In 1933, Ron directed the West Indies Mineralogical Expedition.

He helps run the university flying club and is secretary of the George Washington University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. As an editor and writer with the college newspaper, The University Hatchet, >h writes his first published fiction story, Tah. He also wins the university’s Literary Award for his play, The God Smiles.

In the spring of 1932, he organizes and heads the Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition. The two-and-a-half-month, 5,000-mile voyage aboard the 200-foot, four-masted schooner, Doris Hamlin, proves a unique and rewarding experience for more than fifty college students. The voyage collects numerous floral and reptile specimens for the University of Michigan, and photographs are sold to the New York Times.

	The Doris Hamlin, which Ron used for his 1932 Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition.

Shortly after his return to the US he embarks on another adventure, the West Indies Mineralogical Expedition. Through April of 1933, he not only completes the first mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico, but writes articles for Sportsman Pilot magazine about flying through the Caribbean islands.

Returning to the mainland in the spring of 1933, he begins his professional fiction-writing career. He writes a story a day and after a few short weeks of work nets his first sale to New York publishers. February 1934 sees the publication of Mr. Hubbard’s first adventure fiction story, The Green God.