Indiana Dunes Administrative History

1. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979, Management Library.

2. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1977; and Meetings of 21 January and 21 October 1977, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

3. Dale B. Engquist, Superintendent, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, interview, 16 September 1987, at Midwest Regional Office, Omaha, Nebraska, transcript.

4. Regional Director Merrill D. Beal to Manager, Denver Service Center, 30 March 1977, H30 Bailly Homestead.

5. Ibid., Historical Architect Douglas S. Walter to Assistant Manager, Midwest/Rocky Mountain Team, Denver Service Center, 4—8 April 1977; and Regional Director Beal to Superintendent Whitehouse, 28 November 1979.

6. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1977; and Meetings of 21 January and 21 October 1977, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

7. Operations Evaluation Report, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, July 1977, A5427 Operations Evaluation July 21—27, 1977.

8. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1978; Meetings of 20 January, 14 April, 14 July, and 20 October 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent; James R. Whitehouse, former Superintendent, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, interview, 11 and 12 March 1987, Orlando, Florida, transcript, Midwest Regional Office; and Engquist interview, 16 September 1987.

9. Larry Waldron, "SSA's 10th Year: Celebrating a Birthday," Singing Sands Almanac, Vol. 7, No. 6 (Summer 1987), published by the Friends of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, p. 1.

10. Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987.

11. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1978; Meetings of 20 January, 14 April, 14 July, and 20 October 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent; and Whitehouse interview, 11 and 12 March 1987.

12. Superintendent J. R. Whitehouse to Mrs. Anne R. Taber, letter, 30 January 1974; Superintendent Whitehouse to Regional Director Beal, 1 August 1978; Superintendent Whitehouse to Robert Johnson, National Field Representative, American Youth Hostels, Inc., 18 October 1978 and 20 February 1981, D34 AYH—Coronado Lodge; and Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987.

13. Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987.

14. Meeting of 14 July 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent; and Superintendent Whitehouse to Mrs. Ruth H. Osann, President, Save the Dunes Council, letter, 28 July 1978, A22 Save the Dunes Council (F.Y. 78—83).

15. Meeting of 20 October 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

16. Charlotte J. Read to Director William Whalen, letter, 18 December 1978; and Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987. See also Regional Director Jimmy Dunning to Charlotte J. Read, letter, 19 March 1979, A22 Save the Dunes Council (F.Y. 78—83).

17. "Lakeshore Schedules Move of Administrative Headquarters to Porter, Indiana," park press release, 11 June 1979, D34 NIKE Base Facility.

18. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979, Management Library.

19. Superintendent Whitehouse to Director Whalen, 7 February 1979, A5639 Indiana Dunes Briefing Statements 1973—1980; Norma Schaeffer and Kay Franklin, "Industry Versus Preservation," in The Indiana Dunes Story: How Nature and People Made a Park (Beverly Shore, Indiana: Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, 1984), p. 26; and Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987.

20. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979, Management Library; and Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987.

21. Superintendent Whitehouse to Director Whalen, 7 February 1979, A5639 Indiana Dunes Briefing Statements 1973—1980.

22. A. Berle Clemensen, Historic Resource Study, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana (Denver: National Park Service, Denver Service Center, February 1979).

23. Meetings of 14 April and 14 July 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

24. Whitehouse interview, 11 March 1987; and Superintendent Engquist to Regional Director Castleberry, 3 March 1988, review comments on administrative history, H1417, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office.

25. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979, Management Library; and "Donation of Mt. Baldy, February 17, 1979, City of Michigan City to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore," folder—Mt. Baldy, Records of the Advisory Commission.

26. Ibid., dedication program for Hoosier Prairie National Natural Landmark and State Nature Preserve, 3 June 1979, folder—Hoosier Prairie.

27. Director Whalen to Sylvia Troy, letter, 26 September 1979, folder—Save the Dunes Council (F.Y. 78—83).

28. Superintendent Whitehouse to Assistant to the Regional Director for Public Affairs, 1 March 1976 and Acting Superintendent Don H. Castleberry to Regional Director Beal, 1 April 1977, A8215 West Beach Dedication; Save the Dunes Council Newsletter (June 1977), Scrapbook of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore compiled by Dr. Virginia Reuterskiold, Office of the Superintendent; and Historian Martin Marciniak to Historian Ron Cockrell, letter, 9 February 1988, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office.

29. Meeting of 15 July 1977, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

30. J. Ronald Engel, Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983), p. 288.

31. James E. Newman and James B. Lane, editors, Steel Shavings: Concerned Citizens against the Bailly Nuclear Site, Vol. 16 (Gary, Indiana: Indiana University Northwest, 1988), pp. 2-3, and 37.

32. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1977, Management Library.

33. Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Dean H. Mitchell, letter, 13 June 1977, folder—Bailly I, Records of the Advisory Commission.

34. Ibid.

35. Ibid.

36. Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Robert L. Herbst to John R. Schnurlein, letter, 12 October 1977, folder—NIPSCO, Records of the Advisory Commission.

37. James E. Newman and James B. Lane, editors, Steel Shavings: Concerned Citizens against the Bailly Nuclear Site, Vol. 16 (Gary, Indiana: Indiana University Northwest, 1988), p. 38.

38. "NPS Suit May Turn into Test Case," Chicago Tribune (17 October 1977), folder—Miscellaneous, Records of the Advisory Commission.

39. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979, Management Library.

40. Lisa Levitt, "Bailly I: Pennsylvania Nuclear Crisis Clouds Future of NIPSCO's Problem Child," Michigan City News—Dispatch (9 April 1979), folder April 1979, visitor center library.

41. "Summary of Threats, State of Parks Survey," Midwest Region Parks, 27 December 1979, A54 Inspections, Appraisals, Investigations, Studies, Surveys.

42. Ibid.

43. Whitehouse interview, 11 March 1987.

44. Meeting of 21 January 1977, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes, 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

45. Ibid., Meeting of 25 March 1977.

46. Ibid., Meetings of 15 July 1977, 14 July 1978, and 20 October 1978; and "Fact Sheet, S. 599/H.R. 2742 A Bill to Enlarge the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore," Save the Dunes Council, May 1979, included in "Hearing before the Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, 96th Congress, First Session on S. 559 A Bill Relating to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, And For Other Purposes," September 20, 1979, No. 96—73, found in the book Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 96th Congress, 1st Session, Management Library.

47. Meetings of 20 January and 14 April 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes, 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

48. Adam Benjamin, Jr., to All Interested Parties, 23 May 1978, W3815 Proposed Legislation to Expand Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Briefing Material for Secretary Andrus' visit to Chicago, July 21, 1978, prepared by Public Affairs Office, Midwest Regional Office, July 18, 1978; Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979; and Whitehouse interview, 12 March 1987.

49. "Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, 95th Congress, 2d Session, on S. 2560 A Bill Relating to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and For Other Purposes, August 10, 1978," (No. 95—161), found in the book Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Congressional Hearings, 95th Congress, Management Library.

50. Meeting of 20 October 1978, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission Minutes, 1977—1978, Management Library, Office of the Superintendent.

51. "Fact Sheet, S. 599/H.R. 2742 A Bill to Enlarge the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore," Save the Dunes Council, May 1979, included in "Hearing before the Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, 96th Congress, First Session on S. 559 A Bill Relating to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, And For Other Purposes," September 20, 1979, No. 96—73, found in the book Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 96th Congress, 1st Session, Management Library.

52. Ibid., Hutchison statement with Superintendent J. R. Whitehouse and Art Eck, Legislative Staff, Washington Office.

53. Charlotte Read, Executive Director, Save the Dunes Council, interview, 22 September 1987, at Superintendent's Office, Bailly Administrative Area, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, Indiana, transcript.

54. Superintendent's Report for Calendar Year 1979, Management Library.