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Oral History Center University of California the Bancroft Library Berkeley, California Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley Oral History Center University of California The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California East Bay Regional Park District Oral History Project Renee Crowley: East Bay Park District Parkland Oral History Project Interviews conducted by Shanna Farrell in 2018 Copyright © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California Interview sponsored by the East Bay Regional Park District Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley ii Since 1954 the Oral History Center of the Bancroft Library, formerly the Regional Oral History Office, has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of Northern California, the West, and the nation. Oral History is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is bound with photographs and illustrative materials and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ********************************* All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between The Regents of the University of California and Renee Crowley dated October 16, 2018. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Excerpts up to 1000 words from this interview may be quoted for publication without seeking permission as long as the use is non-commercial and properly cited. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to The Bancroft Library, Head of Public Services, Mail Code 6000, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000, and should follow instructions available online at http://ucblib.link/OHC-rights. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Renee Crowley, “Renee Crowley: East Bay Park District Parkland Oral History Project” conducted by Shanna Farrell in 2018, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2019. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley iii Renee Crowley at Wildcat Canyon in the early 1990s. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Oral History Center would like to thank the East Bay Regional Park District for their generous support of this oral history project. The Parkland Oral History Project is funded by the Interpretive and Recreation Services Department of the East Bay Regional Park District, coordinated by Beverly R. Ortiz, Ph.D., EBRPD Cultural Services Coordinator, and supported by staff at all levels of the Park District. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley v Renee Crowley in this interview described her early life in a small town outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she was born in 1950. Followed by her father’s job transfers to California at Palo Alto in 1957, and then eventually back to Moorestown, New Jersey in 1964 where she graduated from high school. Renee moved back to California, leaving her family, in 1968 to attend San Diego State, earning a degree in comparative literature with a minor in psychology in 1972. Early jobs after school included working for an apartment complex in maintenance, as a groundskeeper/gardener for a school district, as a musician in an all-woman’s band in San Diego with the band eventually moving to San Francisco in 1977. As Renee turned thirty in 1980, she was determined to look for a long-time career worthy of her educational training and learned job skills, and was hired as a Park Worker in what would lead to a distinguished career at the East Bay Regional Park District. Renee was among the early group of females hired at entry level park district field jobs traditionally held by males. Early parks included Del Valle Regional Park, Roberts Recreation Area, Martin Luther King Regional Shoreline where she become a Park Supervisor in 1982, and was soon promoted as the park districts first female Zone Manager in 1985. Renee survived the major transitions that occurred after David E. Pesonen became General Manager in 1986, and reorganized field operations from geographic into specialty units. She became the District’s first Parkland Unit Manager where for the next 17 years she would manage several of the District’s original and oldest parks along the East Bay urban interface between Garin Regional Park and Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, until her retirement in 2003. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley vi Table of Contents—Renee Crowley Project History Interview 1: October 16, 2018 Hour 1 1 Born in 1950 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Moving to California and New Jersey when father transferred jobs — Leaving Moorestown, NJ to attend college in 1968 — Childhood memories of emulating his father — Possessing entrepreneurial characteristics as a child — Hit by a car at the age of ten in 1960 — Swimming as a central function of her recovery phase — Father attended Syracuse University — Worked as a businessman for Garlock Incorporated post- WWII — Attending San Diego State in 1968 — Studied comparative literature and psychology — Worked for an apartment complex in San Diego post- graduation — Moved to the Bay Area in 1977 to seek a career in music — First impressions of the parks district — Being hired in 1980 — Responding to a wildland fire outside Del Valle in Livermore — A part of the maintenance and operations team at Del Valle — Transition from Del Valle to Roberts — Desire to become a park supervisor — Promoted to park supervisor in 1982 — Going through the interview process — Challenges at San Leandro: lacking an office and sufficient trucks — Taking pride in organizing the Children’s Bathtub Regatta — At the forefront of transforming the Oakland Dump into a park — Discussing the 415 Society program — Prisoners cut firewood to reduce sentences — Establishment of the service yard at San Leandro Bay — Zone manager in 1985 — Reorganization of the park district with the hiring of David Pesonen — Changing the structure of parks and grouping them under functions — Zone managers’ leading role in reorganizing the park operations department Hour 2 20 Workload of being a supervisor — Leadership style in managing parks — Team approach in dealing with park matters — Confronting the mountain bike issue as a unit manager — Implemented a district-wide volunteer trail patrol program — Role of program in mending the relationship between bikers and equestrians — Being in charge of the fuel break in the mid-eighties — Goal of the eucalyptus management project: cutting down and treating trees with herbicides — Working relationship with the fire department — Involvement in the Oakland Hills fire — Behind the scenes role in protecting fires in Claremont Canyon and Temescal — Tilden Golf Course improvement project in the mid-to late nineties — Replacing the asphalt cart paths, creek restoration, drainage improvements, and more — Reflecting on the dogs-off-leash issue — Difficult decision to make Redwood Creek a resource protection area — Retirement in 2003 — Undergoing two hip replacement surgeries — Fulfillment in working for the park district — Happiness in seeing others enjoying the fruits of her hard work Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley vii The East Bay Regional Park District Oral History Project The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is a special district that stretches across both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. First established in 1934 by Alameda County voters, the EBRPD slowly expanded to Contra Costa in 1964 and has continued to grow and preserve the East Bay’s most scenic and historically significant parklands. The EBRPD’s core mission is to acquire, develop, and maintain diverse and interconnected parklands in order to provide the public with usable natural spaces and to preserve the region’s natural and cultural resources. This oral history project—The East Bay Regional Park District Oral History Project— records and preserves the voices and experiences of formative, retired EBRPD field staff, individuals associated with land use of EBRPD parklands prior to district acquisition, and individuals who continue to use parklands for agriculture and ranching. The Oral History Center (OHC) of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley first engaged in conversations with the EBRPD in the fall of 2016 about the possibility of restarting an oral history project on the parklands. The OHC, previously the Regional Oral History Office, had conducted interviews with EBPRD board members, supervisors and individuals historically associated with the parklands throughout the 1970s and early 2000s. After the completion of a successful
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