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<br />Water Resourcrs p(~ple ud Issues <br /> <br />grasped thaI opportunity and instead of staying a few months I stayed eight <br />years. <br /> <br />Q: Let me go back for just a half a second here. Was your master's them dene <br />under Harlan Barrows, too? <br /> <br />A: No, it was done under Henry Leppard, who had worked on his thesis under <br />Barrows an( had made a comprehensive study of the Peace River Valley in <br />Canada as ? nev" settlement area. <br /> <br />Q: Was your the,is basically one of historical geography or a study of the impact <br />of the estua.y on human population? <br /> <br />A: It was a ped2strian piece of geographic morphology, describing the land me. <br /> <br />Q: Then what madE: you turn to your thesis topic? <br /> <br />A: I saw a wa' of taking advantage of the summer work that I had been able to <br />complete in '31. using material already in hand, rather than because I wanted <br />to pursuc thai tepic any further. <br /> <br />Q: I presume t\ at Professor Barrows had no particular problem with you- choice <br />of topic~ <br /> <br />A: Not for the thesis. <br /> <br />Q: Well, for a Ph.D. dissertation? <br /> <br />A: That developed very slowly, after '34. Whcn I went to Washington in '34 I <br />didn't have a Ph.D. topic. All I had to do was find one. It took me several <br />years to fin:! one and altogether eight years to complete a dissertatio'1. <br /> <br />Q: So the thesi, came easily but the dissertation didn't come so easily. Yau were <br />working as a Ph. D. student under Professor Barrows at this time? <br /> <br />6 <br />