Bates College SCARAB Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library 2-14-1990 Sampson, Richard oral history interview Meredith Gethin-Jones Marisa Burnham-Bestor Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/muskie_oh Recommended Citation Gethin-Jones, Meredith and Burnham-Bestor, Marisa, "Sampson, Richard oral history interview" (1990). Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection. 347. http://scarab.bates.edu/muskie_oh/347 This Oral History is brought to you for free and open access by the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Interview with Richard Sampson by Meredith Gethin-Jones and Marisa Burnham-Besstor Summary Sheet and Transcript Interviewee Sampson, Richard Interviewer Gethin-Jones, Meredith Burnham-Bestor Marisa Date February 14, 1999 Place Lewiston, Maine ID Number MOH 063 Use Restrictions © Bates College. This transcript is provided for individual Research Purposes Only ; for all other uses, including publication, reproduction and quotation beyond fair use, permission must be obtained in writing from: The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, 70 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, Maine 04240-6018. Biographical Note Richard W. Sampson was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Winsor and Pauline Sampson. He attended Bowdoin College and graduated as a math major. After graduation, he studied meteorology at MIT and the University of Illinois and got a commission in the Air Force as a meteorologist. In 1952, he got a job teaching mathematics at Bates College.