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Subject: Re: Unsung Heroines: Ruth B. Simon
From: "meredith lamb" paleoartifact@.........
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:01:23 -0700


I actually met Ruth Simon at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden,
Colorado
in 1968; during a brief initial interest foray there.  Very unusual
individual in that
from my inquiries I was "ushered" into her work area.  She was extremely
busy,
but still took quite some time to show me afew things....and ended up giving
me a free
autographed copy of her first 1968 issue book "Earthquake Interpretations".
I was
quite impressed with her; her patience, time and the book material donation
to say
the least!

Mentally Looking back now with all their mechanical, expensive servo ink and
optical
photography seismo setups; it was for the time about impossible to get much
of
anything "up and running", as little to nothing was remotely afordable for a
individual
to acquire.  We're lucky to have what we have now to setup a seismogrph
recording
system.....and a BUNCH of wiling helpful experienced individuals!!!



On 11/3/06, John or Jan Lahr  wrote:

> An article on Ruth Simon is in the November/December 2006 issue of
> the Seismological Research Letters, a publication of the
> Seismological Society of
> America.
> Unsung
> Heroines: Ruth B. Simon   Ruth was working at Lamont Observatory
> during my first year in graduate school.
>
> It reminded me of the manual that she wrote:   Earthquake
> interpretations : a manual for reading seismograms, which I haven't
> thought about since my graduate schoold days.  My professional
> seismology work only involved local and regional seismograms, mostly
> from southern Alaska, so I think I'll look up her manual to help with
> interpreting the seismograms that I typically record on my AS-1 system.
>
> The article also included a useful link to a web site for finding
> library materials.  That's a useful site of which I was unaware. Use
> this link to see if there is a copy of her manual in a library near
> you:
> http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/f421589db9985f18.html
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
>
> #################################/ John C. Lahr
>
I actually met Ruth Simon at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado
in 1968; during a brief initial interest foray there.  Very unusual individual in that
from my inquiries I was "ushered" into her work area.  She was extremely busy,
but still took quite some time to show me afew things....and ended up giving me a free
autographed copy of her first 1968 issue book "Earthquake Interpretations".  I was
quite impressed with her; her patience, time and the book material donation to say
the least!
 
Mentally Looking back now with all their mechanical, expensive servo ink and optical
photography seismo setups; it was for the time about impossible to get much of
anything "up and running", as little to nothing was remotely afordable for a individual
to acquire.  We're lucky to have what we have now to setup a seismogrph recording
system.....and a BUNCH of wiling helpful experienced individuals!!!
 
   
 
On 11/3/06, John or Jan Lahr <JohnJan@........ > wrote:
An article on Ruth Simon is in the November/December 2006 issue of
the Seismological Research Letters, a publication of the
Seismological Society of
America.
<http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/SRL/SRL_77/srl_77-6_uh.html >Unsung
Heroines: Ruth B. Simon   Ruth was working at Lamont Observatory
during my first year in graduate school.

It reminded me of the manual that she wrote:   Earthquake
interpretations : a manual for reading seismograms, which I haven't
thought about since my graduate schoold days.  My professional
seismology work only involved local and regional seismograms, mostly
from southern Alaska, so I think I'll look up her manual to help with
interpreting the seismograms that I typically record on my AS-1 system.

The article also included a useful link to a web site for finding
library materials.  That's a useful site of which I was unaware. Use
this link to see if there is a copy of her manual in a library near
you:   http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/f421589db9985f18.html

Cheers,
John



#################################/ John C. Lahr

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