In article , ~misfit~
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Is the world ready for this? :-)

Well, I've given it 37 years to prepare itself... :-)

See what you think

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/qmc3/hawaii1.html

My eyes!!!!!

(Ahem.) However now you've seen the photo you can understand why I was
unable to reject the request from the lady in question. :-)

I had to include the 'Captain Bean' photos because my ex-students kept
insisting that I did.

Thats said I find the rest of the page very interesting.

More when the round tuits supply permits! Two other trips to Hawai'i and
one in between to mainland USA. Hope to cover the dead body on the table,
the day the wind blew the shutters off the window, the day we had so many
earthquakes Alf had to keep making new locating pins for the telescope, the
day I saw I was going bald, etc. 8-]

My habit at the time was to write up the day's work, etc, each day. Mainly
to keep track of the work, observations, etc. But also events of various
kinds.

The snag was that for each trip I just grabbed the first notebook to hand.
As a result the details are scattered around four different books, and so
now it takes some sorting out to determine time-order. Similarly, my slides
had got jumbled from giving talks many years ago. So needed sifting and
sorting. Thank heaven Kodak used to put a processing date and number on
each slide!

Until a few weeks ago I'd have said I only took *two* trips because my
memory had conflated events. I'd not looked at the older notbooks for many
years.

Probably normal for research students/assistants but it was the busiest and
most complex period of my life. I was also still working on the Armstrong
700 amps during the same period as the Hawai'i trips and doing other
contract work. Can't imagine now, how I had the energy or stamina for all
that *and* a 'social life'! 8-]

On real regret looking though the notes is the loss of contact since then
with some who I felt very close to at the time. Reading my notes makes me
wonder how they are now and what they did after I'd left QMC. Great bunch
of people. But I still have contact with some, and hope to re-find others.

Jim

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