Robert "Bob" Howard discusses his childhood in Ohio; college education; postdoctoral position at Mount Wilson Observatory, working with Horace Babcock; teaching at Amherst College; Guido Munch; Tom Craig; Bob Leighton; solar research at California Institute of Technology (CalTech) using a magnetograph; Director of Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory; Sacramento Peak Observatory; Hal Zirin; Phil Goode; Big Bear Lake; spectroscopy; John Wilcox; Henry Smith; working with students at CalTech; American Astronomical Society (AAS) meetings; AAS Solar Physics Division; funding resources at Carnegie; Ed Dennison work with astroelectronics; Director of the National Solar Observatory, headquartered in Tucson; John Jefferies; editor of Solar Physics Journal.