A small update: Further conversations with NSS Member Gary Storrick updated us that during Bob's visit with his sister in California last year he wanted his vertical collection to go to Gary. Gary asked me to call him and we discussed not only the vertical collection, but also all his other caving related items, including his large library of books. Gary will be slowly working on integrating Bob's collection with his own, and graciously offered the duplicate pieces to the NSS for their archives. He will be doing the same with the books, etc. as he finds time.
The reason he also picked up the other items is that they would have otherwise have gone into the dumpster as they were cleaning up Bob's personal belongings. Many thanks to Gary for, at his own expense, renting a U-Haul trailer and picking everything up before it became lost to a landfill. Wm Shrewsbury, President National Speleological Society 727-424-2901 -----Original Message----- From: swrcav...@googlegroups.com [mailto:swrcav...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Geary Schindel Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 8:35 AM To: 'texascavers@texascavers.com'; swrcav...@googlegroups.com Subject: [SWR CAVERS] Bob Thrun has died FYI, Geary Folks, Wm Shrewsbury (the NSS President) told Yvonne Droms that Bob Thrun passed away a couple weeks ago. We don't know the date or the exact details, but I understand Bob had been feeling ill (flu) the day before he passed away, and apparently passed away in his sleep. For those who didn't know Bob, he was a longtime caver who was very involved with vertical techniques and cave surveying. He joined the NSS and PSC in 1966. Bob wrote one of the early books on vertical caving techniques, titled Prusiking, in 1971. He had a very extensive collection of historic vertical caving equipment. Bob had a very extensive library of caving books and newsletters and was also the go-to source for material from it. We don't know what happened to his library or his extensive vertical equipment collection. Bob was very involved with cave surveying. He wrote the CMAP computer program, one of the first computer programs to process cave survey data using simultaneous loop closure to handle survey errors. He also helped define and publicize the use of standard cave map symbols. I'm sorry about the rather sketchy information, but it's all I currently know. Bob Hoke -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "varlis...@vt.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to varlist-g+unsubscr...@vt.edu. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Southwestern Cavers of the National Speleological Society" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to swrcavers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to swrcav...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/swrcavers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/swrcavers/BLUPR05MB216231F94AF53CB23AF3239D4560%40BLUPR05MB216.namprd05.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
