Floyd Galpin

[BergerIEM@aol.com]

Colleagues:

I was saddened to learn yesterday evening that Floyd Galpin, an active and 
interested member of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter, passed away.  His 
insightful contributions to the HPS Newsletter and RADSAFE, his interest and 
dedication to his field, and his kind and winning ways will be sorely missed 
by not only the BWC-HPS membership, but by the health physics community at 
large.

Carol D. Berger
Integrated Environmental Management, Inc.
(301) 762-0502
CDBerger@IEM-Inc.com
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Engineer Floyd Galpin, 64, Dies; Authority on Radioactive Waste

Washington Post - Wednesday, December 8, 1999; Page B06 

Floyd Lee Galpin, 64, a retired senior engineer and Public Health Service 
captain who was an expert at theEnvironmental Protection Agency on the 
disposal of radioactive waste, died of cancer Dec. 5 at his Derwoodhome.

Mr. Galpin, who retired in 1993, directed EPA's national program for 
radiation monitoring and assessment and issued the first EPA reports on the 
radioactive state of the environment.

He was born in Iowa and raised in Brainerd, Minn. He  was a graduate of the 
University of Oklahoma, where he also received a master's degree in civil 
engineering. He did graduate work in public health at the University of 
Michigan.

He served as a chemical corps officer in the Army.

Mr. Galpin began his career with the Oklahoma health department and joined 
the Public Health Service in 1963. He was assigned to the National Center for 
Radiological Health, in what was then the Department of Health, Education and 
Welfare.

He switched to EPA when it was created in 1970. After he retired, he managed 
the Washington office of Rodgers and Associates Engineering Corp. 

His honors included the Outstanding Service and Commendation medals of the 
PHS.

Mr. Galpin was a director of the regional chapter of the Health Physics 
Society and a member of the American Nuclear Society, the American Conference 
of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and the Commissioned Officers 
Association of the PHS.

His marriage to Daryl Galpin ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 22 years, Patricia T. Galpin of Derwood; two 
daughters from his first marriage, Mona Galpin of Rockville and Brenda L. 
Fookes of Silver Spring; two stepchildren, Pam Rubin ofPoolesville and Daniel 
Herbert of New Market, Md.; and a grandson.

A son from his first marriage, Steven J. Galpin, died in 1989. 
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