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George
George Munro. I met him when I was at Roosevelt and we had a mutual friend in Walter
Donagho. And he helped Munro band birds on Rabbit Island, Moku Manu, Moku Lua, so I
was interested in it.
How old were you then
[thinking] In junior high school, about 8 th or 9 th grade.
When did you start the Audubon Club
Yes, through Munro, he got a bunch of people who wanted a Bird Club, you know.
Yes.
And we went to a meeting and with Charlie Dunn and Ed Bryan, and a Mr. Williams and a
few others, and Munro, and a few others. They decided…I was just a kid, but they
decided to form an Audubon Society.
How old were you
In 1939, I think.
So, you know, twelve years old.
Twenty-four to thirty-nine is what
Fifteen.
Yes.
Because in Munro’s “Birds of Hawaii,” he talks about, little David Woodside.
Wow, that’s so cool!
Yes, imagine how small he was. I had a niece in school, and they were reading this,
“Birds of Hawaii,” and the phone rang one day, “Aunty Lei, we’re reading George Munro
in our class, the book, and she said they talk about, “Little David Woodside. Is that my
Uncle David” [chuckling]
Munro was very helpful, he was an old man at that time, he was retired.
Yes. Did you work over here on O‘ahu at Mökapu also, for a while
No, no.
You didn’t.
No, no, the game was closed already… [thinking] I visited the Game Farm, but I never
did work.
You never worked over there.
When you came back from Washington State Pullman, did you go to work for the
Territory
Well, I worked for the Territory before, when Schwartz sent me to Kaua‘i in 1947. But I
had applied to the University of Hawai‘i through the G.I. Bill. And then, Brock was the
head of the Fish & Game, and I told ‘em, “If I got accepted into the University, maybe I’ll
quit, to go to school.” He said, “If you’re accepted into the University, you’re fired.”
[chuckles]
“You can’t work for the Fish & Game.” So, I got into the University, and in the summer
time I worked for the Fish & Game. Three summers, I worked for them. But the last
summer, while at Washington State, I didn’t come home because I got some little
scholarship to help the professor in a pheasant study. But then, when I graduated in
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