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Sixth Oral History Interview
with
Lucile Quarry Mann
August 16, 1977
at her home at 3001 Veazey Terrace, N. W., Washington, D. C.
By Pamela M. Henson 
Interviewer
for the Smithsonian Institution Archives

HENSON:  We're going to start today talking about the multi-retirement year.  We had just begun to talk about that last time.  Dr. [William M.] Mann, Mr. [Ernest Pillsbury] Walker, Mr. [Frank O.] Lowe, and Mr. [Peter] Hilt all left within the same year.  You would have been working there then?

MANN:  Yes, I was working there.  That was '56.  I had been working there for about five years as Dr. Mann's secretary.  When he retired, of course, I stayed on as Dr. [Theodore H.] Reed's secretary--as his part-time secretary.  He had to have a full-time secretary also.  I think Mr. Walker retired a little sooner than Dr. Mann did.  [J.] Lear Grimmer came here from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago to be the assistant director.

HENSON:  Had you known him much before?