Frank Press — American Scientist born on December 04, 1924,

Frank Press is an American geophysicist. An advisor to four U.S. Presidents, he later served two consecutive terms as President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth... (wikipedia)

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.
Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.