Franklin F. Snyder
Q ..
Was it then called the Public Works Committee or Water and Power Committee?
A ..
I don`t really remember. I just went up once to testify about something or other.
The interesting story is Joe Tofani. The highest ranks in the office were [GS] 16s
for the chiefs of divisions. Joe became the principal presenter of the Corps' budget.
One time the committees wrote into the legislation that he had to be made a [GS] 17.
That tickled everybody. There wasn't any other way he could get it, I guess.
Q ..
Yes, he told me that story.
A ..
Someone else told you?
Q ..
No, he told me.
A ..
Oh, he did. Oh, you talked to Joe.
Q ..
Yes, I talked to him some years ago about some other things.
A ..
He's down in Florida now. He was up in Harrisburg on that flood control study
when I was there.
Q ..
He started working for the State of Pennsylvania, didn't he?
A ..
I think he had been with the Bureau of Reclamation for a short time. He got married
while in Harrisburg. He married a girl that was a friend of my wife, and so we have
had a certain amount of contact with them ever since then. I don't know how many
by-pass operations he had. Everybody thought that he was the one who would go
first. He lost his wife a few years back.
Q ..
He's remarried now.
A ..
Oh, yes. I still get Christmas cards.
Q ..
I gather he married his high school sweetheart or something like that.
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