Bill Kuperman: Navy Scholar, author of seminal articles and mentor

Bill Kuperman: Navy Scholar, author of seminal articles, mentor to many and ambassador for acoustics in the United States (US). We are all familiar with Bill's extraordinary contributions in the first three categories, but few would appreciate his efforts for promulagation of research at the forefromt of ocean acoustics. Most in the ASA community is aware of his many conferences, but few are probably aware of the extensive dialog he maintained with those beyond the US. I was fortunate enough to join him in our visits. We had many trips to the FSU during the period of Perestroika, including several Academician Berovovskikh, many visits to the PRC where we observed the rapid rise of PRC ocean acoustics, a series of ongoing seminars in Corsica, lectures at many, many European universities and companies. He brought the excellence of US acoustics overseas which few could have done.