GREENBAUM
Richard Greenbaum, born in San Diego on
May 23, 1927, died in South Lake Tahoe, California, on April 27, 2003.
He
graduated from Coronado High School and San Diego State College, and served in
the U.S. Navy.
The best description for Richard Greenbaum would be "skier."
Richard (Greenie to his friends) was a skier for over 55 years before dying of
complications of lung cancer.
He was an oceanographer at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, Hopkins Marine Station Stanford University, various
oceanographic consulting companies, and president of his own company, Applied
Oceanographics, before returning to Scripps as a Business Officer/MSO for the
Marine Life Research Group and Institute of Marine Resources.
Despite
suffering a major head injury from a skiing accident in 1979, he returned to
skiing, saying his legs were still okay. Upon retirement in 1981, Greenie made
his home in South Lake Tahoe, averaging 30 to 50 days skiing per year at
Heavenly Valley and other local resorts. He traveled summers to New Zealand for
heli-skiing where between 1984 and 1997 he skied over 500,000 vertical feet, the
record for a visitor at that time.
Greenie is survived by his children, Fritz
Greenbaum of Sonoma, California; Carrie Weischedel of Santa Ysabel, California;
three grandchildren; his brother, Russell Greenbaum of San Diego; and several
nephews and nieces.
His ashes will be scattered at a later date in the
mountains. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
BLO fecit 20030607: may
your ashes have a long vertical journey from high mountains to deep seas,
Richard!