Franklin F. Snyder
with it if he did. Being there at Iowa, of course, hydraulics was their outstanding
field, and how they worked hydrology into it, I'm really not familiar with it.
Okay. Another hydrology lab that was set up, I gather in the '30s and functioned
in the '40s and ' 5 0 s , was the Soil Conservation Service Lab at Cal Tech. Did you
deal with any of the people out there like Hans Albert Einstein?
A
Yes, we dealt here in Washington with the Soil Conservation Service, but the one
that the Corps dealt with a lot more was Einstein at the. I have trouble with those
California universities.
Q ..
Cal Tech, wasn't he?
A
Where all of the radical students are outside of San Francisco.
Q ..
Oh, that's Berkeley, UCB.
A
Berkeley. That's where Einstein was. Was that Cal Tech?
Q ..
No, Cal Tech was down south.
A
This was at Berkeley where Einstein was. He was on a consulting group for the
Mississippi Basin Model, so I got to know Einstein pretty well. He always had lived
in the shadow of his father. I remember one time after a meeting in Vicksburg we
flew together to Memphis and when we got off the plane there were some reporters
there wanting to talk to him.
One time when that International Union of Geodosey and Geophysics held their
meeting in Berkeley, Ralph Wilson from the office and his family drove out there.
I drove out there with Mary and our three children. Mary, she always liked to get
people together, so she gave a little reception for people there at the meeting and we
invited the Einsteins to come. They came, and they brought a box of candy for
Gregory and signed it for him. Greg kept that for a long time, but I don't think he
has it anymore. But Einstein died early. Let's see. His name was Hans Albert.
I guess that was his father`s name.
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