Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
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Oh, yes, yes. We were kind of fortunate. Some of the traveling was--before we had
the third one, Mary's parents lived outside of Philadelphia, in Chester, so we parked
the kids there occasionally. Mary had a cousin, a single cousin, who lived in this
area, and one time she came over and stayed at the house with the children. She
was a chief operator at the Pentagon. I don't know whether you've seen or not, but
her assistant was Marian Bailey, who, of course, is the chief operator now, and
became so when Mary's cousin retired. She is quite a well-known person around
the Pentagon. She is the one that has a private scooter.
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Yes, yes.
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She's a friend of ours. When Mary's cousin retired, she stayed here a little while,
and then she went into a nursing home up in the Philadelphia area. Several times
Bailey went with us to visit her. I talked to her when Mary passed away. She's way
passed the retirement age.
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Yes, yes. She's got like 60 years or something. Some incredible number of years.
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Yes.
Q ..
She still goes scooting around there. Yes, I saw her buggy out in the hallway here
recently. The fringe and all her decals on it.
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Yes.
Major Contributions to Hydrology
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Let me ask you, as we wrap this up. What do you think your major contributions
were to hydrology?
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Well, I think the papers I wrote. There isn't any question about that, the research
I did and the papers that I wrote. I got the most mileage out of that synthetic unit
graph paper, which was a case of being, I guess, at the right place at the right time.
When Hathaway was, this was before he knew me, developing his programs in the
Corps of using the probable maximum storms, this unit hydrograph fit right into it.
So he was instrumental in most of the field offices using the procedures which
helped establish my reputation. It did, for some reason or other, get all around the
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