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With Cressman at Catlow Cave, 1935 and 1937: A Personal Note
I transferred from Reed College to the University of Oregon in 1934
because of a growing interest in man's distant past. That interest had been awakened in
a civics class in Washington Highschool (Portland) when I confronted a skeletal portrait
of Neanderthal Man accompanied by a brief sketch of his cave life and association with
cave bears. At Reed College I took a reading course in religious origins from the famous
anthropologist, Alexander Goldenweiser; but a commitment to man's distant past and to
anthropology as a discipline had to wait until a romantic attachment for the origins
and history of the ancient Egyptians had run its course. In Eugene [Oregon] I was
fortunate to obtain room-lodging for 30.00 furnished
through the National Recovery Act. I owed this economic security to Dr. [Luther]
Cressman, who selected me as his classroom assistant. I succeeded Howard Stafford, who,
I believe, was the first to hold the position. Those were the days when one lunched on
nickel hamburgers washed down with a ten cent milkshake