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Air Force commendation medals were awarded last summer included visits to 13 installations in six cities of the Soviet to the following: Col. Arthur W. Anderson, 2d Wea. Wing, Union and to the oceanographic vessel MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV. -; Col. Hazen H. Bedke, 1st Wea. Wing, Before the tour, the group was briefed by Wiliam L. Molo, July 1961-; Col. Arnold R. Hull, 9th Wea. Sq., associate director of World Data Center-A, Oceanography, Dec. 1959-June 1964; Col. Arnold E. Zimmerman, 53d Wea. on the WDC system and data exchange. Rec. Sq., Jan. 1962-June 1964; Lt. Col. Harold L. Banks, Prof. Douglas B. Carter has transferred from the Geog- Det. 14, 21st Wea. Sq., Oct. 1962-Aug. 1964; Lt. Col. James raphy Department, Syracuse University, to the Geography B. Jones, Nat'l Wea. Center, Aug. 1960-June 1964; Department of Southern Illinois University. Lt. Col. Horace M. King, 9th Wea. Sq., June 1960-Aug. 1964; Lt. Col. George W. Kronebach, Det. 51, 1210th Wea. Ceward Lebron Chandler, supervisor of weather analysis, Sq., Sep. 1961-June 1964; Lt. Col. Joseph F. Leszcz, Det. 55, Delta Air Lines, has been elected chairman of the Air 16th Wea. Sq., -June 1964; Lt. Col. William Lewis, Transport Association's (ATA) Meteorological Committee. Hq, 3d Wea. Wing, Oct. 1960-Mar. 1964; Lt. Col. Roger H. The group, composed of meteorologists and chief dispatchers OlsonHq. AWS, Aug. 1961-; Lt. Col. Ralph K. of the airlines, coordinates exchange of weather information Steely, Det. 4, 8th Wea. Sq., Aug. 1962-June 1964; Lt. Col. pertinent to flight operations. Mr. Chandler has been with Roy A. Wegener, 2d Wea. Wing, Oct. 1961-July 1964; Lt. Col. Delta Air Lines in his present capacity since . Robert E. Wegner, Hq. AWS, -June 1964; Maj. Stanley A. Changnon, Jr., climatologist of the Illinois State Earl J. Barrows, 4081st Strategic Wing, Feb. 1962-, Water Survey, was one of the speakers at a meeting of the and Det. 13, 8th Wea. Sq., June 1963-May 1964; Maj. Wil- Building Research Institute held in Washington, D. C., liam E. Harrell, Det. 2, 29th Wea. Sq., July 1961-June 1964; on 10 November. Mr. Changnon's talk on "Climatic and Maj. John C. Hostetler, Hq. 8th Wea. Group, June 1963- Geographic Factors" was presented at the session on Weather- June 1964; Maj. Welton R. King, 4th Wea. Wing, July 1961- proofing the Building. Mar. 1964; Maj. Wilson V. Palmore, Hq. AWS, - Richard B. Clark, formerly with American Bosch Arma July 1964; Capt. William O. Breedlove, Hq. AWS, June Corp., is now associated with the Sales Dept., Spitz Labora- 1963-July 1964; Capt. Robert W. Fett, Det. 52, 1210th Wea. tories, Inc., Yorklyn, Del. Sq., Aug. 1963-June 1964; Capt. Leon R. Tucker, Det. 11, Randy J. Coleman from A&M University and Robert 4th Wea. Group, -June 1964; Lt. Thomas L. Rish, G. Quayle from Florida State University were selected by the Det. 10, 16th Wea. Sq., -May 1964 (Army com- Naval Weather Service for training at the Officer Candidate mendation medal); CWO William H. Garrison, Det. 7, 9th School at Newport, R. I., last year. Mr. Quayle was com- Wea. Sq., July 1961-Nov. 1963; CWO William N. Hinds, missioned as Ensign USNR in November. 30th Wea. Sq., Feb. 1963-Sep. 1963; SMSgt. Edward C. Robert F. Dale, Weather Bureau state climatologist for Bouchard, Det. 17, 21st Wea. Sq., Jan. 1962-May 1964; SMSgt. Iowa, Prof. Wayne L. Decker, University of Missouri, James Jesse D. Hickson, Jr., Det. 31, 26th Wea. Sq., Apr. 1963-May D. McQuigg, state climatologist for Missouri, and Prof. 1964; SMSgt. James Holcomb, South Ruislip Forecast Center, Robert H. Shaw, Iowa State University, presented papers at July 1962-Aug. 1963. the climatology session of the annual joint meeting of the Milton L. Blanc, Weather Bureau research climatologist, American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of State University, Tempe, traveled to Italy and America, and Crop Science Society of America, held in during September. In Rome he visited the FAO head- Kansas City on 15-19 November. quarters to discuss problems in arid-zone climatology. In John O. F. Dor sett, Cdr. USN (Ret.), has left Booz-Allen Israel he conferred with representatives of the Israel Mete- Research Corp., Bethesda, Md., and is now at Stanford orological Service and the National and University Institutes Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calf. of Agriculture in connection with establishment of a soil Troy Dungan, formerly with WDBO-TV, Orlando, Fla., moisture study at the desert experimental station near Gilat. has gone to Houston, Tex., on the staff of KTRK-TV. Visits were made to Gilat, Avdat, Eilat, and other points Maj. Harold S. Heppler of 8th Weather Sq., Westover of interest in arid-zone research. AFB, Mass., last fall lectured at the Aerospace Educational CWO-3 Leslie L. Britten, USAF, graduated "with distinc- Workshop conducted by the University of Hartford, Conn. tion" from the Naval Postgraduate School last summer with During the workshop he also showed the film "Aerospace: an M.S. in meteorology. Meteorological Challenge." Dr. Kirk Bryan of the Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C., G. Dale Hess and John E. Oliphant received master's was among six American oceanographers who toured the degrees in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University last USSR last fall as part of an exchange program. The four- June. Mr. Oliphant is Captain in the Air Force, Mr. Hess week tour, sponsored by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, is continuing his studies at the University of Washington.

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Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/06/21 04:48 AM UTC Bulletin American Meteorological Society Brig. Gen. Benjamin G. Holzman retired from the Air National Hurricane Research Laboratory on problems of Force on 27 October closing out a career of more than 22 tropical meteorology. years. He had held his last command, the Air Force Cam- MSgt. Richard H. Langill, Det. 11, 12th Weather Sq., bridge Research Laboratories, Bedford, Mass., since Septem- Stewart AFB, N. Y., graduated in the top ten per cent of ber 1960. On 28 October, Gen. Holzman was sworn in as a the 5-week class at the MATS NCO Academy, Orlando, Fla., consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Admin- last September. istration to assist in the planning and administration of Lawrence H. Larsen was awarded a 12-month postdoctoral NASA's expanding research and technology program. He fellowship for study in the atmospheric sciences at the Uni- is presently detailed to the Electronics Research Center, versity of Oslo, Norway. Cambridge, Mass., where he is working on staff organization Air Force retirees of last summer not previously reported and formation of a program for the center. include: Lt. Col. Roger H. Olson and Lt. Col. Robert E. Wegner of Hq. AWS: Lt. Col. Joseph E. French, Maj. Robert A. Dittmar, Maj. Alfred S. Kolmos, Maj. William R. Larue, and Capt. Irving Newton, all of 2d Weather Wing; Lt. Col. Robert J. Calvesbert, Lt. Col. Raymond O. Delahoussaye, Lt. Col. William J. Gise, Jr., Lt. Col. Horace M. King, Lt. Col. Jarrold D. Lilliedoll, Lt. Col. Robert J. McCauley, Lt. Col. Ralph K. Steely, Lt. Col. Marion Towns, Maj. Glenn A. Groves, Maj. George D. Lehmann, Jr., Maj. William E. Woodside, Capt. Morgan V. Jones, 3d Weather Wing; Lt. Col. Allen R. Davis, Maj. William E. Harrell, Capt. Omer C. Thompson, Jr., 4th Weather Wing; Lt. Col. Norman C. Cox, Lt. Col. Evan J. Deemer, Lt. Col. Herbert Kaye, Lt. Col. Lawrence T. Keohane, Lt. Col. Aldon J. LoCelso, Lt. Col. John M. Steigner, 2d Weather Group; Lt. Col. Robert L. Miller, 4th WTeather Group; Maj. John C. Hostetler, Maj. Arlo R. Koontz, Maj. Robert L. Lulofs, Maj. Glee G. Smyth, 8th Weather Group. Lt. Col. Bernard Pusin, USAF, has left the 433L System (Left to right) Brig. Gen. B. G. Holzman (USAF, Ret.), Program Office, Waltham, Mass., and is now at Air Weather Maj. Gen. Don R. Ostrander, Commander of the Office of Service Hq., Scott AFB, 111. Aerospace Research, Washington, D. C., Col. Leo A. Kiley, Richard J. Roth, formerly with Travelers Service Corp., Commander of the Air Force Cambridge Research Labora- tories, Bedford, Mass., and Capt. William Hodge, Aide-de- Hartford, Conn., has joined the staff of the American Inter- Camp to Gen. Ostrander. Capt. Hodge is shown reading the national Underwriters Corp., New York, as an actuary. citation that accompanied the Legion of Merit awarded to Prof. Walter J. Saucier of the Department of Meteorology, Gen. Holzman during the Change of Command Ceremonies. University of Oklahoma, represented the AMS at the inauguration of John Frederick Olson as president of Ok- MSgt. Shepard M. Humston, Det. 1, 3d Weather Wing, lahoma City University on 2 December. Offutt AFB, Nebr., captured four cash awards and one honorable mention in the 1964 AWS Flying Safety Poster contest. This is his fourth successive year to take top prizes in the contest. David S. Johnson, director of the National Weather Satel- lite Center, is representing the Commerce Department on a six-agency ad hoc Joint Navigation Satellite Committee to determine whether a non-military satellite system is needed. Such a system would be used for air-sea navigation, traffic control, and air-sea search and rescue operations. Other members of the committee represent the the Departments of Defense, Interior, and Treasury, and the FAA and NASA. Cdr. John W. Kidd, USN, meteorological officer of the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., was the Society's dele- gate at the inauguration of Robert Harry Spiro as the fourth president of Jacksonville University on 20 November. Cdr. J. P. King and Cdr. F. G. Robinson were chosen for promotion to Captain in meteorological billets by the Naval Weather Service in 1964. Dr. Karl R. Johannessen (right), AWS physical scientist, Under contract with the U. S. Weather Bureau, Dr. P. discusses satellite data with Norwegian newsman Arne H. Koteswaram, director of aviation services, India Meteoro- Halvorsen (center) and Maj. Carl E. Gunderson, Jr., AWS logical Service, has begun a two-year visiting professorship safety officer, during Mr. Halvorsen's visit to Scott AFB in at the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Uni- October on a tour of the United States sponsored by the versity of Miami. Dr. Koteswaram is working mainly at the State Department.

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Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/06/21 04:48 AM UTC Vol. 46, No. 1, January 1965 Dr. Paul L. Smith, Jr., completed his NSF postdoctoral fellowship in meteorology at McGill University in September and returned to Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, necrology Mo. John M. Steigner, Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.), is on the staff of St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, Fla. Prof. Robert B. Sykes, Jr., State University College, Oswego, N. Y., represented the Society at the inauguration of The Very Reverend William L. Reilly, S.J., as president of Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N. Y., on 10 November. Nathan Robinson Omer C. Thompson, Jr., Maj. USAF (Ret.), is instructor 1904-1964 for United Air Lines, Denver, Colo. Dr. Nathan Robinson, head of the Solar Radiation Labora- Harry C. Zimmerman, formerly Capt. USAF, has joined tory of the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, the staff of WFBM-TV, Indianapolis, Ind. died at sea while on his way back to Israel last summer after attending scientific conferences in Russia and Germany. about our corporation members Born in Lithuania in 1904, Dr. Robinson studied at the Barnes Engineering Company of Stamford, Conn., has opened Universities of Berlin, Yena, and Prague, and received his doctoral degree at Prague in 1927. He went to Palestine new offices in Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif. The new in 1930 and became an assistant at Hebrew University. offices are in response to growing requirements for liaison Moving to the Institute of Technology in 1936, he estab- services related to development and manufacturing contracts lished the Solar Radiation Laboratory, which became the Barnes holds with West Coast aerospace industry and de- nucleus of the National Solar Radiation Institute. In this fense agencies. Fred W. Stang heads the Santa Clara office, laboratory he invented the "insoloscope," a valuable instru- which is located in the Airport Park Office Bldg., 1400 Cole- ment enabling architects to place buildings in proper rela- man Ave. The Defense and Space Division activities of the tion to the rays of the sun. He also developed a device for Los Angeles office in the Wilshire-Westwood Bldg., 1100 the supply of hot water and steam. Glendon Ave., Westwood, are supervised by R. W. Nowack. Prof. Robinson was an internationally recognized author- Beckman & Whitley, Inc., San Carlos, Calif., recently ity on solar radiation and was a member of many scientific introduced a new wind measuring system said to be more committees in the United Nations and other bodies. His accurate, more sensitive, and more reliable than any other book on solar radiation, the first comprehensive study on high resolution wind system. Called Series 50, the system is the subject, is due to appear soon. He became a member designed to meet the critical requirements of missile launch of the American Meteorological Society in 1949. sites, ordnance test sites, diffusion study networks, and micrometeorological research. Series 50 features a proprietary Harlan True Stetson new 6-cup anemometer (the Staggered Six) and the ultra 1885-1964 high accuracy Quick One wind vane. The anemometer has a distance constant of 3.S ft, a wind speed threshold of 0.5 Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, retired astronomer and physicist, mph, and senses wind speed so smoothly that sensor output died at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 16 . signals are ripple free. The Quick One wind vane has a A native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Brown distance constant of 5.7 ft, a threshold of 0.7 mph, and a University and Dartmouth College, he earned his doctorate damping ratio of 0.6. Overshoot and oscillation are minimized in astrophysics at the University of Chicago in 1915. While so that vane movements indicate true changes in wind at Dartmouth, he began a series of experiments that resulted direction. in the development of the first thermo-electric photometer for determining stellar magnitudes from photographic plates. In October, Dr. Douglas L. Brooks, president of The He held posts as instructor and professor at Harvard Uni- Travelers Research Center, Inc., announced Robert L. Carna- versity and then Ohio Wesleyan University until 1936, when han's advancement to vice president of TRC. Mr. Carnahan he joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- has been serving the Center as director of plans and pro- nology. He was director of MIT's Laboratory of Cosmic grams and is responsible for analysis of governmental re- Terrestrial Research from 1940 to his retirement in 1950. search requirements. He is also secretary of the corporation Dr. Stetson was the author of numerous books and articles on astronomy. In addition to thermo-electric pho- and continues in this capacity. A second appointment an- tometry, his research was concerned with solar eclipse nounced in October was that of Scott D. Thayer to the variations, lunar effect on latitude variation, correlation staff as a senior research scientist in the operations research of sunspots with radio reception, variations of longitude, division. In this position, Mr. Thayer is responsible for the lunar effect on ionization of the upper atmosphere, varia- direction of special studies for the U. S. Government on tions in atmospheric ions, and cosmic terrestrial relations. environmental problems. Prior to joining TRC, Mr. Thayer He was a member of many scientific societies and participated had been a senior operations research analyst in the Opera- in five solar expeditions. He joined the American Meteoro- tions Research Group, U. S. Army Edgewood Arsenal, Md. logical Society in 1934.

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