Howard H. Sargent III

Howard H. Sargent III was born in Hartford, CT to Howard and Barbara Sargent on June 12th, 1936. He was better known as Tad for most of his life. He died in Boulder, CO, on June 9th, 2022. Tad left college after two years and joined the Navy as a radioman. After two years of active duty, He returned to Connecticut and earned a BS in Electrical Engineering at the Univ. of Connecticut in 1963. Tad first came to Boulder, CO, to NBS to train to go to the Antarctic. Then he, spent one year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station collecting ionospheric data for NBS. Subsequently, he spent another year aboard an Antarctic research ship collecting upper atmosphere data for Stanford University. During the Vietnam War, Tad was commissioned in the Navy Reserve Seabees. He retired as a LCDR. Upon returning to Boulder, he completed a MS in Engineering at CU. During that period, Tad met Inge Eberhard Seng. He married Inge in 1969 and adopted her two daughters, Mayari and Kennari. Tad felt that his engineering training made it possible to travel the World and do all sorts of interesting things. For example, after the Antarctic, he routinely travelled to the Johnson Space Center in Houston and worked in Bldg 2 (Mission Control) supporting several Apollo missions to the Moon and SKYLAB. In 1977, as Chief Forecaster of NOAA's Space Environment Forecast Center he spent months in the Soviet Union as part of a U.S.-Soviet scientific exchange studying weather and climate. During his life, he visited all the continents except Africa. What he missed seeing with his own eyes, he visited through books. A lifelong reader, he figured he had read over a thousand books in his life. He loved to say books had taken him from the inside of an atom to the limits of the universe; and from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. He felt that his books nourished his curiosity - all of which made life worth living. Tad was strongly committed to racial and social equity. He and Inge started Burma Lifeline (a 501(c)(3) charity) devoted to helping refugees fleeing across the border from Burma to Thailand. During the eleven years Tad and Inge ran BL they managed to raise well over a million dollars to help the refugees. In 2010 they turned BL over to Partners Asia (another 501(c)(3)) which continues helping these refugees to this very day. Tad leaves behind his wife Inge, his daughters Mayari (Dave) and Kennari (David), his grandchildren Daniel and Hanna, his brother Doug and family, and his sister Anne. Donations in remembrance of Tad may be made to: Burma Lifeline Account c/o Partners Asia 436 14th St Suite 700 Oakland, CA 94612