Raitt, Helen

American author born March 28, 1905, wife of oceanographer Russell W. Raitt, founder of UCSD women's organization Oceanids. Raitt accompanied her husband on Capricorn Expedition in 1952-1953 and described her experience in her first book, Exploring the Deep Pacific. Her visit to Tonga led to a lifelong interest in the island and led her to found Tofua Press in San Diego in 1972. A series of radio broadcasts on the history of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography led to the publication with Beatrice Moulton of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, First Fifty Years. She wrote Three Came West with Mary Collier Wayne. Helen Hill Raitt died March 26, 1976.