PAUL SHERMAN RUFSVOLD was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 22 June 1925, the second son of Olav Martin and Edna Grace Turner Rufsvold. His paternal grandparents had emigrated from northern Norway with their parents, pioneer farmers who settled in central Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. His mother was descended from English and Irish immigrants. From this heritage, Bud, as he was always known, was blessed with reserve, intelligence, steadfastness, reliability, outgoing good humor, and compassion.

After graduating from high school in Minneapolis in 1943, Bud entered the Army as a private in the 272nd Infantry, 69th Division. He spent a year in uniform at the Army Preparatory School at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, before entering West Point in 1945 with a senatorial appointment
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Bud was recognized at the Academy for his even temper, quick wit, and affability. His conscientious approach to his military and academic work was also evident in his extracurricular activities. He was on the gymnastics team for three years, specializing in the parallel bars, and sang tenor in the Cadet Chapel Choir and the Cadet Glee Club for four years.

Commissioned in the United States Air Force upon graduation in 1949, he went into flight training at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas; was assigned to the Air Tactical School, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida; Weather School at McClellan Air Force Base, California; Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi; and Sandia Base, New Mexico. He resigned from active duty in 1953 and entered the Air Force Reserve, performing his annual reserve duty at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He completed the Air War College and attained the rank of colonel in the Reserve before retiring on 13 December 1979.

Bud remained in Albuquerque after active duty. He married Nancy Ruth Hall in February 1954 and began a distinguished indus-
trial engineering career with Lyde Engineering and Manufacturing Company, a prime contractor for the Air Force. As a technical writer, Bud prepared the manuals covering aircraft loading and delivery of atomic weapons. He also wrote the first technical materials on the Atlas Missile Guidance System.

With Nancy's premature death in 1980, Bud's mother joined his household and added her loving care in the raising of his two youngsters, Stephen and Sandra. That year he transferred to the Sandia Corporation as a quality assurance engineer. Two years later he moved to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in the same capacity and was awarded a Superior Performance Award in 1972. When the AEC eventually evolved into the Department of Energy, Bud's group became Energy Research and Development.

Bud served for many years as an officer in the West Point Society of Albuquerque, and in the years with AEC and the Department of Energy, he was very active in the Coronado Club as chairman of committees, president, and director. He was an avid traveler and organized and led many of the club's overseas trips. His participation in choral groups, that had begun during cadet days, continued with his twenty-year membership in the Bell Canto Singers, later called The Enchanters, which entertained in hos- pitals and rest homes and for civic clubs.

Bud is survived by his mother Edna G. Rufsvold; daughter Sandra of San Leandra, California; son Stephen of Dallas, Texas; brother Robert M. Rufsvold, USMA '46, Colonel, USA retired, of Springfield, Virginia; and many loving friends. "Well done, Bud. Be thou at peace."