Vernon
But he got around a lot, and he knew a lot of people and everybody liked him. I don't
know anybody that didn't like him. If you worked for him and he knew who you were,
if you went to a retirement party or something like that, you didn't see him standing there
next to the general all night. Like a lot of the top civilian people would spend most of
their evening talking with the Director of Civil Works or the Deputy Chief of Engineers
or something. But not Joe. He'd talk to them, but he'd spend as much time going around
visiting with all of his staff and other people as he did with the most prominent people.
Q ..
So he came out of LMVD, then?
He worked at the Coastal [Engineering] Research Center for a long time. He was in
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charge, when it was here in Washington.
Q ..
Down at Fort Belvoir?
No, before that. Up at.
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Q ..
Oh, up at Dalecarlia?
Dalecarlia. That was when he was in charge of it up there. I don't know--I think it
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moved after he left there. I'm trying to remember, I'm not sure, but I think it did.
Q ..
It moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in `83.
`83, is that when it moved.
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Q ..
Well, it moved from Fort Belvoir in `83.
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Oh, from Fort Belvoir.
Q ..
I think it moved down from there in like 1970 or something. Because the
Building was built in 1970, and that was
building.
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