Class of: 1942
Deceased: 2015-05-17

Retired U.S. Air Force colonel and meteorologist. As World War II was in its first year, Paul was recruited by the Army Air Corp’s Meteorological Master’s Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he earned both his Master of Science in Meteorology and his commission as a lieutenant there in 1943. He served state side as a weather instructor at air bases in Georgia for the remainder of the war and then performed hurricane hunting duties after the war until late 1947. Paul worked briefly as a civilian in the National Weather Service in Washington DC until 1950. Late that year he was recalled to active duty as a captain in the U.S. Air Force to support the war in Korea. His Air Force meteorological career continued for more than 20 additional years, taking him to Japan, Korea, England, Vietnam and Australia to name a few. His final assignment was commander of the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He retired in July 1974 and settled back in DeLand a few years later.