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Richard Hamilton
In Memory of
Richard P.
Hamilton
1930 - 2016
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Carl Thornber

Dear Bev and Mathew and Martha, Heartfelt condolences from Mary and I. We are greatly saddened by Dick's death. He made a significant impact in my life. In 1968, early on in his tenure at Mt. Greylock RHS, Mr. Hamilton's enthusiasm and talent for teaching 9th grade earth science inspired my career in geology. The following summer he hired me to help build that wall of Greylock Schist at the top of the driveway, and he saw to it that I appreciated how those metamorphic rocks formed. In the summer of 1970, he was instrumental in cementing the Carl & Mary relationship when, as a summer usher at Tanglewood, he provided lawn tickets for a Boston Pops concert and teen-taxi service to and from New Ashford and Berkshire Village (we've been solid ever since!). Dick was a sounding-board and provided emotional support at various times throughout my education and now 40-year career with the USGS. One particular and relatively recent Dick Hamilton moment comes to mind as I think of him now. In the late 1990's when I was working at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Dick accompanied me on a trek to map the extent of active lava flows on the south flank of Klauea. Late in the day, after hiking several miles over hot, fresh terrane and as I eagerly paced the home-stretch, I turned and saw that Dick had stopped and was sitting down on a pahoehoe flow edge. Ever the teacher, he beckoned me back and said we need to just sit down here and watch and listen for a while, and, as my old high-school mentor and I together witnessed the awesome personal experience of molten lava tearing from it's crust and oozing out to form ropey pahoehoe sheets, he questioned me about the science of it all. Sincerely, Carl
Wednesday March 23, 2016 at 12:00 am
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