Vernon
out so he just decided not to publish his.
But he gave us a lot of good information on hydrology and we learned a lot about what it
was--I knew what hydrology was all about because of that course. So I knew enough
about it so that I felt at home working in there.
Q ..
Now who was your professor there that taught that?
A ..
His name was Eldon Dodge. He was the head of the Civil Engineering Department.
Q ..
So he's the same person who gave you the introduction.
A ..
Yes. He was a tough guy, I'll tell you, but he taught us a lot.
Q ..
Well, like you said, there certainly were at that time very few courses and very few people
who specialized in that. Was he trained by any of the leading American hydrologists or
hydraulic engineers, do you know?
A ..
I'm not sure--he worked in Wisconsin for a hydraulics firm. So he apparently got his
hydrology and hydraulics background from that firm that he worked with. I don't
remember the name of it.
Q.
But he didn't come from CalTech or MIT or Iowa?
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A ..
No, U. of Wisconsin.
Q ..
With the BuRec, what projects did you work on?
A
Well, let's see--Yellowtail Dam. I worked on some projects that never got built. A
couple of dams on the Powder River, Moorehead Dam and a couple of others that they had
proposed but never did get constructed. Things like power studies on Yellowtail Dam.
Trying to decide on what was the proper amount of power to put in the project and all.
Those were some of those long, tedious type jobs that don't take near that much time
anymore.
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