ABSTRACT
Cammerer resigned effective August 9, 1940 and Newton B. Drury accepted the Directorship. Like Mather and Albright, he was a graduate of the University of California—in the same class as Albright. His interest in park problems and his ability were attested by the fact that for twenty years he had been executive secretary of the Save-the-Redwoods League, which had accomplished wonders, and also an executive in the California State Park Commission, one of the most energetic and successful of the state's commissions. He was the first director who was not a Mather-trained man; but he had had some contacts with Mather in his work for the redwoods. He was of a somewhat different disposition from Mather and Albright—a less aggressive promoter, yet his record of achievements was impressive; more retiring, more philosophical; less at home before appropriation committees and in the hurly-burly of politics, in fact he was said to dislike that part of his job. But he was well and broadly educated, conscientious, indefatigably devoted to the parks, and courageous and stubborn in defending them or in defending any principle that he regarded as important. Probably he was a little more sympathetic with the purist view of park management than any of the other Directors, which might be the reason that Albright did not regard him as highly as many other men did.
