Timeline for Ronald Lorenz Ives

1909. Born October 12 in Cleveland, Ohio.

1911. His family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1918. His family moved to Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

1921 or 1922. He ran away from home to Colorado.

1922. Ronald enrolled in Montclair High School for fall semester.

1926. Part-time job doing radio work at Adams-Morgan in Montclair, New Jersey.

1927. Part-time job doing non-sync sound work at Flextone Talking Co., Montclair, New Jersey.

1928. Graduated from Montclair High School in June, taking 6 years and standing in the bottom quarter of his class.

1928. Made first visit to Mexico and the Pinacate region, during summer.

1929–1931. Enrolled at Stevens Institute of Technology as a part-time student.

1928–1929. Instrument manufacturing at Weston Electric Company, Newark, New Jersey.

1930. Obtained his radio-telephone license.

1930–1938. Self-employed as freelance writer and photographer in Hoboken, New Jersey, and Boulder, Colorado.

1931. Made an extended trip to the Southwest, including Grand Canyon, Zion, and Sierra Pinacate.

1932. Published his first article. At least 600 technical articles and 230 non-technical articles followed.

1932–1937. Student at University of Colorado, Boulder. Enrolled June 20, 1932. Transferred some credits from Stevens Institute of Technology.
BA degree, June 10, 1935. Provisionally entered graduate school January 2, 1935. MS in geology, June 14, 1937, "Glaciology of the Monarch Valley, Grand County, Colorado."

1937, June–January 1938. While living in Colorado, Ronald worked for Science Services Company, Washington, D.C., as an editorial staff writer, and did occasional freelance writing even after 1938.

1937–April 1940. Field surveys. Self-employed independent researcher, Boulder, Colorado. Also, part-time radio operator for the Municipal Police Department, Boulder, Colorado.

1940, April–November 1941. Radio operator with American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas.

1941, November–April 1942. Electrical research with Douglas Aircraft Company, Santa Monica, California.

1942, April–July 1943. U.S. Army Signal Corps General Development Labs, Army Chemical Corps in Red Bank, New Jersey, and Dugway Proving Ground in Tooele, Utah. Another report says he was employed as a meteorologist at the Fort Monmouth Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories from May 13, 1942, to November 15, 1942, by the Civilian Personnel Branch, U.S. Army Signal Corps, when he transferred to Dugway Proving Grounds.

1943, July 17–July 14, 1946. A soldier in U.S. Army, mostly at Dugway Proving Grounds.

1946, July–August 1950. Student, research associate, and instructor in Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Entered graduate school in geography on October 11, 1946.
MA degree in geography, October 15, 1947, "Climate of the Southern Salt Lake Desert, Utah."
PhD degree in geomorphology, June 12, 1950, "Chinook Winds in the Colorado High Plains Region."

1950, August 24–April 1, 1951. Instructor at Armament School, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado (GS-7). Honorably discharged U.S. Army Reserve April 1, 1953.

1951–1955. Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo. A principal physicist and later a principal engineer. His work consisted of evaluating various military ideas for practicality and conducting research on some of them. He also designed and built equipment, and inspected and evaluated military equipment and operational methods, suggesting improvements or modifications where possible.

1953. His father, Herbert E. Ives, died.

1955–1968. Research in Palo Alto.

1955–1958. Tronicon, Inc., a research and development subcontractor for military devices and instrumentation. The company later was known as John C. Beckman Co. and then Beckman and Whitley, Inc.

1958–1962. Stanford Aerosol Laboratory at Palo Alto, a university research lab, where he worked as an electronic engineer on a series of special meteorological instruments being developed for the Army Chemical Corps.

1962–1968. Metronics, Inc., Palo Alto, California. Same sort of work.

1968–1975. Employed as assistant professor of geography at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Taught a variety of geography classes.

1972. Suffered serious injuries in Jeep wreck.

1974. His mother, Mabel Lorenz Ives, died.

1975. Retired from Northern Arizona University, mandatorily.

1982. Died February 26 in Tucson, Arizona.

1984. Book published: José Velásquez: Saga of a Borderland Soldier. Tucson: Southwestern Mission Research Center. Finished with assistance from Father...