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JEFFREY EDWARD BUCK
22 Mt, Pleasant Street, Amerst, Mass.
Prepared at Mount Hermon School
Economics,
Chi Phi, Treasurer,
Soccer "1962", Squash 1, Tennis 1
Deceased July 31, 2018

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In memory

Jeff Buck died on July 31, 2018.

He was a member of Chi Phi, majored in economics, enjoyed playing cards and was a very private person. Jeff earned an M.B.A. from New York University.

Dr. Mark Luther, the director of the Ocean Monitoring and Prediction Lab in the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, has provided helpful information about Jeff’s career. Jeff was the general manager of the Tampa Bay Pilots Association, which was instrumental in getting the U.S. Congress to fund and cause the improvement of environmental and safety capabilities in Tampa Bay in 1991 following an accident some years before when a bulk carrier rammed the Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, killing 35. Dr. Luther has written that Jeff spearheaded the implementation that year of the first in the U.S. Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) in Tampa Bay. PORTS collects and disseminates real-time meteorological and oceanographic data within major harbors around the United States, which data, Dr. Luther says, “are essential for maintaining the efficiency and safety of maritime operations” and the reduction of such accidents. Jeff was also president of Greater Tampa Bay Marine Advisory Council–PORTS Inc., the nonprofit corporation that actually operated TB-PORTS from its founding in 1993 until his death. “Buck was instrumental in the establishment and continued operations of TB-PORTS. His influence is greatly missed.”

Sandy Short ’62