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About Our Members about our members U. R. Acharya, formerly director of the Regional Meteoro- pointment as assistant professor of meteorology at San Jose logical Center, Calcutta, India, is now director for instru- State College, San Jose, Calif. ments, Meteorological Office, Poona, India. Maj. Walter I. Christensen, Jr., USAF member of the Joint Ernest Amman of the Weather Bureau's Office of Meteoro- Meteorological Satellite Program Office, has received the logical Operations received the National Aeronautics and Department of Defense Joint Service Commendation Medal Space Administration's Exceptional Service Medal from NASA for meritorious service in representing the DOD on inter- Administrator Thomas O. Paine at an Apollo Awards cere- departmental committees and advisory groups for meteoro- mony held at the Kennedy Space Center on 30 November. logical satellite matters and for his significant contribu- Wilmer L. Thompson, director of the Weather Bureau South- tions to the selection of experiments to be incorporated in ern Region, represented Dr. Robert M. White, ESSA admin- the national meteorological satellite research program. Ac- istrator, at the ceremony. cording to the citation, Maj. Christensen demonstrated out- Charles A. Baird, Jr., graduated from Yale University in standing abilities to initiate and execute technical plans 1969 with a Ph.D. in engineering and applied science. and programs involving multi-service and multi-agency in- Maj. Paul R. Balcom, USAF, last fall was elected a member terests, serving the best interests of the Department of De- of the Pennsylvania State University Chapter of Chi Epsilon fense in a firm and tactful manner. Pi. Upon completion of his graduate studies in December Capt. Ronald W. Clarke of the Operational Requirements 1969, Maj. Balcom was assigned to Headquarters, 6th Weather Directorate, Hq. Air Weather Service, Scott AFB, 111., re- Wing, Andrews AFB, Md. cently received the Air Force Bronze Star Medal for meri- torious service as staff weather officer to the commanding general and staff, 101st Airborne Division, and as officer in charge of the Division weather station assigned to OL-4, Det. 32, 5th Weather Squadron, Republic of Vietnam, from 28 November 1967 to 12 October 1968. During this period Capt. Clarke performed the hazardous duty of providing vital weather service in support of the Division's combat opera- tions. Dr. Joseph Clodman in December was appointed superin- tendent of the Forecast Research Section in the Research and Training Division of the Meteorological Service of Canada. This section was newly created to provide research and development support for the Canadian Weather Service Ottis C. Bobbitt Wilbert R. Krumm Forecast System and is composed of four units: Dynamic Prediction Research Unit, Mesoscale Prediction Research Unit, Forecast Development Research Unit, and Observa- tional Services Unit. Among those receiving Dr. Harold Crutcher of the National Weather Records ESSA length-of-service awards Center, Asheville, N. C., was a visiting professor at the Uni- in October were: 40-year Ot- versity of Texas at Austin during the fall semester of 1969. tis C. Bobbitt, San Angelo, He taught an undergraduate course in climatology and a Tex., Wilbert R. Krumm, graduate course in geophysical statistics. Interagency Fire Center, Among the AMS members recently receiving the Air Force Boise, Idaho; 30-year Elden Commendation Medal were: Lt. Col. Robert A. Derrickson, V. Jetton, El Paso, Tex.; 25- Jr. (First Oak Leaf Cluster), Air Force Global Weather Cen- year Gerald J. Carter, Okla- tral, Lt. Col. Ben F. Hicks (First Oak Leaf Cluster), 7th Wea. homa City, Okla., Paul H. Sq., Lt. Col. Douglas H. MacCallum, Det. 23, 6th Wea. Wing, Swope, Chicago, 111., and Lt. Col. Herbert A. Million, Air Force Global Weather Cen- Paul J. Waite, Des Moines, tral, Lt. Col. Francis S. Shay, 6th Wea. Wing; Maj. Ronald Iowa. L. Lininger, OL-9, Hq., Air Weather Service, Maj. James E. Miller, Det. 28, 26th Wea. Sq.; Capt. Vincent Cinquemani, Elden V. Jetton Det. 29, 6th Wea. Wing, Capt. Robert E. Elliott, Det. 19, 15th Wea. Sq., Capt. Bobby J. Higgins, Det. 19, 15th Wea. Sq., After completing studies for a doctorate at New York Uni- Capt. John H. Huck, 7th Wea. Wing, Capt. Troy D. Jordan, versity, in September 1969 Robert D. Bornstein accepted ap- Det. 5, 1st Wea. Wing, Capt. Richard C. Savage, Det. 19, 24th 168 Vol. 51, No. 2, February 1970 Bulletin American Meteorological Society Wea. Sq., Capt. Arnold L. Snyder, Jr., Det. 7, 4th Wea. Wing, Gilbert Jager, meteorologist in the Applications Group, Capt. Philip W. West, Air Force Global Weather Central, National Environmental Satellite Center, has been appointed Capt. James H. Wood, Det. 40, 28th Wea. Sq., Capt. John L. project leader of the GARP-ATS-1 wind data collection proj- Wood, Det. 5, 1st Wea. Wing; 1/Lt. Bryan J. Walsh, Det. 28, ect. In this study, ATS-1 movies for November are under- 26th Wea. Sq.; SMSgt. James R. Smith (First Oak Leaf Clus- going special analysis to obtain a maximum number of both ter), Det. 4, 1st Wea. Wing, SMSgt. Donald W. Taft (Second high and low level winds. Over 400 winds per day will be Oak Leaf Cluster), Det. 50, 6th Wea. Wing; MSgt. Robert J. extracted each day of the project. Copesky (First Oak Leaf Cluster), Det. 10, 15th Wea. Sq.; and Paul Kangieser, state climatologist at Tempe, Ariz., has TSgt. Vernon L. Patterson, ETAC. been named a member of the Maricopa County Air Pollu- Dr. Edward S. Epstein, Department of Meteorology and tion Advisory Council. Oceanography, University of Michigan, was guest lecturer at On retiring as Lt. Col. USAF on 30 November 1969, John a November seminar sponsored by the National Environmen- E. Karamanian accepted a position as director of training tal Satellite Center and the National Meteorological Center. with Air Wisconsin, Inc., Outagamie County Airport, Apple- His topic was "Stochastic analysis and prediction." ton, Wis. Mark Eubank of KUYV and Robert Welti of KSL-TV and Kristirui B. Katsaros, research assistant at the University of radio, both in Salt Lake City, Utah, received Weather Bureau Washington, Seattle, since 1962, was recently awarded a doc- Public Service Awards at the October meeting of the Utah torate in meteorology. Chapter of the AMS. They were cited for "the excellence of Major John E. Kutulas re- their weathercasts and their contributions to weather services cently received the Bronze in the intermountain area." Hazen H. Bedke, director of the Star Medal for meritorious Weather Bureau Western Region, made the presentations. service as commander of the On graduating from the University of Utah with a B.S. in base weather station at Tan meteorology, Michael D. Fairbourne accepted a position as Son Nhut Air Base, Repub- staff meteorologist with KIFI-TV, Idaho Falls, Idaho. lic of Vietnam, from 15 After completing a two-year tour in the Peace Corps in the April 1968 to 15 February Philippines, William G. Fortney stayed on to teach mathe- 1969. During this period matics at Silliman University, Dumaguete City. He plans to Maj. Kutulas revitalized his return in May and enter graduate school and possibly major detachment's administrative in meteorology. and operational instructions MSgt. Loren W. Hall, a solar activity forecaster with and procedures and initiated OL IO, Det. 7, 4th Weather Wing, recently received his bach- and carried through a plan elor's degree from the University of Maryland after eight to provide continuous direct years of off-duty study. He majored in business with a minor forecasting and briefing sup- in history. He began working toward a degree while stationed port to the 834th Air Di- in Japan, and continued during assignments in Okinawa, vision Airlift Control Center and to the division staff. He Greece, and Florida. was especially effective in working with the weather person- James N. Hosey, meteorologist at the Weather Bureau nel of the Vietnamese Air Force and Vietnamese Government. Forecast Office, Raleigh, N. C., was appointed a member of William A. Lang, chief hy- the North Carolina state task force undertaking a study to drographer, Hydro Genera- determine the feasibility of introducing instruction on the tion Division, Southern Cali- environment and natural resources into the public school fornia Edison Company, will curriculum. retire 1 March with over 46 Dr. John N. Howard, chief scientist of the Air Force Cam- years of active service. Mr. bridge Research Laboratories, Bedford, Mass., was program Lang is a member of the chairman of the annual meeting of the Metric Association, American Geophysical Un- held in Boston on 30 December in conjunction with the ion and holds Honorary AAAS meetings. Lifetime Memberships in the Weather Modification Asso- Jack R. Ingram, senior ciation and the Western technical writer at HRB- Snow Conference, both of Singer, Inc., State College, which he helped to organize. Pa., recently received a He is also a member of the Weather Modification Commit- company Merit Recognition tee of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Award for demonstrating Statewide Water Resource Committee, California State Cham- outstanding performance in ber of Commerce. proposal preparation. Mr. Included in the ESSA National Meteorological Center Ingram has been employed branch chiefs appointed after the reorganization of the by HRB-Singer since his re- tirement in 1963 from the Analysis and Forecast Division are: Julius Badner, chief, U. S. Navy, where he had and John Scanlon, deputy chief, Aviation Weather Forecast been involved in meteoro- Branch; Harry Brown, chief, and Robert Cole, deputy chief, logical assignments for 28 Basic Weather Forecast Branch; and Russell Younkin, chief, years. and Vernon Bohl, deputy chief, Quantitative Precipitation Branch. 169 .
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