Childhood: Newburgh, New York; Presbyterian background; Coe College, physics, 1942-1944; Princeton University, geology, 1945-1948; Yale graduate school, geology, 1948-1951; one year in military, 10th Mountain Division ski troops,1944-1945; University of Kansas: assistant professor, paleontology, 1951; Columbia University, 1952-1966: professor, micropaleontology, chairman; decision to study oceanogr aphy; Brown University, 1966; development of Climate Long Range Mapping and Prediction, CLIMAP, 1970; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; geological research in Russia; Henry Doherty Professor of Oceanography, 1976; reminiscences of colleagues.