Ben Oostdam's Autobiography
as per May 31, 2006
Sections
1 (06p) - CONTENTS 1932-1945:
My first seven years (1932-39); My "war-years", WW2
(1940-45)
2 (11p) - CONTENTS 1946-1950:
Amstelveen; Hervormd Lyceum; Boy Scouts; Bike-tour to France (summer
1950): KIM (Royal Netherlands Naval Academy); cruise Mediterranean
(Dec.1950)
3 (13p) - CONTENTS
1950-1952: KIM (Royal Netherlands Naval Academy): 1951; cruise to New
Guinea (1952)
4 (15p) - CONTENTS 1952-1954:
Nationale Handelsbank; my boats; Lony, engagement, vacation Zeeland; to
Bangkok (1954)
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5 (16p) -
CONTENTS
1954-1955: Bangkok, Dutch Bank,Nakorn Pathong, Ayudhya, Nakorn Nayok,
Petchaburi, Paknam, Kanchanaburi, Kao Yai,
ChaChoengSao, Menam, HONGKONG, KOWLOON
6 (24p) - CONTENTS 1956
: Kanchanaburi with Rudi Klerekoper, Tasau,
ChaChoengSao, Cynthia and Charles, Ayudhya, Nam Tok Salika,
Samud Sakorn;
6a (55p) - Tour by jeep
through THAILAND, CAMBODJA and VIETNAM
7 (12p) -
CONTENTS
1957: Petchaburi & Hua Hin, Kanchanaburi again, Saraburi &
Lopburi, Sukothai, miscellanea
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8 (21p) - CONTENTS
1957-1958: : depart Bangkok for Holland, England,
CANADA : McGill University, Montreal, USA visits, NSBC job,
hitchhiking across Canada to British Columbia and back, BC jobs
9 (22p) -
CONTENTS
1958-1959: McGill University, acad. year 1958-59, Ken Davis c.s.,
summerjob at Consol. Zinc, Bathurst, N.B.,hitchhiking across NB, NS, PEI and
Newfoundland; visit to St.Pierre and Miquelon (FRANCE)
10 (12p) -
CONTENTS
1959-1960: McGill University, acad. year 1959-60, summer fellow WHOI,
"CHAIN 13" to FINLAND; HOLLAND/Rijkswaterstaat with Zeiglers; with jeep and
Dorothy P. across USA to SIO, La Jolla, CA
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11 (26) -
CONTENTS
1960-1961: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA: students,
courses, profs, projects, CUSS I, Punta Banda, Cruise to Cabo San Lucas, social
life, JAPAN, Kyoto, JAPANYON Expedition, the
Shepards, Kamakura, Mount Fuji, Nikko, amahs off Onjuku, MATS to Hawaii
12 (22p) -
CONTENTS
1962: Seafloor Spreading, Menard, Dietz, Hess, Transform
Faults, Raitt, Mantle Convection, MORs, Holmes, Vening Meinesz, Field; symmetry,
offscraping, subduction zones, SCUBA dives off La Jolla, SIO and La Jolla
Canyons, abalone, moray, shark,squid, turbidity current; HAWAII II, Shepard,
Veeh, Moberly, HIG, Cox,
12a (9p) -
2002
update on individual islands
13 (23p) -
CONTENTS
1963a: Return to Hawaii, problems with project proposal,
professors, cars and trailers; return to Maui: Black Coral diving with Rick
Grigg, La Perouse Bay, Jason, Paul Hoffmeister; marriage to
Rose
Peterson
14 (24) -
CONTENTS
1963b: Honeymoon Phase I: Maui, Phase II:
Honolulu-Amsterdam; Phase III: HOLLAND ; incl.Amsterdam
canals; phase IV: Heidelberg, Soultz, Orange, Avignon,
Marseille, Monaco, Genoa, TOUR LOG; Rapallo,
La Spezia, Pisa, Florence, Lake Vico, VATICAN, Rome, Pompeji, Taranto,
Brindisi
15 (24) -
CONTENTS
1963c: Corfu, Ithaca, Patras, Pyraeus, Athens,
Peleponesos, Thebes, Delphi, Marathon: 11th International Jamboree, Bari, San
Marino, Venice, Innsbruck, Liechtenstein, Zurich, Nancy, Metz, Luxembourg,
Clervaux, Remouchamps, Liege, 's Hertogenbosch, Zaltbommel, Amstelveen
16 (09p) -
CONTENTS
1963d: Washington call re S. Africa; Den Haag, Brielle,
Hellevoetsluis, Rijswijk, London, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Rose to Hawaii,rewrite
Report, discussions with Inman, Shepard, Goldberg, McGowan; Soutar, d'Anglejean,
Veeh.
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17 (19p) -
CONTENTS
1963e: Long Beach, CA: Craig's Shipyard,
"Rockeater"Bascom, Stephansen, Lampietti, beach
proposal and preliminary tests, gopher, Captain Cook, back to La Jolla,
committee meeting; Long Beach to Washington:OSE, New York, Dakar, Johannesburg :
Anglo-American meetings; Capetown: more meetings;
Oranjemund: even more ... construction/tests of surf-crawler, suction pipe
carriage,flight along coast to Luderitz;Affenrucken: lobsters
17a (03p) - 1963 - 1965: {separate pages) Ocean Science & Engineering,
S.A.: Diamonds from the Sea
18 (21p) -
CONTENTS
1964a: Capetown, "Diamantkus" heads for Chamais Bay;
Sparker survey aboard "Xhosa Coast"; arrival Erik Stephansen for Beach
Prospecting Project; Messrs Brown, Bascom, Borchers, Sammy Collins, Desmond
O'Shea; Drs.Waters, Murray, Brock, Wright, Fuller, Simpson, Smith; flight to
Walvis Bay with Bascoms; "Xhosa Coast" on Tidal Concession; south of Orange
River, Capetown, Captain Cook, Divers Party; "Xhosa Coast" long lines, loss of
Joe Wright, search; hiring Peter Lamming, Robin Harvey; met Chris Chait, Maxi
van Dijk, Piet van Zyl; Geology Lab, Rose re birth of our son Dan
19 (29p) -
CONTENTS
1964b: UN 1948 Geneva Convention, Llandadno, Fishhoek,
farewell to Kay Wright; apartment with Chris; immigration, divorce proceedings,
Dr. Louis Murray;
Rita; "Rockeater" 's first cruise: ADK/Chamais Bay; Socrates Vartsos: first
diamond April 27= 0,24 carats, Panther Head; "Collinsea" to Luderitz;
Denise Cristie, Robbin Harvey , Rita Shipley, Mercia Louw, "Rockeater" Cruise 2,
May/June ; Durban, Wright Inquest, Johannesburg meetings with Anglo, Sichel;
Klipbok: Lister, Erlanger, LeRoux, Rolly Thompson, ; Dr Rakestraw, Indian Ocean
Cgrs, Robert Dietz, Hoffman, Sammy Collins, Possession Island, man over board,
Luderitz, CDM, gullies, wedding to Mercia Louw, August 29.
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20 (90 p) -
CONTENTS 1964c: Post-nuptials, evaluations, mining factor, coning problem; discussions in Jo'burg with Anglo American, DeBeers ,Tidal and Veedol;
Stephansens, Roy Heath and Roy Dohne; recruiting Dutch staff; Rockeater Cruise VIII and large sample tests; sailfish, beaches and braaivleis at Zeekoeivlei, Cape Point, Simonstown, Cape Hangklip and Melkboschstrand;
"Klipbok", Luderitz, George Erlanger, Pierre Leroux; dives: Willie, BLO, Rolly Thompson, Eric Barlow;
Vibrocorer tests, Jack Mardesich, Harold Keen; Mr. Field, cinematographer, Dawn, Mrs Taylor, parties, Dave Smith; Tidal VP's, Sichel, Fuller, Drs. Guest and Gane; Fish River Gorge, Alexander Bay, Freemasons party; "Emerson K", VEMA,
Allan Heydorn, lobsters galore
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21 (xx p) -
CONTENTS 1964d + 1965: more to follow d.v.
(18p) -
1966 -
1976: The Marine Science Consortium, PA, DE, VA ; Millersville University
1976 -
1978: KISR, Kuwait - - -
1977 European Shipyards Tour
European Shipyards Tour, 1977, intro -
France -
Germany -
Sweden-
Norway
-United Kingdom
more to follow
(05p) - 1978 Tour of Africa,
Asia, Pacific: - - - more under construction
(09p) - Indonesia,
1978
1980 -
1982: UNDP - IMA, Trinidad and Tobago - - - to follow
(58p)-
1983: China Tour with
Pacific Delight Tours: Changjiang Canyons, etc.
1986:
Virgin Islands :
(08p) - Toxic
Substances in the Coastal Environment- - - more to follow
(7+p) -
1988:
Indonesia
1988:
China : Guest lecturer on Estuaries at
East China Normal University,
Shanghai - - -to follow
1989: USIA AMPART
(01p) -
Lecture Tour:
Barbados, Dominica, Syria, New Zealand
- - -more to follow
(03p) -
1990: NSF
Workshop, San Diego
(06p) - Memories of a dozen
years ago: MU1991/2
Caribbean Coastal
Studies - 1995 - 2000
"Environmental Hazards and Emergency Management,"
started 1995,
discontinued by
MU 1998; taken over by Hank
Fisher around 2002
(1997, May: retirement from Millersville University
(1966-1997)
and appointed Professor Emeritus)
(~15p) -
1998: Touring
Namibia with Mercia
(76p) -
1999/2000: Y2K
Tour of Indonesia with Paul
Billeter - Sulawesi, Bali, Java
(11p) -
2000: HOLLAND 2000: KIM 50th Reunion, Den Helder;
Amsterdam, Middelburg Z.H., Leiden, Reeuwijk, Venlo, Zutphen,
Eindhoven, Utrecht
(~65p) - 1997-2005: Pennsylvania Sludge Issues
(315p) - 1999: Sludge Victims by ESRA -
for Helane Shields
(01p) - 1998-2000:
Novembers' status of Strawbale Pavilion
(27p) - 2001 - 2 Tour
of RWANDA, Kenya and Holland, including presenting workshop
at
National University of Rwanda, Butare
with Paul Billeter, Rick Millis and Eugene Kaplan
(12p) -
2003 TOUR of
GREECE
(24p) -
2004 TOUR of SOUTH
AFRICA
(33p) -
2004
TOUR of IRELAND
(90p) - 2005 BALKANS TOUR
(ccp) - 2005 HOLLAND TOUR
latest updates: Feb.17, April
7, June 26, Aug.8, Sep.28, Oct.6, Nov.6, 2002;
Jan.13, Mar.29, June 29, Oct. 6, 27, Nov.23, 2003; Apr.12, Oct.10, Nov.18, 2004;
Jan 23/4, Jan 30, Feb 6, 2005; Mar.14, April 1, May 31, 2006 -
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