| Authors: | Harry J. Hillaker |
| Volume: | Volume 2008, No. 1, 30 Jun 2008 |
| DOI: | http://www.doi.org/10.46275/JoASC.2008.06.001 |
| Abstract: | Paul J. Waite, long-time State Climatologist for Iowa, died at the age of 89 in Pittsfield, IL on April 28, 2008. Paul was born on June 21, 1918 in New Salem, IL. He graduated from New Salem High School in 1936 and received a Bachelor of Education in Science and Mathematics from Western State College in Macomb, IL in 1940. He taught and coached in several Illinois schools prior to entering the Air Force Meteorology Cadet Program at the University of Chicago in 1942. He served as a weather officer for the USAF from 1943 to 1946. He then served as a weather- briefer for the then US Weather Bureau in Chicago from 1948 to 1951. In 1951-1952 he served as a USAF meteorologist in Korea, then returned to work for the USWB in Kansas City. He was the USWB State Climatologist in Madison, WI from 1956- 1959, then took the same position in Des Moines, IA from 1959-1973. |
| Link: | https://stateclimate.org/pdfs/journal-articles/2008_1-Hillaker.pdf |
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