Hubbell Trading Post Administrative History

Juin Crosse 1978-1980

Juin Crosse is another of Hubbell Trading Post's Superintendents who was not a stranger to the Navajo Nation. Her father was a lawyer for the Bureau of Indian Services. She came to Window Rock in 1952, lived there for two years, and then she lived in Gallup for four years. One of her friends was the daughter of a trader at St. Michaels.

Juin assumed the Superintendency at Hubbell Trading Post on 29 January 1978, coming from Redwood National Park where she had been Administrative Officer.

Juin entered the Park Service in August, 1966, at Fire Island National Seashore as a clerk-typist. She then moved to Flagstaff where she did general clerical work for the Administrative Officer. When the office there was dissolved, she went to Phoenix and moved into procurement work. From Phoenix she transferred to Washington, D.C. to take part in the Management Development Plan, then on to Redwood National Park for three years as Administrative Officer. She was in the Park Service for twelve years before assuming her first Superintendency, Hubbell Trading Post.

Activities at the trading post while Juin Crosse was there: Some major work on the Hubbell home was accomplished, the removal of straw and mud from the inner layer of the roof in order to cut down the fire hazard. Part of the back of the barn was taken down and reassembled in order to help stabilize the building. Some work was done on the porch at the front of the house. An interpretive prospectus was developed. She was concerned about getting water through the irrigation ditches, although that never came to pass. She was instrumental in getting the old schoolhouse (the present Visitor Center and site offices) transferred to the Park Service.

After Hubbell Trading Post, Juin moved on to Superintendencies at Fort McHenry National Monument and Hampton National Historic Site. She was in that area for five years when family illness forced her to take a leave of absence. After a year or two away from the Park Service, she returned at a time of severe reductions of personnel. Not entirely pleased with where the Park Service wanted to place her, she took a job with another federal agency. She retired after twenty-five years of service with the federal government.

Juin Crosse is now married to Mr. Elliott Adams. They spend part of the year at their home in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, the winter months in Florida.

Figure 55. Juin Crosse, Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post NHS from 1978- 1980. NPS photo.