IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 AHW
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: WAITE, Amory Hooper (b 1902)
Date(s): 1960-1984
Level of description: collection
Extent: 2 files
Name of creator(s): Waite | Amory Hooper | b 1902 | polar explorer and radio engineer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1902; US Navy, 1919-1923; educated, Lowell Institute, MIT, 1926; helped to build the first State Police Radio Station in Massachusetts, 1927; Massachusetts National Guard, 1925-1934; Chief Operator of the first TV station in Boston, 1929-1933; member of Byrd Antarctic Expedition, to rescue R Adm Richard Evelyn Byrd, 1934; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Radio Engineer in charge of the US Army Signal Corps Arctic and Antarctic research teams, undertaking 23 polar expeditions, 1945-1965; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1962-1980; died, [1984].
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Amory Hooper Waite, 1960-1984, chiefly comprising biographical material including details of Waite created for the occasion of Waite becoming a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, Sep 1976; press release on Waite receiving triple honours, 1 May 1980 and material provided by Waite for his own obituary including an autobiography, 1 Dec 1983; material from the 50th anniversary of the Byrd rescue mission, 1984; papers and history relating to radio ice depth measurements; copy of a paper by Noel Stone, entitled 'The Airborne Survey of Ice Caps at Radio Frequencies', Aug 1960 and copies of articles including 'An Empirical Determination of the Relative Dielectric Constant of the Greenland Ice Cap', by D C Pearce and J W Williams, in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 72, 15 Nov 1967; 'Airborne Radar Sounding of the Greenland Ice Cap: Flight 1', by A H Zanella, D C Pearce and J W Williams, in the Geographical Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 79, Nov 1968 and article on Waite, Jun 1984.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open by appointment only, subject to completion of application form. Non-Fellows require a letter of reference.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Foyle reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to the RGS by Amory Hooper Waite.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing card index. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: 17 January 2001; May 2008.