Mark Lakata's memories of Ken Crowe

I found Ken by noticing his posting in Berkeley Physics department advertising trips to Switzerland! Well it was either that or Illinois. At this point Ken was already retired, so I didn't actually have too much technical face time with him (his postdocs David Armstrong, Roy Bossingham, Tom Case and Peter Kammel were the ones that kept me on the path to graduating). In fact, during my thesis defense, he just sat and smiled the whole time, and didn't torture me with any questions at all. I couldn't ask for a nicer advisor.

I remember dinners at his house in Point Richmond with his wife Penny, and how he liked to go home early and talk of his dog and his sailboat mast!

The following pictures were taken at my first stay with the Crystal Barrel in 1994. Ken let me stay at his home for a night or 2 before I got access to the hostel at CERN.

Ken at home in Thoiry, July 1994

A nice shot of the back of Ken's head at the Crystal Barrel, July 1994

Here, the Berkeley group (Tom Case, Ken Crowe, Peter Kammel, and I) is headed to a restaurant across the border to celebrate the end of another beam run.

And here we are are the restaurant in St Genis-Pouilly, France.