Effigy Mounds Administrative History

¹Monthly Narrative Reports, December 1949-March 1950.

²Quotation from Monthly Narrative Report, July 1950; other information from Monthly Narrative Reports, February-July, 1950; Activities Reports, May 21-27, and June 18-24, 1950; and Fact File, Personnel, Effigy Mounds National Monument.

³Monthly Narrative Reports, June—October 1950; and Activities Reports, June 18-24, July 23-29, and September 10-16, 1950.

⁴Narrative Reports, January and February, 1951.

⁵Activities Report, September 10—16, 1950; and Monthly Narrative Report, May 1951.116

⁶Wilfred D. Logan, interview with William S. Wood, Tucson, Arizona, March 10, 1987.

⁷Robert T. Bray, interview with Wood, Columbia, Missouri, January 15, 1987.

⁸Logan, interview with Wood, March 10, 1987; Bray, interview with Wood, January 15, 1987; and Dale Henning, interview with Wood, Decorah, Iowa, February 9, 1987.

⁹Logan, interview with Wood, March 10, 1987.

¹⁰Fact File, Personnel, and personal communication, Joyce Nading to author, July 1988.

¹¹Monthly Narrative Reports, October and November, 1951.

¹²Monthly Narrative Reports, October and November, 1952.

¹³Monthly Narrative Reports, January-December, 1952.

¹⁴Logan, interview with Wood, March 10, 1987.

¹⁵Monthly Narrative Reports, April-October, 1953.

¹⁶David Thompson, Jr., had a distinguished career in the National Park Service, which included the superintendencies of Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri, and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California; he also served as Regional Director for the Southeast Region, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

¹⁷Logan, interview with Wood, March 10, 1987; and Monthly Narrative Reports, March-June, 1957.

¹⁸Bray, interview with Wood, January 15, 1987; and Monthly Narrative Reports, March-June, 1957.

¹⁹Monthly Narrative Reports, December 1958-February 1959; and Logan, interview with Wood, March 10, 1987.

²⁰Monthly Narrative Reports, December 1958 and May 1959.

²¹Fact File, Personnel; and personal communication, Nading to author, June 1988.

²²Ibid., and Jackie Lamb to Joyce Nading, August 1, 1988.

²³Fact File, Personnel.

²⁴Ibid

²⁵Ibid

²⁶This decision reflected a Servicewide trend to appoint archeologists to positions in the archeological centers, where they could be made available for park projects as needed, rather than placing archeologists in park positions.

²⁷Ibid., and James David, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987; Bernard J. Carnicle, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987; Dan Bickel, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987; and Thomas A. Munson, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987.

²⁸Munson, interview with Wood, February 11, 1987; David, interview with Wood, February 11, 1987; Logan, interview with Wood, March 10, 1987; Dennis J. Runge, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987; Jacquelyn J. Lamb, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987; and Rodney Rovang, interview with Wood, Effigy Mounds National Monument, February 11, 1987.

²⁹David returned to Effigy Mounds National Monument as park ranger (archeologist) in 1981. His title was changed to chief, interpretation and resources management, three years later.

³⁰Fact File, Personnel.

³¹Fact File, Personnel; and Beverly J. Siglin, interview with author, Effigy Mounds National Monument, March 2, 1988.