about our members1

Robert L. Carnahan, chief of external relations and industrial meteorology for the National Weather Service, has been ap-pointed federal coordinator for meteorology and supporting services.

The office of the federal coordinator reviews federal weather programs and funding requirements, provides programs for de-velopment and coordination of the nation's weather services and supporting research, and documents the activities of weather agencies in periodic national plans.

Carnahan came to Washington in 1970 as deputy assistant administrator for administration of the Commerce Depart-ment's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, serving also as special assistant for industrial meteorology. In 1979 he moved to the National Weather Service as chief of its warnings coordination staff, assuming his most recent position in 1983.

Carnahan holds a bachelor's degree in meteorology from the University of California at Los Angeles and a master's degree in civil engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has been a member of the AMS for almost 40 years and has served on the Board of Directors of the Council of Industrial Mete-orologists.

John Goll has been named Chief of the Environmental As-sessment Division of the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) at the Department of the Interior. In this position, Goll is in charge of all MMS environmental actions concerning the leasing and regulation of the oil, gas, and minerals of the outer continental shelf. Goll also oversees the 25-million-dollar En-vironmental Studies Program, which promotes marine envi-ronmental studies of the outer continental shelf.

Goll received his B.S. in meteorology and oceanography and his M.S. in meteorology from the University of Michigan.

Cheryl Lemke and Jeff Morrow have been appointed on-cam-era meteorologists at The Weather Channel. Before joining the cable network, Lemke was on-air meteorologist at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana. She is a graduate of Iowa State Uni-versity with a B.S. degree in meteorology and is a candidate for a master's degree in broadcasting and communications from the University of Nebraska.

Morrow has been employed at The Weather Channel since August 1985 as a forecaster. His other experience includes forecasting and radio broadcasting for Accu-Weather, Inc. He holds a B.S. degree in meteorology from Pennsylvania State University.

David A. Sankey has joined the Federal Systems Group of TRW, Inc. as a task leader on TRW's National Weather Service AWIPS-90 project. Sankey will be performing task analysis work in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was previously deputy director for Meteorological Operations with The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia.

1 Members are encouraged to submit news items about themselves or colleagues that will be of interest to fellow members. Copy should be typed double-spaced; photos accom-panying news items should be black and white.—News Ed.

William W. Vaughan was recently awarded the Hermann Ob-erth Award for 1985 by the Alabama-Mississippi Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The award was given to Vaughan for his "exemplary contributions to the development of natural environment design criteria vi-tal to the design of aerospace vehicles and to the utilization of space for scientific research."

Vaughan recently retired from his position as chief of the Atmospheric Sciences Division at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

retirement

Kenneth M. Barnett recently retired from his position as ad-junct professor of mechanical engineering at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

Barnett began his 45-year career in meteorology as a mete-orological observer in the U.S. Weather Bureau in Fort Worth, Texas. He also worked as an aerological officer in the navy during World War II and was the U.S. Department of State liaison officer with the German Weather Service in the U.S. Zone at Bad Kissingen, as well as the U.S. member of the Allied Meteorological Board for Germany, from 1949 to 1952.

A civilian meteorologist with the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1976, Barnett spent a total of 35 years in federal service before joining the faculty at New Mexico State, where he taught fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and wind-power engineering.

Barnett's work has earned him the army's Meritorious Ci-vilian Service Award and the Award of Excellence from the American Wind Energy Association. In 1984, he was chosen as the "most helpful professor of the year" by the students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State.

Barnett holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Kansas, a certificate in meteorology from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Colorado State University. He has been a member of the AMS since 1941.

Jean T. Lee retired on 2 June 1986 from his position as meteorologist-project scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma after 47 years of federal service.

Lee, who had been with the Severe Storms Laboratory since 1964, was a re-search meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau's National Severe Storm Project from 1959 to 1964. From 1954 to 1959 he was a severe local-storms

forecaster responsible for tornado and severe-storm forecasts for the continental United States, and from 1950 to 1954 he was an educational specialist in the Weather Bureau central office, where he developed a pilot briefer course and revised the book Meteorology for Pilots. Lee also served in the mili-tary, as station weather officer in the continental United States and the South Pacific from 1944 to 1946.

In 1958, Lee was among a group received the De-partment of Commerce Silver Medal for contributions made

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to the advancement of tornado and severe-local-storm predic-tions. In 1967 he received the Silver Medal again for contri-butions to storm-turbulence descriptions and use of weather radar for safe flight near thunderstorms. In 1981, he received the highest award given by the American Institute of Aero-nautics and Astronautics, the Losey Award.

Lee is the author of some 60 reports and publications. His research has provided landmark contributions to flying safety, especially in relation to criteria for avoidance of severe local storms. His work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the U.S. Air Force has led to the issuance of FAA circulars on thunderstorm flying based on research results.

Lee is a member of the American Association for the Ad-vancement of Science and the American Institute of Aeronau-tics and Astronautics. He is past president of the Kansas City and Central Oklahoma Chapters of the AMS. •

necrology Eleanor Stabler Brooks 1892-1986

Eleanor Stabler Brooks died in Falmouth, Maine on 28 February 1986. She was the widow of Charles F. Brooks, founder of the AMS and a professor of meteorology at Clark University and Harvard.

Eleanor Brooks was born 27 September 1892 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She grew up there and in Greenwich, Conn. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1914 with a B.A. in botany. As the outstanding member of the senior class, she was awarded the Jonathan Fay Prize. While at Radcliffe, she met Charles Brooks and became engaged to him. Two years later, when he received his Ph.D. at Harvard, they were married.

Eleanor Brooks was her class agent for many years, and in 1930 she was secretary of the Radcliffe Club of Worcester, Mass.

During a part of Charles Brooks' directorship of the Blue Hill Me-teorological Observatory, she held a position as research assistant from 1933 to 1957. She was an indexer for the BULLETIN from 1950 to 1960. Until Charles Brooks' death in 1958, she collaborated with him and others on many publications inculding the revised edition of Why the Weather (Harcourt and Brace, 1935). Eleanor Brooks was a board member of the Milton League of Women Voters in the 1950s; president of the North Haven, Conn. League of Women Voters in 1963. She worked with the American Friends Service Committee for many years and was coordinator of the North Haven UNICEF program, being par-ticularly involved with getting children to collect money in UNICEF boxes at Halloween trick-or-treat time. In 1978 the town of North Haven awarded her a certificate of appreciation in recognition of her "dedi-cation to the town's UNICEF fund-raising program and her selfless efforts to enhance North Haven's awareness of UNICEF's worldwide activities."

While in residence at the base of Blue Hill, 1931-1958, she served daily to expedite the frequent exigencies associated with the observatory atop the hill. She will long be remembered for her pleasant greeting in the midst of busy family activities as various staff members stopped on the way to or from the observatory.

At the time of Eleanor Brooks' death she had 20 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. She took great pleasure in this large extended family and had a special book in which all names and birthdays were listed so that she could send cards to all in a timely fashion.

Immediate family include her sister, Anna B. Stabler, brother, How-ard P. Stabler, and children, Edward, Margaret Morse, Barbara Kerner, Sylvia (deceased), Edith Allison, Norman, and Frona Vicksell.—J. H. Conover

Frank H. Forrester 1918-1986

Frank H. Forrester, a former public infor-mation officer for the U.S. Geological Sur-vey (USGS) and television meteorologist, died 21 May 1986 at his home in McLean, Va.

Forrester was well known in the Washing-ton, D.C. area for his work with WRC-TV and WRC Radio. He was also a frequent contributor to local radio shows.

Forrester served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and received professional meteorological training at navy and marine

aerological schools. From 1948 to 1956, he directed public relations and special pro-

gramming for the Hay den Planetarium in New York. Among his many accomplishments at the planetarium, Forrester organized a reservation list for the first commercial flight to the moon that drew thousands of applicants.

While still working for the planetarium, Forrester was also employed by WOR-TV and WOR Radio in New York, from 1949 to 1951, as an on-camera weatherman. He also presented general science telecasts and broadcasts for these stations.

In 1957 Forrester became a meteorologist for WJXT-TV, a CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Fla., where he was on-camera weatherman and again prepared television and radio programs on meteorology, astronomy, and related subjects until 1960.

Forrester moved to WRC-TV and WRC Radio, both NBC affiliates in Washington, D.C., in 1960. In Washington, he was responsible for weather forecasting and reporting as well as presenting special science feature telecasts.

In December 1962, Forrester was appointed public information of-ficer for the USGS where he organized and established the basic public affairs and information program for the agency while continuing to report the weather news on evening newscasts at WRC.

At USGS, Forrester led efforts to provide the news media and the public with scientific news about major geologic and hydrologic events such as the 1964 Alaska earthquake, the severe drought in the north-eastern United States in the 1960s, the San Fernando Valley earthquake in California in 1971, and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Forrester was presented the Interior Department Meritorious Service Award in 1970, in part for his work in initiating a general-interest publications program at the USGS that has reached more than 20 million citizens. He was also cited for the "stentorian tones" of his voice that were long a part of convocations and ceremonies at the Interior De-partment.

In addition to numerous magazine and newspaper articles published throughout his career and after his retirement from the USGS in 1981, Forrester wrote three books about weather: 1,001 Questions Answered About the Weather; The Real Book About the Weather; and Exploring the Air Ocean.

Forrester was a member of the AMS for almost 40 years. He was one of the first recipients of the AMS Seal of Approval for outstanding television weather forecasting.

Forrester is survived by his wife, Mary, and a son, Michael, both of McLean; and two sisters, Florence Greenberg, Miami, Fla., and Faith Solomon, New York, N.Y.

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