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Show 44 Chapter Seven. Special Duties. The summer which began so dramatically with the rescue of Marianna Young ended viith a brief change of scene for Janey. In September President Jimmy Carter vacationed in the Grand Teton National Park vihich borders Yellowstone to the south, and the Special Activities Group was called to help with security. For six nights President Carter stayed at the Brinkerhoff Lodge on Jackson Lake while Janey patrolled outside. "The President's Secret Service men formed the inner perimeter of security around the lodge," she recalls, "and our night shift of twelve rangers worked in a circle around them. I'd go to my post at 8 every evening to stand guard, using my ears more than my eyes in the darkness. I didn't move around too much because if I did, the Secret Service agents got nervous. And I got nervous, because I didn't want them pointing their guns at me. Besides, if I walked around I couldn't hear anyone viho might have been prowling through the bushes. That's what I was there for, to make sure there weren't any intruders." Not only did she see no intruders, during the entire six nights that she viorked twelve hours at a stretch she didn't once see the president. "That's the way it goes sometimes," Janey shrugs, adding with a grin, "I'm sure he enjoyed his stay in the Tetons even though he didn't get to meet me." She'd been transferred to South Entrance with the title of supervisory park ranger, and as her park experience and responsibilities increased, Janey found herself doing a lot more paper work. Because she |
