A warm welcome to new subscribers! This first issue of the Shamcher Bulletin for 2023 kicks off with some memories of a farewell dinner for Shamcher in Bremerton, WA in the mid-late 1970s. The Royal Fork gathering was to say farewell to Shamcher, as he had retired from his engineering work at the Naval Base and was moving to Berkeley to continue his OTEC work at UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station. We have stories from Tomas Chaitanya Gomez, Vakil Forest Shomer, and Hafizullah. If you were there and remember the event, please let us know your reflections in the comments, or reply to this email. Since these memories of Shamcher in the Seattle area have come up, I’ve also included part of a piece that Merlyn Kruger wrote on his experiences with Shamcher. And I also added some symbolic reflections on this issue, in “Speaking of the Royal Fork.”
The Royal Fork Buffet
The Royal Fork Buffet
The Royal Fork Buffet
A warm welcome to new subscribers! This first issue of the Shamcher Bulletin for 2023 kicks off with some memories of a farewell dinner for Shamcher in Bremerton, WA in the mid-late 1970s. The Royal Fork gathering was to say farewell to Shamcher, as he had retired from his engineering work at the Naval Base and was moving to Berkeley to continue his OTEC work at UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station. We have stories from Tomas Chaitanya Gomez, Vakil Forest Shomer, and Hafizullah. If you were there and remember the event, please let us know your reflections in the comments, or reply to this email. Since these memories of Shamcher in the Seattle area have come up, I’ve also included part of a piece that Merlyn Kruger wrote on his experiences with Shamcher. And I also added some symbolic reflections on this issue, in “Speaking of the Royal Fork.”