The TRAILER:
MOBILE MARINE LABORATORY
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The mobile lab - which I had designed myself - was duly built somewhere in Hazleton, PA. After its much delayed delivery to Millersville, it was towed to the shore at the beginning of every summer and back to the College at the end, for some seven years. |
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At Lewes, DE, it served as the HQ Office/Lab for the DBMSC (Delaware Bay Marine Science Center), first at the former U.S.C.G. station, next at the former FishMeal plant.
I personally last used it in June, 1976, planning the festival cruise of the R.V. "Annandale" to
the New York "Tall Ships" event of July 4 - on which day our invited guests could have seen me flying overhead on my way to Kuwait.
When, two years later, I returned to Millersville, having resigned from the TMSC Presidency, I saw the trailer sitting at an angle near the parking lot between Montgomery House and Lancaster (now Nichols) House .
Apparently, the E.S. Chairman, Dr. Nichols had taken the initiative to have the trailer moved away from behind Montgomery House - where it had been parked and served as my office and lab for the academic year (fall and spring semesters) -
in order to :
(1) "insert" it under an extension
constructed next to Lancaster House
(2) save fuel costs
and
(3) promote contiguity.
On its way being towed this short distance, however, the trailer had revolted and broken down for the first time in its illustrious career.
In addition, a passing OSHA inspector had decided that it could not be used since access to the toilet was not possible for handicapped persons in wheelchairs. . .
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