Topics include: wartime position as instructor at University of Chicago, and Institute for Tropical Meteorology in Puerto Rico; research on cold-core storms; reflections about Clarence Palmer; postwar return to teaching at Chicago; work on rotating dishpan experiments; as consultant to the Navy on the AROWA Project; research with Joanne Simpson on trade-wind inversion in the tropical Pacific; discovery of hot towers; hurricane research using aircraft; work on initial deepening and development of hurricanes; graduate students at Chicago; teaching meteorology at University of Colorado; changes at Chicago and move to Colorado State University (CSU); development of meteorology program at CSU, faculty and research; Venezuela International Meteorological and Hydrological Experiment (VIMHEX); reflections on changing university environment; compiling historic ocean temperatures; graduate students at CSU; comments on models versus observations;the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s mission; awards and recognition; and reflections about his career.