Topics include: family, childhood, education; entry into meteorology; first job as weather observer, U.S. Weather Bureau (USWB); wartime assignment as aviation cadet to University of Chicago; reflections on Carl-Gustaf Rossby, George Platzman, George Cressman, E. H. Palmen, Erwin Biel; development of upper air sounding network; doctoral research on shear lines; Thunderstorm Project; work on frontogenesis, and collaboration with Palmen; work with Sverre Petterssen on cyclone development; interest in squall lines and thunderstorms, and assignment as chief scientist for National Severe Storms Project; invitation to join the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as director of synoptic meteorology group; comments about the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE), the Monthly Weather Review, and the American Meterological Society (AMS); most significant publications; the Palmen Memorial Volume; and reflections on role in atmospheric science.