Howard Pohn:
CLASS OF 1953
Highland Park High SchoolClass of 1953
Highland park, IL
Braeside Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Highland park, IL
Howard's Story
Life
After graduating HPHS, I attended Purdue University, University of Illinois where I got my BS in geology. I then had two years of grad school at U of I and continued grad school at USC for another 1 1/2 years.
A while after leaving USC I got a job at CalTech with their Lunar Lab and worked at Mt. Wilson and Palomar for three years. During that time I was liason with the Astrogeology program of the USGS under Gene Shoemaker. I then went to work for Gene in Flagstaff where I mapped the moon snd terrestrial impact craters for the Apollo program, including mapping the Apollo 12 landing si...Expand for more
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After 7 years I moved to Denver and worked on the USGS program of Remote Sensing of the earth for geologic mapping. Seven years after that I moved to the Washington D C area and worked on structural geologic mapping of the Appalachian fold belt, including mapping structures related to oil and gas deposits.
After18 more years I retired and went to work as an artist-blacksmith making gates, railings, architectural hardware and almost anything else that customers wanted me to make.
Along the way I married my present wife, and we raised three daughters and helped to raise four grandchildren.
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