From donor’s notes: I was born in Kirkwood N.Y. in 1931 on a small family farm and graduated as a Civil Engineer from Union College in Schenectady N.Y. in 1952. About 10 days after graduation I crawled on a Northwest Airlines Stratocruiser and arrived in Anchorage in mid-June.

I obtained employment with the Alaska Road Commission (ARC) and my first assignment was as a surveyor at the village of Kenai. The ARC had completed the Sterling Highway to Homer with a spur road to Kenai in 1950 arid in accordance with its enabling act of 1905 switched its Kenai efforts to constructing "Farm Roads" on the Peninsula in order to enhance economical development in the area.

It was an interesting time in-as-much is as soon as a Farm Road was cleared; homesteaders staked out their allotment on each side of the cleared area before an actual road was constructed. Our survey crew was tasked with locating various farm roads and staking them for construction.

Included in 1952 were the North Kenai Farm road, Miller loop Road, Beaver Creek Loop Road, Small Tracks Road, Robinson Loop Road, Skilak Lake Road, and Homer-Kachamac Bay Road.

Our survey crew was based in the main ARC camp about 1 ½ miles +/- east of the Kenai Airport. The construction superintendent was Ralph Solberg and he and his wife and 2 daughters lived in the ARC furnished house across the creek from the main camp. Gene Evancoe was the Resident Engineer the boss of the survey crew.

My camera was a CIRO 35mm and I used Kodak film. The film spool came in a plastic can and the spool had a slot that was light-proof out of which the end of the film projected. The spool had an internal shaft with an exterior tab that fit into the camera's wind and rewind wheel. The can came with a cloth bag with a Kodiak mailing tag attached and when you finished the 20 shot film you mailed it to Kodiak and they mailed the mounted transparencies back in a neat little box.

Late in 1952 and in 1953 I was assigned as a project engineer on roads in the Anchorage area until December when I was transferred to the Bridge Design section in Juneau. I was assigned to Cantwell in the spring of 1954 as Project Engineer on Denali Highway bridge Construction. I wintered in Juneau and summered in Cantwell until late 1956. From 1956 to 1959 I worked in Juneau in the road design section. --Bruce A. Campbell, November 1, 2011