Franklin F. Snyder
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Yes, I had some contact with him because he was active in the government passed
legislation that gave money to the Geological Survey to parcel out to the states that
set up Water Resource Centers. I think Whipple was in charge of New Jersey's
Water Resource Center at Princeton.
He was the head of their Department of Natural Resources or something?
Yes. An ASCE foundation sponsored research seminars in various fields. Week-
long meetings were held in the summer at universities with quarters available and
decent weather, mostly in New England and on the West Coast. There were a
number of such meetings on water resource research. We worked in the mornings,
at leisure in the afternoons, and worked again in the evening. Colonel Whipple,
then General Whipple, was active at these seminars, which Mary and I attended a
number of times.
Anything else you can remember about Itschner, whether it's Civil Works or as
Chief of Engineers that you dealt with him beyond the St. Lawrence Seaway.
A
No. I am thinking of an officer. He was assistant, or what do they call the number
two man?
Q ..
Deputy.
Deputy Chief, Robbins, do you remember that?
A
Q ..
Thomas Robbins, World War II.
A
Yes. When they were designing the St. Lawrence Project, he was on a design
board. I don't know whether it was an IJC board, or a board set up by the power
entities, but Robbins was on one of the boards that reviewed the design of the
project. He had two sons, of course, and one or both of them were in the Corps.
I knew the boys casually, but I knew General Robbins. I just don't know how I got
acquainted. Probably partly due to the St. Lawrence.
After his first wife died, he married a secretary from the office whom we all
respected. I'm trying to think. We'd been at some function. I guess it was
somebody's funeral, and on the way to the cemetery, his car broke down. I
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