico.
- 1992-05
Trees to Lumber McDonald-Dunn Forest: A Historic Look at Sawmilling, Oregon State University Research Forests, May 1992.
- 1993
The story begins with the purchase of a farm on the northern slopes of Coffin Butte near the end of World War I, and ends with the farm's purchase by the U.S. Army for training purposes at the beginning of World War II.
- 1993
“Dean’s Plan” draft adopted for management of OSU Research Forests
- August 5, 1993
Bob Zybach Corvallis, Oregon August 5, 1993
- 1993-09-28
The following interview was conducted by Bob Zybach with Charles and Norman Hindes at 530 NW 15th, Corvallis, Oregon on September 28, 1993.
- 1993-09-28
Map of September 28, 1993 Tour of Soap Creek Valley with Charles and Norman Hindes.
- 1993-10
These photos first appeared together in print in October, 1993, and were reprinted in color on March, 1994.
- 1993-10-11
[Transcription of Charles Hindes' October 11, 1993 note to Bob Zybach.]
- 1994
After visiting and surveying the creeks with Neil during the fall of 1994, it was determined that his memory of his father's claim was indeed more accurate than current government maps.
- 1994
Handwriting (and identification) is by Viola Glender in 1994.
- 1994
These trees are the earliest known planted Douglas-fir trees in Benton County and are still growing in 1994.
- 1994-01
Atkinson's direction until January 1994, when it was assigned to Jeffery Garver, OSU Research Forests Manager.
- 1994-07
In July 1994, Gene and his sister, Elvera remembered four other teachers that taught in the Tampico School District during the 1920s and '30s: Mrs. Lois Vanderpool, Lottie Blake, Eula Montgomery, Florence MacFihane.
- 1994-07
Probably. [Still couldn't recall in July 1994]
- 1995
At the time of this writing it is being partially logged to meet the conditions of a bequeath from Elizabeth Bond Starker Cameron to the OSU Kerr Library and to OSU Research Forests (See the Corvallis Gazette Times of May 23 and July 6, 1995 for additional details on this issue).
- 1995
Fig. B.5 (eight parts reproduced in 4 pages) is a copy of new “human subject” filings required by OSU, in 1995.
- 1995-07-06
It is known as the "Cameron Tract" named for its donor, Elizabeth Bond Starker Cameron (Corvallis Gazette Times, July 6, 1995). | May 15, 1990 Soap Creek Valley Tour Map.
