Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
and, he went over and made some talks on high dams and stuff like that.
Q ..
he was a leading person certainly in the Corps and the whole area of civil
engineering.
I guess from my own personal experience, why Frank Snyder and Al were the two most
A
important people in my career as far as training me and giving me the ideas that I have and
so forth. Frank was particularly important in my career because when I was
in OCE,
whenever I had a question I could go and ask him a question on almost anything and he
knew the answer to it. It didn't make any difference what it was. If he didn't know the
answer, he'd figure it out and get you an answer in a couple of minutes.
Probably from a purely technical standpoint, he was better than Al. But Al was a very
domineering type fellow who could get things done by going out there and beating on the
table and arguing. Well, he was knowledgeable, too, but I don't think he quite had the
technical wherewithal that Frank had. But Frank got a lot of recognition for his
capabilities all over the world.
Well, you know Gail and Al and Frank are all in the distinguished gallery up there in OCE
and Jake [Douma] , too. So they were recognized for their capabilities all right.
1953
Fort Peck
Q ..
When you left the BuRec and went to Garrison District, was that just a promotion or did
you want to change what you were doing?
A
Well, I wanted to change what I was doing. What happened was I was working in the
district office there, and they had a RIF [reduction-in-force]. As I was telling you, these
were tough times. They shut down that office pretty much--I mean to a non-engineering
office, it was more of an operating office. They moved me over--because I was a veteran
I was able to maintain the same grade--but they moved me over into a land acquisition
unit.
Well, I didn't stay there too long before I got this job at Fort Peck. I didn't like that kind
of work and I wanted to get back into hydrology and hydraulics and a job came open in
Fort Peck and so I applied for that. So I went to Fort Peck.
Q ..
What did you do at Fort Peck when you went there in about 1952?
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