Ben Oostdam's |
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first days at Scripps |
That first afternoon, I moved in my books and met several of my fellow students. This was the largest class ever admitted, a full dozen! Offhand, I recall these:
- Andy Soutar, my roommate, a premature gray crewcut Scott: married to Joan and living in a house they had bought in Waverley Ave;
after 3 kids, they divorced and he grew a beard and manes, and in the late 90's moved to New York state to take up organic farming. He is well known for his box-sampler and anchovis scale count analysis
- Erik Reimnitz, a bear of a red-bearded German who had just returned from a season of Alaskan fishing; cleaned off his manes and beard when he met and married a lovely German girl (Kathy?) ; did Ph.D. on Alaskan Earthquake
- David Ross , a skinny Jewish kid from the Bronx, who went on to Red Sea-fame, wrote a good Oceanography textbook and became chair of the WHOI geology department
- Russ Snyder, a physics major from Florida - one of this year's three Sverdrup Fellows- received his Ph.D. in Phys. Oc. under Charles Cox around 1964 and moved to Nova University in Florida for 4 decades (?)
- Ted Foster, another Sverdrup Fellow, who already held two Master's degrees in Physics , whose father was Head of Brooklyn Polytech's Math.Dept; Ted was thoroughly organized , jogged and bodysurfed every day summer and winter
- Abe Golik, an Israeli geologist
- Tim Barnett who remained at Scripps for decades as a physical oceanographer/meteorologist
Other students already there included Herb Veeh, Jim Larsen, Steve Calvert, Bruno d'Anglejan, Jean Filloux, Dave Newman, Bob Thomson, J. Caperon, Dale Krause, Dave Schink, Chuck Nordstrom, X. Klawe, Y. Jones, Wendel Gayman and Bob Dill - the latter having been at SIO that long that they named the Diluvian after him :o]NOTE:
a few students left after experiencing seasickness on the first cruise ....
a rather expensive proposition which I later used as an argument to have oceanography taught as an undergraduate course(right):Andy Soutar, Ed Goldberg, Herb Veeh
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