Jacob H. Douma
I think it's the same Richard Folsom that
He's the one that worked down on the Los Angeles Flood Control?
Yes. He did. I read someplace where he did that.
Maybe you would have run across him in some of your work down in Los Angeles
district.
Yes.
What about the hydraulics laboratory that O'Brien had?
That was just a small laboratory in one of the university buildings. He had some water
running in a flume with a sand bottom that could be tilted. The students measured water
surface profiles for various flume slopes. There was a small steel flume for testing other
water flow conditions.
He also had a little outdoor laboratory out by the University swimming pool where he
model tested bay waterfront developments under contract for the City of Oakland. Before
I graduated, I worked with him part-time for about two months on those tests.
That must have been interesting to compare what you did in that laboratory and what you
did at WES.
A:
Oh, yes. His laboratory was very small compared to WES. He didn't have enough money
to do anything large, but it was fine for training students. The Oakland job that I worked
on was a good, authentic model study.
But you found that kind of thing interesting, and that's what you led you eventually to get
.
into it?
A:
Yes. I was interested in that.
Q ..
So Morrough O'Brien was critical in your undergraduate education, but you had
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