Godfrey H. Savage ’50

Jeff died suddenly Jan. 7, 2004, in New Hampshire.

Originally in the Class of '49, Jeff graduated in 1950 with high honors in geological engineering and election to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Campus Club.

After graduation Jeff went to Stanford, did some oil drilling in California, went to Harvard Business School, worked in management consulting for A.D. Little and for a Rhode Island machinery company. But the ocean was his lifelong calling. Early on, he was with the National Academy of Sciences as engineering/science coordinator for designing the first deep-water, floating drill ship. At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution one of his experiments was the basis for his Stanford doctoral dissertation.

In 1965, he started the country's first ocean-engineering academic program at the University of New Hampshire. In 1975, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Scotland where he initiated a program in ocean engineering to serve the North Sea. In the 1990s, Jeff was deeply involved with construction of the UNH Ocean Engineering Laboratory and Project Center, and an open-ocean aquaculture project. He retired in 1998.

Our condolences go to his wife, Joanne, daughters Heidi and Wendy, and son William.

The Class of 1950