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OFFICERS

Pres ident ROBERT V. WOLF, '51, 244-L McNutt Hall, UMR. Rolla , MO 65401 President·elect GERALD L ST EVENSON, '59, Jacobs Engineer Group, 251 South Lake Dr., Pasade na, CA 91101 Vice President W.R. "PAT" BROADDUS, '55, M I. P.O. Box 2545, Dalton, GA 30722 Vice President ALFRED J. BUESCH ER, '64,624 Golfview Dr., Ballwin, MO 6301 1 Vice President M MATTEO A. COCO, '66, 7115 Aliceton Ave., Affton, MO 63123 Secretary ROBERT T. BERRY, '72, Burns & McDonnell , 10795 Watson Road, Sunset Hills. MO 63127 Treasurer J.L. "JACK" PAINTER, '50, P.O. Box 723, Rolla , MO 65401

DIRECTORS AT LARGE

JOHN G . BARTEL, '52. 200 Washington, Hennann, MO 65041 CHRISTA DEGONIA ANDREW, 2436 Wesbay Dr. , Maryland Heights, MO 63043 JAMES W. HOELSCHER, '48, 113 Stonebridge Dr.. Hendersonville, NC 28739 DENNIS F. JAGGI, '70. 1509 Nighthawk Dr., Edmond, OK 73034 ALISSA M. GALLAGHER. '81, 816 S. Benry, SI. Louis. MO 63122 ROBERT R. MORRISON, '71, 730 Ralntree, NapeN;He, IL 60540

AREA DIRECTORS

Area Zip Codes 00·14 S. DALE McHENRY, '81, AT&T, RL 202/206 North, Room 4B232, Bedminster, NJ 07921 15·26 ROBERT C. PERRY, '49,302 Fox Chapel Rd. , ApI. 500, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 27·36 WILLIAM H. GAMMON '49, 4142 Southwell Way. Sarasota, FL 34241 37-45 GRAHAM G . SUTHERLAND III . '64-. Morrison Knudson-MK Ferguson , 1500 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, O H 44113 46·52 LARRY L. PARKINSON, '64, 1800 W;Hlamsburg Dr., Adrian, MI49221 53·61 ROBERT M. SAXER. '61 , 704 E. Cedar Ave., SI. Charies, IL 60174 62-62 ROBERT F. UTHOFF, '52, 42 Circle Drive, Springfield, IL 62703 63-65 JERRY R BAYLESS, '59, 101 ERL, UMR, Rolla, MO 65401 JAMES L. FOIL, '74, 207 NE Country Lane, Lee's Summit, MO 64063 ROBERT S. BRUCE. '69, 15 Carrswold, Clayton, MO 63105 The WILLIAM W. COLLINS, '50, 1608 Wilson Clrcie, Rolla. MO 65401 edit, ROBERT J. SCHNELL, '78,3526 Brookstone S Dr., SI. Louis, MO 63129 HUMBERT E. "BOB" SFREDDO. '58, P.O. Box 1302, Jefferson CIty. MO 65102 byll JAMES K. VAN BUREN, '63.9807 Copper Htli Rd., SI. Louis, MO 63 124 ole RICHARD J. VEHIG E, '68, Southwestern Bell Corp, 500 N. Broadway, Room 1400, ';Ih Sl Lou;s, MO 63102 Alun 66·72 PHIL A. BROWNING, '48. P.O. Box 578, Logansport, LA 71049 73·75 JAMES E. BE RTELS MEYER, '66,3303 E. 100lh PI. S., Tulsa, OK 74137 76 ·77 JOHN C. "CURT" KILLINGER, '73, 14823 Preston Park, Houston, TX 77095 MSI 78·84 RANDY G. KERNS, '74, 4797 Valhalla Dr. , Boulder, CO 80301 Pres 85·92 WILLIAM M. HALLETT, '55, P.O. Box 64216, Tucson, AZ 85728-4216 Rob, 93·99 VIC HOFFMAN, '60.31057 E. Lake Morton Dr. S.E., Kent, WA 98042

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES

CLlNT SCOTT Student Union Board, 218 University Center West, U MR, Rolla, MO 6540 1 JENNIFER McGEE Student Council President, 202 University Center West. UMR, Rolla. MO Man 65401 Johr COMMITTEE CHAIRS Uni,

JE ROME T. BERRY. '49, Rt 4, Box 419, Rolla . MO 65401 Edit LUCIEN M. BOLON JR., '59, 902 S.W. Murray Rd., Lee's Summit, MO 64081 Kalh J. RICHARD HUNT, '50. 14913 Highway 82, Carbondale, CO 81623 CALVIN M. OCHS, '49, 1304 Bello Paseo Ct , Jeflerson City. MO 65109 LONNIE J. SHALTON. '63, 700 W. 47th, Suite 1000, Kan sas CIty, MO 64112 Con RONALD A. TAPPMEYER, '47, 2226 Country Club Dr., Sugar Land, TX 77478 Lind ERNST A. WEINEL. '44, 189 Weinel Place. O'Fallon. IL 62269 AneL Dick PAST PRESIDENTS Johr ARTHUR G. BAEBLER, '55. 17 Zln,.r Court, SI. Louis, MO 63 123 Carc RICH ARD H. BAUER, '52, Missouri Electrochem Inc ., 10958 LinNalle Dr., 51. Louis. MO 63 123 Reb, ROBERT D. BAY, '49, 8947 linden Lane, Prairie Village, KS 66207 Johr ROBERT M. BRACKBILL, '42, 9148 Clearlake Dr. , Dallas, TX 75225 PAUL T. DOWLING, '40, 10144 Winding Ridge Rd ., 51. Louis, MO 63 124 LoUI RAYMOND O . KASTEN, '43,901 W. 114th Terrace. Kansas City, MO 64 114 Mati PETER F. MATTEI, '37, 9954 Holliston Court, SI. Louis, MO 63124 JAMES B. MCGRATH, '49, 12425 Balwyck Lane, SI. Louis. MO 63131 Pho JOSEPH W. MOONEY, '39, 21 1 N. Central, Clayton, MO 63105 KatJ­ MELVIN E. NICKEL, '38, 10601 S. Hamilton Ave., Chicago, IL 60643 J. ROBERT PATTERSON, '54, Show·Me, Inc" P.O. Box 573 Sikeston. MO 63801 Anr LAWRENCE A. SPANIER, '50, 246 Eagle Drive, Juplte,. FL 33477-4061 Dan JOHN B. TOOMEY, '49, Starr Management Corp., 7 110 Rainwater PI.. Lorton, VA 22079 r-- Frr STAFF St, Dc DONAL D G. BRACKHAHN, Executive Vice Presiden t, MSM-UMR Alum ni Assodation ral LINDSAY LOMAX BAGNALL, '76, Assistant Vice President. MSM-UMR Alumni As sociation '----- COMMUNICHTIONS

Welcome to th e first of several thematic issues of the MSM Alumnus. us For this debut, we've chosen a topic very near I N T H s s s u E and dear to our hearts: Communication. In this issue you 'll read about how several of your classmates are helping to advance the telecommunications revolu­ MSM-UMR Alumni Association COVER STORY tion. You'll find out about how wireless personal University of Missouri-Rolla communications and satellite technology are making Rolla, Missouri Roy Wilkens sees a way to communicate in a it easier for all of us to stay in touch, how the fate of natural gas pipeline system TV and phone companies are becoming as linked as Volume 67 page 4 Number 2 their fiber-optic and cable networks, and how multi­ May 1993 media could change the way you use your telephone TELEREVOLUTION or TV set, and even the way you learn. You 'll also read about advents in communication on campus­ MSM Alumnus UMR alums are on the cutting edge of the (USPS-323-5001 communications revolution from our c1asses-by-satellite through National Tech­ nological University to our back-to-the-basics move Issued quarterly in the interest of the graduates page 8 and former students of th e Missouri School of to help students better communicate orally and on Mines and Metallurgy and the University of paper. Missouri-Rolla. T he MSM Alumnus is pub­ ALUMNI PROFILE lished by the MSM-UMR Alumni Association, Castleman Hall, University of Missouri-Rolla, Jesse Bowen, EE'49, remem bers his Rolla, MO 65401-0249. Second Class postage "We have defi nitely come to the paid at Rolla, MO and additional mailing of­ experiences in Europe age of The Ietsons," fices. page 14 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to - Mario A. Padilla, MetE'60, vice MSM Alumnus, Castleman Hall, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla , MO 65401-0249. president of new markets business AROUND CAMPUS development for AT&T The MSM Alumnus is written, A look at news from the university edited, photographed, and designed page 20 by the staff of the UMR Department of Communications and Marketing, with the assistance of th e MSM-UMR Alumni Association. MINER SPORTS "If anything holds back the lntramurals keep students active development of technology , it will be MSM-UMR Alumni Association page 26 the difficult regu latory and pol itical President problems that the industry faces as it Robert V. Wolf, '51, '52 MORE FOUNDERS makes this transition.. ." Executive Vice President - Robert H. Glaser, EE'6 1, Donald G. Brackhahn Our list of alumni entrepreneurs exec uti ve vice president of operati ons keeps growing for Southwestern Bell in St. Loui s Managing Editor page 28 John W. Larson, Vice Chancellor University Advancement ASSOCIATION NEWS Predicting how the merger of the Editor phone and cable industries will Kathy Matthews page 32 mesh over time is "like dancing with elephants," says Gary D. Contributing Editors lindsay Lomax Bagnall, '76 SECTION NEWS Forsee, CE'72, sen ior vice president of staff operati ons for Andrew Careaga page 36 Dick Hatfield Sprint Corp. of Kansas City, Mo. John Kean Carol Kiehl MINERS REMEMBER THE WAR Rebecca Martin, '90 John L. "Jack" Painter, '50 Dr. Douglas Christensen, ChE"43, shares his " ... market needs and tec hnology Laura Powell memories of campus and WWll Marianne Ward trends are going to drive the page 40 marketplace. Regulation may try to Photographers impede this, but I don 't think it will Kathy Matthews Ari Mentz ALUMNI NOTES ever stop or control it." Dan Seifert page 44 --S. Dale McHenry, ChE'81 , division manager of AT&T Data Front couer photo of Mr. Wilkens by Communications Services Steve Miffer. Back couer photo of Dr. Dauis by Dan SeiferUStonehouse Photog­ raphy. wasi lines. read wher iams

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Long before Roy Wilkens, EE'66, If you 're in bUSiness , you probably communications race, and he doesn't was into phone lines, he was into pipe­ know all about WilTel. Its fiber-optic net­ mind thumbing his nose at his bigger lines. work is alone among the four nationwide competitors. (As part of its marketing A career that began right after college systems in focusing solely on the needs of stra tegy, each Tuesday WilTel runs a car­ reached its apex less than 20 years later, toon in The Wall Street Journal that pro­ when Wilkens became president of W ill­ vides som e not-too-subtle humor at a iams Pipe Line Co. , based in Tulsa. competitor's expense.) But soon after rising to the top of the W ilTel's investment in applied re­ pipeline business, Wilkens decided that sea rch and aggressive marketing tactics is his future was not in transporting crude paying off. Earnings have more than qua­ oil, gas and liquid fertilizer at 3 miles per drupled in th e last five years, going from hour, but in moving blocks of data across $174.6 million in 1988 to nearly $758 the country at the speed of light. H e and a million in 1992. Revenues are expected to small group of partners came up with a reach almost $1 billion by the end of scheme to convert a maze of unused 1993. Not bad for a group of pipeliners pipelines into the beginnings of a billion­ who started out with little knowledge of dollar fiber-optic network. the telecommunications industry. "This was as entrepreneurial as you Wilkens began WilTel as a "side busi­ could get, " says the 50-year-old Wilkens. ness " for the parent company, The W ill­ "I knew nothing about how to sell tele­ Wi/Tel Wams you to know that si:e doeslI '1 equal speed. iams Cos. Inc. , a $5 billion corporation communications or what kind of services also based in T ulsa. H e was running an­ we would offer. All I had was a gimmick, other carriers and business customers. But other Williams subsidiary, Williams Pipe and that was putting fiber inside the pipe. " because WilTel is not in th e residential Line Co. , when " I decided to use my Today, less than eight years later, communications business, it is less visible H alvard experience" - he studied in Wilkens' bright idea is WilTel, a telecom­ to the general public. " We focus more on Harvard's Advanced Management Pro­ munications company with more than the business market and the technologies gram prior to becoming president of the 3,500 employees in 100 cities nationwide. that we derive from business market data pipeline enterprise - "and begin the new Though much smaller than the big three communications," says Wilkens. venture. " phone companies -AT & T, MCI and Wilkens - the founder, president Wilkens and some partners explored Sprint - WilTel is being noticed for out­ and chief executive officer of WilTel- is the possibility of running fiber-optic cable pacing its rivals in developing and intro­ a Chicago native whose working-class through some of the company's unused ducing telecommunications technology for roots run deep. H is father was a steel­ pipelines. " I tried to convince T he Will­ the business world. worker and his mother worked first in a iams Cos. to give me $50 million to try " In the marketplace," says Wilkens, factory, then for the state of Illinois. thiS, and after a year they finally did give " they really don't respect you, nor will Wilkens' first job involved delivering soft me the money and we stalied to build th e th ey buy from you, unless you can show drinks to C hicago taverns. Although com­ system," Wilkens says. them you 're going to have tomorrow's fortable in his Tulsa surroundings, where The project started with a small, ex­ technology today." he spends his spare time restoring classic perimental network in th e Midwes t. Next, cars and haunting area flea markets for the company headed west, stringing cable Native American artifacts, Wilkens is nev­ in its own out-of-service pipelines and '''Zero Tolerance ' lIIeans 110 errors, 110 excll ses," ertheless streetwise when it comes to deal­ buying other pipe when possible. Where says a WilTel employee. Ar le/r, rhe 1110((0 is ing with the competition. H e relishes his there was no pipe, the company bought promillenrly displayed ill rhe WilTel Techllology company's role as a dark horse in the tele- 8,000 parcels of land and laid cable in th e eellrer showcase. MSM AL UM NUS 5 - INSIDE ROY'S "Toy SHOP"

traditional manner. "We were literally buying the right-of-way right in front of recc th e ca ble plows," Wilkens says. mer Other opportunities prese nted duo themselves during the initial start-up, and serv Wilkens had to ask for more financial beh support. "All of a sudden I was up to rela' $200 million, and at that time th ey said, viat 'If you're going to spend $200 million on ado this thing, maybe this shouldn't be a teet sideline to your pipeline operation. one Maybe this ought to be a separate com­ pany and you ought to run it. ' " and Just as car dealers have their show­ sion, scripted in blazing neon above a Wilkens went full-throttle into tele­ 199 rooms, so those in the business of tele­ row of television monitors. The sign communications. For every working day put communications have a point of sale refers to WilTel's plan to keep its fiber­ during th e first fo ur years, hi s company the area in which to display th eir wares. For optic network operating at a minimum pumped $1 million in working capital por WilTel, that venue is the company's availabilityof99. 999 percent. The glass­ into th e expansion. Today, WilTel oper­ carr Technology Center in th e 52-story Bank enclosed facili ty includes th e Network ates an 1l,000-mile fib er-optic network con of Oklahoma Tower in downtown Tulsa. Control Center, where 24 hours a day with direct access to anoth er 20,000 ted The center, a 20,000-square-foot engineers monitor more th an 500,000 miles of digital network - a far cry from viCE series of glass-encased rooms tha t show­ individual status and system alarms on its original purpose as a pipeline for cases th e company's commitment to WilTei"s nationwide fiber-optic network; oth er long-distan ce carriers. mel tec hnology, looks something like a cross lab space for testing new tec hnologies; "When we first started out with this, rec( between a CNN newsroom and the set the CBUD (Call Before You Dig) Room, we were just going to be a pipeline, a fibe of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," where workers tap into a computerized carrier 's carrier, " says Wilkens. "Other Am and contains enough high-tec h hard­ geographic information system to rap­ companies could use our fiber and we'd nee ware to dazzle even the most ardent idly dispatch digging requests from pick up th e signals at one end and pump sev. tech nophile. A tour of th e center makes throughout the nation; and an Execu­ it out at the oth er end, like a pipeline," mel it clear that WilTei"s fo under, president tive Presentation Center, where f1 oor­ That approach worked well for th e wid and CEO. Roy Wilkens, knows his mar­ to-ceiling liquid crystal display windows first 1 112 years. " But th en that market of II ket. turn opaque with th e flip of a switch, started to consolidate and prices started mte Wilkens, a self-proclaimed techie providing privacy for multimedia pre­ to drop, and we decided we needed to say! - "a real engineering nerd," according se ntations. The prese ntations might in­ expand our market," Wilkens says. SO IT to one Fortune 500 customer - knows clude computer demonstrations, tele­ Tha t's when th e company began selling caU! his customers want to see how products conferences with executives in WilTel private lines to businesses. enc. and services work before th ey buy. offices in Houston, Chicago or t. Louis, But commercial private-line sales "They want to deal primarily with video vignettes of previous WilT el could not offset declining carrier sales , so ider th e people who are th e leaders in tech­ projects (such as th e wiring of Donald WilTel branched out into resea rch and mot nology," says Wilkens. "They don't want Trump's famed Taj Mahal casino in development. and to be caught with a stodgy old telephone Atlantic City, N.J. ), and even remote­ This was an about-face for the com­ do~ company and left in the dark. " control ca mera views into oth er Tech­ pany. "1 used to stand up in front of ana­ atl£!! A visit to the company's Technol­ nology Center venues. (It's difficult to lysts and tell th em that WilTel was purely tech ogy Center tells th e impressive story of hide in the Technology Center, where a carrier's carrier," Wilkens says. "AT& T WilTel's commitmen t to technology and all walls are made of glass and ca meras had Bell Labs, the Bell operating compa­ "Zero Tolerance, ,. the company's mis- sca n the work in every room.) nies had Bellcore, and we couldn't put and out the technology like lh y could. We STes let th em do the technology, and if it oftf proved successful, if the public liked it, if rece it was profitable, then we would employ pan it. " SYS! tom

6 MS ALlN\LS -- "We are not t rying t o be everything to everybody. .. Yo u have to pick what areas you t hink you're good at, t hen focus on them."

~ literally Nowadays, the company is gaining The move made WilTel the largest dis­ in front of recognition for its technological achieve­ tributor of Northern Telecom private IS. ments. In March 1991, WilTel intro­ branch exchange (PBX) equipment. ;ented duced WilPak, the first public frame relay (PBX's give businesses a centralized an­ ;tart-up, and service, a means of transmitting data swering point for handling incoming calls financial between local area networks. "Frame and for routing internal and outgOing as up to relay was not even supposed to be a calls. They also serve as a platform for ~ they said, viable technology," says Wilkens. " We voice mail, automatic call distribution 10 million on adopted it and now frame relay is the and data communications.) Later that ~'t be a technology of buSiness, and WilTel is the year, WilTel decided to get into the The Wilkens File ·ation. one that brought it to market. " switched long-distance business by ac­ arate com- WilTel's commitment to research quiring the carrier and one-plus cus­ and development was also noted in the tomer bases of Telesphere Communica­ Roy A. Wilkens ~ into tele­ 1992 Data Communications user survey, tions Inc. By mid-year 1992, WilTel had Born: Chicago, IL vorking day published last August. "WilTel achieved replaced the acquired switches with ; company the highest technology ratings ever re­ state-of-the-art equipment. The switched Education: B.S. , electrical 9 capital ported in a User Survey of long-distance services allows WilT el to provide long­ engineering, 1966. lilTeloper­ carriers," the magazine said, " and the distance service by the minute for resale Personal interests: Restoring ic network company outshone AT&T in every single by its carrier customers. classic cars (currently working on 20.000 technology category for private-line ser­ The cost of building, deploying and a 1966 Corvette). far cry from vices. integrating the switched long-distance ine for Even WilTel's earliest accomplish­ services into the nationwide digital net­ ment - the fiber-optic network - has work made 1992 a lean year for WilT eL WilTel utwith this, received kudos. A year after completing Operating profit in 1992 dropped to peline, a fiber construction to Los Angeles, the $3l.2 million from $82.3 million in Founder, President and Chief IS. ··Other American Society for Professional Engi­ 1991. But Wilkens is hopeful that the Executive Officer: WilT el, a ~r and we'd neers recognized WilTel 's feat as one of cost of that expansion will result in future subSidiary of The Williams Cos. J and pump seven outstanding engineering achieve­ benefits. WilTel's first-quarter 1993 op­ pipeline.'· ments of the year. " We were sand­ erating profit of $16.8 million on rev­ Both companies are headquar­ .vell for the wiched right in between the restoration enues of $211 million is one encourag­ tered in Tulsa. ,at market of the Statue of liberty and a mobile ing sign of a turnaround for the ices started interballistic missile carrier," Wilkens company. says, adding that the ASPE honor "was Wilkens feels that WilTel is now needed to something I was very pleased with be­ well-positioned to contend with the ; says. cause it related back to my Rolla experi­ larger companies while continuing to !gan selling ence. stay with the key to its success: a knack WilT el no longer shies away from for homing in on niche markets. line sales identifying itself with technology. Its "We are not trying to be everything rier sales, so motto, " WilTel turns up technology," to everybody, but we're trying to find earch and and its showcase Technology Center in certain areas where WilT el can perform downtown Tulsa (see related story) both very well and try to win in those areas," for the com­ attest to the company's commitment to Wilkens says. "You have to pick what front of ana· technological innovation. areas you think you're good at, then fo­ :1 was purely Along with expanding its research cus on them. " -AT&T ays. and development role, WilTel has ag­ If the success of the past eight years lting compa­ greSSively branched out into other areas is any indication, WilTel will continue to ,uldn't put of the telecommunications market in do well in the future. _ could. We recent years. In January 1991, the com­ lnd ifit pany acquired Centel Communications lie liked i~ if Systems, one of the nation's largest cus­ ,uld employ tomer-premise equipment distributors.

MSM ALUMNUS 7 COMMUNICHTIONS I

Sl as fad cent a' THE technol COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY COMES OF AGE phones basedc vi~ona technol first fore of tele telepho compa! vast we - 50'( ways 0 deliver, to your cellula! pocket· t's 8: 15 a.m. on a Monday - time for your regular cations, where. weekly staff meeting. But you're on a business trip, so nehvorl magnet instead of rising early for the usual 30-minute commute to \villma~ in touch the office, you log on to the information highway from your push·bl ofcomr hotel room. Laptop on knees, you confer with a global Pony E: "Vi project team: a software designer in Malaysia, an engineer o the a ~ Mario A in Silicon Valley, and your boss at the home office in New presider ness de' York City. Your colleagues appear on a screen split into MOrristc Pac quarters, with the screen in the bottom right-hand corner the field say this ( left blank for the transmission of video and data. A tion cou dUring l miniature camera attached to the top of your screen allows maticalil telepho; your co-workers to see you as well. Across thousands of changed "We're miles, everyone smiles and greets each other, then gets revolutic cations i down to business. We saw \ graph to says Ro! deputy ( Michigar miSSion. ingho By A ndrew Careaga, with interviews by Dick Hatfield, C arol Kiehl, m and Vide Jo hn Larson, Laura Powell and Marianne Ward 'Th

8 MSM ALUMN US - - "The last revolution took 100 years. This one will take only 20 to 30 years before we see broad-band (voice, data and video) capabilities in every home." RO NA LD G. CHOURA, EE'7 l, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY FOR THE MICH1 GAN PUBLIC SERV ICE COMM ISS IO N

Such a scenario may not be 100 years. This one will take only walk down the street, go to the put electronic high ways on the as far-fetched as it sounds. Re­ 20 to 30 years before we see shopping center or th e park or nati onal agenda, but no one N cent advances in information broad-band (voice, data and wherever. " knows yet how the federal gov­ AGE technology - from cellular tele­ video) capabilities in every ernment will interact with the phones and radio pagers to pen­ home." phone and cable busi nesses, based computers, interactive tele­ No one knows yet just how Obstacles to overcome which already are well on their vision and video teleconferencing the changes will affect society, Several economic and regu­ way to putting the infrastructure technologies - are merely the but alm ost everyone has some latory obstacles must be over­ in place. Choura and his col­ first forays into a brave new world kind of vision for a future in which come before these dreams be­ league at the Missouri Public of telecommunications. Now, telecommunications lin ks the come reality. Having th e most at Service Commission, Pa ul telephone and television cable world. Some foresee a world stake are th e $65-billion-a-year Peterson, CE'73, envision th e companies are hustling to build a where consumers use their TV telephone industry and th e $20- Federal Communications Com­ vast web of electronic networks remote controls to browse billion-a-year cable TV busin ess. mission and the state PSCs as - so-called information high­ through movie libraries, earn a Just as the Central Pacific playing the role of "referee" to ways of glass fiber - that will degree, conference with distant and Union Pacific railroads raced oversee "managed competition" deliver an abundance of services friends and relatives, buy grocer­ to complete the transcontinental and ensure consumers get a fair to your home or office, and the ies or consult with their physi­ railroad over a century ago, th e deal on their information ser­ cellular industry is creatin g cians, who once again will make phone and cable industries are vices. "The goal of poli cy mak­ pocket-size personal communi­ house calls, albeit electronically. working feverishly to build the ers," says Choura, "is to open it Jlar cations devices you can take any­ Others visualize a fully global data network of the future. "Both up to regulated competition, so where. The forthcoming global business world where manufac­ industries are nervous that th e that th e customers have a choice network of wires, cable, electro­ turers and their suppliers use th e other is going to get there first, " of provider. " magnetic waves and electronics networks to collaborate on prod­ says Choura, adding that "the te to will make it easier than ever to be uct development, replace busi­ role of policy makers is to make in touch - and could make your ness trips with video teleconfer­ sure that both arrive there at the Dances with elephants 1 your push-button telephone a mode ences and allow highly mobile same ti me. " The fu ture wi ll see a merg­ of communication as obsolete as employees to be more produc­ Fiber optic cable is the ulti­ ing of phone and cable opera­ Pony Express. tive wh il e on the road or at home. mate delivery system for a seam­ tions, predicts Gary D. Forsee, "We have definitely come "Four years from now, we could less, universal broadband com­ CE'72, senior vice president of neer to the age of Th e Jetsans," says do a lot of things from our home munications system to the home staff operations for Sprint Corp. Mario A. Padilla, MetE '60, vice without necessarily having to go and office, because glass fiber of Kansas City, Mo. Predicting president of new markets busi­ to the office or to the classroom," has a far greater capacity for car­ how the two industries will mesh :Jew ness development fo r AT&T in says Padilla . "you could go to ryin g information than copper over tim e is "like dancing with Morristown, N.J. four years of college at home, wire or coaxial cable. For in ­ elephants," says Forsee. But al­ to Padilla and other alumni in just by interfacing with a com­ stance, copper wire th at is 3 114 ready, cable companies are get­ the field of telecommunications puter. " in ches in diameter can carry ap­ ting into the phone companies 'ner say this communications revolu­ No doubt the world of com­ proximately 1,300 telephone business and vice versa. tion could affect our way of life munications is going topsy-turvy. conversations, and coaxial cable "Today they (cable compa­ during the next century as dra­ "There is an expression, 'That with a 3/4-inch diameter can carry nies) provide pipeline-type maticall y as interstate highways, which has been wired (telephones 78 video channels. A 1I2-inch broadcast services" of laying fi­ tHows telephones and television have and computers) will become wire­ bundle of fiber, however, is ca­ ber, says Robert H. Glaser, changed society in this century. less, and that which has been pable of handling 500,000 phone EE '61 , executive vice president of "We 're going through a major wireless (television) will become conversations or 5,000 video of operations for Southwestern revolution in the telecommuni­ wired, '" says David S. Wisherd, channels. And with the help of Bell in SI. Louis. "But in the next cations industry, similar to what EE '69, co-founder of Spectrian, dawning technologies like asyn­ th ree to five years, they will be ts we saw when we went from tele­ a Mountain View, Calif. -based chronous transfer mode (ATM ) providing local telephone services graph to voice" in the late 1800s, manufacturer of power ampli fi­ - a transport protocol that al­ through their cable systems. " says Ronald G. Choura, EE '71, ca ti on products for the cellular lows telecommunicati ons users Meanwhile, phone compa­ deputy director of policy for th e industry. "Certainly telephones to have interactive access to data, nies are moving into the cable Michigan Public Service Com­ will become more and more wire­ voice and video services at ex­ arena, even though they are mission. "Only now we're mov­ less. We'll have more cordless tremely high speeds - the same barred from running cable busi­ ing from voice to high-speed data phones - call ed personal com­ fibe r bundle will carry 32 mill ion nesses in their specific service and video transmission. munications systems - that you conversations. areas. One Bell company recently "The last revolution took can use in your house or as you President Bill Clinton has got around that regulation by

MSM AL UMN US 9 "There is an expression, 'That which has been wired (telephones and computers) will become wireless, and that which has been wireless (television) will become wired.'" I D AVID S. WISHERD , EE'69, CO-FOUl DER OF SPECTRI AN, A MANUFACTURER OF AMPLIFICATION PROD UCTS FOR CELLULAR INDUSTRY

purchasing two cable franchises try, a country like Mexico could though. There are 50 phones Sprint Corp., which recently an­ lor upgr. out of its phone service domain. be more up-to-date and have a for every 100 people in the nounced plans for a joint ven­ lechnolc From a technological sta nd­ more modern telecommunica­ United States, according to ture in Bulgaria, are neverthe­ and del point, this blurring of bound­ ti ons infrastructure 10 years McH enry. And most nations in less moving forward in their Specbia aries between the cable TV and from now than we have," Glaser Western Europe have compa­ plans to globalize telecommuni­ we'U see telephone businesses is a logical says. " It's hard to believe, but I rable figures. But " as you get cations. According to news re­ tions in step. "From a technology point think it's possible." into countries that you think of ports, Sprint's venture will en­ previoUS of view, it doesn 't make a lot of S. Dale McHenry, ChE'8 1, as relatively advanced, it's sur­ able customers in Bulgaria to the local sense for your telephone and division manager of AT& T Data prising how low the phone pen­ use modern equipment to send bution 0 your cable TV lines to be sepa­ Communications Services, be­ etration is, " he says. "Spain is at computer data within the coun­ will prot rate," says William Tranter, lieves th at "market needs and 28 per 100, Mexico is at 10 per try and between Bulgaria and cause it i Schlumberger Professor of elec­ tec hnology trends are going to 100, and the entire continent of other countries. Sprint has been than pul trical engineering at UMR and drive the marketplace. Regula­ South America has less than 10 trying to upgrade data commu­ duoughl editor-in-chief of the Institute of tion may try to impede thiS, but per 100 .... Eastern Europe and nications in some East Euro­ andold! Elech'ical and Elech'onics Engi­ I don't think it will ever stop or the whole former communist pean countries for several years, em Euro neers' Journal of Selected A r­ control it. " bloc is extremely low," and and according to Forsee the re­ eas in Communications. T he McH enry adds that th e average cent political changes in Eastern more complex issues, Tranter Russian still must wait 35 years Europe present " an immense HasteniJ says, have to do with how the 35 yea rs for a phone? for a telephone. opportunity ... for Sprint to be­ The government sets the rules for a Don' t think the United Such circumstances im­ com e a global communications advance. network that will be controlled States is ata disadvantage in the pede development of a global player. " lechnolt by many companies. telecommunications industry, network. But companies like Cellular technology is ideal globaliza Some in the telecommuni­ is going t, cations industry believe the ~verorn United States is lagging behind dara anl its trading partners in develop­ Me rvin J. Kelly: around tl ing an information system. T hey western fear that too much government A Communications Pioneer innovatic regulation will stifle technologi­ pacl on I cal advancement and reduce turedanc One of the early pio­ Gifford and Sir G. Evelyn P. Murray. secretary of the U.S. competitiveness in the glo­ neers of global telecommuni­ British post office, greeted each other on the first operatior bal marketplace. cations was Mervin J. Kelly, radiophone message sent across the Atlantic Ocean. -For " If anything holds back the Sci '14, whose research led to The success of Kelly 's research prompted the develop­ find a bl( developm ent of technology, " th e firs t success ful trans-At­ ment of other devices to further communication tech­ United SI says Glaser, "it will be the diffi­ lantic phone ca ll. nology, such as photoelectric cells, vacuum thermo­ ficeopera cult regulatory and political Kelly, whose career with Bell Laboratoriesspanned couples and ballast lamps. it's still c problems that the industry faces 34 years, was a firm believer in the virtue of basic Before and dUling the onset of World War II, Kelly research . He called it " the foundation on which all became involved in the development of another break­ thetransr as it makes this transition from technological advances res t" and concluded that "in­ through in communications technology: the radar sys­ benveen what was a regulated monopoly dustrial progress is based on the results of basic re­ tem. The federal government had commissioned Bell Glaser sa (before the 1984 breakup of search . " Labs to research and produce radar systems, and Butl AT& T ) to a much more com­ After earning his bachelor's degree from MSM, Kelly's involvement in th e research earned him the ness exec Kelly joined the faculty at th e University of Kentucky, Presiden ti al Certificate of Merit in 1947. petitive, no-en try-barrier type Use their of industry." Glaser is concern ed where he earned his mas ter's degree. From there he Kelly became president of Bell Labs in 195 1 and dial a call that the United States could even moved on to Chicago Un iversity, where he earn ed a held that position until he retired in 1959. He received Ph .D. in physics. Kelly then joined Western Electric Co. th e Hoover Medal in 1961 for distinguished public and hold f be overtaken by less developed as a research physicist and b'ansfelTed to AT&T Bell service, and in 1970 UMR presented him with the lerencesl nations such as Mexico, where Laboratories in 1925, when Western Electric was merged Centennial Medal of Honor. ~bly belo th e government-owned tele­ into the Bell Systems. After retirement, Kelly served as a research and lUry, predi phone company has been sold Kelly spent his earl y years at Bell Labs developing technological consultant to such developing compan ies -\\'itl to private investors, including vacuum tubes to facil itate trans-oceanic radio tele- as IBM, Ingersoll-Rand and Bausch and Lomb. He died seven Yea Southwestern Bell. Phone service. He described th e work as "one of th e March 18. 197 1, in Port Saint LUcie, Fla., at age 77. OUr desks "There is a lot of coopera­ toughes t problems " he' d ever encountered. But finally, on Jan. 7. 1927. Kelly's diligence paid - By Nita Graham, Hist'92. Ms. Graham is an Conleren tion from th eir government, and off. Thanks to Kelly's refin ement of the th ermionic assistant archivist at UMR. thanks to if we don't solve some of our vacuum amplifyi ng tube, AT& T President Walter S. regulatory problems in this coun- now beir l asynchror 10 MSM ALUMNUS "The cellular telephone has grown in popularity way beyond our wildest imaginations of 10 years ago," JSTRY WILLIAM TR AN TER, SCHLUMB ERGER PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL ENG INEERING AT UMR entlyan_ for upgrading communica tions ATM, says Roy Wilkens, EE '66, ing that the three largest U.S. But cost is o nly one factor )int ven­ technologies in Eastern Europe president of WilTel, a Tulsa­ markets - New York, C hicago to consider w hen determining leverthe_ and developing nations, says based telecommunicati o ns and Los Angeles - are expected whether video teleconferencing in their Spectrian 's W isherd_ " I think company. to reach the limits of th eir ca­ makes good business sense. )mmuni­ we'll see a lot of p hone installa­ But one obstacle to video pacity this year. To remedy that According to AT& T's McHenry, news re­ tions in countries that weren 't teleconferencing, "movies on problem , Wisherd adds, " we're the technology must accommo­ ! will en­ previously wired," he says, " and demand" and other business seeing is a lot of emphasis on date the corporate culture. Jgaria to the local loop - the local distri­ and consumer applications is technology for compression of " Everyon e ta lks abo ut .tto send bution of telephone service - th at phone conversations, video information. " video teleconferencing as the hecoun­ will probably be wireless, be­ images and computer data files The current conversion to next big wave, but we haven 't aria and ca use it is much less expensive require three widely different digital cellular systems will offer got th e human dynamics of a has been than pulling fiber and copper band widths. In computer talk, more than three times the call meeting built into the network commu­ through the cobblestone streets for instance , a voice conversa­ ca pacity o f current sys tem s, yet," McHenry says. " One of st Euro­ and old stone buildings of East­ tion is 56,000 binary bits of Wisherd says. H e adds that fu­ the reasons the video telecon­ ralyears, ern Europe. " information per second, the pic­ ture improvem ents in technol­ ferencing market is not taking ~e the re- ture on a home television set is ogy - such as broadband am ­ off is because you can't do those 1 Eastem an un compressed 90 million per plification, which will allow kinds of 'dysfunctional' things mmense Hastening globalization second, and data files fall in a multiple channels to be ampli­ you like to do during a meeting, intto be­ There is little doubt that widely variable stream in be­ fied and delivered to the an­ like have a w hispering conver­ nications advances in communications tween. AT M adjusts the band tenna together, and the advent sation with your neighbor or technology will h asten the width required for the specific of microcell transmitters, which pass notes ." In addition, video JYisideal globalization of economies. "It applica tion and prom ises to will offer shorter range at lower teleconferencing can stifle inter­ is going to become so inexpen­ transmit voice, video and data power and a lower cost - will action and inhibit the body lan­ sive to m ove large quantities of with equal ease. It is " an ex­ result in as much as a tenfold guage we are accustom ed to data anywhere you want to tremely fast, accurate switching increase in call capacity. It also seeing during a meeting. around the world," says South­ architecture that will allow you could lead to video teleconfer­ McHenry says researchers western B ell 's Glaser. Future to get band width that is re­ encing over the airwaves_ AT& T's Bell L abs have been innovations "will have an im­ quired for the application, be it looking into ways to add the pact on how business is struc­ a voice conversation or a 500- human touch to video telecon­ tured and how various business megabit CA D-CAM full-notion Not ready for prime time? ferencing. Yof the operations are run," he says. video application," says South­ But is the business world the firll " For example, you may western Bell's Glaser. ready for conducting meetings Ocean. find a brokerage house (in the Developing cellular tec h­ by interactive TV? The cable explosion !evelop­ United States) with its back of­ nologies for transmitting mas­ The price is certainly right The rewiring of America )n tech­ fice operation in Singapore, and for a lot of firms. "Four years will do more than change the thenno- sive am ounts of data may be it's still cost-effective because difficult because of the rapid ago," saysAT& T's Padilla, " you way we conduct business. It ll.Kelly th e transmission cost is so cheap growth of cellular products - could spend $100,000 or so could turn America 's television rbreak­ between those two locations," and the limited am ount of band (on v ideo teleconferencing sets into virtual shopping malis, darSYs­ Glaser says. width allocated to their use. equipment) and it would oc­ doctor's offices or movie th e­ led Bell But how soon before busi­ "The cellular telephone has cupy as much as a small room. aters. ns, and ness executives will be able to grown in popularity way be­ And the costs of the transm is­ With interactive capabili­ him the use their laptop computers to yond our wildest imaginations sion of that video signal would ties, the television will become dial a call from the back of a cab of 10 years ago," says UMR's require almost a vice president's more like a computer, and the 151 and and hold face-to-face video con­ approval. remote control more like a 'eceived Tranter. More than 10 million j public ferences with their offices? Pos­ Americans now own cellular " But that same equipmen t mouse which view ers may use llith the Sibly before the end of this cen­ phones. " Worldwide there are today would fit into a supermar­ to select from various menus of tury, predict some of our al umni. about 20 million (subscribers) ket shopping cart and cost about entertainment, information or Jch and " Within the next five to right now, projected to grow to $20,000, and the cost per hour interacti ve diversions. npanie5 seven years, a lot of th e PCs on about a quarter of a billion by is about $60 for transmission. It is not yet known just how ed Hedi our desks will have video tele­ the end of this decade, " says This gives you the opportunity widely consumers might use j€77. conferen cing capabilities," Spectrian's Wisherd. to conduct video teleconferenc­ such services as " movies on thanks to a computer dialect The frequencies allotted to ing without having to incur the demand," but one thing is cer­ now being developed called the cellular industry " are very expense of air travel. " tain about the future of televi- asynchronous transfer mode, or crowded, " Wisherd says, not-

MSM AL U M NUS 11 COMMUNICRTIONS Classrooms give way to sion: th e impending expansion global network of wires, radio multimedia, satellite learning Aeee of cable, through th e industry 's waves and electronics to put move to fib er optics and com­ people in contact across the pressed digital technology , will globe. They may eventuall y re­ give viewers more to choose place the home telephone num­ from. ber with a personal telephone While some may worry that number. J,""He< W,· first campuses to offer courses cation I th e increase in the number of Stephe n J . Brendle, ber,W BSEE'87," decided to pur- through NTU , boasts one of cludes channels may do little to im ­ ME '69, was among the early sue her master's degree in th e first converts to this novel sound; prove the quality of program­ entries into the PCS game. engineering management, she teaching technique: Madison video f, ming (imagine 500 channels of Brendle heads Embarc, didn't have to put her career M. Daily, an associate profes­ \\~th co little more than info -m ercials and Motorola's new wireless e-mail on hold. Weber, a standards sor of engineering manage­ M, reruns of "Gilligan's Island"), network. Embarc, which was engineer with Harris Corp., ment. Daily, ranked as one of of the l EugeneD. Jackson, EE '67, sees in troduced last November, uses located in Quincy, 111. , is NTU 's top 10 instructors for multiml TV as a tool for broadening this satellites and a radio receiver studying via satellite. 1992, incorporates a high­ Some ( nati on's access to cultural diver­ call ed NewsStream to let travel­ "I've completed five tech multimedia approach in sity. ing executives and salespeople courses toward my master's" his courses to help students neering "Ethnic programming, ca­ get page-length messages and through National T echnologi­ learn and have fun at the agemer reer programming, women's computer files on their portable cal University, says Weber. same time. "You've got to usemu programming, any kind of genre computers- without ever dash­ NTU, a kind of university keep their attention," he says. UMRtc programming will be available ing to a phone. without walls, offers courses Multimedia is nothing courses on national television," says by satellite through a consor­ new to Daily, who has been Jackson, chairman of Unity ti um of campuses that in­ beaming his multimedia "lec­ UMRb Broadcasting and the World "The neatest job in Motorola" cludes UMR. tures" to students nationwide, - assis African Network, a cable pre­ These are just a few of th e Weber is the first em­ and employing the technology Flori Jr. mium channel scheduled to go innovations being developed in ployee of Harris Corp., a in classes on campus, since David E on the air in 40 U.S. cities in the wide-open field of telecom­ maker of radio and TV broad­ 1990. He makes full use of MaryA June 1994. munications. Expect to see hun­ cast transmitters and anten­ the technology, delivering his ingwith dreds of new products and ser­ nas, to work on a graduate NTU courses on fin ance in of the S vices as engineers continue to degree through NTU. "Be­ front of computer-generated Going wireless make breakthro ughs in their to deve cause of my work location it images in the same manner a ware th The telephone industry's quest to make information more would be almost impossible meteorologist explains the push to rewire th e nation doesn't readily ava il able and accessible. to-gras~ for me to further my educa­ weather with a map in the to studE mean it is ignoring the potential These are heady times for background. (To students in tion any other way," she says. EngineE of cell ul ar communications. the telecommunications in dus­ More and more students the classroom, Daily lectures sofilvan Witness AT&T's recent pur­ try. For Brendle and other al ­ like Weber - generally older, in front of a bright blue wall, EngineE chase of a 30 percent share of ums, it is indeed the best of "non-traditional" students but on th e classroom's video next fall McCaw Communications, the times. For they are leading a who hold full-time jobs - are monitors - and on TVs in perimer nation's largest provider of cel­ technological revolution th at will using telecommunicati ons to companies throughout the classes t lular communications systems. transform our world in ways we pursue their master's degrees. nation - the computerized "ThesR Or Southwestern Bell 's recent cannot even begin to imagine. And universities li ke UMR are images are "chromakeyed" ceptive unve il ing of its all-reaching "Every once in a while. using some of the technology behind Dail y.) Daily also in ­ aged us Freedomlink, a cellular "pocket some of myoId associates will being used to teach long-dis­ corporates sound, music and prOject,' phone" that goes anywhere you say, 'Man , you've got to have tance to improve education in a good dose of humor to get go. The device is one of th e first the neatest job in Motorola, ", th e classroom. his point across. - 1 of what industry watchers ex­ says Brendle. "Every once in a One of those teaching "The metamorphosis neers, J. pect to be many personal com­ while I have to sit back and say, techniques being used effec­ from chalk to multimedia be­ Clark R. munications services, or PCS's. 'Well , maybe I do. ", • tively on campus as well as via gan about 10 years ago with ing a po PCS's will employ an elaborate satellite is multimedia, the the advent of the videodisc," intelliger combination of computer, says Daily. Nowadays, multi­ students audio and video technology. media describes the explosive Working UMR , wh ich was one of th e growth in high -tech communi- ("Blackt future,"

12 MSM A LUMNUS ,} ME:D ORPHOSIS According to professor Shari Dunn-Norman, "It just simply makes teaching a lot more fun . "

courses cation technology that in­ --Shari Dunn-Norman, from th e lectern, including says he spends 30 hours in me of cludes personal computer an assistant professor of petro­ videocassette recorders, audio preparation for every hour in s novel sound add-ons, graphic and leum engineering, is develop­ equipment, a laserdisc system the classroom. But to teach adison video features, and integration ing a multimedia system to and the computer hardware th e same course later, little profes- with compact discs. help show the underground and software that brings all of preparation time is required, 1age- More and more members workings of o il and gas wells. th e systems together. From he says. , one of of the UMR faculty are using "1 need something which the lectern, instructors can run The payoff for the long lrs for multimedia as a teaching aid. demonstrates the visual im ­ preprogrammed presentations hours of prep time comes in ligh­ Some examples: pact of how well -comple tion on various subjects, and stu­ student satisfaction. "More I(lch in -Both the basic engi­ equipment is operated and dents in the classrooms can than 80 percent of the stu­ dents neering and engineering man­ serviced in an oil well," Dunn­ respond to questions using dents prefer the multimedia the agement departments now Norman says. "My efforts in­ keypads; their answers appear environment to a normal liiO use multimedia classrooms at volve trying to animate the on a screen at the lectern. classroom," Daily says. And ne says_ UMR to teach a variety of sucker-rod pump (a pump The heart of the IMMC instructors in these classrooms hing courses. used to lift oil and water to the multimedia center is an IBM find they can cover more ma­ , been - Three members of the surface of oil wells) and pro­ Mod 95, which has 16 mega­ terial in less time while in­ ia -Iec­ UMR basic engineering faculty vide pictures of different types bytes of random access creasing their interaction with Dnl'.~de. - assistant professor Ralph E. of pumps through the multi­ memory, a 400-megabyte students. hnology Flori Jr. , associate professor media process. It would take a hard drive, a CD ROM and For remote students like since David B. Oglesby and lecturer lot less time to show students read/write optical. "In other Weber, the payoff is the ability se of Mary Ann Koen - are work­ how the pump systems work words," Daily says, "It has a to go to class at a convenient ring his ing with Robert L. Davis, dean through multimedia, and it just lot of power. But it takes a lot time. "NTU often tapes and ce in of the School of Engineering, simply makes teaching a lot of power to operate multime­ sends the courses to me be­ erated to develop instructional soft­ more fun. " dia. " cause the classes are some­ mnera ware that will illustrate hard­ Multimedia first came to Daily hammers out his times broadcast over NTU at , the to-grasp engineering concepts UMR after Daily spent a year lesson plans on an times when I simply cannot the to students in the Freshman with IBM to learn how to de­ "instructor's workbench," watch them because of my mtsin Engineering Program. The velop and design UMR 's two which consists of three com­ job," she says. "And because software, which will be used in multimedia classrooms - the puters, a complete audio sys­ my job is the No. 1 priority, ~ctures ewall, Engineering DynamiCS classes Advanced Technology Class­ tem, a video "toaster" for en­ most of the professors are ; video next fall , was used on an ex­ room (A TC), unveiled in hancing images and a very understanding about perimental basis in some 1990, and the newer, smaller digitizing camera to quickly this . ., vs in classes this spring, Davis says. Interactive Multimedia Class­ capture im ages to use in les­ Computers in the class­ I the "The students were very re­ room (lMMCl, which sin ce sons. room, as well as coursework ~rized ceptive to it, and that encour­ 1991 has been used to teach Multimedia "holds con­ by satellite, aren't likely to ~yed" aged us to pursue the all NTU courses. The IMMC is siderable promise to enhance vanish from the higher educa­ ~in­ project," Davis says. linked to the ATC by fiber quality of learning and the tion scene, Daily says. sic and - Two mechanical engi­ optic cable - an arrangement productivity of th e faculty "This technology has to get neers, J. Keith Nisbett and that allows for the two-way members," says Davis. But definitely replaced chalk and Clark R. Barker, are develop­ transmission of sound, images one drawback, according to blackboards with computers, osis ing a portable "kinematically and other information. Daily, is the time involved in cameras and television moni­ dia be- intelligent blackboard" to help Both classrooms were preparing lessons for the first tors," Daily says. "It most cer­ iO with students better understand the outfitted by IBM and designed go-round of a multimedia tainly will make education odisc,- workings of mechanisms to put technology at instruc­ course. more far-reaching. " • multi­ ("Blackboards go back to the tors ' fingertips. Instructors can For the first presentation ve xplosi future," February 1993). control a variety of equipment of a multimedia course, Daily By Dick Hatfield lmmuni-

MSM ALUMNUS 13 ~nterviewlE Radio stations, a cellular phone company, and a new cable television network are just a few of the ventures • keeping communications entrepreneur I • Eugene Jackson, EE'67, busy.

In 1968, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King sent shock waves through the streets of the nation. In Kansas City, Eugene Jackson 's world turned into turmoil. While he worked to keep peace on that April day and the days that followed, out of the chaos emerged a new direction in his own life. ft was then that Jackson knew he was destined to become a "social engineer. " Part of that destiny would include building a communications empire that began with the first radio/news network designed especially for African-Americans and now includes the first cable IV network devoted to African-American • issues, the World African Network. "Dr. King's death had a very profound effect on my perception of tomorrow. While I was in the streets I made the decision that I was going to leave my job as an electrical engineer and go to work 'finding solutions. '" It was, in part, his UMR education that helped him find the solutions and build his future. In a recent interview with UMR director of development Laura Powell, Jackson shared these thoughts about his life.

MS M ALUMNUS 15 The Jackson File

Eugene D. Jackson Univer Born: Waukomis, Okla. ; grew up in were working the streets, although least II Kansas City, Mo. Colgate paid me. I was trying to keep he turr Education: B.S., Electrical Engineering, things together. yo u do 1967, UMR; M.S. , Business, 1971, propos Columbia University Q: Did they support you doing that about i then? took ar raise th Business Activities A: Basically they supported me. We the net worked very substantially trying to keep Unity Broadcasting Network (UBN) things cool. The experience had a very Q: He Chairman & President profound effect on my perception of to­ itmu5 UBN owns WDAS-AM/FM, two of the lead­ morrow; while I was in the streets I made ing radio stations in Philadelphia, the fourth the decision to leave Colgate and go to A: We largest market in the country. work in an area that would be toward 'finding solutions. ' I found that my educa­ no COlli Queens Inner Unity Cable Systems tion at Rolla provided me with a sense of entrepr (QUICS) comfort when facing challenging situations the rn a] Vice Chairman or problem solving. When you have to involve QUICS, a joint venture of Unity Cable, solve 20 or 30 problems a night intellectu­ ness pe Inner City Broadcasting and Warner Com­ ally for 4 or 5 years you get pretty tired, but inio munications, is a $63 million cable television but pretty conversant, on how to prepare going tl system in the Borough of Queens, NY, and Q: When you went to UMR you and analyze things. It is that kind of prepa­ serves more than 180,000 homes. were one of just 19 African-Ameri­ ration I received. So I just transferred my Q: Wh, cans on campus, what was the at­ training--one was, if you will , technical World African Network (WAN) mosphere like? engineering and one was social engineer­ A: One President ing. announ WAN, a division of Unity Broadcasting Net­ A: I think campus life provided an oppor­ Three months after the riot I was out Mutual work, will establish positive programming tunity for us to have dialogue and dis­ of Colgate and on to New York City idea thi about African people worldwide. Initially course with the total community. It was working for The Black Economic Union. The ba l WAN has developed: Miss Collegiate African within the campus that we felt very com­ (MBS ) 1 American Pageant; Step Out Championship fortable. Those were heavy times in terms Q : After the Black Economic put you (celebrates African American college tj'adition of race relations and I think that things Union you worked for the Interra­ we had of boot dancing); and Miss African World have substantially improved from what I cial Council for Business Opportu­ in Marc (highlights college women of African de­ understand, which is great. I th ink there nity and then the Urban League in nationa scent). was kind of a protective cocoon aspect to Harlem. How did you move from It v

being on the campus. Being away from an there to president of the National for Our 1 Universal Sun Development Company urban centered school, you could really Black Network? through President concentrate and didn 't have as many dis­ In Six w In 1985, Universal Sun Development Com­ tractions as living in a major city. I think A: Essentially it (the National Black Net­ and ask pany began managing 200 units of housing in those special little oases are excellent work) was a company founded because which \\ Miami. Their re habilitation has established learning environments. You get so much the former president of ABC radio net­ they got them as a model community. more when you can get intimate with work, Robert Pauley, had gone to work they we people rather than seeing them from a for Mutual Broadcasting Network and money. African Memorial distance and I think that is what Rolla re­ tried to convince th em to do a "black net­ wonderl Directeur General-African m emorial a ll y meant to me. work," which was a nationwide radio net­ vive We Jackson serves as directe ur general of the work providing news and information that months African Memorial's developme nt on the Isle Q: What was your career path would be directed at the African-Ameri­ us the a de Goree in Dakar, Se negal. once you graduated? cans, or Blacks a th e tim e, on radio sta­ tions around the country. Q:HOI Happyland/Happyworld A: In '67 I was recruited in Kansas City He (Pauley) came to us (The Interra­ them? Director of Operations, Board Member by Colgate-Palmolive. I worked for them cial Council) to help him organize the new HappylandlHappyworid is a 20,000-acre until Dr. King was killed. At th e tim e of company and raise the money. I said if he A: Agul pla nned international resolilentertainment Dr. Kin g's death, I was called upon by th e would name an African-American to the Bessem; complex located in Nige ri a. It will be the first community to get in volved with helping to presidency (of th e network), then we same ad major project of its type on the continent of calm the streets. For a bout two weeks would help him raise th e money and pull place Wi Afri ca. The United Nations is presently con­ after Dr. Kin g's death I was not reall y offi­ th e capital together, which I did. It took a He said ductin g a study of its impact a nd future. ciall y workin g for Colgate-Palmolive. We year. As a result, one day at the Harvard adverosi ~nterview

University Club, after I had presented at porter. We had support fro m Colgate­ ~ep least 10 candidates (for th e presidency) , "I said, 'Charlie, out of all the Palmolive because I went to myoid boss he turned to me and said, "Why don't (the late Ro bert Ehrlich '43 BS ChE) in you do it?" Well, since I'd written the things you said, what, in fact, is Ka nsas C ity who had since become presi­ 19 that proposal and business plan it took me dent of the company and he was also a about an hour to decide I would do it. It the most strategic opportunity? ' Ro ll a graduate. took a nother year before we were able to .. .and he said, The radio­ Ve raise the million dollars needed to start up Q : As president of the National keep the network. cellular telephone business. ' I Black N etwork , a subsidiary of very said, That 's interesting. ,,, Unity Broadcasting Network, what ofto· Q: How did you do that? I know did you do? I made it must have been very difficult. it more seriously. Feeling th at everyone ~o to A: I spe nt a significant portion of my time would say no and feeling th at th ere was a ard A: Well it was very difficult since we had selling advertising ... really selling th e Afri· need to possibly hedge my bets, I went to educa· no collateraL Having worked as a minority can-American market to the national ad­ the market place and told them we mseof entrepreneur consultant, I knew most of vertisers who at that time had no sensitiv· needed $600,000 in adverti sing. Lo and tuations the major companies and banks that were ity to th e market place. It was very difficult behold within 6 months we had $573,000 Ie to involved in aiding African-American busi­ to sell a nd I tried to provide a very scien­ in advertising. That confirmed to our in ­ tellectu· ness people at th e tim e. I went to them tific approach by putting everything on vestors that indeed this was a good idea. tired, but initially they had decided they weren't computers and by providing them with And so from that point forward Mr. Jrepare going to provide the necessary capitaL computeri zed presentations, which they Brownstein was able to pull togeth er the )f prepa· had never seen before, let alone fro m Af· investment group composed of Citibank 'ed my Q : What changed their minds? rican-Americans. I had assembled census of New York, Rothschild, Unteberg Tobin, mical data and marketing research data and Chase Manhattan Bank and Manufactur· .gineer· A: One day Mutual Broadcasting Systems presented it in a nice little package and ers Hanover here in New York, and Bank announced they were going to start this they bought it. of America. Alas out Mutual Black Network, which was our idea that had been introduced before. Q: In 1975, you became a m ember ity Q: How long did it take to get the )nion. The bankers in California decided 'If they of the board of directors of the Na­ cash and get on the air as the Na­ (MBS) want to do it, maybe we ought to tional Association of Broadcasters tional Black Network? put you guys in th e race.' The next day (NAB). What role did that play in we had $ 100,000 and went marching off your building a communications terra· A: We ended up with o ur million dollars portu· in March of 1972 to try to develop this empire? national black radio network. about six months later. On July 2nd of gue in 1973 we went on th e air with 22 affiliates It was a kind of pioneering initiati ve A: As a result of being o n that board, I fro m for our community and a recent break­ around the country. 'ionof developed great industry contacts and through for th e radio networking business. convin ced industry leaders that it was ap­ Q: That is really impressive for a In six weeks, we went back to th e bank propriate to facilitate African-A merican start up. How did it go for the first and asked for the rest of the money, ownership of communicati ons properties k Net· couple of years? which was a million a nd a half dollars. But as an instrument to improve overall cui · ~cause they got cold feet and turned and said, no tural understanding and uplift withi n the ) net· A: In the first two or three years we were they weren't going to give us a ny more community. work summarily goin g down th e tu bes-we lost money. We were absolutely shocked and As a result of the support of NAB, we $2.5 million in the first two and a half and wondered how we could survive, but sur· were able to convince the FCC (Federal ack net· years and were about to go out of busi­ vive we did, and we spent th e next six Communicati ons Commission) to create dio net· ness, but we made a fina l push. We months trying to convince people to loan some changes in the tax structure and tion that pushed forward a nd upward a nd went us the other million doll ars. anyone who sold (a radio station) to an profitable in th e fourth year. And from \meri· Afri can-American would receive a ta x cer­ that point forward, it was profitabl e. lio sta· Q: How did you finally convince tificate. Also, those who had gotten in them? trouble with the FCC in terms of violation Q: Who were some of your first Interra· of various communicati ons laws, who had the new A: A guy named Neil Brownstein from advertisers-some of the people their li censes lifted, were able to sell their ;aid if he Bessemer Securities said, 'If you can get who supported your company? station rather than lose it all together; to the some advertising to prove that the market there was a "distress" amount and a "dis­ we place wants it, we'll loan you the mo ney. ' A: Sears was the largest commitment. An tress" policy on sales. Those two policies lnd pull He said to come back with $250,000 in African ·American hair products company t took a advertising and then they would consider called Johnson Products was also a sup· larvard

MSM ALUMNUS 17 Dnterview were generated while I was on the NAB We only had three months from Q:Ar board of directors. March 16 through June 2nd to prepare yOU d "It is almost always better to for the first round of the radio cellular tele­ ners j, Q: Did anyone take advantage of phone business. So those were heady work; these new policies? give someone the message they days. My board didn't want me to do it, want to hea r. " but I'm an entrepreneur. I saw the oppor­ A: Ibe A: Since I helped write the distress sale tunity and I went for the vision. We com­ had bc policy, I would consider myself woefully mitted th e money and th e resources owned lacking if I did not take advantage of the again st my board's wish es because I fe lt a pnva scenarios. I helped build the environment like it was absolutely important to do it. radio s· and was the first recipient of a distress sale (QIUCS). The Percy Suttons partnership We ended up on June 2 making ap­ ingAfri radio station in 1979 in Philadelphia, was designed to attempt to get part of the plication in five markets-Miami, Tampa, station! which is WDAS AM-FM , of which I am cable franch ising opportunities in New Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit. Then it ended still th e owner. York City. A year and a half later and became a requirement to show that you about $3 million later of both his and my could afford to indeed build those systems Q: Yo Q: When and why did you found money, we won the franchise that sur­ that took an estimated $120 million. Well yo ur I the National Association of Black rounds J ohn F. Kennedy Airport. I didn't have $120 million. In fact, I had Owned Broadcasters? We won that franchise in 1982 and no money. We were about to lose our A: In 1 in 1988 we did a joint venture with opportunity so I turned to a candidate produc A: In 1976, I decided there was a need to Warner Communications, in which we who would most likely do a joint venture at the ti organize the African-American broadcast would retain 50 percent and they would to save our appli cations. I discovered up chal Barry Yampo, who was chairman of the community. So I authored and founded get 50 percent. Putting up $63 million is divorce board of Graphic Scanning at the time. I The National Association of Black Owned what they did. That cable system now has gotinv( called him and said 'Look, I am going to Broadcasters (NABOB). NABOB is a posi­ over 180,000 subscribers. I might say it is Misse( lose my franchises and I think it would be tive lobby for creating the concept of in ­ doing quite well. and Th mutually beneficial for us to join forces creased African-American ownership and fratemil because we are competing in all th ese fi ve so from those platforms we built a series Q: It sounds like it. How did you compet markets. I knew at the time Graphic Scan­ of relationships that formulated change venture from there into the cellular are bot! ning had some credibility problems with and facilitated others and myself. phone business? the U.s th e FCC and was going to have great diffi­ At the time, out of the 8,000 radio that tak stations, only about 17 were owned by culty. So on the back of a napkin in A: One of the guests at a 1980 confer­ recent­ African-Americans. It now has members Teaneck, New Jersey, we structured our ence called Non Broadcast Opportunities System. of 200 African-American owned radio for Minorities in Telecommunications was relationship and we ended up with 30 stations and television stations in the percent of the applications in those five Charlie Brown, who at the time was chair­ Q: Tel country. We have had some 10 fold in­ cities. We joined together with the Wash ­ man of the board of AT&T. We had a Netwo crease in ownership. It 's not enough when very special relationship because I was, at ington Post and CelCom to build a system you think of the 10,000 or 12,000 com­ the tim e, his single largest African-Ameri­ in Detroit. When the joint venture was A: ltwil munications or broadcast properties in the can cl ient. I was spending over $1 million completed I had 10 percent of that. I had similart United States, but it certainly isn 't 17 any­ on telephone lines, so he knew me well. to come up with a million dollars and prOvide more. He made his comments at the conference once again was out of money. ucts, ale and when he left the stand I said, 'Charlie, In 1983-84 we ulti mately received docume Q : From radio station WDAS you out of all the things you said, what, in fact, the capital from EqUitable life-some next attempted to enter the Upper is the most strategic opportunity?' It was $850,000 dollars. We built the system, concert: 1994. Manhattan N ew York City cable 1980 and he said, 'The radio-cellular tele­ competed effectively and had our little 10 percent. Those same partners merged into t e levision market. When those ne ­ phone business. ' I said, 'That's interesting. the Detroit Cellular Phone Company. We gotiations failed, what did you do I know very little about that but thank you finally merged LanSing, Flint and Grand next? for the tip. ' Two years later the FCC authorized Rapids along with Toledo into Detroit and A: We , called it the Greater Michigan and Ohio system ( A: That o nl y set me to working that much the development of the radio-cell ular tele­ Cellular Telephone Company. Around harder in terms of trying to get involved in phone business and I got on th e phone at majorcil '87 we decided to sell to Pacific Telesis cable television. I ultimately joined forces 7:30 a. m. with myoid friend Charlie centrate, out in California, one of th e largest com­ with the then retired borough president of Brown and I asked him , 'Charlie, I'd like that this panies on the West Coast, for about $350 Manhattan and formed a company called to see you.' He said, 'I know what you people if million. And so it was a nice return for our Queens Inner Unity Cable Systems want. ' nily. An company. theAlric are not i

18 MSM ALUMNUS ~nterview 1m to create lasting change. That is one of my ~pare Q: And is this about the same time liar tele. you decided to buyout your part­ favorite areas of involvement. As a result ady ners in Unity Broadcasting Net­ "As a result of going to Rolla I of goin g to Rolla I consider problem-solv­ ing not a problem, but more a sense of do it, work? consider problem-solving not a opportunity. °ppor· 2 com. A: I began around 1987 and by 1989 I problem, but more a sense of op­ Q: What is your formula for busi­ ~ had bought all my partners out. By 1989 I portunity. " ness success? d felt owned 100 percent of the company; I was Joil. a private company. I ended up with two A: I first ascertain the philosophical under­ Ing ap· radio stations in Philadelphia- two lead­ also talking to Hollywood about selling us pinnings for which the particular activity is 'ampa, in g African-American oriented music radio stations-and the cable TV system I films that fit that genre. based on. From that reality, I formulate Then it ended up owning 20 percent of. policy statements, which ultimately result It you Q: Are market-segment, nation­ in a mission. From that mission statement, systems Q: You took a new direction in wide pay cable television channels I generate a series of goals, strategies and n. Well your life in 1990. What happened? the wave of the future? actions. I guess that is just about the way I had everythin g works and I learned it early our A: In 1990 I decided to go into television A: I think with the explosion of technol­ on-that is what was required to make my late production in Ho ll ywood. It was probably ogy there will be 500 channels of televi­ business successful. enrure at the time of my mid-life crisis. I ended sion available by 1997. Everyone in the ed up changing families, too, and getting a country will be able to know everyone's of the divorce and moving to California. There, I unique understanding of how they see time. I The future: got involved with two television specials, themselves and ethnic programming, ca­ ling to Miss Collegiate African-American Pageant reer programming, women 's program­ Jackson S accomplishments go )uld be and The Stomp Show, which is done by ming, any ki nd of a genre programming )rces fra ternities and sororities and is a dance will be available on national television. beyond the communications indus­ lese five competition for African-Americans. They And you will be able to subscribe to as try. He also is president of Univer­ ic Scan· are both syndicated in 70 markets around many as you want depending on what 5 with the U.S. and are very successful. And, your tastes are. It provides for great in ci­ sal Sun Development Company, eat diffi· that takes us to this point which is most sive diversity on things that you would not which manages 200 units of hous­ n recent- the World African Network Cable normally know about if it were not avail­ dour System. able on pay cable services. ing in Miami. The rehabilitation 130 ~ five Q: Tell us about the World African Q: Marketing and advertiSing, it program is serving as a model for Wash· Network Cable System. seems, are splintering and they other communities. He also is di ­ I system have to think about making their was A: It will be a 24-hour pay cable selvice media buy a lot more than they rector of operations for the pro­ I. I had similar to HBO and/or Discovery that will used to. What advantages will a nd provide television and theatrical film prod­ market-segment channel offer? posed 20,000-acre international re ­ ucts, along with television series a nd sort/entertainment complex, ~ived documentaries, news and information and A: Actually it is an opportunity to target Ime concerts. We are launching that in June specific markets rather than the shotgun Happyland/Happyworld. The com­ tem, 1994. approach in which you hope you will hit plex will be the fi rst major amuse­ little 10 someone. It is almost always better to give ged into Q : How are you marketing it? someone the message they want to hear. ment-type project on the African ny. We ,rand A: We are essentially talking to the cable Q : You have worked to make it continent. roit and system owners and telling them in the easier for African-Americans to Ohio major cities where they have highly con­ succeed in the communications in­ ound centrated African-Ameri can subscribers dustry. Why have you become so ~Iesis that this is an important channel for those involved in infrastructure building? tcom' people in the African-American commu­ VV OAL D AFRI C AN NETVVOAK ut $350 nity. And for those who are interested in A: Public policy, I think, is one of my The Window to Our World I for our the African-American community, which strengths. I have insight into the future in are not always African-Americans. We are terms of what kinds of things are needed Interview by Laura Powell Edited by Marianne Ward

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Video shows girls and boys that engineering is a woman's world, too A videotape designed to get more girls interested in engi­ neering was unveiled April 1 during a special session of the American Society for Engineering Education's Midwest Sec­ tion meeting held on campus. The video was no April Fool's joke. ASEE and UMR want to break the stereotype that engineering is a man's world, and they hope the videotape, titled "Women Shaping Technology in the 21st Century," will help . "We're trying to show girls and boys in grades 5 through 8 that women in engineering have fun , make money and lead fulfilling lives," says Nancy Hubing, an assistant profes­ sor of electrical engineering at UMR and one of three UMR Vernon and Maralee Jones Vernon Jones, CE'53, and faculty members who coordinated production of th e 14- with the plaque honoring his wife Maralee have estab­ minute videotape. Also involved were Robert Ybarra, a lec­ their professorship lished a $500,000 endowed turer of chemical engineering, and Mariesa Crow, an assis­ professorship in civil engineer­ tant professor of electrical engineering. ing at UMR. construction materials engi­ The fast-paced video features four female engin eers dis­ Jones, the former presi­ neering. cussing their careers and lifestyles. It was produced by Tom dent of The Williams Compa­ Jones, the former presi­ and Jan Shipley of Tarkio Productions and was funded pri­ nies Inc. of Tulsa, and his wife dent and chief executive offic­ marily through a $10,000 grant fro m Emerson Electric Co. established the professorship er of Explorer Pipe line Co. , UMR provided $1,500, and other campuses in the ASEE in partnership with The Will­ received a professional degree Midwest Section also contributed to th e effort. iams Companies, a natural­ in 1974 and an honorary doc­ A panel discussion on women's perspectives of engineer­ gas and telecommunications torate in 1987 fro m UMR. He ing followed the videotape's premier. Crow, one of four conglomerate. The Joneses also received an Al umni panelists, explained the video effort this way: "The whole contributed $250,000 to the Achievement Award from the point we are trying to make is that young women should professorship and The Will­ campus in 1972 and a Chan­ keep their options open. We don't want to shut any doors iams Companies provided cell or's Medal in 1983. too qUickly. By providing positive role models, we not only matchin g funds in recognition In addition, he chaired show young women that they can be engi neers, but we also of Jones' many significant UMR 's Development Council show young men that women can be successful engi neers." conti'ibutions to the company from 1979 to 1982 and is a The video's next showing will be at ASEE 's national con­ as president and director. member of th e UMR Acade­ ference in June at th e University of Illinois. The Vernon and Maralee my of Civil Engineers. He Jones Endowed Professorship supports the UMR civil engi­ Economically speaking... in Civil Engin eering will sup­ neerin g department by partici ­ UMR 's first economics conference for central Missouri port a distinguished professor pating in Project 2000, a de­ collegiate and high school students was hosted April 23 by in structural, environmental, velopment program preparing th e Center for Economics Education. Students met with fac­ Kese geotechnical , water resources, the department for the 21st ulty and economics profeSSionals, while high school and single cc transportation, constructi on or century. _ college facul ty held panel discussions on ways to stimulate handle I more interest in economics in high schools. of coal a basis. "T logs in P more co, ods, sud saysWil! Ding' jOint Car search PI and the { 20 MSM A LUMNUS 19ineers to

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Drallmeier is one of th ose professors placing more em ­ phasis on writing. Students in his Mechanical Engineering ~ngi­ Systems course are participat­ the ing in a joint pilot project be­ See- tween the mechanical engi­ neeling and English departments. In that class, Lar­ ry Vonalt, associate professor lping of English and one of two "writing consultants" to the lUgh mechanicaVaerospace/engi­ .d neering mechanics depart­ lfes­ ment, has students analyze MR memos written by engineers at the Three Mile Island, Pa., nu­ lee­ clear power plant sis- The memo writers were more concerned with technical problems than with pOinting dis­ :om out how failing to change pro­ cedures could affect plant op­ pri­ :0. erations, says Vonalt, and their .E poor communications did nothing to avert the meltdown that occuned 18 months after neer- the first memo. "They didn't understand Ie who their audience was," Von­ d alt says of th e memo wliters. )[$ "They were concerned with mly the technical aspects of the also problems and not the implica­ :::rs. 1' tions (the problems) had for con- the organization. " The writing center will make trained faculty and stu­ dent tutors available for any wliter on campus in need of a .ri sensitive, critical reader, says Kesearchers predict that a by writing classes, and last August writing programs already are in Cummins. "We have to get single coal log pipeline can I fae- the Oral Communications place and will be continued students to think about their handle 15 to 20 million tons Center was established in the during the coming academic audiences, " she says. " In my of coal a year on a continuous College of Arts and Sciences to year, says Elizabeth Cummins, English composition class I re­ basis. " The transport of coal help students improve their chair and associate professor o f quire my students to identify logs in pipelines will move speaking skills. Now adminis­ English. "Faculty in all disci­ an audience and to write for more coal than other meth­ trators are studying proposals plines are pushing students to that audience's needs. Some­ ods, such as trucks or trains, " to establish a Center for Writ­ do more writing," Cummins times they write memos and says Wilson. ing Technologies to help stu­ says. "We frequently receive letters because the classroom Ding's research is part of a dents improve their writing calls from faculty in other de­ essay doesn 't exist in the work joint Capsule Pipeline Re­ abilities. partments seeking help in how worl d. " • search project between UMR Although both the writing to assign and evaluate student - by Carol Kiehl and the UMC. • and the oral communications writing." AROUND CAMPUS -- JONES PROFE Eng ESTABLISHED "co dOVl

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UMI velopin ~ to hold sulfur c( Wyomil water p "We Make plans to join tenals II capabili coal pip requirer your classmates for Ding, a the mini Vernon Jones, CE'53, and partmer his w ife M aralee have estab­ Rese lished a $500,000 endowed Homecoming '93 tempera professorship in civil engineer­ grees Fe ing at UMR. logs, inj< Jo nes, the form er presi­ pipe anI dent of The William s Compa­ ratory tE nies Inc. of Tulsa, and his wife Pipeline established th e professorship the Uni\ in partnership with T he Will­ Columb iam s Companies , a natural­ Ding gas and telecommunications Odober 1-2, 1993 Missouri conglomerate. The Jo neses tomers r contributed $250,000 to the cheaper. professorship and T he Will­ ronment iams Companies provided getting I( matching funds in recognition Midwest of Jo nes ' m any significant Utilih contribu tions to the company !ow·sull; as president and director. regulatio The Vernon and M aralee sulfurdi( Jones Endowed Professorship says Min in C ivil Engineering w ill sup­ fessor Jo port a distinguished professor chairs th, in structural, environmental, velopm ent program preparing the Center for Economics Educatio n. Students m et with fac­ Resei geotechnical, water resources , th e department for th e 2 1st ulty and economics professionals, while high school and single co, transportation, construction or century. _ college faculty held panel discussions on ways to stimulate handle I m ore interest in economics in high schools. of coal a baSis. "T logs in pi more co, ods, sUer saysWils Ding '! jOint Cap search pr and the l

20 MSM A LU M US The write stuff: teaching future engineers to communicate in the real world Engineers float "The classroom essay doesn't exist in the work world"

II coal log" idea Most engineering and sci­ centers are designed to focus Drallmeier is one of those down pipeline ence students aren't expected on meeting students ' needs, professors placing more em­ to be brilliant writers or elo­ they also ai m to address the phasis on wliting. Students in quent orators, but professors, needs of facu lty members. his Mechanical Engineering UMR researchers are de­ alumni and corporate recruiters "One faculty program is the Systems course are participat­ veloping waterproof binders agree that today's students of micro-teaching review, which ing in a joint pilot project be­ to hold together "logs" of low­ engineering and science could allows speech and media stud­ tween the mechanical engi­ sulfur coal for transport from stand to brush up on their ies professors to videotape oth­ neeling and English Wyoming to the Midwest via a communications skills. er UMR faculty during class departments. In that class, Lar­ water pipeline. "If you ask your typical re­ periods" for the instructors to ry Vonalt, associate professor "We are investigating ma­ cruiter from industry what we review later, says Lance of English and one of two terials that have good binding are not doing light, he or she Haynes, associate professor of "writing consultants" to the capabilities and that meet the will say, 'Technically, these speech and media studies and mechanicaVaerospace/engi­ coal pipeline transportation students are great, but they director of the Oral Communi­ neering mechanics depart­ requirements," says Yungchin can't communicate,'" says cations Center. In addition, ment, has students analyze Ding, a research assistant in James Drallmeier, an assistant faculty members and students memos written by engineers at the mining engineering de­ professor of mechanical engi­ both benefit from the center's the Three Mile Island, Pa. , nu­ partment neering at UMR language-assistance program, clear power plant Researchers heat coal to a which helps non-native English The memo writers were temperature of about 200 de­ speakers improve their use of more concerned with technical grees Fahrenheit, press it into "They didn't understand who the English language, Haynes problems than with pointing logs, inject it into a water-filled says. out how failing to change pro­ pipe and transport it in a labo­ their audience Consultants such as David cedures could affect plant op­ ratory test loop at the Capsule was. They were Mair, Engl '71, and Ruby Te­ erations, says Vonalt, and their Pipeline Research Center at concerned with belak, Engl'74, have helped poor communications did the University of Missouri­ the technical the campus design a writing nothing to avert the meltdown Columbia. center to meet UMR 's unique that occurred 18 months after Ding's research could save aspects of the needs. The proposed writing the first memo. Missouri utilities and their cus­ problems and not center will serve students pri­ "They didn't understand tomers money by providing a the implications marily through a writing/tutorial who th eir audience was," Von­ cheaper, safer and more envi­ (the problems) studio, an advanced technolo­ alt says of the memo writers. ronmentally frie ndly way of had for the gy classroom and a program "They were concerned with getting low-sulfur coal to the for the study of cognitive pro­ the technical aspects of th e Midwest organization. " cesses in writing. In addition, problems and not the implica­ Utility companies need the faculty wanting to assign more tions (the problems) had for low-sulfur coal to meet federal Campus officials are trying writing in their courses may the organization. " regulati ons aimed at reducing to remedy this problem receive support through the The writing center will sulfur dioxide emission rates, through several efforts. The center's Writing Across the make trained faculty and stu­ says Mining Engin eerin g Pro­ campus recently adopted gen­ Cun-iculum program. dent tutors available for any fessor John Wilson , who eral education reqUirements Even without a physical writer on campus in need of a chairs the UMR department that call for more mandatory writing center on campus, pilot sensitive, critical reader, says Researchers predict that a writing classes, and last August writing programs already are in Cummins. "We have to get th lac­ single coal log pipeline can the Oral Communications place and will be continued students to think about their ld handle 15 to 20 million tons Center was established in the dUling the coming academic audiences," she says. "In my of coal a year on a continuous ~ate College of Arts and Sciences to year, says Elizabeth Cummins, English composition class I re­ basis. "The transport of coal help students improve their chair and associate professor of quire my students to identify logs in pipelines will move speaking skills. Now adminis­ English . "Faculty in all disci­ an audience and to write for more coal than other meth­ trators are studying proposals plin es are pushing students to that audience's needs. Some­ ods, such as trucks or trains," to establish a Center for Writ­ do more writing," Cummins times they write memos and says Wilson. ing Technologies to help stu­ says. "We frequently receive letters because th e classroom Ding's research is part of a dents improve their writing calls from faculty in other de­ essay doesn 't exist in the work joint Capsule Pipeline Re­ abilities. partments seeking help in how world. " _ search project between UMR Although both the wliting to assign and evaluate student -by Carol Kiehl and the UMC. _ and the oral communications wliting. " AROUND CAMPUS STUDENT PROJECT TEAM NEWS Gajda named as academic affairs Sol Survivor Last year, UMR 's team won passes qualifier th e regional contest held at UMR, and placed second in the vice chancellor Sol S urvivor, UMR 's solar­ Adl national contest. powered vehicle, cruised around Walter J . Gajda Jr. , chair­ "seJ the Indianapolis Motor Speed­ man of electrical engin eerin g Ne way at an average speed of 27 Formula SAE at UMR , will become vice of CUI miles per hour to quali fy for competes in chancellor for Academic Af­ es ·se Sunrayce '93 during the nation­ fa irs at the university on July Michigan rnissio al qualifying race held April 8- l. Another team of UMR stu­ policy lD. Gajda also is a Rutledge­ dents entered a race of another atUM Sunrayce '93, a seven-day, Emerson Electri c Distin ­ sort this spring: the National acade 1,000-mile national race from guished Professor of electri cal Formula SAE Competition, held Kansa Dallas to Minneapolis, is de­ engineering at UMR. May 20-23 at the Chrysler Corp. signed to showcase the viability Gajda fills a position previ­ Testing grounds in Michigan. of solar energy. Pac ously held by John T Park, Gajda The team's formula racer, Sol S urvivor reached a top bus who became UMR Chancellor which can go from zero to 60 in speed of 58 mph and main­ WI in March 1992. Glen Had­ neering Education. He is also about 3.5 seconds, was de­ tained a speed of above 30 mph Coatir dock has served as UMR 's a member of honor societies signed under the direction of for 19 of the 20 qualifying laps. eRe interim vice chancellor fo r ac­ including Sigma Xi , Eta Kappa faculty adviser James Drallmei­ The vehicle placed 12th in a AS! ademic affairs since that date. Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kap­ er, assistant professor of me­ field of 17 running cars. A total agemE Gajda joined the UMR fac ­ pa Phi. chanical and aerospace engi­ of 21 cars attended the event, packa! ulty in 1986 as professor and Gajda received a bachelor neering. with four cars not qualifying for studer chairman of electrical engi­ of science degree in electronic The purpose of the compe­ th e race. tumd. neering. Before that, he engineering from the Universi­ tition is to give young engineers also a served on the faculty at the ty of Notre Dame in 1964, training in a real-world scenar­ University of Notre Dame. and a master of science and Bridge builders io: Students must design and Gajda is a member of the Ph.D. in electri cal engineering have Georgia on produce a vehicle as though Institute of El ectrical and Elec­ fro m the Massachusetts Insti­ their minds they were working fo r a real Stu, tronic Engineers and the tute of Technology in 1965 Six UMR civil engineering auto manufacturer. FOI American Society for Engi- and 1970, respectively. _ students played in a bridge con­ Two years ago, th e UMR comm test at the Southern College of team entered two racers in the Motor. Technology in Marietta, Ga. But contest. The entries finished brand Saperstein named as this bridge contest dealt with third and ninth overall out of 66 son Ci steel, not cards. entries. stock, Mines & Met dean The team of David Smith, drew ~ Sean Antle, Scott Rakonick, Jeff E1izabE Saperstein Bohler, Brian LeGrand and AE/ME students Mark McCauley tested its mettle fly high in Kansas Kin! at Kentucky, will fill a position against about 20 other teams at While those civil engineers Me held by former Dean Don L. th e national bridge-building con­ built bridges in Georgia, a group 25th a, Warner, who has retired. test held on May 15. The contest of aerospace and mechanical April 4 Warner became th e school's is sponsored by th e American engineering students were fly­ dean in 198 1. ThE Society of Civil Engineers and ing high in Wichita, Kan. , where RecDgi Saperstein, who was se­ th e American Institute of Steel th ey participated in the Society for the lected from 37 candidates, Construction. The students, all of Automotive Engineers' an­ pus an graduated in 1964 with hon­ members of th e ASCE student Lee W. Sapers tein , th e nual radio-controlled cargo air­ atlome ors from th e Montana School chapter at UMR, competed in a chairman and professor of craft competition May 14-16. King's of Min es, which named him a regional bridge-bUilding contest mining engin eering at the Uni ­ The team of Tracy Bagwill, distin guished alumnus in at the University of Missouri­ versity of Kentucky, will be­ Jason Cassibry, Stephen Haug, 1990. He is also a Rh odes Kansas City in April. There, come the dean of UMR 's Robert Hepler, Engku A. Scholar, who earned a doctor­ teams built 20-foot-long steel School of Min es and Metallur­ Khairez, Tim King, Eivind List­ ate in engineerin g science bridges and were judged by pro­ gy around July l. Saperstein , erud, Jim Ockers and Scott from Oxford University in fessional civil engineers on speed who also directs graduate Repke entered two types of air­ 1967. _ of construction, cost, aesthetics, studies for mining engineerin g craft in th e competition. load capacity, bridge weight and capacity-to-weight ratio. 22 MSM AL UMNUS EWS team won Faculty benefit from new UM it held at B R E F L v :ond in the research grant program Admissions standards made "selective" for all UM campuses Research grants totalling finance studies in the sciences and the humanities. New admissions standards adopted by the UM System Board $271,686 were awarded to 15 The board includes UMR of Curators will make UMR and the system's other three campus­ UMR researchers for 10 Curators' Professors Daniel es "selective" institutions in 1997. But because current UMR ad­ projects by a new University W Armstrong of chemiStry mission standards already exceed the selective standards, the new of Missouri System research UMRs tu ­ and Walter Eversman of me­ policy will have little effect on the enrollment of full -time freshmen program created last spring by of another chanical and aerospace engi­ at UMR, according to Glen Haddock, interim vice chancellor for system president George Rus­ : National neering. academic affairs. The new standards will affect the Columbia selL tition,held This year $2 million was Kansas City and SI. Louis campuses more than they will UMR The UM System Research Isler Corp. Board, made up of 12 faculty awarded to 77 researchers on the system's four campuses. _ Iichigan. Packaging students help local members from the four cam­ lula racer, puses, awards the grants to ro to 60 in business improve its marketing mix was de­ When Maureen "Mo" Skaggs, owner of Mo's Mix Season-All irection of Coating, decided to improve the design of her product's package, Faculty gain kudos iDrallmei­ the Rolla resident asked UMR's packaging program for assistance. for teaching, research or of me· Associate Professor Gerald Greenway of the engineering man­ lace engi - agement department, who heads engineering management's packaging program, turned her request into a class project for Jack B. Ridley, Distin­ long-term achievements in students in his Packaging Systems Design course. The students in 1e compe­ guished Teaching Professor of teaching. Ridley has been at turn developed not only a new packaging strategy for Skaggs, but ~ engineers history, and Dan Armstrong, UMR since 1969. also a plan to help her expand production. rid scenar­ Curators' Professor of chemis­ Russell presented the 1993 l€Sign and try, have received two of the Presidential Award for Re­ as though search and Creativity to Arm­ Students get in the (volunteer) spirit five University of Missouri for a real System's 1993 Presidential strong, who is known for his For their volunteer services to the UMR campus and the Rolla Awards. research on isomeric mole­ community, three UMR students were awarded the 1993 General th e UMR UM System President cules. The award, which rec­ Motors Volunteer Spirit Award on April 14. Mishon Bailey, cers in the George A. Russell presented ognizes faculty for a record of branch manager of General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Jeffer­ s fi nished Ridley with the $ 15,000 Presi­ nationally and internationally son City, presented the awards, which include five shares of GM lIoutof66 dential Award for Outstanding recognized research, carries a stock, to Brian Carter, a junior in engineeling management; An­ Teaching in honor of Ridley's $15,000 stipend. _ drew Sears, a sophomore in electrical engineering; and Sundy Elizabeth Whiteside, a senior in electrical engineering.

~nts King anniversary recognized DID YOU KNOW? ~ansas Members of the UMR and Rolla communities remembered the engineers 25th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on Your gift to the Alumni As­ ~a , a group April 4 with a march, rally and worship selvice. nechanical sociation of $10,000 or more The events, sponsored by UMR 's African-American Cultural w ill qualify you for member­ ; were fly­ Recognition Committee and the Rolla Area National Association ship in the Order of the Golden .an ., where for the Advancement of Colored People, began at the UMR cam­ Shil lelagh. You can make one he Society gift, or make a gift of $1,000 pus and ended at the new Phelps County courthouse. SI. Louis each year for 10 years- that's IneerS ' an­ attorney Frankie Muse Freeman led the rally by re fl ecting on less than $100 a month! Cal l J cargo air­ King's impact on society. Don Brackhahn or Lindsay lyl4-16. Bagnall at 314-341 -4145 for more information. cy Bagwill, )hen Haug, : ng ku A For more information about :ivind Ust­ any of these news items, please and Scott ype5 of air- contact UMR News Services jon. 314-341-4328. MSM AL UMNUS ?_ J0 ., - an ' 1993 - ~t. , Pat' s @elebration "" , "~:.I" "

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will ~ Pau: Other members of St. Pat 's Court ineluded: (Ma ster guards) Aaron Shaw, Raytown, ChemE; alld TOllY HOlvdyshell, Camdelltoll, EMgl; (Guards) Kelly putE William s, Thayer, MillE; David Will , Blue Springs, CSci; Mall Foresman, Jeff Kirkwood, GeolE; and Tom Meyers. Lake Ozark, ME; (Heroic/) Shawn hop, VanA sdale, Portage ville, NllcE; (Pages) John Boysen, Kir!.1 vood, ME: and Honorary Knights dubbed at coronation ceremonies we re (left 10 right) Ja son l\!lye rs, Libert)'. CE; and (Trtlmpeter) Shan e Tom son. Lake Ozark, worl engineering. (Also piclllred. Chancellor John T. Park. ) Marcus D. Ramsey, CE'72. 51. Louis; Rolla business owner and real estate first , developer Thomas S. Sowers; Marga ret Cossel/e, presidelll of Missouri Home Care and president of the Rolla Area Chamber of COlllmerce; Mal/eo A. Coco, C£'66, vice presidenl oflhe MSM·UMR Alumni Association; and Donald L. Cronin, UMR professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Bask in th e sun with Jeff Shapiro and Paul Stallman as th ey catch a few rays. I Jeff and Paul are helping engineer UMR 's first solar car. The car will com­ pete in Sunrayce and th e World Solar Challenge. Jeff began working on solar cars at age 15. After transferring from a commu­ nity college, he set the wheels in motion to start the first UMR solar car team. As a solar car project engineer, Paul locates materials and sets work sched­ ules. "Because of my co-op experience at Alcoa, I have real-life practical experience pulling people and materials together to make a project happen," Paul says. "A tight schedule makes tim e management even more critical on this project. " The car design is critical. Despite high-energy electric motors and control­ lers, the 16-foot car collects less than one and one half kilowatts of power-the eqUivalent of trying to drive down the road on the amount of power you get in from a hair dryer. "To make the most of the solar en­ mna ergy, we're pushin g the limits of automo­ ?/ItJrom tive technology," Paul adds. "We're mak­ ing the car extremely efficient, light and very aerodynamic. " "Just being involved in the races is a once-in -a-Iifetim e opportunity. It is great to have th e opportunity to build a car that can travel very long distances on very little energy," Jeff says. Besides th e technology and mechan­ ics of solar cars, they're learning about team work and how important effective communication is. "I've learned a lot about diplomacy," Jeff comments. The skills th ey're developing today Paul Stallman Jeff Shapiro will go with them when they graduate. Mechanical Engineering • Chester, Illinois Physics • Springfie ld, Missouri Paul plans to pursue a career in com­ puter-controlled machine systems, while Jeff plans to go to graduate school and hopes to work at an energy testing lab. If you know a student who would "shine" at UMR, In the meantime, Jeff and Paul are workin g on what th ey believe will be the call the admissions office at 1-800-522-0938. ighr) first of many UMR solar cars. oj estare Wllri

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After they study hard, the UMR intramural program offers students achance to Jolly Amel UMI was S€ All-Am sion II ' The vc Nation; ball Co a ar JolI) ing th i, age of: th e Mil also bE time Ie; On any night this spring, on 51 flag football teams, 68 would sti ll be able to do pete for an overall champion­ points time sc UMR students could be found volleyball squads, 68 basket­ things. ship trophy at the end of the school looking for a means to vent ball teams and 54 softball "A new facility may also year, while players are in the for the the pressures of college li fe. teams. But such popularity bring out people who quest fo r shirts and water bot­ team a Some found the answer has created a problem, parti c­ wouldn't normall y come out," tl es awarded to winning SouthC through physical activity, like ularly for activities scheduled Holder adds. "Since we are teams. The Intramural Manag­ for the volleyball or basketball. Oth­ indoors. During the indoor on th e outskirts of the cam­ ers Association selects a men's Joll\ ers decided less strenuous seasons, it is not unusual for pus, we may lose a !ew peo­ and women's "Athlete of th e Brown MIAAs activities, like horseshoes or games to continue past mid­ ple, so all we can do is get Year," while the local Mc ­ ensky~ billiards, fit the bill. Either way, night in order to get in an ade­ people in the door and go Donald's selects athletes and en 's all intramural sports often met quate number of contests for fro m there. My goal is to get teams on a weekly basis for while S the students' needs to work each team. everyone involved in some awards from the restaurant. ond-tea off stress. The only facility now avail ­ part of intramurals and al­ Other corporate sponsors According to intramural able fo r indoor intramurals is though that is unrealisti c, it is also have made th eir presence Swim director Rob Holder, roughly the Gale Bullman Multi-Pur­ something I want to attain ." felt. General Motors is in its regiol half of all UMR students par­ pose Building, which is also The biggest thing the new third year of sponsoring the goes ticipate in recreational sports. the home arena for the men's building would do is all ow overall aspects, while Schick Forti The 18-sport lin eup ranges and women's basketball more people to be involved. has sponsored a "Super the UM fro m billiards, horseshoes and teams and th e only indoor For instance, the number of Hoops" program, where win ­ callitsel ers Wor table tennis to more traditional recreational complex on cam­ volleyball teams has to be cut ning teams in a national tour­ by beat intramural sports such as soft­ pus that has basketball courts off at 68 due to the restraints nament could play at halftim e and ho, ball, basketball and fl ag foot­ for the students. So hours are mentioned above. One rea­ of a National Basketball Asso­ on the f bal l. The bottom lin e, accord­ extremely limited for those son for increased participation ciation game. This year, a Mark ing to Holder, is that th e who just want to play ball on in intramurals is restructuring, UMR team representing Sig­ ya rd in recreational sports program their own. Holder says. ma Phi Epsilon fin ished third qualifiel sion III has something for everyone. Plans are under way for a "Up until this year, one in a state tournament held at same til And that is what makes it suc­ had to be a pali of an organi­ th e University of Missouri­ new recreati on center, to be by a co cessful. connected to the west side of za ti on in order to participate, " Kansas City. well ma "It is a program that has the Multi-Purpose Building. he says. "Well , you are going "Intramurals are supposed grown every year sin ce I've Holder notes that a new facili ­ to miss some people who to be fo r fun, " Holder says. "I been here, " says Holder, who ty will not only benefit th e choose not to be in an organi ­ have been an athlete all of my is completing his third year at intramural program, but th e za ti on or a fraternity. That is life and I enjoy the competi­ UMR. "We're probably in the entire student body as well. why we started th e indepen­ tiveness on the fi eld. We have upper echelon of the schools "This is going to be good dent league, which allows big­ had no major fi ghts or injuries in the conference (Mid-Ameri­ for the students simply be­ ger frats to have more than in th e time I've been here ca In tercoll egiate At hletics As­ cause they wi ll be able to use one team or those who want which is something I feel is sociation) in terms of the per­ it," he says. "There wi ll be to get together with frie nds to amazing. The students play centage of students in the three basketball courts, and play on a team. " hard, but they also play fa ir. " program. we would really only need two The traditional aspects of • This year alone, UMR stu ­ (plus the two in the multi-pur­ th e program still exist. The dents got physical by playing pose buil ding) so the students organizational teams sti ll com- By John Kean

26 MSM A LUMNUS DATE OPPONENT TIME SPORTS BRIEFS - Miner Football

Sept. 11 Iowa Wesleyan 1:30 p.m. Jolly named to AII­ able mention All-America hon­ ors in the 1,650 -ya rd freestyle. Sept. 18 at Washburn 7:00 p.m. America team: The Miners finished in 21 st place Sept. 25 Emporia State 1:30 p.m. UMR sen ior guard Bill Jolly at the meet. was selected as a third-team Oct. 2 Southwest Baptist" 1:30 p.m. All-American for NCAA Divi­ Oct. 9 at Pittsburg State 7:00 p.m. sion II for the 1992-93 season. Oct. 16 Northwest Missouri State 1:30 p.m. The voting was done by the Weather hampers Oct. 23 at Northeast Missouri State 1:30 p .m . National Association of Basket­ spring schedule: Oct. 30 M issouri Western 1:30 p.m. ball Coaches. Mother Nature appears to be Nov. 6 at Missouri Southern 2:30 p.m. Jolly led the MIAA in scor­ the big w inner this spring as the Nov. 13 Central Missouri State 1:00 p.m. ing this season with an aver­ UMR teams have had difficulty age of 22.4 points per game as playing due to the weather. the Miners finished 16-11. He Through April 8, the baseball ' H omecoming also became the school's all­ team had played only 14 of 32 time leading scorer with 1,920 scheduled games and had post­ mpion ­ points (fifth on the MIAA all­ ed a 4-9-1 record. Chris Leaton Miner Men's Soccer time scoring list) and set ten was among the top batters in of the Sept. 4 at Missouri Southern 5:00 p.m. school records w hile playing the MIAA and NCAA Division II in the Sept. 6 Northeast Missouri State 2:00 p.m. for the Miners. He was a first­ and had an 11-game hitting Iter bot­ team al l-conference and all­ streak early in the season. Sept. 9 at Southwest Missouri State 4:00 p .m. Ig South Central district selection The- softball team has been Sept. 11 McKendree 2:00 p.m. Manag­ for the second straight year. able to play, but most of the Sept. 15 Southwest Baptist 7:30 p.m. a mens Jolly's teammate Donnie games have been away f rom Sept. 18 W isconsin-Parkside 700 p .m. Brown was chosen to the AII­ of the home. The Lady Miners, led by Sept. 22 Lincoln 7:30 p .m. MIAA second team. Joee Kvet­ Dyan Risher's _424 batting aver­ Sept. 29 Drury 7:30 p.m. Mc- ensky was named to the wom­ age, had posted a 16-11 record Oct. es and en's all -conference first team, away from home. UMR didn't 2 Rockhurst 1:30 p.m. ;is for w hile Stacy Mathes was a sec­ play its first home game until Oct. 6 Westminster 5:00 p.m. Jran! ond-team pick. April7 ... The track teams opened Oct. 9 Lewis 2:00 p.m. onsors with seven winning performanc­ Oct. 13 Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis 5:00 p.m. es at the Washington Universi­ lresence Swimmers win Oct. 16 West Texas State 2:00 p.m. regional; Cresswell ty Invitational, then won four Oct. 20 Lindenwood 7:30 p.m. ; in its events at Southwest Missouri goes to nationals: Oct. 24 St. Joseph 's (lnd) 3:00 p.m. Ig the State a week later. Freshman Forthefirsttimesince 1989, Oct. 26 Columbia College 3:00 p.m. Schick Luci Minorsetschool records in the UMR swimming team can the discus and shot put at Oct. 30 Kentucky Wesleyan 2:00 p.m. er call itself a champion. Th e Min­ SMSU ... Thetennisteam opened ~re win ­ ers won the Mideast Regional with a 2-2 record after it did not aI tour­ by beating defending champ win a meet lastseason .. .The golf Miner Women's Soccer halftime and host school Indianapolis team has finished in the middle on the final day of the meet. Sept. 6 Northeast Missouri State 12:00 p.m. lliAsso- of the pack in most of its tourna­ MarkCresswel1 wonthe 400- ments, but Brian Haggard has Sept. 10 Colorado Christian 700 p .m . Ir, a yard individual medley and been a solid performer. He fin­ Sept. 12 Quincy 2:00 p.m. i qualified for the NCAA Divi­ 19S g­ ished tied for second overall in Sept. 15 Southwest Baptist 5:00 p.m. sion II Championships at the !d third the Ramada Inn Invitational Sept. 18 Lewis 12:00 p.m. held at same time_ Though hampered hosted by UMR in ea rl y April. by a cold at nationals, Cress­ Sept. 22 SIU-Edwardsville 5:30 p.m. Juri- well managed to earn honor- Sept. 25 Park College 2:00 p.m. Sept. 29 Drury 2:00 p.m. lpposed Oct. 2 Rockhurst 3:30 p.m. says. "I Oct. 6 Westminster 3:00 p.m. all of my Oct. 10 William Woods 2:00 p.m. mpeti ­ Join US for the Oct. 13 Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis 7:30 p.m. We have Oct. 20 Lindenwood 5:00 p.m. r injuries celebration at Oct. 23 St. Joseph's (Ind.) 1:00 p.m . here Oct. 27 Missouri Valley 7:30 p.m. eel is Homecoming Oct. 29 Tulsa TBA Oct. 31 Washington University 1:00 p.m. ts play Oct. 1-2, 1993 ay fair." (Times are subject to change) MINER FOOTBALL Home games are in bold. MSM A LU M NUS 27 334 FOUNDERS i 26,977 EMPLOYEES

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What a response! From our initial lis t of 100 To measure the impact ofUMR alumni on economic and enh'epreneurs in the February issue of the MSM A lumnus technological development worldwide, we are compiling a we n ow have 234 additional companies added to the list! list of our entrepreneurial alW1UU . We have now identilied Here are the most recent names added to our list of existing 334 compaIues fo unded by MSM/ UMRalw1Uu, butwe need companies started by MSM / UMR Alurruli. These MSM/ your help to make this li st more complete. If you know of all UMR entrepreneurs are leading in Am erica's sllift to an allU1U1US who has founded a COmpaI1Y, please complete aIld entrepreneurial economy. return the survey form on page 31.

Company Name Number of Employe ..' Headquarters Founder. Degree & Class Year

4·Sight Operating Company 13 Killgore, TX Ronald D. Jurenko PetE'58 A D Zun kel Consultants Inc Vancouver, WA Alan D. Zunkel MetE '64 AA I 12 Dalton, GA Wayne "Pat" R. Broaddus CE'55 AlA Engineers & Contractors Inc Houston, TX Jaya nt C. Soni CE'64 AardVark Animal Clinic Murphysboro, IL Charles E. Koehn CE'69 Acco Oil & Gas Company Houston. TX William F. Cooke MinE '35 Ach uff Arch itectu ral Prod ucts Inc Fairview Park, OH Cha rles E. Achuff CerE'33 Advanced Control Technology 6 Shawnee Mission, KS Michael N. Montague CSci '73 Mike J. Distefano CSci'83 Advanced Projects Research Inc Moorpark, CA Darrell W. Pepper ME'68 Aegis Corp Southampton, PA Matlhew J. Burkart CE'64 Aguilar & Associates Inc Verona, WI Michael J. Agu ilar CSci'76 Air-Co n Engi neering Company Rolla , MO Harold O. Gaddy ME '57 Airdyne Pneumatic Motor Systems 65 Houston, TX James R. Keppel ME'68 Alladin 700 Ira n" Ardeshir Samrad CE'62 Alpha International Inc 9 Arlingto n, VA Arthur Daoulas CE '62 Alternatives in Engin eeri ng PC 10 Defiance, MO Robert A. Warmann ME'7 1 American Dexter Oil Co 23 Newburg, MO Paul D. Smith ME '69 American Kitchens Inc Charlotte, NC David A. Herold ME '67 Anderson Engineeri ng Inc 13 Canton, IL Robert W. Anderson CE'57 Applied Digital Access 70 San Diego, CA Edward F. Tuck EE '53 Applied Tech nology Associations 45 Alburquerque, NM Wallace W. Short ChE'5 1 Applied Transpo rtation St. Louis, MO Joseph D. Walker CSci '74 Aries Engineering Inc Stone Mountain, GA Thomas R. Zgraggen CE'75 Ashley Oil Co Casey, IL Wilford Ashley PetE'54 Atlanticfrracy Inc 87 Somerville, MA Robert S. Westwater MetE '41 Automation & Control Tech. Inc 10 St. Louis, MO John L. Hedrick Phys '69 Automation Equipment Company 10 Fenton, MO Raymond J. Simone ME '59 Ave Maria Construction Company St. Louis, MO Francis S. Basler CE'52 B·T Consulting Engineer Services Inc Sedona, AZ Joseph A. Beatty CE'51 BCI Corporation 30 Rolla, MO Harold E. Atwell EE'56 Baer Engineering Perryville, MO Kenneth G. Baer CE'68 Balancing Company Inc 44 Vandalia.OH Donald K. Belcher ME '53 Baron Aviation Services Inc 35 Vichy, MO Charles E. Schmidt ME'67 Baxter & Associates Wichita, KS Donald E. Baxter Psyc'76 Beckwood Indushies Inc 15 Fenton, MO Charles P. Becker, Jr Met E'63 Bennish Construction Company 46 Rolla, MO Harold C. Bennish CE'64 Bennish Construction Services Rolla , MO Harold C. Bennish CE'64 Melissa M. Bennish CE'92 Big Red QQui ckprint Centers Milwaukee, WI Gerald P. Morris ME'66 Bio Tech Inc 19 Oklahoma City, OK John W. Pelger PetE '82 Bituminous Safety Service Inc Morgantown, WV Edward A. Moss MetE'66 Blattner Steel Company 12 Cape Girardeau , MO Charles F. Blattner, III CE' 2 Company Name Number of Employees' Headquarters Founder, Degree & Class Year

Bockman Enginee ring Services 10 Springfield, MO Gary J. Bockman CE '70 Bommalito Constr. Co. of Sl Louis Inc. 60 Sl Louis, MO Joseph C Bommarito CE'65 Boschert Inc 300 Mil pitas, CA Robert J. Boschert EE '58 Boundary West Covina, CA Edward F. Tuck EE'53 Bounds Enterprises Corporation 125 Creve Couer, MO Donald R Bounds EE'63 Bowles Aquarium Rolla, MO Martha E. Bowles Econ'84 Bruce Eberle & Associates 17 Vienna, VA Bruce W. Eberle ME'66 Bryn Mawr Apartments 6 Chicago, IL Jiun n-Jia You ME'67 Buescher Engineeri ng Company 7 Washington, MO Romuald L Buescher ME'53 Buescher-Frankenberg & Assoe. 15 Washington, MO Romuald L Buescher ME'53 Raymond H Frankenberg C[58 Buffalo Engineering PC 10 Buffalo, NY Walid S. Daham EMgt '77 Business Broker Associates Chattanooga, TN C "AI " A. Dick MetE'44 CAN-RID International Corporation Reno, NV Kjell Arnesen EE'51 CPU Help North Kansas City, MO Frank P Verdusco CSci '85 mucand CPU Help -The Training Center Nor1h Kansas City, MO Frank P Verdusco CSci '85 Cad-Suiting Services Clearwater, FL Gary W. Shellenberger ME '76 lpilinga Callin g Communications 6 CA Edward F. Tuck EE '53 Campbell Enginee ring In c 60 Hun tsville, AL Richard A. Ca mpbell ME '62 lentified Cantonment Construction Co. 6 Pensacola, FL Lee A. Waltrip CE '62 we need Care Informa tion Systems Inc 11 Springfield, IL John J. Struckhoff CSci'74 Carr Engineering Services Bonne Terre, MO George H. Carr ME '65 Dwol an Carrot Top Inc 20 Northbrook, IL John E. Corrigan CE'48 Carter Associates Bremerton, WA Rubin L Carter CE '67 lleteand Carter Computer Services Washington, MO James K. Carter PetE'53 Carter Consultants Inc 10 Fort Collins, CO John D. Carter EE'76 Cartoca Iran" Ardeshir Samrad CE'62 Cast Metals Systems Inc Naperville, IL Douglas A. Dallmer MetE'60 Central Business Communications Inc 10 SI. Louis, MO Larry B Eidelman EE '68 Central Controls Company Inc 9 Maryland Heights, MO Donald L Grimes '49 .. Central Securi ty & Electric Inc 18 Rolla, MO Nicholas E. Barrack EE '75 Ceramo Company 100 Jackson, MO Vernon L Kasten CerE'45 Charles D Laderoute, Ltd Boxford, MA Charles D, Laderoute EMgt '71 Charlie Miller Engineering Little Rock, AR Charles E, Miller PetE '55 Chas J Ross & Associates BallWin, MO Charles J. Ross ME'49 Cima Electrical & Mine Service 19 Benton, IL Gregory F, Cima EE'70 ClienVServer Solutions Inc Maryland Heights, MO Brian A. Butler CSci'89 Coastal Refractories Inc 15 Allabaster, AL John C Young CerE'53 Cochran & Wilken Engineering Inc 20 Springfield IL Lincol n D. Cochran ME'68 Coffman Associates 40 Kansas City, MO Stephen C Wagner CE '76 Commerce Contracting Corporation 60 Kirkwood , MO Edward F. Merkel C[61 Component Engineering Inc SI. Louis, MO Roland L Pohlman ME '53 Computer Dynamic.s Inc 100 Greer, SC KU\1 S, Priester EE'73 Computer Library Systems Inc 50 Boston, MA Kjell Arnesen EE'5 1 Computer Productivity Group Bellaire, TX Elizabeth A. Roos Met E'81 Computer Sofware Specialist (Inc) 13 Carver, MA James p, Simpson ME '62 Computer land 80 James R Fricke EE'75 Construction Safety Systems Inc Ki rkwood, MO Roger A. Brooks ME '50 Contact International Corp 100 Sunn yvale, CA Joseph D, Bucci Chem'71 Continental Communications Inc 25 Denver, CO Joh n R Klug ME'66 Continental Pump Company 12 SI. Louis, MO George F, Heath, Sr CE '30 Corrigan Corp of America 9 Northbrook, IL John E. Corrigan CE'48 Corzo Catella Carballo Thompson 24 Coral Gables, FL LeRoy E. Thompson CE'56 Country Acres Kennels 13 Manchester. MO Robert CSpitler ME' 53 Creative Consulting Engineering Inc 15 Fenton , MO Gerald L Campbell EE'70 Crown Environmental Systems Inc Baton Rouge, LA Wesley B Koenig MinE '50 Cvberstat Inc Mou ntai n View, CA Charles E, Bryson Phys'73 D:Tec Inc Lenexa, KS Dennis J. Feurer ME'74 Daily & Associates, Engineers, Inc 118 Champaign, IL Eugene J. Daily CE'36 Damco Paving Corporation 20 Anchorage, AK Richard J. Miller CE'67 Data Freight Inc 14 Kansas City, MO James R Fricke EE '75 Diamond Mechanical Inc 15 Valley Park, MO Donald R Dudley ME '76 Diel Engineering & Surveying Inc 6 Gallati n, TN Willard W. Diel CE '66 Diemer Development Studio City, CA Richard H, Diemer Phys '69 Durham Engineering Decatur, AL James A, Durham CE'80 EPH Engineering Associates Inc Orem, UT Edmond p, Hyatt CerE'49 Eastern Crushing Company Inc Orefield, PA Frederick R, Myers CE'76 Echelmeier Company Chesterfield, MO Roger L Echelmeier ME'60 Endgate 7 CA Edward F. Tuck EE53 Engineered Power Systems Inc 19 SI. Louis, MO Edward A. Molitor EMgt ' 72 Englert Engineering Company 6 Lake Saint Louis, MO Thomas M. Englert CE'60 Environic.s Puerto Nuevo, PR Thomas J. Danner EE'82 En vironmental Dynamics Inc 22 Columbia, MO Charles E. Tharp CE '60 Environmental Management Corp, 50 SI. Louis, MO Richard F, Jordan ME '70 Esquire Cleaners Jacksonville, FL Robert R, Burton ME '63 Company Name Number of Employees' Headquarters Founder, DegTee & Class Vear

Eves Conlracting Inc 7 Manchesler, MO Robert D. Eves CE'70 Eyberg Construction Inc 15 Rolla, MO Carl J. Eyberg Psyc'74 F D Engineering Palo Alto, CA Frederick J. Dietrich EE'57 FNG Industries 11 New Haven , WV Joseph M. Fuqua Me1E '78 Falcon Industrial Sales Inc 6 Fenlon, MO Edwin L. Johnson ME '70 Family Health Care Associales 12 Washinglon, MO Kim D. Colter ChE'73 Findert Engineering Inc 17 SI. Louis, MO David L. Fenlon CE'63 Fink & Company Inc Indianapolis, IN Dona ld W. Fin k ME'47 Flame San Francisco, CA Gerardo E. Joffe MinE '48 Forum Dental Clinic Inc Rolla, MO George W. Karr LSci '92 Fox Monogram Systems Columbus, OH James L. Fox ME'70 Future Holdings Company Inc San Rafael, CA Ardeshir Samrad CE '62 GS Marble Inc Creve Coeur, MO Sailendra R. Sunkara CSci'91 GTM Enterprises SI. Louis, MO Gary T. Morris EE '86 GWS Conlractors Inc 40 Flat Ri ver, MO Theodore J. Reeves C[,50 Gary Elder & Associates 7 Ft Myers, FL Gary R. Elder EE '68 Geo F Heath Co Inc 10 SI. Louis, MO George F. Heath, Sr CE'30 Gordon & Price Inc 7 Marion , IL John A. Gordon CE'70 HIW Inc 12 SI. Louis, MO Gary W. Schwartz CE'73 Hansen Engineering Group Inc 15 SI. LoUiS, MO Ronald A. Hansen CE'65 HalVey & Hughes, Artny. & Counsel 8 SI. Louis, MO Wayne C. HalVey CE'69 Havco Wood Products Inc 400 Cape Girardeau, MO James N. Van Gilder ME '68 Hayden Co.-Builder Developer Inc 35 Ballwin , MO C.B Hayden CE'65 Dennis Hayden CE'74 Heneghan & Associates 13 Jerseyville, IL Dean P. Heneg han CE'80 Holcomb Foundation Engineering Inc 10 Carbondale, IL Lester W. Holcomb MinE '51 Hou-Tex Inc Houston, TX Malvin C. Zeid PetE'51 Hydro-Source Company 10 Valley Park, MO Donald R. Dudly ME'76 Indiana Western Express 400 Colum bus, IN Stephen J. Coulter ME '69 Induslrial Machine & Engineering Co. 15 Monert, MO Danny R. Conner ME'7 1 Interface Technology Inc 70 SI. Louis, MO James H. Hahn EE '59 Intevac In c 300 San ta Clara, CA Nonnan H. Pond Phys '59 Intra Tech Inc Fortville, IN Roger M. Jones CSci '71 Investment Realty 22 Rolla , MO Michael E. Woessner CE'76 J R L Associates Pittsburgh, PA Jennings R. Lambeth ChE'41 John G Macke Company (The) SI. Louis, MO John G. Macke, Sr EE'52 John Reiss Jr & Associates Inc 8 Westminster, CO John ReiSS, Jr GeoE '71 Joh nson , Laschober & Assoc., P.c. 16 Augusta, GA Richard J. Laschober CE'72 Joseph A Cesare & Associates Inc 10 Englewood, CO Joseph A. Cesare Geo E'74 Jung & Associates Inc 160 Fenton, MO Robert N. Jung EE '66 Kankakee Scrap Corporation 25 Kankakee, IL Ronald L Romano ME'60 Kebby Microwave Corp San Carlos, CA Edward F. Tuck EE '53 Kerr Conrad Graham Association 20 Prairie Village, KS Albert L. Kerr CE '64 Kessler Industrial Corporation 250 SI. Louis, MO Harry H. Kessler MetE'24 Khafra Engineering Consultants 18 Altanta, GA Valenti no T. Bates CE'76 Kinship Ventures CA Edward F. Tuck EE'53 Koechlein ConSUlting Engineers 9 Lakewood, CO William H. Koechlein CE'64 Kozeny-Wagner In c 80 Arnold, MO Donald J. Kozeny CE'57 L Keeley Paving & Construction 35 Des Peres, MO Lawrence P. Keeley '60 r-- Landmark Contract Mgml. In c 30 Chesterfield, MO Bradley W. Homburg CE. '69 Lark Engineering Corp SI. Louis, MO Edward P. Schneider, Jr ChE'42 I Af( Lemberger Co Inc 15 Vienna, MO Robert A. Lemberger CE. '60 I Lowrey's Food Palace AR Joseph J. Lowrey CE'43 star Lu nderga n Installation Inc 7 Des Peres, MO Michael L. Lundergan EMgt'71 I Magellan 150 CA Edward F. Tuck EE '53 I Manning & Hart Nibbrig 7 Los Angeles, CA Howa rd Manning CE'67 I Please Math ews & Associates Inc Springfield, MO Fred M. Mathews CE'78 McCralY Conslruction Company 20 Belmont, CA Murray M. McCrary CE '62 I and re Midwest Enterprises Inc 8 Cody, WY Theodore A. Roes, Jr MinE'36 I by FA: Mine SelVice & Supply Company Bartle Mount, NV Terral G. Young GGph '66 Mining & En vironmental Consulting Phoenix, AZ Fredric B Brost GGph'63 I 314-31 Missouri Forge Inc 85 Doniphan, MO Michael A. Wicklund MetE'65 Missouri Refractories Co In c 11 Webster Groves, MO Kent Weisenstein CerE '60 I Mitchell Laboratories 25 Pico Rivera, CA John W. Mi tchell MetE '49 lOr by MoSci 14 Rolla , MO John B. Koe n CerE'79 I Lindsay Natio nal Sales & Marketin g Inc 100 Van Nuys, CA Leonard H. Wolfberg ChE'52 Nth Degree Inc San Luis Obispo, CA Ronald M. Reis ME'71 I l!4 Ca Omnitec Corp 7 SI. Louis, MO Leland V. Lammert EE'76 Orange Engr & Machine Co Inc 60 Anaheim, CA John B Copp ME '67 I Un i ve r ~ PCR Personal Com puter Rentals 6 SI. LouiS, MO Kenneth H. Kaplan EMgt '73 I ROlla, ~ Paul DeMay & Associates Chesterfield, MO Paul P. DeMay ChE'64 Pelroleum Advisors Intern atio nal Inc Houston, TX Marvin C. Zeid PetE '51 I Phoenix Metallurgical In c 30 Hopedale, MA Donald G. Cooper MetE'60 I Phytron Inc Mountain View, CA Charles E.. Bryson Phys '73 Pointing Systems 350 CA Edward F. Tuck EE'53 Ilf You h Post Properties and Realty Inc 6 SI. Louis, MO Richard G. Post EE'77 I cOrnrne I 314-34 l_ .. Company Name Number of Employees' Headquarters Founder. Degree & Class Year Printmasters Mission Viejo. CA Stanford D. Ziatnick EE'74 Production Castings Inc 90 Fenton, MO Alan RLoeffelman CSci'73 Profile Technology Inc 15 FlOrissant, MO John W. Lieber ME '69 Protherm Corporation 7 St. LouiS, MO John M. Wiesehan ME '72 R C Hansen Inc Tarzana, CA Robert C. Hansen EE '49 Raymond R Betz Interests Inc 19 Houston, TX Raymond R Betz CE'66 Rindt-McDuff Associates Inc 23 Marietta, GA Charles R McDuff CE'66 Ronald T Moore Inc 35 St. Louis, MO Ronald T. Moore EMgt'71 Rosser Metallurgical Sales Co Lewis E. Rosser MetE'43 Rotating Process Machines Inc St. Louis. MO Willie L. Franklin. Jr ME'65 Schuster Engineering Inc 9 St. Louis: MO Walter J. Schuster CE'63 Sears Catalog Sales Merchant Store 10 Waynesville, MO Paul D. Smith ME '69 Shell Engineering & Associates Inc 20 Columbia, MO Harvey D. Shell ChE'58 Shoolbred Engineers Inc 7 Charleston. SC Robert A Shoolbred CE '54 Smith and Company 30 Poplar Bluff, MO Samuel H. Smith CE '64 Smith, Hueston M& Associates Inc St. Louis. MO Hueston M. Smith EE'38 Software Gateway Corporation St. Louis: MO Richard W McFall AE '79 Soil Consultants 30 St. Peters, MO William J. Green CE'68 Sontag (Jack AI Consulting Engrs 7 St. Louis, MO Jack A Sontag CE'50 South em Cast Products Inc 20 Jonesboro, AR David W. Kroeter MetE'73 Spechian 330 Mountain View, CA David S. Wisherd EE '69 St. Louis Air Conclitioning Corp 28 St. Louis, MO James O. Pitlyk ME'59 St. Louis Elevator Company 8 St. Louis, MO John "Jack" J. Sydnor EE'50 Stack & Associates 15 St. James, MO hvin "Corky" R Stack CE '76 Star-Key System SpeCialists Inc Sugar Land, TX Stephen E. Starke AE '75 Statcom Inc 70 McLean, VA Paul B. Middleton Math '67 Steam Technologies Inc FlOrissant, MO Michael F. Schuermann CE'78 Surface Interface Inc 7 Mountain View, CA Charles E. Bryson Phys'73 Surface Systems Inc 65 St. Louis, MO Wilson W. Overall EE '59 Tatler's Cafe & Bar 25 Kansas City, MO James R Fricke EE '75 The Logic Shop Mountain Grove, MO Joseph R Moore CSci '72 The Rim Comp.lS&S Energy Inc 29 Englewood, CO Stephen W. Rector PetE '72 The Summit Group Inc 11 5 Mishawaka, IN David S. Jones CE'64 Torres Consulting Engineers Inc 20 Kansas City, MO William Torres CE '70 Van Pak Corporation 15 St. Louis, MO Jon L Vaninger EE '63 Vancraft Manufacturing Inc 67 DetrOit, MI Robert L Davis ME'70 Vari-Master Inc 9 St. Louis, MO George F. Heath, Sr CE '30 Well Completion Technology 25 Houston. TX William K Ott '66 WilTel 3500 Tulsa, OK Roy A Wilkens EE'66 William R Engelhardt Assoc. Inc 14 Chaska MN William R Engelhardt CE'7l Withrow Engineering Inc 8 Richardson, TX Kerry R Withrow PetE'58 Witzel Kearns & Kenney 7 St. Louis, MO Richard C. Witzel CE '69 ZYP Coating Service 8 Oak Ridge, TN Lloyd R. Chapman MetE '73 Zygro Corporation Reno, NV Kjell Arnesen EE'57

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FRI Attenti on Fonner 1-21 Homecoming '93 Baseball Pl ayers · Dr The UMR 1993 A lumni Baseball 1:3(} Game is scheduled for 10 a.m. Oct. · Dr 2. Homecoming Weekend. If you Com Ho ORING THE would like to panicipate or need UMF Oct. 1-2 more information. contact Travis inter CLASSES OF: Bou lware, head basebalJ coach. Ath­ leti c Department. UMR, Rolla, M O 2:3(} 1943 65401-0249. 314-34 1-4 19 1. • Dr. Deer Qual 1948 Happy 20th Anniversary, Minority Engineering • Dr. 1953 Program! Natl Homecomjng 1993 will include a 1958 celebration honoring of MEP's 20 years at UMR. 1963 For more information, contact Floyd Han'is, Minority Student Ser vices, 107 Norwood H all. UMR. Rolia. Please r Sept. 22 W HAT'S H APPENING ? 1968 MO 6540 1-0249. 3 14-34 l -42 12. FRIDAY, O CT . 1 1973 • Registration • Short Courses • Alumni/Student Golf Tournament 1978 • Alumni Association Board of Directors m ee ting • Silver & Gold Reunio n Rece ption Celebrate 100 Years of , TICKET (roast pig, delicious hors d 'oeuvres and "Iiquid refreshment") 1983 Mi ner Football 1988 We'd like to see as ma ny football SATURDAY, O CT. 2 alumni as possible return for H ome­ coming to m ar k th i s hi storic • Re gistration continues occas ion. • AII ·Alumni Breakfast Buffet (alf-you-can-eat scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, biscuits and gravy, mixed fresh fruit salad, homemade danish, juice and coffee) • Section leaders meeti ng .~. • Short Courses continue • Fieldhouse Feed Reunion "Tailgate" Luncheon Kappa Sigma (charcoal-broiled hamburgers and hot dogs, baked beans, cole slaw, fresh 90th Anni versary marinated vegetable salad, tossed green salad, potato chips, iced fudge In honor of its 90th anniversary at - brownies, lemonade/iced tea/coffee) GOlden A UMR, K appa Sigma plans to re­ Features reserved seating for the reunion classes AthletiC D Cla ss photos taken model its house on W hite Columns • Football Kickoff - Miners V. Southwest Baptist Bearca ts Drive. Renovations are scheduled to • Admiss ions Ambassadors workshop be completed for their anniversmy • Ca sh Ba r Rece pti on celebrati on at Homecoming 1993. Address_ • Awards Banquet which is expected to be the largest­ (Ca esar sa lad, chicken in wine sauce, wild rice, broccoli spears, white and ever Kappa Sigma reunion at UMR. 1 Home Ph. wheat ro l/ s, bananas Fo ster, choice of beverage) The weekend w ill beg in at 8 p. m. • MSM-UMR Alumni Association Annual Mee ting 1 Class Yea Friday. Oct. I. w ith a parry at th e house. Sa turday's events include 1 PLEASE ~ SUNDAY, O CT. 3 lunch at the house. displays of his­ 1 • Order of the Golden Sh ill elagh brunch torical photographs. reception and 1 Please chi • UMR Advisory Committee for Africa n-Ameri ca n Recruitment & Reten­ buffet dinner fol lowed by alumni tion meeting speakers. awards and a party. Sun­ 1 EXpiration day morn ing's brea kfas t will round out a fu ll weekendofactivit:i es. Con­ 1- Don't for grar ui aLi ons, Kappa Sigma! 1 as for spec I.Fa 32 MSM A LU M NUS I f"j raSSts ~~5401 ung rs ------HOMECOMING SHORT COURSES er FRIDAY, ()CT, I, 1993 SATURDAY, ()CT, 2, 1993 1· 2 p.m. 8:30·9:30 a.m. "S , Dr. J ames Bogan: " Up the Amazon with a Paddle." , Dr. M ad ison Daily: " Special Demonstration: The ATC C lass­ Baseball room, Classroom of the Future," see the Advanced T eaching a.m.OcI. 1:30-4 p.m. Classroom in action. d. If you , Drs. Chris Ramsay and Don Askeland: " Foundry Lab 101," : or need Come to t he foundry and make you r own castings. We w ill make 9:30-10:30 a.m. UMR paperweights, MSM-UMR ashtrays, and other castings of , Dr. Catherine Riordan: " Management Systems: What do UMR ct Travis interest. Grads Need to Know and Be Able to Do?," an examination of Jach.Ath · UMR's newest degree program-what it is and w hy it was created. :olla.MO 2:30-4:30 p.m. 9:30-10:30 a.m. )1. , Dr. Henry Wiebe and Greg McClain, manager of quality for John Deere: " Total Quality Management," a presentation of T otal Quality Management t heo ries and their uses in industry. :rsary, T o date, these are the courses t hat are scheduled-more to come!! ring , Dr. Jack Morgan: "Two Missouri Civil War Figures: Nathanial Lyon and William Swenny." include a IIWs 20 Ir------~ tact Royd IRE S E R V A T I () N S I Services. R. Rolla. Please make your reservations early, as some activities are limited. Fill out the form below and m ail, FAX, email or ca ll in your reservations by Sept. 22, 1993! Your tickets w ill be ready for you to pick up at the registration d es k w hen you arrive on ca mpus. 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Construction Divis ion of the SI. Loui s County Department of Parks & men~ Rec rea ti on. Of attend; byalu Endowments Accepted alumni Fi ve new endowment fun ds were accepted by the MSM-UMR above A lumni Associati on board of directors at the A pril 17 meeting. Waym James - Joseph & Louise Marchello Scholarship Fund, es tablished by an Retch. anonymous donor, for chemica l engineering students rega rdl ess of land, '. need inger ,. - Class of ' 42 Sc holarship Fun d, for undergraduate students re­ ling .~ gardless of need Reines, - Donald George Glynn Fam ily Scholarship Fund, need-based, for THESE STUDENTS REPRESENT JUST A FEW OF THE Carl R, '48; QI students in ci vil, geolog ica l, mechanical or metallurgica l engineering 280 STUDENTS WHO RECEIVED MORE THAN - Way ne & Bett y A ndreas Scholar ship Fund, need-based, for elec­ Talbot trica l engineering students $250,000 IN MSM-UMR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION - Class of ' 42 Outstanding Teaching A ward Fund, to recogni ze SCHOLARSHIPS THIS YEAR , YOUR DONATION TO THE non-tenured, tenure- trac k faculty members for outstanding teaching These end owment funds will help the MSM-UMR A lumni Asso­ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HELPS MAKE THESE ciati on continue to provide ass istance to stud ents. both financially and SCHOLARSHIPS POSSIBLE. by encouraging excellent teaching. Con

Thank you .. . Tht MS 1- T he following alumni recelllly returned to campus to spea k to stu dent organiza tions: has bet the ass, A ndrea Weck. '84; M eliss a Benedick, '9 1; Brian Swenty. '76; Jenni fer Weber, '87; Jan Skouby, '82; Rodd y Rogers, ' 8 1, ' 83 , '90. Sectior The assoc iati on apprec iates your service to today's students. La-Tex and the

34 MSM AL UMNUS Thanks to the following alumni for helping with: IFYO U WOULD BE INTE RESTED IN PARTIClPATING IN A STUDEN T RECEPT ION, CA LL LYNN STI CHNOTE, ALUMNI/ ADMJ SS IO NS PROSPECTIVE STUDENT COORDINATOR, (314) 341-4904. '87; Fred Pope '73; Steve Seay '6S; ciati on board of directors also attend­ RECEPTIONS Mike Wrob 'SI ; and alumni staff ed the reception, estne r members Lindsay Bagnall '76; Floyd era Hanis '74; and Dale Elillits '76. Springfield, Mo. 'ach A, Ritch ey Nov. 1, 1992 '76; E. A. Woerheide '60; and James Paducah, Ky. sh Chicago, Ill. 1. Scoff George '72, emcee Younger '92, en Dec. 5, 1992 Sept. 19, 1992 Chancellor John Park, Lynn er Alum ni attending this reception Gene Edwards '53, emcee Stichnote and Drs, Lance Williams ichelp included Deirk Feiner '85; Marla Jefferson City, Mo. Don Fuller '66 helped present the and Doug Carroll made presenta­ ro ss man Jedlicka '87; Tim Jedlicka 'S7 ; Don Nov. 8, 1992 alumni point of view. tions. James O 'Bryant '34 also at­ ield Montgomery '51 ; Greg Pritchett 'S7 Cal Dells '49, emcee tended. "Sertma '89; Peggy Pritchett '90; Bob Saxer Alumni and friends attending the Rolla, Mo. '61 '62; Stephen Schade '74; Steven event were: Dale Eliflits '76; AI Bolon St. Peters, Mo. " DeBo ns Merrill Stevens, '83 , '88, emcee. '61; Jerry Bayless '59; Lindsay Bag­ .ane Underhill '90; and Robert J . Wilson Other alumni were George Ax­ Nov. 22, 1992 nall '76; Humbert E. "Bob" Sfreddo '62. macher '42; Russ Lindenlaub '66; Dave Dressel '86, emcee '5S; Monte 'S6 and Michelle lindst­ pier Dec. 6, 1992 Sally Love '91; Joyce Melchers 'S6; Among the alumni and fr iends edt; Ken Kuebler '70; Ray Purvis illi ps fn attendance: Bob Saxer '61 ' 62; Jack Painter '50; and Gary Taggart attending this event were: David Bi­ '74; and Jim Kliethermes '61, ~cWa rd Greg SkannaJ '85; James Unnerstall '7S, renbaum '78 'S7; Paul Fleischut '85; :jo rnstad I '56; and Robert 1. Wi lson ' 62. Al umni faculty and stall attend­ Kris Fleming '91 ; Steve Garner 'SI ; Kansas Cihj, Mo. ing were Jerry Bayless '59 '62 ; Linda Alice Gilberi 'S4; Sam Grunbaum Houston, Tex. Oct. 4, 1992 Bramel 'S9; Samuel Bross '88; John 'SS; Robert Hoffman '81; Kevin Nov. 7, 1992 Johl1 Frerking ' 87, .emcee Buckwalter '71 '79; Sally Collins '91 ; Knocke '86; Brian Lux '90; Pete Other alumni and fr iends includ­ Eunice French '84; Floyd Harris '74; Merten '72; Mel Rueppel '66; Mark Jim Chaney '48, emcee ed: Jocelyn and Charles '80 McField; Virginia Heikkinen 'S8; Don Myers '74 and Marsha Schankman; Chris­ Curt Killinger '73 made arrange­ Dave Kreimer '70; Lucien M, Bolon '61 , '64; Ronald Platz '90, tine Stoverink '89; Terry Sudholt '77; ments for the 70 who attended. Jr. '59 and Sammy Bolon; Stan Thomas Turley 'S7; Mike Wrob 'SI; Of the 15 prospective students in Howell '72; Cliff Tanquary '57; Le­ Southwestern Bell in Kenneth '64 and Caroline Wulfert; attendance, three were accompanied slie Vigna '91 ; Earl Wiggley '88; Shir­ St. Louis, Mo. and alumni staff members Jerry Bay­ by alumni parents. There were 21 ley Reed '78. less '59 , Lelia Flagg '60 and Lindsay alumni, including the three mentioned Jail. 10, 1993 Bagnall '76. above and David Mark Allen '90; McDonnell Douglas in Phil Jozwiak '66, emcee Wayne '5S and Gloria Andreas; Alumni attending included Mike Tulsa, Okla. James Chaney '48; Jeff East 'S9 '92; St. Louis, Mo. Bytnar '68; Gary Dolle '76; Paul Oct. 31, 1992 Fletcher Glancy '70; Richard Hoi­ Jan. 9, 1993. Dillon '68; Robert Hoffmann '81 ; Roy Wilken s '66, ell/cee land, '53; Tom Holt '66; Curt Kill­ John Eash '79, elllcee Phil Jozwiak '66; Fred '77 and Sab­ Alumni in attendance included: inger '73 ; Rob Laird 'S5; Philip W. Alumni included Pamela Bind­ rina Marshall; Thomas Renick '81 ; Roy Wilkens '66; Bob Ridle '60; Jo­ Ling '92; James R. Paul '43; Rick beutel 'SS; John Eash '79; Mike Fer­ Lindsay Bagnall '76; Floyd Harris seph Cole '54; Tim Coppinger '90; Reinesch 'S3 'S9; Perrin Roller 'SO; retti '67; Dan '90 and Jill '87 Fink­ '74; and Dale Elifrits '76, (These last Jeffrey Lee Ivers '74; Ron LaManque Carl Rowold '69; WA Schaeffer III lang; Alice Gilbert '84; George three are also UMR staff members.) ~ 'S5; Bob Pahl '68; Carl Reichert '65 ; THE '48; Quentin J, Schiene '52; Nicole J amieson '50; Mary Lawler 81 ; Wayne and Marilyn Ferkel, two Mike Tsai '92 ; Joe Vitali '59 ; and Talbot '77; Ronald R. Taylor '74, Charles ManiS '42: Tim Pemberton members of th e UMR Parents' Asso- AN Chris Ramsay '84. [ATION TO THE :5E Congratulations, Houston and Ark-La-Tex! WELCOME

T he Ho usto n Secti o n of the directors voted to recogni ze the ir .. ,TO THE NEWEST ALUMN I SECTIO NS ! MSM-UMR A lu mni Association efforts as " runner-up." Congrat­ has been dec lared the w inner of ul ati o ns to these sections for West Texas the associatio n's Outstanding their outstanding efforts, as we ll Contact Mike Party '78, (9 15) 694-9787 Secti on Award o nce again. Ark­ as to the many other sections La-Tex fini shed a c lose second, w ho improved this year. West Florida and the associatio n's board of Contact Bill Gammon '49, (8 13) 37 1-1089

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The Alaska Section met members of th e section, includ­ annual shrimp feed in the fall . Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, at God­ ing Livingston, Walter '34 and Lynn Stich note of UMR's father's Pizza in Anchorage. Al um­ Helen Bruenin g, Moscari, Roth­ Recruiting Services Office ex­ ni association scholarships and band and Browning. pressed appreciation to the com­ future activiti es were among th e Saturday evening th e section mittee for supporting the Alumni topics discussed d uring the meet­ met at the liVingston home for a Section Scholarship program and ing. Our scholarship chairman, covered dish supper. After din­ for selectin g a recipient. Mark Eck, has been working dil ­ ner Park told alumni about their Following the meeting, sec­ igently to identify a candidate. alma mater and answered a host ti on members enjoyed the Rem­ We pla n to say goodbye to of questions. Section members mers Lecture presented by Dr. C. winter a nd welcome summer by discussed celebrating th eir 40th Everett Koop, former surgeon holding a barbecue and meeting anniversary this year. Officer elec­ general ofthe United States. (Sub­ in early May. Location to be an­ tions were discussed and will be mitted by Di xie Fin ley '68) nounced. held at th e next meeting. (S ub­ Attending: Bill '67, '70andJamie Two of our members, Albert mitted by Phil Browning '48) Anderson; Kent '76 and Lindsay '76 DeValve and Don Coolidge, are Attending: John and Dorcas Park; Bagnall; ElmerBagnall; Connie Bald­ win '69; Jennifer Bayless '89; Jerry celebrating th eir 50th graduation John '39 and Eilyeen Livingston; '59 and Shirley Bayless; Glenn '39 anniversary this year and pla n to John '51 and Loretta Moscari; Walter '34 and Helen Bruening; Phil '48 and Janet Brand; Joel Brand '86; attend the Golden Alumni Re­ and Ardella Browning; Gerald '28 Julie Binder '92; Christiane Doem­ union a t Commencement this and Leona Roberts; Paul '43 and hoefer '89; Rod Winbom; Dixie Fin­ May. Everyone finds it fascinat­ Mary Rothband; Kenneth '53 and ley '68; Carol Bennett; Bob '40 and ing to visit with these individuals Barbara Gereau; Joe '86 and Terri Connie Klug; Fred '58 and Pat Krue­ ger; Russ '66 and Paula Lindenlaub; and to hear the different stories of Swan; Jerry '82 and Tammy Poland; Myrl Line '49; Patricia Lizotte '79; It's showtime! what the great state of Alaska had Kenny '83 and Beth Cochran ; Rob­ ert '73 and Debbie Kleinman; Donald Vemon '42 and Betty Loesing; Nan­ to offer in the past. We congrat­ Benton Video '75 and Ann Simpson; Annie Con­ cy Mackaman; Dennis McGee '69; ulate them on their 50th and look ley; Nettie Merol Farmer; and Louise Jennifer McGee '93; John L "Jack" available for section forward to seeing them at our Patton. Painter '50; Nikki Allen Huffman; next function! (Submitted by Matt Barbara '60 and Gary '60, '66 Patter­ Collins '9 1) son; Lee A Porch '83; Elmer A meetings ••••••• Roemer Jim '50 and Edna Scott; Attending: Von Cawvey '78; Matt '33; Merle '61 and Judith Southem; Armin Collins '91 ; Don '43 and Helen The Central Ozarks Section Tucker '40; Steve Watkins '83, '85; The Alumni Office is offering the video Coolidge; Alb ert DeValve '43; Mark held a dinner at UMR 's Universi­ Susan Goad. "Tom Benton 's Missouri " for section '77 and Marieta Drumm; Mark Eck ty Center-East prior to attending events. Produced by Professor Jim Bogan '80; Kirk Hastain '79, '82; John Hent­ the Remmers Lecture Jan. 21 , The Central Ozarks Section of UMR's Philosophy and Liberal Arts ges '89 and fiancee Kristina; Terry '78 and Susan McCallister; Greg '86 1993. President Merrill Stevens held itsSt. Pat's party at the Tow­ department, this video documents and Lisa Sanders, along with their presented Jerry Bayless with a er Inn in Salem on Friday, March Benton's mural of Missouri's history. The newbom Trent; Barry Shelden '8 1; plaque in appreciation of his con­ 19. Vice president Jim Perkins mural, located in the Capitol Building in Keith '91 and Angie St. Gemme. tributions to the success of the and his wife Marti were the hosts Jefferson City, was extremely controver· section, as its first president. Fu­ for this event. Alumni and friends sial when it was first completed. • •••••• ture meetings will be a St. Pat's enj oyed a social hour of "green party in Salem on March 19 and beer" fo ll owed by a delicious If you 'd like to borrow the video for one of Chancellor a nd Mrs. John a picnic at Meramec Springs on buffet dinner. Bob Wolf, presi­ your section events, contact Lindsay Park graced the Ark-La-Tex Sec­ June 19. The section also plans dent of the MSM -UMR Al umni Bagnall in the Alumni Office. tion with a fin e weekend visit to cooperate with MSPE on the Associati on, welcomed everyone Jan. 22-23, 1993. On Friday, a

small group of sectio n members Jerry r ll join ed th e Parks for dinner at den~ lVi~ Don Brackhahn Brocato's in S hreveport, La. Din­ Sandhal ~=::;;;a (rig ht) joins ing togeth er were John and Dor­ board. F members of the cas Park, John '39 and Eilyeen ing as se Livingston, John '51 a nd Loretta Cincinnati/Dayton Futur Moscari, Paul '43 and Mary Roth­ Section in the With the band, and Phil '48 and Ardella "wearin ' of the a summ Browning. green " at their St. ROckies On Saturday, Don Simpson Pat's party on alumni. \ '75, resident engineer of Red Ri v­ March 20, 1993. from the er Lock and Dam 4, hosted a visit ciPient to the dam for Park and several thanked\ 36 MSM ALUM NUS Randy K ,------, I 1 ~ .2 c ~ 'jii ;;: ~ II) ° I c E "- 0 . c -'" c"- "" I tl: Iu +' . ~ ~ ~ ~ & ~ '§.. 6] = ]~ I "'8 ~ CO"" .S ::I ~ Ie fall. -'" 0- ~ !c~~~ ~::; J I .5 .g E & &. UMR's .£~~·~ro ~ I §. fice ex­ P-.~ f'0g ~ . ~ UJ"OU<;l(J)~ he com_ I ~ -Alum ni I ram and I "8~ -g ~ ] >- "0 I () ~ ~ 0 o c f -5 ng, sec­ 0-, "0 2:.- '-'" I i ~ 0-, . ~ ° le Rem ­ rE 0;- ~ E~ t' I u = . ~;~ J ly Dr. C. c Z° I If)= I ~ 55 ~ surgeon 0 l(iJf I 01 °>..>- " C) ~. ( S ub- ~ ° ~.~!-; ~ L ______-.J G 00 18) ~ ~~:3~:r

ndJamie ~ Idsay'76 'nieBa/d· i:i .c S9; Jerry 0 • ;/enn '39 ection? and '86; ~ c- udedin iJ 1'3 I O j e Doem­ ---:- 'Jest, or )ooe Fin­ -g C c I '40 and u 0 ac: 'at Kale­ ::0

and dinner, the aSS Poz mostS Dottye (DanP, o (Armin CIl" ~ lagh (D G> m NoonE ,--­~ butsolT ,--- CD tic pip, m meetin ~ ~ o pipe as CD -< Jim » o section o :n m arshipr CIl CIl alltoatl m m pig ro; z Spring~ byJim 0 .1"""1 '"d Affel ~ ~ Jo yce Fi It's sJ r:::=:::: l- ;:::l Eunice ' S ;>-.. « ;:::l ~ '61 and , Bente ...... ro er '40;B ro '"d MymaR 0 ~ ;:::l 0 avail, ('I") ...... eff; Dixi€ '51 , '52 0 0'\ ~ meeti § McGee en 0'\ 0 ~ ~ .1"""1...... Brand; ( en l-; Mill Bra, The Alum ~ ~ ;:::l ;:::l 0 ...0 and Mar "Tom Ben « o .1"""1 .1"""1 16;Killi events. Pro ;>-..~ ...... l-; of UMR's Ij) .1"""1 ~ departme Z ~ U 0 u Benton's ", ~ ro ~ The mural, lOCi itsannu; Jefferson ( :::::> ~.< c 20, 19~ sial when i :z :z :z ---l ~ 'Ti m 0 Compa' m Z ("") 0 ;;: m 0 --I ~ CIl CIl" « presider CIl I ,--- CIl ~ /fyou 'dlik, --I m m » ~ the part » 0 :n G> your secti m--I -< m CIl ness mE Bagnall in ' 1111 was nOr acc1ama small group or secnon memoers Jeny PI join ed th e Parks for dinner at dent, wit Don Brackhahn Brocato's in Shreveport, La. Din ­ Sandhal ing togeth er were John and Dor­ ;C::::::;;;;~ (ri ght) joins board. I cas Park, John '39 and Eil yeen members of the ing as SE livingston, John '51 and Loretta Cincinnati/Dayton Futu Moscari , Paul '43 and Mary Roth­ Section in the with the band, and Phil '48 and Ardella "wearin ' of the a su mrr Browning. green " at their St. Rockies On Saturday, Don Simpson Pat's party on alumni. '75, resident engineerofRed Riv­ Ma rch 20, 1993. horn thE er Lock and Dam 4, hosted a visit CiPient to the dam for Park and several thanked 36 MSM ALUMNUS Randy K Coming soon to a section near yOU ...

and made a short speech after Attending: David '91 and Jacin­ dinner, encouraging support for da Manka; Alisa Houpt '88; Jill Cress the association. '86, '89: Don Palmer '77; Dan Elbert "89; John '49 and Dorothy Stein; Prizes were awarded for the David J. Bufalo '66 and guest; Joe most St. Pat's buttons (Bob and '52 and Shirley Geers: Gene '51 and Dottye Wolf) , oldest sweatshirt Lee Lindsey; Terry '71 and Karen (Dan Paulson), best Irish costume Donze; Terri '85 and Wayne Eads; (Armin Tucker), and best shille­ Randy '74 and Cherie Kems; Hank lagh (Dennis McGee - by default. '71 and Irene Sandhaus; D. William McCaw '67. No one had brought a shi llelagh , but someone delivered some plas­ tic pipe to Dennis during the •• • •••• meeting, so they "counted" his Jerry Sharko's Restaurant in pipe as a shillelagh l ). Lisle, 11 1. , was the site of the Chi­ Jim Perkins announced the cago Section's St. Pat's Party section 's Al umni Section Schol­ · ... on Saturday March 20, 1993. arship recipient, and encouraged Do you live in an area where there is an active alum ni section? Deirk '85 and Maria '85 Feiner all to attend the next meeting, the Check this list to see. Please note that some ZIP codes are included in hosted the party. During the busi­ pi g roast pi cnic at Meramec two section areas - take your pick of which section you like best, or ness meeting, Robert Morrison Springs on June 19. (Submitted attend the events of both' '7 1 was elected president and by Jim Perkins '66, '92) Deirk Feiner '85 was elected vice Attending: Harold E. '66 and Miner Music Lincolnland, IL Dallas/North TX Joyce Fiebelman; Dan Paulson ·89; president. (Submitted by Deirk all ZIP areas 61500-61999 75000-76399 Eunice '84 and Jerry French; Merle '85 and Maria '85 Feiner) (any music aluml 62300-62799 76600-76799 '61 and Judy South em; Armin T uck­ Attending: Kathy '79 and Erik er '40; Bob '59 and Bev Lemberger; Andersen; Eugene '69 and Rose­ Washington, DC McDonnell West Texas Myma Rueff; Ed '40 and Mabel Ru­ mary Buerke; Don '76, '80 and Nan­ 20000-21499 Douglas any 76900-76999 eff; Dixie '68 and Charles Finley; Bob cy Chronister; Jim Clifford '77; Steve 22000-22799 McDonnell Douglas 79300-79499 '51 , '52 and Dottye Wolf; Dennis Dunkmann '72; Deirk '85 and Maria employee 79700-79799 McGee '69; Joel '86 and Ann '84 '85 Feiner: Wallace '52 and Mona Georgia (mostly St. Louis 88231-88266 Brand; Glenn '39 and Janet Brand; Ferguson; Jim '72 and Cheryl '71 30000-31900 area) Milt Bradley '65, ' 71 ; Jim ·66, '92 Ibarra; Tim '85 and Marla '87 Jedlic­ Houston and Marti Perkins; Lindsay Bagnall ka; John '62 and Judi Jokerst; Joe Miami SI. Louis 77000-77899 '76; Kittie Robertson. '70 and Sandi '70 McBride; Don 33000-33499 62000-62299 Mclntosh '82 and Mary Riggs; Kathy 63000-63399 Colorado ••••••• '77 and Dan Meyerkord; Robert '71 West Florida 80000-81699 and Elizabeth Morrison; Leslie No­ 33500-34299 Kansas City land '77; Patrick Noland '75, '76; The Colorado S ection had 34600-34699 64000-64199 Phoenix Robel1 '61 and Linda Saxer; Jeana 64400-64599 85000-85599 itsannualSt. Pat's party on March '89 and Thomas '85, '87 Smith; North Alabama 66000-66299 85900-86599 20, 1993, at the Zang Brewing Steven '90 and Laura Underhill; 38400-38499 Company in Denver. Outgoing Frank '60 and Janet Watson; Dick 37300-37499 Central Ozarks Tucson president Gene Li ndsey set up '59 and Jane Wieker; Robert '62 and 35500-35999 (Mid-Mo) 65400- 85200-85299 the party and held a ShOli busi­ Julia Wilson. 35000-35099 65599 85500-85799 ness meeting, at which Jill Cress Heartland was nominated and elected by • •••••• Springfield , MO So. California (L.A.) (KYIILlMOI 65600-65899 90000-91999 acclamation to serve on the board. 42000-42499 Connelly '53 and Rose Sand­ 92200-93599 Jerry Plunkett is the new presi­ 42700-42799 New Orleans ers hosted the Georgia S ection dent, with Hugh Blevins and Hank 62800-62999 70000-70599 San Diego, CA - Sandhaus also serving on the at their home for a buffet supper 63600-63999 70700-70899 91900-92399 board. Randy Kerns is continu- on Jan. 16, 1993. A small but 39400-39699 ing as secretary/treasurer. congenial group enjoyed supper, CinCinnati/Dayton Bay Area 45000-45599 Ark-La-Tex Future events were discussed, introduced themselves and told (San Francisco) ,ton somethin g about their lives and 47000-47099 71 000-71199 93900-95899 with the two most popular being 41000-41099 71400-71 499 experiences. Fourteen al umni a summer fam ily picnic and a 47300-47399 71 700-71999 Pacific Northwest Rockies game fo r MSM-UMR returned regrets with the wish to 75400-75999 (WA/OR) 51 alumni. Gene presented a letter be included in the future. Chicago,IL 97000-97399 from the section scholarship re­ During the meeting, members 46300-46499 Oklahoma (Tulsa) 98000-98699 cipie nt, Anna Koplen, who discussed future secti on activi­ 60000-60699 73000-73199 60900-60999 74000-74499 Alaska thanked everyone. (Submitted by ties, officer election, supporting 74800-74899 99500-99999 Randy Kerns '74 ) MSM-UMR fund-raising and MSM ALUMNUS 37 I ALUMNI n SECTIONS '-J/

scholarship programs and attend­ Lincolnland Section Center ing Homecoming. As a special attendees sily of Alumni Events treat, Ray Kasten, past president leader of the MSM -UMR Alumni Asso­ menl a June ciation and a member of the Kan ­ ment r Thoma North Alabama Section sas City Section, offered sponta­ Back row· Gary Hutchison, Jerry Parsons, Reggie Benton, Rich AHe, neous remarks of encouragement Berning; middle row - Dauid Tepen, Ed Midden, Pat Toby; Doug Morris '89 Sauoie;. and pragmatic advice. Ray and front row - Larry Lewis, Bob Uthoff and Bill Buren. 205-837-7530 (W) Mike 'g( his wife, Dorothy, were visiting mas '7 5 Heartland Section her sister, Ruth Dutton. The sis­ Stephen Lake Wappapello, Mo. ters are daughters of Professor present with six. Alumni wis hing Sunday, Feb 14, 1993. Pat Toby '51 and Punch Bennett '54 Muilenburg. (S ubmitted by Con­ to contribute items for the scrap­ '88 planned and coordinated the '80 ana Oanyl ,. 314-222-9671 (H ) nelly Sanders '53) books should contact Betty or event with Gary '74 and Debra Attending: Ray '43 and Dorothy Andy at 713-324-1485. Hutchison who hosted the event '78 and ScoH: !Ai Kasten; Donnell '35 and Ruth Dut­ Nicole Talbot '77 and Rob at th eir Jacksonville, Ill. , home. 19 Central Ozarks Picnic key; POt ton; George '61 and Barbara Leek; Laird '85 announced the next Each guest or couple brought their Meramec Springs Ric hard '63, '69 and Chris Kahl; Kenneth event, a baseball game between favorite hors d ' oeuvres to share. Merrill Stevens '83 Dauid '85, 87 and Mym Ziegler; Ken L.O. Wit 314-762-3518 (H) '62 and Phyllis Murdock; Connelly the SI. Louis Cardinals and the During the brief meeting, pres­ '53 and Rose Sanders. Ho uston Astros. (S ubmitted by ident Larry Lewis announced the 26 West Texas Section Jim Pa ul '43) slate of officers and committee Midland, Texas ••••••• Attending. Wa yne '58 and Betty chairmen, which was approved. A ndreas; Eugene '68 and Connie Mike Party '78 Jerry Parsons '70 was elected Friday, March 19, 1993, was A ufdembrink; LesterBirbeck '50; Jeff president and Pat Toby '88 will 915-686-5971 (W) Brewer '89; Laura (Spencer) Brewer "SI. Pat's" for th e Houston Sec· serve as secretary. Committee '89; William '73 and Linda Bnune; July tion. Anheuser-Busch's Hospi­ Harold '70 and Katherine Che­ chairmen are: student assistance, tality Room was the place to be noweth; Dennis Chenoweth '78; Bob Uthoff '52; scholarship, Ed for an evening of food and festiv· George '51 and Melba Comanich; Midden '69; finance, Larry Lewis 16 McDonnell Douglas ities. A tribute was made to An­ Dean '62 and Tnudi Culnan; Don '50 '73; activities, David Tepen '90. Section heuser-Busch and Bernard the and Millie Dampf; George '51 and Ed Midden reported that Sta· Night at the Ball Park Ellen Donaldson; Adil '67 and A r· Bartender, a tradition started cy Garfield of Springfield , III. , reo Todd Rush '82 nauaz Godiwa//a; A ndy Gray '89: some 20 years ago. ceived the Lincolnland section 314-233-1979 (W) Diana (Kolbet) Gray '90; Keuin '80 President Kirk Lawson '85, '87 and Dorothy Hagan; Steue Hagen scholarship. (Submitted by Pat opened the meetin g with a short Toby '88) 17 St. Louis Section '89; Allan Hopkins '89; Tim Beckerle Th e update fro m Rolla. He an· '89; Jeffrey '81 and Janice Hepper­ Attending: Bob '52 and June Golf Outing North , nounced the section scholarship mann; Daue '89 and Wendy Her· Ut hoff; William Buren '59; Rich Bern­ Phil Jozwiak '66 held Mal wi nner, Meredith Ann Schelp of rmann; Dan Hinkle '73; Lee '70 and ing '69; Ed '69 and A nne Midden; 314-993-4132 (W) Nancy Hoouer; Ed Isenmann '44; Jerry '70 and MOlY Parsons; Larry ville Res Beaumont, Texas. Karl Joern '80; Vicki (Huffman) Jo­ '73 and Betsy Lewis; Gary '74 and Section Area Director Curt Killinger October ern 79; Lee '81 and LauraJohnston; Debra Hutchison; Reggie '79 and and the '73 summarized the Admissions Daue '70 and Charlene Jones; Curt Cynthia Benton; Pat '88 and Cheryl SPE Alumni Reception elecled: Ambassadors program in Hous­ '73 and Marybeth Killi nger; Kipp '52 Toby; Dauid Tepen '90. Houston, Texas '89, pre, ton a nd announced that our and Jen'e Ferns.: Jeff '90 and Michele Alumn i Office ilia '78 Ho usto n Section Scholarship Klump; Rob '85 and Lauren Laird; ••••••• 314-341-4145 '84, Fund now has more than $7,000. Rich '8 7 and Stephanie Langenstein; bo~ Ki rk Lawson '85. '87; Daue Lewis A $500 scholarship will be award­ The New Orleans Section Q'Krask 1-2 HOMECOMING '75; Charles '50 and Na ncy Mace; ed to a freshman next fall. held a dinner meetin g Jan 23, Don Mike McKinney '74; Jim '43 and Lou vice pre, Kirk, Curt and Jim Paul '43 Paul; Jeanette Kibler; Gary '65 and 1993, at Messina 's Restaurant in 3 African·American conducted awards for SI. Pat's Janie Pointer; Ray '51 and Caroline Kenner, La. Thomas '72 and Alumni I Alumni Committee "Greenies. " The top two "best Roller; Nicole Talbot '77; Dan Tibbits Lynn Eyermanr. a nd Darryl slidesho Meeting dressed" were Mike McKinney '86; Susan Ti bbits '87; Doug Vo n Moore '73 organized th e meet­ ebration, '74 and Lee Hoover, '70. They Brunt '87 and guest; Kenneth Va ugh· ing. Dr. Michael J . Savoie pre­ aboullh •• To be announced on '47; John Warner '70, '71, '87; received a SI. Pat's sweatshirt sented the program. Dr. Savoie for an a( A rt '49 and Pot Weber; Mike '71 and is vice president, university rela­ and a UMR baseball cap. Betty Debbie Weiss. waY,IVilf Andreas bro ught three scrap· tions, for Integrated Resources tively sd books she has created, and she ••••••• Group and is a visiting assistant (Submitt, and husband Andy '58 took pic­ professor of management at the AHenc land '50 ( tures, in cluding class groups. The The Lincolnland Section held University of New Orleans. For· Bonilla '7, class of '89 had the most al umni its annual spring get-togeth er merl y associate director of th e hahn; Ric,

38 MSM A LUMNUS Section Center for Quality at the Univer­ bell; Janet Carroll '89; Richard '65 at th e Seven Seas Lodge in San Bent Tree Country Cl ub in Sara­ sity of Tampa, Dr Savoie is a and Anne Cleve; Allen Crider '80; Di ego Saturday, Feb. l3, 1993. sota, Fla. Following lunch and John '84 and Cathie Dunbar; Peter leader in total quality manage­ Dr Park spoke on th e plans for introductions, Chancellor Jo hn Feuerstein '91; Alan '84 and Cynthia ment and continuo us improve­ future development of staff and Park spoke to the group about Fox; John '69 and Carolyn Glaese; ment programs. (S ubmitted by fac ilities at UMR. (S ubmitted by UMR. (S ubmitted by William lion, Rich David Gray '69; James Homkohl '62 Thomas Eyermann '72) Alb eIt S. Keevil '43) Gammon '49) oby; and guest; Ch ris Hughes '91; Don Attending: Michael and Rena Jones '64; Bill '64 and Barbara Ma­ Attending: Hemy R. Fletcher '53; Attending: A ndreas '41 and Jean Savoie; Larry '60 and Elaine Boston; Io ne; DalTell 79 and Reba Mi/bum; Fred A. '48 and Mmi/yn Todd; Gor­ Andreae; Charles '37 and Dorothy Mike '90 and Cindy Brunstein; Tho­ Doug Manis '89: Stumt O 'Kraski '87 don "Sam " '51 and Joyce Napp: Benner; Lewis '39 and Cookie Grab­ - mas ' 72 and Lynn Eyermann; and guest; and Bob Siron '60. Joseph E. '49 and Rita Greig; John E. er; Mr. and Mrs. John 0. Englund Pat Toby Stephen '88 and Jennifer Hook; Bill '51 and Lanelle Gardner; Larry '65 '53; Thomas R. '54 and Helen Fowl­ '5 1 and Mary A nn Koederitz; Bob er: William Hall '89; Oliver '48 and inated the ••••••• and Jeannette Vardiman: H. Chalm­ '80 and George-Ann Lovinggood; ers Kerr '52: Joe '38 and C/m'ellen Carol Ko>tjohn ; Vem Markos '57; nd Debra Darryl 73 and Dottie Moore; Gary Howerton; Charles A. '51 and Eliza­ John '52 and Helen Mcintyre; Bill The Oklahoma Section held the event 78 and Ann Re; Bill 74 and Judith beth Beckman; Frank M. Yates 73; Oberbeck '39 and Doris Gordon; D., home, Scott: Wally '52 and Lorraine Stop­ a SI. Pat's party at Charlie Mitch­ Arthur Keith 42 and Midge Cook; John '42 and Barbara Olsen; Emil lughttheir key; Paul '61 and Martha Whetsell; ell's South on March 17, 1993, Bradley A. Fulton '88; John T. Park, Roloff '50; John Schork '47; Joseph s to share, Kenneth '57 and Joann Wisdom; including green beer and lots of UMR chancellor; John Larson, UMR '49 and Harriet Sevick; Robert W. LD. Witt 79. fa ith ful UMR alumni. The party vice chancellor for University Ad­ Sprick '55: John '50 and Mmjory ~ting, pres­ ••••••• was arranged by Tom Williams vancement; Albert S. '43 and Mmi­ Van Nort; William Gammon '49. unced the Iyn Keevi/. committee ••••••• lpproved. North A labama Section officers • •••••• IS elected L eft to right: board A group of West Texas alum­ Iy will member-at la rge Don Representatives from UMR ni met Feb. 12, 1993, to plan the :ommittee Jones; treasurer John were on hand to update alums on founding of the West Texas Sec­ Issistance, Dunbar; p resident news from Rolla at an alumni tion. Attending alumni elected mhip, Ed Doug Ma nis; board reception in conj unction with the Mike Party '78, president and my Lewis members-at la rge Stu TMS conference Feb. 22, 1993, Alan Means '80, secretary/trea­ epen '90. O 'Kraski and in Denver, Colo. Professor Rich - surer Future section events JthatSta­ president-elect ard Hagni hosted this evenl. planned are a dinner at the Plaza ~Id, Ill .. re­ Alfredo Bonilla. Attending. Tom '58 and Jane Club in May and a summer pic­ Id section '------,------1 O'Keefe; Richard '62 and Rachael nic at Angel Stadium. Members Hagni; Harvey '62 and Jan Mmtin; ~d by Pat '73 of Vinson Supply. (Submit­ Raymond Foumelle '64 '68 71; D.J. also plan to meet informally for The second meeting of th e ted by Jim Bertelsmeyer '66 and Michel '64; John '75 and Nancy lunch at the Granada Club on the , and June North Alabama Section was To m Williams '73) Kaufman; Lou 79 and Laura Greer; first Monday of each month. (Sub­ :Rich Bem­ held March 4, 1993, at the Hunts­ Attending: Bentley Alexander Ann Hagni '80; Alex '82 and Naa­ mitted by Mike Party '78) le Midden: ville Research Park Ho li day Inn. '84; Jim Bertlesmeyer '66; Nicole Adje/ey Aning; Karen '83 and Mark Attending: Mike Pmty '78: Den­ ;ons: Larry Section bylaws were approved (George) Bray '90; Charlie Camp­ Knight; Chris, '83, and Darlene Ram­ nis Moore '80; Scott Wehner '80: uy 14 and say; Kenna (Roberson), '84 and and the following officers were bell '64 and guest; Gary C/llistopher Mark Stucky '81; Dane Cantwell '85; ,e 19 and Stephen Yarbrough: Stephen '90 '92 Gary Smallwood 75; Judy (Boone) elected: president Doug Morris 73: Mike Davis and guest; Lee Em­ and Cheryl net 79; Mike Friese 70 and guest; and Joann Henington; and John (fac­ Roper '79; Merle Steckel '69; Clay '89, president-elect Alfredo Bon­ Jim Hauser 74; Dennis Jaggi '70; ulty) and Ann Watson. Wene '92; David Knleger '90; Kevin illa '78, treasurer John Dunbar Dave Kick '57 and guest; Ron La­ Renfro '85; Don Matson '52; Brenda '84, board members-at large Stu Manque '85 and guest: Glen Larsen ••••••• (Horak) Diaz '82; Tim Speer '83; and O'Kraski '87 and Don J ones '64. 70; Rick Laurentius 78; Rodney Gary Gerhard '68. 5 Section Don Brackhahn, executive Myers '77; Bob Pennington '88 and Al umni interested in forming 9 Jan 23, vice president of the MSM -UMR guest; Terry Redenham and guest; a West Florida S ection met for a Frank Reoja and guest; Roy Rice '66; in Al umni Association, presented a luncheon Jan. 7, 1993, at th e staurant Mike Sanni; Steve Shaw 73; Carole slide show on UMR SI. Pat's cel­ s '72 and Sitz 73; Vic Spalding '39 and guest; Id Darryl ebrations and answered questions Paul Taubin; Steve 72 and Gloria the meet­ about the campus today. Plans Th ies; Sue (Owen) Tryon '84; Mike San Diego S ection woie pre­ for an active section are under­ Tsai '92; Joe Vitali '59 and guest; Phil L eft to righ t: Bradley )r Savoie way, wit h the next meetin g tenta­ Wade 71; Mike Webb '89; Tom Williams 73 and guest. Fulton, AI Keeuil and ,rsity rela­ tively scheduled for early June. (S ubmitted by Don J ones '64) Frank Yates. Resources ••••••• 9 assistant Attending: Gene Bames '50; Le­ land '50 and Jerena Belew; A lfredo Photo by Marilyn Keeuif lent at the Bonilla 78; Don and Nancy Brack­ Chancellor J ohn T. Park ad­ 13ns, For- hahn; Richard '62 and Sue Camp- dressed the San Diego Section tor of the

MSM ALUM NUS 39 Dr. Douglas Christensen, ChE'43, shares his experiences from WWll. Miners * * * * * * * * * * * * *

It's September 1941 mixed up with th e mighty candidates in Army issue tel, wh and the freshman class of Freshman Class of 1939. must have thought we were structi< 1939 now begins its junior Now it's graduation Jan. nuts. There were times dur- occup; year; 33 have enlisted in the 12, 1943, and th e once ing th e next three months wheel( Army Advanced ROTC Pro- lowly 193gers, now super when I was sure th ey were us stal gram. One of the incentives star Seniors, are moving out right. The dog face in the D.C. v for joining up was the pay of leaving behind 3 11 fresh- bunk next to me was sent to officer~ $30 for each three months men for the class of 1946, OCS from Guada1canal, and down· of duty. 200 sophomores for the one day he said to me, " th e salute , The 1941 fall semester class of 1945 and 174 jun- hell with this crap, I'd rather cape II is moving rapidly along, and iors who should be the class be on the canal. " The next ducke( now it's December and of 1944. day he was gone. club 01 we're all up to our noses in Jobs don't seem to be a Training was very in- hot bal final exams. It starts out as a problem, especially for a tense and covered 39 basic just Iik< great day in Rolla; some of group of us who have com- functions of the Army such 01 us are straggling in from pleted four years of ROTC. as infantry weapons, combat oesc church; others are on th e Uncle Sam has lovely posi- principles , demolitions, close 28 and way out for a burger and tions waiting for we engi- order drill and map reading. gradua fries; and we hot-shots are neers. On Feb. 4, 1943, 29 W e double-timed every- hoop a rehas hing the events of the of us were sent to various where, had calisthenics in us fron the dark, study periods each previous night at the Pen- officer candidate sc hools a sepal nant Tavern. Suddenly, over (OCS) in lieu of the usual night, and haircuts were 5 special the radio comes a special summer camp. Ed Fris went centimeters high on top becaus news bulletin-the Japanese to the M arines at Quantico, made around a bowl by a ROTC, have bombed Pearl H ar- Va. , Gene Martin, Mack reject from the local barber some s bor- "a day that will live in M cCutchen and Emil Ruhle college. The problem with make L infamy. " It's Dec. 7, 1941. wen t to the Army Signal OCS was not th e aca demics, Shavet, Things will not be quite Corps at Ft. Monmouth, NJ but the ever-present Tac of- record the same for a number of and the rest of us went to Ft. fi cer whose job it was to for the years. Belvoir, Va. make life difficult. The phi- oes, s My junior class will be Officer Candidate losoph y was "if you can 't tered tf unique in that we will do School at Ft. Belvoir: At take it here, you don't de- 1943. four consecutive semesters MSM we were told to take serve to be an officer. " The 1m, (summer school first time) only the clothes we were continual specter of being known completing our junior and wearing beca use the Army washed out over some trivia the Am senior years back-to-back would supply everything. was like Sitting on a ticking told th o thus graduati ng in January Unbelievable, it seemed th ey time bomb day and night. drop dE 1943, one semester ahead were not expecting a group To alleviate th e strain, the gatE of th e normal May schedule. of college graduates, and so provided you had no demer- WWII will cause those for about a week we were its, some of us got a Satur- a great , poor freshmen of 1940 to slithering around Virginia in day night pass into Washing- friend p do six straight semesters to one set of civilian cloth es. ton, D.C. , during our last new gal graduate in August 1943, Ugly. two weeks. The group I was blouse. thus explaining how they got The 400 other OCS with went to th e Hilton H o- course \ anticipa

40 MSM A LUMNUS rs Remember the War

SSue tel , which was under con­ while awaiting the special • Frank Rehfeld started Japan in WWII. Kackley, iewere struction and not ready for orders revealing the where with th e 1884th Engineer Lambelet, Mooney, Stueck les dur­ occupancy, but the manager and kind of Engineer Unit Aviation Bn and finished in and Wiedey are now de­ Jnths wheeled in some cots and let the dice had cast upon th ose Japan. ceased. I were us stay for free (l think). new gold bars. • Neil Stueck went to Although the war was 1 the D_C. was so crowded with Here's how th e Army the 1889th Engineer Avia­ on full bore during 1942 we ; sent to officers that when walking dealt the cards: tion Bn in Arizona while students were not affected in .nal, and down the street you had to • Bill Anderson, George Thomas covered the a major way: No cars, thus le, '· the salute continuously. To es­ Howard Durham and Roy Pacific with the 1138th Engi­ no gas or tire rationing; col­ :I rather cape the saluting, one Kackley went to Camp neer Combat Group_ lege draft exemptions avail ­ .e next ducked into this fancy night Clairborne, the he ll hole of • John Weidey was able; football on; St. Pat's club on E. St. which had a LA. Howard stayed in the originally with the 235th En­ go; etc. Besides we were ry in - hot band and a jillion girls­ Army for 24 years and Roy gineer Combat Bn and th en focused on those 20 semes­ 9 basic just like St. Pat's at MSM. 28 years. in Patlon's Army and finally ter hours of rigorous studies y su ch On April 28, 1943, our • Joe Berndt in the ended up in Manilla, PI. and the coveted diploma. comba t OCS class consisting of W- 246th Engineer Combat Bn Emil Ruhle kept Camp Consequently when we se­ ns. close 28 and Y-28 companies a nd John Requarth in the Crowder, Mo. , operational, niors graduated in January -eading. graduated with the usual 247th ECB both went to and Gene Martin was on 1943, life at MSM was rea­ ery- hoop de doo, except all of Europe. Guam and then spent 17 sonably untouched. lies in us from MSM were taken in • Don Coolidge in the years in the newly formed But the question is what lds each a separate area and given a 1327th Engineer Service US Air Force as Judge Ad­ happened during 43, 44, 45, Jere 5 special oath. Apparently Regiment, Rene Rasmussen vocate. Sherald Heneghan 46 and into 47 when veter­ top because we were there via in the 1880 engineer Avia­ must have been in the ass ans began trickling back to I by a ROTC, the Army needed tion Bn and Art Petersen because he didn't divulge his coll ege under the GI Bill? barber some special legalese to volunteered for a China as­ Belvoir assignment. Was th e return of veterans n with make us bonafide signment and they all would Of our group, I was th e th e end of the dreaded haz­ ademies , Shavetails. On our service end up among the Cobras in luckiest in servin g with th e in g? What happened to the Tac of­ record we did not get credit Burma. 154th Engineer Combat Bn MSM campus, to the 311 IS to for the three months a t • Enos Key, Bruce and 1138th Combat Group fresh men, the 200 sopho­ le phi­ OCS, so officially we en­ Landis, Ken Mooney, Jack until these combat units mores and the 174 juniors can't tered the Army on April 28 , Reed and Jo hn Schilling were deactivated in my class left behind on Ja n. l't de­ 1943. spent extra time at Ft. Hokkaido Japan. I was not 12, 1943? It was rumored r. " The Imagine, if we had Belvoir. Horace Magee fortunate enough to hear that th e Army occupied the known that we were not in rowed th e 1322 Engineer from Harvey Barnett, Fred being PiKA house, and the Pikes Service Rgt. to Anguar and McKnight, Mack McCutchen ne trivia th e Army, we could have moved in with the men of told those Tac officers to Tinian where he shared and Leo Spinner so their Sigma Pi. Truth or fiction ? ticking drop dead and walked out some adult beverages with military aSSignments cannot Was St. Pat's held in March night. the gate. Nevertheless, it was Jack Reed. be noted here. 43, 44, and 45? It would be strain, a great occasion when a • Clarence Lambelet Apologies are made interesting for someone (or J derner­ friend pinned those shiny bridged all the rivers in Ger­ herewith for the one liners bodies) "in the know" to sort SaM­ new gold bars on your many with the 295th above which absolutely of historize MSM from 43 Nashing­ blouse_ The last straw of Treadway Bridge Company trivialize the 3 112 years of thru 46, and into 1947. .r last course was the anxiety and and Ira Perkin s also wound effort these MSM Engineers Jp I was anticipation one suffered up in Nazi Land. gave to defeat Germany and Any volunteers? :on Ho-

MSM A LUMNUS 41 ~ ~ - 0 ALUMNI NOTES

surveys in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas POLICY FOR PUBLICATIO OF ALUMNI Twenties & and Arkansas. He first worked alone but, later, worked with his son, Richard NOTES IN THE MSM ALUMNUS l. Elgin. CE'74, MSCE'76, president W e are happy to anno unce weddings, births and 1950 Thirties promotions, after they have occurred, of Elgin Engineering and Surveying in L Ph il We will mention a spouse's name if it is specifically Rolla. (see related Alumni Note 1974) mentioned in the inform ation provided by the alumnus. MGeo, 1927 • Samuel S. Pos t, MetE, writes: "Son The MSM Alumnus will announce deaths if information is K,rlhei suffered a stroke in November and is Edward W. Parso n's, MinE, Pro­ submitted by an immediate family member, or from a writes: ' fEMin '67, wife, Namoi Richey Parsons, slowly recupera ting at home. As of now newspaper obituary. Housel diedJune 13, 1992, in Spokane, Wash . I do his writing. " We will print addresses if specifica lly requested to do so visor,R • Edwin R . Sievers's, MinE, summer by the alumnus submitting th e note. h~ wife We reserve the right to edit alumni notes to meet space address is 505 Skidoo Lane, Poison, rerume< 1939 requirements. MT 59860. His winter address is 5000 camore Thomas J. Finley, MetE, writes: W e will use submitted photos only as space permits. Fawn Mea dows, Apt 225, San Anto­ !reatme' " Agnes and I will be in St. Petersburg, nio, T X 78240-1538. H.. ",ul Fla ., from mid-January to the end of 52 gan~ May." • A lbertl. Tetley, CerE writes: 44th we 1933 "In August '92 toured Canadian Rock­ 1943 forward to th e Class of '44 reunion in C.G riffi Henry S. Hickman, CE, and his ies, northwest USA and cruise-toured 1994. R. K ent Com ann, MinE, sold his Theyha wife, Imelda, celebrated th eir 55th wed­ Alaska. Spent th e evening in Fairbanks executive recruiting firm, COJl1ann As­ children ding anniversary Feb. 17. He writes: with Chris Lambert (Chris A, Lam ­ sociates Inc. and Mining Placements hasbeel " Hope to get back to my 60th gradua­ bert, MGeo Al). Chris is retired from 1946 Inc., and is now consulting in executive -WearE tion anniversary." the University of Alaska ." Robert l. Mann, CE, a retired Unit­ recruiting and career guidance of pro­ among ed Methodist Church minister in Sulli­ fessional personnel. He and his wife, ties van, Mo., reports he and his wife, Shir­ Marilyn, look forward to attending his address : 1934 ley, are still "alive and kicking" although 50th class reunion. The note on Kent's MO 6S4 Oscar M . Duncan, ChE. who has he walks with a cane. Forties gift card ended with: " Let's plan for a Jack is been retired for 17 years, will return to record turnout for th e Class of '43!" • Alumni I the ca mpus this year for commence­ Edward T. Kendall. Jr., ME, writes he ment. A granddaughter will receive a 1940 1948 enjoys reti rement and plans to atten d Ph.D. in chemistry. Robert K. Carpenter, ChE, writes: Jorge Jackson, ChE, writes: "Joan th e Class of '43 reunion in May . • Pau l 1952 "Last year we spen i a month in Portu · and I had a very nice visit to Rolla in B. Rothband, ChE, and his wife, Mary, Inl91 gal where I consulted for an electrolytic October '92, al though very short. We ce lebrated th eir 50th \vedding anniver­ rebred a 1937 zinc plant." A lbert l. Kidwell, were very pleased to see MSM-UMR saryon Feb. 27,1993, at their "ranch" from Fiol Robert l. Elgin, CE, was sworn in MGeo, ProfGeo'9 1, writes: "We do a and all th e changes and improvements in Harper, Texas. Paul and Mary were lation_ • for anoth er term as Ph elps County Sur­ lot of traveling in connection with 10 since our previous visi t-very longa90 ... married at Christ Church Episcopal in wntes "I veyor, an office he has held since 1965. grandchildren and my mineral collect­ • A lvin H . Shwartz, MetE, retired in Rolla! He was with Alcoa for 39 years downaftl Bob has completed more than 15,000 ing hobby." 1989 from Universal Industries as se­ before retiremenl Cynlhiarose nior vice president and CEO and, in on the Ix (Davis) Sanders, Chern, writes she will 1990, retired as se nior vice president Southwe be unable to attend the Class of '43 from Gemco National, the mother com­ tion, h,v reunion this spring. pany of Universal Industries. From dent Th, December through April, Alvin's ad­ Diego an, po, Calif. 1944 dress is P O. Box 3667, Dillon, CO 0435-3667, phone (303) 262-11 I umsandi Daniel T. B lount, ChE, who is re­ ItanSan[ tired from Kean College of ewJersey, Assoaati, writes: " In 1992, we went to France, 1949 honored Belgium and etherlands. In 1993 Erwin G. Blankenmeister, EE, who Zone 3 ( have planned a trip to ew Zealand IS retired, writes: "Going to London, County EI and Australia.Spend the summers at Paris, SWItzerland and Italy m April Will been COL Pennsylvania cabm Youngest daugh­ be thmkmgof all Miners every mmute of CountySi ter was married in October '92 " • the tnp." ed by Fr. Robert E. Murphy, EE, retired from George S IBM in 1980, retumed and finally re­ ment and tired m December 1992 • Kenneth 1 9 4 3 bque bu~ W. Schoeneberg, CE, MSCE'4S, looks 50-YEAR H OMECOMI G RE CLASS WIle, Nan, rebre SOor

-12 SMA L U \1 us \~ D UST OFF YOUR FEDORA Fifties 1953 DUling Shell's reorganization, Ed­ 1950 ward L. Cream er, Chern, was assigned Phillip B. "Yo-Yo" Davidson, nnus. to the pressure equipment integlity de­ MGeo, is 70 and still in good health . • ation ~ partment in the new safety, environ­ K arlheinz Eissinger, GGph, CE'51 , na mental and technology organization at writes: "Members 01 the Gamma Delta Shell 's Westhollow facility in West Hous­ H ouse will remember our pastoral ad­ ton. • John R. Seipel, CE, writes: visor, Rev. Norman C. Ellermann, and "Mary and I look forward to attending his wife Neola (Mrs. " E"). They have ;pace my 40th reunion this fall and seeing returned to Rolla and live at 700 Sy­ class mates and some of the professors camore St. H is recovery from cancer 3. from our time." • James F. Zapp, treatment is nothing short of a miracle. MinE, has retired from Phillips Petro­ He would welcome cards from the 1948- leum Co. after 33 years. He lives in 52 gang." • This year will mark the Montana in the summer and Southern FIND YOUR ARGYLE SOCKS, 44th wedding anniversary for Donald reunion in California in the winter. C. Griffin, CerE, and his wife, Dorothy. T hey have five children and four grand­ children. • Carl K. Mann, ME, who 1954 has been retired for three years, writes: James A. Hubeli, MetE, has retired "We are traveling and playing bridge ,tiredUnil· after 35 years with Laclede Steel Co. in among many other enjoyable activi­ lerin Suu;· Alton, ilL H e and his wife, Dot, live at ties. " • J.L "Jack" Painter's, CE, 1355 Elkhart Drive, SI. Louis, MO \~le , Shir· address is 1200 Homelife Plaza, Rolla, !- although 63135. MO 65401, phone (314) 364-0255. Jack is treasurer of the MSM-UMR Al umni Association. 1955 Joseph P. Green, MinE, who is retired from Arco Alaska, has been elect­ ites: -Joan 1952 ed to the Alaska H ouse of Representa­ to Rolla in In 1990, Wallace H. H olmes, MinE, tives. short We retired as district operations engineer ~SM·U~1R from Florida Department of Transpor­ PUT ON YOUR SUSPENDERS, rovements tation . • H. Chalmers K err. Jr., EE, 1956 Iiongago. writes: "On Dec. 31, 1992, I stepped In February of this year, Richard A. " retired in down after 24 years continuous service Hughes, CE, became plant manager of tries as se· on the board of trustees of the Pacific a Foster Forbes glass plant in BUrling­ :0 and, in Southwest Railway Museum Associa­ ton, Wis. His home address is Route 1, , pr",;dent tion, having served 11 years as presi­ N7236 Cane Road, Elkhorn, WI53121. other com· dent. T he muse um operates the San • Clay J. Schmittou, EE, retired from oes. From Diego and Arizona Railway, the Cam ­ Cincinnati Gas and El ectric Co. Nov. 1, <\lvin 's ad­ po, Calif. , and LaMesa Depot Muse­ 1992. )ilion, CO ums and is starting work on a metropol­ 262·1181 itan San Diego museum." • The Illinois Association of County Engineers has 1957 honored Jack Licata, MinE, as th e Herbert W. Miller, ChE, has moved. Zone 3 (southern part of the state) His address is: Director Envir., H ealth County Engineer of the Year. Jack has ""EE,who and Safety, Texaco Europe, Technolo­ been county engineer lor Fran klin a London, gie Park, Zwijnarrue 2, B9052 GenU County since 1972. (from info provid­ nApril.WiII Zwijnarrue, Belgium. yminuteol ed by Frank B. Conci, CE'54) • E. AND PACK YOUR BAGS . George Stevens, CerE, enjoys retire­ ment and his second career in the an­ 1958 tique business in Temecula, Calif. His HOMECOMING '93 IS OCTOBER 1-2. Larry C. Atha, ME, MSME'60, wife, Nancy, still teaches but plans to writes: "In July, I retired as a Depart- IF YOU ARE A MEMBE R OF THE CLASS OF retire soon. 1948, 1953, OR 1958, WE'LL BE EXPECTING YOU I - 0 DID YOU KNOW? ~INOTES If you work fo r a matching IV, "B( Stockbridge, GA30281. He writes: "We 1962 gih company, you ca n double dress is men t of the Army civilian with 34 years have four married children and seven o r possibly t ri ple the impact of Peter E. Otten, MetE, MSMet'65, Saudi A gra ndchildren. The kids live in northern your g ih , just by requesting of service. Took a two-month trip to sends updates on two alums: Pedro A. Virginia (D.C. suburbs) and frequent the match. So m e companies Arameo Alaska. After a five-month vacation, I Frey, MinE'63, AV. Pedro Venturo 627, ask you to simply call your Willia lT started with the University of Alabama visits are made to that area." • Marvin lima 33, Peru, and Pierre L. Garrigue, matching gihs coordinator and motedt, D . Lutz, EE, has been retired from self in Huntsville at the Aerophysics Re­ MinE'63, Los Laureles 337, lima 27, let them know you've made a employment for the pas t six years. gih, and others will give you a ingalEt search Center." He plans to attend the Peru. Peter writes: " Both a little older ny heje 35th class reunion. • Paul O. Her­ form to enclose with your g ih. but doing well. " T he MSM-U MR A lumni A sso­ the sm, r mann. Ill, EE, writes: "Youngest son, 1961 ciation appreciates your efforts '92and , David (David M Herrmann, EMch'89), in obtaining these matching fuiforth was married D ec . 5 in H ouston , T exas. Farouk E.S. EI-Baz, MSGGph'61 , 1964 funds, as a significant amount All children now graduated from UMR PhDGGph'64, is shown receiving the of each year's income is a re­ got man Gary E. Boyer , MinE, is vice pres­ and happily married. All live out of American Association for the Advance­ sult of these matches. ThaJk ~lBA fre ident and general manager at th e South­ you! town means we have to travel a men t of Science (AAAS) award from Deeemt which east Missouri mining and milling divi­ lot. " Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, pres­ our2Str sion of Doe Run Co. ident of MAS during its annual meet­ ary '93. ing in February 1993 at Bos ton, Mass. vice pre 1968 (see also the February issue of theMSM 1965 orth A Alumnus) • William A. H enning, Jerome A. Pais, ME, MSEMch '75, North A T homas H. "Thorn " D unni ng.Jr., Sixties MetE, will receive the Direc tor's Award MSEMgt'80, writes: "Relocated to the burgh,P Chern , of Molecular Science Research of the Cast Metals Institute at the 97th headquarters of National Steel Corp. program Center, has been elected a Fellow of the Casting Congress of the American and accepted the position of manager­ Caterpill 1960 American Association for the Advance­ Foundrymen's Society. • John L. blast furnace engineering." • D avid B. comepr B uddy J. A ustin's, EE, new posi­ ment of Science. Info provided by Th­ H odges, ME, ProfME'79, a vice presi­ Price, Jr., CE, is one of two St. Louis motive I tion is program manager, R&D, for om's brother, Eri c E. Dunning, dent of Owens-Illinois Inc., has been African ~ American business leaders on in Febru American Gas Associates Labs in Cleve­ EMgf79, MSEMgt'72. • Louis M . appointed general manager of the com­ th e "40 Most Powerful Black Execu­ son, Phi land, Ohio. H e will live in Richfield, Maggs, ME, writes: "Recently left as pany's largest operating unit, Owens­ tives" list compiled by Black Enterprise recipient Ohio. • Glenn W. H olm an, MetE, president of furniture manufacturer. Brockway Glass Containers. magazine. David is vice president and retired as lieutenant colonel from the Looking for a turnaround situation in Ch em~ t general manager of the performance U.S. Army Transportation Corps in metal fabrication or electro mechanical BeU Lab product division of Monsanto Co. 's January '89 after 28 years. He and his devices ... Zelm5, ch emical group. wife , Mabel, live at 114 Club Circle, dentan(

1966 1969 Horner and Shifrin Inc. of SI. Louis 1971 Donald W. Shaw, EE, MSEE'71, has received an Honorable Mention John MSEMgt'78, is now general managerof from the Consulting Engineers Council CE79, ~ Rah! Central Electric Power Cooperative of Missouri for its work on th e Metropol­ UMR, hi (CEPC) in Jefferson City, Mo., where itan SI. Louis District 's Sewer Rehabil­ he has worked for more than 19 years. itation Project. Leonard C. Kirberg, CE, PddEMgt'78, ProfCE'86, is presi­ dent and CEO of Horner and Shifrin . • Robert L. " Bob" M cCarron Jr., ME, MS EMgt'71 , was th e project manager Seventies of an engineering team receiving ICI"s ICEE award for innovation, creativity 1970 and excellence in engineering , a ccord ~ ing to information provided by his moth ­ Charles L. Casteel, CE, a partner er. Pauline McCarron of SI. Louis, Mo. in th e Denver-based law firm of Davis, Graham and Stubbs, has been named a fellow of th e American College ofT rial 1967 Lawyers. • Harold W. Hager, PhD­ Brya n A. Stirrat, CE, and his wife, Math , mathematics professor at South­ DID YOU GRADUATE IN '637 C OME BE A Jeanne, have moved into a new home east Missouri State University in Cape at 1806 Diamond Knoll Lane, Dia­ Girardeau, Mo., was awarded a certifi­ FA AGAIl FOR THE M INER FOOTBALL mond Bar, CA 9 1765, phone (909) ca te of meritorious service by The Math­ 860-0443. ematical Associa tion of America (MM) GAME AT HOMECOMING, '93. at a jOint January mee ting of th e MAA and the Ameri can Mathematical Soci­ ety in San Antonio, Texas, • Robert Cl

44 MSM A LU M NUS , latching I double W. " Bob" Hintermaier's, PetE, ad­ Quality Award for 1993. Greg is man­ •npactof dress is PO Box 956, Dhahran 3131, luesting ager of quality engineering for John npanies Saudi Arabia. He writes: "Switched to Deere Engine Works in Waterloo, Iowa. all YOur Aramco from Exxon in October '92. " • Da rold L. Phillips, EMgt, MS atorand William F. Kuhar, Jr., EE, was pro­ EMgt'76, his wife, Helen, and th ei r two made a moted to director of product engineer­ daughters, Sarah, 13, and Martha, 10, 'eyou a ing at Eureka Co., the vacuum compa­ 'Our gift. live near Marshfield, Mo . • Thomas G. ni Asso. ny he joined in 1986 after 15 years in Thompson, CE, manager of water re­ Irefforts the small motor industry. "The years sources at Horner and Shifrin's branch latching '92 and early '93 have been very event­ office in Belleville, III. , accepted an En­ amount ful for the Kuhars. Our daughter, Beth, gineering Excellence Honor Award (En­ ) is a re ­ got married in May of '92. I received an :. Thank vironmental Category) from the Con­ MBA from Illinois State University in 1968 sulting Engineers Council of Illin ois December, and Kathy and I celebrated (CECil for Horner and Shifrin Jan. 29, our 25th wedding anniversary in J anu­ THE SIXTIES WERE COOL. 1993. ary '93. " • Charles T. Ray, MetE, is vice president of Ferrosilicon Division­ GROOVY. North America at ELKEM Metal Co.'s FLOWER CHILREN. 1974 SEMch'75, North American headquarters in Pitts­ Missouri's governor has appointed ated to the burgh, Pa . • Randall R. Richards, EE, LOVE BEADS. Dr. Richard L. Elgin, CE, MSCE '76, iteel Corp. program manager for future product at to the Land Surveying Division of the ,I manager· PEACE. Caterpillar's Engine Division, will be­ Missouri Board of Architects, Profes­ • David B. come president of the Society of Auto­ A ND THESE GUYS . sional Engineers and Land Surveyors. oSt Louis motive Engineers (SAE) International Dick is president of Elgin Surveying and leade ~ on in February 1994. • Larry F. Thomp­ IriS BEEN 25 YEARS . COME BACK. Engineering Inc. in Rolla, an adjunct "k Execu· son, PhDChem, has been named the professor of civil engineering at UMR : Enterpnse recipient of the ASC Award in Industrial and an officer in the Central Ozark !Sidentand ChemiStry. Dr. Thompson is an AT&T Section of the MSM-UMR Alumni As­ ~rformance Bell Laboratories Fellow. • J effr ey L. sociation. Dick's father is Robert L. anto Co.'s Zelms, MinE, ProfEMin '87, is presi­ Defense Meritorious Service Medal for member of the facul ty at the U.S. War Elgin, CE'37. (see related Alumni Note dent and CEO of Doe Run Co. his work in Europe. Dennis L. College in Carlisle Barracks, Pa. , to that 1937) • Michael J. "Boots" Miller, Campbell, CE, has joined Horner and of commander, U.S. Army Petroleum AE, and his family reside in Lubbock, Shifrin Inc., Engineers/Architects/Plan­ Center, New Cumberland, Pa . • Rob­ Texas, where " Boots" is commander of 1971 ners, as senior project manager. ert L. Ward, CE, MSCE'74, an assis­ the 33rd Flying Training Squadron at MSEE'71, J ohn R. Buckwalter, CE, MS David A. Eppestine, AE, writes: "Di­ tant professor of civil engineering at Reese AFB. He writes: "Upon deactiva­ managerol CE'79, professor of military science at ane (Diane [G ibbs] Eppestine, Ohio Northern University, has been tion, I will command the 64th Opera­ ooperanve UMR, has been awarded the Army's CSci'75) has been participating in a appointed to the Herbert F. Alter Chair tions Support Squadron." In August he telecommuting trial at Southwestern Bell of Engineering SCience, an endowed ~o .. where will attend Air War College at Maxwell since August 1992, work­ faculty chair, for the 1992-93 academic n19yea~. AFB, Montgomery, Ala. Friends are ing at home four days a year. Dr. Ward received a Ph.D. in civil encouraged to call (806) 885-1477 to week. Look for my articles engineering from the University of Ar­ renew acquaintances. in SI. Louis 'PC Journal. ' kansas . • Kenneth Williams, EMgt, is Son. Peter, now 6, is en­ manufacturing manager at the Ford 2S joying kindergarten." Windsor Pl ant # 1 in Windsor, Canada. 1975 Jan M. Pottinger, ME, Tony S . Babnik, Chem, wri tes: "Got MSME '71 , is a design en­ - married in June '92 (wife, Monica, from gineer for Elkay Manufac­ 1972 Panama). Worked at Abbott Labs, c, a partner turing in Lanark, III. He, J ohn F. Chien, MSCE, writes: "I North Chicago, since January '87 as a molDavis, his wife, Linda, and son, have recently joined the CH2M Hill chemical operator. Passed 17 years of een named Jalin, 17, live at 637 E. International Asia Regional Office in U.S. Army Reserve service in Septem­ fTnal legeo P earl St. , Lanark, IL Taipei, Taiwan. I am appointed as Chi­ ber '92. Rank of major. " • Thomas B. ager, PhD· 61046. Ronald W. na program manager responsible for Ellis, CE, who has joined the SI. Louis "at South· Schuster, EMgt, has been Chang Chun water supply and waste­ office of Burnsand McDonnell as senior ;ly in Cape promoted to president of water treatment project and promotion civil engineer, is working on the Lam­ acertifi· Ceca Concrete Construc­ of environmental projects on mainland led bert Airport expansion project. Tom tion Co. in Willowbrook, China." • Gregory D. McClain, EMgt, VThe~lath· says this is th e 'largest ever' construc­ Il l. • In July 1992, Terry was reappointed to the Board of Exam· 'nca(MAAI tion project in Missouri and is providing L. Wagner, PetE, was re- iners for the Malcolm Baldrige National ~ltheMAA an exciting challenge for him in the new CLASS OF YOUR 20-YEAR assigned from duties as a ,atical Soci· '73! field of program management. • Chris­ • Robert REUNION IS OCT. 2-3! topher J. Lotz, CE, has been promoted

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sOuri , \ Ihe Alu tersGrr be able out hav statetui Stich no Office r an appl MINER FOOTBALL to vice president of industrial of J .S . 1977 Alberici Construction Co. Inc. in St. Robert F. Gaebler, CSci, MS CSci louis. • Stephen A. Meyer, CE, is 'Sl , and his wife, Sall y L. Gaebler, superintendent of the Solid Waste Divi­ repOlt th eir 7-year-old son, Timmy, died sion of the Springfield (Mo.) Public last September of complications of dia­ Works Dept. • Michael J. Q uinn's, betes. "Looking forward to whatever ChE, MSChE'S7, address is 9 Giocon­ lies ahead. Life goes on." • Arthur L. da Ave., Acton, MA 01720-4303. Giesler, ME , writes: "We have finished the transition from Texas to Ill inois. My 1976 new job includes travel overseas (Tai­ FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER THAT wan , Korea, Europe and Malaysia) as Daniel Classen, MetE, has been well as the U. SA " THE '70s MEANT MORE THAN DISCO. promoted to general manager at How­ met's Thermatech facility in Whitehall, Mich . • Donald R. Dudley, ME, is the 1978 recipient of the ASHRAE Energy Award IT's REUNION TIME ! H OMECOMING '93 In January, Mi chael L. Coldiron, for commercial bUildings using ground ME, was promoted to section chief of source heat pump applications. the Coating Division of the Texas Air Stephen G. Eckert, ME, and his wife, Control Board in Austin . • Michael F. Fay (Schubert) Eckert, GeoE '76, " Mike" Foley, ChE, writes: "After 14 have two boys, Joshua, 11, and An­ Smith, PetE, writes: "I am still with In c. Hi s wife, Rebecca (Kovarik) lsom , and a half years with Allied Signal in drew, 5, and a new baby girl, Caroline. Chevron but I'm now living in l agos, ME 'S3, retired after 10 years with Hall­ Kansas City, I have relocated to Califor­ (see also "Future Miners") • D ennis Nigeria' I transferred from California to mark Cards. Their address is 14 Wind­ nia and joined the staff at Sandia Na­ W. Leitterma n, EE, MSEE '77, OEM Nigeria in December 1991. The first fall Ridge Court, Chesterfield, MO tional l ab. My home address is 3470 account manager with the Hewlet!­ year overseas has been a great experi­ 63017. • J effr ey L. Smith, CerE, his Andrews, # 301 , Pl easanton, CA Packard Co. in Sunnyvale, Calif. , has ence for my family and myself. " wife, Lori (King) Smith, and their ch il­ 9458S." • Kevin M Lahay's, GeoE, been elected a director of the Interna­ Robert J. Willie, CE, writes: "We re­ dren have moved to 7220 Timber Trail, address is Ashdown, 5 Falconwood, tional Electrical Engineering Honor centlytransferred from Hartford, Conn., Ft. Worth, TX 76134, phone (S 17) Tite Hill , Englefield Green, Surrey, Society, Eta Kappa Nu. Dennis, his to the Peoria office with the North 56S-0333. Jeff writes: "Our two chil­ TW20 OlS, United Kingdom wife, Pamela (The beau) Leitterman, American Commercial Division of Cat­ dren keep us busy; Bryan is 4 and a half AMth77, and their two sons live in erpill ar. With the exception of a dismal and Samantha is 1 and a half. Our Sunnyvale, Calif. • Joseph A. Vehige, 1979 economy, the Northeast was quite an move was to get into a better school ME, writes: "Jeanne and I have been adventure for us 'flat landers. '" district and also to a larger home. " S alvatoreJ. Calise, CE, MSCE'Sl , using most of OUf 'free ' time with our has been promoted to vice-president of four kids: Sarah, 16, Bill, 13 , Jacob, 10, the solvent division of Camp Dresser and Joey, 2. I work as a head applica­ 1981 1983 and McKee . • Kenneth R. Foster, Jr., tion engineer for Emerson Electric Spe­ Diane (Dowl en) Underwood, CSci , Curtis L. Bermel, MetE , the new CE, writes: "Work (Ed. note: Missouri cialty Motor Division. Would like to writes: "Mark and I have three children, department manager-Thermal Process­ Highway and Transportation Dept.) hear from some ;Iate nile lab ' friends ." Jeanette, 7, Jeremy, 5, and Aaron, 2. es, Nord Europa with Air Liquide, writes: continues to be interesting, educational Th ey keep us busy but happy." "Our center is in Dusseldorf, Germany. and demanding. The same could be ) 3 It's a great experience living abroad. " said for kids; Krystal and Amanda. " Curtis wrote "th a nl

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Nashville District. This is our first duty Spend my spare time traveling, back­ an· with th e Corps and it is a real switch packing, camping and fishing in the an. from military units. Lots of challenges, beautiful western states and Canada." bu lots of fun. We love it. " • Richard H. Straeter, PetE, is vice president ofBarg­ er Engineering Inc. in Evansville, Ind. 1985 A. Mark Atkins, PetE, is an engi­ neer with Lockheed Aeronautical Sys­ 1984 tems Co. in Atlan ta , Ga . • Rodney Lee W. David Evans, EE, CSci'S7, Chaney, Econ, and Rachel Anne Clear writes: "Working for an aluminum roll ­ were married Oct. 24, 1992, in Leeton, an ing mill, developing/improving automo­ Mo. The couple is at home at the Show­ Chi tive and control systems. Bought a Me Christian Youth Home in LaMonte SCt house. Working on MSEE at University (Mo.) where they are "mom and dad" en[ of Tennessee." Christopher L. houseparents to 12 children . • Wayne is e "Chris" Hamon, EE, has been named L. Ellenberger, CE, has relocated from net fror manager of operations and engineering the Kansas City office to the St. Louis in ~ for White River Valley Electric Cooper­ regional offi ce of Burns and McDon­ BRlNG THE HATS, LEAVE THE BEAR AT HOME, I ative. • William C. Wagner, ME, nell. • Cherrie (Kimbrough) Fisher, gra received an MBA-his GPAwas3.9- eE, is an estimating engineer for from Long Island University in January H.B.Zachry Construction Co. in San '93. Bill says he is obviously a bit more Antonia, Texas . • Robert T. Hediger, sen (Cheryl uses her maiden name.) focused now than when he wasat UMR. CE, has joined R. G. Brinkmann Con­ 1987 did Stephen J . Hoak, ChE, continues to His wife is Cynthia (Doerflin ger) Wag­ struction Co. as a project manager. • David J . Bayless, ME, has passed did. work for Marathon Oil located about 30 ner, CerE,'S6. • Kenna Roberson Steven D. Johnson, MinE, writes: "1 the qualifying examination for Ph. D. ISh miles west of New Orleans. "I am pri­ ins, Yarbourgh, GeoE, writes: "1 am still have recently been promoted to plant studies in the department of mechani­ 1 enjoying my work as a criminal investi manager for Martin-Marietta's Koko­ marily responsible for the controls that cal and in dustrial engineering at the Mit run our refinery and maintaining th e mo Stone and Sand Plants in Kokomo, University of min ois at Urbana-Cham­ BSe distributed control system." (see also Ind. If any classmates are in the area, paign. Dave's father is Jerry R. Bay­ ney "Future Miners") • Daniel Christian please stop by." • Mark Colin Zim­ less, CE'59, MSCE'62, associate dean Mel Link , ME , and Madonna Ruth lost merman, Chern, and LauraJean Moy­ of engineering and associate professor uatE er were married Aug. 22, 1992, in Kl aesner, CSci'S9, were manried Oct. of civil engineering at UMR. • Anne dau! 3, 1992. Chris is with Hussmann Corp. Tulsa, Okla. Mark is assistant plant (Day) Burke, CSci, is a systems analyst and Madonna is employed by Master­ manager at QSC Products Ltd. in Sap­ for Mobil Corp. in Fairfax, Va. She Card International. The couple resides ula, Okla. The couple resides in Tulsa. plans to complete an MBA degree with­ in St. Charles, Mo. • Stephen D. Or 9 in the next IS months. Her husband, Nussbaum, PetE, writes: "My wife, nam David, is a lawyer working for the Jus­ relat Leslie, and 1 have two children; Jacob, 1986 tice Dept. in the Solicitor General's 6540 born Aug. 3, 1990, and Autumn, born J a mes K. Pazdera, EE, isan instru­ office. Anne writes: "Would really like Oct. 15, 1992. New address is: 2612 mentielectrical engineer for the Ad­ to hear from fellow alumni!" Their home Churchill Road, Springfield, IL 62702. vanced Material Group of Hoechst­ aridress is 14136 Honey Hill Court, I recently transferred as a project man­ Celanese in Bishop, Texas. His wife is Centreville, VA 22020 . • Paul C. Luik, ager for superfund and federal facilities Evelyn (Bruno) Pazdera , PetE, EMgt. ME, manried Deborah Fuhrer of Hous­ undergoing remedial investigation/ac­ • Willi am J effr ey Sparks, EE , and ton, Texas on Sept. 5. He writes: "Still tion. " • Patrick J . Toby, CE, became Pamella Renee Roll were married Oct. enjoy working for Bechtel and the life in 1.-- a registered professional engineer in 10, 1992. Bill is employed as an electri­ Texas." • Dines h Venkatachalam, minois in February . • Tracy L. Widner, cal engineer and Pam is employed as a MS EE, is at 3Com and has access to Psyc, writes: "As of Nov. 12, 1992, 1 secretalY with Allied Signal Aerospace the Internet. "It is good seeing postings 1\1 joined th e ranks of manried men! Work Co. Both also are attending Avila Col­ originating at UMREE. Hope to send is going great. TEN YEARS lege in Kansas City, Mo . • Fredrick A. my son, Sandeep, to UMREE in 17 Turman, EMgt, has been commissioned years time. " ALREADY?!? an ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He drills with Naval Mobile Construc­ Nan tion Battalion 14, Naval Air Station, 1989 1988 N," J ohn Charles Bosman Jr., ME, Jacksonville, Fla. During the week, he Thomas Duggan AE and Cheryl CLASS OF '83 and Ellen Elizabeth Pratt were manried works th ere as a civilian facilities engi­ Tefft AM th 'S9 would lil

48 MSM A LUMNUS Ne\v L -- ~I------I RELATIVELY SPEAKING I I Now FAX YOURI NFORMATION FORT HEA LUMNUS -314-341-6091 I l Your fel low alumni are interested in your professional accomplish­ For more than 50 years, Henry M . Cole, CE'53, his brothers ments including job change, promotion or retirement; community and and family have sought a higher education at MSM-UMR. Henry volunteer activities; recent marriage or addition to your family; or any and his t hree brothers together w ith one brother w ho studied he re other news you would like to share. FAX to: MSM· UMR A lumni Associ­ but did not graduate are listed below. ation, Castleman Hall, Ro lla, MO 64501

Henry M . Cole, CE' 53 (retired) Kenneth D . Cole, CE'54 (retired) Name ______Cl ass Yea r Bobby D. Cole, attended '54, '55, '56 and '58 (studied CE ) Carl D . Cole, CE'57 (retired) Address, city, state, ZIP ______Larry J . Cole, CE'69 (deceased)

The tradition contin ued with sons, grandsons and, in one case, Is this a new address? _ yes _ no a nephew attending and/or graduating from UMR. Henry's son, Gregory M . Cole, CE'70, is pastor of Crossroads Em ployer/position ______Chapel in Co lorado Springs and his son (Henry's grandson), Scott A. Cole, is enrolled at UMR planning to major in civil Phone #'5 (hi ______(wl ______engineering. Another of Henry's sons, Christopher S. Cole, also is enroll ed at UMR and w ill study mechanical engineeri ng. Ken­ Employer address, city, state, ZIP ______neth's son (and Henry's nephew), J effory D. Cole, graduated from UMR in 199 1 with a B.S. in civil engineering and is with R.T.1. Here's my news: in North Ca roli na. ME, Congratulations to all of the Coles - both graduates and future grads!

And how about the Mittlerfamily? ThomasJ. Mittler, BSCE '75, sends us this: Hi s cousin, James W . Mittler, attended UMR but L ______~ nam~) • did not graduate but his brother, David W. Mittler, BS EMgt'74, ontinues to did. And to make matters more interesting, Dave's wife, Virginia ldabouI30 (Shoulders) Mittler, attended UMR and another of Tom's cous­ ins, Henry J . Overkamp, graduated in '88 with a BSChE. CALLING ALL CAVERS! · '1 am pri· Then there is a distant (Tom's words) cousin, Jon Paul onrrolsthal Mittler, BSME'84 whose wife's cousins, William M. McKinney, WANTED: SPELUNKERS HISTORY! llaining the BSC E'7 1, MSCE'74, (h is father was the late Herman M . McKin­ • Isee also ney, BS EE '35)' Michael S. McKinney BSCE '74 and Garth G. McKinney BSCE'43 were graduates of MSM-UMR. In case you As president of the MSM Spelunkers Clu b and representative I Chrislian lost cou nt, 10 members of Tom's family either attended or grad· of the Missouri Speleological Survey, Rob Tayloe is compili ng lna Ruih uated from MSM-UMR. Tom noted: " No such luck with our three the history of the MSM Spelunkers Club. larriedOd daughters; all are attending the University of Texas at Austin. " From what he has learned thus far, the Spelunkers Club was founded in the mid-1930s by Noel Hubbard (assist ant registrar), nannCoW Andrew Kassay (student), Joe B. Butler (civil engineering profes­ by Masler· If you have a large number of family members who attended sor) and Willard Fa rrar, who later worked as a survey geologist lpleresides or graduated from MSM·UMR, let us know about them. Send forthe State of Missouri. Many other significant people at MSM/ lephen O. names, dates of attendance or graduation, discipline and their UMR were members of this club. Important caving trips and contributions to the science of speleology came out of the club ' My wile, relation to you to Jack Painter, Castleman Hall, UMR, Ro lla, MO 65 401. act ivities. ren;Jacob, Please send any historical information and humorous or tumn.bom se rious stories aboutthe MSM Spelunkers Club to help complete 55~: 26 12 this history to MSM Spelunkers Clu b, c/o Rob Tayloe, HC 4, Box 69 , Edgar Springs, MO 65462, 314-435-6563 (evenings). · IL 62702 rojectman· ,ralfacilities tigaoollJac, 1.------1 :E. became ? MAKE SU RE YOUR MSM AWMNUS MOV ES WITH YOUI SEND US YOUR NEW ADDR ESS . I ~ngineer in L. Widner, Ma VIN G . Effe cti ve Date I 12.1992, I Return to: MSM· UMR Alumni Association, Castleman Hall, Rolla, MO 654 01-0249 I men!Work I I Na m e ______New Home Ph one ______I

New Add ress ______City/Slate/ZIP ______I I n Jr .. ME, I If you're sta rting a new job, too: llem,me

Westlake Monomers Corp in Paducah , employed by Nooter Constru ction, St. U.S. EPNRobert S. Kerr Environmen­ DID YOU KNOW? Ky . • Caroline E. Hock, EMgt, writes: Louis, Mo. The couple will make their tal Research Lab." • Brian Werkmeis­ ''I've moved back to civiliza tion-back home in St. Louis. • Brett A. Renken , ter, EE , is a power systems engineer for You are represented in to th e home office-back to home: EE, and Traci M. Todd, ME'90, were General Electric in St. Louis. your alumni associat ion by 3525 Wintergreen Lane, St. Louis, MO married Sept. 19, 1992. Brett is with directors-at-Iarge and area 63125. " Carrie says she would love to Fru-Con Engineering and Traci works directors. Area directors are hear from those with whom she lost for MK-Ferguson. They live in Ellisville, 1991 responsible for those areas that fall in their zip code track while in Wes t Virginia. • Yu Mo . • CherylTefft AMth and Thomas Jeffrey W. Davis, an ensign in the range, and directors-at-Iarge Iriyama, PhDChem, writes: "I have Duggan AE '88 would like to hear from U.S. Navy, graduated from th e Subma­ serve all alumni. See inside moved to Yamenashi University as a their friends. They live at 3105 Wind­ rine Officer's Basic Course. Jeffrey front cover for the directors lecturer. " • Madonna Ruth Klaesner, swept Drive, St. Charies, MO 63303. joined th e Navy in 1990. • James L. that represent YOU. CSci, and Daniel Christian Link, (Cheryl uses her maiden name.) Hill, NucE, writes: "I'm in the final ME '88, were married Oct. 3, 1992. David A. Wyrick, PhD EMgt, an assis­ stages of work on my MSNucE at th e Madonna is employed by MasterCard tan t professor in indusmal engineering University of Illinois. Ph .D. quali fying International and Chris is with Hus­ at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, exam to be taken in January '93. " Shawnee, Kan. John is a management smann Corp. The couple resides in St. writes: "I am coaching ice mites hockey trainee with Westinghouse Electric Corp. Charies, Mo. Johnnie Howard (for 4-6 year olds!) for the neighbor­ and the bride is employed by Hallmark Reddell, ME, and Janna Dalynn Bish­ hood rink. " 1992 Cards in Kansas City, Mo. • Joseph op were married Sept. 26, 1992. He is Stacey A. Acup, ME, and Julie Jones, CE, and Valerie Vislay were Bruning were married May 23, 1992, in married Jan. 9, 1993, in Kansas City, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Stacey is with Mo. Joe is with the Missouri Depart­ Looking for a job? Black and Veatch and Julie works for ment of Transportation. The couple Nineties Metmor Financial. They reside in Kan ­ plans to live in Jefferson City, Mo. • sas City, Mo. • Thomas K. Edmond­ The UMR Placement and Michelle Dawn Sievers, EMgt, and Cooperative Training Office 1990 son, EE, and Lori A. Bryant were mar­ John Pershing Clippard III, were mar­ provides alumni referral ser­ ried Jan. 9, 1993, in Warrensburg. He ried Sept. 12, 1992. Michelle is em­ Iris Elizabeth Brinegar, Psyc, Engl, v ice to UMR graduates look­ is employed as a process engineer with ployed by General Electric Corp. in ing for a job or a ca reer and Gary Ray Widiger were recently Procter and Gamble. • John Francis Burlington, Vt. , and John is with Shel­ change with a job vacancy married on th e campus of Was hington Hall, ME, and Claudia Cecilia Mal­ bourne Corp. in Shelbourne, Vt. The bulletin published twice each University in St. Louis. Iris is employed \ ~ donado were marred Dec. 19, 1992, in couple resides in Burlington. month. A three-month sub­ by th e Department of Mental Health . • sc ription to the Entry Level Chad D. Colvin, EE, is staH engineer Bulletin, (0 to 3 years experi­ ence), is $15. A subscription for Chillicothe (Mo.) Municipal Utilities. to the Alumni Job Listing, • Darrell J. Dixon, MetE, MSMetE .-----Puture Miners------, (over three years experi­ '92, of 445 First St., Arnold AFB, TN ence), is $25. If you are inter­ 37389-3400, is employed by a con­ ested in this service, send your check, made payable tractor as a failure analyst at Arnold to University of Missouri­ AFB, Tullahoma, Tenn . • Douglas B. Mark L. Goldstein Ch E '71 and Celia, a daughter, Miriam An ne, Feb. Rolla, to the address below. Oglesby, AE, an ensign in the U.S. 11 . The office will also ac­ Navy, has reported for duty aboard the Stephen G. Eckert ME '76 and Fay (Schubert) Eckert GeoE'76, a girl, cept six copies of your re ­ gUided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge. Carolin e. July 13, 1992. sume w hich will be matched with avail able positions. • Robert L. Phillips, LSci, is pursuing Thomas W. Btackburn CE '82. MSCE '84 and Grace, a son , Donald Through your career objec­ an MDlPhD combined degree at the Kazoo, Oct. 17, 1992. tive or in a short note, indi­ University of Florida (UF). His wife, Bruce J. Davis AE, MSAE'90 and Lori (Bartlett) Davis CSci'83, second cate to the Pla cement Office Kathy (Katherine [Stone] Phillips, son, Peter. July 11 , 1992. the kind of position you are Loui s R. "Lou" Briscoe CSci '83 and Lisa , a daughter, Kaitlyn Nicole, interested in. NucE'90), graduated from UF with an MS in health physics and is on th e Jan. 12. Send your request for a faculty of the Nuclear Engineering Sci­ Ramsey T. EI-Fakir. ME '84 and linda, first child, Alexander Tausin, subscription and your re­ ence Dept. of UFo • Traci M. Todd, Oct. 4, 1992. sumes to: ME, and Brett A. Renken, EE '89, were James J. Wlos, EM gt '84 and Amy, son, Joseph Mich ael, born St. Jamie Archer, Patrick 's Day 1993. Director married Sept. 19, 1992. T rac i works for Placement and MK-Ferg uson and Brett is with Fru­ Andrea (Cairns) Foust EE '88 and Duane, son. Daniel, July 1, 1992. Cooperative Training Can Engineering. They reside in Ellis­ Stephen J. Hoak ChE '88 and Jennifer, son, Sept. 11. 1992. 303B Norwood Hall ville , Mo . • Alex H. Vincent, GGph, University of Missouri-R olla Rolla, MO 65401 -0249 writes: "Currently writing a guida nce document that develops a protocol for evaluating th e effectiveness of ground­ While we water pump-and-treat systems for the that You wi It CoSIS se Associatiot 50 MS M AL UM NUS OblainaM i SchOlarship Amazing UMR license

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~icol e , Yes! I want to display the Miner license plate! It's true_ Recently MSM-UMR a1wnni associ ation vice I've enclosed my check fo r $25. Please send my president, Lindsay Bagnall '76, was " fTont-ended" by a license plate authoriza tion form to: garbage truck. While her personalized UMR license plate suffered serious damage, her two-week-old Nissan Name: ______'1i2 Axxess incurred only minor damage. Lindsay attributes thi s to her license plate. "If it hadn't been for that pl ate, Address: ______the whole front end would have been smashed in, " she say s. City /State/ZIP: ______While we can't guarantee similar safety features for your car, we can guarantee that you will show the world where your loyalties lie with style and spirit. Home/Business Phone: ______It costs so little to "get tagged." For a minimum donation to the Alumni Mail thjs form with your check payable to:

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presider The MSM-UMR Alumni Associa­ senior class and graduated with honors. 1929 Association and a student assistant in sources tion extends its condolences to the Omar worked with the Missouri Public Thomas Odie English, EE, Pro­ the metallurgical department. Robert bplorai families and friends of the following Service Commission, Westinghouse fEE '35, DE '75, died Oct. 30, 1992. worked with Western Cartridge Co., ratione deceased alumni: Electric and Jack and Heintz Inc. He Tom attended Oklahoma State A and Joseph T. Ryerson and Son and was member was a vice president of marketing for M and Iowa State College prior to com­ vice president of Callier Steel Pipe Tube sociatior the Hartman Electric Mfg. Co for 28 Inc. before founding Niewoehner Co. 1923 ing to MSM. At MSM, he was a member of Kappa Sigma, A I.E. E., the Glee years before retiring in 1985. After retir­ H e was active in the business until his Augustus Benton Wilkerson, MinE, Club, MSM Band, Kappa Kappa Psi, ing' he did consulting work for Hart­ death. (information submitted by Rob­ 1956 died July 14, 1992. AB. wasa member man. ert V. Wolf, ME '51, MSME '52) Dynamiters and a 2nd LT in ROT C. Willi of Kappa Sigma, Satyr, DeMolay, Mo. After graduation, Tom was with West­ in Febn. Mining and Metallurgical Association inghouse Electric Co. , Aluminum Ore member and on the Miner Board while attending 1941 Co. and retired from the Aluminum 1950 MSM. He worked with Red River Lum­ on the I Company of America. He was elected Kathryn Wink of Cupertino, Calif. , Robert J oseph McNally, MetE , ber Co. in California, Beaumont Iron Boardar to the Academy of Electrical Engineers informed the alumni association her died March 20, 1993, in Schenectady, Works, Warman Steel Castings Co. and registrar in 1933 and in 1970 he received the husband, Joseph Giles Wink, MinE, N.Y. At MSM, Robert wasa member of retired as a partner of Wilkerson and ",thPitt Alumni Association Award. (Some info Chem'42, died. At MSM, Joe was a Chi Sigma, Tau Beta Pi , recipient of the Nutwell of Fresno, California. BlairC" was contributed by Tom's daughter, member of A.I.M.E, the Tech Club, an Phi Kappa Phi Book Plate Award, the years. Jeannien E. Abel) Independent and a student assistant in Gold Key Award and was on the honor the chemistry department. He worked list many times. H e was a veteran of Herb 1926 for Phillips Petroleum Co. , American World War II and, in 1950, began a Februar, Guy William Staples, MinE, died 1935 Brakeshoe and ABEX Corp. He was career with Allegheny Ludlum Steel Feb. 3, 1993, at 91 in his home in retired at the time of his death. member Russell C. Solomon, MetE, Co. as a junior metallurgist, retiring as Eufaula, Okla. Prior to receiving a bach­ Indepene ProfMetE'74, died Jan. 26, 1993, in general superintendent of melting in elor's degree from MSM, Guy was a Tech Cit Glen Carbon, Ill. At MSM , he was a 1981 prospector and a member of A I. M. M. E. 1943 and on member of Kappa Alpha, Alpha Psi and, after graduation, was with Gulf Oil worked I Omega, A.I.MM.E , the MSM Band Paul A. Brielma ier, EE, died in and United Geophysical in Tulsa. He Brown E and on the S t. Pat's Board. He worked January 1993. Paul attended Washing­ 1952 retired as owner and operator of Laun­ Veterans with Enamelling and Stamping Works, ton University in St. Louis prior to com­ Herbert E. Miller, Min E, died in derease in Liberal, Kan. In 1974, he Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. and re­ ing to MSM. Aftergraduation, he worked June 1988. Herbert transferred from and his wife, Violet (who preceded him tired in 1978 from the Granite City with Union El ectric and until retire­ Chanute Junior College to MSM where in death), moved to Eufaula where he 1959 Steel Co. as vice president of quality ment. (Paul's death was reported by he was a member of A I. M.E. and the resided until his death. (info provided John Schilling, ChE '43) Clare control. After retirement, he was an C Spelunkers Club. He worked for Ten­ by Guy's daughter, Elaine Adkins) 3,1993,i adjunct professor in engineering at nessee Coal and Iron Co. and U.S. he was ( Southern Illin ois University in Edwards­ Horace Little Magee, Ill, CE, died. Steel. (information provided by Albert Horace, who attended Arkansas State L "AI" Tetl ey, CerE'39) Club, Del 1928 ville and received the SlUE distinguished service award in 1978. Russell also College before to coming to MSM, was Chi Epsil, James Gerald Donaldson, MinE, lectured on th e construction and histo­ a member of Sigma Nu , Shamrock on the hOI died March 6, 1993 in Rolla. While ry of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and Club, ROTC., on the Miner Board 1953 Wichita, I attending MSM , Jerry was affiliated with was a contributor to the Encyclopedia and a student assistant in the civil engi­ Thor Gjelsteen, MinE, Prof­ way and the Prospector Society. He worked in neering department at MSM. He served Brittanica and several professional or­ GeoE'78, DE '90, died Dec. 28, 1992, from 19)1 Mexico as a mine and topographic sur­ in th e U.S. Army, worked with Atlantic ganizations. in Denver. At MSM, Thor was a mem­ veyor, returned to the States and was Refining Co. and retired from Sverdrup ber of the Jackling Terrace Council, with St. Louis Gas and Coke Co. , Lacle­ Corp. Theta Xi , the "M" Club (he lettered in 1967 de Steel Corp. and Battelle Memorial 1938 both basketball and football) , A I. M.E., JO hn Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He served Omar Clifton Walley, EE, died in vice president of his junior class, and MSEE')I in the U.S. Army during World War II. 1948 February 1993, in Mansfield , Ohio. was a student assistant in the petroleum home in, In 1950 he went to work with the U.S. Robert Jay Niewoehner, MetE , Omar attended Hannibal-LaGrange engineering department. He worked member I Bureau of Mines in Rolla where he College in Hannibal, Mo. prior to com­ died Jan. 6, 1993, in Kirkwood, Mo. for Geophysical Service Inc., Vanadi­ Kappa Nt remained until his retirement. ing to MSM . At MSM , he was a member Robert was a member of Lambda Chi um Corporation of America, Superior Kappa Phi of Kappa Alpha, the Interfraternity Alpha, th e Engineers Club, Alpha Phi Oil Co., was with the Research Founda­ uaiedWith Omega, A I.M.E., A.S.M., Photogra­ Council, Blue Key, A I.E.E., on th e golf tion at the Colorado School of Mines, With W" phy Club, American FoundrYlT.an 's team, an NYA assistant , secretary of the president of Frontier Resources Inc., Arizona P,

52 MSM AL U MNUS -- MEMORIAL GIFTS If would like to make a m e morial gift in me mory of a loved o ne or fri e nd, please contact the MSM-UMR Alumni Association, or s imply send a check, made out to the MS M-UMR Alumni Associ­ ation, and include a note indicating the individual who yo u would like to me morialize. Contributions to the MSM-UMR Alumni Associatio n are tax­ de ductible.

as:,istanl in president of Marathon-Frontier Re­ 1972 sources and later president of Ferret 'nl Robert The alumni association has learn ed Exploration Co. including Ferret Explo­ T1Iidge Co., that Thomas A. Rahm, CSci, died Laird D. Schearer, Curator's Professor ration Co. -Nebraska. (Thor was a past on and was Aug. 17, 1992. His last known employ­ of physics and a distinguished researcher in member of the MSM-UMR Alumni As­ elPipe Tube ment (1985) was with Southwestern atomic and molecular physics, died March 7 sociation Board of Directors.) 'oehner Co. Bell in St. Louis as a programmer. in Paris, France, of complications following a ,ess until his heart attack while on a research trip in Eu­ led by Rob . rope. 1956 Faculty and Friends [52) the University Schearer was well known in Ihe scientilic William Joseph Bennett, ME, died community lor his research. His studies of in February at his home. He was a how helium atoms interacted with other atom­ The MSM-UMR Alumni Associa­ member of Triangle, SAE., AM.E., ic and molecular systems led to the develop­ on the Rollamo Board, the St. Pat's tion has leamed of the death of mem­ ally. MetE, ment of the heli um magnetometer, a device Board and was a student assistant in the bers of the following faculty and friends :heneclady, capable of measuring eXh'emely small varia­ registrar's office at MSM. He worked of the university. The association ex­ ,memberol ti ons in Ih e earth's magnetic field. He also is with Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and tends its sympathy to the friends and jpient 01 the credited with developing the world 's first polarized gas target for nuclear Blair Cedar in Camdenton, Mo., lor 22 relatives of these loyal supporters. Award, the scattering experiments in the field of nuclear physics. years. Schearer joined the UMR faculty in 1971 as a professor of physics and mthe honor Jane Menzel has notified th e alumni chairman of the physics department. He chaired the UM R physics depart­ I veleran 01 association that her father, Willia m C. Herbert Francis Ogle, ME, died in ment until 1977. In 1988, he was named a Senior United States Scientist­ iO, began a Bay, died four years ago. February 1991. At MSM, he was a Humboldt Fellow by the Humboldt Foundation of Germany. Hilum Steel member of Lambda Chi Alpha, the l retiring as Independents, the R.0.T. c. Band, the Herbert Arnold Crosby, professor i melting in emeritus of electrical engineering at Tech Cl ub, AS.M.E., SAE., AF.S. Thomas Richard Faucett, professor emer­ UMR, died Nov. 16, 1992, at his home and on the student council. Herbert itus of mechanical and aerospace engineer­ in FlOrissant, Mo. He was a professor in worked with International Harvesler, ing, died March 29 al the Phelps County the Graduate Engineering Center at Brown Engineering Inc. and in several Regional Medical Center after a brief illness. UMR from the 1960s until he retired in Veterans Administration hospitals. Faucett retired from teaching and re­ nE, died in 1979. search from UMR in 1985 as professor emer­ lerred from itus of mechanical and aerospace engineer­ MSMwhere The late Charles R. Evans' wife 1959 ing. tEoand the Clarence Cain, Jr., CE, died Feb. died Dec. 31 , 1991.

MSM AL U MN US 53 I IN OTHER'S WORDS""

"['m the least important individu­ "Success breeds excess, and it WHAT'S NEXT al in the company in many respects. breeds complacency. " The most important people are the We hope you enjoy this issue on com­ munica ti ons - and hope also that it will ones who meet and greet that cus­ "['m a firm believer that the best spur you to tell us your thoughts about tomer every day. It 's a thankless job helping hand you can ever find is at the magazine. Feedback is important to in some cases. Some cases are very th e end of your arm. " us. Among the topics we are consider­ stressful, extremely stressful. My job -Robert Garvey, MetE'51 ing featuring in upcoming issues: is to recognize the stress they're un­ President and COO, North Star Steel der and try to figure out what we Aug. '93 - Quality can do to ease that stress so they "l think one of the hallmarks of a Nov. '93 - Natural Resources can do a better job for our custom­ successful CEO is having that ability Feb. '94 - The Environment ers. " -Richard Baumann, M E'57, EMgt'75 to set your ego aside and say I really May '94 - Entrepreneurship President, Michigan Instrumentation and don 't know the answer and we're Aug. '94 - Research & Control going to have to figure out how to Development do this thing and do it right. II -Vernon T. Jones, CE'53 Nov. '94 - Corporate ... ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP Retired president of The W illiams Leadership Companies, Inc.

Thoughts from alumni to be featured in "It 's easy to talk about wanting to ... ON NATURAL RESOURCES fu ture issues .. . be an entrepreneur, but if you don 't have a product that you are in love with and a real desire to want to do "Energy, after all, is the servant it, you are spinning your wheels. I of mankind. Next to air, water, food think if you are a real entrepreneur, and shelter, energy is probably the .. ON QUALITY somewhere along the line you begin fifth most important thing in what thinking that way. You think: If I we ca ll civilization. Without that we probably are not much beyond the "Leaders set high expectations could do this myself, how could I do Flintstones. " and they fight for what they want. this better than it is being done?" -Marvin E. "Bob" Nevins Jr, MetE'41 -Richard J. Stegemeier, PetE'50 They don 't let others impose barri­ Reti red Cha irman and CEO CEO and Chairman, Unocal e rs. Wisconsin Centrifugal I can 't stand here and tell you that if you say you want to be presi­ dent of your company and you ... ON CORPORATE LEADERSHIP work hard, you'll one da y achieve your goal. It 's not as simple as that. "We are really good leaders I can guarantee you that if you when we are exceptionally good at don 't believe you can succeed, you inviting other people into our play­ won 't. If you see yourself as limited, pen and saying 'Let's learn togeth­ If you have ideas for these issues, then you are limited, no matter how er. give us a call: Andrew Careaga many opportunities come your -John Mathes, CE'67 1314-341-4328) or Kathy Matthews way." Retired CEO of John Mathes and 1314-341-4260); or, make use of Associates, purchased by Burlington the modern techn ology at your dis­ -Louis W Smith, EE'66 Environmental posal and fax or e-mail us at (3 14) President, AlliedSignal Inc, 341 -609 1 (fax) or Kansas City Division "I think you can show great lead­ Excerpted from Mr. Smith's "Six [email protected] ership by being a follower in some Imperatives of Leadership" as part of his (Internet). commencement address to the UMR Class situations. " of 1993, May 15, 1993. Mr. Smith's -Roger Dort, ME'55 comments will be featured in the August Executive Vice President and COO MSM Alumnus. Worldwide Sa les, AT&T Paradyne

54 MSM AL U MNU S : DONOR PROFILE II

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y, Met E'61 1 Star Steel arks of a !at ability Manhattan , New York City ly I really I we're how to Mrs. Abbett's lale hllsband, Roberl W. Abbeu, was a 192 7 civil enginee rin g gradllate ofMSM. He IVa s afollnding mes, CE'53 partner of Tippells-Abbell-McCarlhy­ he Williams panies, Inc. Stratton, all illtemariollol engineerin g and architeclIlral firm based ill New York. During his tenure with th e CES company. Mr. Abbeu oversaw major developmew projects ill the United servant Slates Gnd over 50 cOllllfries. He was nOled for his design of Ihe Broadway Iter, food Bridge over th e Harlem River and th e lbly the Roosevellisiand Bridge. 1 what that we Rllih Abbe/l accompanied her hllsband ond the 01/ his many jobs around th e world. She had a career in rhe fashion world and :er, PetE'50 is active ill her enthusiasm fo r fh e (IriS l an , Unocal in Nell' York City.

Gift to MSMIUMR: Mrs. Abbetf, who with her late husband. \\las afollllding member of th e Order of th e Golden Shillelagh, established Ih e Robert W. and Rlllh If. Abbett Endowed Scholarship Fllnd in 1991 10 provide scholarships for students majorin g ill civil engineering sues, Gllhe UniversilY of Missollri-Rolla. ga This endowmelll fimd evellTilally \ViII atthews become pari of Ih e Roberl W. and Rllih se of V. Abbell Endowed Chair in Civil ,ur dis· 13141 "Mr. Abbelt liked Ih e idea of helping sflldellts financially because he \\las helped ",hile allending MSM. He fe ll el/gil/ eeril/g \\las vel)' imporralll and felt illV{lS also imporraw 10 give back to the profession. He never/argot/he help he received at MSM. " MSM -UMR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SECOND CLASS POSTAGE CASTLEMAN HALL PAin AT ROLLA, MO 65401 1. 600021551 0000 8 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ROLLA I-.AYNE M. BlEOSUf: UMR ROLLA, MO 65401-0249 H 'ii hUM- SOC SC I 11.0 I I A , M( 6 5401