A Century of Women at Mines

A retrospective collection of the challenges, victories and achievements of Colorado School of Mines alumnae A Century Table of Women of Contents A Century of Women at Mines at Mines

Published July 1999 by the Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration Committee and the Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics Program Colorado School of Mines Introduction ...... 5 Golden, Colorado The Early Years: The Pioneers ...... 9

Funded by The 1960s: The Beginning ...... 15 The Chevron Corporation The 1970s: The Caldron ...... 25

Written by the History Subcommittee The 1980s: The Transitional Years ...... 39 Kathleen Altman, Co-Chair Susan Riebe, Co-Chair The 1990s: Part of the Crowd ...... 59 Tiffany Abbink, Mary Beth Beach, Judy Bolis, Sandy Kramer Cathy Mencin, Tara Schenk, Pamela Tittes Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration . . . . 77

The Future: Comments from President Bickart .81

References and Bibliography ...... 85

Copyright, 1999

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he Century Book outlines the evolution of women’s par- women graduated . No longer will a coed have to brave the chal- ticipation in studies at the Colorado School of Mines . lenges of the school without the companionship of other Mines TThis document originally started out to be a memory book coeds . However, classes were still generally limited to one for the Caldwell Celebration that was held by Mines women, for woman per class with few exceptions . Mines women, October 3, 4 and 5, 1998 . During the 100 years The Caldron of the1970s saw the advent of the equal rights from 1898 to 1998 over two thousand women have graduated movement, environmental regulations, an escalation of the con- from this distinguished institution . This is a significant accom- troversy and strife of Vietnam and the civil rights movement and plishment, especially if one considers that only nine women had other substantial changes in our world . During this decade, 153 graduated during the seventy-year period from 1898 through more women graduated from Mines . Graduates of this decade 1968 . seemed to express feelings of anger and frustration, perhaps The depth and goal of the Century Book has grown during because of the changes swirling about them while they were stu- its creation . As members of the committee have sifted through dents . This decade signified a loss of the old, comfortable roles archives and alumni files, Mines Magazines and Orediggers, it and positions that had been enjoyed and a confrontation of the has become apparent that a wealth of information has been bur- uncertainty of all the unsettling transformations taking place in ied and it could be lost to posterity if it is not documented . The society . committee has made every effort to be accurate and to report the The 1980s could be called the transitional years . Students truth about the history of the Mines coeds and the school itself . weathered the upheaval of the caldron just as the country did . However, information has not been well organized and is, at Mines women established a clear, sustained presence on the times, contradictory . If there are mistakes or omissions, please Colorado School of Mines campus . During this time women send corrections or additions so an accurate history can be saved began to participate in all available activities and established for future generations . some of their own . This is the decade where a feeling of belong- The information in this history has been broken down into ing was generated . six eras and one section to document the celebration itself . They As the twentieth century nears an end, the feelings seem to are: have evolved to a period of acceptance . The female graduates of this decade do not seem to feel the sting of being different and the attitude seems to have changed to “what’s the big deal?” The Early Years (1895–1959): The Pioneers We belong here, too . All student are just “one of the guys .” The 1960s: The Beginning Although this educational institution has been dominated by The 1970s: The Caldron men and by traditions oriented towards males, women now have The 1980s: The Transitional Years a firm place here, too . This document is an effort towards recog- The 1990s: Part of the Crowd nizing the accomplishments of women who dared to break tradi- The Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration tions and establish a foothold as engineering professionals The Future: Comments from President Bickart trained at the World’s Foremost School of Mineral Engineering . This book is dedicated to the women, graduates or not, who are known by name or not, who attended the Colorado School of As Mines during its 125-year history . This book is also in recogni- the tion of the women who have served on committees and served committee has worked on assembling the information to be pre- tirelessly to make the Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration sented in this documentary, the evolutionary process has become a success . This is their story . This is our story . Thanks to all of familiar . The Early Years are obvious; four women graduated the individuals who have contributed to this project and to all of during this time period . The enrollment of women students the individuals who have supported this project, directly or indi- became more and more acceptable during the 1960s, pre-ERA rectly, male or female, young or old . For we all are the founda- (Equal Rights Amendment) . During this decade, a total of ten tion upon which this institution and its fame are based .

Introduction 7 A Century of Women at Mines The Early Years

(1895–1959) The Pioneers

A Century of Women at Mines 9 A Century of Women at Mines scribed course of study and work .”4 At the time of 1902 her graduation, the school was known as the State • Helen Keller is a stu- The Early School of Mines (S .S .M .) 23. dent at Radcliffe • Jello was introduced Years Florence Caldwell and Frank H . Jones, E .M . (1895–1959) 1898, met at school . Both were older students and 1903 shared mutual interests . They were not able to wed • Henry Ford sold the The Pioneers immediately after graduation,23 so she simply first Model A for $850 returned to teach at the Cleveland School of Art • The Wright Brothers while Mr . Jones accepted a position in Georgetown, flew at Kitty Hawk Colorado . Three years after graduation from the 1904 School of Mines, Florence married Frank in • The ice cream cone Timeline he earliest years of the Colorado School of should study mining engineering so she could Cleveland, Ohio,3,4, 23 on April 10, 1901 23. They The Early Years (1895– 3 and iced tea were Mines, women were not strangers to the oversee the mine . Both Ninetta Davis and adopted one son, Lawrence,3 in 1909 23. invented at the 1959): campus . The 1880–1881 President’s report Jacqueline Borthick were residents of the Denver The Pioneers T After their wedding, Mr . Jones was appointed World’s Fair to the Board of Trustees, noted that there were 18 area . Ninetta Davis was a native of Colorado . Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the District of “regular” students and 51 “special” students She was born in Denver on April 12, 1899 and 1800 Colorado so they returned to Colorado to live . For 1905 • Pizza was introduced • 62.9 million people including 13 ladies that attended lectures and graduated from East Denver High School . Jackie the next 12 years they resided in various mining to New York City’s lived in the United drawing classes . In 1881 a total of 33 ladies Borthick did her preparatory work at Kent towns including Leadville, Colorado, McGill and Little Italy States attended the drawing classes and special lec- School in Denver . She lived with her family in Ely, Nevada, Trail, British Columbia, and Milner, • One out of seven tures 1. Shortly thereafter, the school made a Englewood, Colorado prior to enrollment at Idaho .23 The March 1913 Colorado School of 1906 inhabitants of the U.S. concerted effort to raise its standards and for- CSM .3 Since they lived nearby, these women had been born abroad Mines Magazine reports: • San Francisco earth- malize the course of instruction to include a undoubtedly knew that Mines was dominated by “Frank H . Jones, with his wife and little boy, quake occurred • Kellogg’s Toasted 1895 four-year curriculum . This change in policy men and masculine traditions . visited the school on February 4th, and the assistant Corn Flakes were • Clutch operated car eliminated the courses that had been so popular . Although Florence Caldwell’s accomplish- secretary had a very enjoyable time talking over invented by accident with a carriage body Dean Morgan suggested in his 1955 book ment as the first woman to graduate from Mines old times with them . They are leaving Jerome, was introduced that “the original founders of the school never has been memorialized by naming the first wom- Idaho, for Houston, Texas, where Jones will open Florence Caldwell Jones 1907 • Natural gas was dis- dreamed of the School of Mines as a coeduca- en’s residence hall on campus and the recent 25 covered in Kansas 2 an engineering office .” • Neiman-Marcus tional institution .” However, the Territorial Act Centennial Celebration in her honor, little is Perhaps there were few enough alumni at the opened in Dallas • The tungsten fila- 1898 of 1874 established the School of Mines as a known about her as a person . The motivation that time that it was assumed that readers would know ment light bulb was • The Spanish American Territorial School by stipulating that “The School led Florence to leave her native Ohio, to come that Mrs . Jones was also a Mines graduate . marketed War ended of Mines shall be open to any inhabitant of the west and study at Mines can only be surmised as However, she was not given credit for her accom- • A Nobel Prize was • The Republic of Territory of Colorado without regard to sex or no record is known to give us a clue . Florence plishment in the text . The April 1913 Personals awarded to a U.S. Havana was trans- 2,3 color .” The combination of the clear wording Hazel Caldwell was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, on scientist ferred to the U.S. 23 reported the address of Mr . Jones’ new professional of the Act and the relatively high attendance of August 31, 1868 . She attended public school offices26 and the December 1913 magazine indi- 1899 women students following the act suggests that in Cleveland and graduated from Cleveland High cated that “Mr . and Mrs . Frank H . Jones have given 1908 • The term “automobile” the legislators knew precisely what they were School in 1886 . Florence enrolled in Adelbert • The paper cup was up their offices in … Houston, Texas… .Frank invented and called was coined in a New doing and contradicts Dean Morgan’s comments . College in Cleveland . In 1888, coeducation was Jones is now with a construction company .”27 By York Times editorial abolished at Adelbert . She entered Ohio the Dixie Cup July 1914, Frank had returned to the mining indus- • Westinghouse intro- Wesleyan University and received her duced the electric 1900 try and was with Gold Road Mines Company, uring the first 75 years of the school’s existence Bachelor of Science from that insti- 28 iron and toaster • 630,000 high school Goldroad, Arizona . After a lifetime of supporting (1874 to 1949) a total of four women graduated 23 students in the U.S. tution in 1890 . She then enrolled her husband’s transient mining career, Florence • 237,000 students were from the Colorado School of Mines . They were: in graduate classes and taught free- Caldwell Jones died on April 22, 1937 in Clarkdale, 1909 D • National income esti- enrolled in colleges hand and scientific drawing at the Arizona .30 and universities Florence Caldwell Jones Ninetta Davis mated at $28.7 billion Cleveland School of Art from In 1940, Fred Steinhauer quoted how Mr . • 60 out of 100 people C.E. (Civil Engineer) E.M. (Engineer of Mines) 1892–18954 before enrolling at lived in the country 1898 1920 Jones described his wife in a recent letter: 1911 Mines as a sophomore in the 1895– • Standard Oil was • Eastman Kodak intro- 3,4, 23 “There is little to write about her engineering 1896 academic year . broken up duced the Brownie Grace McDermut Mulligan, Jacquelyn Borthick Kircher experience…I prefer to remember how much help Camera A fellow student at Mines, E.M. (Engineer of Mines) P.R.E. (Petroleum she was to me in assisting to solve the many knotty Frederick C . Steinhauer, Met . E . problems in my work . Her personal characteristics 1912 1903 Refining Engineer) • Arizona and New 1901 1899, reported that the initial ten- were admirable: loyalty to friends, kindness and • The stock market 1949 dency among the other students was Mexico were added sympathy to anyone in distress of mind or body, to the union dropped $100 million to discourage her, but once they for U.S. Steel alone and unwavering courage . She kept me encouraged • The Titanic disaster • President McKinley found out that she was there to stay, through many rough places .”30 • Women were was shot and she was accepted as one of the gang What prompted her to seek multiple college allowed to vote in Theodore Roosevelt What prompted these women to attend a pre- and did her share of work 23. School records Arizona, Kansas and degrees at a time when it was not customary for Grace McDermut Mulligan succeeded him Oregon dominantly male engineering school during this show that she was a good student who scored women to be educated? And what on earth prompt- • Rockefeller was worth era? Grace C . Updike McDermut entered Mines exceptionally well in calculus 30. Florence $200 million ed her to leave the relative civility of Ohio to attend in 1899 at the suggestion of an aunt who had received a degree in Civil Engineering in 1898 . school in Colorado when traveling to the wild-west invested in the Razzle Dazzle gold lode in Her diploma was altered to read, “on consider- alone took an extended time period and renowned 1913 — continued on page 11 Colorado . Grace’s parents and aunt thought she ation of her successful completion of the pre- • Ford assembly line — continued

A Century of Women at Mines 10 The Early Years (1895–1959): The Pioneerss The Early Years (1895–1959): The Pioneers 11 A Century of Women at Mines opened schools that taught engineering were available in Volumetric and Density Section 30. In the density • Social Security Act • Federal Reserve was the east? Still unmarried at the age of 27, she laboratory, Grace assisted with determinations of passed created would have been considered an old maid at the the density and expansion of alcohol-water solu- turn of the century . Perhaps she chose to escape tions . She compiled and tabulated density data of 1936 1914 • Hoover Dam opens her more traditional existence in the pioneering various kinds, some of which appear in the inter- • 18 died in the massa- Ninetta Davis cre at the Ludlow spirit and in search of adventure . national Critical Tables, some in Bureau and 1937 Mine Without a doubt she was a strong, indepen- other publications 30. Grace stayed at NBS for 44 • Golden Gate Bridge • Panama Canal dent woman capable of making rare choices for years achieving numerous promotions, including opens opened for com- her time . She was described as “a very robust the Medal for Meritorious Service in 1949 24. • Hindenburg explodes merce young woman” by Mr . Steinhauer 30. One could She attained the position of Assistant Chief killing 36 • Amelia Earhart disap- guess that she came from a family that was fairly Capacity, Density and Fluid Meter Sections 1917 5, 24 pears • The U.S. entered affluent and open minded with regard to the aspi- Mechanics Division of the NBS prior to World War I rations and accomplishments of their daughter . retirement . 1938 Indeed, Florence was the fourth child and only After moving to Washington, D .C ., Grace • Snow White and the 1918 daughter of the five children of a prominent married Barry Mulligan,4 a graduate of the Case Seven Dwarfs • World War I ended Cleveland family . Her father was Judge Hugh J . School of Applied Science 3. They had one son, opened • God Bless America Caldwell, Judge Barry, Jr 5. They 1920 was sung by Kate of the Eighth were divorced in Smith • Prohibition began 4 • Women were given Circuit Court of 1920 . Prior to • Teflon and fiberglass the right to vote Ohio . Her mother What prompted her to seek multiple college her death in 1979, were introduced • The first commercial and her father degrees at a time when it was not custom- Grace was fea- broadcasting radio were graduates of tured in the 1939 station was started in • War erupts in Europe Mount Union ary for women to be educated? And what on November 1978 Pittsburgh earth prompted her to leave the relative civil- • The census showed College in Mines Magazine 23 1940 that more than half of Ohio . ity of Ohio to attend school in Colorado as the oldest liv- • Bugs Bunny debut the population of the Grace when traveling to the wild-west alone took ing graduate of • CBS demonstrated U.S. lived in cities Mc­Dermut was an extended time period and renowned the school . No color TV technology from Jersey City, doubt, alumnae • Draft lottery began 1927 New Jersey . She schools that taught engineering were avail- can be proud of • Hattie McDaniel • TV was introduced to able in the east? became the first the American public enrolled in the the professional African American • Lindburgh solos the freshman class of precedents that woman to win an Atlantic 1899-1900 in the were set by Grace Oscar for Best company of 350 McDermut Supporting Actress in 1929 male students 24. As mentioned previously, she is Mulligan . Her early example teaches us that Gone with the Wind • RCA laboratory dem- • Al Capone conducted reputed to have enrolled at Mines to learn the women cannot only meet the rigorous standards the Valentine’s Day onstrated the first massacre expertise required to manage the family’s interest set by CSM, but they can also make significant electron microscope • Black Tuesday, Wall in a gold mine . Unfortunately, the mine passed contributions in the professional world . Street collapsed $15 out of the family’s possession just a few weeks Ninetta Davis was popular with her class- 1941 billion lost prior to Grace’s graduation from Mines in mates . She was elected secretary of her freshman • Mt. Rushmore was 1903,3,5,30 and there she was with a “fancy class . She completed her Engineer of Mines Jacquelyn Borthick Kircher finished 1930 degree on my hands and no place to make use of degree in 1920 . Following graduation, she • Pearl Harbor bombed • First analog comput- 24 by Japan er was developed it .” After seeking suitable employment for a worked for Midwest Mining Co ., Union Oil of person with her credentials, she applied at the California, Shell Oil Co ., the United States 1942 24 3 1931 Bureau of Standards in 1904 . No one knew Geological Survey, and in private business . • Congress created • The Star Spangled what to do with the application . Correspondence In her first job, Ninetta worked for four Women Accepted for Banner becomes the from Dr . H . B . Brooks to Dr . Rose, Assistant to years as an assistant to the petroleum engineer at Volunteer Emergency National Anthem Dr . S . W . Stratton, Bureau Director at the time Midwest Refining Company in Casper, Service (WAVES) and Womens Army said, “…any young woman who had the courage Wyoming . Her tenure with Union Oil of 1932 Auxiliary Corps • Amelia Earhart flies to fight her way, probably the only woman in her California included one year as an office geolo- (WAAC) the Atlantic class, through a four-year engineering course, gist . After several years in private business, she ought to be given a chance .”24 started in the Conservation Branch of Geological 1944 1933 Grace became the first woman hired by the Survey on January 1, 1934 . She completed office • The Invasion of • Prohibition ends National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in a perma- geology of dam sites and studied the subsurface Normandy nent position “as an experiment”3 and remained geology of oil fields in the western states to help 1934 the only female employee for five years 4. She with the conservation of oil and gas on public • Donald Duck made was hired as a draftsman at $1,000 per annum 24. lands .30 his debut 1935 She worked in various areas including the elec- Ninetta also became active in the Rocky 1945 • WPA formed trical division, but most of her work was in the Mountain Association of Petroleum Geologists • Hitler commits sui- Division of Weights and Measures chiefly in the (later the RMAG) . She served as secretary-trea- — continued on page 13 — continued on page 14

A Century of Women at Mines A Century of Women at Mines 12 The Early Years (1895–1959): The Pioneers The Early Years (1895–1959): The Pioneers 13 cide surer, vice president and the first woman presi- Rail Road doing laboratory work at the Bureau • First atomic bomb dent 4. of Standards and Research . The following year, blasts Hiroshima Jackie Borthick was obviously well-liked by the Kircher’s moved to Salt Lake City where • A second atomic her fellow classmates . She was chosen by popu- Rex worked for the Standard Oil Company of bomb struck Nagasaki lar vote to be the Homecoming Queen in 1948 . Utah . In 1953, they moved to Southern California The next Mines coed was not selected as and have lived there ever since . The Kircher’s have 1950 Homecoming Queen for nearly 25 more years . two children, a son and a daughter, and one grand- • 150.7 million people She also served on the Junior-Senior Prom daughter . lived in the United Committee, the Oredigger staff and as the secretary Jackie has a variety of interests that include States of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 3. gardening and travel, with Alaska being one of • One in fifteen inhabit- ants of the U.S. was Earlier references have not provided much her favorite destinations . As she has raised her born abroad information about Jacquelyn Borthick Kircher . family she has been active in the PTA, Boy • 2.7 million college During a recent phone call to her home in Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Easter Seal Society and students Southern California, she said she is simply not a the Hospital Auxiliary where she is currently • The National Science very public person . However, she is a congenial working with the blood bank . Foundation was set lady, quick to laugh and fun to talk to . It is easy Mrs . Kircher seems to think that what she up to coordinate the development of to see why her classmates liked her . has done is “no big deal,” as if anyone could do American science An interest in chemistry and math led Jackie it . She says she would not presume to tell anyone to attend Mines . Being from the Denver area, it anything when asked the question from the 1953 was well known that the Colorado School of Century Book Biographical Summary, “What • National income Mines provided a better education in those fields would you tell a woman student at Mines reached $307.7 billion than any other school in the area . Her older today?” Others think that what Jackie did is an brother, Gilbert D . Borthick, P .R .E . 1948, MSc . important part of the history of women at Mines . P .R .E . 1951, attended Mines one year ahead of She is one of only four female students to gradu- her . He tolerated his little sister following in his ate from the Colorado School of Mines in its first footsteps by ignoring her as much as possible . 75 years . Her unassuming manner and willing- Initially, Jackie left the family home in ness to fit in are a likely reason for her success . Cherry Hills and roomed in Golden . One of the Being able to share a small portion of her accom- biggest problems to solve was that there was no plishments is a significant contribution to docu- place for her to eat . She made arrangements to mentation about Mines women 31. eat with the cook at the Beta House, but was not The decade of the 1950s is well documented The 1960s allowed in the dining room with the men . Later with numerous stories about Nancy Easley, her family moved to Golden and she was able to including the famous portrait that was to be a cover live at home for the remainder of her college story for Life career . The beginning One challenge at the “World’s Foremost” included a lack of restrooms for her to use on campus . This problem continued for the coeds who followed her long into the 1960s . But, other than that, she does not remember much more than going to school, studying and sleeping as she completed the requirements for a profession- al degree . Finishing a degree in Petroleum Refining Engineering “just came about” because the option offered more chemistry than other options . It also offered the best alternative when it came to field trips . The Senior Trip included travel by bus to tour refineries and oil fields in Colorado and Wyoming . She says she had no problems and was treated like any other student during the tours . They stayed in hotels, which was preferable to the tenting accommodations associated with field trips for other options . The day after graduation, Jackie married a classmate, Rex E . Kircher, P .R .E . 1949 . The first year, they stayed in Golden while Rex completed his MBA from the University of Denver . Jackie worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Western

A Century of Women at Mines 14 The Early Years (1895–1959): The Pioneers A Century of Women at Mines 15 A Century of Women at Mines History woman to graduate under the new engineering- 1963 his decade was truly the beginning of a science degree program graduated during this • First four African decade as well . Americans graduate The Sixties continuous attendance of women students from U.S. Air Force on the Mines campus . It also saw growth The first woman at Mines to wear a coveted Academy T senior Stetson graduated in 1966, and a school • First woman in space in the presence of women in industry and the corporate world . When the ’60s began, four letter was awarded to a woman for the first time (Valentina Tereshkova, in 1968 . Coeds began participating in glee club Soviet Union) The Beginning women had graduated from the Colorado School • Zone Improvement Plan of Mines . Ten more women graduated from the (predecessor to chorus) and band during the ’60s . (ZIP) codes introduced school during the decade . In each of the years Biographies • Martin Luther King 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1967 only one Shirley Valencia transferred to Mines in march on Washington, Timeline Fisk, a CU instructor, became the first female lived in Massadona, Colorado, in a small flood- woman graduated . In 1969 the largest class of January 1957, having received credit from the D.C., “I have a dream” The 1960s: speech instructor at Mines . Two days a week she taught salvaged trailer that was infested with pack rats . coeds (female students) to date graduated—one University of Southern California, the University • Escalation of U.S. The Beginning a fine arts appreciation class . In 1967, Ruth On trips to the Piceance Basin in southwest woman in January and four more in June . of Colorado, and Wyoming University . She was involvement in Vietnam Simon was hired as a research assistant in the Colorado and Casper, Wyoming, she got a motel the first woman to receive a Geological Engineer from advisors to troops 1960 geophysics department and in 1965 Jerri room rather than tenting with the men . She says The class of 1969 also saw an increase in the degree from Mines . Shirley Valencia graduated • John F. Kennedy • New submarine depth Hamilton was hired as the museum curator and she still has problems with long-tailed rodents . assassinated Nov. record set (24,000 number of women attending Mines . There were a in June 1961 . Following graduation, Ralph M . research technician in the geology department . Pat Mosch and Betty Gibbs both had to take • Maria Meyer, Nobel feet) total of eight freshmen and transfer women the Parsons Co . employed Shirley as a mechanical Laureate—Physics • Non-violent “sit ins” While these last two women did not teach cours- the Mining field camp (Mine Surveying) and the fall of 1965 and another woman transferred in engineer/technical writer in Los Angeles, adopted by African es, they contributed to the scientific research at Saturday Mining Lab . Betty remembers taking spring semester 1966 . There were three upper- California . She received a Master of Science in 1964 Americans to protest the school . Mine Surveying up at the Edgar Mine in Idaho class women the fall of 1965, for a total of 11 Geology from the University of Southern • Alaska shaken by 9.4 discrimination Summer field camp sessions were another Springs for her field camp . Her crew worked undergraduate coeds . California in 1966 . She worked for Mobil Oil earthquake • Triton submarine cir- obstacle for women at Mines in the ’60s . Even well together and remained friends . The Mining • Civil Rights Act passed cumnavigated the The women of the ’60s were not impacted Corp . in Los Angeles for a year before spending with the influx of women, the Mines faculty was Lab (Saturdays, taught by Sam Shaw) was an • Wilderness Act set globe entirely under- by the Equal Rights Amendment, an influence on a year at the University of Alaska as a research aside pristine lands in water still reluctant to have single women living in interesting situation . Betty says fellow students subsequent coeds, although civil rights and work- assistant . Shirley also worked in South Africa the West • U-2 spy plane, piloted close quarters with men in the early ’60s . Mary told her that women could not take the course . 1 • Dorothy Crowfoot by Gary Powers, shot However, Betty and Pat spoke to er rights were major social issues of the time (see from 1968 to 1970 . Most recently she worked he list of these dedicated, confident women and 7 Hodgkin, Nobel down by Soviet Union Sam Shaw and he informed them timeline) . In speaking with several of the women for Hercules Powder Co . in California . Laureate—Chemistry their degrees follows: they could . Betty remembers there who graduated during the decade, the majority Although Shirley Valencia remained an active Shirley M. Valencia, Geol. E. 1961 1961 were circumstances when the equip- remember that admission was not difficult as member of the CSM Alumni Association through 1965 • President John F. T ment was too heavy for one woman long as the high school transcript held up to scru- 1993, the Alumni Association has lost contact • First woman named Kennedy’s inaugural Mary (McGill) Edwards, P.E. 1962 alone to carry, but with another team tiny . And, in fact, some even stated that they with her . A recent search via the Internet was chief justice of a state speech, “Ask what you supreme court (Lorna can do for your member they could haul it along the were encouraged by the Director of Admissions also unable to locate Shirley . Juanita A. Williams, P.E. 1965 Elizabeth Lockwood, country” drift and get the job done . Everyone to attend Mines . The male students, for the most Mary Edwards entered Colorado School of Joan Bacon, Chem. E. 1966 Arizona) • First man in space in the lab course was told at the part, accepted the women as fellow students . As Mines in the fall of 1957 with four other coeds . • First space walk (Alexei (Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Elsie J. (Stewart) Rowe [Deceased], Chem. E. 1967, beginning that getting an “A” would long as a coed did the work and didn’t expect She was the only coed from this class to graduate Leonov, Soviet Union) Union) MSc. Min. Ec. 1986 be difficult unless a student had pre- special treatment she was treated as an equal . If with her silver diploma and professional degree, • First American to walk • The “Bay of Pigs” in space (Edward Cuba vious mining experience . Although not, she did not last long at Mines . and was the first female Petroleum Engineer Mary Beth (Patterson) Beach, P.E. 1969 White) • First American in neither Betty nor Pat had such expe- Patricia C. (Herald) Mosch, Geol. E. 1969, E.M. 1969 (P .E .) from Mines . Mary says her choice of • First space rendezvous space, sub-orbital rience they both received an “A” for Mines for college was due to “divine interven- of manned orbiting flight (Alan Shepard, Rosalyn I. (Riesner) Temple, Math. E. 1969 Firsts the course . Betty feels that the wom- Several of the women who graduated during tion .” She wanted to attend UNAM in Mexico spacecraft (Gemini 6 Jr.) and Gemini 7) • Berlin Wall built en’s enthusiasm, interest in the this decade were the first women at Mines to City and traveled there to take a language course . course, and attitudes to work and • Cesar Chaves led work- • The Beach Boys were receive specific recognition for their accomplish- She realized that her Spanish was unlikely to ers’ strike against grape formed participate to their fullest capabili- ments . The first woman from Mines elected to reach the level needed for college classes . She growers ties were instrumental in the grade . Who’s Who Among Students in American called her mother and asked her to see about get- • The Grateful Dead was 1962 Edwards reports when she was planning to attend Pat adds their willingness to work with their Universities and Colleges was Joan Bacon in ting her into “the best engineering school west of formed • First American to orbit petroleum field camp near Rangely, Colorado, teams also played a role . She remembers a field the earth (John Glenn) 1966, followed soon by Mary Anne Zemitis the Mississippi .” Mary came to CSM . After grad- there was only one other woman in P .E ., Juanita trip to mines in North Dakota, coming back 1966 • First submarine- Wheeler in 1969 . Mary Anne was also the first uation Mary worked three years in the oil and Williams, who was behind her in school . Dr . through mines in Wyoming and then to Colorado • First space docking launched atomic woman at Mines to receive the Woman’s Badge gas industry with the North Dakota Geological missile tested Barb made an exception that year in the field mines . At the Idarado Mine near Silverton, (Gemini 8 and Agena 1 rocket) • Marilyn Monroe dies camp attendance and allowed Juanita to take Colorado, the women got all suited up with from Tau Beta Pi . Betty Gibbs was the first Mines Survey before marriage to an Air Force officer 1 • Air speed record set in • Cuban missile crisis field camp early so there could be two women in boots, hard hats, etc . and then were told women woman to be selected as a candidate for changed her career opportunities . There was 6 an X-15 jet (4,233 mph) the session . He also allowed the women to live were not allowed underground—after they had Outstanding Young Woman for 1971 . little call for a P .E . at most of her husband’s post- in a nearby “modern motel” of the era rather than Patricia Mosch was the first woman to ings, so Mary became a certified mechanical tenting out with the men . Mary says that these receive dual Professional degrees from Mines, engineer and is still working in the engineering were the only concessions Dr . Barb made . Both Geological Engineering and Engineer of Mines field as a project manager with the Corps of 1967 women were expected to perform at the same (left) Mary Anne Zemitis, in 1969 . The first Mines women to receive Engineers in Maryland . Mary has six children: • Apollo I fire—3 men Who’s Who 1969 level of participation as the men as far as the degrees in Geological Engineering, Petroleum three girls and three boys ranging from 18 years killed (Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Roger fieldwork was concerned . By 1969, when there Engineering, Math Engineering and Physics to 33 years in age . She says none of her children Chaffee, Edward White —continued on page 17 was only one woman in P .E ., Mary Beth Beach Engineering graduated during the ’60s . The first became engineers but all have gone to college . She II) —con-

A Century of Women at Mines 16 The Sixties: The Beginning The Sixties: The Beginning 17 A Century of Women at Mines • “Summer of Love” and has six grandchildren “and counting .” Wyoming, Texas, and California, as well as pre- Mine in Idaho Springs is owned and operated by the Mosch fam- flower children Juanita A . Williams originally planned on paring oil and gas reserve updates . After eight ily and is their primary focus at present . Pat has also worked for • DNA successfully syn- attending the University of Colorado (CU) in years, Mary Beth went to work for a small inde- Dames and Moore and The Oil Shale Corp . (TOSCO) 2. Pat has thesized Boulder, but decided on Mines because it was a pendent oil company, doing acquisition analysis four children and three grandchildren . Pat remembers she chose Mines because of an interest in geology generated by her mother 1968 better engineering school and closer to her home and oil and gas reserve updates for another seven • Martin Luther King in Indian Hills, Colorado . She graduated in 1964 years . She is now retired and has her own knit- and because her high school counselor told her Mines was no assassinated in Petroleum Engineering . Following graduation, ting business . place for a woman and she would not make it . While at Mines, • Robert F. Kennedy she also worked for the North Dakota Geological Elizabeth (Betty) Gibbs worked long and Pat’s favorite professors were Sam Shaw and Harry Kent, as assassinated Survey, succeeding Mary Edwards, at the head- hard to achieve her degree, Engineer of Mines . well as Carl Nordquist and Paul Keating . She enjoyed the friend- • Apollo 8—first manned ships she had with the foreign students, especially those from the space flight to orbit the quarters at the University of North Dakota in Betty started her college career at Virginia Middle East and Europe . moon Grand Forks . Juanita left the oil and gas industry Polytechnic Institute in 1960, one of four coeds . Rosalyn Temple married a Miner, Harry (Bud) Temple (P .E . in 1968 to serve as a missionary in Zurich, After her sophomore year, she came to Colorado ’69), while still in school . Ros was the first Mines woman to 1969 Switzerland . After returning to the U .S . in 1970, and worked for two years before enrolling at • First men on the moon graduate with a Math Engineering degree . She worked for sever- she attended Adams State College in Alamosa, Mines in 1966 . Betty chose Mines because she (Neil Armstrong, Edwin always wanted to be a prospector 1. She worked al years as a programmer/analyst for Honeywell­ Information Aldrin), Apollo 11 Colorado, to get her teaching certification . miscellaneous jobs on campus while taking Systems in Massachusetts . She then was a General Partner of a Joan Bacon, Marty Ausanka and Rick Hague working on the Prospector . • First military draft Juanita began her teaching career in 1974 in dental laboratory, and currently is the Business Manager for her lottery Rockville, Maryland 1. She has since accepted a classes and raising her first child . She received a scholarship loan from the Women’s Auxiliary of husband’s dental practice . She has two children, one attending • Nobel Prize in physics job in Hanna, Wyoming, and currently enjoys for discovery of the the American Institute of Mining Engineers in the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and one in high teaching remedial Title I students . quark her senior year at Mines . Following graduation school . Rosalyn remembers that her high school counselor at Joan Bacon graduated with a degree in • Native Americans Betty surveyed possible coal deposits in South High in Pueblo, Colorado, suggested she look into attend- occupied Alcatraz Mineral Engineering–Chemistry . She was the Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico . In 1970 she ing Mines because of her good math and science skills . He told • Woodstock first woman to receive a degree under the new her that Mines was a good engineering school and he did not feel 1 moved to Library, Pennsylvania, where she engineering-science degree program . Joan became involved in data storage and recovery 3. Ros would have any problems getting along in a male-dominated received her master’s degree from the University In an article from the February 14, 1971, issue of school . When Dean Burdick visited her high school, he made of Tulsa while working for Sinclair’s research The Pittsburgh Press (reprinted in The Mines Mines sound like an interesting school to attend and gave 5 center . Joan worked as a geochemist and chem- Magazine, April 1971) Betty stated that the only encouragement to women who might consider attending the ist, a consultant and a cattle rancher, a whitewa- times she ran into discrimination was in the school . ter river guide and outfitter, and an investor . She metal mining domain . In 1971, Betty was the Mary Anne Wheeler was very active in campus activities has also been a river ranger and backcountry first Mines woman selected as a candidate for while at Mines . She was on the Prospector staff, and a member ranger . Joan is enjoying her retirement, doing Outstanding Young Women of America . Betty of the Engineer’s Day Committee, Chi Rho, and the student extensive volunteer work for the National Park completed her Master of Science degree in Society of the American Institute of Physics . Mary Anne Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U .S . Mining Engineering in December 1972, while worked as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University for 1 Fish and Wildlife Service . Joan wrote in her bio- working part-time for CONOCO in Denver . She two years while getting her Master of Science in Material graphical summary that going into the next cen- went to work for Climax Molybdenum Co . in Science, “really Metallurgy, since that was my area rather than 1 tury she wants “to give back to the outdoors 1973 . Betty has her own business, Gibbs plastics .” Her first position at Ford Motor Co . was in research . Mary Anne intended on being an engineer, not a scientist . She (especially wild rivers) a small fraction of what it Associates, in Boulder, Colorado, which she Claudia Gancar Blauer, first woman in band. had interviewers tell her they did not hire women as engineers . gave” to her . She also prefers to look forward identifies as an earth science software informa- So to get out of research she obtained a Master of Business rather than back on “ancient history .” tion company, providing software and computer Admin­istration from the University of Michigan . Mary Anne is Elsie Rowe also graduated with a degree in education for the mineral industry . As noted previously, Patricia Mosch attained currently a business planner for Ford Motor Co . and lives in Mineral Engineering–Chemistry . She was the Michigan with her husband, Paul . They have a 19-year old son second woman to receive the new degree at two undergraduate Professional degrees in 1969 . Her career at Mines began in 1956 when there who is enrolled in college . Even though in high school Mary Mines . Elsie worked for the U .S . Geological were only two other women in the school . She Anne had only a vague idea of what an engineer did, she says Survey and American Metal Climax-Exploration left school in 1958 and married a Nederland, she came to Mines because she wanted to be an engineer and before her early death on July 1, 1993 . Colorado miner, Al Mosch . She returned to Mines was the best engineering school in Colorado . Mary Anne Mary Beth Beach was the third coed to Mines in 1964 taking classes while raising her graduated with a Physics Engineering­ degree, the first woman at receive a professional P .E . degree from CSM . children . Pat graduated in 1969 . While at CSM Mines to do so . She transferred to Mines from the University of she experienced discrimination on some field Utah for several reasons—she felt that Mines trips to mines because of the miners’ superstition Activities was the best engineering school around, her that a woman underground spells disaster . Women participated in various activities on campus in the father was a 1942 graduate, and due to allergies, Fortunately, her husband did not hold such ’60s including editing the yearbook, band, chorus/glee club, stu- her desire to become a veterinarian was unrealis- views . Al has always counted on Pat’s expertise dent chapters of professional societies, and rifle team . During the tic . Mary Beth married a Mines graduate, in engineering to complement his practical min- 1968 homecoming, the coeds challenged the married student Richard Beach (Geol . E . ’66) during her last ing experience in their business, the Mosch wives (Dames) to a game of powder puff football! This started a semester at school . After raising her two children Exploration and Mining Co . in Idaho Springs, tradition that continued for many years . Marty Ausanka was the to school age, she went to work for Petro-Lewis Colorado . Pat and Al are still investigating sever- first coed in glee club, the predecessor to chorus, and can be Corp . in 1977 . She developed oil and gas proper- al mining properties in the area to determine if seen in the 1964 yearbook . Claudia Gancar was the first woman ties, providing geology and engineering, in they can be operated economically . The Phoenix in band the fall of 1965 . Mary Beth Patterson Beach, AIME 1967

A Century of Women at Mines 18 The Sixties: The Beginning The Sixties: The Beginning 19 A Century of Women at Mines students rarely select it . already toured the Homestake underground mine, The first silver diplomas at Mines were First various underground trona mines, and underground awarded in 1934 4. The first Mines woman to women coal mines! At the Idarado old superstitions were receive the coveted award was Jacquelyn faculty still alive . Borthick in 1949 . The class of ’69 was the last at Mines Women in geology field courses had previous- full class to receive the Professional degree and a ly taken their summer work at the University of silver diploma . A total of twelve women received Wyoming, which provided facilities for women Professional degrees with silver diplomas, the ten Pat Mosch students .1 Pat Mosch took her summer field women in the ’60s, Jacquelyn Borthick, and in Edgar Mine course with CU in western Colorado and the Claudia Gancar (’70) . Recipients of postgraduate White River Plateau camping in tents and waking Powder puff football, 1968, (left to right) Nancy Ridenour, Tammy degrees still get the silver diploma . up to elk in the morning . Johnnie, Jean Smith, Pam Tittes, Peggy Garrison, Mary Anne Zemitis, Another change that occurred in the 1960s, a Kathy Altman, Sandy Thielan, Jackie Jetton and Jody Knudsen. result of an increasing number of women enter- Traditions Mary Anne Zemitis Wheeler, Senior Court, 1965. ing Mines, was an expanding physical training Barbara Fisk There were several traditions in effect during Right: Sandy Wilson (PT) curriculum during the second half of the the ’60s . For example, Joan Bacon was the first and Mary White, decade . This was a welcome change for the woman to wear a senior Stetson . During agitation Senior Court, 1967. women . Previously, physical training and mili- Betty Gibbs freshmen had to wear a soft miner’s cap, carry a tary requirements had been waived for coeds . in Edgar Mine “Miner’s bible,” and appear before the Senior Women had to work to find substitute courses Court . A gauntlet was still being run in the early available to them . Band was one substitute for ’60s; members of Blue Key escorted the coeds PT, while swimming, rifle team, skiing, or bowl- through the gauntlet . But, by the end of the ing were other options by the end of the decade . decade, the gauntlet was history, although Jerri Hamilton In fact, Mary White (’70) lettered in rifle in 1968 clothes worn backward, the “Miner’s bible,” and was the first woman to letter at Mines . and “sounding off” were still around . The Participation in the Reserve Officers Training climb to the “M” by the entering freshmen Chorus, 1967 (front row, left to right) Colleen Cummins Skinner, Cathy King Corps (ROTC) was still required for two years in included much whitewash and a large rock for Skokan, Ramona Douglass, Kathy Altman and Carrie Petrello Bisdorf. the ’60s . Again coeds were not allowed to partic- everyone then, as now . A special tradition ipate, and instead had to substitute other class remembered fondly by the women was the credits . It was not until 1970, when ROTC presentation of a red rose at graduation by the became a voluntary course, that women were President of the school to each coed as she allowed to enroll in the class . This was probably Ruth Simon accepted her diploma . Joan Bacon’s favorite a reflection of the social-political culture of the memory of Mines is President Childs giving period . In order to meet graduation requirements women had to her a rose . The rose tradition began in June take additional courses, such as chorus, humanities, geology, and 1966 and was discontinued shortly after the chemistry electives . end of the decade . “M” Climb, 1965: Barbara Light and her rock. Housing for coeds became an issue for the administration during the ’60s . The fall of 1964 saw the reality of housing for Summary Right: Jody Knudsen, women with the conversion of the Dean of Students’ house, The women of the ’60s decade overwhelmingly report that Senior Court, 1968 located across 15th street from the Engineering Hall . The dormi- their education at Mines gave them the confidence to go into the Below: Nancy tory could house “six women, the largest group of coeds in the world with strong skills to pursue any career they wanted . These School’s history”1 to date . Women could also seek housing from Ridenour and Jackie dedicated women were the dawning of the expanding presence Jetton, Senior Court, individuals in the Golden area or rent an off-campus apartment . of women at Mines and in the work force . They also feel that 1968. Mary White and teammates, 1969 In the spring of 1968, the school was actively planning a wom- now, just as in their own era, hard work pays off . The message to an’s residence hall on campus . Francis E . Smiley, Dean of women at Mines seems to be timeless . Students, contacted the coeds who were on campus that spring and asked for their input on what they would like to have in a Changes dormitory . By the fall semester of 1968, Mines had purchased The decade of the ’60s saw changes at Mines, too . The most the old Kappa Sigma fraternity house, located at 1622 Illinois, significant was the termination of the Professional degree and and renovated it for a woman’s dormitory . The first women resi- silver diploma as the undergraduate degree . The Professional dents arrived in the fall of 1968 . Originally known as the degree, when compared to degrees at other universities, required Women’s Residence Hall, it was later renamed Florence Caldwell more academic hours for graduation, and was nearly comparable Hall . All single freshmen and sophomore coeds were required to to a Masters degree from other institutions . This was confusing live in the dormitory unless living at home with their parents . If to some businesses and was difficult for the national college space allowed, junior and senior coeds were also welcome to live accreditation board to reconcile with other schools . As a result, in the dorm . Although it has been reported that the coeds were not the CSM Board of Trustees decided to change to a Bachelor/ required to keep hours,1 some of the coeds who were original resi- Masters/Doctoral degree program . Mines modified its curricu- dents of the house do remember “breaking hours .” lum somewhat, combining some lab and class requirements and Women became part of the faculty in the ’60s, as opposed to changing other classes to remain more current with industry being supporting staff . In the fall semester of 1968, Barbara demands . While the Professional degree is still available, today’s

A Century of Women at Mines 20 The Sixties: The Beginning The Sixties: The Beginning 21 A Century of Women at Mines Maiden name: What lasting impact did Mines have on What lasting impact did Mines have on Elizabeth Gibbs Gibbs you? The rigors of my Mines education you? It was great for me because I got an Mines Title: Owner and the organizational skills I had to excellent education and learned how to Women develop to get through prepared me well compete in the “real world .” Alumnae Mines Degree: for the business world . (1960–1969) E .M . ’69, What would you tell a woman student biographical summaries MSc . Min . Ec . What would you tell a woman student at Mines today? The women graduating ’72, at Mines today? Don’t be intimidated . today probably cannot appreciate the hur- The opportunities for women today are dles those of us (in the ’60s) went Spouse’s name: much improved from when I graduated, through . Without things like affirmative Don Eldhart and if you make it through Mines, you action, we would still be being told “we Maiden name: What personal goals do you have to What would you tell a woman student Mines grad? can make it anywhere . don’t hire women as engineers .” Joan Irene Bacon carry you into the next century? To give at Mines today? The world can be your No Bacon Title: Retired back to the outdoors (especially wild rivers) oyster but the pearl must be sought Children (#): 4, Ages: 32, 27, 19, 17 Mines Degree: a small fraction of what it gave me . through consistency and hard work . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Grandchildren (#): 2 Chem E . ’66 GRADUATION GRADUATION Additional Comments: So much of these Current Professional Field: Accounting Current Professional Field: Business HIGHLIGHTS SINCE LIFE AT MINES LIFE AT questions pertain to things I did so long Planner for the Climate Control Division GRADUATION Biggest Challenges: Going to school, rais- Job experiences: Systems analysis first of Ford Motor Co . ago, it seems like another century . I prefer Current Professional Field: Self- MINES ing my daughter, and working concurrently within manufacturing and then for gov- Biggest chal- to look forward . So many rivers to run, so employed knitter ernment projects; general partner of a Job experiences: Ford Motor Co .—ini- lenges: Keeping little time . . . dental laboratory; business manager for tially in the Research Laboratory doing my old Jeep Job experiences: While at Petro-Lewis HIGHLIGHTS SINCE dental practice electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, operating Maiden name: Corp . I worked in development, drilling, GRADUATION and ion scattering spectroscopy . Then I Patterson and production, and was responsible for Current Professional Field: Computer Mary Beth Beach Other significant achievements (includ- moved to a planning area in 1977, work- Favorite Memories: President Childs giv- Title: Owner, over 100 wells being drilled, and main- software for the mineral industry ing family): A daughter who is a fresh- ing on lightweight materials planning in ing me a rose at graduation Knit With Care taining and/or improving production of man at the University of Pennsylvania; a response to the oil crisis and the need for about 200 additional wells in California . I Job experiences: Consolidated Coal; daughter who is a junior in high school; a fuel economy improvements . Lightweight “First woman to . . .” at Mines: Wear a Mines Degree: also worked in property acquisitions and CONOCO (part-time); Climax husband who is also a graduate of Mines materials such as aluminum and plastics Stetson as a senior . Edit the yearbook P .E . ’69 was liaison between the Company, bank Molybdenum; Gibbs Associates that I have been married to for 30 years were in vogue . From there I moved to engineers, and consultants during semi- Advanced Engineering and then to program What lasting impact did you have on Spouse’s name: annual reserve updates . At Ensign Oil & Maiden Name: Rosalyn Riesner Additional Comments: Biggest disap- engineering on the Tempo, Escort, and Mines? Probably not much Richard A . Gas, I was the first engineer/manager for Riesner Temple pointment: Neither of my daughters has Mustang programs . Later I moved to the Beach the company, responsible for reviewing Title: Business the slightest interest in engineering!!!!!!! Climate Control Division where I was the What lasting impact did Mines have on Mines grad? non-operated properties and evaluating Manager Program Manager for the new Taurus . you? About the same Yes potential acquisitions . Year: ’66, Mines Degree: Maiden Name: Now I am Business Planner for the Climate Mary Anne Zemitis Control Division . What would you tell a woman student Degree: Geol . E . Special Interests Outside Work: Hiking, Math E . ’69 Wheeler Title: Business at Mines today? Mines is no different Children (#): 2, Ages: 29, 27 rafting/canoeing, cooking, travelling Planner Other significant achievements (including from any other school . Hard work pays off . Spouse’s Name: family): You can read about me in the book, LIFE AT MINES Other significant achievements (includ- Harry V . Mines Degree: Car, by Mary Walton; my husband, Paul Biggest challenges: Working past the ing family): Our son, Richard W ., chose Temple, Jr . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Physics Wheeler, is a graduate of Northwestern­ with “invisibility” of being female; field survey- Mines for his college education (BSc . Math Mines GRADUATION Engineering ’69 a PhD . in Theoretical and Advanced ing; and summer field camp (furry rats!) ’91, BSc . Chem . ’91) . grad?Yes, Current professional field: Retired Year: ’69, Mechanics . He is a manager at General Other Dynamics, manufacturer of the Abrums Favorite Memories: Mud labs; Professor What personal Degree: P .E . ’76, D .M .D—Harvard Dental Job experiences: Geochemist, rancher, in­­­ Degree(s): tank . Paul and I have a son, Michael, who is Nordquist’s stories in Econ 101; working for goals do you Children (#): 2, Ages: 16, 18 vestor, whitewater river guide and outfitter MSc .—Met­ 19 and a sophomore at Ringling School of Professor Campbell in Basic Engineering have to carry allurgy ’71, Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla . He is Professional groundbreaking experiences: you into the LIFE AT MINES “First woman to . . .” at Mines: First Biggest Challenges: Strength of Materials North­western University;­ MBA ’77, majoring in computer animation . First woman to do lots of things, but that next century? woman to have a son attend Mines taught by Professor Ronald Preston University of Michigan—Ann Arbor is ancient history To live a full, interesting, and Spouse’s Name: Paul Wheeler What lasting impact did Mines have on productive life Favorite Memories: The camaraderie Publications: Also ancient history Mines grad? No you? Mines provided me with a technical through volun- developed with squadmates while trying to Children (#): 1, Age: 19 education that made it possible for me to teer work and survive the summer surveying requirement . Special interests outside work: River seek employment in several areas, and running, outdoor activities my business, when employed, made it possible for me and to enjoy the What lasting impact did you have on LIFE AT MINES to perform a multitude of functions inter- Mines? There were only eight women “First woman to . . .” at Mines: First Other significant achievements (including successes of my actively with other employees, bankers, family students when I began at Mines . I hope woman member of Tau Beta Pi at Mines family): Volunteer work including EMT, and consultants . our presence and ability to make it grant writer, river ranger, backcountry ranger and friends . Mary Beth Beach climbing the Grand Canyon through caused more women to apply .

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A Century of Women at Mines 25 A Century of Women at Mines 10:00 p .m . on weeknights and reopened at 8:00 Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and a .m . the following morning . On weekends resi- Doctor of Philosophy at CSM, and received a 1974 dents were allowed to stay out until midnight . variety of awards 8. Sandy Kramer (BSc . Min . • Oil rationing and day- The Seventies light savings time imple- An incident occurred between young men ’73) was the first woman mining engineer for mented in the U.S. and women on campus in the late ’70s . A male Utah International and the first female Mine • Patty Hearst abducted, student from one of the coeducational dorms Health and Safety Inspector for the Department joins Symbionese the caldron wrote to the school newspaper complaining of the Interior Mine Enforcement and Safety Liberation Army about the attire and “character” of the female Administration . students including the lack of dresses and other The campus reflected the effects of the pres- 1975 • Saigon surrendered criticism . The women were amazed that the men ence of women in engineering as well . The ending the Vietnam of the campus, who were not neatly dressed and Mining Department hosted the newly organized Timeline he Colorado School of Mines celebrated In 1970 the women’s residence hall was War even somewhat unsightly, would dare comment . Women in Mining (WIM) . Seventy members and • U.S. and U.S.S.R. The 1970s: its 100th anniversary in 1974, as the rest named the Florence Caldwell Hall . The “girls” The Caldron The female students were offended . A group of their families toured the Edgar Experimental launch Apollo-Soyuz Tof the country argued about the morality who lived in the hall suggested the name to coeds, primarily from Morgan 1st, responded one Mine in Idaho Springs on November 11, 1972 9. Test Project. First of the Vietnam War and struggled with ratifica- President McBride and the change was approved international manned 1970 night at dinner in the cafeteria . They gathered Dr . Beatrice E . Willard visited the school in 1976 tion of the Equal Rights Amendment . The issues by the Board of Trustees during their October, space mission • Environmental 4 prior to attending dinner and donned the worst, to discuss environmental education in an engi- • In Helsinki, 35 nations Protection Agency of civil rights, equal rights and Vietnam had 1970 meeting . The former fraternity house, most offensive costumes that could be found . neering curriculum 10. She later founded the caused such turmoil in the United States by this known as Caldwell Hall was officially named sign human rights (EPA) established The young women attended dinner as a group department­ . Dr . Willard was appointed head of the agreement • U.S. troops invade decade that even Mines felt the effects of the during Homecoming 1970 . The building was and received considerable attention . The women environmental sciences department in 1977 . She Cambodia in expansion struggles and became part of the Caldron . In located at 1622 Illinois Street until 1979 when it 1976 of the Vietnam War coined the description “Sick Up and Fed!” was the first female Department Chair at CSM . spite of the unrest, by the end of 1974 a total of was demolished to facilitate the construction of • Viking 1 lands on Mars • During a war protest at The women’s Greek system evolved on The CSM Quarterback club voted to admit • U.S. celebrates bicen- Kent State University, 51 women had graduated from Mines . the Brown Building . campus in the ’70s beginning with the Alpha women to all future meetings in 1972 . The orga- tennial National Guardsmen The number of graduating women continued Delta sorority . The Alpha Delta chapter formed nization previously had a men-only membership • Israeli commandos kill four students to increase during the 1970s . This decade began on November 4, 1974, with nine founding mem- policy with one open meeting a year when free 105 hostages with the class of 1970 graduating five women bers . The members felt the need for better com- women could participate as guests . Following the from Palestinean 1971 and ending with the class of 1979 graduating 36 . hijackers at Entebbe • U.K. converts from the munication among Mines coeds and for more approval for admittance, the women were By 1979, a total of 167 women had graduated loyalty to school and profession 2. The first allowed to attend all activities . They were Airport pound system to deci- • The U.S. Military mal system of money from the School . This was a significant contrast sorority house on the Mines campus was dedicat- required to become members of the club and pay to the 14 females that had graduated from Mines 11 Academy at West • Prison revolt at Attica ed on September 14, 1975 . Mrs . Guy T . the $1 .75 tab for lunch or come as a guest . Point becomes coed State Correctional from 1898 through 1969 . For the first time in the (Rebecca) McBride, wife of President McBride, Events on campus included Casino Nights, Fac­ility lasts four days, 98-year history of the school, 100 coeds were 1977 42 die 1 officiated at the red ribbon cutting ceremony . At the Big Event, featuring country swing music, enrolled simultaneously in 1972 . The total stu- • Ugandan President Idi • China formally enters the time of the dedication the sorority boasted 10 the Dating Game, and the traditional E-Days dent body was 1688 students, of which 1308 Amin holds 240 the United Nations active members and 13 pledges 5. Notable memo- Talent Show . Typical Homecoming and 1 American hostages • Detective Serpico were undergraduate students . Between 1970 and Florence Caldwell Hall ries include two significant events . Pat Smith Engineer’s Days’ events included cross cut saw- • George Lucas creates ex­poses corruption in 1979, 153 women graduated and the average (MN, ’78), one of the original founders of the ing, jackleg drilling, arm wrestling and various science fiction legend the NYC police depart- class had 15 women graduates . The class of 1980 Due to the increasing female student popula- AGD,6 attended school with three brothers, drinking contests . Women contestants became with Star Wars ment graduated 99 women, another reflection of the tion, other on-campus residences became avail- including twins 6. Another member and president, more common in these events in the ’70s . • The miniseries, Roots, number of women that began attending CSM in able for women during the ’70s . This includes Laura Sorrontino (P .E . ’81) won the Homecoming Freshman Cindy Harr (daughter of Neal draws record TV audi- 1972 the late ’70s . The 100th woman graduated from the first floor of Morgan Hall in 1976 and the ences • Passage of the Equal arm wrestling competition for three consecutive Harr Geol . E ., ’54) was named the Homecoming Rights Amendment Mines with the class of 1977 . basement of Bradford Hall in 1977 . By the end years . Queen, in 1972, the first CSM coed to win the 1978 (ERA) by Congress Compared to the national figures, Colorado of the decade plans to build Twin Towers also 12 The Sigma Kappa chapter began with a queen title since Jackie Borthick won in 1948 . • First human heart • First Earth Day was School of Mines was graduating classes with included accommodations for women students . group of 12 charter members on April 22, 1979 . The norm for Homecoming Queen candidates transplant celebrated approximately 1% women as compared to a In addition to the rigors of the studies, the fresh- • First test tube baby • Arab terrorists murder Officially, the charter was signed on January 20, became women attending Mines as opposed to national average of 3% in accredited engineering man coeds living in Morgan learned quickly the born 11 Israeli Olympians in 1980 . One of the advisors for the sorority was women from other local colleges . In 1973, Cindy programs . various types of attention they may get from the • Pope John Paul VI is Munich Mrs . Parker, wife of Ben H . Parker, Sr . for whom Harr was crowned Colorado Mine Peak Queen in suceeded by Pope • Nixon visits China and male students . For 1st floor Morgan, 22 the student center is named . Today, the Sigma commemoration of the school’s peak near Berthoud John Paul I and then the U.S.S.R. Highlights of the ’70s include: these included disruptions from Kappa sorority remains on campus with a house Pass 13. The Mines Peak climb was an annual event 2 by John Paul II • First sorority house: Alpha Delta, 1975 adjacent Thomas Hall or the located at 1207 16th Street across from the for freshman orientation week during the ’70s . • President Sadat of 1973 • First female department chair: Dr. Betty Willard, lowering of objects from the Student Center . The ongoing rivalry between the CSM coeds Egypt and President • Roe vs. Wade deci- Department of Environmental Sciences, 1977 male residences on the Morgan Begin of Israel receive sion legalized abortion The female students of the ’70s achieved and the Dames continued into the ’70s . The • First athletic scholarships for women’s sports, 19763 floors above . One of the many the Nobel Peace Prize • U.S. participation in notable accomplishments in a variety of venues . annual powder puff football game at for the Camp David the Vietnam war ends • First women allowed to join the Mines Quarterback pranks executed late one night These included awards, team sports, internships Homecoming typically provided plenty of enter- included sod being placed Accord • OPEC quadruples the Club, 1975 and jobs . Women were named Outstanding tainment following its inception in 1968 . The • Congress extends the price of oil • 100 women graduate by 1977 meticulously in the Morgan 1st Young Women, Who’s Who, received ROTC undefeated CSM Coeds tied the Dames 12–12 in deadline for ratification • First woman to receive three degrees: Dr. Catherine Skokan, woman’s bathroom . The sod awards and athletic awards . Graduates became 1970 . In the fourth annual football game (1971) of the ERA 1974 BSc . Geop . 1969, MSc . Geop . 1971, PhD . Geop . 197521 had been “borrowed” from a • Nixon resigned in wake first in their field . Pam Tittes (Bsc . Met . ’72) the CSM Coeds defeated the Dames, 18–6, with construction area adjacent to 1979 of Watergate scandal • First Director of Student Activities: Dr. Patsy Wegner, joined Kennecott Copper Co ., in Salt Lake City, Debbie Carnell responsible for two of the three 20 • Accident results in • Arab oil embargo cre- 1976 the library . Women living in Utah, as their first woman engineer 7. Cathy coed touchdowns 14. Again, the two teams tied Morgan Hall were subjected to radioactive release ates oil shortages Skokan became the first woman to receive a 6–6 in 1972 with reports of hair tugging that was from Three Mile Island — continued on page 27 a curfew . Doors were locked at

A Century of Women at Mines 26 The Seventies: The Caldron The Seventies: The Caldron 27 A Century of Women at Mines overlooked by officials as an accident 15. Island nuclear disaster (1979) . On a global level, the Vietnam At the beginning of the ’70s, athletics for women on the peace agreement was put into place in 1973 . Saigon surrendered, end- Mines campus included competing on the rifle team, bowling or ing the Vietnam war in 1975 . Nixon visited both China and USSR in participating on the cheerleading squad . At the end of the 1974 . John Paul II became pope in 1978 . While the world saw the decade, many women participated competitively in swimming, progression of technology and struggled with peace, the United States basketball, volleyball, and track . also faced the birth of the environmental age and the changes of the In 1972, five of the six veterans of the CSM rifle team were social status of women in the work place and at home . women including Sandra (Thielen) Kramer (BSc . Min . ’73), In a more micro perspective, Colorado School of Mines expe- Debra Carnell (BSc . Met . ’74), Joan Stratton (BSc . Geol . ’74), rienced fluctuations and changes from the impacts of these and Nancy Money (BSc . Geop . ’74, MSc . Geop . ’77) and Melody other national and international events . The school saw an Ulen (BSc . Geol . ’75) 16. Sandy Kramer was chosen “Athlete of increase in student population and interest in the petroleum relat- the Week” for her marksmanship ability on the CSM women’s rifle ed fields due to the quadrupled price of oil by OPEC (1973) . team in 1973 7. The 1973 Cheerleading squad consisted of 14 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission visited the members including five male students and nine female students 17. campus and brought the notorious “moon rocks” collection 19. In Four women received CSM athletic scholarships for the first addition, the ERA prompted change in all aspects of domestic soci- Women’s basketball time in 1975 . These scholarships went to: Vera Fowler, a sopho- ety thus bringing forth a larger presence of women in all arenas on more on the ski team; Colleen Lynch, a freshman on the varsity campus . In campus classes, in addition to the introduction of hand- Sick Up and Fed rifle team and ROTC rifle team; Eloise Montoya (BSc . Met . held calculators to replace slide rules, freshman computer classes ’79), a freshman on the men’s golf squad; and Leslie Puttuck featured computer cards to be processed in a “main-frame” in the (BSc . Min . ’79), a sophomore and first woman to be a member Green Center’s computer center . The decade abruptly ended with the of the varsity swimming squad 18. Iranian hostage crisis in Nov . 1979 . The large old trees bordering the The decade saw such diversity and changes as the “green” former 15th street in front of Guggenheim Hall were decked with movement beginning with Earth Day in 1972 and the disco large yellow bows, placed by female students, in hopes of a safe music rage closing the ’70s . Technology raced ahead with calcu- return of the hostages and a reign of world peace . lators replacing slide rules, the first human heart transplant and The conservative environment of the Mines campus was birth of a test tube baby (1978) . The ’70s saw the creation of the slow to join the national turmoil with regard to political pres- Environmental Protection Agency (1970), the passage of the sures and social change . Yet, as the decade of the ’70s unfolded, equal rights amendment (ERA) by congress (1972), the resigna- even this protected school became part of the caldron boiling tion of Nixon (1974), Roe vs . Wade (1973), and the Three Mile with the issues regarding Women’s volleyball the morality of the Vietnam War and the economic strain it imposed, the impact of the equal rights move- Alpha Delta ribbon cutting ment and the changes brought about by the Civil Rights Act of the previous decade .

Cheerleaders Women’s rifle team

Bannerman drilling during mining contest

Mining contest AGD Sigma Kappa Charter Members Powder puff football

A Century of Women at Mines 28 The Seventies: The Caldron The Seventies: The Caldron 29 A Century of Women at Mines any support from my parents, my husband started with a large firm in Albuquerque, Title: Associate had “fake” jobs and stole money from his N .M ., left that firm to join a small firm, Nancy S. Dorsey Professor Mines family . It was a mess . I had to work, go to that small firm merged with a big firm, Women school, figure out what to do with a mar- and then we de-merged and I formed Mines Degree: Alumnae riage which I knew was bad about one Peacock & Myers . At that time, we had BSc . Geop ., ’70, (1970–1979) month after it happened . I really focused two attorneys . Now we have nine attor- MSc . Geop . ’72, PhD . Geop . ’74 biographical summaries on school and work and that got me neys and a total of 22 employees . We are through . I should have enlisted the help of the largest intellectual property firm in Spouse’s Name: Jacob my family and professional counselors, New Mexico and have clients worldwide . Mines grad? Yes but I was too proud to admit things were I love being a patent attorney because I Year: ’74 Manager for several years—constructing National Laboratory/wonder dad . bad or I had made a mistake . I now know get to do engineering everyday . And, we Degree: PhD . Geop . Nancy Alexander What lasting several wastewater treatment facilities, then to move on if you don’t like a spouse or help make people’s dreams come true . I Children (#): 5, Ages: 24, 22, 19, 16, 14 impact did you managing chemical engineering and envi- What personal goals do you have to job . There is so much happiness to be had work on all sorts of technologies: brain have on Mines? ronmental compliance for the operations of carry you into the next century? My out there; don’t get stuck in a rut . surgery, sewer systems, chemical formula- LIFE AT MINES A few of us the facilities . My first 10 years were spent goals are quite simple these days—keep- tions, mechanical devices, etc . Biggest Challenges: Fortunately, I worked hard to get CSM to start a wom- as a petroleum engineer with big oil . This ing our family healthy and happy and fig- Favorite Memories: My most fond mem- received lots of encouragement during my en’s intercollegiate sports program—we experience gave me strong business/man- uring how to spend less time at the office! ory of Mines is my summer trip to Special Interests Outside Work: Outside studies and early in my career as a profes- wanted to play basketball but were turned agement skills, which have helped me work We are kicking off the century with a trip Australia between the junior and senior of work, my passion is music . I played the sor at Mines—I have George Keller, my away several times . Thank you Coach by way into senior management . to the Olympics in Australia and plan to years . There were 17 of us who went to piano and percussion in high school and advisor to thank . He also hired me for my Allison for coming to CSM and allowing continue our travels and adventures— Australia one summer, jobs found courte- college but then dropped it . Last year, I first job at CSM . women to be athletes, too! Professional ground-breaking experi- while continuing to climb the corporate sy of Dr . Frank Lawson and Dr . Rex Bull . joined the Albuquerque Concert Band as a ences: It seems like it is always ground ladder in the world’s #1 engineer firm . . . I headed to Tasmania and had a wonderful percussionist and am now taking piano Favorite Memories: Receiving a rose at What lasting impact did Mines have on breaking when you work as a female couple of months . It changed my perspec- lessons . graduation (MSc . and BSc . but not for you? Mines has opened doors for me and I engineer . Beginning with summer work Additional Comments: I’d love to hear tive about life, gave me courage to travel PhD .) . I also have fond memories for am very thankful for that so being a Mines while at Mines, I was the only woman on from old friends . Send me an e-mail or anywhere, and was my first taste of the Title: Hydrogeologist John Hollister, my department head in graduate has had a very positive impact on a 90-man crew working offshore out of write to me!!! (address & phone available mining industry . undergraduate school . Hollister was quite my career . However, actually going to col- Venice, La . (I was really scared!) . But the at CSMAA) I remember one day the winds were Mines Degree: MSc . Geol . ’80, PhD . (in concerned for the safety of the first three lege at Mines in the late ’70s was more like most fulfilling experience I had, was very bad in Golden . I was walking up the progress) women to attend field camp . He made attending boot camp—so it took several being promoted to a key management Title: Former Vice President, Product street and a gust of wind picked me up sure we had housing close to him and on years to recover from the terror . position one week after returning to work Licensing, Amgen (retired 7/98) and threw me into the middle of the Other Degree(s): B .S . ’79, Salem State Friday evenings, while the “guys” were from a leave-of-absence I had chosen to street . I got up and ran over to a sign post College, out drinking, he would invite Colleen What would you tell a woman student take to spend six months at home with my Professional Certifications, and held on . One of my professors Cummins, Claudia Blauer, and me in for a at Mines today? Have fun and enjoy second child . Needless to say, I continue Registrations, and Titles: P E. stopped and asked if I needed help and Spouse’s Name: Christopher Schenk glass of sherry . These are dear memories your college years, make some really to utilize my senior management authority drove me home . The next day you could Mines grad? No of a very caring leader . good life-long friends, and get a C once in to be a proponent of alternate work sched- Mines Degree: see terrible damage from this storm . This a while if it allows you to balance your ules and act as an advocate of employing BSc . CPR ’77 Dr. Emmy Booy, story leads to what I liked most about Children (#): 4, Ages: 24, 21,17, 9 “First woman to . . .” at Mines: receive life . Also, be sure that the field you have part-time professionals, in order to sup- Other P.E. Mines . The professors . I still communi- MSc . and PhD ., be professor in geophysics chosen is one you truly enjoy . If you port the needs of working parents . Degree(s): MBA cate with some of them, I considered First woman to . . .” at Mines: have a aren’t thrilled with it, try something else ’84, Harvard them my friends, we all knew each other . daughter graduate from CSM . (Tara, BSc . What lasting impact did you have on and stay an extra semester or year if you Special Interests Outside Work: Our This is in contrast to Harvard where you Geol . ’97) Mines? My work with McBride Honor have to . Don’t worry about the job market family is quite active—jet skiing (wake Spouse’s Name:John W . LaValle are a number, program because it is wonderful to find your boards, water skis), snow skiing, biking, Mines grad? No you don’t know Current Professional Field: “niche” and enjoy your work . windsurfing, rock climbing, camping, and Children (#): 2, Ages: 5½, and 21 months Vicki Cowart your professors, Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modeling travel everywhere! Also, I am “Science the classes are Job experiences: Graduate research at What lasting impact did Mines have on Mom,” teaching my 10-year-old daugh- HIGHLIGHTS SINCE LIFE AT MINES large, and you CSM, 8/88–12/89; consultant 1/90–10/90; you? A good well-rounded education ter’s “gifted” class and my 7-year-old GRADUATION Biggest Challenges: Getting through first are processed . Senior Hydrologic Engineer, James L . which allowed me to move from geophys- son’s “very active” first grade class . We Current Professional Field: Project year . Deciding on a major . Grant & Associates, 10/90–6/91; ics to electrical do hands-on science throughout the manager for Flour Daniel—I’m the HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Engineer, Office of Surface Mining, 6/91– engineering eas- school year and Ramona Heikel Deputy Directory of the Hanford Site Favorite Memories: My teachers in GRADUATION 11/95; Hydrogeologic Engineering ily . get really dirty! CPR, whom I remember well . Groundwater, Vadose Zone, and Columbia Claudia L. Job experiences:I worked in the mining Consultant, 2/95–11/98; Hydrogeologic River Project . Environmental compliance, Blauer industry for five years and loved it . I Engineer, HRS Water Consultants, 11/98– What would Other signifi- “First woman to . . .” at Mines: pledge a remediation, and hydrogeology are the moved mountains; what a feeling . As an present you tell a woman student at Mines cant achieve- fraternity—no sorority then! I took my key technical aspect of this project . attorney, I now just move paper . today? Enjoy your studies . Hanford is the Department of Energy’s ments (including family): Just balancing meals and studied at ATO (old house by Other significant achievements (includ- 560 square mile nuclear clean up site in family and career is our significant dorm) ing family): Two children have attended achievement! Our daughter, Dallas, is a Current Professional Field: My current HIGHLIGHTS SINCE eastern Washington State with an annual professional field is law . I am a registered Mines: Tara (BSc . Geol . ’97) and Liam talented gymnast/pianist and our son, What lasting impact did you have on GRADUATION budget of one billion dollars . patent attorney . You must be a scientist or (BSc . Met . 2000) Troy, is a budding soccer star/comedian . Mines? Finished near top of my class— Current Professional Field: Associate engineer to be a patent attorney . I graduat- Professor of Engineering Job experiences: I have been a Project My husband, Bruce (Mines ’80), is a women can do it! Maiden Name: King Senior Research Engineer with Battell’s ed from Harvard Law School in 1985,

A Century of Women at Mines 30 The Seventies: The Caldron The Seventies: The Caldron 31 A Century of Women at Mines me down to her new sorority house) … at the limitations of our degrees . (My friend merchandising rep, oil & gas administra- neering at Mobil, What lasting impact did Mines have on Micheline L. sorority friendships: I was in the 2nd found out that a degree in Mineral Engin­ tion, engineering document control Michigan Tech Sandy Kramer American you? Security of having struggled and pledge class of the original sorority at eering Chemistry is NOT a degree in Upon graduation, I turned my back Johnson and Mines; Quasar, ARCO won a degree with a high quality, strong Mines, Alpha Delta . It was a small group Chemical Engineering, which is what she on all that reminded me of Mines . After a research on soils 2) As a contrac- background in my field . of fabulous people, very down-to-earth actually needed . I believe that I could get mental break of two years, I returned at McGill; mate- tor— and full of energy and mischief, which a job as the company mathematician, but again to intellectually challenging work rials research on radioactive waste dispos- Schlumberger—onshore and finally as What would you tell a woman student involved its members in positions of there aren’t any of those anymore!) If you for several years . Then I married, had al for U .S . Nuclear Regulatory offshore district manager . at Mines today? Learn not to let the ultra responsibility and leadership, loyalty and are indecisive or dissatisfied about a lot of children, and worked part time/temp/at Commission; consulting on soils (U .S . 3) 1993–current: State Geologist of Colo . conservative attitude of male dominance, deepening friendships, academic encour- it, take some aptitude tests . Use the student home for twelve years . A year ago I start- and Venezuela and Canada), oil, gas, and not ‘push your buttons .’ Industry is no dif- agement and practical help, and best of services—they really are worthwhile . ed working full-time . metals . Professional ground-breaking experi- ferent . all, our highest calling, raiding fraternities Get help from professors and fellow ences: First female district manager in …cheerleading and sports: autumn cool students right from the start; it’s hard and Special Interests Outside Work: I have Professional ground-breaking experi- Schlumberger’s Gulf Coast Division (e .g . and campus leaves changing meant wild you’ll probably need help the whole time played for three years on a ladies soccer ences: First woman to teach geological Louisiana) 1991; was thrown out of Deborah A. homecoming contests and staying up all you’re there . Take advantage of “Test team, and we recently won the Calgary engineering at Michigan Technological Casper Petroleum Club dining room Peacock night making a float with Dairy Queen Anxiety Workshops,” etc . I wish I had city championship for the 2nd time, and University and CSM, and Irish because they didn’t serve women (1980); napkins (and twice being a queen candi- done those things, instead of stubbornly have won the Alberta provincial silver Wolfhounds serves as first nationally elected president date! A small female population had so trying to “get it” all by myself . medal twice . I also enjoy writing fiction of the Association . for Women HIGHLIGHTS SINCE many advantages!); …witnessing an Make sure you learn the concepts! I (am trying to get my novel published) and What personal goals do you have to Geoscientists (AWG) and helped organize GRADUATION earthquake while doing homework in a know there is a lot of memorization, but personal experience articles, sketching carry you into the next century? Denver Chapter . Current Professional Field: International normally quiet place in the Green Center you will forget a lot of what you memorize, portraits, making scrapbooks, photogra- Recovering sufficient health to do volun- reservoir geology by the USGS seismograph, and deciding and in the real world you will have refer- phy and hiking in this beautiful area, and teer work . Special Interests Outside Work: Pro- on-the-spot to pursue geophysics as a ence books and tables so you won’t have to church and bible studies . choice grass roots politics—do a lot of Job experiences: Triton Energy, 4/94– minor; …changing the color of the M; … depend on memory in critical situations . Title: State Geologist & Director of the fund raising and organizing for present; Marathon Oil Co ., ’87–4/94; stretching myself academically, including Diligently work to successfully grad- Other significant achievements (includ- Colorado Geological Survey Democratic political candidates and Natural Gas Pipeline Co ., ’80–’81; all-nighters; …working part-time for Betty uate . A degree from the Colorado School ing family): Raising two boys (now 11 served on Colorado NARAL board, off Southern Natural Gas Pipeline 7/76–9/80 Pantel, the Dean’s secretary …E-Day of Mines shows potential employers that and 13 years old) has been the joy of my Mines Degree: MSc . Geop . ’77 and on for twenty years . Parade: walking all the way from the cam- you are mature, and able to work hard and life . I have also gotten great satisfaction Special Interests Outside Work: Healing pus pulling a heavy ore cart to the State complete a difficult task . That is far more from caring for many other children in my Other Degree(s): BSc . ’75, Worcester Other significant achievements (includ- arts and crafts capital to see the Governor chug a beer . important to them than your GPA . So if home, and teaching Sunday school . I have Polytech . Institute ing family): Asked to join the Colorado you were used to A’s all your life, don’t self-published two 50-page works, Women’s Forum in 1996 Maiden Name: Nicks What lasting impact did Mines have on use up too much valuable energy fretting Adventure Math Stories, a math supplement Spouse’s Name: Christopher Hayes Title: Documentation Specialist, Enersul you? The lasting impact Mines had on me of Cs and Ds at Mines, like I did . Don’t for grades 4–6 students; and a 20-year anni- Mines grad? No What personal goals do you have to Inc . is focused on two areas: 1) personal pride quit because it’s “too hard,” hang in there versary booklet for CSM’s Alpha Delta/ carry you into the next century? I keep in accomplishing the difficult task of and just graduate! Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority in 1995 . LIFE AT MINES trying to make a difference (i .e, “do some Mines Degree: BSc . Math ., ’79 graduating from such a rigorous curricu- Regarding life in general, I would tell Biggest Challenges: Frank Hadsell’s good”) but still have a sane and balanced lum, and the continual experience of her to …make up your mind one way or What personal goals do you have to courses—graduate level linear systems . life . I want to still be skiing and climbing Spouse’s Name: Larry Heikel respect and job success because of a the other about having children versus a carry you into the next century? Publish mountains when I’m 65! Mines grad? No degree from CSM (no matter what hap- career . Children need a mom who is novels and articles, and obtain a teaching Favorite Memories: Driving to Fairplay Children (#): 2, Ages: 13 and 11 pens in the industries, it’s held in high focused on being their mom . The rewards certificate so I can teach children and early in the mornings to go to GP field esteem around the world, just like we of taking off from work, at least during young adults . camp in the late summer . South Park was were always told); and 2) continuing rela- the years before a child goes to school, Maiden Name: Honer (still is) beautiful . tionships with students (mostly sorority will follow you the rest of your life, and Title: Sr . Project Engineer Maiden Name: Dorsey LIFE AT MINES Biggest Challenges: One of my biggest members) . your child’s life . If you end up with a “First woman to . . .” at Mines: First Title: Senior Reservoir Geologist career-and-child(ren) dilemma, don’t Mines Degree: BSc . CPR, ’74, MSc . ’97 challenges was being overwhelmed with CSM woman to be a State Geologist; First the volume and time involved in doing What would you tell a woman student delude yourself into thinking that your Env . Mgmt . & Policy CSM grad to be Colorado State Geologist . Professional Certifications, Registrations, at Mines today? Regarding classes, company or profession can’t do without and Titles: AAPG—Registered Petroleum homework and keeping up with new con- cepts . WOW . In my junior and senior homework, tests, grades, graduating, I you . It can . You can be replaced at the Spouse’s Name: Donald What would you tell a woman student Geologist in Processing would tell her to …balance out the aca- office so fast it’ll make your head spin . Mines grad? No years I don’t think I ever got all of my at Mines today? Build a strong network homework done . Also, I lost interest dur- demics with fun activities and organiza- Not so with your child . No one can Children (#): 1, Ages: 13 (son) of female friends—on campus or off— Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’76 tions; this is a unique time of your life replace a Mom . ing my junior year, and it was a challenge find a support system . Nurture your sense to finish and graduate! with relatively few responsibilities (such LIFE AT MINES of humor! LIFE AT MINES as a spouse, children, or a mortgage) . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Biggest Challenges: Being a “co-ed,” i .e ., Biggest Challenges: Surviving a heavy You can “live it up” even at Mines, and it Favorite Memories: Freshman orienta- GRADUATION female at Mines HIGHLIGHTS SINCE course load especially taking surveying tion: traditions, dances, painting the “M”, will energize you for the grind of study- Current Professional Field: Sulphur during the fall, and the year following ing, too . GRADUATION songfest/egg throw, SO MANY MEN (I Processing Favorite Memories: Freshman year in Current Professional Filed: Public agen- when I worked all summer . was walking across Green Center com- Get a realistic understanding of what Job experiences: Since graduation I have Caldwell Hall—all 12 of us job opportunities your degree will open cy sciences mons and asked a young man, “Aren’t worked in ocean research, college admin- Favorite Memories: Clear blue skies there any girls here ANYWHERE?!” He for you . There are at least two of us that I istration, petroleum software, math tutor, “First woman to . . .” at Mines: I after rain or the first snowfall . know who were surprised after graduation Job experiences: Oil biz: 1977–1993 took me to the I-Club and introduced me contract technical support, Hewlett-Packard believe—first woman named 1) As an oil company geophysicist— to Ace Van Lieu, who in turn walked with

A Century of Women at Mines 32 The Seventies: The Caldron The Seventies: The Caldron 33 A Century of Women at Mines Job experiences: Taught variety of geo- What would you tell a woman student “First woman to . . .” at Mines: I think I Maiden Name: Balderston (graduated GRADUATION HIGHLIGHTS SINCE physics, electrical engineering and honors at Mines today? Stick with it – you can was first female Homecoming chairman, Sauls) Current Professional Field: Homemaker, GRADUATION classes . Research in electrical properties do anything . but not sure . I was co-chair of the Title: Mrs . volunteer in public schools, Cub Scout Current Professional Field: Creating of earth materials . Active in K–12 con- Centennial Homecoming, 1974 (as Joni den leader corporate well log database for Marathon nections with higher education . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Hiltrop) . I was a founding sister of the Professional Certifications, Oil Co . GRADUATION first sorority on campus, Alpha Delta (as Registrations, and Titles: Active mem- Job experiences: 18 years—Geophysics Publications: As an academic, I have a Current Professional Field: Manager at Joni Hiltrop) . We named it Alpha Delta ber Society Exploration Geophysicists 1978–1988, Phillips Petroleum—seismic Job experiences: Seismic work for long list with over 50 published papers home . Nearly 10 years with a major oil for the Beginning of Change . Since the processing, seismic stratigraphy, interpre- Phillips Petroleum; well log work for and abstracts . company before starting my family Department of Chemistry and Geo­ Mines Degree: BSc . Math . ’76 tation, Bartlesville, Okla . and Denver, Marathon Oil . chemistry, just added the Geochemistry in Other Degree(s): MS ’78, St . Univ . Colo .; 1988-1996 Mobil Oil—interpreta- Special Interests Outside Work: Special Interests Outside Work: the fall of 1976, I would have been the NY—Stony Brook tion, production geophysics, Midland, Special Interests Outside Work: Quilting Music—play violin in local orchestra Genealogy, quilting first female graduate with a degree in Texas . (Ever­green Chamber Orchestra) and at Geochemistry, MSc . ’76 (degree under Spouse’s Name: Ernest R . (Rick) Professional Certifications, church weekly . Also do freelance playing . Other significant achievements (includ- maiden name of Jennings) . Alexander Special Interests Outside Work: Registrations, and Titles: Professional ing family): I have a spouse and three Mines grad? No Touring the United States, learning about Engineer, Cert­ified Profes­sional Other significant achievements (includ- wonderful children that I adore . What lasting Degree: BS EE ’88, CU other people, places, culture, history; sew- Geologist, Formerly Associate Professor ing family): Five children: Margaret (b . impact did you Children (#): 3, Ages: 8, 11, 14 ing, crafts, and making useful items out of Catherine Skokan 1974); Jacob (b . 1976); Paul (b . 1978); What personal goals do you have to have on Mines? discards Degree(s): BSc . ’60, Alfred University; Thomas (b . 1982); Mary (b . 1984) . Took a carry you into the next century? To I’d like to think LIFE AT MINES M .A . ’63, Columbia University; PhD . ’68, sabbatical in the 1995–96 school year and teach my children that they can do any- that by attend- Biggest Challenges: “Make it or break it” Other significant achievements (includ- Columbia University worked with Adams 50 School District to thing they wish to if they learn how . ing Mines and completing the graduate reputation of the whole Basic Engineering ing family): Mother of three fine sons, introduce a pre-engineering curriculum program, I became a part of the incremen- Department . who are just AWESOME; wife of a won- Spouse’s Name: William J . C . Merrill for 11th and 12th grades and “classroom” Maiden Name: Jennings tal increase of women in the sciences that derful man who is dedicated to the family Mines grad? No tested it . would allow other women to view the sci- Favorite Memories: Freshman year— Title: Energy Trading Representative ences as a viable option for themselves, Florence Caldwell Dormitory for What personal goals do you have to What personal goals do you have to and to see Mines as a means to achieve it . LIFE AT MINES women—forming life long friendships via carry you into the next century? The Biggest Challenges: Getting senior staff’s carry you into the next century? Mines Degree: MSc . Geochem . ’76 comaraderie . Autumn—the smell of the Golden Rule—treating other people as I’d respect Continue learning!! Get a few more What lasting impact did Mines have on air, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the want to be treated; enjoy what’s here and degrees . you? To successfully experience, that Other Degree(s): BS BioChem . ’69 Cal beauty of the campus, the sense of now, as well as look forward Favorite Memories: 1) Most of my stu- when I believe in my goal, even if it State Polytech College, San Luis Obispo belonging . dents . 2) Field Camp . 3) Many of my col- Maiden Name: Johnson seems that I am standing still, as long as I Maiden Name: Gancar leagues—faculty and staff . Spouse’s Name: Jim Stickney continue to focus on that goal, I am mak- “First woman to . . .” at Mines: Of the Title: Sr . Data Analyst Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’78 ing progress . Mines grad? No, Episcopal priest 25 women in my freshmen class (fall, Mines Degree: Geop . E . ’70 “First woman to . . .” at Mines: teach Children (#): 2, Ages: 19 & 22 ’73), most of us graduated (16) and Geological Engineering Spouse’s Name: Dwight Smith What would you tell a woman student enjoyed professional careers . We went to LIFE AT MINES What lasting impact did you have on Mines grad? Yes at Mines today? Hang in there . If you Mines to get a good education . We went Biggest Challenges: The discrimination Mines? Women CAN teach male and Year: ’78 LIFE AT MINES make it through Mines, you can make it Biggest Challenges: Finding a place to to Mines not as pioneers, but as “sustain- in the classes offered to the women in terms female engineers Degree: BSc . Geop . anywhere . ers” — proving that women are not of reaching the Children (#): 3, Ages: 11, 8, 5 live when I arrived . Getting through the anomalies, but regular students . required number What lasting impact did Mines have on bureaucracy and mindset that I wanted to Title: Vice President and Director of Joni Stickney take classes to of semester you? The “family” of Mines provides LIFE AT MINES Contract Management Services What lasting impact did you have on hours needed for Judith Schenk learn, not just backup worldwide . Biggest Challenges: I think the biggest Mines? None that I know of . Perhaps I graduation; that for credit; that Mines Degree: BSc . Met . ’72, MSc . Min . challenge was staying on top of all sub- positively influenced a few individuals . is, there was no What would you tell a woman student just because I Ec . ’77 jects while still allowing a little time for was married, physical educa- at Mines today? “Illigitimi non carborun- life on the outside . didn’t mean I didn’t still have to work and Regina Smith What lasting tion or R .O .T .C . dum?” Just keep working and you will pay for my own schooling; that just LIFE AT MINES (Jeanie) impact did credit and so we succeed—and have fun and friends along Favorite Memories: I enjoyed the intelli- because I married a professor didn’t mean Biggest Challenges: Becoming “one of Mines have on had to make up the way . gence of Mines . I enjoyed the climb to the I should lose my teaching assistantship; the guys” you? I have the that portion with M both times and the sports, whether we self-confidence to tackle challenging proj- that just because I was pregnant, didn’t real classes, HIGHLIGHTS SINCE won or not . Favorite Memories: Being “one of the guys” ects . whose grades mean my mind stopped functioning nor GRADUATION was I instantly fragile . counted toward our G .P .A . “First woman to . . .” at Mines: I believe “First woman to . . .” at Mines: be a What would you tell a woman student Current Professional Field: Retired/disabled (arthritis) I was one of the first women at Mines to Favorite Memories: Walking the ore cart Mines co-ed cheerleader; be student body at Mines today? Believe in yourself . Favorite Memories: The sound of the earn a letter . It was for the rifle team . treasurer; graduate in Met ., belong to the Depend on yourself . Mines is worth the carillon . down to the Capitol; finishing geology Job experiences: Teaching night school field camp; when spring crocus peak school’s drinking club (Press Club) struggle . You’ll cherish your Mines mem- What lasting impact did Mines have on ories, so make the most of the whole “First woman to . . .” at Mines: to in New York through the snow; walking across stage at City in the ’60s; you? I learned to solve problems well . What lasting impact did you have on experience there! receive a professional degree in Geo­ Pamela Tittes graduation receiving my silver diploma, teaching geo- Every problem has an answer, eventually . my 10-month old son waiting for me . Mines? Changed the semester system to physical Engineering . end before Christmas (circulated a petition HIGHLIGHTS SINCE logical engi-

A Century of Women at Mines 34 The Seventies: The Caldron The Seventies: The Caldron 35 A Century of Women at Mines “Outstanding Senior CPR Student” no recognition . Don’t let work take over Other Degree(s): J .D . Law, 1985, your life . Make and take time for yourself Harvard Law School What lasting impact did Mines have on What lasting impact did you have on and your family every day . Enjoy life to you? Learned to work hard, figure things Mines? I broke the biggest beaker used in its fullest . You only get one chance and Spouse’s Name: Nathan Z . Korn out, and awarded CSM Scholarship at CPR lab . you never know how long you have . Mines grad? No Harvard Business School

What lasting impact did Mines have on HIGHLIGHTS SINCE LIFE AT MINES What would you tell a woman student you? Logical approach to problems GRADUATION I went to Colorado School of Mines at Mines today? Work hard! Participate! Current Professional Field: because I liked rocks . I grew up in Stay in touch with the non-technical What would you tell a woman student Architectural Technology Denver, saw the old mines, collected rock aspect of life—the arts . Treat yourself to a at Mines today? Persevere—but for a samples, and loved the history . It was a nice dinner out . lifetime . Job experiences: Mining engineer Utah natural to go into metallurgical engineer- International, Cedar City, Utah; mining ing and I focused on mineral processing . I HIGHLIGHTS SINCE HIGHLIGHTS SINCE engineer/Mine, Health & Safety Inspector, later went to work at Kennecott Copper, GRADUATION GRADUATION Mine Enforcement & Safety Admin ., as a front-line foreman . It wasn’t until this Current Professional Field: Biotech­ Current Professional Field: Engineering Lakewood, Colo .; lab tech ., U .S .G .S Oil first job that I really found out what min- nology, business executive & Gas Resources, Denver Federal Center; ing and metallurgical engineering were all Job experiences: Two years in petroleum mining engineer, Minerals Availability about; it’s not about rock collecting . Work Job experiences: 1) Procter & Gamble refining; 8 years in synfuels; 12 years in Field Office, Bureau of Mines, Denver is all about communications (writing, per- 1977–1982: Process Development nuclear waste/environmental/engineering Federal Center; house painter, Denver, sonnel, management) and making a profit Engineer, Section Head, Product Kathleen M. Colo ., architectural technologist, The or obtaining funding . The skills I learned Development 2) Amgen 1984–1998: Wiltsey Professional ground-breaking experi- Keating Partnership, Golden, Colo . in the mining industry have been invalu- Business Development Manager; ences: First woman engineer hired in able in my law firm . Co-Product Development Team Leader; refining division at ARCO Special Interests Outside Work: Mines was not difficult for me aca- Marketing Director; Vice President, Volunteered with Habitat for Humanity demically . I was a very good student and Product Licensing Special Interests Outside Work: BSA for two years while I was out of work . graduated at the top of my class . When I (Boy Scouts of America) leader Was asked to be field supervisor for HFH went to Harvard, I was just average . That Professional ground-breaking experi- Woman’s Build Project; do volunteer was difficult . I recommend to everyone ences: Excellent first job at Procter & Other significant achievements (includ- work for the National Park Service at who is in undergraduate school to get Gamble; MBA; Joining a start-up compa- ing family): Camped in 5-ft zone—bliz- Carlsbad Cavern, N .M ., Wind Cave, S .D ., good grades; it is essential if you want to ny that succeeded zard of ’97 and Jewel Cave, S .D . get into a good graduate school . Even though I had a high grade point average Special Interests Outside Work: My What personal goals do you have to Other significant achievements (includ- for Mines, it was the lowest level accept- daughters, Alexandra and Whitney; family carry you into the next century? Help ing family): Have taken four abused and ed by Harvard . You compete with students trips; music, opera, performing arts clean up Rocky Flats . neglected dogs and given them love and from other disciplines who can more easi- attention . Watched these four dogs plus ly get straight “A” averages . I thought I Other significant achievements (includ- my other two would never go to school again, but later ing family): We are fortunate to have a Karen L. Tonso turn into out- did decide to get another degree . nice home and the ability to enjoy a lot of Maiden Name: Thielen standing and The strangest thing about Mines, family activities with our daughters . Both loyal compan- which continued into the working envi- of us have become VP’s, and John is now Professional Certifications, ions . ronment of the mining industry, were the a COO at a high tech start-up company . Registrations, and Titles: Mining stares from all the guys . In 1974, there Engineer, Architectural Technologist What personal goals do you have to were only about 10% women, so there What personal goals do you have to carry you into the next century? 1) To was constant scrutiny of every move . carry you into the next century? Be a Mines Degree: BSc . Min ., ’73 be happy and unstressed . To work no Then, I got used to the stares and was sur- good parent; enjoy more family time; Other Degree(s) AAS ’97, FRCC more than absolutely necessary to be able prised when I went to a mall and no one work with great people on another start- to keep my dogs in dog food and to allow even looked at me! up . LIFE AT MINES me to continue with my volunteer work . What would you tell a woman student 2) To design and build my own home . Biggest Challenges: The biggest chal- Additional Comments: An engineering at Mines today? Be 100% positive you lenge I had at Mines was the year my dad want to be an engineer . Be ready to put up Title: President died . He died of a heart attack, unexpect- degree is a terrific asset for a woman, and a with flagrant discrimination and harass- edly, at 56 years old . I got married three strong foundation to build a career on . It ment . Stand tall & straight—it shows con- Professional Certifications, days later (the wedding was in motion and certifies you in math and science . fidence and pride . Conduct yourself with Registrations, and Titles: Professional we felt com- pelled to contin- dignity at all times . Stand up for yourself, Engineer New Mexico 1986; Professional Janice D. ue), to a “bad don’t be intimidated . Women are permit- Engineer Colorado 1983 Williams ted to work in “male” professions but we apple” who later are still not wanted there . Be ready to Mines Degree: BSc . Met . ’78, died of sub- work longer and harder for less pay and stance abuse . I was no longer receiving

A Century of Women at Mines 36 The Seventies: The Caldron The Seventies: The Caldron 37 A Century of Women at Mines and got over 1000 signatures out of student 12 states (both teams) to play exhibition 1975–81; Sr . Reservoir Engineer—Central body of approximately 1700); sat on com- rugby in England, Scotland, and Wales . Bank of Denver, 1981–87; College teach- mittees on this for more than one year . ing—Metro State, CU—Boulder, and What personal goals do you have to UNC, 1987–present What lasting impact did Mines have on carry you into the next century? I’m you? Gave me a world of opportunity, constantly striving to grow—in both Professional ground-breaking experi- and a lifetime of friends . knowledge and experiences (professional- ences: 1995—Outstanding Paper ly and personally) . This hasn’t changed American Society of Engineering What would you tell a woman student since I left Mines, and I don’t expect it to Education, “Discourse in an Engineering at Mines today? You have to decide what change after 2000 . Classroom: Whose Talk Counts?” you want in life and do what you have to do to get it . Don’t let other people decide Additional Comments: I’m satisfied Publications: Too numerous to list what’s important to you and what isn’t . with where I’ve been and where I am Any decision is a good decision as long as now . My goal is to feel the same when Special Interests Outside Work: Play it’s your decision . I’m 90 . piano, garden, backpacking

HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Maiden Name: Larson Other significant achievements (includ- GRADUATION Title: Dr . ing family): Fellow – American Current Professional Field: Consultant Education/ Research Association/Spencer to construction companies and construc- Professional Certifications, Foundation, 1994–95; 1998 Selina tion project owners on contract dispute Registrations, and Titles: Secondary Greenberg Distinguished Dissertation mitigation Mathematics Education, Educational Award, Am . Educational Research Foundations, Policy & Practices Association, Special Interest Group: Job experiences: Kennecott Copper— Research on Women and Education metallurgical engineer in smelter and Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’72 electrolytic refinery; Westinghouse—pro- What personal goals do you have to cess metallurgist in uranium solution min- Other Degree(s): MA ’90, CU—Denver; carry you into the next century? ing; 2nd Lead Industry—process metallur- PhD . ’97, CU—Boulder Continuing to document the wide variety gist and manager in secondary lead smelt- of experiences that women and men engi- ing and refining; Business Development/ Spouse’s Name: Thomas E . Kelley neering students (and practicing engi- Sales of process engineering services and Mines grad? No neers) have . mineral processing equipment; Children (#): 5: Sarah & Emily Tonso, The 1980s Construction—contract administration, Sean, Maria, & Andrew Kelley Maiden Name: Goodrich disputes avoidance and resolution Grandchildren (#): 1 Title: Deputy Director, Groundwater/ Vadose Zone/Columbia River Project The transition- Professional ground-breaking experi- LIFE AT MINES Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’78 ences: First woman in Kennecott’s copper Biggest Challenges: Passing Fluids with refinery (Utah) and first woman in plant Dr . Faddick Spouse’s Name: Bruce A . Williams al Years at Kennecott’s Utah smelter . Favorite Memories: Surveying—all Mines grad? Yes Publications: “Custom Precious Metal summer Year: ’80 Smelting,” The Mining Record, 1982; Degree: BSc . Geol . “Coal Ash Fusion and Boiler Deposits,” “First woman to . . .” at Mines: (of 3) to Children (#): 2, Ages: Dallas 10, Troy 7 State Electricity Commission of attend geology field camp Queensland, 1977; “Managing “Killer” LIFE AT MINES Clauses in Construction Contracts,” What lasting impact did you have on Biggest Challenges: Trying to grow up CFMA Building Profits, 1997 Mines? Most likely my doctoral disserta- surrounded by men! tion: “Constructing Engineers Through Special Interests Outside Work: Skiing, Practice—Gendered Features of Learning Favorite Memories: Starting an annual hiking, travel . Currently a Major in the & Identity Development” “Casino Night”; trips to Central City, U .S . Air Force Reserve in the position of “hat” parties at the old house, and hang- Chief of Bioenvironmental Engineering HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ing out with the lacrosse team . (And there was Bob, Russell, Doug, Mar, Dave, Services for the 452 Medical Squadron, GRADUATION March ARB, Calif . Mike, and…) My “anti-favorite Memory” Current Professional Field: Professor of was geology field camp . Women’s Studies, Anthropology, & Other significant achievements (includ- Education ing family): Arbitrator with American “First woman to . . .” at Mines: . . . to sign up for weight training! Yes, the coach Arbitration Association since 1987 . Job experiences: Engineer—CONOCO, Played rugby for 12 years, and organized did try to explain to me how I must have Hobbs, N .M ., 1973–75; Reservoir accidentally signed up for the wrong class . a ground-breaking tour of 35 women from Engineer—Marathon, Littleton, Colo . –

A Century of Women at Mines 38 The Seventies: The Caldron A Century of Women at Mines 39 A Century of Women at Mines Mines grad? Yes 1986 Year: ’75 Other significant achievements (including • Space shuttle Degree: BSc . CPR family): Two fine, independent sons who are Challenger explosion The Eighties on take off, killing all 7 Children (#) 2, Ages: 21, 22 . Son, Roger, is a nicely transitioned into friends who trade advice . crew members Mines Grad (BSc . CPR ’98) Personally, have integrated over 30 separate per- • Chernobyl Reactor sonalities into one person who looks toward the Accident, fire and The Transitional Years LIFE AT MINES future and enjoys life . (Ain’t it great! I didn’t explosion release Biggest Challenges: Getting my BSc . having know what I was missing!) large amount of radio- active debris into Multiple Personality Disorder where three separate atmosphere personalities that did not communicate,­­ attended What personal goals do you have to carry you • Rita Levi-Montalcini into the next century? My personal goals right Timeline present: self-employed consulting engineer; classes, did homework, and took tests . Funny part is becomes Nobel laure- now don’t have a lot to do with being a profes- ate in medicine The 1980s: 1991–present: designing and producing ceramic that I found out it was unusual about eight years sional . I want to teach kids who don’t have a The jewelry later . Transitional Favorite Memories: Drafting TA drew a tree great opportunity to find out how much fun sci- 1987 Years ence and learning can be . • Congress releases the Professional ground-breaking experiences: and a park bench on one of my best efforts and report on the Iran wrote that I forgot to put the flowers on; and Contra investigation 1980 First woman Control Center Supervisor for using the “pencil hand” for the right hand screw Additional Comments: I started at Mines in • The Senate rejects the • Yugoslavian President Chevron Pipe Line Co . 1971, went back in 1979 and 1998 . The place has nomination of Judge Tito dies rule being left handed . changed much in the past 20 years but the chang- Robert Bork for the • Mount St. Helens Special Interests Outside Work: Environ­­mental es are superficial and some are not at all superfi- Supreme Court erupts Advisory Committee for the 2002 Winter “First woman to . . .” at Mines: to embarrass a • CERCLA, or cial . I just hope it keeps the small school atmo- Olympics in Salt Lake City man by being walked in on in the men’s room 1988 “Superfund,” enacted sphere . Co-eds relaxing on campus because I didn’t want to walk to the Physics • Gertrude Elion Maiden Name: Crumb Other significant achievements (including building becomes Nobel laure- 1981 Title: Sr . Applications Engineer ate in medicine • Iranian hostage crisis family): I’ve been writing non-fiction as a which began 1979 What lasting impact did you have on Mines? hobby, and have had two articles published in 1989 ends Probably none Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’84 local magazines . • Tienanmen Square…. • President Reagan shot student resistance in assassination What lasting impact did Mines have on you? Spouse’s Name: Paul H . Wolfe ended in massacre attempt What personal goals do you have to carry you Being a Mines student taught me that I can do Mines grad? Yes • Exxon Valdez runs • US launched first into the next century? I’m hoping to expand my Year: ’84 aground and spills reusable manned anything I put my mind to, even if it takes a ceramics business, write a family memoir, and nearly 11 million gal- spacecraft, space while . Degree: BSc Pet . do more volunteer work . lons of crude oil into shuttle Columbia Children (#): 2, Ages: 9, 6 Prince William Sound • Sandra Day O’Connor Additional Comments: Sorry I’m missing the What would you tell a woman student at became first woman Mines today? Don’t worry as much about grades on the U.S. Supreme centennial, but thank you for undertaking this LIFE AT MINES Homecoming Court, 1981 Court project . as learning what you have fun learning . If you Biggest Challenges: Be a student-athlete while learn what you want to learn, you are set for life . passing classes; CPR Field Camp 1982 Maiden Name: Dickerhoof Also, the analogy of needing fertilizer (compost, • Falklands War Title: Homemaker (full time), Creative manure . . .) to grow the flowers out of . Favorite Memories: E-Days were always the Memories Consultant (part time) BEST TIMES! While President of the student 1983 section of SWE, we hosted the Regional • Sally Ride became the HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Conference at CSM first American woman Mines Degree: BSc Phy . ’87 GRADUATION astronaut to travel in Current Professional Field: Student space Spouse’s Name: Gary M . Scott What lasting impact did you have on Mines? • Barbara McClintock Mines grad? Yes Job experiences: since graduation—in order: Helped build a strong SWE student section . becomes Nobel laure- Helped make softball a varsity sport for women ate in medicine Year: ’87 worked for an oil and gas company; stayed home Degree: BSc . Pet . with kids; worked in a sports car shop, worked What lasting impact did Mines have on you? 1984 Children (#): 2, Ages: 1, 3 Co-eds compete in cross-cut, spring of 1982 for the Disney Catalog, several depts .; and vol- • AIDS virus identified unteer work with kids in school, as mentor and Prepared me to function technically and profes- • Bhopal, India, leak of tutor sionally/socially in a male-dominated workplace . poisonous gas from HIGHLIGHTS SINCE pesticide plant kills GRADUATION Professional ground-breaking experiences: What would you tell a woman student at over 2000 people Current Professional Field: Homemaker; Mines today? With a degree from Mines, the • Geraldine Ferraro is First woman reservoir engineer for my company Creative Memories Consultant—help­ people pre- opportunities are endless . Find a mentor—and the first woman to run serve their memories & photographs in photo straight out of school . First woman allowed into for Vice President of several Petroleum Clubs—mostly in small towns . hold on tight! the U.S. safe albums Publications: None in the engineering field HIGHLIGHTS SINCE 1985 Job experiences: IBM—Systems Engineer: • The movie “Out of Initially I supported marketing teams for electric GRADUATION Africa” is released utilities . After installing a large document imaging Special Interests Outside Work: Needle work, Current Professional Field: Sales & Market­ ­ing for — continued on page 41 1984 Ski Team weaving, piano, flute, sax, reading, and writing industrial equipment manufacturer

A Century of Women at Mines 40 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 41 A Century of Women at Mines s late as 1984, the new CSM Director of Student Job experiences: NALCO Chemical Co ., Sales Engineer, 1985– Activities was quoted as saying, “All I’d heard (about 1988; Eagle-Picher Industries (aerospace batteries), Project AMines) was… .how there were no women on campus .”1 Manager, 1988–1990; Svedala Industries (Formerly Denver While this was still Mines’ reputation, reality had changed . Equip . now alias ‘Filter Queen’), Applications Eng ., 1990–pres- The 1980s were the decade when women finally had a size- ent able presence at the Colorado School of Mines . The average graduating class of this decade had 91 women . This was over a Professional ground-breaking experiences: Have presented 600% increase from the average for the previous decade . In fact, three technical papers (one in Peru) . Worldwide travel in 1986, there were 126 CSM graduates who were women . Between 1980 and 1983, eight Mines women had each obtained Special Interests Outside Work: Colorado­ High School volley- a PhD .,2 tripling the total number of doctorates CSM had grant- ball official ed to women . Among this group was Ramona Graves, the first Subcommittee co-chair for ‘Girl Power’ program to be hosted by woman in the U .S . to obtain a doctorate in Petroleum Colorado Springs AAUW (American Association of University Engineering . Women) This acceleration of women graduating from CSM appears to have at least two sources . First, it reflected the women’s Other significant achievements (including family): 1994 movement in America; the beginning of the ’80s saw continuing Cheerleader 1989 Sandy Craig, Marianne Brozovich and another co-ed present a Blue Key Young Leader Award for Colorado from American Association of national debate on the women’s movement and the Equal Rights shirt to an unidentified gentlemen. University Women, 1996 and 1997—President of Pikes Peak sec- Amendment . Second, reflecting the downturn in the oil and met- tion of Society of Women Engineers als industry, the school’s focus was moving away from mining and petroleum and towards an increased focus on mineral eco- What personal goals do you have to carry you into the next nomics, environmental sciences, and basic engineering pro- century? Raise two sons . Continue to mentor young women to grams . enter the career fields of technical science and math, by volun- The fact that women were an established presence at Mines teering through SWE and AAUW . was being noticed . The January 1984 issue of Mines Magazine focused on women at Mines and their influence on the school 3. Maiden Name: Weers Included in this issue were articles on the first women PhD . Title: Engineer/ Pharmacist graduates from Mines and an article discussing the impact of women administrators and faculty at Mines . In the same issue Professional Certifications, Registrations,­ and Titles: EIT, BS of Mines Magazine, it was noted that two Mines women had Engineering, Pharmacy RPIT, Graduate work at CU—Denver been included in the University of Michigan’s videotape series, “Women in Science .” By the end of the decade, CSM publica- Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’84 tions placed little special focus on coeds . It appears that women Other Degree(s): Chemical BS ’81, CU Pharmacy School had become an accepted part of the Mines community and no longer warranted special attention . In the latter part of the Spouse’s Name: Rick R . Woodward decade, these publications shift their special focus to other Mines grad? No minorities on campus . Children (#): 2, Ages: 1, 3 This decade showed the first two significant drops in women graduates . Both of these drops can be attrib- Janet Green paints the “M,” 1981 LIFE AT MINES uted primarily to economic forces . The first drop Anne Ralph, 1989 Biggest Challenges: My biggest challenge was working and occurred 1981 when the number of women graduates going to school . decreased to 71 from the previous year’s 99 . This drop mirrored a general decline in enrollment and coincided with a reduction­ in the demand for engineers: “…(in 1981), some 150 companies conducted 4,165 inter- views with the new BS degree holders from the School of Mines and offered 138 jobs…But in December 1982, only 85 companies conducted 2,432 interviews at the school and offered 33 jobs .”4 The number of women graduates resumed its climb in 1982, and reached a high of 126 women graduates in 1986 . This was followed by four consec- utive years of decline to a low of 74 women gradu- ates in 1990 . As with American society in general, women were establishing their own culture within the larger institution . In 1980, 16% of the student body was female5, and it was quickly becoming unusual to find a class with just one coed . Women’s groups, such as Swim meet, 1989 Mines band Environmental field camp Haime Kim at graduation

The Eighties: The Transitional Years A Century of Women at Mines 42 The Eighties: The Transitional Years 43 A Century of Women at Mines When reflecting on their time at tive about how husbands . Many have taken temporary CSM, most of the women from this Deborah A. the company can “outs” for children . Many have changed Mines decade mention how they were changed Chapman help you .” careers . Women and strengthened by their experience . Not These women Not surprisingly, these women are Alumnae uncommon is Becca Wissbaum’s com- frequently were helping bring about a transition in the pri- (1980–1989) ment, “Being a Mines student taught me on the forefront of transitions in the work- oritization of work and personal life . In biographical summaries that I can do anything I put my mind to, place . Several women sited first in job the stated goals, the common themes even if it takes a settings, including the first woman rig included an emphasis on balance and fam- while .” At least supervisor in the Norwegian North Sea, ily life . As Beth McBride said, her goal is Judith L. Bolis one woman tied the first woman allowed into several to “Semi-retire! To have time to travel, this strengthen- Petroleum Clubs, and the first woman raise family, pursue other interests, stay the Society of movement . In the wake of the failure of SWE hosted the ing to the rigors underground at a number of mines over- involved in the oil and gas industry .” And Kathleen Women the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982, the first Society of Candy Ammerman encountered at the school . Several women seas . As at school, these women were part as for the future generations, and the most A. Altmann Engineers women’s movement advanced from con- Women remembered, often with delight, some of of the transitions the workplace and part common goal is summed up by Lisa (SWE) and the frontational to a more moderated, self- Engineers the low points of their scholastic careers . of the shifting focus of feminism . Instead Woodward, “My personal goal is raising sororities, were accepting style . Region V Mary Pott recalls her biggest challenges, of ignoring the fact that a woman is dif- responsible, happy, and healthy children .” firmly estab- Some of this growing acceptance on Conference held at a Colorado school 11. “Physics II – took it three times! Also ferent, Elizabeth Robinson suggests, lished . campus also came from the increasing Even the School’s Board of Trustees learning how to pick myself up after fail- “Balancing professionalism and feminini- The profession- number of women included in familial became co-ed in the ’80s . The first ure and moving forward…I never failed at ty in all-male groups of colleagues in a al woman’s Mines traditions . It had never been woman ever to serve on the Board of anything before attending Mines, and, way that earned me both respect and “dress for suc- uncommon for men to be part of a family Trustees was June Leaver, nonvoting stu- therefore, I never knew what I was really affection gave me the greatest satisfac- cess” formula tradition of attending CSM . Now a grow- dent representative for 1980-81 5. Sandy capable of accomplishing .” Still, these tion .” Graduation Name: Riddle presents a good ing number of the women students were Craig became the second woman to serve women had a lot of good memories, A look at the accomplishments of Title: Senior Metallurgist parallel for the daughters, sisters, or wives of Miners . as student representative to the Board of including E-Day, various professors, field these women shows just how well they’ve role that coeds were taking in the Mines Examples of this include Cathy Mencin, Trustees in 1981 12. sessions, and classmates . Patricia succeeded . For example, Deborah Mines Degree: BSc . Met . Eng . ’80 community . In the first half of the decade, daughter of a Mines alumnus, and sisters With the changes in the school’s Cummings recalls her favorite memories Schwabach is on the Environmental Other Degree(s): M .S . Met . Eng . ’94, the dress for success look was effectively Kerry and Christie Caldwell . All three makeup came inevitable growing pains . In as “Summer field course, meeting Ken, Advisory Committee for the 2002 Winter University of Nevada, Reno a woman’s version of a man’s suit . were students at CSM in early ’80s . response to feedback received by mineralogy labs…” Her comment about Olympics firms, Susan Poos was the Women were trying to establish them- This decade did not see a significant President McBride and Dean of Faculty, meeting her future husband is an appro- Chief Engineer at a three-million-ton per Children (#): 4, Ages: 28, 26, 20, 18 selves as “one of the guys” by doing the change in the number or type of activities William Mueller, the School commis- priate reminder that about half of the mar- year coal mine and Candy Ammerman is same things the men did . For example, in which women were involved 7. In the sioned a report to evaluate Mines as a ried respondents were married to Mines frequently recognized by the students for Grandchildren (#): 3 Laura Klein recalls being the arm wres- 1980 yearbook, women are shown partici- work place for women . This report was men . On many levels, CSM had a lasting her teaching skills at CSM . Several tling champion three years running prior pating in 22 clubs or organizations and called the Conway Report, but was actual- impact on all their lives . women have their own consulting firms, to her graduation in 1982 . Photos from seven sports . There were three women’s ly titled “The Climate Report,” authored LIFE AT MINES When asked what they would tell a and several of the women have published the yearbooks and from Mines Magazine intercollegiate teams: basketball, soccer, by Jean Conway . The objective of the Biggest woman student at Mines today, the technical docu- of the early ’80s show women participat- and volleyball . Women participated on report was to investigate and articulate Catherine Challenges: answers about school focused on persis- ments, and a ing in the drilling competition and in the coed teams in swimming and diving, ski possible inequities in the work place for Collins GETTING tence, perspective, and priorities . Cho Nai Cheung few have beer drinking competition . The need to team, track, and bowling . The 1989 year- women at CSM . The report provided sev- DONE! Summing it up, Pamela Edrich said, received patents . prove that a woman can accomplish the book documents women participating in eral recommendations for the school to “Work hard . Learn all you can . Be An interesting same things as a man, the need to prove 28 clubs or organizations and 10 sports, improve perceptions of equity . 13 Favorite Memories: First year in the involved with school activities and form side note is that nearly a third of the themselves as “one of the guys,” began to including cross-country, softball, and Transition is also the theme running Women’s Residence Hall (before it was strong friendships . These will be some of women still in technical fields are work- fade in the middle of the decade . women’s swimming and diving team . through the survey response from the ’80s named Caldwell Hall .) the most memorable days of your life .” ing with environmental issues . While the As the decade progressed, a new era While the type of activities had not alumna 14. Whether in their memories of But as Beth McBride said, “There are majority of the respondents from this of women’s self-acceptance began to changed, there was a major transition in the school, their careers, their personal “First woman to . . .” at Mines: . . score a only 24 hours in a day .” decade are still working in technical fields emerge . This was again reflected in the women’s roles at CSM . Women assumed lives, or their plans for the future, these touchdown in the homecoming powder With respect to work, their recom- related to their degrees, many have been metaphor of women’s work attire: the suit leadership positions in all aspects of the women continue to see change as the puff football game . mendations reflect the continuing focus successful in other careers . Two of the and bow tie of the early ’80s gradually Mines community . An excellent example defining fact of their lives . As Allena on change for both the individual and respondents are lawyers, one is an auditor, shifted to a more feminine dress and scarf of this is found in the 1980 Mines Opper said, “Life is dealing with changes What lasting impact did you have on industry . Candy Ammerman stated, and several have successful careers in the by the end of the decade . While the Magazine which reported: “In student and challenges – Mines was a part of Mines? I hope I am becoming a better “don’t have a ‘chip on your shoulder’ arts . A large percentage of the respondents women of this decade were proud of their elections held this spring, twenty-eight that .” and better role model for younger women . because it’s difficult to be accepted as a balanced work with raising children, and accomplishments, the emerging sentiment percent or five out of eighteen student For some of the women, just attend- ‘woman engineer .’ You will be accepted several have chosen parenthood as their seems to have been summed up by a offices were won by women students, yet ing CSM was a transition . At least one What lasting impact did Mines have on when you are confident, open to construc- primary focus . It is a wonderfully diverse quote from Ramona Graves, “I get real women constitute only 16% of the student student had a previous degree in pharma- you? I learned how to set priorities and tive criticism and do your best work .” and successful group of women . tired of ‘look what women have done’ population .”5 Early in the ’80s, coeds cology, one had a degree in nursing, and establish goals when it is impossible to And Laura Klein said, “You don’t have to With this set of skills and talents, bal- stories . I never think about my gender . could be found chairing the E-Day com- several were wives and mothers . These get everything done! compromise values or personal goals to ance has been important to these women . I’ve often been the only woman in a class, mittee, serving as president of Blue Key,1 women were building on the precedence have a career . The workplace has The women of the ’80s have shown an or at a meeting, but I never think of and selected as E-Day Engineers 8,9. In set by previous generations of nontradi- What would you tell a woman student changed a lot and employers are more emphasis in their lives on managing mul- myself in those terms .”6 1980, Kathleen Rahm became the first tional students, including Florence at Mines today? IT IS WORTH IT!!!! flexible . But you will need to have tiple demands and interests . Several are The attitudes of the women at Mines woman appointed Cadet Lieutenant Caldwell, Betty Gibbs, Patricia Mosch, proved your value and need to be proac- working in the same company as their continued to parallel the national women’s Colonel .10 In 1984, the CSM chapter of and others . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE

A Century of Women at Mines 44 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 45 A Century of Women at Mines Exxon Baton Rouge Refinery; Design choose an engineering career such as civil! ball team, ski class, geothermal field trip ic chemistry any way you can! Engineer & Project Manager—6 years at What lasting impact did Mines have on to Hawaii Mines Degree: BSc . Geol .’80 Rocky Flats; Manager of various waste you? It made me realize I can do anything HIGHLIGHTS SINCE HIGHLIGHTS SINCE and environmental compliance groups—8 that I set my mind on . GRADUATION “First woman to . . .” at Mines: reach Spouse’s Name: Kenneth Ben Cummings GRADUATION years at Rocky Flats Current the “M” on freshmen “M Climb” in 1979 Mines grad? Yes Current Professional Field: Higher edu- What would you tell a woman student Professional Year: ’73 cation administration Professional ground-breaking experi- at Mines today? Continue using the What lasting impact did you have on Degree: BSc . Min . Patricia Cummings Field: Environ­ ences: Received 1st RCRA Operating determination used to survive at Mines mental consult- Mines? Revitalized SWE on CSM cam- Children (#): 2, Ages: 17,14 Special Interests Outside Work: Permit at Rocky Flats; implemented many throughout our life, but remember to look ing and litiga- pus as SWE President Quilting, historic buildings cost savings initiatives at all sides of an issue . tion support LIFE AT MINES What lasting impact did Mines have on Favorite Memories: Summer field Maiden Name: Woods Publications: Presented four papers at HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Special you? My CSM education enabled me to course, meeting Ken, mineralogy labs . Title: Technical Manager 1995, 1997, and 1998 Waste Management GRADUATION Interests find employment in a “down” market and Symposia Current Professional Field: Motherhood Outside Work: continued to open doors for a successful HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’82 Oriental art col- career thereafter . Special Interests Outside Work: GRADUATION Publications: Wrote and assisted on lecting, tandem Special Interests Outside Work: Spouse’s Name: Richard Edrich Spending time with my family, especially numerous maintenance manuals for elec- bicycling What would you tell a woman student Mines grad? Yes outdoor and musical activities, running, at Mines today? Participate in extracur- Ballroom dancing, ballet, Argentine trical power equipment tango, ultra-marathon cycling Year: ’82 flower gardening Other significant achievements (includ- ricular activities and be a well-rounded Degree: BSc . CPR, MSc . CPR ’86, person . Strive to achieve your personal Special Interests Outside Work: Pi Beta ing family): Elected to Board of Directors Other significant achievements (includ- Children (#): 2, Ages: 5, 8 Other significant achievements (includ- best and don’t let anyone steal your Phi,various crafts, sewing, outdoors of the Association of Ground Water ing family): Spring recital ’98—Pat and ing family): Married 13 years to a won- dreams . Commitment to excellence and Scientists and Engineers Ken Cummings choreographed and derful man; have two wonderful, though integrity will LIFE AT MINES Other significant achievements (includ- danced “Fire”, an Argentine tango, on Biggest Challenges: Learning how to misbehaved, children who want to go to always pay off . ing family): I ended my engineering What personal goals do you have to Pamela Woods stage in Costa Mesa, Calif . study—how to balance having fun with Mines; ran a half-marathon in 1996, and career to become a mother . We feel this is carry you into the next century? Edrich the boys and concentrating on classes . didn’t come in last . more important than any money I could Personal happiness Maiden Name: Carey earn . Title: Deputy Ex­ecutive Director Favorite Memories: Working with other What personal goals do you have to Additional Comments: Sorry I won’t be carry you into the next century? Raise HIGHLIGHTS SINCE teams of students on Senior Design Title: Consultant there Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’80: my daughters to be happy, healthy, confi- GRADUATION Project and Summer Labs, Dances, dent young women; remodel my bath- Current Professional Field: International Casino Night, Road Rally, E-Days Professional Certifications, Registrations, Maiden Name: Bensema Spouse’s Name: Doug Hart rooms! marketing and Titles: Certified Ground Water Mines grad? Yes What lasting impact did you have on Professional Mines Degree: BSc Geol . ’86 Year: ’92 Maiden Name: Thompson Job experiences: Exploration Mines? As E-Days Chairman, my com- Geophysicist, ARCO 1984–1987 (Texas); Degree: PhD . Math . mittee initiated the bike race up Mr . Zion . Mines Degree: MSc . Geochem . ’84 Spouse’s Name: Jim Children (#): 1, Age: 5 Professional Certifications, Regis­ Engineering Geologist, Zeiserkling I think they are still running the race at Other Degree(s): BSc . ’80, Southern Mines grad? No Consultants 1987–1995, (California) E-Days . trations, and Titles: EIT—Colorado Oregon University . Children (#): 2, Ages: 4½ and 1½ LIFE AT MINES Kim R. Green Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’89 Special Interests Outside Work: Travel, Biggest Challenges: 1) Staying out of What lasting Spouse’s Name: Jim Pastorick LIFE AT and mommy activities . trouble . 2) Keeping the fraternity guys impact did Mines grad? No Sharon Hart Spouse’s Name: Robert Farrar MINES from stealing everything in our house Mines have on Mines grad? Yes Biggest Other significant achievements (includ- you? Mines gave me a lot of self-confi- Year: ’88 LIFE AT MINES Challenges: To ing family): Retired from the engineering Favorite Memories: Drinking beer . Dean dence . I’m not afraid to tackle any job, Degree: BSc . Eng . Biggest Challenges: Due to my youth balance the demands of the classwork consulting business to enjoy motherhood of Students—Mike Nyikos because I know, with hard work, I can do it . Children (#): Two boys, Ages: 2 and 4 and sex I found it difficult to be accepted with the desires for a social life . I wanted and to build my own marketing business . “First woman at Mines in Graduate School as a serious good grades AND I wanted to be with my to . . .” at What would you tell a woman student 1/2 years-old . Suzette A. student with an intellect . friends and have fun . Could I do both? What personal goals do you have to Mines: help get at Mines today? Work hard! Learn all Farrar LIFE AT MINES carry you into the next century? a nationally you can . Be involved with school activi- Favorite Favorite Memories: The graduate stu- Favorite Memories: Geology Field Financial independence; to achieve suc- affiliated sorori- ties and form strong friendships . These Memories: dents from Chemistry and Geochemistry Camp, 1985 . That was the last year they cesses in both family and business, with- ty at CSM will be some of the most memorable days Gail T. Cosulich White washing playing softball on Friday nights . had a food truck, and I just had an all out compromising either one; and to be all of your life . the “M” as a What lasting impact did Mines have on around jolly good time! Even with the I am intended to be . What lasting impact did you have on senior! you? I’m still grateful almost daily for snow and rain! Other favorite memories Mines? I think I received more tickets HIGHLIGHTS SINCE CSM taking a chance and accepting me include the wonderful feeling I got when I Additional Comments: Favorite quote: from the campus police than anyone else . What lasting GRADUATION into graduate school from a small and rel- finally got my computer program to run True success is not measured by monetary impact did you Current Professional Field: Hazardous atively unknown undergraduate college . in my programming class . Also the sense wealth . . . “Success is the progressive What lasting impact did Mines have on have on Mines? waste characterization, database management of accomplishment I felt when I got a realization of a worthwhile dream or you? I still hate surveying! I helped to start What would you tell a woman student good grade on a test or for a class . goal” (D . Yager) . the pom squad Job experiences: Operation support and at Mines today? The environmental field What would you tell a woman student and Pi Beta Phi facility design engineer—2 years at is saturated and markets are declining— “First woman to . . .” at Mines: Well, I Maiden Name: Beckley at Mines today? Get out of taking organ-

A Century of Women at Mines 46 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 47 A Century of Women at Mines GRADUATION Maiden Name: Brown Biggest Challenges: Getting through sec- Favorite Memories: Morgan 3rd floor GRADUATION ests you and Current Professional Field: I have been Title: Instruc­tor—CSM ond semester Physics sodding the Morgan 1st floor restroom in Current Professional Field: Cynthia Anne something you employed as a metallurgical engineer 1978 (laying sod from the library land- “Temporarily out” to be a mom . Jones can believe in since graduation in 1980 . Professional Certifications, Registra­ Favorite Memories: All the good friends, scape project) and then work tions, and Titles: EIT good professors and sunny days in Job experiences: Associate engineer at towards your Job experiences: Management Trainee at Golden . Learning how to muck ore and HIGHLIGHTS SINCE CONOCO (1 yr); process engineer at Kerr goals . CF&I Steel Corp .; shift boss at the Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’81 drill in the Edgar Mine for a Mining class . GRADUATION McGee (4 yrs); certification engineer at Climax Molybdenum Co .; worked for Current Professional Field: SCS (3yrs); project manager at Weston (2 HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Barrick Gold the first three years they Spouse’s Name: Ravel F . Ammerman What would you tell a woman student Homeschooling mom yrs); part-time contract engineer (2 yrs) GRADUATION owned the Goldstrike property (three Mines grad? Yes, at Mines today? Work hard but follow Current Professional Field: startups in three years .); my own consult- Year: ’81, your heart’s desire when choosing your Job experiences: Joining engineer for Other significant achievements (includ- Environmental Engineering ing company; working for an engineering Degree:BSc . B E. . career upon graduation . Rockwell International, Rocky Flats Plant ing family): 3-year-old daughter and 4 company with extensive overseas travel . Children (#): 2, Ages: Rob (12), Eryn (10) 1982–1985 month old baby boy, and married to Job experiences: Worked for the U .S . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE another Chemical Engineer from UT— Environmental Protection Agency for nine Professional ground-breaking experi- LIFE AT MINES GRADUATION What personal goals do you have to Austin years—three years in Region 8 (Denver) ences: The title of my position at CF&I Biggest Challenges: A 45% on a Physics Current Professional Field: carry you into the next century? To raise and six years in Region 5 (Chicago) . I was changed for me…from “practice I exam as a Freshman, but ending up with Environmental Engineering my children to be responsible, Godly young What personal goals do you have to have focused on enforcement and compli- man” to “practice engineer .” a B! men and women for the next generation . carry you into the next century? To be ance assistance for petroleum refiners in Job experiences: Mining Engineer at the the best in what I do and be happy that I both air and water . Publications: Several Favorite Memories: Lots of hard work US Bureau of Mines . Graduate Student at Professional Certifications, Registrations, did my best . academically, but good friends (male and CSM . Environmental engineer at a and Titles: E .I .T Professional ground-breaking experi- Special Interests Outside Work: female) to share it and many fun times Boulder-based consulting firm . Currently Maiden Name: Wightman ences: Have worked on negotiating teams Gourmet cooking, fishing, writing with, too . working on a complex rails-to-trails con- Mines Degree: BSc . Chem . E . ’86 Title: Environ­ to settle enforcement cases that involved version combined with remediation of a mental Engineer multi-million dollar penalties . Ann Johnson Other significant achievements (includ- “First woman to . . .” at Mines: First 72-mile rail line in northern Idaho . Spouse’s Name: Greg Mitchell ing family): Numerous alto-sax player (woman) in CSM Jazz Mines grad? No Mines Degree: Special Interests Outside Work: Band—yes, there was a jazz band! Publications: Iron Ore Availability— Children (#): 2, Ages: 3 years, 4 months BSc . CPR ’88 Ballroom dancing, reading, crafts and What personal goals do you have to Bureau of Mines 1987; various confer- puppets carry you into the next century? I must What lasting impact did you have on ence publications on wetlands treatment LIFE AT MINES Spouse’s Name: Stephen Collins finish my PhD . in the next year . Mines grad? Yes Mines? On the serious side, I remember of acid mine drainage Biggest Challenges: Finishing lab in Other significant achievements (includ- Year: ’86 being a student . As an instructor, I strive Organic Chemistry ing family): Have earned two bronze Additional to challenge my students and yet maintain Special Interests outside work: Degree: BSc . Phy medals for work on environmental proj- Comments: open communication with them . ynnette Children (#): 1, Age: Elisabeth “Elise” (2 Janet Lynn Hall Gardening, bicycling, turn-of-the-century L Favorite ects I worked on at the U .S . Environ­ Mines has been years-old) home renovation, knitting Hoerner Memories: mental Protection Agency . Gave birth to a a solid basis of What would you tell a woman student Casual discus- spunky and determined daughter and have my life . I went at Mines today? Always do your best— What personal goals do you have to sions on streets LIFE AT MINES enjoyed travelling with my family . back to school five times before I finally don’t have a “chip on your shoulder” carry you into the next century? To with other Mines students regarding Biggest Challenges: To get through all of graduated in 1980 after starting in 1967 . I because it’s difficult to be accepted as a maintain balance with the many facets of social, political or philosophical issues . the classes . The “fearsome foursome” was What personal goals do you have to attended CSM nearly every way possible . “woman engineer .” You will be accepted life and enjoy the daily small thing in life the most difficult semester . carry you into the next century? My I commuted from my parents’ home the when you are confident, open to construc- we all take for granted “First woman to . . .” at Mines: to be goals are to raise an independent daugh- first year, lived in the “girls dorm” the tive criticism and do your best work . the 50m dash record (I think) Favorite Memories: I enjoyed dorm life ter, to protect the air and water we breathe first year there was one on campus and and the and drink and to be the best possible per- then commuted from off campus as a HIGHLIGHTS SINCE What lasting impact did Mines have on McBride son I can . married student . I lived in our own home, GRADUATION you? Persistence . Summer session at the Alison H. Jones Honors married student housing and faculty hous- Current Professional Field: Education— Maiden Name: chemical engineering field session teaches Program . The Maiden Name: Vogt ing . I even acted as Head Resident Instructor in Engineering Division, CSM Kootz you to be persistent at doing things . most fun was Supervisor in Caldwell Hall for the 1976– Publications: CSM “Call of Stories”: “A Pamela Herbert participating in Mines Little Theatre . Professional Certifications, 77 academic year . ‘true’ engineer: intertwining lives” Mines Degree: What would you tell a woman student Registrations, and Titles: Registered As my career has progressed, the BSc . Met . ’82 at Mines What lasting impact did you have on Geologist, Certified Engineering most important thing I have realized is Special Interests Outside Work: Biking, today? Enjoy Mines? I was president of SW (’88) & Geologist that the only thing that really matters is I Rosanne Jacobsen skiing, hiking, roller-blading, reading, Spouse’s Name: John J . Chapman, Jr . the days at Mines Little Theatre (’88) Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’83 FINISHED! My grades, the time lapse, running Mines grad? Yes school, the rich- What lasting impact did Mines have on etc . are of little consequence . Employers Year: ’81 ness in the fac- you? Gave me the skills to think things Spouse’s Name: John Cosulich have focused on the tenacity and the Title: Mining/ Environmental Engineer Degree: BSc . Geol . ulty and student body is hard to gather through logically and taught me that with Mines grad? No determination to meet the goals I have set . Children (#): 4, Ages: 13, 11, 9, 7 once you leave the campus . In the end, it hard work you can do anything . Children (#): 1, Age: 3 Mines Degree: BSc . Min . ’82, MSc .-Env . is the individual interactions that remain Sc . ’92 LIFE AT MINES on your memory, not the book stuff . What would you tell a woman student at LIFE AT MINES Biggest Challenges: Learning to study Mines today? Explore the area that you Favorite Memories: Intramural volley- LIFE AT MINES HIGHLIGHTS SINCE want to work in . Find something that inter- ball, intramural tennis, women’s volley-

A Century of Women at Mines 48 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 49 A Century of Women at Mines don’t think I have any of those . After Special Interests Outside Work: Well, I Degree: BSc . Met . ’90, Harvard Law Special Interests Outside Work: yacht graduation, I was the first female used to be interested in gardening, reli- Children (#): 3, Ages: 18 months, 4, 6 racing, mountain biking, playing tenor sax Publications: CPM Proceedings—Play Engineer Officer in my unit in the Army . gion and new age topics, and traveling, Spouse’s Name: Jordan Jacobsen in big band and concert band the Disaster Recovery Game but then I had two boys, and now I’m just LIFE AT MINES Mines grad? No Maiden Name: Kraver Special Interests Outside Work: Travel What lasting impact did you have on interested in surviving . No, just kidding, What would you tell a woman student Children (#): 1, Ages: 16 (stepdaughter) Mines? Probably none . but kids do tend to take up all your time at Mines today? The academic life at Professional Certifications, Other significant achievements (includ- and energy . I’m still interested in the Mines may prove to be difficult and a HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Registrations, and Titles: Certified ing family): Moved to France 1998; What lasting impact did Mines have on above topics, but realize that it will be a challenge, but engineering training does GRADUATION Business Continuity Consultant Outward Bound 1996; Toastmaster 1995 you? Where do I start? There were/are so few more years before I’ll be able to pur- well to prepare you for the business world, Current Professional Field: Law— many! Probably the greatest is that people sue them again . whether you pursue a technical field or Natural Resources & Environmental, Mines Degree: BSc . Math . ’84 What personal goals do you have to take me seriously when I tell them what some other . The focused effort and disci- Corporate and Personal Injury Defense Other Degree(s): MS CS ’91, UTD carry you into the next century? Start school I went to . Other significant achievements (includ- pline required to go through Mines prepares investing group in France; learn the piano; ing family): I feel like one of my most you well to succeed in industry and career Publications: Ship Shoal 91 Field, LIFE AT MINES improve written and spoken French What would you tell a woman student significant achievements was simply goals . Geophysics, 1987 Biggest Challenges: Graduating . . . in 4 at Mines today? The same thing I would being in the Army, and serving as a years . . . with a 3 .0 average Additional Comments: Coming to tell any woman female officer in an almost all-male unit . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Special Interests Outside Work: Cross France? Give me a call (phone number student in col- Although I was only in for four years, and available at CSMAA) Beth Kendall GRADUATION country skiing, running, hiking, knitting Favorite Memories: Helping students lege: work hard there were other female officers that fol- with their computer programs, playing at balancing all lowed me, my very presence helped make Job experiences: Lead Engineer, Maiden Name: Winkelman Engineering Standards at Boeing Other significant achievements (includ- pinball at the student center aspects of your the Army, and as a follow-on the country, ing family): I have a wonderful home Title: Senior Geophysicist life, but remember that that diploma and more amenable to female leadership . Commercial Airplane Group, Renton, life, terrific friends and live in a fabulous Kimberly A. Legg “First woman those grades follow you around for the My other arena of achievements is Wa .; Sales Engineer, Mobil Oil Co ., Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’80 Fairfax, Va . place—and have a great relationship with to . . .” at rest of your life . Also, be careful with my family, including staying married to my my jazzy 16-year-old stepdaughter . Mines: be on regards to your personal life, since both husband Jim (it’ll be 14 years next June!), Spouse’s Name: Jesse Kendall Other significant achievements (includ- the rifle team AIDS and children are forever . And don’t and raising two boys . As anyone with kids What personal goals do you have to Mines grad? No get married or have kids too early! knows, being a parent is harder than any ing family): After 6½ years in a challeng- Children (#): 2, Ages: 11, 13 ing and rewarding career at Boeing, I’ve carry you into the next century? Retire What lasting impact did you have on Although these are both wonderful good job, and the feedback that you are doing a soon and sail around the world . Mines? Students in the CPR department things that almost everyone should expe- good job is a long time in coming . decided to take a leave of absence to raise my children . were scheduled in groups for experiments HIGHLIGHTS SINCE rience, they involve drastic changes and Maiden Name: Kramer by my randomizing program . GRADUATION should not be approached too lightly or What personal goals do you have to Current while one is still immature . carry you into the next century? Gee, What personal goals do you have to Mines Degree: MSc . Geol . ’84 What lasting impact did Mines have on Nancy J. Lynch Professional that’s only two years away . My goals cen- carry you into the next century? As soon as all my children are in elementary Other Degree(s): Bsc ’77, Beloit College you? There is always a solution to every Field: HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ter around my family, as luckily, my hus- problem, even if it is to ask your col- Exploration band’s job will enable me to quit working school, I want to return to engineering, at GRADUATION first on a part time basis, and then full time . Spouse’s Name: Curtis leagues or to give up . Current Professional Field: Geotech­ in several years . My main goal is to raise Mines grad? No Job experiences: Atlantic Richfield two boys to be responsible, disciplined I’d like to return to the aviation industry or nical Engineer for the US Army Corps of environmental engineering field . Children (#): 2, Ages: 3 and 4 What would you tell a woman student (ARCO), 1980–1997; Oryx Energy Co ., Engineers . I work on civil projects, main- men who can be productive members of at Mines today? As you already know 1997–present society while still exhibiting such traits as ly flood control Maiden Name: Mobley HIGHLIGHTS SINCE you can do anything you set your mind to . for municipali- kindness, patience, and an appreciation Reach for your dreams, it is the only way Special Interests Outside Work: Cross Laura Klein GRADUATION ties . I also con- and empathy for others . I suppose that’s you will reach them . Cultivate a broad stitch, weaving, quilting every parent’s goal, but with my rowdy, Mines Degree: BSc . Phy . ’86 Current Professional Field: Parent duct safety Other Degree(s): MSc . ’90, University of and diverse network of friends and inspections of high-energy boys, it seems like a lofty acquaintances . Maiden Name: Sorrentino enough goal for me . Texas—Dallas Job experiences: Exploration Geologist the 26 dams that the Corps has jurisdic- for Tenneco, Noranda, FMC; Hydrologist tion over in central Texas . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Mines Degree: BSc . Pet . ’81 Additional Comments: Thanks for giv- Spouse’s Name: James Hoerner for U .S .G .S . Mines grad? Yes GRADUATION Job experiences: Upon graduation, I was ing me the opportunity to share my expe- Spouse’s Name: Mark Klein riences with you . I hope this is not too Year: ’86 Title: Hydrogeologist Current Professional Field: Computer commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Degree: BSc . Pet . Security, Disaster Recovery, Year 2000 Mines grad? No and entered into active duty with the late! And, obviously, I am not planning on Children (#): 2, attending the celebration next week . Professional Certifications, Regis­ Consultant Army . I served for four years, stationed at Children (#): 4, Ages: 4, 5, 8, & 11 trations, and Titles: Maine Certified­ Ages: 1, 3 Fort Rucker, Ala ., as an Engineer Officer . Lynnette is currently living in Castle Rock, Geologist Job experiences: Geophysical Services Lailla Matthews After I got out of the Army, I worked for Maiden Name: Kim Kruger Quintero Colorado, taking care of her children. Inc ., 1984–85, programming; Electronic LIFE AT a consulting engineering firm, Law Mines Degree: MSc . Geol . ’83 Data Systems, 1985–98, security; Perot MINES Engineering, in Nashville, Tenn ., perform- Maiden Name: Morton Other Degree(s): BSc ’79, Louisiana State Systems Corp ., 1989–98, security, ing mainly Phase I Environmental Site Mines Degree: Biggest Challenges: Finding balance BSc . CPR: ’87 Title: Attorney Disaster Recovery, UNIX; Leader Conseil between school, work and play, and main- Assessments . After a year and a half with HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Informatique, 1998, security, Year 2000, Law, I got a position with the Corps of taining focus on priorities . Spouse’s Name: Henry Herbert Mines Degree: GRADUATION Consulting Engineers in Nashville, and then trans- BSc . Geop . ’80 Current Professional Field: ferred to Fort Worth, Texas in 1993 . Mines grad? Yes Doria Kutrubes Favorite Memories: Nearly freezing to Year: ’87 Other Environmental consultant Professional ground-breaking experienc- death in Clear Creek raft race; co-ed vs . Degree(s): JD es: Installed security products worldwide

A Century of Women at Mines 50 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 51 A Century of Women at Mines Cathy (Lund) Rhodes (co-founder) HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Other Degree(s): PhD . ’91,Indiana; MS Additional Comments: Life is dealing Professional Certifications, Regis­ GRADUATION ’90, University . with changes and challenges – Mines was trations, and Titles: Professional “First woman to . . .” at Mines: have a Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’80 Current Professional Field: Engineering part of that . Engineer, State of Colorado baby while holding office as President of Consulting Children (#): 1, Age: 12 the Alumni Association . Spouse’s Name: Barry McBride Maiden Name: Ostrander Mines Degree: BSc Min .’82 Mines grad? No Job experiences: I have worked with the LIFE AT MINES Title: Attorney Other Degree(s): MS ’87, Purdue Univ . What lasting impact did Mines have on Children (#): 3, Ages: 14, 5, 3 Highway Dept . and later held a number of Biggest Challenges: Getting through the you? I can do anything I put my mind to smaller jobs between family commitments . program at Mines while going through a Mines Degree: BSc . Pet . ’84 Spouse’s Name: Henry W . Poos, Jr . doing . LIFE AT MINES tumultuous situation at home— but you Other Degree(s): PhD . JP Lewis & Clark Mines grad? Yes What would you tell a woman student Professional ground-breaking experi- have to do what needs to be done! Year: ’81 What would you tell a woman student at Mines today? There are only 24 hours ences: Helping my husband to start our Spouse’s Name: Jack A . Krug Degree: BSc . CPR at Mines today? Same thing I’d tell any in a day! own company . Favorite Memories: Working on home- Mines grad? Yes student; hang in there! work in the physics building all night with Year: ’69 LIFE AT MINES HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Special Interests Outside Work: Church, my friends, E-Days Degree: P .E ., MSc . Pet . ’72, PhD . Pet . ’77 Biggest Challenges: Graduating HIGHLIGHTS SINCE family, history, outdoors Children (#): 2, Ages: 20, 24 (step) GRADUATION Favorite Memories: Graduation and GRADUATION Current Professional Field: Geophysics What lasting impact did Mines have on Senior Day Current Professional Field: Higher Other significant achievements (includ- you? Academic background and confi- LIFE AT MINES Education Job experiences: Superior Oil, 1980– ing family): I have been very involved dence to succeed—if I could get through Biggest Challenges: P .E . exam and the HIGHLIGHTS SINCE admissions 1984; Mobil Oil, 1984–1990; Legacy with volunteer work with Girl Scouts and Mines I could do anything . Bar Exam GRADUATION Karla S. Mercer counseling Energy Corp ., 1990–present church . Current What would you tell a woman student Favorite Memories: Billie Jo Mitchell’s Job experienc- What personal goals do you have to at Mines today? It’s hard and wonder- Cathy Mencin Professional Special Interests Outside Work: Family, class Field: Mining es: CSM Admissions office —14-plus skiing, hiking, gardening carry you into the next century? ful— if you don’t love it, it will never be Consulting years Making the many challenges for women worth the effort . What would you tell a woman student What personal goals do you have to more manageable by breaking through at Mines today? You are attending a Job experiences: Chief Engineer at a Special Interests Outside Work: 1) carry you into the next century? Semi- many of the limiting mind-sets held by Mary Judith great school! three million ton per year coal mine; com- Reading 2) Needlework 3) Watching chil- retire! To have time to travel, raise family, our world . Ann Pott puter modeling and mine planning dren’s sports . I hope to travel and ski pursue other interests, stay involved in the HIGHLIGHTS SINCE more when my kids get a bit older . I miss Maiden Name: Paxson oil and gas business . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE GRADUATION Publications: An integrated computer- this right now . Title: Associate Current Professional Field: Attorney— based approach to remediation design; Maiden Name: Opekar GRADUATION oil and gas; international and domestic computer applications on the mineral Other significant achievements (includ- Title: Principal, ACM Inc . Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’81 Current Professional Field: Professor— industry, second Canadian Conference ing family): Sean—12; Daniel—10; research and education Job experiences: Registered Engineer— Stephanie—8; Jakob—1 Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’83 Spouse’s Name: Steve Colorado—’76; Attorney, Krug & Sobel Special Interests Outside Work: Mines grad? No Job experiences: Post doc at University of Alberta, ’91–’95; Assistant Professor at (present) Bicycling What personal goals do you have to Spouse’s Name: Alan Children (#): 3 stepdaughters, Ages: 14, Ohio University, ’95–present carry you into the next century? Raise Mines grad? Yes 17, 18 Professional ground-breaking experi- Other significant achievements (includ- my children to be caring, sensitive, Year: ’79 Professional ground-breaking experi- ences: Trustee, CSM; work international ing family): President, Denver Chapter responsible people . Degree: BSc . CPR HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ences: Spokesperson on a high precision (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan) Adjunct Women In Mining Children (#): 2, Ages: 10, 13 Professor: DU Law School: International Maiden Name: Lund measurement of a fundamental symmetry, Susan Poos Petroleum Transactions Maiden Name: Capra Principle Investigator on NSF grant Professional Certifications, Regis­ LIFE AT MINES Biggest Challenges: Learning about myself . Publications: Numerous on Natural Gas Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’83 trations, and Publications: In Physical Review Titles: Regulatory Allena K. Opper Favorite Memories: SCAC, Home­ GRADUATION Professional Special Interests Outside Work: Social issues (Order Spouse’s Name: Stephan N . Pott coming committee, and CR summer session Current Professional Field: Divestment Beth McBride 636, etc .), and Mines grad? No Engineer Consulting—Energy Industry issues (civil liberty, reproduction rights, human rights), modern art, live theater, electric restruc- Children (#): 4, Ages: 12, 10, 8, 1 What lasting impact did Mines have on Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’82 trashy mysteries, my daughter turing you? Job experiences: Ladd Petroleum, 1981– LIFE AT MINES Challenged me 1989; Snyder Oil Corp ., 1989–1998; Spouse’s Name: Jeff Rhodes Karen Other significant achievements (includ- Special Interests Outside Work: Ski, Biggest Challenges: Physics II – Took it to exceed my Albrecht & Associates, Inc . . 1998–pres- Mines grad? Yes Ostrander-Krug ing family): Good marriage—for a while, snowshoe, sail three times! Also, learning how to pick own expecta- ent, Manager, Acquisitions & Divestiture Year: ’82 daughter, survived a divorce, surviving myself up after failure and moving forward . tions . and succeeding happily What personal goals do you have to Choosing engineering was risky for me . I Degree: BSc . CPR Special Interests Outside Work: Children (#): 2, Ages: 11 & 14 carry you into the next century? Slow never failed at anything before attending What would you tell a woman student Christian ministry, music, sports down and enjoy life . What personal goals do you have to Mines, and, therefore, I never knew what I at Mines today? Your Mines experience carry you into the next century? See my was really capable of accomplishing . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE is always teaching you new aspects of the Title: Assistant Professor Maiden Name: Reeder daughter grow to a happy adult, get tenure GRADUATION world and yourself, even after you leave . and begin a new research topic Title: Senior Mining Engineer Favorite Memories: playing tennis with Current Professional Field: Engineering Mines Degree: BSc . Phy . ’83

A Century of Women at Mines 52 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 53 A Century of Women at Mines student wives powder puff Football; AGD Maiden Name: Draper Williams Field Services in Bloomfield, Associates; 1987–1993: Weston Geo­ at Mines today? Stick to your goals and Maiden Name: Vannurden Champipple parties Title: Senior Process Engineer N .M . Chris and I have somehow managed physical Corp ., 1993–1995: Geophysical don’t let anyone tell you that you won’t to work for the same companies through- Applications, Inc ., 1995–1996: Hager Geo succeed! Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’87 “First woman to . . .” at Mines: Win Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’89 out our careers (~nine yrs .) without get- Science; 1996–present: President and Other Degree(s): Prof . Certificate . Homecoming arm wrestling three times ting divorced! Senior Geophysicist/Radar Solutions HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Meteorology ’88, Florida State Uni­ running Spouse’s Name: Chris Kruger International GRADUATION versity; MBA/Technology Manage­ment Mines grad? Yes Title: President and Senior Geophysicist Current (in progress), University of Phoenix What lasting impact did you have on Year: ’88 Professional ground-breaking experi- Professional Mines? I continue to be a presence on Degree: BSc . Pet . Mines Degree: MSc . Geop . ’86 ences: 1979: DAR Good Citizen Award; Spouse’s Name: Craig Katerna M. Scott Field: Small campus via my recruiting efforts Children (#) 1, Age: 18 months (Ryan Other Degree(s): BS ’83, Bates College 1983: Milt Lindholm Scholar Athlete business owner Mines grad? Yes Christopher) Award; 1984–1986: Assistant Geophysical­ Job experienc- Year: ’87 What lasting impact did Mines have on LIFE AT MINES Researcher at USGS for Dr . Gary Olhoeft; es: Petroleum Engineer with UNOCAL, Degree: BSc . Math . you? Most importantly an unshakable con- LIFE AT MINES Biggest Challenges: 1) Overcoming isola- 1994: Co-chair technical session, ’84–’90; Environmental Consultant, ’90– Children (#): 1, fidence in my ability to face challenges . Favorite Memories: Sigma Kappa tion of women on campus, 2) Fighting the SAGEEP; 1996: Founded Radar Solutions ’91; small business owner, ’91–present; Suzanne M. Age: 7 You don’t have to compromise values or sexism within my department and campus- International . mother, ’91– present (my most important Smaglik personal goals to have a career . The work- What would you tell a woman student wide, 3) Frank Hadsell’s GP 501 class job!!) LIFE AT place has changed a lot and employers are at Mines today? Not take Mines too seri- Publications: 13 MINES more flexible . But you will need to have ously and have fun while you are there . Favorite Memories: 1) Ice cream parties Special Interests Outside Work: Skiing, Biggest Challenges: Statics proved your value and need to be proactive for socials and the women’s soccer team Special Interests Outside Work: Back­ quilting, hiking, travel about how the company can help you . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE and fans, 2) Opportunity to learn/work with pack­ing/hiking,­ Native American social Favorite Memories: E-Days, “The pow-wows; soccer GRADUATION Dr . Catherine Skokan and Dr . Gary Olhoeft Other significant achievements (includ- Deadwood House,” Ski Team HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Current Professional Field: Process (formerly U .S .G .S .), 3) The outdoors . ing family): I have been married 13 years GRADUATION What personal goals do you have to and have two beautiful daughters, Audrey What lasting impact did Mines have on engineer with Williams Energy Services carry you into the next century? Current (only working part-time so can spend “First woman to . . .” at Mines:…to do (age 7) and Erika (age 2) you? Confidence building . Another one of Professional a hybrid degree between hydrogeology Complete PhD ., grow RSI to a moderate those, “If I can do that, I can do anything” Cathy Rhodes more time at home with son) . Field: (Geol . dept .,) and engineering geophysics size, and implement progressive benefits What personal goals do you have to experiences . for employees; establish not-for-profit Petroleum Job experiences: 1989–1993: ARCO Oil (GP dept .) carry you into the next century? My industry, drilling geophysical service firm to help urban primary goal is to raise my two daughters, What would you tell a woman student & Gas, Process Engineer (Gas Processing),­ communities . Lafayette, La ., and Longview, Texas; 1993– What lasting impact did you have on support my husband’s career, and use the at Mines today? Stick it out . In the long Job experiences: Drilling Engineer, Mines? On my own initiative, got a job gifts God has given me to serve God, run, you will be glad you did . current: Williams Energy Services, Process Maiden Name: Trotman Offshore Rig Supervisor, Technical Engineer (Gas Processing), Salt Lake City, w/USGS, Golden, with Dr . Gary Olhoeft . serve my family, my church and my com- Since then, at least one student every year Title: Owner, Peek A Boo Shoes Recruiter; assignments have been both Utah and Bloomfield, N .M . munity . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE domestic and foreign in the GP dept . has been funded by U .S .G .S . Mines Degree: BSc . Pet . ’84 Additional Comments: Gave up my GRADUATION Professional ground-breaking experi- Current Professional Field: Professional ground-breaking experi- engineering career when I had my first ences: Wrote and received patent for new Configuration Analyst for a sales force ences: Spent most of my early career as What lasting impact did Mines have on Spouse’s Name: Kevin Legg child . I have never regretted it! My seven method of producing LNG (liquefied nat- Mines grad? No automation software company “First Woman” including first female rig ural gas) . you? Mines gave me the tools to succeed years in the industry gave me the skills supervisor in Norwegian North Sea . and the patience and stamina to keep Children (#): 2, Ages: Audrey (7), and confidence to pursue other goals and Job experiences: Air Force Weather going . Erika (2) I am grateful for what Mines gave to me! Publications: U .S . Patent Officer; Operations Manager at Eagle Special Interests Outside Work: Fly Engineering Services, a small engineering fishing, whitewater rafting What would you tell a woman student LIFE AT MINES Title: Development Associate Special Interests Outside Work: Hiking, firm specializing in mine site remediation photography, cooking at Mines today? Listen to what your Biggest Challenges: Handling the heavy Other significant achievements (includ- heart says— not the advice of others . workload and graduating in four years Mines Degree: BSc CPR ’87 Special Interests Outside Work: Skiing, ing family): 2 years on Board of Other significant achievements (includ- Persevere in your endeavors and life’s Other Degree(s): PhD . ’94, NCSU walking, motorcycles, work on my MBA Directors of Children’s Bureau of New ing family): Birth of son, Ryan (Mines goals . Put yourself first when making Favorite Memories: The friendships I and possibly starting a business with my Orleans . One of the initial founders of was a breeze compared to the years of career decisions . made, both male and female and how we HIGHLIGHTS SINCE thesis group doing customer satisfaction John P Hebert heartache and problems we had before all helped each other get through the GRADUATION consulting; CSMAA; and Copper Memorial finally having him!) HIGHLIGHTS SINCE tough times . Susan J. Riebe Current Professional Field: Chemical Mountain Ski Team Redfish GRADUATION Engineering Classic—a fish- What personal Current Professional Field: What lasting impact did you have on What personal goals do you have to ing tournament goals do you Geophysicist— Mines? All women who have attended Elizabeth L. Mines have helped pave the way for Lisa Shimoda Job experienc- carry you into the next century? that raises money for Children’s Bureau . have to carry Deborah Environmental/ Robinson future women undergraduates . es: Idaho Haven’t made any definite plans, but Tournament has gone from $1000 to you into the Schwabach Eng­ineering/ National thinking of working up to a marathon $20,000 in five years and is still growing next century? Geotechnical What lasting impact did Mines have on Engineering Lab, post-doc; Praxair, (walk/run) after I finish this degree . Retire soon (in the Rockies) and spend fields you? Graduating from Mines gave me the Development Associate Possibly moving to Europe for work What personal goals do you have to more time with my family . confidence and determination to tackle, or at least try, anything . carry you into the next century? Raise Job experiences: 1984–1986: USGS— Publications: approximately five papers, Maiden Name: Grant my two boys to be good men . Additional Comments: Chris Kruger Assistant Geophysical Researcher; 1986– three patents Title: Legacy Energy Corp .—President (husband) is an operations manager for 1987: Geophysicist, Ground Water What would you tell a woman student

A Century of Women at Mines 54 The Eighties: The Transitional Years The Eighties: The Transitional Years 55 A Century of Women at Mines greatest satisfaction . system at a utili- late afternoon in front of Guggenheim . Job experiences: Colorado Air Quality Special Interests Outside Work: Hiking, Brenda J. Wolfe ty, I moved over Maiden Name: Ford Division; National Park Service—Air skiing, quilting Special Interests Outside Work: I am to the group sup- “First woman to . . .” at Mines: play Title: Internal Auditor Resources Division fortunate to be doing two very different porting image goalie on new women’s soccer team? What personal goals do you have to types of work that encompass the range of installations in Mines Degree: BSc . Met . ’85 Title: Environmental Advisor carry you into the next century? my interests . the southwestern What lasting impact did you have on Creating job opportunities that fit with my U .S . Mines? My footprints have worn away . . Spouse’s Name: Robert Professional Certifications, personal goals . What personal goals do you have to Mines grad? No Registrations, and Titles: EIT carry you into the next century? To Professional What lasting impact did Mines have on Children (#): 1, Age: 3 Title: Dr . pass on to both men and women in posi- ground-break- you? The difference between engineers Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’86 tions of leadership the best of what I have ing experienc- and scientists : how and why? LIFE AT MINES Other Degree(s): B .S . Nursing ’77, Mines:Degree: PhD . Min . Ec . ’83 learned in my careers . es: I was on the Biggest Challenges: Balancing full-time University of Northern Colorado Other Degree(s): B .A . ’75, CU—Boulder cutting edge of What would you tell a woman student school and 24+ hours a week work schedule Title: Ceramic Artist and Consulting document image systems . at Mines today? Get out and get a life Spouse’s Engineer beyond school . Favorite Memories: Believe it or not – LIFE AT MINES Karen Jean Name: Marcel Special Interests Outside Work: field session! Biggest Challenges: Getting into CSM . Williamson Thomas Mines Degree: BSc . CPR: ’80 Gardening HIGHLIGHTS SINCE At the time, there were not a lot of non- Mines grad? What lasting impact did you have on traditional students, and Mines didn’t No LIFE AT MINES What personal goals do you have to Mines? I graduated . . . really have systems in place to accept sig- LIFE AT MINES Biggest Challenges: I came to Mines my carry you into the next century? My Lisa C. nificant career changes . I had a B .S . in Favorite Memories: Traveling with the sophomore year as a transfer student from mission is to attain complete faith in Woodward What lasting impact did Mines have on Nursing, and the registrar’s office didn’t Energy and another university . It was difficult at first Christ, and by my life, model and encour- you? Knowledge I can do anything age Christian faith to those around me know how to fit that in their normal Becca Wissbaum Minerals Field to get to know people, but joining the admission procedure so they sent me to Institute . sorority helped . What would you tell a woman student Maiden Name: Wagner GRADUATION Metro State Current Professional Field: Geochemist, at Mines today? You can do anything . College for a “First woman Favorite Memories: I really enjoyed my College Instructor Don’t let people or circumstances discour- Patti Stanley year to get to . . .” at Mines: receive the Van Diest senior year: graduation was in sight, I had Mines Degree: BSc . Phy . ’86 age you . “some serious Gold Medal (1990) . made good friends, and the job offers came Other Degree(s): MS EE ’92, Ohio University Job experiences: University of Hawaii— education .” pouring in . The hard work finally paid off! research on Mid-Ocean Ridges; HIGHLIGHTS SINCE What lasting impact did you have on Spouse’s Name: Kevin Shimoda California . State University –— GRADUATION Favorite Memories: Finding ways to fit Mines? Continue to chair the Visiting “First woman to . . .” at Mines: I ran for Bakersfield—full-time instructor two Current Professional Field: Internal fun and new friendships into a very hectic Committee for the Division of Economics “Student Trustee” in my junior year . I Mines grad? Yes Year: ’86 years; Metro State and Front Range Auditor schedule . I worked 30 hours a week and and Business . lost, but two years later another woman Comunity College—geology and chemis- took a full class load, but I was always ener- ran and won . It made me glad . Degree: BSc . CPR Children (#): 3, Ages: 5, 3, 1 try instructor Job experiences: R & D engineer, manu- gized by the fantastic people I met at school . What lasting impact did Mines have on facturing engineer, process engineer, fail- you? Gave me a career, which took me What lasting impact did you have on Publications: Sinton, Smaglik, Mahoney, ure analysis engineer, technical writer, What lasting impact did Mines have on around the world, from corporate board- Mines? I didn’t blaze any new trails at HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Macdonald, JGR, 1989 . corrosion engineer, and auditor you? I learned how to think, how to solve rooms to the remotest mining sites . Mines, but I did later in my career and in GRADUATION problems, and to believe in myself . the oil industry . Job experiences: 1986–1989, engineer at Special Interests Outside Work: Special Interests Outside Work: HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Ball Aerospace; 1990 consulting; 1990– Community science education, Girl Member of Rhema Bible Church – What would you tell a woman student GRADUATION What lasting impact did Mines have on 1992, O . U . for grad school; 1993–present Scouts, outdoor sports, swimming, aero- involved with fifth grade Sunday School at Mines today? Keep school in perspec- Current Professional Field: 1) Wealth you? I think going to Mines helped me consulting expert system at Shell bics, and hula and the Rhema Ranch wranglers . tive . It’s demanding and frustrating some- advisory; 2) Artist management develop the confidence and determination Chemical times . But when you finish, you will to succeed later in life . Other significant achievements (includ- Other significant achievements (includ- know how to succeed . Job experiences: 1982–83, Mobil Oil; Mines Degree: MSc . Geochem . ’87 ing family): Eight years in Hawaii . ing family): Pursuing part-time MBA at 1983–94, J . P . Morgan—investment bank- What would you tell a woman student Other Degree(s): BA ’82, Beloit College; Research cruise to Tahiti and Easter Oklahoma State University—Tulsa HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ing; 1994–present, BRincor, Inc .— my own at Mines today? Going to Mines can pro- PhD . (ABD) ’99? University of . Hawaii Island GRADUATION production and artistic management compa- vide you with career opportunities that are Title: Vice President, Owner, software not open to most college graduates . You Current Professional Field: Environ­mental ny, currently under contract with Brown Spouse’s Name: Warren C . Ulmer What personal goals do you have to consulting firm will work harder as a student, but the engineering with a major oil company House Management; International Skye— Mines grad? No carry you into the next century? To partner in a firm offering advisory services rewards will come . finally settle down, have a family and Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’86 Job experiences: Mobil Oil, 1986–pres- to wealthy families and individuals . LIFE AT MINES build a house; continue work in alterna- ent: 1986–1989, operations engineering, HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Biggest Challenges: Finishing M . Sc . tive (eco-friendly) living; get/make a per- Maiden Name: Marcotte 1989–present, environmental engineering Professional ground-breaking experi- GRADUATION Thesis, planning wedding and getting manent job in something I love to do . Title: Department­ . of Ed . PhD . ences: I was the first woman underground Current Professional Field: Environ­ married, applying for grad school and pre- Candidate Publications: “A Summary of Regulatory at a number of mines overseas . Balancing mental Engineering and Ceramic Arts paring to go (to Hawaii) all in less than Additional Comments: Wrote B .A . the- Authority for the Management of Pipeline professionalism and femininity in all-male five months! sis on “History of Women” in geology Mines Degree: BSc . Pet . ’82 Wastes in the State of Texas,” Susan groups of colleagues in a way that earned Job experiences: 1980–1991: Chevron which included the first women to attend Riebe and Bart Sims me both respect and affection gave me the USA and Chevron Pipe Line Co .; 1991– Favorite Memories: Playing soccer in Mines in 1981 . Spouse’s Name: Richard J . Wissbaum

A Century of Women at Mines 56 The Eighties: The Transitional Yearss The Eighties: The Transitional Years 57 A Century of Women at Mines Favorite Memories: Ordering pizza to be delivered at the library and having homework parties there

“First woman to . . .” at Mines: attend both CU, Mines, and work at the same time .

What lasting impact did you have on Mines? I brought up the idea that environmental issues were a consideration in all projects .

What lasting impact did Mines have on you? Some of my professors have continued to provide insight and expertise on some of my projects .

What would you tell a woman student at Mines today? Take all the management classes you can, because in today’s market you need technical as well as business skills .

HIGHLIGHTS SINCE GRADUATION Current Professional Field: Environmental­ Engineer

Job experiences: I have worked as a pharmacist and an environmental engineer .

Professional ground-breaking experiences: I have had to learn how to be in a meeting with eight to ten men and no other woman present . I took my 8-week old son to a technical conference .

Publications: I have written articles on Bioremediation and how to write a RD&D Hazardous waste permit .

Special Interests Outside Work: Past President of Horsemen’s Association, trail planning, Children’s Hospital volunteer, Bright Beginnings volunteer

Other significant achievements (including family): My most significant achievement is my family . I have a beautiful three-year old boy and an equally beautiful one-year-old girl .

What personal goals do you have to carry you into the next century? My personal goal is raising responsible, happy, and healthy chil- dren . I would also like to work on children’s and health care issues The 1990s

Part of the Crowd

A Century of Women at Mines 59 A Century of Women at Mines Jen and Priscilla); swimming; going to Alma dur- • 130 countries sign ing field camp to watch Avalanche games; danc- chemical weapons ing downtown Denver treaty • Terrorist attack on the The Nineties World Trade Center in “First woman to . . .” at Mines: receive an M .E . New York of the in geophysics • Davidian cult com- part crowd pound burns after What lasting impact did you have on Mines? As attack by federal president of the Society of Student Geophysicists, I agents, Waco, TX • Mississippi floods for worked to have record number of students attend two months reaching a SEG in Denver and obtain a room in the basement Timeline Spill”, Feature Article, Environmental Solutions, Women’s dorm floor picture record crest of 49.4 feet of the Green Center for students while expanding • Israel and PLO recog- The 1990s: January 1996; author . nize each other and Part of the the technological resources . “San Joaquin Crude Oil Spill into a Freshwater sign Palestinian auton- Crowd Stream: A Case Study,” Proceedings, 1995 omy agreement What lasting impact did Mines have on you? International Oil Spill Conference, Long Beach, No matter where you are, there is always a Mines 1990 Calif .; presenter and contributing author . “Fate 1994 • Noriega surrenders grad around! • Worst year for air • Nelson Mandela freed and Effects of Crude Oil In a Southern California Stream Drainage,” Proceedings, 1995 safety in the U.S. • More than 1400 pil- What would you tell a woman student at since 1988 International Oil Spill Conference, Long Beach, grims die in a stam- Mines today? Never give up . Be confident in • Nelson Mandela pede in Mecca Calif .; contributing author . yourself, apply the knowledge you gain from inaugarated as the • Iraq invades Kuwait President of South Sigma Kappa participates in the tug-of-war during school and don’t let anybody tell you you can’t • East and West Africa Special Interests Outside Work: Hiking, scuba Homecoming 1993 Germany reunite, the do it . You can! • U.S. Navy Tailhook Berlin Wall comes diving, biking, gardening, backpacking SWE building competition scandal down HIGHLIGHTS SINCE • U.S. Baseball player’s Maiden Name: Nuttleman strike 1991 Title: Business Analyst—Business Acquisition GRADUATION • Northridge earthquake • Allied forces begin Brown & Root Energy Services Current Professional Field: Geophysical in California Operation Desert Engineering Storm to force the Iraqi Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’93 1995 army out of Kuwait Job experiences: Geophysical assistant for Geco- • Whitewater scandal in • Warsaw Pact dis- Other Degree(s): MBA ’99, University of Prakla Schlumberger (1995); geoscientist with U.S. solved Houston • Death to Affirmitive • Gulf War ends, Kuwait Burlington Resources (1996); geoscientist with Action in the U.S. is liberated Spouse’s Name: R . Travis Rein CONOCO, Inc . (1997 and 1998) • Ebola virus scare in • Middle East peace Mines grad? Yes CSM Cheerleaders Africa talks begin Year: ’93 Special Interests Outside Work: Swimming, • Oklahoma City • USSR dissolved, Bombing Gorbechev resigns as Degree: BSc . CPR SWE’s first entry in the Boeing TeamTech competition softball, volleyball, church, dancing, traveling, being with family president 1996 LIFE AT MINES • Explosion in 1992 Biggest Challenges: Trying to balance study Other significant achievements (including fami- Centennial Park, • Whites vote to end ly): SEG Scholarship (1993– 1997); Academic Atlanta, Georgia apartheid in South time against social time . Also, any class that included Fortran programming Honor Roll (1995, 1996); Dean’s List (1997); Summer Olympics Africa • Eight climbers die in a • Rioting after the Varsity Volleyball Scholarship (1993); Varsity Swimming Scholarship (1994–1997; Society of storm on Everest acquittal of the police Favorite Memories: Carving pumpkins with • IMAX camera taken to who beat Rodney Debbie, Jen, and Julia at the Pi Phi house my Student­ Geophysicists President (1996–1997); the top of Everest King, Los Angeles Society of Women Engineers member (1994– first semester; Jose O’Shea’s with the CR crew Mines Little Theater • TWA Flight 800 • U.S., Canada and after finals; T .C .’s wedding shortly after we grad- 1997); Outstanding Woman in Geoscience (1997) explodes over Long Mexico sign NAFTA Island, NY • Clinton elected uated; watching the purple sunsets behind the M; President of U.S. and E-Day’s every year . What personal goals do you have to carry you Sigma Kappa’s participate in the E-Days bat race into the next century? I want to become a role 1997 • Heaven’s Gate cult model for young geoscientists and my family, an “First woman to…” at Mines: Be the older sis- members commit sui- ter of the first Mines Pi Phi legacy, Lisa employee respected by my peers and a person cide when the Hale- Nuttleman, BSc . Geop . ’95 who knows I have helped make a difference . Bopp comet is visible

• Gianni Versace, fashion What lasting impact did you have on Mines? I Title: Design Engineer, E .I .T . designer is murdered left a rock up on the M my freshman year and I by Andrew Cunnan wore out a few chairs in the library . Professional Certifications, Registrations, and • Princess Diana is 1993 What lasting impact did Mines have on you? Titles: Engineer In Training (EIT) killed in a car accident in Paris, France — continued on page 61 A fascination with learning new technical sub- CSM cross-country team CSM E-days ore cart pull — contin-

A Century of Women at Mines 60 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 61 A Century of Women at Mines s we progress toward the 21st century, 1998 the face of corporate America is chang- • President William ing . No longer do students graduate from Mines Jefferson Clinton is A college and expect to stay with the same company omen impeached W • John Glenn, former for 30 years or more . The downsizing atmosphere Alumnae astronaut and senator of big companies is contributing towards this (1990–1999) is the oldest man to change in attitude . Thus the student must be well biographical summaries travel to space rounded, flexible, and continuously learning . • Alan Shepard, the first The role of women in industry has also American to travel to space dies changed . Women hold senior management posi- tions in companies, and even start their own busi- • Genetic scientists suc- established wom- her life in Mexico before moving back to that time, more women are graduating nesses . Major strides forward in the equality cessfully clone a en’s varsity teams the U .S . She graduated salutatorian of her from CSM than ever before . sheep between men and women in the workplace have SWE outreach activity Vicki Alexander including swim- high school class despite having to work 30 The Biographical Summaries received • The United Nations taken place, although women still have to con- 1996. ming, basketball, hours a week to help support her mother for the Centennial Celebration follow . attack Iraq in tend with lower salaries and the glass ceiling . Operation Desert Fox volleyball, and and siblings and earned a scholarship to Many women have continued to practice The comfort level women experience in the because Saddam track . CSM . She worked as an environmental engineering . Some have struck out into workplace has increased and is somewhat reflect- Hussein refused The SWE chapter at the school has engineer before enrolling in the South other fields, using their engineering educa- access to U.N. weap- ed in the current fashions for business attire . In grown immensely from a few members in Texas School of Law 5. tion as a springboard, and still others are ons inspectors the ’80s, the dress for success fashions ran from 1990 to over 150 in 1998 . The member- Non-Traditional female students have continuing their studies in graduate school . • Anti-Trust lawsuit the tailored “man’s” suit to the softer dresses . In SWE goes to the National ship in the two sororities, Sigma Kappa also been featured in Mines Magazine . A Many, like most women in the United against Microsoft comparison, the ’90s dress code has become Convention, Pittsburgh, and Pi Beta Phi, has also grown dramati- non-traditional student is defined by the States today, are balancing a family life and more casual, and formal work attire is less the Pa., 1995. 1999 cally . Both sororities have had over 50 Colorado Commission on Higher Education a career . Several have completed their standard . • NATO forces bomb active members the last few years . as a student aged degrees with two or more children in tow . Kosovo Women are now an integral, accepted demo- Inviting a third sorority to the campus is Carmen Lorena 25 and older Although women have been at the • Fifteen die in graphic at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) . being considered by the Panhellenic Bastidas enrolled as an Colorado School of Mines for 100 years Columbine High In an October 1990 article, Mines Magazine cites Council .2 undergraduate at there is still room for some “firsts .” School shooting n women and ethnic minorities as the fastest grow- Littleton, Colorado Several women have been featured in one of the state’s Priscilla Thompson (BSc . Eng . ’97) was the ing segment at Mines . The article also makes the • Concerns grow about Pi Beta Phi spring formal recent Mines Magazine articles for their colleges or universities 6. Joey Roth (BSc . first woman to build and row a concrete statement that “Although women are no longer the “Y2K” bug 1992. accomplishments as women in industry . Min . ’92) attended CSM after working in canoe for an American Society of Civil considered to be a minority in higher education, Beth Jordan (BSc . Geop . ’80) and Claudia the oilfields of Alaska for thirteen years . Engineers competition . Toni Bowden (BSc . they still make up a small percentage of students Rebne (BSc . Geop . ’84) formed the She found returning to school difficult CPR ’95) was in the engineering, math, and science disci- Legacy Energy Corporation in October because of the difference in age between J. Sally Wycislak the first black plines .”1 As of 1997, women made up only 25% 1990, an independent oil and gas explora- her and the other students and because she Bommen woman to of the student population at CSM . While this is tion company . They both had previously had been away from school for an extended become a above the national average for engineering worked for Mobil Oil Corp . in Denver period of time 7. Karen Mattson is an Resident schools, there is an effort to recruit women to the Freshman “M” Climb—the and at first had attempted to form a small excellent example of a woman coming Advisor . Judy Schenk (MSc . Geol . ’90) and science and engineering fields through various “after” picture! company within Mobil . When Mobil back to school to pursue a degree in engi- Tara Schenk (BSc . Geol . ’97) are the first outreach programs on campus . The Society of rejected the business plan they decided to neering with the added responsibility of mother/daughter pair to receive degrees Women Engineers (SWE) regularly holds out- form their own company . 3 Sasha juggling a family . She attended CU— from the school . Karen Krug (BSc . Pet, reach activities for elementary and junior high Karpov (BSc . Met . ’80) is now a lawyer Boulder for one semester after high ’84), appointed to the Board of Trustees in school students . Another example is the 1997 ini- who offers business consulting to school then went to work for Mountain 1996, is the first CSM alumna to hold the tiation of the Women in Science, Engineering, Russians and Americans in joint ventures . Bell . After working for several years and position . and Mathematics (WISEM) program . The After receiving her degree from CSM, she establishing a family, she decided to study Female students at the Colorado “Expanding Your Horizons” Program, which was Stacy Allison running the attended law electrical engineering at CSM 6. School of Mines have finally come into active until 1995, was an annual program for surveying field. school at the Some interesting statistics about the their own . The number of women on cam- middle school girls . Despite the small number of Michelle Barron University of women at CSM include the number who pus continues to grow and the number of women on the campus, the attitudes toward Denver and also graduate each year . In 1989, CSM gradu- women in the science, engineering, and women are those of acceptance . The women are received a mas- ated the 1000th woman . In 1994, the math fields continues to grow . Although generally comfortable with the environment, ter’s degree in mineral economics . Her 1500th woman graduated . The 2000th we are still far from a 50/50 split between even if there are still only one or two women in a business ventures began through the woman graduated in December, 1998 8. women and men in these fields, the number class . Wendy Domeyer at bat. Welborn, Dufford, Brown and Tooley law The fascinating analysis of these numbers of women in these fields continues to grow . Women are also active in every aspect of firm, and after a few years she decided to shows that in this decade, the amount of In the future the Colorado School of Mines extracurricular activities at CSM . Women take part form her own firm 4. In 1992, Maria Terry time to graduate 500 women from the may even be able to boast having 50% of in almost all campus organizations in both support Fox (BSc . CPR ’89) was awarded the school has been cut almost in half! What’s the students on campus be women . and leadership roles . Some of the leadership roles South Texas College of Law’s two most even more fascinating about this is that Title: Project Engineer/ Training women have occupied between 1990 and 1997 are prestigious scholarships: the Garland R . there was an enrollment drop among Homecoming Chair, E-Days Chair, Student Walker Alumni Scholarship and the Dean’s entering freshmen students around 1993 Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’96 Representative on the CSM Board of Trustees, and CSM women’s soccer 1992. Diversity Scholarship . Terry was born in when the requirements for admission were Editor of the Oredigger . There are also several 9 the U .S ., but spent the first eight years of raised . Despite the enrollment drop at LIFE AT MINES

A Century of Women at Mines 62 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 63 A Century of Women at Mines Biggest Challenges: Graduating (Mech) ’98 especially around homecoming . The international support team . The other will learn at CSM are invaluable . adding some variety to my otherwise entire Mines Band experience was very major accomplishments are that I have stressful workload . And I must admit that Favorite Memories: Pi Phi house LIFE AT MINES new to me, since I had come from a very been able to hold my own against older HIGHLIGHTS SINCE I enjoyed the EPICS projects, which real- Biggest Challenges: Deal with “men’s” structured band program in high school . and more experienced people in the work- GRADUATION ly exercised by ability of working in What lasting impact did Mines have on minds; every class was a challenge that The plaid shirts, blue jeans, hiking boots, place, and I have gained their respect, Current Professional Field: Fire teams in order to achieve a solution . you? Great friends and a great education made Mines an exciting place to be in . and hard hats were a welcome relief from despite our differences in age, culture and Protection\Life Safety the old, musty wool uniforms with tassels . experience . “First woman to . . .” at Mines: First What would you tell a woman student Favorite Memories: E-Days, especially I really enjoyed the field shows . No one Job experiences: Code consultant\Fire black woman to become a R .A .; graduate at Mines today? Stick with it . The the fireworks year ’98 . The professors— will ever see the splitting of the atom any- What personal goals do you have to Protection Engineer—Indianapolis, Ind ., in four years in Chemical and Petroleum rewards are worth it . Karl Nelson, Gaby, Candy Ammerman, where else!!! carry you into the next century? I can’t Life Safety\Fire Protection Engineer— Refining Engineering; passed EIT test . The homecom- wait to pay off those student loans!!! I John Steele, among others . Toni A. Bowden MKK Consulting Engineers, Denver, HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ing Plunger would like to become more involved with Colo . What lasting impact did you have on GRADUATION What lasting impact did Mines have on Core was also software development in the future . I Mines? I think that one of the biggest Current Professional Field: Project you? Hard work, good preparation, good great! It was a would also like to get my MBA and see Professional ground-breaking experi- impacts that I left on Mines was my abili- engineer/trainer/CBT author network, lasting friendships, responsibili- lot of fun . where that takes me . Somehow, I will fig- ences: Graduating from University of ty to plan trips and encouraging even the ty, organization, challenge, and creativity ure out how to have a family too (and Maryland with a Master’s degree, being most stubborness people to attend . While Job experiences: Environmental testing What lasting impact did Mines have on have the career) . hired by MKK to start and manage the I was at Mines, I planned a ski trip (which group—project engineer What would you tell a woman student you? I feel like Mines prepared me to do fire protection\life safety division was a great success!), a retreat in Estes at Mines today? It is not hard to compete anything . I wouldn’t have traded the Maiden Name: Shaner Park for the weekend, and several group Special Interests Outside Work: Quarter against men; actually is fun, challenging experience for anything . I have worked Title: Life Safey\Fire Protection Engineer Publications: Master’s Thesis dinners . I really enjoyed designing activi- and Paint horses and rewarding . This environment prepares with people all over the world, and I feel ties that involved everyone and brought you to face the real world always with the that Mines has given me a definite advan- Professional Certifications, Registrations, Special Interests Outside Work: people together for a short period of time . What personal goals do you have to chin up . And security . Success is around tage over the others . I think the hard work and Titles: B .S . Civil Engineering, M .S . Dancing, shopping What lasting impact did Mines have on carry you into the next century? Start a the corner—go for it . and massive course load prepared me to Fire Protection Engineering you? “If you can get through Mines, you family work hard and taught me how to work What personal goals do you have to can do anything . . .” This was a statement HIGHLIGHTS SINCE with all kinds of people . Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’96 carry you into the next century? I want that my other colleagues and me would Maiden Name: Guilkey Other Degree(s): MS . ’97 , University of to start my own business . I want to be joke about and say; but in actuality, there GRADUATION What would you tell a woman student Maryland was a lot of truth behind it . Mines chal- Title: Environmental­ Chemist Current Professional Field: Engineer known as an “expert” in the life safety at Mines today? Keep it up . Mines is an field . Maybe publish a book or two . lenged me through coursework, especially working in gas production for CONOCO experience that will prepare you for any Spouse’s Name: Ryan Borgman the EPICS projects, as well as socially and Mines Degree: BSc . Chem . ’95 Special Interests Outside Work: Biking, adventure that might come your way, Mines grad? No Title: Ms . culturally . Now that I have had the Mines tennis, music (piano), dance, painting, including areas outside your area of experience, I have learned how to approach Spouse’s Name: James Barron drawing, crafts, cooking, community Mines grad? Yes expertise . Also, the male/female ratio is LIFE AT MINES Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’95 situations, be it job interviews, post grad activities, aerobics, kick boxing, horse- virtually the same in any technical indus- schooling or just interacting with my peers, Year: ’95 back riding . Biggest Challenges: Physics (hee hee) Degree: BSc . Geol . ’97, MSc . Geol . try, which enables you to learn to deal Sometimes it seemed impossible to get and be able to perform the necessary strate- with any adversity along the way . LIFE AT MINES gies to be successful . Other significant achievements (includ- through some of the classes . It was a chal- Biggest Challenges: Initially, when I first HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ing family): Come from a different coun- lenge to keep up the high intellectual level enrolled in Mines, I was overwhelmed by HIGHLIGHTS SINCE needed at all times . What would you tell a woman student GRADUATION try (Columbia) with a different language the 4:1 male to female ratio . It was some- at Mines today? Take advantage of as (Spanish) and culture and become adapted GRADUATION what strange sitting in a class full of men Current Professional Field: Environ­ Favorite Memories: Cheerleading at many functions mental consulting to the system . Always getting the best out Current Professional Field: I currently and listening to jokes about engineering work in software support as a geologist / CSM football games, hanging out at the that you can of both cultures to reach my goals and being a “man’s field” . But after a while, Wendy Cowley petrophysicist for Schlumberger Ace and Mesa successfully bal- Job experiences: Field/ Lab sampling understand other people’s ideas and proj- the whole “predominantly male student ance! Participate ects for life and work in general . GeoQuest in Norway . body issue” was not a big deal . Once my techniques, research on acid mine drain- What lasting impact did you have on in different age, geochemical modeling male counterparts were able to see that activities, especially the famous “M” What personal goals do you have to Job experiences: I held an internship at Mines? Helped build the cheerleading the other females and me were just as Conoco doing seismic interpretation for a program climb at the beginning of the freshman Other significant achievements (includ- carry you into the next century? Go capable in doing the work, it became easi- year . You can meet so many people for ing family): Recently accepted to into the international arena in the oil or summer, while I was still deciding wheth- er to interact and work together . er or not to start a masters . I decided to Sara Thompson What lasting future study groups and lifelong friend- University of Colorado (Boulder), gas field . ships . It is important to study; however, start with GeoQuest, and it has been a Brown impact did Krysta Lyn Environmental Engineering Master’s Favorite you should not become a hermit that is wild ride ever since . I started out on Mines have on Coffey Program Maiden Name: Wycislak Memories: I always in your room; try to be a part of phone support, and joined an international you? I learned enjoyed being support team after eight months . Then, the discipline, determination and integrity . school activities, not only to help you to Professional Certifications, Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’96 (minor/ involved in many activities and organiza- be more well-rounded, but to also help Geol) opportunity came to transfer temporarily My intuition was developed . I met some tions on campus including Ambassador Registrations, and Titles: EIT, Order of of my best friends . I learned teamwork . you maintain your mental sanity . the Engineer, McBride Honors Program & to Norway, and I took it . for the school, R .A . staff, yearbook/news- Spouse’s Name: Espen Bommen paper staff and secretary/activities chair Minor in Public What would you tell a woman student HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Affairs Other significant achievements (includ- for NSBE . All of these groups were Deborah at Mines today? Stay with it . Even though LIFE AT MINES ing family): The one award that I have rewarding because each offered me GRADUATION Borgman received is a “Total Customer classes seem unbearable and impossible opportunities to learn so much about cam- Current Professional Field: Student in Mines Degree: Favorite Memories: Some of my favorite sometimes, don’t give up . The lessons you BSc . Eng . memories are of playing in the band, Satisfaction” award while working on the pus history (e .g . Ambassador) as well as Dental School

A Century of Women at Mines 64 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 65 A Century of Women at Mines Special Interests Outside Work: Active Special Interests Outside Work: Sing­ “First woman to . . .” at Mines: give the touch to a male dominated field . Thanks transactional work Job experiences: Working in dental in the Houston Alumnae of Sigma Kappa; ing, church, tutoring, mentoring, languages cheerleading squad a good reputation at to the WISEM committee for drawing office tutor with the “I Have A Dream— Mines . attention to our accomplishments in the Mines Degree: BSc . Eng ./Civil ’96 Houston” program for “at-risk” children Other significant achievements (includ- last 100 years!! Special Interests Outside Work: in the Fourth Ward of Houston . ing family): Becoming a professional What lasting impact did you have on LIFE AT MINES Reading, travel- singer four months after graduating from Mines? That is a matter of interpretation Title: Process Engineer Favorite Memories: Official and “unoffi- Janis S. ling, community What personal goals do you have to Mines . that only someone else can give to you . cial” sorority functions and activities with Chrsitopher activities carry you into the next century? I Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’95 frats would like to obtain my P .E . license and Maiden Name: Nunns What lasting What personal eventually start a family . I would also like Title: Research impact did Leslie Hamilton LIFE AT MINES “First woman to . . .” at Mines: None goals do you have to carry you into the to help my student (see tutoring note Scientist Mines have on Biggest Challenges: Worrying about an that I want anyone to know about next century? Get married and have sev- above) graduate from high school and go Melanie Gover you? Gave me ill parent while at school eral children . on to college . Mines Degree: the knowledge What lasting impact did Mines have on Become a dentist . BSc . Math . ’91 and ability to gain knowledge that it takes Favorite Memories: Volleyball road trips you? Hard work is the only way to get Title: Metallurgical Engineer to be a successful engineer . Taught me and FCA and Campus Crusade for Christ what I want and succeed . Maiden Name: Thompson Spouse’s Name: David Cowley that the saying “when the going gets retreats Title: Process Engineer Mines Degree: BSc . Met . ’98 Mines grad? No tough the tough get going” is a true What would you tell a woman student phrase . What lasting impact did you have on at Mines today? You need to set a bal- Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’93 LIFE AT MINES LIFE AT MINES Mines? Time will tell that . ance between work and fun . Work needs Biggest Challenges: Not waking my Favorite Memories: Participation in What would you tell a woman student to be the priority but don’t stress about it . Spouse’s Name: Kelly M . Brown roommate while juggling six choirs, four Mines Choir, Mines Little Theatre, and at Mines today? Get involved in activi- What lasting impact did Mines have on Stress will make you less efficient, and, Mines grad? Yes clubs, and 21 credit hours Haunted Houses . ties that broaden your experiences, and help you? The friendships I made . Mines CAN more importantly, it will end up hurting Year: ’93 you learn to interact with others in a “team” be endured AND enjoyed! your well being . Degree: BSc . Pet . Favorite Memories: Faxing my home- What lasting impact did Mines have on setting (clubs or sports, even I .M .) . work while on a plant trip you? I have great faith in my ability to What would you tell a woman student HIGHLIGHTS SINCE LIFE AT MINES achieve . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE at Mines today? Well-roundedness is GRADUATION Biggest Challenges: Finding enough time What lasting impact did you have on GRADUATION great, but have a balance: work diligently Current Professional Field: Civil to get all my homework done . Mines? My roommate and I were the first HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Current Professional Field: and put forth your best effort, but don’t Engineer I at Enron Energy Services Favorite Memories: Finishing Field people to try to be dual-RA’s (true job- GRADUATION Transportation Engineering forget to enjoy yourself and your friends . Job experiences: Civil Engineer I at Session the summer after graduation . sharing) . Current Professional Field: Software Have some quiet time to yourself . Take Parsons Transportation Group Then I knew I was really done! Engineer Job experiences: Took from concept to advantage of the surroundings . What lasting construction a road widening project and HIGHLIGHTS SINCE What personal goals do you have to What lasting impact did Mines have on Amy Flammang impact did Maiden Name: parking access road at Copper Mountain GRADUATION carry you into the next century? I’m you? My education taught me to be a Mines have on Aimee L. Hagen Spinuzzi Resort . Took from concept to construction Current Professional Field: Still trying to figure that one out . good engineer and my experience helped you? If you Title: a new intersection at 121st and Lowell Semiconductor industry (manufacturing) to prepare me for “real life” . conquer the Transportation Blvd in Broomfield . Title: District Manager obstacles, only then have you earned the Engineer Special Interests Outside Work: Anything What would you tell a woman student reward . Professional ground-breaking experi- outdoors (biking, running, hiking, back- Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’95 at Mines today? My advice to a woman Professional Certifications, Registra­ ences: Too early in my career to have had packing), Bible study, and reading student wouldn’t be any different than my What would you tell a woman student tions, and Titles: Engineer Intern any professional “ground breaking experi- LIFE AT MINES general advice to all students: try to get at Mines today? Take absolute advantage ences” Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’96 good summer jobs so you’ll know what to of everything that Mines offers—and then Biggest Challenges: Calculus III, Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’97 Other Degree(s): B .A . ’84, UNLV; Physical Chemistry 2, Kinetics expect and you’ll be more marketable . create your own opportunities . Special Interests Outside Work: California State Bar, JD ’87, UC—Davis; Spouse’s Name: Matthew J . Christopher Coaching track and cheerleading at CSM; Patent Bar Favorite Memories: an “A” on a Physics HIGHLIGHTS SINCE HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Mines grad? Yes gardening; learning about “Lifetime 2 test, Rush, Sorority (Pi Beta Phi), GRADUATION GRADUATION Year: ’97 Fitness” activities LIFE AT MINES retreats, M-climb (both freshman and Current Professional Field: Chemical Current Professional Field: Degree: BSc . Eng . Biggest Challenges: Going back to senior), E-Days Engineering—Process Engineer at a large Metallurgical Engineering What personal goals do you have to school after working for five years engineering and construction company LIFE AT MINES carry you into What lasting impact did Mines have on Job experiences: Failure analysis, materi- Biggest Challenges: Balancing education Roxann the next centu- Favorite Memories: Meeting friends at you? Mines taught me that hard work Job experiences: First year in al selection . I have already been the only with sorority life, being the cheerleading Mackenzie Hayes ry? Balance suc- the I-Club paid off . Mines also taught me that no Environmental Industry—didn’t enjoy it Metallurgist in the plant (both of my co- captain, and running on the varsity track cessfully a fami- obstacle or goal is too large and it gave ly, a career, and a because the work I was doing was com- workers were out-of-state) . team plus have a social life . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE me a lot of pride in my education . pletely regulation-driven (no engineering personal life . Advance steadily towards my involved .) Been working for 3½ years Professional ground-breaking experi- P .E . and being a project engineer . GRADUATION Favorite Memories: Travelling as a Current Professional Field: Patent Law What would you tell a woman student now in engineering and construction . As a ences: Creating and implementing new squad to away football games; being initi- at Mines today? Stick with it, the hard woman in my company, I’m treated no programs to improve quality and efficien- Additional Comments: Women in engi- ated into Pi Beta Phi on by birthday; Job experiences: I write and prosecute work is worth the effort . differently than the male engineers . cy of analysis made by technicians Graduation Day neering should be celebrated . We have given, and are giving, a uniquely feminine patents and have started doing related

A Century of Women at Mines 66 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 67 A Century of Women at Mines tion of the greatest summer thus far . What lasting impact did Mines have on ing my husband! Graduation! It was won- What lasting impact did Mines have on What would you tell a woman student at you? I learned to become an independent derful, although a little long! you? Mines provides you with an unpar- Regina M. What lasting Mines today? Have faith in yourself, do What lasting impact did you have on critical thinker and to stand up in situa- alleled technical education, but more Johnson impact did your best, make time for friends and fun, Mines? I hope that as I look back years tions where I knew I was correct . What lasting impact did you have on importantly, Mines teaches you how to Mines have on and never forget that everything will be all from now, I’ll be able to recognize chang- Mines? As far as the sorority world goes, learn . I learned how to be outgoing, confi- you? Great right . It’s never as bad as it seems, espe- es I helped implement through my What would you tell a woman student at hopefully the Mines sorority women dent, capable of working with others and friends cially before a test, a mid-term, or a final . involvement in student government . Mines today? Don’t let them treat you any won’t be seen as fluffy during rush to the willing to learn! differently just because you are a woman . incoming women since I got rid of the What would you tell a woman student HIGHLIGHTS SINCE What lasting impact did Mines have on Theme night party . What would you tell a woman student at Mines today? Shoot for the Stars! GRADUATION you? Mines taught me to fight for what I at Mines today? Insist on equality but Current Professional Field: Process believed in . To never let anyone put you What lasting also relish the fact that men and women Julia Hoagland HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Engineer in Yield Enhancement for Jennifer Jane down and to be the best engineer you can . impact did are different . Don’t ever assume that you Motorola in Austin, Texas Holt GRADUATION Mines have on won’t have the same opportunities as your Current Professional Field: Oil and gas What would you tell a woman student at you? All night- male counterparts . Mines is like all other industry Job experiences: Spent one year com- Mines today? Don’t give up . You’ll have HIGHLIGHTS SINCE ers in the com- facets of life: It’s what you make of it . pleting four rotations through various to fight a lot of battles to prove yourself as GRADUATION puter lab in the geology building working Job experiences: Working on offshore engineering fields in Motorola, and final an engineer; but it is all worth it . Current Professional Field: Analytical on labs and reports . Six weeks in a tent: HIGHLIGHTS SINCE facilities placed into yield enhancement process consulting for the energy field days filled with geology, nights filled with GRADUATION engineering August 1997 . HIGHLIGHTS SINCE beer . Current Professional Field: Project Professional ground-breaking experi- GRADUATION Job experiences: ARCO—Planning & Manager ences: Being the only female engineer in Special Interests Outside Work: My two Current Professional Field: Geological Evaluation Dept . 1993–1994; Tenneco— What would you tell a woman student my group dogs, my husband, mountain biking, Engineering/Hydrology Strategic Planning/Trading, 1994–1996; at Mines today? Study hard, but take Job experiences: KOCH Industries, Inc . camping, hiking, gardening Unocal— Risk Management & Com­ time to enjoy yourself too, pretty soon — hired as an intern and again for full- Special Interests Outside Work: Publications: Digital Geologic Map of modity Trading, 1996–1997; Coopers & you will be out in the real world and you time after graduating in May . Currently Outdoor activities with my husband What personal goals do you have to the Nevada Test Site Area, Nevada USGS Lybrand—Energy/Utilities Consulting might not have homework, but you have working as a project manager, supporting carry you into the next century? I’d like 1996 . Ron Wahl, David Sawyer, Scott 1997–1998; FEA Energy Consulting— to get up every morning and go to work! Koch Materials Company, with a special Other significant achievements (includ- to start a family and work on a comple- Minor, Michael Carr, James Cole, W . C . start-up in 1998 focus in the realm of environmental, ing family): Becoming Mrs . Johnson tion of my Masters Degree in a field yet Swadley, Randell Laczniak, Richard HIGHLIGHTS SINCE health and safety (EH&S) to be determined . Warren, Katryn Green, & Colin Engle . Professional ground-breaking experi- GRADUATION What personal goals do you have to ences: I started a consulting firm with Current Professional Field: Staff geolo- Special Interests Outside Work: Involve­­ carry you into the next century? Additional Comments: CSM is a very Title: Executive Vice President another business partner and left the secu- gist/geological engineer at an environ- ment with various organizations such as Experience everything and leave nothing good school, and I’m glad I had the rity of the corporate world! mental/geotechnical consulting firm in Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America, Race undone opportunity to go there . I look back with Mines Degree: MSc . Math . ’91, PhD . California for Hunger, and church groups . mostly fond memories . My only regrets are Math ’93 Special Interests Outside Work: Road Maiden Name: Jack from getting too caught up in the stress of Other Degree(s): BSc: ’90, Harvey Mudd cycling, rollerblading, gourmet cooking Job experiences: Field geotechnical tech- What personal goals do you have to Title: Process Engineer the moment and forgetting what really mat- College nician for an environmental/geotechnical carry you into the next century? Attend ters in life when it all comes down . Other significant achievements (includ- firm in Colorado graduate school to study either law or Mines Degree: BSc . CPR ’96 ing family): Purchased a house in 1998! receive an MBA . Use my engineering Maiden Name: Green What personal goals do you have to degree as a springboard to pursue other Spouse’s Name: Travis Lange What personal goals do you have to carry you into the next century? I career opportunities . Mines grad? No Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’96 LIFE AT MINES carry you into the next century? I wish to would like to go back and get my masters Biggest Challenges: Defending my Ph .D . be well respected and known in my field! in the next five years . I would like to get Spouse’s Name: Chris Leone dissertation LIFE AT MINES my P .E . or RG as soon as I have enough Biggest Challenges: Field session, Mines grad? Yes ’95 Maiden Name: Cristofano work experience . Organic Chemistry II Degree: BSc . Eng . Favorite Memories: I really enjoyed Title: Production­ Engineer being part of Dr . Woolsey’s Operations Maiden Name: Kristin Skye Stock Additional Comments: I know that every Mines Degree: BSc . CPR: ’97 Research Guild program Favorite Memories: Late night chats LIFE AT MINES Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’97 year there are more and more women at with my roommate, the cool mountain Biggest Challenges: Physics and the con- Spouse’s Name: Kirk L . Johnson Mines, but it is still a major accomplish- evenings, hanging out with my friends at stant struggle of maintaining your GPA . “First woman to . . .” at Mines: I was Mines grad? Yes Spouse’s Name: Patrick MacCarthy ment for those who are trying to make it the Ace High “Just because you were an ‘A’ student in probably one of the youngest women to Year: ’96 Mines grad? Yes in a still male dominated field . In my Tavern or wher- high school, doesn’t mean you’ll always earn a PhD . from the math dept . at age 24 . Degree: BSc . CPR Diana Lange Year: ’98 work experience so far, I have found that ever else we earn ‘A’s at Mines” Degree: BSc . Eng . (father-in-law is Dr . Pat usually I get more respect as a woman, What lasting impact did you have on happened to be . MacCarthy in the Chemistry department) and I hope that everyone else has the LIFE AT MINES Favorite Memories: Geology Field Mines? I completed a masters degree same experi- Biggest Challenges: Summer field session project to study the length of time needed What lasting impact did Mines have on Camp . Six LIFE AT MINES Jennifer ence . you? Mines taught me to be myself and to weeks of the by students to complete graduate degrees Katryn Leone Favorite Memories: All the time spent Hutmacher Favorite Memories: E-Days have faith in my own abilities . It also beautiful scen- at CSM which was used in consideration with my friends both in the educational Maiden Name: of changes to the tuition structure . taught me that the mountains are beautiful, ery, fickle setting and in any spare time we found, McDonald What lasting impact did you have on and that you miss them when they’re gone . weather, and the relaxed setting . And of course, meet- Title: Consulting Petroleum Geologist; Mines? Great friends wonderful friends have earned the distinc-

A Century of Women at Mines 68 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 69 A Century of Women at Mines HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Ammerman; meeting my to-be-husband at everything . Society of Civil Engineers—1998; Daniel ing sane . “Coors Lab”; ASCE student chapter’s first When your “life W . Mead Prize for Younger Members, GRADUATION Skye MacCarthy LIFE AT MINES Current Professional Field: District try at the Concrete Canoe Race—it is still flashes before Houston Branch, Texas Section, and Zone Biggest Challenges: Balancing study Favorite Memories: All of my friends, Manager for gas utility in N .M . sitting on the bottom of Cherry Creek your eyes,” you III time with party time . participating in Mines Little Theatre Reservoir; trying to make our calculations don’t think back Job experiences: ’95–’98, Production “work” at quant lab; “tieing” the campus to your big house, nice car, and career . Special Interests Outside Work: Society Favorite Memories: My friends and the What lasting impact did Mines have on Engineer for Mobil in California with the Fiji’s; attending E-Day’s lun- Instead, you think back to your family, of Women Engineers—Houston area sec- creative ways we came up with for studying you? It gave me cheons as a Pi Phi; working at the engi- friends, children, and spouse . Hopefully tion newsletter editor, homeless pet place- Samantha the confidence Meador What personal goals do you have to neering department; FAC’s at the other women (and men!) will come out of ment, society volunteer, American Society “First woman to . . .” at Mines: and ability to do carry you into the next century? My I-Club—and 50 cent beers! Homecoming Mines realizing and understanding this of Civil Complete field camp in flip-flops (and whatever I want . field events; movies at the Tivoli down- important concept . Engineers— personal goal is to understand the natural Sandra Mark even get an “A”!) gas utility industry well enough to town; touring Coors Field while it is Houston Branch, What would you tell a woman student become Vice President of our utility divi- being built with the ASCE Student HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Chair of the What lasting impact did you have on at Mines today? Stick with it and enjoy sion by the year 2010 . Chapter; watching the last-ever “dyna- GRADUATION Offshore Mines? Teaching Professor Groves that yourself . mite” fireworks display at E-Days; Gaby Current Professional Field: Government Technology Conference Committee, you can “go through life with a smile on!” Maiden Name: Mackenzie Neunzert’s famous “Bridge” presentation; Civil Engineer . I work as a civil engineer Member of the Kingwood Chorale HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Title: Civil Engineer senior bus; whitewashing unsuspecting for the City of La Porte, Texas (a city near What lasting impact did Mines have on GRADUATION freshmen at the “M”; working for a whole Houston), and am a supervisor of engi- Other significant achievements (includ- you? Taught me that being a woman is Current Professional Field: Graduate Professional Certifications, Registra­ afternoon in the computer lab, and then neering department employees . I design ing family): I am married to Matthew B . not a disadvantage—it’s an advantage! student in geologic science studying geo- tions, and Titles: Engineer-In-Training walk outside to find six inches of newly and manage capital improvement projects Hayes, who graduated from Mines with a (80–20, guy–girl ratio) physics (Ground Penetrating Rada) Certificate (State of Colo .) fallen snow; spending a snow day sled- within the city (including overpasses, BSc . in Chemical Engineering and ding down the hill instead of catching up street extensions, storm sewer and drain- Petroleum Refining in 1995 . We were mar- What would you tell a woman student Job experiences: Summer intern Western Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’95 on homework; living in the new Pi Phi age facilities, sanitary sewer, waterlines, ried in 1996, and held our reception at the at Mines today? Follow your dreams and Geophysical (science data processing), house; honors class on Wednesday sidewalks, park facilities, etc .) . newly renovated Ben Parker Student always live life to the fullest . 1994; summer intern Colog (well log data Spouse’s Name: Matthew B . Hayes nights… . Center . Matt works for Phoenix Heat processing), 1996; Masters field work and Mines grad? Yes Job experiences: Project Engineer at Exchanger Works as a design engineer . We HIGHLIGHTS SINCE processing, 1997 “First woman to . . .” at Mines: First own a beautiful house and enjoy spending Year: ’95 Exxon Chemical Co . Baytown Plant; GRADUATION Degree: BSc . CPR woman (or man) to be the youngest-ever Project Controls Engineer at Bayer time at the beach with our two dogs . I have Special Interests Outside Work: Ice National Park Ranger at Dinosaur been very active with the CSM Alumni Current Professional Field: Reinsurance Chemical Baytown Plant; and I graduated underwriting and marketing skating, reading, traveling National Monument while being a Mines in 1995 with a B .S . in Engineering with a Association since graduation . I assisted LIFE AT MINES student . past-Houston Section Coordinator Chuck Biggest Challenges: Graduating from Civil Specialty, as well as two minors in What personal goals do you have to Russell in setting Job experiences: One year at M . W . Mines with a good GPA while still having Environmental Engineering and Public Kellogg (engineering and construction), carry you into the next century? I am What lasting impact did you have on Katie Joe up local events . I fun . As you can see from my “favorite Affairs . I was very active at Mines, as two years at Honeywell (project engineer- working on a PhD . After that I would like Mines? I hopefully helped make the McDonough have also been memories,” they are not all about sitting president of the student chapter for the to do a post doc and then teach . Society of Women Engineers CSM an Alumni ing), three years at Centre RE (reinsur- in class and studying hard . Most of the Society of Women Engineers, president of Student Chapter a force to be reckoned Admissions ance underwriting), four months at GGFP best memories are from the relationships the student chapter for the Associated Title: Project Engineer with . I helped lay the groundwork that Representative, which involves attending (see above) and friends that you make . They are root- General Contractors, vice-president for Pi will make the chapter a strong entity at local area high school college fairs to repre- ed in the tradition we call Mines . The Beta Phi, and class representative for the Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’98 Mines for years to come . sent Mines . In May of 1998, I was appoint- Professional ground-breaking experi- actual events may change over the years, Guy T . McBride Honors Program . I was ed to fill the remainder of Chuck Russell’s ences: MBA in finance but they are essentially the same . also a member of the student chapter of the LIFE AT MINES What lasting impact did Mines have on term as Gulf Coast Regional Director . American Society of Civil Engineers, Order Biggest Challenges: Not once did I ever you? Mines taught me that I must priori- Special Interests Outside Work: Snow­ Favorite Memories: Pi Phi preference of Omega, a CSM Ambassador, Tau Beta feel as though being a woman at Mines was tize my life . There aren’t enough hours in What personal goals do you have to boarding, mountain climbing, running rush parties at Friedhoff hall; walking in Pi, and Blue Key . I was selected as the a challenge . Mines, itself, was an incredible the day to do everything you want to do . carry you into the next century? I am front of the ore cart to the Capitol at Outstanding Graduating Civil Engineering challenge, but it never stemmed from the We all must look closely at our lives, and looking forward to applying for (and hope- Other significant achievements (includ- E-Days; geology labs; ecology field trip Student for Dec 1995, as well as the fact that I’m female . By far, the biggest realize what is important . Sometimes the fully receiving) my professional engineer- ing family): Completed two marathons, to Arches Colorado Engineering Council Outstanding challenge I dealt with was learning how to important things are hard to determine, but ing license next year . After receiving my climbed Mr . Rainier National Park Graduating Engineer at CSM for Dec . 1995 balance it all—studying, participating in Julia Long if you look close enough, you’ll find them . professional license, I will be promoted to and and May 1996 . various organizations, and having fun at the the City Engineer of La Porte . I will be the What personal goals do you have to Canyonlands— same time . What would you tell a woman student first woman ever to hold this position . carry you into the next century? Health after a sixteen- Professional groundbreaking experienc- at Mines today? Expect the unexpected . and happiness, and starting a restaurant hour day in the es: First woman engineer at the City of La Favorite Memories: Homecoming; trav- All of the best made plans in the world Title: Director of Marketing field to find our Porte . Working as a project controls engi- eling to hardly ever happen exactly as planned . I Title: Graduate Teaching Assistant tent in 6" of neer on the $1 .5 billion expansion of the Sabrina Kay Indonesia with entered Mines with a notion of a big Professional Certifications, Registra­ standing water; Bayer Chemical Plant . Receiving a spe- Person McBride Honors career, traveling the world, moving up the tions, and Titles: Associate in Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’96 Surveying cial recognition award and bonus for my Program; sing- corporate ladder . I came out of Mines Reinsurance Other Degree(s): MS ’97, Ohio St . Univ “Repeat Hill” work as coordinator of the plant-wide ing the national wanting more than just a career, but also a during shutdown at Bayer . anthem for volleyball, basketball and wonderful, fulfilling life and family . I Mines Degree: BSc . Eng . ’90 LIFE AT MINES Engineering wrestling; E-Days; M-Climb(s) “grew-up” by realizing that money isn’t Other Degree(s): MBA ’95, NYU—Stern Biggest Challenges: Taking 20+ hours field session with Karl Nelson and Candy Publications: Winner of: American and doing well in all of them while stay-

A Century of Women at Mines 70 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 71 A Century of Women at Mines Adjunct Assoc . Prof . CSM Computer HAVE FUN . LIFE AT MINES daughter to the best of my ability while at Special Interests Outside Work: Watching es: Have flown Resource Center; Manager—Petroleum Biggest Challenges: Physics II Mines, too . my 4-year-old daughter in her dance Tara Schenk several experi- Technology transfer Council HIGHLIGHTS SINCE classes and soccer practices . I enjoy ments on satel- GRADUATION Favorite Memories: M-Climb and track Favorite Memories: Sitting in the com- church socials and women’s circles from lites, shuttles, Professional Certifications, Registra­ Current Professional Field: Petroleum and field competition mons between classes; watching the work . Also, I enjoy reading professional and space station tions, and Titles: Registered Professional Industry—consulting in seismic stratigra- Homecoming parade and fireworks; map- magazines to keep current in my field . MIR Geologist, Wyoming; Certified Petroleum phy and sequence stratigraphy What lasting impact did you have on ping during field session in the snow—in Geologist AAPG Mines? Worst hurdler ever June . Other significant achievements (includ- Special Interests Outside Work: SCUBA Job experiences: Five years Exxon geo- ing family): Since graduation, my hus- diving, motorcycle riding, softball, travel Mines Degree: PhD . Geol . ’95 physicist—Western U .S . Basins; six years What lasting impact did Mines have on What lasting impact did you have on band and I have had another daughter, and Other Degree(s): BSc ’72, San Jose St . consulting—international work in seismic you? Persistence and hard work pay off . Mines? I’d like to believe that professors I have resumed working . Currently, I am Other significant achievements (includ- University; MS ’75, North . Arizona Univ . and sequence stratigraphy; teaching are more sensitive to women with chil- awaiting my certification as a geologist in ing family): Married best friend, Kyle undergraduate stratigraphy (CSM); teaching What would you tell a woman student dren because of my situation . training . Hoover, in 1996 Spouse’s Name: Fred Mark short courses (Elf Aquitaine, Ecopetrol) at Mines today? Foundation is the key to Mines grad? No success . What lasting impact did Mines have on What personal goals do you have to What personal goals do you have to Children (#): 1, Ages: 9 Professional ground-breaking experi- you? Mines taught me perseverance . It carry you into the next century? carry you into the next century? Striving ences: Mentoring—was hired as a con- HIGHLIGHTS SINCE taught me to set high standards for myself Professionally, I wish to become a project to become an astronaut Title: Consultant­ (se­quence andseismic sulting “expert” to work on integrated and my colleagues, and to accept nothing geologist of a mine site . I also am looking stratigraphy) GRADUATION less than the best . forward to going back to school to earn a Maiden Name: Susan Webster interpretation of seismic data and wireline Current Professional Field: Energy Masters or PhD . Personally, I am hoping Title: Engineer II data in sequence stratigraphic context, Industry . Consulting with Ryder Scott . Mines Degree: PhD . Geo . ’97, MSc . (one year at Elf Aquitaine) mentoring What would you tell a woman student that I can keep up with my daughters . Geol . ’91 at Mines today? Hang in there! Your Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’92 done in French . Job experiences: Worked on manage- Other Degree(s): BS Geol/GP ’80, UT— completion of your degree is worth every Title: Research Assistant ment buy-out, IPO, merger Austin Publications: Journal of Geophysical painstaking moment that you put into it . Spouse’s Name: Thomas James Rankin Mines Degree: BSc . Chem . ’92, MSc . Mines grad? Yes Research, American Association of Special Spouse’s Name: Mike Blaskowski Chem . U of AL-Huntsville Year: ’91 Petroleum Geologists, Journal of Susan Denise Interests Mines grad? No Degree: BSc . Eng . Sedimentary Research (in press) Rankin Outside Work: Cathy Rein Children (#): 3, Ages: 7, 4, 11/2 Spouse’s Name: Kyle Hoover Semi- Mines grad? No Special Interests Outside Work: professional beach doubles volleyball LIFE AT MINES LIFE AT MINES Parenting, hiking, photography, teaching What would you tell a woman student at HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Biggest Challenges: Intellectual: 1) Nav­ geology to kids, Other significant achievements (includ- LIFE AT MINES Mines today? Attending and graduating Penny J. igating the development of stratigraphic cross-country ing family): Sister at Rice—star volley- GRADUATION Biggest Challenges: Physics II— from CSM is the best decision you’ll Pettigrew concepts in T .A . Cross’ seminar 2) Having­ skiing, canoe- ball player . Husband—played AVP (asso- Current Professional Field: In-Situ Electricity & Magnetism every make . 3 kids during graduate studies . Physical: ing, gardening ciate pro volleyball) Leach (ISL) Uranium Geologist 1) Getting anything to plot on the (native plants and herbs), culling good Favorite Memories: Working with foot- HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Geology Department’s “new” plotter 2) jokes from e-mail . What personal goals do you have to Job experiences: After school, I began ball team, two years varsity softball, GRADUATION Bicycling Lookout Mountain in under 45 carry you into the next century? All working for Geomex Minerals (a small Coors short tours, and learning to ride Current Professional Field: Municipal minutes! Other significant achievements (includ- financial uranium exploration company) . I soon motorcycle solid waste landfills – siting, groundwater ing family): Three kids! found out that GM’s parent (Cameco) was monitoring, landfill gas control system Favorite Memories: Field work in the Maiden Name: Smith the world’s largest uranium company in “First woman to . . .” at Mines: receive design and monitoring French Alps…with kids!; the evening What personal goals do you have to Title: Geologist the world . Cameco bought Power a varsity letter in football in 100 years Baby #1 in backpack blew pacifier across carry you into the next century? To Resources and transferred all GM Job experiences: 1992 – 1995: Kennedy – the room during really boring seminar raise three feminist males to carry us into Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’96 employees (two geologists—myself What lasting impact did Mines have on Jenks Consultants – landfill siting, oil the next century! To raise the professional included) from Denver to Casper where I you? Made me a more well-rounded sci- spill emergency response, wastewater “First woman to…” at Mines: Haven’t level of stratigraphy being done in the Spouse’s Name: Geoffrey Louis Pearson have worked since . entist and person treatment and water supply projects, envi- checked the history books petroleum industry . To continue advocat- Mines grad? No ronmental characterization and remedia- ing for cooperative education . Children (#): 2, Ages: 4 years and 4 Professional ground-breaking experi- What would you tell a woman student tion . 1995 – present – Kern County Waste What lasting impact did you have on months (Stacia & Elizabeth) ences: In addition to successfully running at Mines today? Get involved outside the Mgmt Dept – see experience under cur- Mines? History must decide Additional Comments: Thanks for doing a six-month, five-rig field operation, I classroom! Don’t be intimidated! rent professional field . this . I won’t be at the weekend celebra- have assisted in bringing my company to What lasting impact did Mines have on LIFE AT MINES the current computer age by updating tion but have a good time anyway! Biggest Challenges: The biggest chal- HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Professional ground-breaking experi- you? Intellectual challenges met archaic databases and ridding the company lenge I faced while at Mines resulted from GRADUATION ences: Response to oil pipeline ruptures of ancient software to be replaced by cur- Maiden Name: Smith my determination to prove everyone Current Professional Field: PhD . candi- in Los Angeles area after Northridge What would you tell a woman student rent programs . Also, in addition to two Title: Petroleum Engineer wrong when they said I wouldn’t be able date in Materials Science and Space earthquake – response to a natural disaster at Mines today? It is still a white man’s other women (both Wyoming grads), we Mines Degree: BSc . Pet . ’91 to finish school due to my pregnancy Chemistry was challenging and insightful – I hope world, but hang in there . Don’t let anyone have brought the Wyoming mining industry early in my sophomore year . Not only did Job experiences: Lawrence Livermore the big one doesn’t happen! decide what you should do except your- to head with equal, fair rights for profes- Spouse’s Name: Randy Meador I graduate, I graduated on time (in 4 National Lab Intern before grad school self; keep your confidence high and your sional women in the mining community . Mines grad? No years) with better than a 3 .0 GPA . It was Publications: “Rapid Response, Flow mind sharp . Be proud of yourself, and hard work, but I also managed to raise my Professional ground-breaking experienc- Diversion Save Wildlife Habitat After Oil

A Century of Women at Mines 72 The Nineties: Part of the Crowd The Nineties: Part of the Crowd 73 A Century of Women at Mines Mines Degree: wand . jects and better understanding of the inge- What personal goals do you have to Pricilla Holly Sprackling BSc . Eng . ’97 Other signifi- nuity and hard work that goes behind Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’97 carry you into the next century? Special Interests Outside Work: A mem- Thompson cant achieve- many of the things that people take for Constantly learn ber of the Glenwood Springs Jaycees,­ aero- ments (includ- granted . Also, a better understanding of LIFE AT MINES Title: President LIFE AT bics, hiking, biking and swimming ing family): how connected we are to the rest of the Biggest Challenges: Learning how to MINES Nominated for world, through our economies, technology work with a team dominated by men . Professional Certifications, Biggest Challenges: Studying . The big- What personal goals do you have to teacher of year and the environment . Learning how to think through and solve Registrations, and Titles: Professional gest challenge was finding the discipline carry you into the next century? 1997–98; inno- open-ended problems . Engineer Co . to study especially on Saturdays . Continue on my career path and keep vative high What would you tell a woman student maturing as a human being school engineer- at Mines today? You’ve made one of the Favorite Memories: Being in the CSM Mines Degree: BSc Eng . ’91 Favorite Memories: Girls Night Out . Either ing program; best decisions in your life to begin your Marching Band, especially during going to the movies or staying at home and Title: Engineering Instructor many rescued education at Mines . Remember that learn- Homecoming! McBride Spring Break trip Spouse’s Name: John Sprackling having chicken fajitas and margaritas . furry family ing should last a lifetime and don’t back to Washington D .C ., geology field trips, Mines grad? Yes Mines Degree: BSc . Geol . ’93 members! down from any challenges . Geology Field Camp, and friends I made Year: ’86 “First woman to . . .” at Mines: Build in Sigma Kappa . Degree: BSc . Eng . and row a concrete canoe . There were Spouse’s Name: David Wurts What personal goals do you have to HIGHLIGHTS SINCE Children (#): 2, Ages: 4, 10 three women of a team of five for our Mines grad? No carry you into the next century? Inspire “First woman to . . .” at Mines: possibly others, follow my dreams, and learn from senior design project to build a concrete T.C. Wait first mother (’90)/daughter (’97) duo to LIFE AT MINES canoe . Then we had to row the canoe in LIFE AT MINES my experiences—good and bad graduate from Mines . Favorite Memories: Too many to list the ASCE competition in South Dakota . Biggest Challenges: Making a positive Title: Chemical Engineer The two other women were Mary Wasgatt difference in the world—not just trudging Laurel A. Watts What lasting HIGHLIGHTS SINCE and Allison Christner . along with what others say/do . GRADUATION impact did GRADUATION Professional Certifications, Current Professional Field: Oil and gas Mines have on Registrations, and Titles: P .E . Chemical Current Professional Field: Electrical What lasting impact did you have on Favorite Memories: Friends and peers— upstream services sector . I work as a busi- you? The name Engineer—Entrepreneur Mines? Hopefully, I left a few laughs . spring breaks, field camp, learning and and environmental engineering (Oregon ness and market analyst for the U .S . Bus­ certainly gains instant respect in industry . and Colorado) growing through classes and activities . iness Acquisitions Manager (a woman!) for Now I just have to live up to it! Job experiences: Five years as a High What lasting impact did Mines have on Brown & Root Energy Services . Voltage Substation Designer for Western you? Irreplaceable friendships and education . “First woman to . . .” at Mines: Moon Mines Degree: PhD . CPR ’94 What would you tell a woman student Other Degree(s): BSc . ’76, University of Area Power Administration; two years as the library during finals week (maybe not Job experiences: 1993–1996, Sales and at Mines today? Stick with it . The bene- President of Sprackling Consulting What would you tell a woman student first!) Maine—Orono, MS ’79, University of Applications Engineering in Chicago for fits of a CSM degree are great, and teach Maine—Orono Company, designing and installing control at Mines today? Enjoy your time at Air Liquide; 1996–1997, Project Engineer you skills that are useful in any career . systems for AMOCO, Western Aggregate Mines because your time at Mines doesn’t What lasting impact did you have on for Marketing Group in Houston for Air Spouse’s Name: Richard Perkins (TXI, Inc .), Industrial Controls, Inc ., and last forever . Take the time to study, but Mines? Certainly I’m not a “typical” Liquide; 1997–1998, Project Manager and HIGHLIGHTS SINCE a number of other interesting clients . also take the time to be social and create engineer—never was! Mines grad? Yes Marketing Manager in Houston for Air Year: ’79 GRADUATION lasting friendships . Liquide Current Professional Field: Geological Professional ground-breaking experi- What lasting impact did Mines have on Degree: BSc . CPR, PhD . CPR ’83 Children (#): 3, Ages: 12, 9, & 7 software technical support ences: Starting my own company and HIGHLIGHTS SINCE you? I can do it if I put my mind to it and Special Interests Outside Work: Started making it a success . Working on a 500-Kv really try . training for my first marathon this year; GRADUATION Job experiences: A three-month intern- transmission line and three substations LIFE AT MINES do volunteer work for environmental and ship at Phillips Petroleum introduced me Current Professional Field: Civil What would you tell a woman student Biggest Challenges: Balancing graduate sustainable engineering groups; working Engineering to the importance of keeping up with Special Interests Outside Work: Soccer, at Mines today? Set goals and don’t let school and having two kids! on my MBA technology development and led me to skiing/snowboarding, ultimate Frisbee, yourself get too distracted! Spend so my current job . and coaching youth soccer teams Job experiences: Designed a residential much time improving yourself that you Other significant achievements (includ- bike path and sidewalk . I was the lowest HIGHLIGHTS SINCE have no time to criticize others . GRADUATION ing family): Married fellow Mines grad Professional ground-breaking experi- What personal goals do you have to man on the totem pole when we had to set Travis Rein, BSc . CPR ’93, in May 1994 . up meters at a sewage plant, so it became Current Professional Field: Chemical ences: I haven’t been working long enough carry you into the next century? I plan HIGHLIGHTS SINCE engineer Traveled most of U .S . Visited Paris, Lyon, to have ground-breaking experiences! to grow my client base with my company, my job to be in charge of the meter . Then and Normandy, France on business . we got another meter that had to be GRADUATION vacation as much as possible, and enjoy installed in man- Current Professional Field: Teaching Job experiences: ’80–’85 U .S . Bureau of Special Interests Outside Work: Ballet, the good life . (yikes!) and grad school (CSM) Mines, Albany Ore, Chem ./Env . Engineer; What personal goals do you have to hiking, camping, cross-country skiing Amber Storch holes, which carry you into the next century? I’d like also became my ’85–present NIST, Boulder, Chemical Mines Degree: BSc . Geop . ’97 Job experiences: Environmental engi- Engineer to continue graduate studies after my MBA Other significant achievements (includ- responsibility . So perhaps pursue my doctorate in Sustainable I was nicknamed the Queen of Sewage . neering in Colorado, Alaska, Texas; com- ing family): Several relatives to attend munity relations for engineering projects; Maiden Name: Godette Technology and the economics needed to Mines: mother: Although I only had to show up with the drive our societies towards cleaner and LIFE AT MINES computer and download the data . I used my site geologist; engineering instructor Title: Sr . Metallurgical Engineer Judith Schenk, Biggest Challenges: Time Management; more sustainable energy sources . Laura G. White ‘girl’ card so I would not have to climb in MSc . Geol . ’90; Fall semester (too long—not enough the manhole . However, to show everyone I Special Interests Outside Work: Animal Mines Degree: BSc . Met . ’90 brother: Liam breaks); Chem 121 have a sense of humor, I dressed up as the behavior/vet work; backpacking, moun- Spouse’s Name: Scott E . White Schenk, BSc . tain climbing, skiing; yoga; accupressure; Mines grad? Yes Min . ’99 Queen of Sewage (picture included) for a Title: Support Specialist /Geologist Favorite Memories: My 22nd birthday day with a potty seat crown and toilet brush Chinese medicine; herbs; gardening Year: ’89 party on the final night of E-Days (thanks

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The Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration 77 A Century of Women at Mines The Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebaration

n October 1998, the Women in Science, Engineering and Heather (Knapp) Hernandez, ’98, former CSM SWE chapter at Hill Hall . Mathematics (WISEM) program commemorated the 100-year president gave a presentation about SWE and its history at anniversary of the graduation of Florence Caldwell, the first Mines . Following Heather, Dr . Theodore Bickart, CSM’s new Conclusion I The Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration presented woman to receive an engineering degree from the Colorado School president, presented the welcoming remarks for the weekend . of Mines . Alumnae from four decades and members of the Mines The highlight of the evening came when Kim Blair, a present unique opportunities for Mines alumnae . The women were given administration gathered in October 1997 to plan and develop the graduate student, enticed everyone to share their memories and the opportunity to look back and gain an appreciation of the event . The changes that have taken place for women in the field of experiences from their days at Mines . Some of these memories early female pioneers in the world of engineering . They engineering and at Mines in the last forty years were apparent included student’s favorite professor, lowest test score, and most reviewed the different challenges that faced the women who fol- when this group compared their experiences . times enrolled in a class . Nancy Easley Ise, the Mines student fea- lowed . And they recognized that professionalism and compe- The committee organized three days of activities on the tured in the November 24, 1952, issue of Life magazine, reminisced tence are what make women viable members of the engineering about being the only female student on campus . Following the community . The weekend allowed everyone the opportunity to he organizing committee set three primary goals for social, the Sigma Kappa, and Pi Beta Phi sororities hosted parties learn from each other and establish contacts within the industry . the Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration: for their returning alumnae, at their respective houses . Members of the Mines community were able to acknowl- T• Celebrate women at Mines and their accomplish- edge the individuals who made significant contributions while on ments in life campus . They presented the many changes that have taken place • Create an opportunity to get in touch with old friends SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1998 Continental Breakfast and Welcome both on campus and in the field of engineering education in the and acquaintances Terre Deegan-Young and Mary Pott during a workshop • To host activities that would give Mines women the Following an early morning breakfast, Dr . Bickart wel- opportunity to pool their unique experiences comed the group and gave an interesting overview of the prog- ress of women in engineering and in engineering education . He United States . Finally, those in attendance were given a preview of discussed how Colorado School of Mines contributed to this the plans Mines has for the future . advancement of women and shared his hopes for Mines in the Colorado School of Mines has a unique opportunity to use future . Karen Ostrander-Krug, ’84, a member of the CSM Board the feedback from those who attended . Those who worked on of Trustees, and Mary Pott, ’83, former CSM Alumni the Centennial Cele­bration will use these ideas and suggestions to Association President also gave insights to the changes for plan activities in the future aimed at helping women in engineering women, both at Mines and in industry . and other technical­ fields . The input from participants will also become part of the larger Mines community as the School keeps Colorado School of Mines campus and selected the first week- Workshops pace with the trends and changes affecting women in the engi- end in October 1998, for the celebration . A kick-off dinner and The workshops covered a wide range of topics for profes- neering industry . dessert social followed by sorority reunions took place on sional and personal development . These included financial plan- Friday . Activities on Saturday included a continental breakfast, ning, career management, humor in the workplace, stress man- workshops, luncheon, group photo, wine tasting, and awards agement, leadership skills, and tips for succeeding in the global banquet . Sunday was a family day that included a breakfast, workplace . In addition there were workshops focusing on non- climbing to the “M,” and a picnic lunch . Each attendee received verbal communication, analyzing personality strengths, and a a registration packet and commemorative bag . In addition com- historical overview of women who have won the Nobel Prize . memorative T-shirts, sweatshirts, bags and mugs were available Everyone could participate in up to three different workshops for purchase . Approximately, one hundred alumnae participated during morning and afternoon sessions . in one or more of the weekend events . Lunch and Group Picture FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 1998 Comedian and speaker Melody Soell, a self described “recov- Kick-off Dinner and Dessert Social ering computer programmer” added a light touch to the day’s lun- The Mines Chapter of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) cheon . Melody had everyone laughing as she spoke about her sponsored the kick-off dinner and dessert social held in the ball- “recovery .” To celebrate the tremendous changes since the 1952 rooms at the Ben H . Parker Student Center . At each table alum- Life magazine photo, the alumnae, Dr . Bickart and Nancy Ise gath- nae and current students enjoyed visiting with old friends and ered on the steps of Guggenheim for a reunion picture . finding out what was new on campus . Everyone received a com- memorative mug as a gift from the SWE chapter . After dinner

A Century of Women at Mines 78 The Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration The Florence Caldwell Centennial Celebration 79 A Century of Women at Mines Beer and Wine Tasting After the day of workshops, it was time to kick back, relax and sample some of Colorado’s light alcoholic beverages in the Geology Museum . Cathy Skokan provided wines from the west- ern slope while John Higgenlooper of the Wynkoop Brewing Company supplied a keg of microbrew .

Awards Banquet Saturday evening everyone enjoyed good food and conver- sation at the Centennial Celebration Awards Banquet . Dr . Joan Gosink, Head of the Engineering Division at Colorado School of Mines, gave the keynote presentation on wind research in the Antarctic . Presentation of awards by President Theodore Bickart and Dr . John Trefny, Vice President for Academic Affairs, concluded the evening . These awards commemorated women who have made significant contributions to the history of women at Mines . Mary Beth Beach, Judy Bolis, and other participants share a laugh could view new additions such as the large stained glass window CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEE

Mary Pott, ’83, Chairman Tiffany Abbink, ’94, Assistant Chairman

Kathy Altman, ’80 Cathy Mencin, ’83 Candy Ammerman, ’81 Debbie Mooney, CSMAA Mary Beth Beach, ’69 Jane Raunikar Taylor, CSM Kim Blair, graduate student Public Information Judy Bolis, ’82, ’92 Claudia Rebne, ’86 Abby Browder, student Melanie Rich Wendi Cooksey, ’84 Susan Riebe, ’86 Chontel Cordova, student Carrie Salimeno, student Vicki Cowart, MS ’77 Tara Schenk, ’97 Jodi Davidson, ’91 Maureen Silva, OIA the future Mary Jo Giddings, CSMAA Cathy Skokan, ’70, ’72, ’74 Joan Gosink, Engineering Pamela Tittes, ’72, ’77 Shannon Hines, student Liz Townley, student Above: President Bickart and Dr. Cathy Skokan Comments from Linda Sue Hoops, ’81 Gina Vaccari, student Sandy Kramer, ’73 Louise Wildeman, CSM in Alderson Hall, the atrium in the recently remodeled Karen Ostrander-Krug, ’84 Career Center PresiDent Bickart Lailla Matthews, ’87 Coolbaugh Hall, and the additions currently under construction

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1998 Family Day Sunday was a day for family fun . An “M” climb followed a continental break- fast in the Coolbaugh House . At the “M” everyone received a souvenir button stat- ing “One Hundred Years and Still an Uphill Climb .” The group par- ticipated in a group photo . A member of Blue Key was on hand to locate the lights on the “M” purchased by the alumnae dur- ing the recent lighting project . The group returned to the Coolbaugh House to enjoy a picnic lunch . Students conducted tours of campus so participants Left: Group picture at the “M” October 4, 1998

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21 March 1999

Dear Alumni and Friends:

Our task at the Colorado School of Mines is to identify and educate those who would be engineers, scientists, and business leaders . We have been doing so for 125 years . For 100 of those years we have counted women among the ranks of our graduates . And, today women are 25 percent of our baccalaureate graduates . Both of these are remarkable facts in the realm of engineering schools and colleges, probably more so for an institution bound to the extractive disciplines . However, we should not be satisfied . Since women constitute slightly more than half of the population, we must presume that there is latent talent for engineering to be awakened among the women who will be university bound in the future .

Our task must be to inform young women of the opportunities and rewards of engineering, a profession com- mitted to creating products and processes to improve the human condition, and the positive experiences that will be theirs while learning to be scientists and engineers at the Colorado School of Mines .

If we sustain a welcoming and supportive environment within which a diverse student body and faculty can thrive, we believe that women in our ranks will grow to about 50 percent . Additionally, we will also surely find that the various ethnic minorities at Mines will achieve parity with their numbers in the population .

Some of us in the family of Mines have defined roles in the process . For example, the Admissions Office staff members are always looking for talented women and ethnic minorities who might be drawn to a Mines educa- tion in science, engineering, or economics and business . However, all of us in the family of Mines have an opportunity to inform talented prospective students about these professions and the mind-expanding and life- fulfilling educational experiences provided by Mines .

Faculty members—our students’ intellectual mentors—are in a position to encourage their students, especially those in underrepresented groups, to consider graduate study and the practice of their professions within the academy . In time this will lead to a more diverse faculty at Mines .

Let us join together to achieve full diversity and increased intellectual vitality at Mines .

Sincerely,

Theodore A . Bickart

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