Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
of Standards. Dr. Keulegan continued to work actively until 1988 when he retired at age 98.
He died in 1989.
But you didn't stay very long?
No. I was there from--I don't remember exactly when I went, but it was from about April
A:
to November. I was chief of the wave dynamics section of the water waves branch headed
by Bob Hudson in the WES hydraulics laboratory.
was still head of the hydraulics
We were not very busy
lab at that time, and Fred Brown was technical director of
compared to the Little Rock District. I couldn't find enough to keep myself busy.
In Little Rock?
in that particular job. Waves were a different area from what I had been
No, at
working in, and I felt I was doing something I didn't know enough about, and I just felt it
was not a good situation.
Q ..
In the hydraulics lab there?
A:
Yes.
Sacramento District
So it was a good time to leave
Yes. If it was going to happen, that was a good time.
This is [refers to photograph] from the Sacramento District when Bill Doyle retired. You
might like to talk to him and Amalio Gomez. Gomez was Chief of the Engineering Division
when I went to Sacramento. When I went out there, HEC was still a part of the Sacramento
District. At the time I went to Sacramento, there were about five people in the District who
were in the same graduating class at the University of California, Berkeley. I think three of
them went on to become Chief of the Engineering Division.
Gomez only recently retired, didn't he?
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