Joanne Pool is a writer and widow. She has written a Romantic novel “Love Waves”. This book took ten years to write. Her writing style is full of passion and wonder. She is currently disabled. Jodi “JoAnne” Alf-Pool was married to her late husband for 30 years. She is originally from Orange County, California. She attended the Orange High School which was founded in 1903.  She was an active member of the Titanic Historical Society for 10 years. She is currently a member of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, which her Great uncle founded.

My father EDWARD A. ALF and My Mother Marianne Billaud Alf

Mount Alf is a mountain rising over 3,200 m between Mount Sharp and Mount Dalrymple in the north part of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It surmounts Sabazios Glacier to the northeast. It was named after Edward A. Alf, who worked at the U.S. Weather Bureau Airport Station, in Great Falls, Montana in 1961. Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the National Academy of sciences–National Research Council of the United States of America sent a letter confirming this honor. The Antarctic feature, a mountain peak in West Antarctica, has been named in recognition of his contributions while a participant in the United States scientific program in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year. The proposal to name this feature in his behalf was made by Mr. George R. Toney and Dr. Charles Bentley who mapped this area in January 1958 and was approved by the National Academy of Sciences’ Special Committee on IGY Geographic Names in the Antarctic and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names, Department of Interior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Alf

https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/students-pay-tribute-to-a-great-mentor/The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is located on the campus of The Webb Schools. It is the only nationally accredited museum in the USA on a high school campus. The museum got its start when Raymond Alf, a teacher who came to Webb in 1929 after establishing himself as a national collegiate track champion, took an interest in paleontology as a hobby. In 1936 on a trip to collect fossils in the Mojave Desert, Alf and his student Bill Webb ’39 found a mammal skull. They brought it to renowned paleontologist Chester Stock at California Institute of Technology, who identified it as a new 15-million-year-old species of fossil peccary or pig. This discovery inspired Alf to undertake a life-long quest to elucidate the history of life on Earth through the study of fossils, which he called “the documents of life.” Funds were raised mainly through gifts from parents and alumni to construct the current museum, which was dedicated in 1968 to the museum’s founder and first director, Dr. Raymond Alf. The museum founder Raymond Alf passed away in 1999. His once modest paleontology program has grown into a nationally accredited and internationally recognized scientific research institution. https://www.alfmuseum.org/

Great, Great, Great grandfather

Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (French pronunciation: ​[ʒak nikɔla bijo vaʁɛn], 23 April 1756 – 3 June 1819), also known as Jean Nicolas, was a French personality of the Revolutionary period. Though not one of the most well known figures of the French Revolution, Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne was an instrumental figure of the period known as the Reign of Terror. Billaud-Varenne climbed his way up the ladder of power during that period, becoming one of the most militant members of the Committee of Public Safety. He was recognized and worked with French Revolution figures Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre, and is often considered one of the key architects of The Terror. “No, we will not step backward, our zeal will only be smothered in the tomb; either the Revolution will triumph or we will all die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Nicolas_Billaud-Varenne