UA Geosciences Newsletter, Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 1999)

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The Department of Geosciences Fall 1999 Volume 5, Number 1 with fieldwork being carried out throughoutevaluate water management and quality Letter from the Chair the Americas, the Himalayas, Africa, Antartica, issues. Geoscientists will work with the mining Greenland, and the Caribbean and Southindustry in exploiting the ore with as little Joaquin Ruiz Pacific Islands. disturbance to the fragile environment as As these stories attest, our Department possible. Globally, interactions between the issue of Geosciences is the last of the has had a long tradition of excellence and has hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and Thismillennium, whichgivesusthe steadily grown to become one of the largest tectonics will dominate our attention. The opportunity to reflect on the history of the and well- respected programs in the nation. challenge will be to understand climate Department -to look back over our journey We continue to evolve through our students changes, what causes them, and the overall of the last half century. We asked our alumni and our faculty. This year, two esteemed changes in the meteorological conditions of the 40s and 50s to tell us what the colleagues have retired -Vance Haynes and produced by warming of our planet. Many of Department was like during their tenure and Austin Long. Four new faculty join us -Julia the scientific issues that geoscientists will have to relay some of their experiences at The Cole, Mihai Ducea, Jonathan Overpeck and to address in the future will have profound University of Arizona. The response to our Jon Pelletier. Our first Geosciences of the new policy implications. The complexity of these request was extraordinary and I'm pleased to millennium will focus on these new colleagues issues will require a great breadth and depth pass their stories on to you. You'll smile as you and their research. of knowledge. The scientific challenges of the read through them -either from a sense of As we review our past, we also new millenium promise to be exciting and we familiarity or from amazement. contemplate our future. The Earth Sciences will continue to lead in the research of these Obviously, some aspectsof the have been central to our understanding of problems and in the education of future Department and the University have changed who we are through the studies of the geoscientists. since the 40s and 50s. We now have airevolution of our planet and its biota. We In these pages, however, we take the time conditioning (thankfully); we do not keep should be proud that members of our to salute and honor our past and rejoice with cases of dynamite in our dorms or shoot pistols Department have been involved in some of the memories of th. - 'y alked onto this in the football stadium (I think); and we need the key studies in the geosciences. In the campus half a cenry ago to e ' bark on their not go as far as Gallup, New Mexico to have future, the Earth Sciences will continue its own journeys. a good time (generally speaking). We do, quest to better understand the evolution of however, keep the same traditions of care for our planet, including issues sensitive to our the education of our students and for standard of living. Flood, seismic and volcanic engaging in high quality science. Our fieldhazard evaluation will become even more trips can be as outrageous as those described important as population centers become by our alumni but our stories now are global- larger and more widespread. Geoscientists will

HERE'S A TOAST To all of the Geo- people at the UA, past and present, and especially to those who have passed on to the Great Field Trip in the Sky. One fondly hopes that the weather is always fine, there are no black flies, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, chiggers, plums, or borrachudos, and the cholla there all have rubber needles. It's been an eventful half century. -Dick Jones, BS '56, MS '57 to çourtesy Of William Price) UA Geosciences N EWS LETTER DONORS Fall 1999 Department of Geosciences -......

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Fall 1999 page 2 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter environments and protecting endangered species. J. David Lowell News Originally I am from Ann Arbor, MI. I am of mixed heritage; my father is Colombian and Honored my mother is anglo. As an undergraduate Around the majored in Geology and Anthropology at Eastern Michigan Univ. Prior to graduate

school I had some great field -related Department experiences. I participated in an archaeological dig in New Mexico, worked as an intern at a national park in Colorado, and traveled and studied in Colombia. Carlie Rodriguez My background and travel experiences in other countries have given me new insight Named First into conservation biology issues. It is important UA Sloan Scholar for scientists from neighboring countries to collaborate and work together toward ecological J. David Lowell (center) is awarded the Doctor restoration.I plan to use my background and Honoris Causa degree in ceremonies at the research experiences to work with scientists in Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. other countries to aid in restoration ecology in other areas around the world. j. David Lowell, a memberof our Geosciences Advisory Board, is the recipient of an impressive number of recent honors. For his Summer Geology leadership and participation in multiple world classmineraldiscoveries andtheir Course for Middle development, in particular Kalamazoo, Casa Grande West, La Escondida, and Pierina Mines, School Students Dave will be awarded the 1999 Robert Earll McConnell Award by the American Institute This past summer a group of 7th and 8th of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers' this grade minority and disadvantaged spring. He is also the recipient of the Robert students from schools in Tucson investigated M. Dreyer Award. This award is presented by a method to predict earthquakes, discovered the Society of Mining Engineers (SME) to Carlie Rodriguez has been chosen as the first ways to design buildings to withstand recognize an outstanding applied economic UA Sloan Scholar. This graduate fellowship is earthquakes, learned to correlate the size of a geologist in the field of commercial made available through a grant from the Alfred P dinosaur based on fossil tracks, and exploration for, and development of, mineral Sloan Foundation, an organization committed to determined the size of an asteroid based ondeposits anywhere in the world. Dave is the ensuring the retention and graduation of minority an impact crater. These are just a few of the first recipient of this prestigious award PhD students in math, engineering and science. challenges they faced in a two -week workshop(planned to become the premier mineral sponsored by the UA APEX (Academicexploration award of the world) which will came to the UA as a MS student in 1997, Preparation for EXcellence) program and the be presented at the 2000 SME Annual working with Dr. Karl Ressa. Last semester I Department of Geosciences. Meeting in Salt Lake City. At the same meeting completed my MS thesis, examining the The APEX program provides middle and his bound oral history biography will be recent decline in a clam population in the high school students with a hands -on learning presented by the Bancroft Library, Western Colorado River Delta using fossil faunal experience in the geosciences. Students inMining History Center of the Univ. of distribution and biogeochemical techniques. APEX participate in a APEX science club during California, Berkeley. Other honors include Results from this study suggest that the decline the school year and then attend summer camp being awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa in the population of this clam may be due to at the UA, where they get involved in different degree in a ceremony at the Universidad the cessation of Colorado River water to the experiments. Many of the activities they Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru estuary in the Colorado Delta due to extensive participate in are a product of the researchand his induction into the National Academy damming and diversion. conducted by faculty in the department. of Engineering in Washington, DC. My master's research helped me to define Theprogram is where my interests in paleontology lie.I am supervised by Michelle principally interested in marine invertebrate Hall -Wallace and was ecology, paleoecology, marine conservation taughtby graduate biology, and in combining these three areas. student Christine This fallI began the PhD program here, Hallman. This is a popular working again with Dr. Flessa.I plan to use workshop for our paleoecological techniques to address graduate students who questions of human impact on marine biotas. enjoy teaching younger Paleoecological studies can often overcome students. PhD student Jeff problems of insufficient long -term data and Pigati has already temporal variability that ecologists frequently volunteered to teach next encounter when attempting to evaluate long- year. term ecological change. I would like to use paleoecological techniques The Summer '99 APEX/ to aid conservation biologists in restoring Geosciences class.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 3 G It must have been a shock for both fellow students and professors DOROTHY HOWARD HALL, BS '43 when I showed up for class, but everyone was polite although reserved. SOME REMINISCENCES FROM MY STUDENT DAYS The students were not used to having a "girl" sitting next to them and the professors were not used to having a "girl" in their classes. There was one exception to the all male situation, a young woman, whose name I wish I could remember, was in some of my classes. What was said when I wasn't around I don't know, but I was never harassed. I was treated as an equal and they did get used to me. The year I arrived in Tucson was 1941 and it wasn't far into my first semester when Pearl Harbor occurred. Like anyone of my generation I remember vividly what I was doing that day. It was a Sunday and I had gone hiking with two friends, both named Don, in the Santa Rita Mountains. We had gone to the top of Mt. Wrightson and I didn't get back to the dorm until about 5 pm. It was a shock to learn that we were at war. It did change things, as people started enlisting and leaving school as the "war effort" got underway. Classes went on, of course, but things were somehow different. That following summer I worked for a while for M M Sundt, a construction company that was rapidly building Japanese Relocation Centers at Sacaton and other Arizona locations. I learned how to "take off" plans and calculate board feet of lumber -a skill that I have not used since -but I earned The gang with Ignatz or the "Green Hornet" (Dottie is leaning on the enough money to purchase a model A roadster and promptly named windshield). Dottie graduated in '43 in a class of 263. it the Green Hornet simply because it was green. A proud moment. I had come to the UA as a junior In Liberal Arts with a major in rizona was something in a Zane Grey novel for me until the summer Geology. Since I had already taken Freshman Geology elsewhere, I of '39 when I was a tag -along on a Four Corners geology field trip could go directly to classes of my choice except for a few required with friends from Pasadena Junior College. I was 17, had just graduated courses outside my major. I really loved all of my geology classes, from high school, with no especially those in paleontology and idea in what direction life mineralogy. I remember field trips with Dr. would lead. That trip to Stoyanow and how excited he got when the Southwest did it, we found ammonites; mineralogy from Dr. made up my mind for Galbraith who had said to someone that me -1 wanted to go to he would soon have me out of his class the UA and study geology. but in the end said I was one of his best Two California college students; mineralogy lab where streak and years were to pass before cleavage had different meanings than I finally convinced my today's connotations; Saturday field parents that I was serious. geology class for three of us; a field trip to You see, in those days the copper mining career options for women operations and were secretarial work, being told by one of teaching or nursing. my classmates not to Having an understanding go into a mine shaft father allowed me to at because it was bad last leave the nest and (Above) Dor, Dot, Reggie, Bob and luck for a woman to venture to the unknown Walt in front of the Lincoln at Lake go underground; frontier, as my mother Mead, 1939. (Right) "My hiking structural and was convinced Arizona buddies. Where are they now ?" physical geology must be. Frontier no, but Don McDonald, Dotty, and Don classes from B. S. certainly different from Gerhart seated in front of Butler and going to the lifeIleft behind. Maricopa Hall, fall 1941. his home fora Reading the excerpt Geology Club from the autobiography of John Anthony in the last issue of meeting;optical Geosciences, I related much to his experiences of stepping off the train mineralogy and petrography from M. N. Short, from whom I borrowed in Tucson in the lingering desert summer. Having come from the Sana book and still have; a night field class to "shoot Polaris" and when Francisco Bay area I had a wardrobe equally inappropriate to the climate describing it being asked by some Smart Alec if I got my limit; and on and lifestyle as the image he presented. I did, however, arrive in the and on. dead of night so that the "glaring white cement platform ", as he Those were wonderful days with small, small classes in the old described the Tucson train station, had had some time to cool down. Geology Building with the mineral displays on the first floor that I Irecall the first date I went on was to go dancing at the Pioneer Roof always had to stop and admire. What a long way geology at the UA and being totally overdressed. Afterwards a kind dorm -mate explained has come since my time there, but what a wonderful education I about more appropriate casual attire and I took to it immediately. No received in many ways... . more hose or gloves! page 4 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 GEO-M [MORI ES and I began to feel tired. The other half of the seat was empty, so I lay WILLIAM E. PRICE, BS '46, MS '48 down on it and in spite of the hot, stuffy atmosphere of the coach, JOURNEY INTO SUNLIGHT was able to sleep, albeit fitfully. Daylight at last! Through the heavy, steel trusses of a Chicago When I was about to graduate from Bloomfield High School in railroad bridge, I caught my first glimpse of the Great Lakes. Detraining New Jersey at the age of 18, my parents decided that because at Chicago, I took a taxi to another station where I was to board a of my frail health I should continue my education in a warm, sunny Pullman for the second and final leg of my journey. While waiting, I climate. The UA seemed a good choice. They knew a couple who had stared at several huge paintings high on the wall above the doors to sent their son there, so one evening my father and I went to their the tracks. One was titled "Valley of the Sun" and showed an impressive home to view movies they had taken of the campus and to learn what stand of tall saguaros with long shadows in the late afternoon sun. I student life there was like. Evidently it was most enjoyable, but not was moved. So this is what Arizona looked like! conducive to studying. My father was a high school chemistry teacher After a good night's sleep in the Pullman car, I awoke to the third and a Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, so I thought to myself, "Well, he is day of my journey, a not very interesting one, as I watched the endless, drab, brown plains of Kansas pass my window in the club car under a cloudy, gray winter sky. slept well that night, but was jolted awake as the train stopped to take on an additional 18 cars. The fourth and last day of my journey dawned bright and clear; we were in New Mexico. What a transformation! The train sped through a desert dotted with tiny shrubs, all bathed in sunlight, and on the horizon high, blue mountains, their summits gleaming with fresh - fallen snow. The conductor opened the half doors between the cars and we all crowded onto the jolting, swaying platform to take in the fresh, warm air rushing past. Night came, but I stayed awake because I knew that we had entered Arizona and in a few hours would reach Tucson. It was midnight when the train stopped at the station, and as I entered I looked around for my young contact. No one

UA Geology field trip, c. 1945. Bill Price is in the front row, far left, holding a geology pick. was there. I requested a page. No results. I explained my predicament to the station master. not going to send me to that university." You see, I was a bit of a nerd. He replied sympathetically, "Well, I pass near the University on my But to my surprise, he seemed not at all deterred by the results of the way home and I could drop you off there." I took him up on his offer evening. He understood students. and after a short ride we arrived at the University, where we spied a Soon a blue catalogue arrived in the mail, the University of Arizona brightly lit building with tall columns in front -it was Cochise Hall, Record. What intrigued me most was the range of mountains marching luckily a men's dorm. My driver let me off, and I climbed the steps across the front, spine, and back of the booklet. After all,I had never and entered the foyer. been farther west than Philadelphia. Was this what the West looked I was greeted by students yelling and shouting and racing up like, and did this presage an interest in geology? and down the halls. One stopped abruptly when he saw me standing On January 22, 1943, I said good -bye to my teachers at the high bewildered, and commented, "That certainly is a heavy overcoat you school. At that time, formal graduations were held in mid year as well are wearing there!" I explained that I had just arrived in Tucson, was as spring, but there was no time for me to attend; I had to be at the planning to register as a student, and needed a place to spend the UA in time for registration. My father, my mother, my brother and I night. After consulting with another student he said, "We don't have drove to Elizabeth, New Jersey for me to catch the 6:49 pm train to any spare beds, but one of the fellows is sick in the infirmary and you Chicago, the first leg in my journey to Arizona. can have his." Beggars cannot be choosers, so, hoping that the bed It was dark, cold, and windy as we stood on the concrete platform owner did not have anything contagious, I accepted his offer. of the train station and watched the gleaming white snowflakes swirl Slipping between the well -used sheets, I slept soundly until I was about under the dim station lights. Wearing a heavy, dark -gray overcoat awakened in the morning by the heavy tramping of soldiers' feet inherited from my grandfather, I shivered a little. In those days heaviness outside beneath the open, screened window of my sleeping porch. It was thought to be synonymous with warmth. Down the tracks was chilly in the porch, so I dressed hastily and hurried outside. There appeared the bright eye of the steam locomotive, which hissed and I stood, in this glorious sunshine!I could not linger -this was screeched to a stop at the far end of the platform. I boarded the train registration day and tomorrow classes began. But there must be and waved good -bye to my family through the darkened window as enough time for me to see those fascinating mountains that I had the train moved off in heavy "chuffs." My father, a thrifty man, had seen marching across the cover of the University of Arizona Record. booked me on a coach because he reasoned I would not sleep on my THERE they were, stretching across the horizon in all their majesty. first night out. As I sat on the hard yellow straw seat with the curved How I wished I could walk out to them, but there was work to be handles on the aisle side,I mused on the night ahead of me and done -I needed to register. So I turned around and entered the wondered how I would recognize the young student, an acquaintance University that was to be the center of my life for the next five years. of my father's friends, who was to greet me at the Tucson station ([email protected]) when I arrived. Soon the initial excitement of the journey wore off

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 5 G [O-M [MORI ES Mines for several decades; he was the expert on Arizona geology and GEORGE A. KIERSCH, PHD '47 mining districts. Eldred was an 'Adjunct Professor' in the many ways JOURNEY INTO SUNLIGHT he assisted and counseled graduate students, and an informal geologic confident. Eldred, B. S. Butler, and Maxwell Short were an exceptional trio on one faculty -with their strong background and knowledge of mineral deposits /mining throughout the southwestern and Rocky Mountain regions. Prof. Butler, department head, held his traditional graduate- senior seminar once a week. Mrs. Butler would drive on campus at 4 pm with a picnic basket holding a hot pot of tea and assorted cookies, stop opposite Prof. Butler's second floor office and honk the horn. A student would quickly go down and return the basket to the seminar gathering. Any attendee of the seminar could volunteer a brief discussion on a new 'discovery' or knowledge re Arizona -Southwestern Geology, while we gained 'strength' from the hot tea and cookies! I joined the faculty in 1951. During 1952, E. D. McKee, an expert on northern Arizona geology, was responsible for arranging a UA- College of Mines research contract to perform a 'Mineral Resources Survey of Navajo -Hopi Indian Reservations Arizona and Utah'. The contract was the first (or very early) research contract for UA of this type. The four publication volumes on resources of Navajo -Hopi lands George Kiersch, behind open car door, at Tornado Peak, 1952 GSA were released in 1955 -56 as the first publications of the UA Press. Cordilleran meeting trip. John Harshbarger stands under the tree. (photo The contract was a stimulant to the graduate program in geology. by Randall Chew) Graduate students were allowed to pursue field studies with some travel and other costs paid out of contract funds; they could enlarge Iheld an ROTC commission in the US Army Corps of Engineers, on the Survey studies and use selected investigations for MS and PhD serving from 1942 -45. I was back in the States from duty in New theses. Donald Sayner joined the Survey staff in fall '52 and was responsible Guinea in spring '45 when European warfare terminated. The UAfor all the project graphics; his unique and very informative three accepted me for fall entrance. Driving from California to Tucson in dimensional drawings of the subsurface geology are well- known. Some of August, I still recall the feeling as drove through Phoenix and listened the graduate students who served in the Survey included Wesley Peirce, to the V -Day signing of the peace accord on the Battleship Missouri -how Robert Wilson, Rudy Strand, John Anthony, and Paul Howell. lucky for me to have been involved with the jungle campaign but now to Although advanced and given tenure, I resigned in '55 and be back and returning to further training and a career as a geologist. eventually accepted a tenured professorship at Cornell Univ., where I After meeting with Prof. B. S. Butler, I had another lucky break - am now Professor Emeritus. I found and rented an apartment at 732 3rd St. (now University Blvd.) just outside the entrance to campus. My wife Jane traveled to Tucson on the train in early September and we were re- settled for the next two academic years. (Actually, this was our second time living in Tucson. I had been transferred to Davis -Monthan in August '43 where we MARY (BLAKESLEE) BARRICK, BS '51 enjoyed three adventure -filled months living at the Lodge on the Desert. The troop train pulled out the day after Christmas for travel here was certainly nothing oversees and the South Pacific.) profound in my years in Geology at the In the fall of 1945, UA enrollment was some 2,000 -plus students. UA. However, I did enjoy every moment. Graduate school was very small. To my surprise, I was the first postwar No doubt because the classes were led by graduate in Geology and the first veteran to complete PhD studies in so many superb professors -Dr. McKee, Dr. May '47. Graduate students in Geology in fall '45 were Joe Snow, Jack Short, Dr. Butler, A. A. Stoyanow, Don Bryant, Feth, Bill Loring, and myself. Undergraduate Geology students included and John Feth. Don Bryant was actually a John Anthony, Peter Mosier, and Sally Menshaw. By 1946 the number classmate and I often ran into John Feth in of graduate students increased to about 8 -10, including John later years at MPG and GSA meetings. Harshbarger, James Kelley, and David Moore. I could still find my way blindfolded The faculty consisted of five or six well -known and experienced to the Mining Engineering building where geologists: B. S. Butler, Maxwell N. Short, Alexander Stoyanow, Edwin all classes were then held. And Istill D. McKee, and Frederick Galbraith. This faculty was widely known remember sitting on metal lab stools for hours on end -with no air and highly respected, directing and training a small -sized program conditioning- drawing all manner of trilobites. And Iparticularly with emphasis on Economic /Mining Geology, Paleontology/ remember Fred Sargent and Ben Hill doing some sort of experiment Stratigraphy, Mineralogy, Petrology /Micro- Identification, and Physical - in a mineralogy lab that blew up, creating tracer scorch marks all over Historical Processes. me and my clothing! That was an exciting afternoon. Graduate students were expected to select a field problem for I have spent the last forty years on the sidelines but still enjoy their MS and PhD programs. This frequently consisted of mapping areading of explorations and discoveries, whether they were in the quadrangle with the potential for outlining a mineral resource, or an petroleum or mining world. I have also enjoyed very much reading old mining area or district that included underground workings, or a the Geosciences Newsletter. It sounds like even now -as it was then - stratigraphic or structure -filled area with economic potential. the Geoscience group is a nurturing, happy family. Eldred Wilson was the senior geologist for the Arizona Bureau of page 6 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 GEO-M [MORI ES As a youth in WWII, he had manned an anti -aircraft gun in Berlin. I had RANDALL THORNTON CHEW III, MS '52 been in the Navy so we hadn't met professionally during that unfortunate A TALE OF TWO CHEWS conflict. Klaus' thesis area was in the alluvial fill north of Tucson along the south side of the Santa Catalina Range where the Survey, again, had discovered an older alluvial unit in the "Quaternary Alluvium ". Klaus did not know how to drive when he arrived in Tucson but he soon found that most graduate students had cars and that no buses ran on the alluvial fill. He bought a 1936 Chevy two -door sedan, also for about $75. It had a hydraulic independent front -end suspension that Chevy used for a year or two in the mid -thirties. When that suspension was not in first -class condition -which it rarely was - driving those beasts was difficult, if not downright dangerous. Klaus' car was in terrible shape and, with his lack of driving experience, a trip with him was an adventure. Klaus came to our parties where we all enthusiastically talked geology. But he and I soon were talking cars -of which he knew absolutely nothing.I became Klaus' mechanic as well as my own. Naturally, we compared notes on our field work as we got underway and we visited each other's areas. Klaus soon came to prefer riding with me rather than vice -versa.I had more driving experience and Trilobite went where I pointed him. Klaus soon mapped his unit and he decided it was part of the Pantano beds described by C. F. Tolman (Above) Klaus Voelger ready to in 1912. It "looked" considerably younger than mine which had a dragthe'31 Chevy,aka fossil in it and "looked Tertiary." Eventually I mapped my unit too and "Trilobite"; off the Mineta Ridge. John Lance, my thesis director, used the fossil, a baby rhino, to date it (Left) Trilobitein his native as the first dated mid -Tertiary in southern Arizona.I named it the element, the Mineta Ridge area. Mineta formation. Klaus and I spent plenty of time keeping our cars going to get us During my graduate work at UA in 1951and 1952 I was married where we needed to go. Those marvelous old overhead -valve six - with two kids. We rented a house justoff Congress St. on the cylinder in -line engines would chug along if we kept oil in them and west side of town across the Santa the tires patched. They would LUG! Cruz River. We had the only house I carried four quarts of oil on every among the geology graduate trip and used at least two of them. students so we hosted most all the We pulled down and cold -patched parties at the BYOB level -and a bunch of tires. there were a few. Both Klaus and I were under the My thesis area was on the west gun to finish our class work and side of the San Pedro River valley theses and earn our MS degrees in along the boundary between the three semesters. He was living from alluvium and the older rocks about hand to mouth and I was running 40 miles east of Tucson. The San out of WWII GI -Bill time. The major Pedro River Valley east of the disaster came about mid spring Tanque Verdes is largely filled with semester in 1952 as we wound alluvium from the adjoining down our field work. I was alone, mountains. USGS personnel had off the road, running a ridge in the recognized an unmetamorphosed north end of my area. In a careless oldersedimentaryunitof moment Ilet the Trilobite's front continental origin between the axle tip a rock which turned big alluvial fill and the metamorphic end up, hit the engine, and came rocks and my task was to map it. through the floor boards with the The area had no road access other (Top) Last party at the Chew's, May 27, 1952. Seated in the back, battery on top of it. It was only a than the two -track road to the Bar - Dick Burnette, Don Bryant Sr. (grad student and part -time faculty at small dent in the pan, but when I LY Ranch house. The rest of the area that time), Mrs. Don Bryant Sr., Charles Evensen, and Ruth Wayland. tried the starter, the engine was reached by driving or walking Randall Chew sits on the floor in the center. groaned and locked up. up dry washes. I put on my two canteens, walked to the Redington Road and Our family car was a low -slung 1947 Nash. I made one field trip towards Tucson in a drizzling rain. No cars came along that day and with it and realized that it could not fill the dual duties of family car walked 21 miles to the last gas station at the east end of Speedway and wash runner. We picked up a 1931 Chevy coupe for $75. The where I called my wife to pick me up with the Nash. The next day I kids named it "Trilobite" and I was in business. rented a pickup truck and Klaus and I recovered the Trilobite, running I am not a natural -born mechanic, but we were poor like most over a huge barrel cactus and upending, but not damaging, the pickup graduate students.I had an Audel's Guide, a general book on car in the process. repair with lots of pictures. With it in one hand and a reasonably good tool The faithful old engine was a mess. The rock had dented the pan box, I felt I could handle most jobs. Cars were more basic in those days. right under the oil pump. The pump broke off, locked, and burred Klaus Voelger was a German graduate student, slightly younger than me. the camshaft which broke the shear pin on the distributor gear. We

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 7 GEO -MEMORIES dropped the pan, hammered out the dent, overhauled the distributor, I took on the assignment and John gave me several gunny sacks and bought a new oil pump and junk camshaft. of assorted parts. I first set up shop in the Graduate Laboratory on the Repairs took several nights when we didn't have any spare time second floor, south side, of the old Engineering Building, which no and the job didn't come out quite right. The engine ran, but if I hit the one seemed to be using. I had a five -gallon biscuit tin and an old hot brakes too hard the plate that could get boiling at a fairly good clip. The bones had to be camshaft would slide boiled for several hours so that the flesh literally fell off because John forward and strike the wanted his bones squeaky clean. cover with an awful I soon got used to the smell and nothing bothered me, but the racket. On his first trip same could not be said of my friends and neighbors. The project was out after his surgery old complicated by the fact that I was doing the field work for my thesis Trilobite used all four and was gone for several days at a time. I couldn't always schedule my quarts of oil and arrived boiling and cleaning routine to be at a break point when I left town. Once back in Tucson with I left my biscuit tin on "simmer" overnight but it boiled dry and I arrived in nothing on the dip the morning to the perfume of charred rotten flesh. stick. He left a trail of oil Then I left the biscuit tin full of water and fleshy bones sitting on from every gasket. the hot plate and went to the field for a week. Tucson is hot in the Somehow, the old summer and the Engineering building wasn't air -conditioned. The engine had lost its odor permeated the whole south end and no one could find where it heart. Trilobite made, I Klaus Voelger, 1952. originated untilI unlocked the Graduate Student Lab door on my think, only one more return. My project and I were thrown out. No jury would have trip before I declared field work finished -largely due to his disability. convicted anyone who murdered me. Then I was picked up in town for excessive smoke a couple of weeks UA still had a few WW II- vintage Quonset buildings on the south before school was out. I ran the oil down and took Trilobite and his dry side of the campus, a reasonable distance from any other structures. hammering rods in to be inspected. The inspector dismissed the charge Half of one of these was assigned to the Geology Department as a with the comment, " -but I don't want to stand beside it." beginner's lab. I TA'd there, and had my key. Perhaps it was my idea I earned my MS and Trilobite's usefulness was over. No one would to move out there -I don't recall -but there my bones and I went. I buy him but I think Klaus sold his '36. We finally gave him to the was content even though the blazing Arizona sun made the building Catalina Methodist Church for a "needy graduate student ". I'm not so hot that when I opened the door the heat almost knocked me sure the church thought it was getting much, but they drove him down. Folks on the street could still smell my skunk works and there away and we left town for other adventures. were a few complaints, which Ireferred to John. Occasionally a The Pantano beds were identified and extended. My Mineta freshman would come by to see what had happened to the old formation became "beds" and then returned to "formation" status Geology lab and depart in fascinated horror. after more work. Papers were read and published (Chew, 1952, 1962). the meat and gristle were dug out of the bones and Both names are current and on the latest Arizona Geological map - deposited in the garbage can outside -now that was a really rare thanks to a couple of old Chevys and Audel's Guide. scent after it laid there a week before being picked up! -I enjoyed sorting Requiescat in pace, old friend Trilobite. and laying them out on the tables, playing with the articulation, and getting them in order to be numbered. I even seriously considered looking into Chew, R. T. III, 1952; Mid -Tertiary rock unit from southern Arizona vertebrate paleontology. John would come out and make sure all was in (abstract); Bull. Geol. Soc. America, v63, December, 1952. order before I started labeling. When I told him of my musings he replied, Chew, R. T. III, 1962; The Mineta Formation, a middle Tertiary unit in "Randy, no one wants to hire a vertebrate paleontologist!" southeastern Arizona; Arizona Geological Society Digest, v5, p35 -44. One day, as the end of the project approached, John told me to go to a table in his office, take all the bones that weren't fossilized, and process and label them. John's office, like most faculty offices, RANDALL CHEW III was subject to condemnation as a pest hole. As I scooped up the The At* Bone Conn to the Leg ne bones I noticed one that seemed to fit none of the others. I thought it looked like part of a chicken's foot or some such. It seemed rather he year was 1951. I was a graduate student in Geology at UA heavy too, but, to my expert graduate student's eye, it seemed to be studying under the WWII GI Bill plus a TA's stipend with a wife and original material and, therefore, subject to my tender ministrations. two young kids.I groveled for every penny I could find. The TA pay That last batch was a rather heterogenous lot and I had trouble stopped during the summer months. John Lance, the vertebrate getting some of the bones in the right order before painting them. paleontologist, was my thesis director and offered me an opportunity When I finished, I could find no place for the chicken foot. I shellaced to earn some bread. everything, laid them out best I could, and cleaned up the mess before He had come to UA from CalTech the year before as,I believe, calling John out. the first faculty member in vertebrate paleontology. He explained to The first thing he saw as he stepped through the door was the me that the department had no osteology collection. With no funds chicken foot. "My God," he cried," I've been looking all over for that. to buy one, he set out to do the best he could with the materials at Do you know what that is ?" hand -road kills. "I guess not," I replied," I can't make it fit anything here." Several graduate students had brought in various parts of animals, "That's a horn from a new species of Pleistocene antelope and it's though John was picky and rejected any with broken limbs or crushed the only one in the world!" skulls. He explained to me that one usually uses special beetles to do "I'm sorry, John, but you said to take everything on the table - the cleaning, but he had no funds for them either so he had to go to but it's OK. It's pretty dense, silicified, I guess, and the boiling doesn't second best again. The flesh must be totally boiled off and the bones seem to have hurt it any. But I did shellac it.I hope it's all right. Maybe dried, shellaced, and labeled. The job was mine ifI wanted it. alcohol will get the shellac off." page 8 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 GEO -MEMORIES The project was finished, the collection, such as it was -part of a cow, a cat, a dog, a rodent or two, maybe a whole chicken, all products ROBERT C. BRYANT, BS '55 of my skunk works, took their places in the vertebrate paleontology area where they were used for several years until John finally got budget Mid- century was indeed an interesting time -a time of change for a real collection. and transition for the Geology Dept. (and the University as a I went into mining geology and vertebrate paleontology reverted whole). to a sort of geological hobby. But Istill, at a GSA meeting, may sneak My first connection with the Geology Dept. was in 1946, indirectly into the VP session for awhile to rest and relax. and through my dad, Donald L. Bryant. Dad had received his BS in Geology from UCLA just before WWII. At 42, with a fresh Navy discharge and a fresh degree (no geological work experience), he thought he would be able to go to work as a geologist. Not so. Finally he decided to go back to school for a MS and a better chance to work in geology. Thus he and my Mom came to Arizona on the GI Bill and ROBERTS M. WALLACE, BS '49, MS '51, a teaching fellowship. My brother Donald G. Bryant and I were both PHD ' 4 in the Navy and the Army Air Corp, respectively. My brother and I visited Arizona several times over the next three years while Dad was CRUCIFIXI THE BLACK BOARC?. finishing up his MS and becoming an Instructor. In '49 we both finally got out of the service and matriculated at Arizona. For a few years the One of my most memorable moments of my six years at the UA three of us Bryants were all in the department at the same time! was my defense of my thesis in the spring of 1954. The anticipation The Geology Dept. then was a great place to be in school. Both of this event, this "crucifixion the faculty and the student body were small (in fact, the entire on the blackboard ", started University only had about 5,000 students). After some additional service haunting me at least two years time during the Korean War, I finally graduated in '55 with a BS in ahead. Nightmarish visions of Liberal Arts Geology and another BS in Geological Engineering (the standing at the end of a long old Mining Geology degree). There were only four in my graduating green table surrounded by a Geological Engineering class, and not more than three or four times large group of piercing -eyed that many in my Liberal Arts Geology class. In the meantime Dad had faculty with unrecognizable been busy becoming an Associate Professor and finishing his PhD, which faces crowded into my life - he received in the same ceremony with me. We got a quite a bit of publicity day and night. Frequently, in for getting three degrees (my brother had gotten his the year before). my mind, a hollow- voiced Anyway, back to the department. In 1949 there was a regular member would drone, "Mr. faculty of only about seven people: Edwin D. (for Dinwhitty) McKee, Wallace, you are not ready for us...." B. S. Butler (one of the "giants" of Econ Geology in the first half of the century, and a really great individual), Fritz Galbraith, A. A. Stoyanow As time passed, the field (a very interesting old White Russian who escaped through China and mapping began to show an interesting pattern that other difficult places), Max Short, G. M. Butler, and D. L. Bryant, a lowly instructor who taught about a dozen different lower division seemed to make sense. In courses that the others didn't have time to teach. the fall my thesis advisor, Dr. It should be noted that almost all of the faculty had at one time Evans B. Mayo, requested a or another taught courses in each other's fields when there was a review of my summer's work. need. All of them were truly well- rounded, complete geologists. Would he see what I thought At that time all of the faculty offices and essentially all of the I could see? Would those "O, to be young again! This was taken geology courses were in the Engineering Building. None of the UA nightmarish visions of the after receiving my MS in 1951, and the buildings had air conditioning. Thus, classes during the first and last parts long green table return? big smile may indicate thatl had no idea of the school year were usually rather warm, especially in the afternoons. Luckily, he was interested in what was ahead of me, such as the... But these were different times and none of us expected to be pampered. what I thought I had found long green table of nightmares." Even though all of the faculty had heavy teaching loads (research and we spent many days in was something that was carried out in the summer, week -ends or the field together. As the defense of thesis schedule was approaching, holidays, when it didn't get in the way of teaching), their office doors the manuscript was trimmed, by Dr. Mayo, from about 530 pages of were always open and they would make time to talk (and even chat) my youthful verbal garbage to 126 pages. with their students. It was truly a close -knit, positive environment. The hollow voices once heard now became the friendly voices of All of that group of faculty, except my dad, were of pre -war vintage my classmates -John Anthony, John Harshbarger, Don Bryant, John (in the tenured sense) and left for one reason or another within a few Lance, and George Williams. These men kiddingly tried to scare the years. Dad wound up as a Full Professor teaching invertebrate wits out of me -and did. And the long green table of my nightmares paleontology, stratigraphy, and related subjects until he retired became a large round table chaired by Dean Richard Harvill and Dr. completely about 1975. The biggest faculty changes started to take B. S. Butler and filled in by my long -time instructors Dr. Maxwell Short, place in the early 50s with a lot of new faces and talents. The University E. D. McKee, Dr. Frederick Galbraith, Dr. Alexi Stoyanow, and, of course, and the Geology Department were both growing by leaps and bounds. Dr. Evans B. Mayo. In spite of later going on to Stanford and Harvard for graduate There were other people present but I can't remember their studies, taken in the broad context I feel strongly that UA Geology names, and only fleetingly see their faces. After all, I'm 84 years old was the best, and contributed more to my professional education. and according to the University records, I have been dead for the past ([email protected]) 25 years! But that is another story.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 9 GEO-M [MORI ES Work on my PhD thesis was done on a quadrangle full of volcanic JOSEPH G. WARGO, MS '54, PHD '59 rocks in southwestern New Mexico. My wife and I lived in Silver City, in a little house located on the estate of Harrison Schmitt Sr., father of I is been almost a halfcenturysince I firstthe moon -walking astronaut. Schmitt Sr. was a highly regarded pulled my little blue Plymouth into the UA campus one hot, clear consulting geologist, active in mineral exploration in Arizona and New August day in 1952. I was looking forward, with some trepidation, to Mexico, although I seldom saw him at home. At one time, when I had starting graduate school in geology, and this was the first time I had nearly completed all the work for the degree, I still had to pass a ever been in the state. After completing a BS degree in Mining language test in German. My German was limited, but I thought I Engineering at the Missouri School of Mines,I had decided thatwould give it a try, and made an appointment at the German geology, especially economic geology, was more interesting than department. The instructor was very agitated about something, engineering, and I was fortunate to get a teaching assistantship at thegrabbed a book from the shelf and told me to start reading. I got UA. It was the beginning of a long and delightful association. through the first two sentences, then, as I was floundering on the The Geology Department was headquartered in a rather third, he yanked the book back, said "Ja, Ja, Goot," signed my paper dilapidated brick building, and I was assigned office space in theand ran out the door. I found out afterward that he was late for a basement. As a first time graduate assistant,I taught physical and faculty picture session! Saved by the Arizona Yearbook! historical geology laboratories, and immersed myself in various Although my step is not quite as brisk as when I trod the desert in mineralogy, structural geology and economic geology courses. I knewArizona, I still keep active in the profession that has served me well for I had made the right choice. more than 40 years. The UA Geology Department had a lot to do Instructors shape a new graduate student's life, and I was fortunate with it! (jwargo @aol.com) to have some good ones. There were several, but I remember John Anthony, the mineralogy wizard. A tall, slender, intense man, he emphasized the basics, then insisted we apply this knowledge to problems that were not so basic. Identifying crystal faces on wooden models enclosed in a paper bag sticks in my memory, but the fundamental concepts he taught are with me yet. Other teachers included Evans Mayo, a quiet, gentle man deeply My scattered reminiscences include helping to move the mineral involved in the study of tectonics and igneous rock textures; John collections from the old Engineering Building, where the Geology Lance, a paleontologist who understood a great deal more about hard Department was located, to the new building in 1957.... TAs in the rocks than a paleontologist ought; and Eddie McKee, an expert in freshmen geology class who all tried to sign up the attractive co -ed to northern Arizona stratigraphy, who was department head. Bob DuBois take their lab sessions (needless to say, on field trips, the coeds got a was a new addition to the faculty, and became my thesis advisor for lot of guidance from the TAs).... Ed McCullough was my TA in the both my MS and PhD theses. He was a petrologist and hot for mineralogy lab -I liked his pronunciation of "garnet ".... In the first granitization, a concept much discussed at the time. "lunar geology" class students poured over pictures of the moon taken I had the good fortune to take one of the last courses taught by from Mt. Palomar (years later, when Armstrong landed on the moon, B. S. Butler, a well -known economic geologist with vast experience in Jerry Harbour, a graduate student in the 50s, was interviewed on TV the western US. "To be a good economic geologist, you must visit as about the UA program). many mines as you can," he told us, and I tried to heed this advice The UA summer field camp was held at St. Michael's on the Navajo throughout my career. Another interesting course was taught by G. Reservation in northern Arizona and we all learned some Navajo M. Butler (no relation to B. S.). His hobby was gemstone mineralogy, language. Dr. DuBois was in charge. He was tall and lanky and some and he taught by bringing his collection to class and discussing stones. said that when signaling with his left hand while driving, his fingers I can still recall the names of the facets on a brilliant cut diamond! would scrape the pavement. I remember Rusty Kothavala driving I remember vividly many of the graduate students working on around with abandon in his Studebaker. Years later, when I met Rusty their degrees at the same time -James Hillebrand, intensely mapping at Harvard he reminded me that he took photographs of me doing a the geology as he ate lunch while walking across the hills; Sid Williams, handstand on the edge of Canyon de Chelly! The highlights of the superior mineralogist, who built a petrographic microscope from spare summer camp, besides the walk down the Grand Canyon, was the parts found in various drawers in the mineralogy lab... and many others. dance sponsored by the nurses at Fort Defiance... . Where are they? (abching @aztec. asu. ed u) A good friend was Bill Kurtz. Bill and I split the well -named Coyote Mountains down the middle, he taking one half and I the other, to study for our MS theses. We camped many a night on the desert, listening to the coyotes howl. I climbed to the top of Coyote Peak one long day, and got enmeshed in a field of Spanish Bayonet. The puncture RICHARD D. JONES, BS '56, MS '57 wound scars that commemorate the event have mostly disappeared! REMINISCENCES FROM MID -CENTURY Graduate students usually live on a pretty thin budget, but one day Bill filled out our larder by bagging a deer with his .22 pistol. Bill and I roomed rating this from a temporal distance of nearly 50 years is largely in a house located where the stadium now stands. The landlady was an for the young 'uns. We old timers know how it was, those of us elderly woman (to us -she probably wasn't over 55!) who put up with a still possessed of a few synapses and neurons not yet gone numb. It's lot! On occasion, Bill and I would make a run to Nogales to pick up a something like the old Marine Gunnery Sergeant telling a batch of bottle of tequila for her. We, of course, never indulged! young jar heads fresh from boot camp how it was in the "old Corps." After obtaining my MS degree in 1954, I taught geology at Miami "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." Hardly original, Univ. (Ohio), then spent a year in graduate school at UC Berkeley but if Dickens had reincarnated as a UA geology student in the 50s he before returning to Arizona to complete work for a PhD, which I might well have wished he had reserved his phrase for use then instead received in 1959. of squandering it in the 19th century. Tom Paine's line, "These are the page 10 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 GEO -MEMORIES

Geology lab (left) and topographic mapping (right) in the Rincon Mountains in the early 50s. times that try men's souls" would have fittingly described a 1957 under his bed, left over from assessment work on some mining claims graduate seeking geological employment. he held. Needless to say, we didn't stamp our feet a lot in there. Tucson itself was a small city, with a population of about 60,000. THE SCENE Hunters sighted in their deer rifles in Pantano Wash just east of Wilmot UA students in the 90s would find the road. There was considerable open space between South Tucson and 50s campus strangely shrunken, all the airport, and there were no Interstate highways, although there contained within the low basalt /scoria was a divided highway called the Tucson Freeway, extending roughly walls except for the dog -leg at the from Congress to Prince Road. stadium, only 85 acres, between Park East Sixth Street for about two blocks east of Park was a commercial and Cherry, Second and Fourth zone dominated by kosher butchers and bakeries, seafood shops, tailor Streets. Automobile traffic flowed shops, and small eateries offering students delicious hot pastrami on through the campus; parking was on rye. Yiddish was heard as much as English along that stretch. The the streets outside, no permits shopping area at Park and University was much as it is now, but there needed. Total enrollment amounted were no bars anywhere close to campus, as the laws of that time to barely 5,000. The Main Library was prohibited liquor licenses close to schools. Speedway east of Park was in what is now the Arizona State Dick Jones. "A callow youth, mostly residential except for clusters of commercial activity around Museum, and it looked like a library early '58 model." the major intersections. really ought to look. Just west of Bear Down, where the Science Library now stands, were temporary wooden THE DEPARTMENT buildings built during WWII and used for ROTC classes. The present The Geology Department in the 50s was more or less a joint venture Main Library occupies the former baseball field, where, on spring of the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Mines. This apparent afternoons when the Wildcats played at home, in the direst emergency, administrative nightmare actually functioned rather well, and surprising the department secretary could expect to find Fritz Galbraith, Head of synergy derived from it. Dean T. G. Chapman of Mines didn't meddle the Geology Department. in the operations of the Geology Department as long as his mining Over where the University Medical Complex is now located were and metallurgy students got a good grounding in the basics of geology stables originally built for the pre -WWII horse cavalry ROTC, then and mineralogy. housing the ROTC motor pool and a few Sherman and Chaffee tanks, Geology occupied most of the north side of the old Engineering the polo field, the Aggie Department's poultry farm, and the married building. The Mineral Museum was on the second floor. Occasionally student housing complex which was called Polo Village (all Quonseta group of geodetic surveying students from Civil Engineering could huts). Residents of Polo Village were said to be easily recognized from be seen trudging up the stairs through the geologists' turf on their their stooped posture, molded by the curving walls. way to the roof. Normally such work involved taking shots of Polaris University residence halls were Spartan accommodations. The with a theodolite at night, but sometimes they went up in the older dorms had sleeping porches which basically meant sleeping afternoon, carrying a level, an instrument rarely utilized for astronomical outdoors -not bad in summer, but approaching sub -arctic in winter. observation. It was subsequently discovered that the Engineering building In my freshman year, I was in the just -completed Navajo -Pinal complex roof provided a fine view of the sun decks above the porches of the women's in the football stadium. Within the massive gray concrete walls there dorms to the west; the level being the instrument of choice as its telescope was all the comfort of Alcatraz, without the ocean view. Back in the was of higher power than the theodolite's. vast spaces under the football grandstand, students would occasionally To the north, across the street, was the Mines (now part of the indulge in small -bore pistol practice, which would have probably upsetHarshbarger) building, the domain of Dean Chapman and the Mining the University administration had they been aware of it. They wouldand Metallurgical Engineering departments. A large slab of native probably have been even more upset had they known of the half -case copper weighing well over a ton rested in the grass beside the front of dynamite which my roommate, a mining engineering senior, kept -cont'd p. 15

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The Department of Geology, as then named, was in the College of Mines, an affiliation that reflected traditional close ties with Arizona mining industries and an association with that field of geology that went back to the turn of the century. Mines was one of the first three colleges in the University. The association with the geology of resources remains strong and appropriate. The Geoscience name was taken in the early 1970s. The department was housed in the Engineering Building across the street from the present Mines College and we looked north from Engineering into the old North Hall which served as a practice site for the Music Department. Windows were usually wide open in the absence of air conditioning so we were serenaded continuously, for better or for worse. In the 50s, we were recognized as a fine department, and ranked

by the early 1960s in ACE tabulations as in the upper 20s and, ifI recall, was 15th. The numbers meant little; the reputation was sustained by a distinguished and experienced faculty. The following is about these people, who had all applied their geology in industry or The faculty in 1951. (Row 1) Donald Bryant, 8. S. Butler, Evans B. Mayo. government before returning to teach, and from whom my peers (Row 2) Richard Moore, Alvin Gorum, Louis Hess, George Roseveare. (Row and I obtained an excellent education. They had published 3) George Kiersch, John Anthony, Eldred Wilson, Robert DuBois. (Row 4) fundamental work about Arizona geology and its resources, as well as Wayne Barney. basic science -and those publications endure. Perhaps this account may kindle interest in that faculty and their contributions to teaching, Bill Lacy (Harvard '50) became my assigned advisor and brought and to regional and areal geology. These professionals, and they were, a long experience with the ores of the Andes and Australia. He opened in the truest sense, brought a practical view to their instruction, the world of ore deposits, together with personal and professional notwithstanding their academic backgrounds from CalTech, Chicago, ethics that set examples of character and the peculiar insight necessary Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, with two from Arizona and one to the study of ores. His approaches to integrating geological features from Colorado Mines. Most were WWII veterans who had learned of all sorts set an example of study that has proven effective in my "people" skills the hard way and most were leaders. teaching and research. The power of positive thinking was a notable I visited the department briefly in 1951 during a field trip to Arizona trait and he pushed all of us very hard to understand that the only in my senior year at Colorado Mines and I remember M. N. Short and limits were ourselves. He believed, and still does, that one can always E. D. McKee from that time, although Dr. Short had passed away and do more than one believes can be done. Perhaps one could say he McKee had left teaching by the time I arrived in September 1955. The tried to make us all overachievers. Department Head was F. W. (Fritz) Galbraith (Arizona '35 out of We learned scholarship, patience and attention to detail from Harvard) who had returned from military service. He headed a Evans Mayo (Cornell '32 out of Stanford). His teaching style was unique department of 8 faculty, some 15 graduate students and about 50 and he put great effort into it. Although I spent some weekends in undergraduate majors. Beginning geology, which he taught, had the field with him while he prepared those almost unbelievable maps enrollments of more that 600 and the lectures were in the auditorium. showing where each cactus was, my most lasting experience was in Widely liked and admired, Fritz led the department into a period of initiation the classroom (I took every graduate course he offered). Classes started of growth and brought in several faculty during my student times. at 7:30 am and Dr. Mayo (I could never bring myself to call him Ev Galbraith was an efficient administrator and leader who was and still can't) would arrive early to prepare his blackboards for the forthright and vigorous in his teaching and administrative activities. lecture. When I arrived at school at 7, he was hard at work laying out He also taught mineralogy and is the person largely responsible for stacked vertical sections in perspective of a traverse along a range in the increase in specimens and specimen quality of the Mineral Museum. British Columbia. We would start copying, poorly, those elegantly Blow pipe analysis was a part of the mineralogy curriculum and Fritz drawn geological sections to get caught up to the point of lecture. He had his own particular formula for it that was 4 parts ethyl alcohol and prepared lectures with a fountain pen on 5x8 cards, of which he must 1 part kerosene. The ethyl alcohol was kept in a red 5- gallon drum have had thousands. But when he finished, he erased the boards - behind his desk and when TAs required a refill, he would put the after spending usually 45 minutes setting them up! (Note: Xerox wasn't drum on his desk, take out a red tube and start the siphon going. even a name yet and we were just getting used to drawing on "ditto" Needless to say, popping eyeballs followed his every move in this sheets in various colors.) process and we always looked to see if he swallowed anything. With John Lance (CalTech '49) was the first Renaissance man of my Fritz's personality, no one ever said anything -at all. acquaintance. A vertebrate paleontologist, he is said to have done Arizona was my choice because of the presence of B. S. Butler classical work on development of the horse in the western hemisphere. (Colorado Mines '27) who had studied and written about many But he also liked artiodactyls. He and an acquaintance spent some deposits of my interest. He was a gentleman with twinkling blue eyes time digging up a Miocene llama in some nameless hills on the Papago and a smile that was never far from his face. He taught with a Socratic Reservation and when finished gave months of thought as to what to method and my one semester with him (he retired because of health name it. He ultimately went to the Geographic Names Committee in 1956) was my first introduction into being pinned to the wall by following and had the wash where the beast was found, in the nameless hills, false trails of logic. He would smile, the eyes would twinkle, and the next called the Como Se Wash- thereby naming his find, the Como se question always opened a route out of the dilemma. He was excellent at Llama! This puckish sense of humor was evident in the classroom, doing this and his classes were a revelation in teaching and learning. using it to teach us geological report writing through a method of page 12 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 GEO -MEMORIES criticism. He had some of the worst stuff one could ever imagine and we were kept amused with the running commentary on the use of the English language. John had flown B -24 bombers in the Pacific and often related the story of when, after a successful mission, he did slow rolls in the thing a thousand feet above the ocean. After the story would finish, John would reach for his ever present roll of antacids and pop one into his mouth. Easy going, quick to smile, a wonderful sense of humor with a fast mind, he was a welcome part of the department and (Far left) John F Lance in offered a unique the field. (Above) B. S. brand of leavening Butler at Copper City to the ambiance. Mine, Globe District, John left the 1952 GSA Cordilleran Department and meeting trip. (Photos of became Geological Lance and Butler courtesy Program Manager of Randall Chew) (Left) with NSF. John Anthony at Field Paleontology Camp in Young, AZ. was challengingly taught by Don Bryant (Arizona '55 above, and when flushing out of UCLA). Don took place the system shut had served aboard a destroyer intheAtlanticduringtheWarand down. John spent a lot of brought a pleasantly commanding manner to the department and time running up and classroom. But he took no guff. In amazement, we watched a new downstairsinthat student load and light a pipe in lecture, which Don also watched, and building. He devoted a when it was going he went through the roof. He could have been great amount of time after heard on the baseball field. We all took his course in systematic Galbraith left to sustaining paleontology (hard to believe there was no such thing as a radiometric acquisitions to the Mineral Museum and was its curator for several age date in those times) and the lessons I learned I still have. I am still decades. He was an artist and played just about any musical instrument comfortable in the Arizona Paleozoic and Mesozoic with guide fossils he decided to try. He was skilled with the guitar. Always a hit at student down to the level of foraminifera. He measured a lot of section and I parties, of which there were many, he had a repertoire of almost had the chance to work with him, very slowly plodding up a hill picking unbelievable breadth that spanned from opera to western. His intuitive up every rock for examination looking at lithology, looking for forams feel for the topology and mathematics of space and point group in chert. Together with the lessons of Dr. Mayo, we learned that thesymmetry was compatible with his love of music. object of going up a hill was not necessarily getting to the top. Don's The growing rigor of geology and geochemistry was brought to teaching style included a final exam and a lab exam -and six the department by Paul Damon (Columbia '57) who in 1957 taught unannounced hour exams. He played all sorts of tricks to confuse us, a course in geochemistry, which was as close to the cutting edge as it even to the extent of coming in very early and hiding exams in the existed then. Just as importantly, he brought the department into the classroom. When he had pulled off the surprise, he would stand up domain of basic laboratory research with the first significant basic front and giggle. research grants, from the AEC. John Anthony (Harvard '64) taught mineralogy and I shared an This faculty influenced my generation of students. We learned office with him during my final academic year. John had completed much of lasting value about ourselves and about geology in general all but the experimental synthesis of monazite, a problem that was to and geology of the region (Geology of Arizona was the only required take him some years still, and in the process of which he accidentally graduate course), as well as depth in the specialties we had selected. discovered a flux that would dissolve platinum. John's forte was crystal We were also imbued with the sense of importance that scholarship structure and he could usually be found somewhere near the X -ray must play in our field. That eclectic faculty provided much of value instrument which was in the basement of the Mines building (across that has survived in all of us,I am certain, and in our subsequent the street from the Department). It was a Norelco with a vertical tube professional activities we have passed on those things of basic value sampled through ports on a bench top. The tube was cooled by water that we learned from them. with a pressure interlock system that would shut down the machine if (stitley@geo. arizona. edu) water pressure dropped. Unfortunately it was in the same line as that of the women's commode used by the Dean's secretary on the floor

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 13 GEO-M [MORI ES school was a risky venture because my wife Audrey and I, along with ROBERT S. GRAY, MS '59, PHD '65 our 18 month old son, were to be supported only by her teaching salary at Doolen Junior High School. I had to finish the program as quickly When I think back to those years, Ireally think the department as possible, then get a job when there were very few jobs for geologists. had a number of great professors. Dr. Paul Damon was a The highly professional and dedicated faculty in the department tremendous asset in the supported my efforts and enabled me to complete the coursework in Geochemical area; Dr. John two semesters, and the thesis during the following summer. I remember Anthony was great in the the excellent courses that I took from Paul Damon, Joseph Schreiber, Mineralogy area; Dr. Spence John Lacey, Willard Pye, Evans Mayo and Halsey Miller.I learned, not Titley added his great only geology, but how to be a geologist, from them and other faculty and knowledge in the Mining students. Other faculty such as Ted Smiley, John Anthony and Spencer Geology area, and Dr. John Titley were good friends and additional role models. Harshbarger really put After receiving my PhD in 1969 from UC Berkeley, I accepted a Hydrology on the map. teaching position at NAU and have come full -circle back to the study Certainly, there were other of Arizona geology. Much of my research, writing, and teaching about professors that the Arizona geology during the past 30 years at NAU has been based on Department of Geology was knowledge gained in the broad academic program at the UA, and noted for. I'm just a little rusty from the continued research activities of its Geoscience faculty.I credit trying to remember back to the Geosciences Dept. at the UA with my initial professional training those days. and academic preparation that have led to a successful geological I want to acknowledge career, from which I will retire as a Regents' Professor of Geology in my major PhD professor, Dr. the year 2000. (dale.natios @nau.edu) Joe Schreiber, mostly for helping me through my PhD. In those days, he had to contend with at least 12 PhD majors. I can see where JAMES D. SELL, MS '61 Bob Gray at the 111 Ranch Beds in it was hard to keep up with Safford, AZ. all of us and do his prescribed During the school year of 1956 -57 one of my professors was Dr. research work. I would also John F. Lance. During the mid 50s it was permissible to smoke in single out Dr. John Lance. John was my major professor for my MS class and often the windows were opened to allow some fresh air into and the principal professor for my research work for my PhD. He the room. Dr. Lance might have been described as a chain -smoker, as probably had every geology major at one time or another. I recall that he often had a cigarette in hand during the lectures. Also at that time, he would usually show up in the classroom with a stack of papers, Davis Monthan Air Base was busy and the new jet fighters were often books, and lecture notes up to two feet high. The first few times this taking off on a training flight right over the UA area. As a consequence, happened, I wondered if we would ever get through the course. the rumble -swish of the jets came in thru the open windows and all Furthermore, I wondered if Dr. Lance would ever get through all his conversation came to a halt. This rumble -swish really bothered Dr. notes during the period. As it turned out, he would just start talking Lance, although it also offered him time to light up another cigarette. and never looked at his notes! He was a great speaker. To this day, One day, when John was at the board with chalk, plotting a complex really don't know what was in the stack of papers, books or lecture cross -section, a series of jets came over and shook the building. Dr. notes that Dr. Lance brought into his classes. Lance turned from the board with a disdainful look on his face, and One of my fondest memories of Dr. Lance was when I started to promptly placed the chalk up to his mouth to light his "cig ". Of course, do my field work on my MS degree. My field work was in the western this broke up the class, in much humor, as well as John. However, I Grand Canyon on the Haulapai Indian Reservation near Peach Springs, don't believe this event caused Dr. Lance to give up smoking in class. AZ. We both went to my project area in June. I was nervous because I knew nothing of this area and was expecting Dr. Lance to outline the approach I should use and to assist me in getting started. We drove out early in the morning to Hindu Canyon on the Haulapai Indian Reservation. He showed me my area, wished me luck, and promptly CHARLES M. BOCK, PHD '63 turned around and left, saying that he would be back in September. Yes, he returned in September, and by then, I really had learned a lot! It was not uncommon when I was in school for rock hounds and other interested amateurs to bring specimens into the department for identification /explanation, etc. One day a fellow showed up with a nodule which he was convinced was a petrified foot bone. One of the grad students immediately took the specimen downstairs to the rock saw where he J. DALE NATIONS, MS '61 sectioned it and returned back to the office with the news that it was not a petrified foot bone but a nondescript nodule. The owner was irate and Iarrived at the UA in August, 1960 after a three -year tour of duty in exclaimed that we had ruined his foot bone. Whereupon Ed McCullough, the US Air Force, having forgotten much of the geology that I had who was in the office at the time, couldn't suppress a chuckle. The "foot learned in undergraduate school at Arizona State Univ. The first memory bone" owner exclaimed, "Don't laugh kid. It's not funny!" Ed at the time that I have of the UA Geosciences Department was reporting to John was in the final stages of his PhD work, and was anything but a "kid ", but Lance, the Chairman, in his highly disordered office where I received his youthful countenance earned him the rebuke, none the less. a very warm welcome as a new graduate student. My entering graduate (charliebock@compuserve. corn) page 14 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 GEO -MEMORIES CHARLES A. RATTE, PHD '63 DICK JONES Cont'd from p. 11

My first memory of the UA is of trying to find a parking space near door, in case there was any doubt about what element was considered the geology building! After a long trip to the wide open spaces important within those walls, and where the funding came from. A of the wild West from Hanover, New Hampshire, I found there was handsome bronze plaque alongside the door was dedicated to James not a parking Douglas, Phelps Dodge pioneer, and for whom the city of Douglas is space to be found named. Unlike other buildings on campus, in the Mines building anywhere on smoking was tolerated in class, and nearly every desk was adorned by campus within a a crucible or scorifier recycled from the fire assay lab for use as an ash day's walk (a bit of tray. In the basement were the Arizona Bureau of Mines and its an exaggeration) outstanding State Geologist, Eldred Wilson, who must have seen nearly of the geology every outcrop in Arizona during his long and productive career. building. Immediately west of Mines was an old stone building called North I happened Hall, roughly contemporary with Old Main, used by the Music to notice a parking Department of the College of Fine Arts for student practice. From its space in the bank open windows, agonizing operatic arias frequently assailed the ears, parking lot across but mercifully, the building was demolished when the Mines building the street from the was expanded to its present dimensions. g e o l o g y The Geology Department, at the time I transferred into it as a building -it had a junior, had waned greatly from its prominence of previous years. In a signthat readvery short span of time, the legendary paleontologist Alexander Reserved for the Stoyanow had retired; Max Short, the petrographer and ore

Bank President. I microscopist had died; Frederic Galbraith, the nominal Head of the wouldn't be long. Department was detached on military service; and B. S. Butler,

I just wanted to renowned economic geologist and author of so many USGS bulletins run in and and professional papers, was in failing health. It was left to a handful introduce myself of new faculty members to take up the load, just at a time when there to Dr. Galbraith, was a big surge of enrollment at the end of the Korean war. The the department faculty then consisted of Ed McKee, Geology la-1b and sedimentation; chairman. You Don Bryant, invertebrate paleontology and stratigraphy; Evans Mayo, Chuck Ratté teachinga surveying class in 1963. guessed it -when I structural geology and introductory ore deposits; B. S. Butler, advanced came out to get ore deposits and seminars (when he was able); Bob DuBois, petrology my car,I had a parking ticket. This was my introduction to the wide and petrography; John Anthony, crystallography and mineralogy; and open spaces of the wild and woolly West. John Lance, who filled in at all positions, like a utility infielder in minor Perhaps the most kindly and thoughtful experience, that Iwill league baseball. always remember and be most thankful for, is the kindness and With such a small faculty the work load was very high. Freshman generosity of my advisor, Dr. Bill Lacy, and his wonderful wife, Jo. geology was then, as it still is, the basic science course for a large part Unfortunately, a few days before classes were to commence, I of the freshman class. Something like 700 Geology la and lb students perforated an ulcer and spent several days at the Tucson Medicalwere crowded into the auditorium in the Liberal Arts building (now Center. The Lacy family took my wife Judy (with child on the way) to Social Sciences) to hear Ed McKee. He became famous for managing their home and helped get her settled in the new, strange city ofto work his beloved Grand Canyon into every lecture at least once. Tucson while I recovered. Thank you so much, Bill and Jo and all theThere were about a dozen graduate students teaching freshman Lacy family. And I should mention Spence Titley and Ed McCullough, geology labs every semester. who saw to it that my teaching assistant duties were taken care of Aside from the freshmen mob there were of course geology and during my absence. This reminds me of the camaraderie developed geological engineering majors, plus mining and metallurgy students with Spence Titley as we shared offices and Geology 101 lab space in from the College of Mines who took Geology for Engineers (the hot an old Quonset hut somewhere in the boondocks around Bear Down rod version of Geology la, stripped down to the bare frame), Structural Gym. Geology, Crystallography and Determinative Mineralogy. The situation Finally,I must tell the story of a happening at my first geology eased somewhat when Fritz Galbraith returned, and a few more people department faculty meeting (I became an instructor my last year in were added, but even then, when I entered Graduate School in 1955, the PhD program). We were seeking suggestions for prominent there were only ten on the geology faculty, plus Ted Smiley over in geologists to come to Tucson to speak in our guest lecture series. Geochronology. There were about 50 graduate students in the Some wit suggested that we invite Dr. Pye (one of our permanent department, some finishing their work, some just starting, but there geology faculty). It seems Dr. Pye spent a great deal of time awaywere a lot of people to look after, and not many professors to do it. from campus conducting his consulting business. This suggestion, of course, caused more than a few chuckles. EVERYDAY LIFE (SUCH AS IT WAS) I could go on and on. My years in Tucson with the UA geology In graduate school there was a good mix of students from everywhere, department were most enjoyable and got me started on a successful much as itis today. Only about six or eight had done their and fun career. Should I mention the parties at Joey Merz's Tucson undergraduate work at Arizona, myself among them. We had students home (with a pool), the chaperoning of fraternity parties where I from all over the US as well as from Peru, India, Pakistan, and Thailand. learned the Twist... ? Need I say more? What we did not have were women. The male -female ratio on campus -cont'd p. 18

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 15 ALUMNI NEWS 1950s Environmental Services for Converse Lakes Association. He now lives and works on Consultants and moved to the Seattle area Golden Pond (Squam Lake) in New Hampshire ROBERT BRYANT (BS '55) emails from where he has started his own custom database where he says the quality of life is outstanding. Mexico where he is officially retired, but application development business. He will tsmdevine @cyberportal.net actually self -employed part -time as a mining continue to do some part -time consulting geology consultant, primarily in prospect through Converse. Iknight643 @aol.com REX KNEPP (MS '83) is Senior Staff Geologist examination and exploration studies. Bob with Subsurface Computer Modeling in received his MS from Stanford in '56. He now H. NELSON MEEKS (BS '66) writes that he Austin, TX. rknepp @scminc.com lives with his wife Blanca in Ensenada, having retired from the Minerals Management only recently moved back to the northern Service, US Dept. of Interior, in 1988 and then LES MCFADDEN (MS '78, PHD '82) writes, hemisphere after living in Bolivia for ten years. from the UTEP Dept. of Geological Sciences "I was sorry to hear that Pete Coney had Prior to that he spent several years in Denver in 1998. Nelson is currently residing in Corpus passed away -a great teacher, scientist, and Douglas, and before that: several years in Christi, TX. human being. UA will miss him." Les has Paraguay, several years in Mexico, about 10 recently been elected as Chair of the UNM years in northern New Mexico and Alaska, BERNARD W. PIPKIN (PHD '65) is Professor Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. several years in such places as Iran, Honduras, Emeritus in the Dept. of Geological Sciences Venezuela, Alaska, Arizona, etc. (Try and make at USC. Barney runs into fellow alum JOAN ELAINE (KENNEDY) SUTHERLAND (MS '83) sense of that!) He says he really doesn't want BALDWIN (PHD '71), DEE TRENT (PHD '73) began a position in July as Project Leader of to pack and move anymore. (See Bob's and GARY RASMUSSEN (BS '67) at geologic the Forest Ecology and Management Project reminiscences on p. 9.) bryantco @telnor.net meetings in southern California, and is a loyal with the Forest Service's Rocky Mountain visitor to our GeoDaze Symposiums. His Research Station in Missoula, MT. Elaine's JOSEPH T. CALLAHAN (MS '51) writes that textbook, Geology and the Environment, is into previous position was Research Ecologist with fellow geologists D. JOHN CEDERSTROM its 3rd edition and doing well. The second the Northeastern Research Station in (PHD '34) and LEOPOLD HEINDL (PHD '58) edition was written with DEE TRENT as co- Delaware, OH. are deceased. All three had worked with the author, "a total UA effort ", says Barney. esutherland /rmrs,[email protected] USGS Water Resources Division. Mr. Callahan bpipkin @aol.com is now retired and living in Glendale, AZ. THOMAS STAFFORD, JR. (MS '80, PHD '84) has started his own, private research lab ARTHUR MIRSKY (MS '55) has just dedicated to Quaternary sciences -Stafford completed a thorough revision of his 1992 Research Laboraties, Inc., located in Boulder, guidebook Building Stones in Downtown CO. thomasw @staffordlabs.com Indianapolis, which was the focus of one of the field trips for the AAPG -East annual meeting in Indianapolis this September. This 1990s guidebook uses building stones as a teaching tool. amirsky @iupui.edu MATTHEW CALVERT (BS '94) is Project 1970s Manager with Bellatrix Environmental Consultants in Scottsdale. He's been an ELAINE HAZLEWOOD (BS '78) graduated in 1960s Arizona certified geologist in training since May '99 from the Iliff School of Theology in 1997. [email protected] SUSAN (KAHN) BOLLIN (BS '60) is the Denver with a Master of Arts in Religion. Elaine author of a successful series of Southwestern also has a MS in Engineering ('80) from the FELIX CASTILLO (MS '93) emails that things cookbooks, among them Chip and Dip Lovers Univ. of Texas at Austin. Cook Book, Quick -N -Easy Mexican Recipes, Salsa are changing in the political arena in Venezuela. "Here in PDVSA, work is very Lovers Cook Book, and Sedona Cook Book. Susan ROBERT LANEY (PHD '71) retired in 1992 challenging and interesting. One of my writes from her home in Scottsdale, Ariz. after more than 32 years as a hydrogeologist prospects for oil in mature fields is scheduled with the USGS. In 1998 he retired a second to be drilled in early November. I am very ROBERT S. GRAY (MS '59, PHD '65) wastime from McDonald Morrissey Associates, awarded the 1998 AAPG Distinguished excited about it because it will open new areas Inc., a groundwater consulting company in west of the traditional fields in eastern Educator Award. This is the first time that Reston, VA. Bob is now enjoying true Venezuela.I am also involved in a similar AAPG has selected a community college retirement. He still likes to keep up with projectinLake Maracaibo (western professor for the award. Bob has been happenings in Earth Science and is in contact Venezuela). My area of interest (two prospects teaching at Santa Barbara City College since with former classmates BOB LAUGHLON out of ten) just ranked #1 and possibly one of 1967. Singled out in the presentation was (PHD '70) and CLARK ARNOLD (MS '64, them will be drilled early next year. This is Bob's dedication to excellence in teaching, his PHD '71). focus on integrity, rigor and realism, and his great, especially now that money is so scanty. enthusiasm for the field of geology. Bob has [email protected] mentored and inspired many students to 1980s advance in geology by earning graduate degrees CHRISTOPHER DEVINE (BS '83). After three DAVID COBLENTZ (PHD '94) has accepted at prominent universities.(See Bob's years with IBM, nine at Geraghty & Miller and a visiting professor position at UTEP. Dave will reminiscences of his own student days on p. 14.) two at Leggette, Brashears & Graham working be working with the PACES group (Pan on ground -water contamination, Chris emails American Center for Earth and Environment LOUIS H. KNIGHT (MS '67, PHD '70)that he's taken a 180 and gone to surface Studies) on borderland remote sensing recently left his position as Vice President ofwater as the Executive Director of the Squam projects. coblentz @geo.utep.edu page 16 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 ALUMNI NEWS

UA ALUMS PAY TRIBUTE TO VANCE HAYNES

UA alums gathered for the Vance Haynes Symposium in September to pay tribute to Vance Haynes' career: (L -R) MIKE WATERS (BS '77, MS '80, PHD '83), Anthropology Dept., Texas A&M Univ.; JEFF SAUNDERS (MS '70, PHD '75), Illinois State Museum; TOM STAFFORD (MS '80, PHD '84), Center for Geochronological Research, Univ. of Colorado; GARY HUCKLEBERRY (PHD '93), Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State; VANCE HAYNES; JIM MEAD (MS '79, PHD '83), Dept. of Geology, Northern Arizona Univ.; KATHLEEN NICOLL (PHD '98), Chevron Oversees; and MANUEL PALACIOS FEST (PHD '94), Dept. of Geosciences, UA.

BRIAN DARBY (BS '97) finished his MS at KYLE HOUSE (MS '91, PHD '96) emails, "It He is currently involved in a two -year NSF USC with Greg Davis this past spring. He and was very sad to hear of Peter Coney's death. project in Peru that seeks to reconstruct El Nino Kristi Rikansrud, who also received her MS at He was without doubt the best teacher that I flood history and understand its relation to USC, were married on June 12 in Santa had during the rise and fall of the Moche civilization. Gary Monica, CA. Brian and Kristi are both working my 7 -year and wife Yvonne have two daughters, April forExxonExplorationinHouston. tenure in the and Theresa. ghuck @wsu.edu darbys @qwestinternet.com Geosciences Department." DIANA MEZA FIGUEROA (PHD '99) and Kyle's news: husband Victor are proud parents of a baby he's a new boy, Sebastian Alejandro, born March 6. Diana father and has is an Assistant Professor at the Univ. of landed a real Guerrero where she teaches geochemistry and job. In August petrology and pursues her research in the 1998, Kyle geology of southern Mexico. She was recently moved from a accepted as part of the National System of soft money Researchers (SNI). Diana writes that she's position at the happy with her family and her job, and she Trent House, 6 months. D e s e rt keeps Tucson and its people in her heart. Research Institute to a faculty portion at the vicdian @silver. net.mx Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Univ. of Nevada, Reno. His job involves doing research on all kinds of floods and a fair amount of Quaternary geological mapping. Despite the seemingly geographic restriction of Kyle's place of employment, he remains busy with flood studies in Arizona. Kyle's wife is the senior book designer at the Univ. of Nevada Press and they now have a wonderful little boy, Trenton Joseph House, born on September 9, 1998. khouse @unr.edu http: / /www.nbmg.unr.edu /staff /kyle.htm Brian Darby and Kristi Rikansrud, June wedding. GARY HUCKLEBERRY (PHD '93) is Assistant WILLIAM ERICKSON (BS' 92) and wife Evelyn Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at VandenDolder moved from Tucson to western Washington State Univ. in Pullman. Gary Sebastian Alejandro. North Carolina last February. Billis now a enjoys his job teaching the value of geoscience consultant with Compaq Computer Corp. and to archaeology students and continues to Evelyn works as a professional editor. perform geoarchaeological research linking william.erickson @compaq.com environmental change and human response.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 17 ALUMNNEWS Michal Kowalewski Receives Junior Faculty Enhancement Award MICHAL KOWALEWSKI (PHD '95) has received a Ralph E. Powe junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). Michal, Assistant Professor of Geological Gopal Mohapatra and Meha. Sciences at Virginia Tech, describes his research as the study of the history of life GOPAL MOHAPATRA (PHD '96) and Reva entombed in the fossil record. He is studying Michal Kowalewski (left) receives the Ralph E. have a baby girl (Meha), born on July 21. the shells of lingulid brachiopods and their Powe junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Gopal says she keeps them busy and he's fossils to reconstruct ancient marine becoming an expert in changing diapers! He's environments that existed as much as 500environmental and climatic patterns," pictured here trying to interest Meha in million years ago and to learn more aboutMichal explains. "Lingulid isotopes may also watermelon (he's on a steep learning curve). past climatic conditions and about theprovide valuable insights into rapid climatic biologicalrelations among extinctand environmental changes of the last DANI MONTAGUE -JUDD (PHD '99) left for organisms. several millenia." the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in Nashville, The research funding will make it Following his postdoc here, Michal was TN the day after turning in her dissertation. Dani possible for him to test the validity ofa research scientist at the Polish Academy works as an assistant petrologist at Desert measuring oxygen isotopes within modernof Sciences for two years, during which time Archaeology, Inc., in Tucson. ddmjudd @aol.com. and fossil shells to determine differences inhe was a visiting scientist in Brazil. He spent the salinity of water over time and at differenta year at the Universitaet Tuebingen, BILL PHILLIPS (PHD '97) is moving from locations, as well as seasonal variations inGermany, as a Humboldt Research Fellow Colorado Springs, CO (where he taught for temperature as shells grew. before joining the faculty at Virginia Tech two years) to Edinburgh, Scotland. At the Univ. ..::, "The approach opens a new avenue forlast year. of Edinburgh, Dept. of Geography, Bill will be studying seasonal and spatial changes inwww.geol.vt.edu /paleo /mk- r.html continuing his research into geomorphic salinity and temperature, and thus, may applications of cosmogenic nuclides that he provide new tools for studying ancient began at the UA. wmp @geo.ed.ac.uk

DICK JONES Cont'd from p. 15 classmates, was teaching a geology lab one warm evening on the second floor of Engineering when he was startled by the sight of two was about four to one, partly because of the flood of ex- service men glowing green eyes staring in from the darkness. Everyone dashed on the GI Bill, but in geology there were only two female grad students over, the eyes vanished, but something was heard scampering down in the department. the bricks. It was found later to be a coatimundi, someone's pet loose Campus buildings had heat, but not air conditioning, not even on campus. evaporative coolers, so in warm weather the windows were always The lobby of the Engineering building at that time had several open. In the Mines building, the heat could get really fierce on the well- crafted three -dimensional models of vein -type ore deposits on east end above the fire assaying lab, but it was pretty hot everywhere display. These had been donated to the University after settlement of on campus in late spring and early fall. litigation involving mining property ownership under the old apex The open windows made things especially difficult when the law. For those unfamiliar with this arcane peculiarity of US mining law, bombardment wing at Davis Monthan Air Force Base was scrambled the person staking the apex of a vein had the right to follow it and the wind was light from the northwest. This always seemed to downward and beyond the side boundaries of his claim or claims occur at about 11:00 a.m., when it was hot and there was little lift foronto neighboring ground. Much conflict grew out of it, some of it the wings. For a good half hour there were B -47 jet bombers and KC- violent and often fatal. More peaceable people went to court, thus 97 prop- driven refuelling tankers coming over the campus just above the many models in the lobby. Several had working faults, so by the rooftops, 20 to 30 seconds apart. The buildings shook, and the throwing a lever the faulted vein could be restored to its original noise was so loud that some professors gave up and dismissed their position, thus attempting to convince judge and jury that one of the classes altogether. The ever -patient Dr. Mayo would try to get in a few parties to the dispute had rights to the dislocated segment. Some of words of his lecture in the intervals between aircraft. Nobody cared to the models were used in economic geology classes, but I can recall consider that an engine failure might bring that aluminum overcast seeing one in the Mining 101 course when the subject of mining law down on the roof and, fortunately, it never happened. came up. Professor Krumlauf cautioned the students against ever With the windows open, it was possible to converse with people bringing apex law cases into litigation, since only lawyers made money on the sidewalks below. Cigarette butts and other detritus sometimes from them. Our collective ignorance of the state of things to come is went out, and bugs and other critters came in. Bob Webb, one of my evidenced by the fact that the good professor's remarks failed to set page 18 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 off a stampede across campus to enroll in the College of Law. However, was still there, in use, along with the polished sections from which the an associate Mining Engineering professor did leave the following year beautiful photomicrographs were made. We had the sense of working to take up the study of dentistry. in a museum, and the sections we worked with were fabulous. There were, of course, no computers, for individuals, at least. The highest tech equipment available on campus was John Somewhere in the bowels of the campus there was a monster vacuum - Anthony's pet, a North American Philips X -ray diffraction unit, located tube main -frame which digested punch cards and supposedly kept in a small room of its own in the basement of the Mines building. It track of class enrollments, but we never saw it. Those of engineering was water -cooled, with a safety shut -off if the water supply was and scientific bent made do with log tables and slide rules. These interrupted. Unfortunately, the machine was on the same supply line latter implements were expensive, about $30 at a time when a typical as the ladies's restroom, and when the Dean's secretary flushed, off hard -bound textbook cost $6.50 to $8. They were the badge of the went the X -ray machine. We eventually resorted to running it mainly engineer, proudly worn hanging from the belt like a Roman soldier's at night when there were no people in the building. It took about 12 gladius. When called upon to render a calculation, the slip stick would hours for an exposure, with two cameras mounted. A radiation counter be lined up and read with much squinting of eye, and then the result would go wild in there when the X -ray machine was operating, so we would be announced: 2 x 2 = 3.99. A few, armed with weapons of didn't stand around admiring the machinery. double length, would then cry out that they had gotten 3.999, but Since there wasn't much apparatus available for research work, these were dismissed as hopeless fanatics. In classes where calculation most theses and dissertations involved field mapping or studies of was necessary, the professor might announce before a test that "slide individual mineral deposits, mostly within Arizona, although there were rule accuracy would be acceptable." This bit of fiction was analogous a few projects farther away. There were a couple in Peru, done by to stating that the Marquis of Queensbury rules would be followed in students who worked for Cerro de Pasco; Bill Purdom's PhD in Cuba, a bar -room brawl. Istill have my old 10 -inch Dietzgen, somewhat when Fidel Castro was still up in the Sierra Maestra; and Bob Webb's yellowed now, no longer used, but it still works, doesn't need batteries MS at Lake Chelan in Washington; but most of us stayed close to the or a surge protector, and is definitely Y2K compliant. house, as money was always a problem, even with 19 cent gas (no Unlike today, with CAD and graphics programs available to nearly grants or student loans in those days). Art Heyman did his field work everyone, back then geologic maps and sections were created by the over at Helvetia, in the Santa Rita foothills, avoiding the wretched organic digital plotter located at the end of one's arm, with road by flying over from Tucson International Airport in his Ercoupe, microprocessor control from the squishy gray computer between the just below the B -47 landing pattern at Davis Monthan. We always ears. There are still some advantages to the old method, since it gives figured Art flew in close formation with a squadron of guardian angels. time to think about what is being plotted. Text was produced with Radiometric age determinations were not available, and thesis mechanical typewriters. The really classy thesis was handed off to a work depended on close attention to field relations and a lot of work professional legal secretary who had access to an IBM Electric, the old with the microscope on thin- and polished- sections, and microchemical ones with keys banging a carbon ribbon, not the kind with a type ball. tests. Some got pretty good at it, and some of the correlations (and The Main Library got the original and the first carbon copy, the department guesswork) were later confirmed when absolute age dating became library (pre - Antevs) got the second carbon, and the student received the possible. I confess to feeling pretty good a year ago when I found that fuzzy and barely legible third. Drafts were either typed or handwritten, or my concept of a deeply- buried intrusive body beneath my thesis area, both, and editing was done with scissors and transparent tape. postulated from the structural patterns I had mapped, was supported In -house student reports distributed in class were turned out on by someone's later geophysical work. the department's ditto machine, which used waxy stencils and methyl Grad students had offices in every nook, cranny, and closet in alcohol, and could make 20 or 30 copies before they got too blurry to both Engineering and Mines buildings.I was in the most spacious read. Since these were mostly graduate classes with perhaps a dozen one, in the basement of Mines, along with Wes Peirce, Don Layton, students, the copies were usually good enough. Fellow grad student Dick Whitney, and Bob Wilson. Bob Webb, Bill Purdom, Fred Pashley Chuck St. Clair became highly proficient with the ditto machine, and I think Bill van Horn were hidden in a cloud of pipe tobacco switching various colored stencils to produce very nice multicolored smoke under the stairs in the basement of Engineering. Spence Titley maps, and we all learned from him -showed us the value of anwas upstairs someplace, while Fred Michel was in what was once T. S. undergraduate degree from CalTech. Lovering's old geochem lab in the basement. When thin sections were needed, they were made from slabs cut Wes Peirce would sometimes bring in his huge Great Dane on by hand on a diamond saw and ground in the traditional manner onweekends when the Mines building was usually empty. One such the big spinning laps in the petrography lab, held down by the fingers. afternoon the dog wandered off, and we heard an awful yell from After grinding thin sections for a few hours, one's fingertips were worn upstairs. Wes's dog, finding a wide open door, had wandered into the down considerably, and sometimes quite a few red blood cells went Dean's office, and the old gentleman happened to be working at his on the slide along with the slice of rock and Lakeside 70. My MS thesis desk. As Dean Chapman was a small, wiry man who weighed about only required about 40 or 50 thin sections, but Anil Banerjee, a grad 120 pounds soaking wet, his face was on about the same level as the student from India and a whiz at petrography, ground well over 400 Great Dane's jaws. Fortunately, the dog was not aggressive, but the for his PhD dissertation, as a prelude to thousands of optic axis Dean was pretty well shaken by the confrontation. measurements on quartz crystals with the universal stage, then hand plotted with a stereonet. By the time he was finished grinding sections, FIELD CAMP he had a sense of touch which could have led to a promising career in The UA's summer field camp was then based at St. Michael's, near safe -cracking, but he virtuously remained in geology and eventuallyWindow Rock, on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona, became Director of the Geological Survey of India. and was directed by Bob DuBois, who arrived in style in his silver There were none of the wondrous devices available now, no way Jaguar XK -140. St. Michael's was a boarding school for Navajo children, to produce polished thin sections (this was just getting started at and the University arranged to use it during the summers when the Harvard), no heating /freezing stages for the study of fluid inclusions, kids were at home. The facilities were spartan; the men bunked in the no SEM or microprobe, just basic petrographic and reflecting dormitory but the women (only two in my class) were lodged with microscopes. Ore microscopy (taught by Lacy) was our strength in the good sisters in the convent. They complained loudly, to little avail. those days. Much of the work that Max Short had incorporated into The nearest watering hole was in Gallup, New Mexico, invariably USGS Bulletin 914, Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals the destination of a Saturday night. The reservation roads were (our text for the course), was done at Arizona, and all of his equipment -cont'd p. 22

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two academic programs at the UA -in two So,infollowing Vance's career different colleges -both of whom sign his accomplishments we have the First Americans paycheck. And those two departments fail to and Custer's Last Stand. Where else do Vance's span the breadth of Vance's scientific interests. interests lie? How do "Radar Rivers" sound? Vance Haynes' international stature is all For the last few decades, each spring semester the more welcome to us in the department the cry from advisees and colleagues has been, because he is one of our own -a 1965 PhD "Where's Vance ?" And the answer has been, whose dissertation is entitled "Quaternary "In the Sahara." With USGS scientists Carol geology of the Tule Springs area, Clark County, Breed and Joe McCauley, Vance became the Nevada ". Paul Damon was his advisor. That first to apply the technological innovation of title and topic seem to fit his international Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) to one the planet's reputation, but they don't capture the most dramatic examples of climatic change. interdisciplinary depth and breadth that made In the Sahara Desert, one of the most desolate him a member of the National Academy. places on Earth, the antelope once played and Indications of Vance's breadth can be broad rivers flowed. In a 1989 paper in Science, found in his Curriculum Vitae. His abilities as Vance used the SIR images to document the a geochemist and radiocarbon scientist are timing of the climate change that dried the hinted at by the fact that Paul Damon was his rivers and drove away the antelope and the advisor, but many of his colleagues don't Acheulian people who hunted them. realize that Vance helped run the UA Breadth, hard work, and creativity. That's Radiocarbon Laboratory from 1965 -1968 what I remember from Bill Dickinson's before joining the faculty of Southern recognition of Vance Haynes in 1990. Methodist Univ. And, many of us might be surprised to learn of Vance's "hard rock, C. Vance Haynes economic" training at the Colorado School of Mines (G.E. Degree, 1956) and his early by Owen Davis career as a mining engineer from 1958 -1962. To breadth, add hard work. It wasn't his Ican still feel the excitement of the dissertation that made his career, it was his I departmental ceremony, in the fall of 1990, ability to make his own luck. Inspired by the that recognized C. Vance Haynes' induction Lehner Ranch Clovis Indian site near Sierra into the National Academy of Sciences. It was Vista, Vance and fellow graduate student Pete held in the atrium of the Gould- Simpson Mehringer decided to prospect for another Building and faculty, students, and well - Paleoindian site. So, they started walking -out wishers from Geosciences and Anthropology the tributaries of the San Pedro River, filled the room. It was the first honor of the downstream Lehner Ranch. And, damned if zenith of national prominence for our they didn't find the largest, best -preserved program. True, it was quickly followed by Bill association of humans and extinct mammoths Dickinson's induction, and there were other in America -the Murray Springs site! Vance ceremonies around campus for both Vance excavated it so completely that the final report and Bill, but that first ceremony is the one is still not written, but for the hundreds of that sticks in my mind. scientists who have visited the site, Murray Vance richly deserves that recognition. Springs has come to symbolize Vance's Not since Ernst Antevs has one of our faculty profound insight and scientific industry. rose to such national and international To breadth and hard work, add creativity. prominence in his discipline. It would be Vance was born in Spokane, WA, February 29, virtually unthinkable for someone to publish 1928, and "saw the world" as the son of a a serious investigation of a Paleoindian site in military officer. Those who know of Vance's the new world without Vance visiting it and professional interest in 19th century Betty Hupp with Greek amphora at Ashmolean carefully reviewing the stratigraphy and battlefields in Wyoming, and his private Museum, Oxford University, UK. Photo courtesy radiocarbon dates associated with evidence interests in muskets, rifles, and cannon, of Peter Kresan. for human occupation. The 1997 Science probably also know of his childhood travels. review of the Monte Verde Site in Chile However, it is the translation of that interest proclaims, "his (Vance's) epiphany is indeed to unique research that sets Vance apart. His Betty Hupp significant ... because of his stature as a approach to understanding the 1868 battle leading Clovis expert." "I was the heavy," on the Washira River between Black Kettle's Eormer Geosciences Program Coordinator, Vance recalls. band of Cheyenne and the 7th Cavalry (a Betty Hupp, has retired after 17 1 /2 years How does one get that kind of precursor to Custer's Last Stand) illustrates his at UA to devote more time to her passion for reputation? Breadth. Vance is the least particular meld of genius and interest. With Larry travel.She saw much of the USA as an Air discipline -bound of my colleagues. He has Anovitz's help and a lot of Electron Beam Force wife before joining the Geosciences staff, never been afraid to follow his interests even Microprobe time, he was able to trace each shell and since then has concentrated on annual if it meant that he failed to get some academic casing found in the ground to an individual trips to Europe whenever she could arrange report turned in on time. 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Betty's interests in Art, Architecture and My adopted father was first a school Archaeology have been nourished by her principal (how would you like to attend a travels to the UK, Portugal, Germany, Italy, grade school where your father was Greece and Turkey (before this summer's principal ?), then a university professor deadly earthquake).In 1997, she and (wouldn't you study hard and make good daughter Alison flew to Istanbul, drove down math grades, too, if your father was in the the West Coast of Turkey and ferried by jetboat math department ?). to Rhodes. Flying to Crete and the Aegean My mother was so proud of her only son. islands, and driving from Athens and Delphi "You'll go far," she often said. How true. I spent on mainland Greece through the Peloponnese a couple of field seasons on Ellesmere Island, peninsula, could only be described as a visited China, India, even southern Argentina movable, archaeological feast.Of course, all the way down to where the penguins live. Greek and Turkish foods were inspirational as Before graduation, I was a summer intern well. at Lamont Geological Observatory. Paul With sometime travel companion, Peter Damon was just finishing his dissertation there. Kresan, Betty has made pilgrimages to many Though I knew it not then, this fortunate sites of geologic interest including Mount overlap would set my destiny. My first public Vesuvius, Puzzuoli of Bradyseism fame, the K- scientific presentation and peer- reviewed t boundary in Gubbio, Italy, and Sicily's active publication on lead isotopes in ore deposits volcano, Mount Etna. Among last year's resulted from my MS at Columbia. The right highlights in Scotland were Siccar Point on mix of fright and exhilaration therefrom, the East coast near Edinburgh, Aran Isle, the though I knew it not at the time, was surely a Isle of Skye, the Moine Thrust at Inchnadampf sign of things to come. and the bleak, beautiful Outer Hebrides Islands Having just joined the UA faculty in 1957, in the far northwest.Rounding out their Austin Long Paul was charged with, among other things. itinerary were side trips to the Isle of Man and redesigning the UA radiocarbon dating ten awesome days touring some of the fjords We intended to prepare a biographical article to laboratory. For a variety of reasons, "solid and glaciers of Norway. While in Oslo, they mark Austin's retirement, and asked Austin for carbon" radiocarbon technology had a short visited the Fram Museum of Polar exploration, suitable information. As usual, he was slow in half life. The lab would be replaced with a gas and presented the director with a video tape responding, but while he was out we found this proportional system, and as radiocarbon was of Dr. Laurence M. Gould's Antarctic sledge document on the floor of his office. Having only one of his charges, Paul invited me to be trek nothing better, and being in no position to doubt one of his graduate students. Thus began a This fall, Betty and daughters Roxanne the accuracy of the contents, we reprint it here. professional relationship and friendship that and Melanie are again visiting friends in continues today. France, Italy, and Austria. They anticipate a I was able to help Paul set up the carbon very special reunion with Anne and Olivier Contrary to my first wife's opinion, rather dioxide proportional counters, get the Merle in Clermont -Ferrand, France. (Olivier than a dark and stormy night, I first saw laboratory up and rerunning, and get an ABD did graduate work with George Davis in Bryce daylight and voiced a protest on a clear, but as well. The interruption began in 1963 when Canyon in the early 90s.) Their plans are to cold Saturday morning. It was almost a the Smithsonian Institution invited me to head leave the beaten paths in Paris, Provence and fortnight before the winter solstice on the their new radiocarbon dating laboratory. the Riviera with local friends as guides, and North Texas plains. Mother later related that Downtown Washington, DC in the mid 1960s hopefully get in some kayaking, rock climbing it was curious that the chilly breeze seemed was an interesting place to be at an interesting and /or mountaineering along the way. Mind not to faze the 14 black crows perched in the time in our history, but the invitation to apply you, most of these feats of physical prowess shallow snow, and that they formed a crude for a UA faculty position was even more are in the vicarious realm for Betty who prefers crescent in strong contrast on the ground. My attractive. to punctuate her sightseeing with ballet, present wife was also born on a cold Saturday, The tutelage and generosity of Tom concerts and Europe's fabulous museums. on my sixth birth anniversary. Fortunate Herring at the Carnegie Geophysical When Betty and Roxanne return to coincidences and curious portents have Laboratory enabled me to make stable isotope Tucson in November, Melanie will continue punctuated my life, which this briefly analyses of carbon. Association with the UA on an extended, around -the -world trip with summarizes. ultimately allowed us, our students and multiple opportunities for Betty to rendezvous My grandmother had much influence on colleagues to include stable carbon, oxygen, in Thailand, Bali, Australia, New Zealand and my development, as did the second World hydrogen, sulfur and even chlorine stable the South Pacific next year. After that, anyone War. She taught me principles of life and isotope and tritium analyses in the process of for Eastern Europe, the Far East, Africa or South proper behavior through fables and lifestudying geological, hydrological, and America? anecdotes. Whether these stories came from botanical systems. memory or were created on the spot is not Another fortunate association was with important. They still impressed me and the Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources. probably frightened me into fairly goodIt began with Stan Davis, but ultimately behavior throughout my early years, at least. included many other hydrophiles in HWR. The The War? Mostly frugality at the time, and realization that environmental isotope studies ultimately a quest for explanations for tragic can not only help us address questions of social events. Working in Washington, DC during importance but also give graduate and the Kennedy years reinforced the latter. undergraduate students an employment

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 page 21 AUSTIN LONG, cont'd the exhilaration of challenge overrode thecontinued work on projects you find extra effort. As of my retirement, Tim Jull challenging, and helping advise students who advantage, helped focus on the direction of assumed the editorship. are excited about their projects, then I am still recent and current research. Now to address the question: Does life very much alive. And throughout this process From 1989 until retirement I had the exist after retirement? of doing things, and even now, continuing to privilege of becoming editor of the journal I guess that depends on how you define do things that enhance life, my wife Karen Radiocarbon. By anotherfortunate life. makes it possible and worthwhile. coincidence, in 1989 we acquired significant If you define it as a continual series of Last month a grandchild in northern space off campus for laboratory processing of deadlines, grading papers, endless committee Arizona called. Among other things (soccer, radiocarbon samples as well as housing the meetings, anguished students, and frantic new girl in school, classes -in about that journal. Working with outstanding managing parents certain their precious ones are being order), he mentioned that he had seen some editors Renee Kra and David Sewell meant that singled out for cruel and unusual homework, crows in the yard, looked like they were in a the editor's role was mostly as it should be; then I have no life. If, however, life to you is half circle.

DICK JONES Cont'd from p. 19 mine we saw what remained of the great Colorada pipe, vast open stopes like cathedrals, so wide that a cap light didn't illuminate the far unfenced, and one trip heading for Gallup nearly terminated in thewall. In the workings peripheral to the stopes there were batteries of middle of a horse herd which slid down the bank and bolted across air -powered diamond drills boring blast holes, so noisy that it was the road, but fortunately students, car, and horses came through impossible to talk even shouting into one's ear. In the geological office unscathed. we caught a glimpse of the meticulous way that the all- Mexican staff, Our mapping was done in the fine exposed sedimentary section, headed by Ruben Velasco, recorded the mine geology using the classic Permian through Upper Cretaceous, across the Defiance monocline Anaconda methods pioneered by Reno Sales at Butte. at Hunter's Point. There were side excursions to the Hopi Buttes volcanic Our return trip was via Nogales, where one half of our group field and to the diatreme at Buell Park. The people of the Navajo learned that complete truthfulness with the Feds at the border was Nation were quite friendly, and near the end of the field camp we not always the best policy. That is Spence Titley's story, and I'll leave it were treated to a Navajo feast of mutton stew and fried bread atfor him to relate. Window Rock. At the conclusion of the season we took a trip across the dusty SOCIAL LIFE (SUCH AS IT WAS) reservation roads, riding in a couple of Chevy carry-ails which had Away from the confines of the department, geology students and open canvas sides for air conditioning and to let the dust in. After 200 faculty would congregate around two or three tables in the northwest miles or so we had collectively ingested enough to have a good start corner of the Student Union, not far from the coffee urns. For modern on a brick wall. The trip went through Chinle and Canyon de Chelly, historical archaeologists, this would lie someplace back in the food Third Mesa and the ancient Hopi village of Walpi, Coal Canyon service area of Fiddlee Fig. It would be fitting if a suitable marker, (deposits eventually mined by Peabody), and the Grand Canyon. We perhaps a Student Union ashtray or a 50s era steel beer can, stopped over at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff andappropriately inscribed, could be placed to commemorate the spot then doubled back via Route 66, visiting all of the interesting things for posterity, as many geological problems were argued and sometimes along the way. We economic geology students had to be satisfied resolved on that hallowed ground. with coal and a visit to a uranium mine near Kayenta, but uranium Student Union coffee at that time was pretty bad (there were was a hot commodity at that time (no pun intended). rumors that the janitorial mops soaked in the urns overnight) but it kept the nerves twitching enough to ensure wakefulness in class. FIELD TRIPS There wasn't much in the way of organized recreational activity Economic geology students at Arizona now have a lot more within the department other than annual picnics, always well attended. opportunities for travel than we had in the 50s, but as undergraduatesOften, on the spur of the moment, a few individuals would head out we were able to visit Silver Bell, when the Oxide and El Tiro pits were after late night study sessions to the Poco Loco on East Speedway for newly opened, and the old Copper Queen underground mine and cheap draft beer and hot dogs or tamales, or downtown to Li'l Johns the Lavender pit at Bisbee. Bisbee was an overnight trip, and we were for great pizza and garlic bread. put up in the classy old Copper Queen Hotel. A good party was had There was a group, myself included, consisting of a core of by most, but the good times were paid for the next morning, when geologists, a few degenerate anthropologists, and assorted camp we had to be at the Junction shaft at 7 am to go down when the shiftfollowers, which often gathered of a Friday evening to swill beer and went down. When the cage got to the bottom level after a rapid sing folk songs. These tended toward the very raunchy as the evening descent, there was about three feet of stretch in the hoisting cable, progressed, about which no more will be said, to protect the guilty. and we bounced up and down like a yo -yo for about a minute. Between The same renegades were also known to go caroling at Christmas, led that, the heat, the smell of oxidizing sulfides, and the effects of the by Jack (Angus) Cunningham and his bagpipes. previous night's revelry, there were a lot of mossy -green faces among the students. In spite of all that, it was very impressive to walk into the CONCLUSION development headings and see solid masses of chalcopyrite and bornite Here's a toast (beverage of your choice) to all of the Geo- people at the exposed in the face. My friend Jon Browne, close to 6' 8" tall, was a UA, past and present, and especially to those who have passed on to little nervous about the 440 -volt trolley wire next to his ear, especially the Great Field Trip in the Sky. One fondly hopes that the weather is with the floor and track wet with acid mine water, but he enjoyed the always fine, there are no black flies, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, chiggers, spacious 8 -foot square- set -timbered stopes. plums, or borrachudos, and the cholla there all have rubber needles. The following year, the Advanced Ore Deposits class visited the It's been an eventful half century. mine at Cananea, Sonora, driving down through Naco. We were put up overnight in Anaconda's guest accommodations and rose in the morning tasting sulfur dioxide. The smelter stack was rather short and the wind sometimes blew the smoke into town. Underground in the page 22 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Fall 1999 Spring 1999 Degrees Awarded

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