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UC Santa Barbara Geography / Department History / Historic Photos

1967 department thumbnail

1967 Geography Program faculty and secretary, on stairs to campus beach. Left to right: Maggie Greenwald (now Maggie Day), Norm Gosenfeld, Mike Kuhn, Berl Golomb, Ratnam Swami, John James, Yehuda Kedar, Bob Curry. As of 2-02, Maggie works at the Santa Barbara Foundation, Yehuda is retired from Hebrew University in Haifa and living in Arad Israel. Photo from Maggie Day's collection.

Bob Curry thumbnail

1968, Prof. Bob Curry, who taught soils, Pleistocene Geography, and a number of Physical Geography courses. He left for a post in Missoula, Montana, perhaps in 1969, from where he much later retired, then moved to Santa Cruz, CA. From Maggie Day's collection.

1969 department thumbnail

1969 Geography Program faculty, secretary, and teaching assistants. On ground, left to right: Prof. Ratnam Swami, Maggie Greenwald, Bruce ___, Susan Baumgart, ___ ___, Prof. Norm Gosenfeld. Trio to right of tree, from top to bottom: Prof. Norm Sanders, Prof. Berl Golomb, Prof. Mike Kuhn. Tim Rysdale hangs from tree, Prof. Bob Curry, who wears tie, is in tree. From Maggie Day's collection.

Noise study thumbnail

Geography student David Pluth and professor Norman Sanders conducting a noise study on Hwy 101, January 1969. Scan of a photocopy from UCSB's Public Affairs office.

Students thumbnail

Sixties? Mostly Geography students. Standing are Les Senger (left) and Pete Mason; seated in center with dark glasses, Pat Fortune; to his right, Jill Sanders. Who are the others? From Maggie Day's collection.

Department office thumbnail

1969, Dennis May standing at counter of new office for Geography Program office in Ellison Hall. The counter is still in use, though moved into another room, and the doorway has been changed to a smaller, single door. The mail boxes are in the same place as now. Ellison Hall is where the Geography Department moved from their prior home in one of the so-called government temporary buildings near Geology, Bldg 406-- which is still in use today! From Maggie Day's collection.

Berl Golomb thumbnail

1969, Prof. Berl Golomb, who although not the official Chair, basically did all the work of a Chair, moving into new office in Ellison Hall. (The official Chair was the Dean of the College of Letters and Science.) From Maggie Day's collection.

1970 department thumbnail

1970 Geography Program photo at construction site on campus. Back row: Prof. Mike Kuhn, Pete Mason, Susan Baumgart, Prof. Berl Golomb, (Photographer) Dave Wagner, (Secretary) Maggie Greenwald, Prof. Bernard Riley; Front row: Prof. Ratnam Swami, unknown undergrad, Jeff Smith, unknown undergrad, and Dennis May. From Susanna Baumgart's collection.

1976 department thumbnail

1976 Geography Department photo, scanned from the yearbook and sent by graduate Robert Crippen. The names are on the enlarged photo linked to the thumbnail at left.

Estes yearbook thumbnail

1976 yearbook photo of Jack Estes and an unknown woman.

1979 department thumbnail

1979 Geography Department photo, scanned from 1980 yearbook and emailed by Gailynne to Meryl Wieder January 4. Caption in yearbook: Front row, L-R: Susan Atwater, Meryl Wieder, Ed Gustafson, Chris Clayton, Frank Hanna, Flora Furlong, Earl Hajic, Jay Baggett, Simeon Kanani, Jeffrey Cohn, Sharon Krieg, Zhan Xue-Yun. Back row: William Halperin, Paul Larango, Wang Cheng-Ye, David S. Simmonett, Tara Torburn, Teresa Everett, Diane Lorenz, Jeffrey Dozier, Peggy O'Neill, Joe Sceapan, Wan Zheng-ming, Bob Crippen, Peter Burley, Li Xiao-Wen.

1986 department thumbnail

1986 Geography Department photo, scanned from the yearbook and sent by graduate Robert Crippen. The names, as best we can determine them, are on the enlarged photo linked to the thumbnail.

Dave Simonett thumbnail

1990 photo of Dave Simonett at the ceremony for renaming the UCSB NCGIA center the David Simonett Center for Spatial Analysis. Print in personnel file.

Simonett group thumbnail

1990 photo of Dave Simonett, with Waldo Tobler, Terry Smith, and Reg Golledge in the background, at the ceremony for renaming the UCSB NCGIA center the David Simonett Center for Spatial Analvsis. Print in Simonett's personnel file.

1990 grad students thumbnail

1990 graduate students. If you wish to see the names of the students, look at the picture below this one instead. David Lawson.

Labeled grad students thumbnail

1990 graduate students, with names written on the photo. David Lawson.

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