Talk:S. F. Light

Notes about sources
So far, I've added every major source that is available on the subject. There are a few I have not added for two reasons: 1) they are shortened and edited duplicates of other, more complete sources; and two, they contain errors. One current source in the article,  Visher  (1947), contains at least one error in regards to the date of Light's degree at Princeton. It appears to be a typo, where the 1 in '15 was changed to a 2, making it seem like he got his MS in 1925 instead of 1915. I have therefore not relied on that source for that date.

With that said, I'm convinced there are additional, important sources in the realm of transcriptions of interviews with his former students. I have found at least one so far, an interview with Theodore Bullock, but I haven't used it because it didn't add anything new. My point is that it is safe to assume that there is a wealth of oral history material available on this subject, but it is difficult to find. I am working on making a list of his most notable students to search through any possible oral histories using those names, but in many cases, even lists of his students are difficult to find. The only list I was even able to find so far was found on the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve website, which is pretty sad, if you ask me. It shouldn't be this difficult to find information. Viriditas (talk) 10:11, 23 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I've added the oral history sources that I could find. Additional queries are active regarding one additional student on the refdesk. Viriditas (talk) 07:40, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

New updates

 * Married July 26, 1926, King's NY. No way to confirm.
 * Listed as "divorced" at time of death. "California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000", Entry for Sol F. Light and Samuel Light, 21 Jun 1947.
 * I'm unable to access this file to confirm as it appears missing, corrupted, or out of sequential order.
 * Father Samuel Light, mother Edith Frances McDill, daughter of the US Senator. They had nine children.
 * I may be misremembering, but I thought the subject had some kind of connection to missionaries, possibly his family, who were Christian missionaries in Asia, either before he was born or while he was a child. I thought there might be a connection to his later travels to Asia as an adult, perhaps retracing the steps and experiences of his family?  This is all a bit hazy, but noting it here to revisit later.