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70°F (21°C)
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barometric pressure is 30.03" (1016.8 mb)
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My Odyssey Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Mel   
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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 During those 1950s, a lot of nuclear tests were occurring, and some of the fallout reached as far away as New England. I have wondered all these years that when I was outside playing, if I had been exposed to any of that. One of my doctors once said that my condition was not unlike that of someone who lived around Hiroshima or Nagasaki during the famous atomic bomb attacks of World War II. Also, those were the days when we could go into shoe stores and have our feet placed in a contraption which radiated our feet and showed their shape. We could see if the shoe really fit. I always wondered, too, about how much I was being zapped. Also, those were the days when commercials on TV showed that smoking was just the ticket you needed to put you on a horse and transform you into a figure of great health, vigor and strength.

 
Young Mel
Just before I turned eight, Grandpa Harry began to show a change a heart toward my father, and welcomed him back into the clan – I guess after 12 years of stable marriage, my father was showing some progress, and he began to receive more responsibility in the family business. He was mainly a salesman, and he did OK. We moved to a neighboring town, Swampscott, bought a home and lived one block from the Atlantic Ocean. That was it for me. I never wanted to live anywhere else but along the ocean. What a place for a future weatherman to live! Just down the street, there was a fish house where the daily catch would be brought in by local fisherman along with marvelous stories about the weather out at sea. I could sit there and listen for hours. How could I not pick up a fanatical interest in weather? We lived in a modest home, but, over the years, the town became a wealthy suburb of Boston with some wonderful schools and teachers – including my eighth grade science teacher, Joseph Balsama, who helped me begin a weather club in Junior High School. To this day that club is still in operation.

I pursued that love of weather into college where I met my future wife Arlene when we were both freshmen. My dorm room was half-buried in pizza boxes and empty cigarette packages. The other half of the room, that of my roommate, was spotless. Gary Koblitz made a career in the Defense Intelligence Agency – Gary and I were just different breeds of character, but Arlene immediately became my lifelong advocate, and we were married just about a year and a half later when we were juniors. The pizza boxes disappeared, and she went on a campaign to get me to stop smoking. That took quite a few years, but eventually worked. We all need an advocate in life, and when one is seriously ill, that person is the one who will care for you throughout, stand up for you, speak for you when you are unable, and even fire doctors who do not fit in with your temperament, goals or perception of proper treatment. Arlene is a quiet, loving, sensitive person. And at the same time, when she dedicates herself to a goal, she is tough as they get.

 

Our first child, Laura, was born when I was in graduate school, and it was then, that I decided to find a “real” job….which really didn’t matter to me, as long as it had something to do with meteorology. I began teaching, and loved it. I started as a professor at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, and I was asked to begin a meteorology program. But at that time we only had a barometer and thermometer. A lot of the financing for the program came from my media work. I started on radio, then TV, and eventually writing. When my second daughter, Melodie, was born, nearly eight years later, I was broadcasting on more than 20 radio stations, including the NBC network. Then, in another 8 years, I did reach the goal of establishing that program - the first, and still only, baccalaureate program in meteorology in Connecticut. All my outside earnings went back to building the program, and I continued that effort until my myeloma began to rage in 1996 – I soon was forced to retire from teaching and concentrated on TV and writing.
 
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