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Sharp: 



Revelle: 



Sharp: 

 Revelle: 



There isn't too much on it, except there is this letter that 

 you had written to Herb York that set out all the terms of 

 it, but it is written long after any informal arrangement 

 might have been worked out. Do you remember that letter?* 



[after reading letter] I don't remember, but it's clearly a 

 reasonable letter. 



Herb suggested that I should join his group in 

 Science, Technology, and Public Affairs. Walter had the 

 idea first that I should come back here as a professor, and 

 he talked to Bill McElroy. Bill McElroy offered me the job 

 and asked me what I wanted to do, so I said I wanted to be 

 professor of Science and Public Policy. Then he got me in 

 touch with Herb, his program in Science, Technology, and 

 Public Affairs. That's how it happened. 



At that time, in '75, I was sixty-six years old, a 

 reasonable age, ten years ago. I had already retired from 

 the University of California at the time I left here in '64, 

 so I couldn't have a full-time job. In fact, by that time, 

 I'd already started drawing retirement pay, not for my own 

 sake, but because Polly Wyckoff developed a cancer. She had 

 an operation for breast cancer which didn't work very well, 

 and as a result she developed a bone cancer and she was 

 dying slowly and painfully. 



So what I basically did was to appeal for my 

 retirement pay and then turn it over to her. It was about 

 $6- or $700 a month, something like that, not very much. 

 Retirement pay was based on your highest salary at the time 

 you retired, and in 1963-64 I was getting about $22,000 a 

 year as director and dean, very much less than people get 

 now! 



Anyhow, that's why I did it, so when I came back I 



could only have a 49 percent time appointment, which was 



perfectly reasonable as far as I'm concerned because we have 



plenty of money, but I'm incapable of working part-time! 



I noticed that. 



So I worked full-time regardless. They were very nice to 

 me. They gave me a secretary and an office, allowed me to 

 teach. It's wonderful; I love it. 



Sharp: 

 Revelle: 



Did you like coming back to UCSD? 



Oh yes, sure, 

 place. There 

 was a member 

 the faculty o 

 middle of it 

 in many ways 

 Tavern Club, 

 enterprises, 

 interesting. 



I loved Harvard. Harvard is a marvelous 

 s a wonderful collegial atmosphere there. I 

 of the faculty of Arts and Sciences as well as 

 f Public Health, so I was really right in the 

 The faculty of Arts and Sciences is Harvard 

 And I belonged to the Saturday Club and the 

 These are sort of special Bostonian 

 particularly the Saturday Club is very 



It was founded by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo 



