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POMONA COLLEGE

GEOLOGY ALUMNI NEWSLETTER

No. 53 September 1986

Greetings to Geology Alumni

We are pleased to send you Newsletter 53. We appreciate the many responses to our request for your news, which forms the main part of the newsletters. Our intent is to publish every other year, so look for No. 54 in 1988.

In addition to the main departmental activities, a description of which follows, I did wish to make a few special comments. As you know, we lost Alex Baird last summer and we miss him in many ways. Many of you were able to attend his memorial service in Little Bridges in October. I prepared a tribute to Alex for the Pomona College faculty and if any of you are interested in having a copy, please let me know. In the not too distant future, there will be a memorial in the G.S.A. Bulletin. We were indeed fortunate in having with us Rick Hazlett, who taught those courses previously handled by Alex. His work was demanding and rigorous but he was greatly admired and liked by the students. In May, Rick received his Ph.D. degree from U.S.C. and accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Hawaii, H ilo, for 1986-1987 - we will miss him also. Again, we feel fortunate in having contracted Jim Anderson, another U.S.C. Ph.D. candidate, to teach the geochemistry- petrology-structure/field offerings in 1986-1987. This fall we embark on a nation-wide search for a person for the permanent, tenure-track position beginning with the 1987-1988 academic year.

I also wish to announce that we will join the many departments which participate in the "cocktail session" at the annual Geological Society of America meeting --this year at San Antonio. It is scheduled for Monday, November 10, 7:00-9:30 p.m., and my latest word has it in the North Banquet Hall of the San Antonio Convention Center. This will be a cash bar; if you are there, please drop by. Donald or I plan to be at the meeting primarily to interview candidates for our position; if this falls through, Allen Glazner 176 has agreed to serve as "host".

In closing, I would like to thank you for your strong and continued support through the years. There is no other Pomona College alumni group like ours! I get to see many of you here and there, especially at meetings. You can•t know how proud I was of our graduates, many of them recent, at the March G.S.A. Cordilleran Section meetings at Cal State Los Angeles! There were so many alumni on the program that it seemed like a Pomona convention! It is you who, by your accomplishments, maintain the reputation we have gained over the years.

Don Zenger, Chairman

Department Activities

Since our last Newsletter (1984), we have had two successful Woodford-Eckis lectureships.

John G. Vedder '48, research geologist with the U.S.G.S., presented the fifth annual Lecture immediately following the annual dinner at the Faculty House in celebration of A. 0. Woodford's 95th birthday. He spoke on the "Geologic Framework of the Southern California Borderland". Jack also delivered a talk in our seminar series (see below).

Thane H. McCulloh '49, of Mobil Research and Development Corporation, delivered the sixth Lecture this spring entitled "Southern California Faults- A View From Texas". The dinner and the talk were a tremendous success as over 70 students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and friends gathered to celebrate Woody's 96th birthday! In addition to the formal lecture, Thane also spoke on "Charting Ancient California Shorelines by Strontium Isotope Ratios" as part of the Pomona College Geology Lecture Series, earlier that day. The Friday following the lectures, Thane Jed a small field trip of faculty, students, and alumni through San Antonio Canyon for a look at laumontite-riddled outcrops and discussed possible origins for the zeolite.

Over the past two years we had a number of excellent speakers participate in our seminar series. The program included:

Mr. Mark A. Liggett '69, Exploration Research Associates, Inc.: "Precious Metal Exploration"

Dr. Bernard W. Pipkin, Department of Geological Sciences, U.S.C.: "Geologic Hazards and Mitigation in Southern California"

Dr. Ray J. Weldon '77, Department of Geology, Occidental College (now U.S.G.S.):

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"A Kinematic Model for Southern California Based on the Geology of the Transverse Ranges"

Dr. Peter R. Buseck, Departments of Chemistry and Geology, Arizona State University: "High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Minerals: What Can You See at 20 Million Magnification?" and "ALC HEMI and the chemical study of minerals"

Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, Research Scientist, J.P.L.: "The Geology of Venus"

Mr. John G. Vedder '48, Research Geologist, U.S.G.S.: "Stratigraphy and Structure of the Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary rocks in the Southern Coast Ranges West of the San Andreas fault"

Dr. Scott Borg '77, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, U.C.L.A.: "Granitoids of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Implications of Chemical and Isotopic Variations to Regional Crustal Structure and Tectonics"

Dr. Richard W. Hazlett, Department of Geology, Pomona College: "Mid-Tertiary Volcanism in Southeastern California"

Dr. Donald L. Lamar, Lamar-Merifield Geologists, Inc.: 11Structure and Scenery Along the Billefjorden Fault Zone, Spitzbergen11

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Mr. Daniel May, Department of Geological Sciences, U.C. Santa Barbara: 11Structure and Regional Setting of Mylonite Belts in the Southeastern San Gabriel Mountains 11

Dr. Calvin F. Miller '69, Department of Geology, Vanderbilt University: 11Two Billion Years of Crustal History: A Tale from the Old Woman Mountains11

Dr. Jeff Plescia, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona: 11Voyager Spacecraft Encounter with Uranus11

Dr. Thane H. McCulloh '49, Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Dallas: 11 Charting Ancient California Shorelines by Strontium Isotope Ratios11

In October of 1984 Donald Mcintyre arranged for the Claremont Chapter of Sigma Xi a visit, guest lecture, and dinner with ProfessorS. K. Runcorn, F.R.S., of the University of Newcastle, England. Professor Runcorn spoke on the 11 Astronomical, Geophysical, and Paleontological Aspects of the Earth's Rotation 11

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In 1985, through the generosity of Mr. Adrian Colley, the Arthur Colley Memorial Fund was established for the benefit of geology students. Interest from this endowment will be used to provide scholarships to help defray the cost of summer geology field camp for eligible students. This year the award went to Michael S. Hall and Susan E. (Schmidt) Harrington, both of whom attended the University of Missouri Geology Field Camp in the summer of 1985.

The Robert E. Strehle Memorial Award for 1986-1987 was a double one, going to Peter Christiansen and John-Mark Staude. The award is given to students, who by their physical vigor and intellectual curiosity show promise of becoming outstanding field geologists. Congratulations, Peter and John-Mark!

There is an exciting prospect of a large joint venture with nine other small college geology departments, including Smith, Amherst, Franklin and Marshall, Carleton, Beloit, Williams, Colorado College, College of Wooster, and Whitman. We are submitting a proposal to theW. M. Keck Foundation to sponsor joint undergraduate research participation. The gist of this proposal is a program consisting of 6-8 projects of about one-month duration during each summer. Each project would involve about 2-3 faculty and 6-8 students. The students would continue with these projects as senior theses in the following academic year. The planning has been immense but the potential, particularly for the students, is great. We will know the decision about the end of the year.

Donald Mcintyre had a busy and productive two years. He was recently appointed Blanche and Frank R. Seaver Professor of Science in the Department of Geology and in the fall of 1985 was named California Professor of the Year, and one of ten professors honored in the United States, by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In addition, Donald served as one of two Distinguished Fellows for the month-long program on the Scottish Enlightenment at Edinburgh University in August of 1986. Donald has also kept a busy lecture schedule, delivering numerous special lectures in geology and computer science. In 1984, he lectured at the California Institute of Technology at a special meeting for geologists

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from U.C.L.A., U.S.C., etc., to commemorate the bicentennial of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth". During the summer of 1985, he gave lectures and conducted workshops on both geology and computer science in Beijing at the State Seismological Bureau, the Wuhan College of Geology, and the Chinese Academy of Science, and at the Geology Department of the University of Nanjing. He was exceptionally well received by the Chinese and was awarded the Medal of the Geological Society of China in appreciation of his efforts. Most recently Donald has, for the second time, been selected National Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery (A.C.M.). Donald's research into the history of geology culminated in the preparation of several bibliographic databases on such topics as rock mechanics, isotope geology and suspect terranes. Most notably he prepared an extensive bibliography of works pertaining to James Hutton. In 1985 Donald served on the American Geological Institute's GeoRef Advisory Committee. He is currently Chairman of the Nominating Committee for the History of Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. In addition, he was elected this June a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, defined as "a member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished". He was nominated "for contributions to the application of computers to the earth sciences, particularly in the development and use of bib I iographic databases".

Don Zenger continues as Chairman of the Geology Department, in addition to teaching Introductory Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentary Petrology, and Earth History. He spent his last two summers at the University of Missouri Geology Field Camp near Lander, Wyoming, completing his 12th summer of teaching field geology for that institution. From May, 1984, through March, 1985, Don served as Vice-President for the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM). He remains an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology and is currently Chairman of the Honorary Member Selection Committee for SEPM. Don has continued research along several lines. Most recently, he and Mike Spira studied the carbonate petrology of a unique set of carbonate veins in the Puente Hi lis and presented their findings at the Pacific Section AA PG /SE PM meeting in Bakersfield this past April. Don's continued interest and research into the uniformitarianism of Sir Charles Lyell led to a publication in the Journal of Geological Education entitled "Lyell and Episodicity", and more recently in Nature, "Darwin, Lyell and Gradualism". In addition, he has pursued his carbonate research interests, working both here at Pomona and with Union Oil Research Corporation in Brea. He is currently working on Siluro-Devonian limestone-dolomite relations in a deep UNOCAL core, southeastern New Mexico. Don has begun a research project involving a comparison of dolomitization and burrow patterns in the Upham Limestone (New Mexico), Red River Formation (eastern Montana), and Bighorn Dolomite (northwestern Wyoming). He has also initiated a study on dolomitization in the Madison Limestone, Sinks Canyon, Wyoming.

Richard (Rick) Hazlett astounded us all with his accomplishments this year. In addition to teaching Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Structure and Field Geology, and Geochemistry and Mineral Paragenesis, he managed to complete his Ph.D. dissertation at U.S.C. in May, "Geology of a Mid-Tertiary Volcanic Center, Mopah Range, California". Rick also turned out some other publications which included:

"Character of Volcanism and Structural Evolution, Turtle Mountains, California", E.O.S., Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 1985.

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"Geology of the San Cristobal Volcanic Complex, Nicaragua" (note), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research: the Stoiber volume, in press.

"Kilauea Caldera and Adjoining Volcanic Rift Zones", Geological Society of America Decade of North American Geology, Cordilleran Section Volume, in press.

In his "spare" time, Rick participated in the Geological Society of America's

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82nd Annual Meeting, Cordilleran section. He spoke on the petrology and stratigraphy of the volcanic section in the Mopah range, California and led a field trip on the Cenozoic stratigraphy and structure in the Mojave Desert. Rick has been selected to co-chair the Geological Society of America's 83rd Annual Meeting, Cordilleran Section at Hilo, Hawaii in May of 1987. Throughout the year Rick consulted with Calvin Miller '69, on field work in the Tertiary rocks of the Old Woman and Piute Mountains. His students benefited greatly from an ambitious field schedule with trips to all parts of southern California, and particularly to the Mojave Desert. Rick also outlined a new introductory geology course to be offered in the fall of 1986 on the Geology of Natural Hazards. Pre-enrollment for this course is already impressive.

Jean MacKay has now completed 13 years of dedicated service to the Geology Department. As secretary, confidante, friend and faithful worker, she continues to foster in the department the warm and friendly atmosphere we have all come to know. Where would we be without her!

In August of 1985 Doug Yule '83, resigned his position as Geology Department Technician in order to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wyoming. We wish him all the best in his continued studies, and in his marriage to Becky (McGrew, '85). Brad Cornell '85, stepped in to take Doug's place for the '85-'86 school year and after serving as technician for a year, has decided to take a full-time teaching appointment at The Webb Schools of California, where he will be teaching geology and chemistry after his marriage to Liz Armstrong ('86) in late summer. Brad did an outstanding job for us. Foremost among his accomplishments were his great contributions to our department computer facility and his conducting an "awesome" department inventory. He was, along with Jean, instrumental in preparing this newsletter. His diligence and enthusiasm will be missed! Cris Robinson '80, will return for another year as our technician, and, fully aware of her excellent capacity for this job, we welcome her return.

* * * * IN MEMORIUM

Quincy B. Hunt '32, December 6, 1985

Harvey H. Nininger '17, March I, 1986

Robert L. Strehle '19, January 5, 1986

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Alumni News

Charles Anderson '24 still enjoys coming to the lectures here at Pomona and he and Helen were present this spring to celebrate Woody's 96th birthday party at the Woodford-Eckis Lectures.

Mason Hill'26 and Marie left for Singapore early in August to attend geological meetings. They planned to visit old friends in Tokyo and Marie looked forward to shopping in Hong Kong. Mase delivered two talks this spring at the GSA Cordilleran Section, California State University, Los Angeles. The talks were titled "The Path of the

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San Andreas Fault through Transverse Ranges", and "Misinterpretations by early California Geologists, Including Mine". Mase is currently the editor for the Geological Society of America's Decade of North American Geology Commerative Field Trip Guide, Cordilleran Section.

Dana Russell '27 hasn't been traveling much lately due to arthritis, but his mind and spirit are still active as evidenced by his recent article in Pomona Today and the following poem:

Life Songs

When you have passed age seventy-five You'll always know that you're alive If each morning when you wake You have a painful, sharp backache. Your neck is hurting, and what's more Each muscle feels stiff and sore.

This state is not just temporary; Consider well the corollary: Some morning when you rise from bed And feel no pain - you'll know you're dead! Look down upon your cold, stiff clay And wish you'd waked with pain that day!

RD R - 10/12/85

William C. Hill'28 retired in 1971, and just this January took a trip to Tahiti, cruising around six islands on the American Hawaiian "LIBERTE". He reports that he and his wife are in good health and look forward to enjoying their summer and winter homes for many years.

Edwin Ogier '32 and his wife Rae spent last Christmas in London. They report that oil prospecting in Shreveport, as probably everywhere these days, is slow. The current prospecting in the area is focusing on stratigraphic traps. They also would welcome any news from the "outside" world.

John Shelton '35 writes that he has spent the past 10 years attempting to retire, though he seems still in the thick of things, geologically speaking. Recent activities include continued sales of photographs and slides, browsing in technical journals, writing a few book reviews, attending seminars, and flying members of the San

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Diego State Geology Department over parts of Baja California. John is currently working with Mase Hill on a project they hope will result in a geological exhibit and overlook, in honor of the Pomona Geology Department, at the Living Desert, Palm Desert, California.

Louis Simon '35, after returning from a trip to Hong Kong and a cruise to Korea, China, and Japan, is dividing his time between his summer home at Oakmont in Santa Rosa and a home in Incline Village, Nevada. Louis reports that he still uses his microscope to look at a few "bugs" but mainly Recent species which he enjoys collecting.

George Bellemin '36 is keeping busy traveling out of and about the country with Julia -always with an eye to the geology. In his spare time, gardening, housework, and attending the Pomona Geology Lectures keeps him busy.

Gus McClintock '36 has enjoyed his retirement for the last 4 years. In November of '85 he visited Kilauea Crater, Hawaii, and last March took the Halley's comet cruise with the Pomona College bunch where he visited with Bob Chambers, George Bellemin, and Bob Atkinson. He also visited Pomona College for his class' 50th reunion this year.

Rosalie Davis Matlovsky '36 and her husband Lloyd are still enjoying their retirement. They continue to teach ballroom dancing at the Senior Center in South Pasadena and to help in classes for the Department of Recreation. She is also tutoring in English.

Mel Swinney '40 retired in September 1983 from Southern California Edison Company and moved to Ventura. He spent the fall driving around the northeastern US.

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He is keeping busy with his travels, a bit of golf, and checking up on six grandchildren.

Wally Wilson '40 is still operating the one-man consulting practice he started six years ago. He's managing to drum up enough work to keep himself busy, "mainly oil and gas problems but with a satisfying mix of coal-related assignments." He also helps Anne with her growing antique business which provides opportunities for buying trips when time permits.

Franklin Olmsted '42 is finishing work on related papers concerning geothermal studies in Nevada which were completed during the past several years. He and his wife planned to leave on a trip to Nepal to assist in a study of the ecology of the Sagamartha National Park area near Mt. Everest with the University of California Research Expeditions Program.

Jack Schoellhamer '42 sent his regrets about missing the Woodford-Eckis Lectures and Thane McCulloh. He was traveling in Chile and Argentina at the time.

Ed Beaumont '44 is managing to "hang on" in his consulting practice which is aimed mainly at the coal business and other nonmetallic commodities. Presently he is involved in a major coal quality assessment project for New Mexico. Some of his spare time is taken up with duties as President of the Albuquerque Rotary Club.

Jerry Winterer '45 writes that this year marks his 33rd year teaching in the U.C. system, 23 at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He has been working in the Alps (Mesozoic pelagic sediments, Jurassic tectonics) and on the oceans (Atlantic margins, Pacific guyots and equatorial sediments). His plans last June included diving in the new French submersible NAUTILE to SOOOm depth off the Galicia margin of Spain. Both of Jack's daughters are currently attending Pomona, though he writes: "I don't understand how they can be so happy and not be studying the best subject (geology) in what is still the best small department in the country." [Thanks, Jerry!]

Jack Vedder '48 is continuing his work in the offshore areas of eastern Papua, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The first volume of tropical reports was scheduled for publication this past summer. Diane and Jack recently returned from a recreational trip to Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands.

Thane McCulloh '49, continues his work with Mobil Research and Development Corporation in Dallas, Texas. He doubles as Acting Manager of Geochemistry and as an individual research scientist. Most of his work is on thermal conditions and thermal history in sedimentary basins. The work involves both organic and inorganic geochemistry.

William Mais '49 spent three weeks in the Peoples Republic of China in June of 1984 with a group of petroleum geologists from the US. He presented a geological paper to the Ministry of Oil and Gas in Beijing and visited several major oil fields along the Yellow River in Shandong Province, Eastern China.

Don Seely '49, after leaving Exxon Production Research Company in January of 1983, has gone to work for a small oil company that is a subsidiary of Houston Industries. The demands of a reduced exploration budget and staff caused by the current operating conditions, have made life interesting. Don is no longer actively doing geologic research. He did enjoy, however, involvement in a conference called by Talwani and Ewing this spring to formulate proposals for the initiation of a deep crustal geophysical program for continental margin research.

Evie (Van Lopik) Stark 'SO writes that what she is doing is a far cry from geology, running a one-girl shop in Garden of the Gods Club, Colorado Springs. She is involved in a number of community organizations and a variety of jobs, including investment and enterprise management. Her boy, Lance, who is a Colorado University graduate, is locally employed and her younger daughter is still at home leading a "whirlwind existence".

James Whitney 'SO recently returned from a 14-week tour of Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. Geological highlights were: inspection of the Moeraki boulders on the south island of New Zealand, swimming among stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia, and a tour through the extensive Hamersley Iron Mine at Mt. Tom Price, Western Australia.

Earl Pampeyan '51 is still working for the USGS in Menlo Park making geologic maps. He recently finished a project in Utah (Geologic map of the Lynndyl 30- by GO-minute quadrangle, west-central Utah) and is currently preparing geologic and mineral resource potential maps of the Meadow Valley Mountains Wilderness Study Area, southern Nevada.

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Don Wilhelms '52 published a book in 1985 entitled The Geology of the Terrestrial Planets.

Neville Carter '56 continues as active director of the Center of Tectonophysics at Texas A&M. In addition to his research into rock deformation, Neville has become embroiled in the controversy over the K /I extinctions and recently published "Dynamic Deformation of Volcanic Ejecta from the Toba Caldera: Possible Relevance to the K /I Boundary Phenomena". He also published an article entitled "Experimental Deformation of Rocksalt" and has completed a longer manuscript: "Flow Properties of Continental Lithosphere".

Barry Raleigh '56 is the editor of a new book entitled Observation of the Continental Crust through Drilling I.

John B. Weldon MA '56 works for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as he has for 16 years. He was also with Shell Oil for 7 years and the Department of Water Resources for 3.12. He sends his compliments to the Geology Department. He has heard nothing but good words when he talks about Pomona people.

Stanley Madsen '57 is working as a Vice President with the Earth Technology Corporation in Long Beach. Stan is involved in geotechnical and siting studies for the small missile program. Stan married again, after the death of his first wife, and is now settled in a home in Huntington Beach with his wife and two children, Sonya and Karen.

Pete Newman '57 is still with ARC 0 though he transferred back to Los Angeles from Denver in 1985 and has rejoined the International Division in coordination with ARC O's renewed emphasis on foreign exploration. He delivered a paper in January at a conference in Singapore on "Basin Evaluation", and also traveled to southern China and other Pacific rim countries on this trip. Pete and Mary are still happily married; their oldest son, Dave, recently graduated from Pomona, and their son, Mike, is in his second year at the Naval Academy.

Bob Tilling '58 has "rotated" out of his administrative position as Chief of the USGS' Office of Geochemistry and Geophysics. He is currently concentrating on re-entering the research mode. Some of Bob's catching-up efforts will appear in USGS Professional Paper 1350, "Hawaiian Volcanism", scheduled to be published in 1987 in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of the founding of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Bob has also been involved in cooperative studies of the 1982 eruptions of Gulunggung Volcano, Java, and El Chichon Volcano, Mexico. He published an article in the American Scientist. vol. 72, entitled "The Great Fissure Eruption". His wife, Susan Greenfield '59, is still active in real estate. This fall both daughters will attend Stanford University.

John Olmstead '59 has recently published a book entitled Adventures On and Off Interstate 80: Natural and Hyman History Along the Pioneer and Gold Rush Corridor from San Francisco to Nevada.

Barry Watson '59 continues, despite severe industry cutbacks, as Southwest Exploration Manager for U.S. Borax based in Tucson, Arizona. His wife, Norma, writes science­fiction novels part-time and is a real estate agent. His son, Lane, is finishing at the University of Arizona as a Russian major.

Norman Hyne '61 has been busy during the last year teaching petroleum exploration short courses for the University of Tulsa and several oil companies. This past summer he hoped to complete a petroleum exploration dictionary. Last summer he and his wife went on the AAPG Georoots field trip to Scotland where they were very impressed with the geology, people, culture, and landscape.

Rosi Crannell '62 is still at Cal State Long Beach, where she has been a full professor for nine years. She serves as the only geophysicist, a sometimes geologist, the graduate advisor, and the director for the center of environmental studies. In the last four years she has taught graduate level courses in Seismic Stratigraphy, Geothermal Exploration, Geology of California, Advanced Gravity and Magnetics, Earthquake Prediction, and Engineering Geophysics. Research-wise, Rosi has continued repetitive gravity studies in the Salton Trough, consulted for Phillips Petroleum and the Roosevelt Hot Springs Geothermal Field in the Basin and Range of Utah. She has also collaborated with J PL scientists from Cal Tech to collect gravity data in the Powder River- Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming, and on her own special research in the Fish Creek Mountains caldera in north-central Nevada. Rosi was selected by the SEG committee on Women in Geophysics to be one of seven actively practicing women geophysicists in the U.S. to appear in a profile in their brochure on careers in geophysics.

James Hudnall '62 is living in Santa Cruz and continuing research on gray and blue whales. The gray whale work is carried on along the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The blue whale study is being conducted in the Sea of Cortez, Baja California. He recently published an article on a gray whale feeding on ghost shrimp in "Whalewatcher", Fall 1985. His two daughters, Jenny 12, and Sarah 10, are attending school in La Jolla and assisting with whale work in Canada during the summer.

Kathy White (Kathy Baird '62) has kept busy this past year. She retired from her position as a senior scientist and member of the technical staff at J PL and is currently attempting to finish up research Alex was conducting on the mineralogy of the rocks in the Southern California Batholith when he died. In this project she is aided by Doug Morton- USGS, William Wadsworth - Whittier College, and Ed Welday- Hawaii.

James Kelley '63 has continued his position as Dean of Science at San Francisco State University and Professor of Geosciences. He is teaching Oceanography as well as a course which investigates the connections between science and humanities. In other research Jim continues work with a group centered mainly at USC on the coastal upwelling at Point Conception. Last fall he was elected President

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of the California Academy of Sciences and he continues to serve on the Western Regional Technical Working Group for the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior. In addition he is still active in the Pacific Science Congress as U.S. representative in Marine Science. Recent publications include "Scientific Goals and Educational Challenges for the California Academy of Sciences 1985-2000" and "Ecological Effects of Water Diversion in California". On the personal side, he and Susan are active in community and church affairs. Jason is a sophomore in high school, and Megan a freshman.

Barbara Lowe '63 informs us that she will be teaching high school in Twentynine Palms. She has attended Cal Poly, Pomona, where she completed work for her teaching

credential. Her duties at Twentynine Palms include teaching courses in Geology, Physical Science, and possibly beginning Life Science.

Bob Drake '65 is now director of the Berkeley Geochronology Lab and has moved from the university to the Institute for Human Origins.

David Pollard '65 has completed his third year at Stanford in the Departments of Applied Earth Science and Geology and expected to be promoted to Full Professor last June. The focus of much of Dave's work is on rock fracture problems, including those related to faults, joints, veins, and igneous dikes. He has published at least four articles since our last newsletter, including "Field Relations Between Dikes

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and Joints: Emplacement Processes and Paleostress Analysis", "Dilation and Linkage of Echelon Cracks", "Propagation and Linkage of Oceanic Ridge Segments", and "Surface Deformation in Volcanic Rift Zones".

Bob Michael '66 writes that the great oil "meltdown" of 1985-86 finally did its number on his oil and gas lease consulting business, but since April he has been the chief geologist for Ecology and Environment, Inc. in their downtown office, supervising drilling for potential hazardous waste problems. This May Bob was honored to give the program at the Annual Banquet of the Sierra Club, Desert Peaks Section. He spoke on climbing the remote (for LA people) desert peaks of New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Ralph "Tom" Thompson '68, Celia (Pomona '74), and their children will be returning to New Jersey after spending an enjoyable year in the south of France. Tom reports that the future is uncertain at this point, especially since Exxon is undergoing a reorganization which appears certain to effect many changes, particularly in Exxon Research and Engineering Company.

Tom '71 and Paula Doe and two daughters have just moved back to Berkeley where Tom has joined Golder Associates, a mining and geotechnical consulting firm. His work is still in radioactive waste disposal, particularly stress measurement and fluid flow. He is heavily involved in a couple of United States cooperative research projects in underground test facilities in Canada and Sweden. Paula is continuing with her work on Japanese electronics.

Bruce Loeffler (HMC) '72 writes that he just completed his ninth year teaching at Colorado College and his first year as Chairman of the Geology Department. He has also taught Volcanology in Hawaii and Plate Tectonics and Geology in France. Bruce has been working with Don Zenger and others on the Keck proposal (see department report). Bruce continues research on the petrogenesis of the Jamez Volcanic Field (JVF) and on basaltic andesite inclusions in the Tschicoma Formation (JVF).

Jim Kauahikaua '73 is still working for the USGS Branch of Geophysics out of Denver. He is stationed at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park working on research projects dealing with I) a first-ever electrical resistivity monitor on the summit of Kilauea Volcano, 2) a geophysical-geohydrological study of Kilauea, and 3) a structural study of the entire island of Hawaii using gravity and aeromagnetic data. Jim has a beautiful 4-year-old daughter who took her first hike across Kilauea lki crater last summer (though he had to carry her the last 1.5 miles)!

Rod Stevens '73 published an article in Boreas entitled "Glaciomarine Varves in Late Pleistocene Clays near Goeteborg, Southwestern Sweden".

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Jim Secord '75 is lecturing at Imperial College in London, where he has a two-year appointment as Lecturer in History of Science. His book Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute was scheduled for publication this past summer. Jim relates that he still remembers hearing about the controversy for the first time in Don Zenger's Introductory Geology class. In addition, Jim has published several articles including "Natural History in Depth", "John W. Salter: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Paleontological Career", "Newton in the Nursery: Tom Telescope and the Philosophy of Tops and Balls, 1761-1838", and "Darwin and the Breeders: A Social History". Jim also received the Zeitlin-VerBrugge Prize for outstanding papers in~ 1981-83, for his article "Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons", published in June 1981. We are also aware of a book review published in the August 1985 issue of Nature entitled "Temporal Questions", a review of The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vjco by Paolo Rossi.

Cory Conrad '76 is Assistant Professor of Geology at SUNY College, New Paltz, New York where he teaches petrology. Cory was recently in Australia on a Vice Chancellor's Post Doctoral Fellowship in Melbourne where he was working on experimental research in granite petrogenesis.

Craig Gander '76 reports that he too feels the bad times for petroleum geologists. Gulfs Oklahoma City office had layoffs in 1983 and again in 1985 when they merged with Chevron USA. In April he was informed of a transfer to Denver, though that has temporarily been put on hold.

Allen Glazner '76 and his wife (Mary Olney '78) are still at UNC, Chapel Hill. Allen is starting his sixth year and is hoping to hear about tenure soon. Mary has finished her residency in pathology and is now doing a one-year fellowship in hematopathology. Their son, Chris, is now one-and-a-half. Allen is still working on the Tertiary of the Mojave, though much of his time these days is taken up by experimental petrology.

Allen Stork '76 and Judy report doing well after their first year in Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado where they look forward to being in the same spot for two consecutive years! Allen teaches three classes, has a new computer, has a couple of published articles with Jim Gill, and was awarded a $1000 grant from Western State which he will probably use to finance some analyses for his rocks.

Magell Candelaria '78 informs us that he and Kathy are doing well and are settled into their new lives in Midland, Texas, where Magell works with Arco Exploration and Technology Company. Magell and Kathy were married on January 4, 1986. He presented a paper in April of 1985 to the Permian Basin Section of the SEPM on the Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas and New Mexico.

John Estrem '78 traveled through New Zealand, Fiji, Singapore, Thailand, and Burma scouting around for new gemstone contacts and "kicking back".

Paul Weimer '78 published an abstract in AAPG Bulletin for the Atlanta Meetings entitled "Seismic Definition of Fan Lobe Types of Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico".

Roni Uytana '78 has temporarily left geology and is now a financial planner with Waddell and Reed. Roni will tentatively work at this for five years and then probably move back into the sciences.

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Polly McCormack '79 is presently living in Minnesota where she is a resident in ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota. After residency she plans to join Project Orbis, a program designed to improve eye care in developing countries.

Garry Hayes '80 is the father of a new baby boy, Andrew Hayes, born November 8, 1985. In April 1985, Garry received his Master's Degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, for work on recent faulting in the Sierra Nevada near Bridgeport and is currently teaching lab and field courses at Santa Barbara City College.

Craig Stewart (HMC) '80 is now working or John Foster at the Irvine Consulting Group. Craig will continue with groundwater work. Craig also related that his sister Meredith is now working for Engineer Topographic Lab in Alexandria, VA. She sends her regards to the Geology Department.

Don Tsusaki '80 is in his seventh year at ROLM Corporation in Santa Clara. Don has been working on a major new product called ROLMbus 295, a glorified turbocharger, and was responsible for field testing of the product for the Washington Metro Transit System in D.C. Also, his fiber optics product and new 5~" hard disk drive are out the door. Last October Don married another ROLM product service manager, Deborah, and they were hoping to buy a house in Los Gatos.

Pamela Hale '81, after working as a petroleum geologist for a year-and-a-half and as a legal secretary for a year-and-a-half, has just completed her second year of law school at the University of Colorado. She was married on May 31 to Mr. Roy Anderson, a Los Angeles patent attorney and is planning on taking up residence in Glendale and working in downtown Los Angeles.

Graham Matthews '81 is still working as a hydrologist for the Monterey Penninsula Water Management District. He is currently working in the River Management Program designing and constructing erosion control projects. Graham will be starting a Master's program at UC Santa Cruz in the fall while he continues to work part-time for the District. His first publication is due soon in the Journal of Hydrology: "Transport of Tracer Gravels on a Coastal California River".

Lorraine Schnabel '81, after a year spent volunteering part-time at the Rocky Mountain Regional Conservation Center doing art conservation, and going to school part-time, has headed for Columbia University to work on her Master of Science in Historic Preservation with a special emphasis on conservation of stone. She is also in the process of getting out a series of books through the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology on the mineralized areas of Arizona. They are an offspring of an open-file report she completed at the USGS. If anyone is interested, write to her about the specifics.

Carol Buchanan '82 began working for a small mining company in precious metal exploration in 1983, but after a year, work and funds ran low so she found a job with an Irvine-based company. She is conducting hazardous waste site investigations which she reports as interesting and very educational.

Spencer Harris '82 is still working for Western Geophysical Company as an assistant manager on a seismic survey crew. Spencer is headed to Hawaii this summer to visit some friends and enjoy the Islands for the first time!

LiLi Mezger '82 is finishing up her Master's thesis at USC this summer: "Glacial Geology of Cottonwood Basin, Southern Sierra Nevada". She reports no big plans until that is out of the way (fall?), then plans on moving up to the Bay area and finding a job (consulting, teaching, Survey?). She also hopes to do some field work up in the Sierras before it snows. She writes that Ray Weldon is now full-time at the Survey and loves it. Ray is continuing field work in the San Gabriels, trenching the San Andreas near Little Rock and Wrightwood.

Cris Robinson '82 planned to finish her Master's thesis in igneous petrology in July and to graduate from Vanderbilt University. As mentioned in our department report, she will return in August as our technician!

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Eleanour Snow '82, Brown University, is plugging away at her Ph.D. after having completed her Master's. In line with the latter, she published an article "Thermal History of the Bishop Tuff Section as Determined from the Width of Cryptoperthite Lamellae". At the Orlando GSA she presented a poster session entitled "The Affect of Dislocations on the Kinetics of the Aragonite/Calcite Transformation"; she has sent the manuscript to the Journal of Metamorphic Geology for their consideration for publication. She hopes to defend her dissertation next April and to attend the 5th reunion of her Pomona class as Dr. Snow! She stays physically fit by playing left wing for the Providence Metro Kickers.

Dave Mohrig '83 and Chiu-Mi '83 visited us while Dave was in the area for the Cordilleran GSA meetings last March; he presented a paper "A New Source Terrane for Methow Basin (WA) Sediments: Evidence from the Cenomanian(?) Ventura Member, Midnight Peak Formation, Southern Canadian Cordillera" co-authored with his advisor, Jody Bourgeois. Don Zenger also visited with Dave at last August's SEPM mid-year meeting in Golden, Colorado.

Steve Clemens '83 informs us that all is going well with his work. He has completed his Master's and participated on a cruise in the Indian Ocean over the summer. Hopefully he can work out a dissertation study on the variability of the Indian Ocean Monsoon. He dropped by the department in early August in connection with a visit to Claremont to attend his sister Dawn's wedding.

Phil lhinger '83 is working on his PhD at Cal Tech. He is currently researching stable isotope partitioning between melts and vapor in igneous processes and will hopefully begin work soon on rare gas solubilities. He writes that he has also worked on densities of basalts at high pressures and on C 02 in the polluted atmosphere.

Moira Smith '83 has finished her M.S. at Western Washington University. She plans on going for her PhD, starting this fall, at the University of Arizona in the general field of structure and tectonics.

Ann Sturdivant '83 has been employed for the past three years at Chevron Oilfield Research Company doing geochemical analyses on oils and source rocks for the organic geochemistry group. Ann completed her course work for an M.S. in Geological

Sciences at UC Riverside and is now working on her Master's thesis in conjunction with Chevron and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She is working on sediments from the sea floor in Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California.

Doug Yule '83 and Becky (PC '85) are happy and well, and are enjoying life in Laramie where Doug attends the University of Wyoming as a graduate student in structural geology. Becky has two jobs, one at the university's art museum, the other at the unemployment office. Doug has now finished his second semester of graduate school and has enjoyed it immensely. Last May Doug left for a 7~ week trip to Tobago, southern Caribbean, where he mapped volcanic-arc and related rocks for his Master's thesis. He and Don Zenger will have a paper on the famous "Second Street Locality" (San Pedro) in the DNAG volume on Cordilleran field localities.

Jeff Jones '84 sent us a note in March of 1985 from Sun Valley, Idaho. Seems as though he was eating up the slopes and enjoying life for a while.

Joe Stagg '84 has traveled extensively in Europe and Australia since his graduation. Recently he sent Don Zenger a "piece of the rock" from Ayers Rock in Australia, as well as some nice specimens of opal.

Tom Cyr '85 spent time in Paris after he graduated (December 1984) and is planning to attend dental school this September at the University of Washington.

Colin Driscoll '85 dropped us a note last Christmas. Apparently he is living in New Mexico and working in a psychiatric unit. He was also taking a couple of classes at the university.

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Dave McLean '85 has completed his first year in the Master's Degree program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been working with Roger Walker on clastic geology with a special emphasis on facies models. Dave spent the summer at the Alberta Energy Resources Board logging core from the oil-bearing Cardium Formation and correlating reservoir sands across the Alberta Basin.

Bill Wadsworth, who has spent a fair bit of time here working in our X-ray laboratory (after having spent a sabbatical here years ago) is still Chairman of the Department of Geology at Whittier College, although he had a "vacation" this past year serving as Dean of the Faculty there. He hopes to use our XRD laboratory this coming year, while on sabbatical, to finish up some of the modal analyses of the southern California batholith that he and Alex were collaborating on.

Richard Lounsbury has retired as Chairman of the Geology Department, Memphis State University, though this year he took a leave of absence from retirement to help out with teaching in the department. Dick writes that he still attends GSA and ASTM meetings and follows the Pomona news.

Kenneth and Mildred Segerstrom will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on October 10, 1986. Since his retirement from the USGS, Ken and Mildred have traveled extensively. Ken amuses himself with trail walking, collecting postmarked covers from Colorado ghost towns; Mildred likes gardening and her Spanish Club.

Christof Exner has been a retired emeritus professor of geology at the University of Vienna since October 1985 (his 70th birthday). He is currently working on the geology and petrography of the Eastern Alps.