Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
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don't know whether it was a Mechanical Engineering course or a Civil Engineering
course. We also took courses in mechanics in that same department.
Q ..
It was some time before formal courses in hydrology as a specialty were coming into
the curriculum, wasn't it?
A
Oh, yes, I think it must have been--see, that was `32. The University of Iowa had
quite an extensive hydraulic laboratory. I don't know when they got into hydrology.
It must have been in the '40s before anybody had courses under the name of
hydrology.
Tennessee Valley Authority
Q ..
Okay. I also wanted to ask you about your time at the TVA. Basically, I wanted
to ask you if you ever met Jim Goddard when you were there?
A ..
Oh, yes, sure. I can't put my finger on what his job was. He was in another
division. He was in the division that handled the river forecasting for their projects,
and, of course, there was one of the men in their field office that did field work for
the forecasting. He was a classmate of mine from Ohio State. I knew Jim fairly
well. In fact, he and one of the chief executive assistants, and another man, D. J.
Brumley, out of our engineering department, had rented a house and I used to play
golf with Brumley . I never played with Jim, but I got to-know him fairly well.
Q ..
How would you evaluate his work, his ideas?
A ..
I don't have any idea. I'm thinking back. I wonder if I placed him in the right
place. He was not in charge. The man that was in charge of the forecasting work
was not Jim. Jim was in charge of the field work. I have flashes of memory of
what happened to him later on. He wrote, seems to me, reports on a new subject
that was, I don't know whether it was environment or...
Q ..
Flood plain management?
Flood plain management, that's right. I'm sorry, it may be that if I'm right about
A
it, I got to know him more from where he was rooming rather than his work in the
office. I've always kept diaries, but I can't find all of my early ones. We moved
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