| Summary: | La Fond, Katherine, pp. 40-52 Lyman, John, oceanographer, died of radiation from Bikini Atoll, p. 9 Lyon, Waldo, head of the Navy Electronics Laboratory, pp. 8, 9-10, 22-23 McCain, Admiral John, pp. 12-13 Moberg, Eric, Assistant Director of Scripps, pp. 5-6 Munk, Walter, Electronic Laboratory, pp. 13-14 Nicholson, John, submarine commander, p. 27 Sverdrup, Harald, Director of Scripps, pp. 7 Vaughn, T. Wayland, Director of Scripps, pp. 6-7 The media can be accessed at the links below. Audio Part 1: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Eugene_LaFond_1.mp3 Audio Part 2: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Eugene_LaFond_2.mp3 Eugene La Fond was born in eastern Washington of French-Canadian extraction. He was inspired by his grandfather, Godfrey La Fond, who panned for gold in Alaska under trying circumstances, and worked for many years as a fisherman on the high seas. His father continued the maritime tradition, and once sailed to Japan and China. La Fond was raised near the ocean in San Diego, and after graduation from San Diego State University pursued graduate studies at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He married his wife, Katherine, in 1935. At Scripps, La Fond was hired to perform various tasks, including drafting, photography, computing, and oceanography, while working on his PhD. He made many cruises on the Scripps, a fishing vessel converted to oceanography, and its successor, the E.W. Scripps. During WWII he worked at the Radio and Sound Laboratory at Point Loma, a division of Scripps. His main job was to collect all the bathythermograph observations in the Pacific and Indian Ocean, and to prepare charts giving the expected acoustic, or radar, range at particular locations for both summer and winter. Considerable data on temperature and depth had been collected, and after the war La Fond returned to Scripps to analyze it further. Soon he was offered and accepted a position with the Navy Electronic Laboratory. There he headed the Structures Section, ...
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