My Father's Watch
Contents
History
Course
According to the book's preface, PM and DFH taught a course for those who would only take one course in the physical sciences,
Publishing
Prentice Hall arranged the publishing, with WHG, in charge of editing, and BM managing. DFH also thanks DE for publishing the preliminary version on schedule. There was a back and forth between publisher and author about supplementary materials and addenda, including answers and solutions, teacher suggestions, unpublished "interesting asides," demo suggestions, further reading suggestions, AV aids or suggestions, and a test question bank.
Book as published
Reviews
Reviewed by Professor Manka of Sam Houston State U. June 1970, "the best we have received to date" according to the editor, WHG.
Use of text
Faculty from other colleges used MFW. Hans von Baeyer wrote to the publisher with a letter about how he would use MFW Fall 1970.
- Prentice Hall provided a list of college bookstores that ordered multiples of the text between 10/01/1969 and 2/28/1970
- Arizona (Tuscon campus), 20.
- Student bookstore at AZ (Tuscon campus), 36.
- Occidental Col. bookstore, CA, 150.
- Oglethorpe U. Bookshop, GA, 84.
- Cornell Campus Store, NY, 75.
- Triangle Book Shop (Cornell), NY, 50.
- Sam Houston State College, TX, 50.
Notes from archives
Abbreviations
- DE
- David Esner, Director of Special Projects at Prentice Hall
- MFW
- My Father's Watch
- DFW
- Donald Frank Holcomb
- PM
- Philip Morrison
- WHG
- William H. Grimshaw, Physics Editor at Prentice Hall
- BM
- Bob Melendes, head of Project Management Group at Prentice Hall
