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RICHARD H. HAGEMEYER
1924-2001
Richard "Dick" Hagemeyer, former director of the National Weather Service (NWS) Pacific Region, passed away on 25 October 2001.
Hagemeyer is internationally recognized for his leadership in developing the United States Tsunami Warning Program (see sidebar on next page), modernizing weather services in Hawaii and the Pacific region and improving coordination of tropical cyclone response in Pacific Rim countries.
After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Hagemeyer completed his education at Parks School of Aviation and Engineering, St. Louis University. He joined the NWS (then the U.S. Weather Bureau) in 1950, serving in Washington, D.C., the Phoenix and Wake Islands, Palau, and Majuro in the Marshall Islands, where he opened the station in support of the atomic bomb testing operations on Eniwetok. For the next 30 years, he held numerous managerial positions at the headquarters level of the NWS. He returned to Hawaii in 1982 as the regional director. In 1987, he received the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal, the department's highest award, for outstanding leadership of the Pacific region.
For the past 19 years, Hagemeyer was...