CLARKE COUNTY, GA - OBITS   Gish, O.H. 1987

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Athens Banner Herald
Thursday, February 26, 1987


Memorial Services For O.H. Gish, 103, Slated Saturday

Oliver Holmes Gish, 103, of 801 Riverhill Drive, died
Sunday, Feb. 22.

Mr. Gish, a native of Dickinson County, Kan., was a son of
the late John E. and Fannie R. Herr Gish.  He majored in
physics at Kansas State College, graduating in 1908, and
earned his mater's degree in 1913 at the University of
Nebraska, returning as an insturctor of mathematics in 1914.
He moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1918 as a research engineer
with the Westinghouse Corp.

In 1922 Mr. Gish joined the Department of Terrestrial
Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washingotn where he
was successively associate physicist 1922-27, physicist
1927-28, chief of the section on terrestrial electricity
1928-48 and assistant director 1933-46.  He was a recognized
authority in the areas of electrical currents of the earth
and atmospheric electricity, publishing many papers and
articles in professional journals.

After retirement from the Carnegie Institution in 1948, Mr.
Gish was a consultant to the U.S. Air Force, directing a
program which collected data on thunderstorms by flying B-29
planes equipped with scientific instruments through and
around storms 1948-49.  He came out of retirement again in
1953 to engage in research for the U.S. Naval Mine Defense
Laboratory in Panama City, Fla.  In 1955-56 he served as a
Visiting Professor of Physics at the Univeristy of Southern
Illinois at Carbondale.  His final retirement was in 1957
when he settled in Fort Pierce, Fla. 

Mr. Gish was a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and American Physical Society.  He
was also a member and officer of the Washington Academy of
Sciences, the Philosophical Society of Washington, the
American Geophysical Union and the Washington, D.C. chapter
of the Society of Sigma Xi.  After 1976 the Gishes moved to
Athens, residing at the Lanier Gardens retirment apartments.

Memorial services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the
Unitarian Universalist Fellowsihip.  The Revs. Clifton
Hoffman and Nancy Roemheld will officiate.

Survivors include his wife, Edna M. Gish; three daughters,
Eleanor Crow, Boulder, Colo., Lois Scott, Athens,, and
Pauline Culling, Omaha, Neb.; a son, Donald Gish, Silver
Springs, Md.; a sister Dorothea Souders, Sanger, Calif.; 13
grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Bridges Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.