Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
for a woman and we should do something else. Anyway, we felt we were very lucky to get
the job offers from Vicksburg in 1947.
When we finished with our Masters in
was at the time of Eisenhower--there really
wasn't a lot going on. Corps civil works was almost at a standstill. We had offers from the
Tennessee Valley Authority in their hydraulics lab, at Norris, Tennessee. Then at the last
minute, we received offers from the Missouri Division of the Corps in Omaha. We knew
people in the Missouri River Division from our work on the Mississippi Basin Model in
Vicksburg.
We decided to go to Omaha because TVA wasn't really doing a lot of hydraulic work at that
time; they thought it would be a chance to add two young hydraulic engineers to their staff
for the future. We consulted with Albert Fry who had made us this TVA offer and was chief
of the TVA design branch about which job we should take, and he advised that Omaha would
really be better experience. We were always quite lucky in the way things worked out.
Now, when you went back to the University of Iowa for your Masters in Civil Engineering,
what did you study? Did you do a thesis?
No, we didn't do a thesis because we were more interested in the new courses added after
A:
we left there in `47. Joe Howe was the head of the Department of Mechanics and
Hydraulics. He felt that, since we had written a number of reports at that point, we'd get
more out of additional class work than we would out of doing a thesis.
Were there any specific projects that you were working on as a graduate student with a
professor?
A:
No. When we went back, we did not work. We had saved enough money in the five years
that we worked for WES in Jackson so that we didn't have to work the year we were in
graduate school. We'd been out of school, really, a little bit too long. It was hard to go back
and take the advanced classes, especially math.
So what did you focus on at this time, for this one year?
We took everything they offered related to hydraulics. As a graduate student, I took courses
A:
in Analysis of Hydraulic Problems, Intermediate Mechanics of Fluids, Intermediate Fluids
Lab, Flow in Open Channels, Masonry Dams, Flow Measurements Lab, Hydrology,
Hydrodynamics, Water Power Engineering, Advanced Mechanics of Fluids, Hydraulic
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