E-mail from James E. Monsees

From: Monsees, James E. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 08:29 AM
Subject: RBP Website

Nancy, I would be honored if you used the CD. Your Dad did so much for me and others - I would like the world to gain some appreciation !!!

Cheers, JimJames E. Monsees, P.E., Ph.D., NAE
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The ISSMFE/Geotechnical News video entitled "Leaders of Geotechnical Engineering 1991, Ralph B. Peck was the first video on the series, Engineering Judgment. It was supposed to be the first video in the series and in fact has become the only video so far. John Gadsby did the original piece and revived it and updated it and gave it out to all the members of, I think, the Canadian Geotechnical Conference last year. I remember that he at one time mentioned that he would then have it for sale, but I have not seen it on his BiTech website.

Elmo DiBiagio, Kaare Flaate, (2000). Publication Nr. 207: Ralph B. Peck “Engineer, Educator, A Man of Judgement”. Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo

Ralph B. Peck developed a very close professional and personal relationship with NGI's (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute) first director, Laurits Bjerrum. Following Bjerrum's death in 1973, he kept in contact with NGI. Suzanne Lacasse, Managing Director of NGI from 1991 to 2011, also had a very close relationship with Peck. In connection with the opening, NGI published Publication 207, "Professor Ralph B. Peck - Engineer, Educator, a Man of Judgement", which recounts the story of the events that lead to the establishment of the Peck Library and Peck's professional and private life.

John Dunnicliff and Nancy Peck Young, (2007). "Ralph B. Peck, Educator and Engineer - The Essence of the Man". BiTech Publishers Ltd, Vancouver.

This review flows from the latter camp, a place where Dr. Peck is widely recognized for his ultimately practical engineering wisdom. He cannot help but be a genuine hero to geological practitioners who have learned from his writings and from occasional attendance at his lectures and oral papers. We geologists see him mainly in the light of his remarkable ability to detect and grasp the practical essentials and then, with the true calling of a great engineer, to pass his own proven lessons-learned on to us. Regrettably, however, this tribute is devoid of commentary by the many geologists who have crossed Ralph Peck's path over the years.

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