A Physicist and an Engineer walk into a bar

Steve Garrett and I met in 1975 at UCLA when we were graduate students. He was the TA for Isadore Rudnick’s Low Temperature Physics course, and I thought “that course would be cool.” I was a Mechanical Engineering student (Richard Stern and William C. Meecham were my advisors). Despite this, we became good friends. Over the years we met at ASA and other meetings as well as when he visited Los Angeles to see family. He was always interested in, and I was working with, electroacoustics, as well as other areas of acoustics. Audio and books as well as sonic booms are areas of common interest for us. When he learned that I was the custodian of Vern O. Knudsen's library, he reached out and we arranged for the library to be sent to join Cyril Harris' library, already at Penn State. Steve also facilitated the donation of a portion of my library to Penn State.