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Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 Scripps Stories: DAYS to REME Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 Scripps Stories: DAYS TO REMEMBER In celebration of 90 years Edited by Kittie Kerr Kuhns and Betty Shor 1 October 1993 SIO Reference Number 93-35 The cover photo is Scripps circa 1940. Cover design: Steven Cook Stories were solicited from Scripps alumni and past and present Scripps employees to honor the 90th anniversary of Scripps. To obtain copies of this publication please write to: Kittie Kuhns Technical Publications 0233B Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 93093-0233 2 INTRODUCTION It is not easy to define Scripps Institution of Oceanography, but it has seemed through the years that its staff and students have always been like a family. To acknowledge the institution’s 90th year we asked for reminiscences and, to our gratification, a great many were sent to us. They recall people and moments as far back as the 1930s and as recent as the 1980s. There is strong support given by the Scripps community to individuals during times of adversity. When good news arrives, joy spreads, and a celebration is in order. We see from these stories that this is a long held tradition. This community feeling is what makes Scripps special. Not only is it a great center of research and learning, Scripps Institution is a family. Some start their careers here and some end them here, but it is the love and caring that make Scripps unique. As editors we have chosen to arrange this collection as close to chronology as is convenient. We have done minor editing and made selective omissions. These stories will surely remind others of untold tales — so perhaps this is volume one of a series. These stories are presented to the future generations of the family of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the hope that the tradition will continue. We hope you will enjoy these tales as much as we have. Kittie Kuhns Betty Shor 3 TABLE of CONTENTS Introduction Lloyd J. Anderson Some Lessons Learned.......................................................................................10 A Surfing Lesson................................................................................................11 Academic Commuter.........................................................................................12 Charles C. Bates The War Effort.....................................................................................................12 Dale F. Leipper The Old Days.......................................................................................................13 George F. Weisel After the War.......................................................................................................14 Warren S. Wooster The Late 1940s.....................................................................................................15 Robert M. Norris Teaching..............................................................................................................18 Roger Revelle....................................................................................................20 Fran Shepard......................................................................................................21 Andreas B. Rechnitzer SCUBA at SIO....................................................................................................23 Jacquelin N. Miller Diving Locker....................................................................................................27 Harris B. Stewart, Jr. Holiday................................................................................................................28 The Big Catch.....................................................................................................29 Scripps Gets a Seamount................................................................................31 Saving the Camera...........................................................................................32 Lobster Dinner...................................................................................................34 4 Richard Y. Morita Three Days’ Food for Seven Days..................................................................34 Sayed A. El Wardani Humorous Memories......................................................................................36 Eugene F. Corcoran Tacos For Dinner...............................................................................................38 William S. Butcher Student Cruise with Roger Revelle..............................................................39 Steacy Hicks Remembering a Few Men...............................................................................39 Richard Vetter Improvising at the Drug Store......................................................................42 Harris B. Stewart, Jr. Thesis or Party...................................................................................................43 1953.......................................................................................................................45 R. J. Smith A Christmas Carol?...........................................................................................46 Famous or Infamous?......................................................................................47 The Good Doctor................................................................................................47 A Whale of a Story............................................................................................48 Kenneth S. Norris Paradise in La Jolla.............................................................................................49 John A. Knauss The Night the Director Almost Went to Jail............................................52 Harris B. Stewart, Jr. Oral Examination..............................................................................................53 Colm O´ hEocha Final Exam..........................................................................................................55 5 Andreas B. Rechnitzer Some Times You Don’t Know Who Your Friends Might Be.................57 Rabbits and Biting Equipment.......................................................................58 Gunnar I. Roden Arrival of a Graduate Student at Scripps in 1954......................................59 Jacquelin N. Miller Identifying Fish.................................................................................................60 Edward Brinton All Islands are Mysterious..............................................................................62 Jim Faughn and the Cambodian Gunboat..................................................64 (taped and transcribed by Elizabeth Venrick) C. S. Wong My Early Days at Scripps.................................................................................68 Bui Thi Lang SIO and Vietnam..............................................................................................71 John A. Knauss Roger Revelle’s 50th Birthday Party..............................................................72 Richard H. Rosenblatt The Great Whalebone Caper..........................................................................73 Betty Shor Ship Reports.......................................................................................................75 Don Miller The Good Old Days...........................................................................................77 Madeleine Miller Mahnken UCSD Ground-Breaking Ceremony.............................................................78 John S. Bradshaw What a Difference a Word Can Make!.........................................................78 6 Elizabeth Venrick Oceanography and Women...........................................................................79 Long Hours at Sea.............................................................................................81 Gordon W. Groves Waves Across the Pacific.................................................................................82 Edvard A. Hemmingsen The Launching of Alpha Helix......................................................................85 Ralph A. Lewin Pete Scholander.................................................................................................87 Academic Senate...............................................................................................87 A Fictitious Scientist........................................................................................88 The Landlubber sung to the tune of I am a Pirate King...........................88 Mary Crawford Aquarium-Museum.........................................................................................89 Kittie Kerr Kuhns A Suspicious Man............................................................................................90 How Deep is the Ocean...................................................................................90 Some Photographs Are Harder to Get Than Others................................91 The Vice President Visits...............................................................................91 Jed Hirota Student Days.....................................................................................................93 Eli Silver Those Women..................................................................................................96 The Onion Sandwich......................................................................................97
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