Margaret S. Petersen
They knew what they were going to have us do. Through
we knew George
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Schneider, who was the Chief of the Engineering Division, and we also knew Ed Madden
whom we would be working for. They were people we respected and liked.
Now who then headed the hydraulics branch? Was that Pyle?
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Jay Pyle was the head of that branch. We were not initially in that branch; we were in the
planning branch. We worked for Ed Madden, who, I think, is still living in the Dallas area.
He was in Little Rock for quite a few years, and then in the Southwestern Division for ten
or fifteen years before retiring.
Engineering division or planning?
I don't remember which one he was in in SWD.
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Was planning part of engineering then or had it been broken up?
Yes. This was before they split planning from engineering.
And George Schneider was chief of the engineering in Little Rock then?
George Schneider. He's also dead. He was another person with Alzheimers; he wandered
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off and froze to death before they found him. After he retired, he went to teach at Iowa, and
he died after retiring from Iowa.
This is a picture with Colonel
[shows photograph]. He was probably the nicest, most
helpful district engineer I ever worked for.
That was Little Rock?
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That was Little Rock. I don't think that he was in the Corps very long
his assignment
in Little Rock. He went back to Russellville, which is a small town on the Arkansas River
just west of Little Rock, where he taught in a small college. He's dead now. He was the soul
of tact, consideration; he also knew hydraulics. He participated in our conference with SWD
and always defended his people.
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