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(founders and leaders) Manley St. Denis co ntinued professor of naval architecture at the U.S. Naval Academy. Other academic appointments were as adjunct professor of naval systems at Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, and as senior lecturer in naval sys -tems at MIT. In 1968, he returned to Hawaii to join the faculty of the newly established Department of Ocean Engineering at the University of Hawaii. He retired from that position in 1977, but as professor emeritus, he con -tinued to serve the Department of Ocean Engineering until shortly before his death. Always the student, he continued his education, earning a master of arts in the classics from the University of Hawaii at age 80, and he continued thereafter to pursue a bachelors degree in art. It is not an exaggeration to say that he spent most of his life as either a teacher or a student, or both. St. Denis received numerous national and interna -tional awards and honors. He was made an honorary member of SNAME in 1977, and in 1980, he was awarded the Davidson Medal by SNAME ?for outstanding accomplishments in ship research.? In 1973, SNAME sponsored a symposium honoring St. Denis and Pierson in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of their land -mark paper. He received commendations, of which he was especially proud, from the secretary of the navy and the chief of naval operations for his work on project NOBSKA, which is where the Polaris systems and deep-diving sub -marine concepts were assessed and found to be feasible. Incorporating the classics He was a prolic writer with many publications in the SNAME Transactions and the Journal of Ship Research , as well as foreign journals and conference proceedings too numerous to record. He was fond of spicing up his work with quotations from sources such as the Bible, the classics, famous authors, and philosophers. His writing was seldom dull, and was precise and thorough. e reader might be overwhelmed with some of the details, but was seldom bored. St. Denis served SNAME in many other ways. He was chairman or active participant in several technical committees, including hydrodynamics, hull Structures, ship slamming, seakeeping, and ocean platforms. He also served on control committees for the SNAME books, eory of Seakeeping by Korvin-Kroukovsky, and Maneuvering and Seakeeping by Saunders. Manley St. Denis passed away in October 2003 in Honolulu, Hawaii at the age of 92, just weeks after SNAME celebrated the 50th anniversary of the presen -tation of the landmark St. Denis and Pierson paper. Professor Emeritus Marshall Tulin of the University of California at Santa Barbara composed a tting remem -brance of St. Denis. ?Manley was at DTMB when I arrived there in 1950 to work in Landweber?s Research Division. Manley worked across the hall in Ship Performance with Dick Couch. Weinblum was with us, too, and this led to their important, seminal work laying the groundwork for the application of stochastic methods to ship motions. is was extraordinarily important for naval architecture. Manley?s enthusiasm and positive approach to everything, his élan vital aected all. He was a wonderful storyteller and raconteur with an irrepressible zest for life. It was always a pleasure being with St. Denis at scientic meetings. And it was always an unusual pleasure to see Savina, his wife, a most beautiful and dignied woman. ey seemed to have an unusually happy marriage.? The newsletter of the Ocean Engineering Department at the University of Hawaii, Hana O ke Kai, published an obituary that began, ?Manley St. Denis, Professor Emeritus, Naval Architect, Ocean Engineer, Classicist, Artist and Friend.? MTJ. Randolph Paulling is professor emeritus of naval architecture, University of California, Berkeley, retired in 1992. He also is a consultant to the oshore petroleum industry, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Coast Guard. en-US en-US en-USJuly 2012 en-USwww.sname.org/sname/mt ???? ???? ????? ????????? ??? ??? ??? ? ??? ????? ????? ????? ? ? ???