Topics include: family background and early education; undergraduate and graduate work; work in quality-control statistics, and as both student and instructor in wartime meteorology classes; work for the Army Corps of Engineers; editorship of the Journal of Meteorology; work on Stokes Waves; Electronic Numerical Intefrator and Computer (ENIAC) calculations; involvement with numerical weather prediction; thoughts on teaching; spectral methods; lattice structure of grids; early hydraulics modeling; Great Lakes research; storm surges; atmospheric tides; history of meteorology; formation of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); and reflections on students.