Vernon
Right.
But
still alive you say?
As far as I know. He didn't continue in engineering activities. I think he was so
interested in rebuilding automobiles that he spent all his time working on rebuilding
automobiles. But it's kind of interesting how some people change--I don't know I guess
in all disciplines you find this.
Like Verle Farrell, who use to be in the Chief's office. He was Chief of Hydrology and
Hydraulics for about a year when Al
left. When they took away our Grade 16
for the head of the group, he decided that he might as well retire because he had such a
profound interest in the bird dog business. He liked to judge and participate. He had his
own valuable dogs that he took to these contests all over the country. He'd spend all his
time doing that when he wasn't working in hydrology and hydraulics. He is still active
in it.
Another one would be Bill Eckert, who was Roy Beard's follow-up as Director of HEC.
He originated some of the HEC programs. Did the programming on HEC II and HEC
and he has an interesting background in hydrology.
As far as the experimental station [Waterways Experiment Station], I think Henry
Simmons--he is primarily hydraulics but what little hydrology they did, usually came
under him, too. In Cold Regions [Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory,
CRREL], another person would be Gunther Frankenstein. Of course, there are a lot of
people over in IWR who have had some background in hydrology and have dealt with
some aspects of hydrology, dam safety, and risk analysis.
I was trying to think of people that were, at least during my time, prominent in some of
the different offices. At LMVD, Bob Louque comes to mind. L-O-U-Q-U-E is how I
think he spells his name. In the North Pacific Division, Dave Rockwood, and then in the
Seattle District, Norm MacDonald. Norm was probably one of the top people in
hydrology in the district offices. He was very competent.
Another one like that was Tom Riley in the Pittsburgh District. Those two fellows were
in the business for years and years and years and knew just about everything you could.
I don't know if he is still there or not. He got to be Chief of
At NCD, Don Leonard.
Engineering in NCD.
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