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for him the respect of all with whom he came 

 in professional contact. He was always ready 

 to devote his energies to public duties, irre- 

 spective of the demands on his vitalities. In 

 addition to his work as landscape architect of 

 the District he rendered great services to the 

 Public Buildings Commission of Congress 

 when the investigations and report of that 

 body were under way. I myself, as Assistant 

 Director of the National Park Service, saw 

 him shortly before his death in Denver, when 

 he told me that he had so many reports yet 

 to write that he did not want to keep away 

 from his work and take a rest 'as long as he 

 could push a pencil.' Apparently, however, his 

 strength waned fast after that, because two 

 weeks thereafter a telegram was received at 

 National Park headquarters that he had died. 

 It is such men as Mr. Punchard that leave 

 their indelible stamp by work faithfully and 

 well done, which serves as an inspiration to 

 others in his profession and in the Service. 



"As an evidence of the esteem in which 

 Charles Punchard and his work were held by 

 Director Mather, the Director issued instruc- 

 tions that all flags in the Park Service through- 

 out the country were to be at half-mast for 

 thirty days." 



In closing thi.s somewhat informal 

 minute on the life and character of 

 Charles Pierpont Punchard, Jr., let me 

 quote from an informal resolution signed 

 by certain members of the Boston So- 

 ciety of Landscape Architects (informal, 

 since Charles had left Boston before the 

 Chapter was organized and so was never 

 a member of it) : 



"We had learned to hold him in affection in 

 his early days of promise, to love his personal 

 charm and integrity, and to admire his cour- 

 age and enthusiasm in following, against great 

 odds, the high cause of his chosen profession." 



