Water Resources People and Issues
I decided to take the job under Glenn Sloan out in Oregon. I wouldn't be
working directly with Glenn Sloan, but he was kind of the
for all of the
Bureau' s field planning.
Was Sloan at Billings at this time?
Oh, no. Sloan was in Denver. Almost everybody was in Denver. I'm not even
sure there was a Billings office. Well, there probably
No, Sloan had been working out of the Billings office when he was working
on the Pick-Sloan Plan. That's the reason why the Missouri River basin
development comes to be called the Pick-Sloan Plan.
I know. But that was not until 1944. And he had an office in Denver. I think
he did the Pick-Sloan Plan out of the Denver office. The surveys for the
Missouri-Souris and the Garrison Division, and the Oahe-James units were
what we in the Bureau used to refer to irreverently as "windshield surveys."
There was very little field work.
I see.
Now, the field office was undoubtedly involved in some way.
I was thinking
was the commissioner.
Well, Harry
followed John Page as commissioner. I'd have to check
the history books to see when it was. But John Page was in there through the
1930s.
may well have been in there by this time, because it was 1942.
Yeah.
Page probably was succeeded about 1940. Anyway, I got my directions from
Glenn Sloan after I transferred to the Planning Division.
Can you tell me what kind of man Glenn Sloan was?
Well, he was a very kindly person and he really was very helpful to me.
Personally, I remember the way one of his eyes was bigger than the other
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