GEOLOGY NEWSLETTER .1977 INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA Dear Alumni, The Department of Geology at Indiana University is healthy and dynamic. This past year, 1976-77, we had 150 undergraduate majors and 75 graduate students. We have 23 faculty members, three of whom are shared with other departments; Dr. John Hayes with Chemistry, Dr. David Dilcher with Plant Sciences, and Dr. Robert Blakely with the Indiana Geologic Survey. Professors William Thornbury and Wayne Lowell are emeritus and both are active and healthy. Professor Lowell is so active that he has been on crutches for two months this winter because of a skiing accident. This year we have passed the 1000 mark in the number of geology alumni from the department. These alumni are spread geographically throughout the world. You can be proud of the I.U. Geology Department because of its teaching and research excellence. The field station in Montana continues to be rated as one of the finest in the country and Professor Mead and his staff continually strive to make this field program even better. The department at Bloomington has six active NSF projects, five HEW fellowships on Energy and Mineral Resources, three industrial fellowships, three industrially funded research projects, and six projects funded through the Water Resources Research Center. We need additional fellowship support for our graduate students, so any aid that you as alumni can give by having your company place a graduate fellowship at IU would be deeply appreciated. Our continuing problem is maintaining the excellence of the department on very tight budgets that have not kept pace with inflation over the past six years. Donations from alumni and friends are desperately needed to help fund departmental activities that cannot be supported with the regular budgets, such as student and faculty travel for research projects, field work, and presentation of research results at national meetings. Your contributions, however large or small, are always needed and most welcome. We have fallen off badly in the past two years in alumni contributions. Professor emeritus Robert R. Shrock, a graduate of the department has written a letter on the philosophy of giving, which is included in this newsletter. Also, at his suggestion, we are establishing a 5-50 club, which is described in a later section of the newsletter. This newsletter is fairly comprehensive, and includes as complete an alumni directory as we can prepare from our records. Our plan is ·to provide such a newsletter every five years and a small flyer covering newsworthy items every year. We welcome letters, advice, criticisms, address changes, status changes, andcontributions. We are proud of Indiana University and we welcome visits from you whenever you can get back to your university. Sincerely, Haydn Murray DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY FACULTY ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTORS 1975-76 1976-77 Blakely, Robert F. Dilcher, David L. Ausich, William Archer, Allen Dodd, J. Robert Borgerding, Janet Ausich, William Droste, John B. Bottjer, David Bauman, Jeanette Hattin, Donald E. Budnick, Dorene Belak, Ronald Hayes, John M. Calengas, Peter Brunson, Karen L. (deceased) Hendrix, Thomas E. Canfield, Christopher Calengas, Peter Klein, Comelis Cody, Clyde Dembicki, Harry Krothe, Noel C. Dahl, Peter Fout, James Lane, N. Gary Dembicki, Harry Gibboney, Melissa Mead, Judson Duigan, Mark Giffin, Jon Meinschein, Warren G. Duncan, Julie Glover, William Merino, Enrique Fout, James Haase, C. Stephen Murray, Haydn H. Friberg, LaVeme Holm, Melody Patton, John B. Gibboney, Melissa Hudson, Michael Ripley, Edward M. Glover, William James, Calvin Rudman, Albert J. Goltz, Larry Kammer, Thomas Ruhe, Robert V. Haase, C. Stephen Kelly, Stuart Shaver, Robert H. Holm, Melody Knapp, Ralph Suttner, Lee J. James, Calvin Kwon, Byung Doo Towell, David G. Knapp, Ralph Lake, Ellen Vitaliano, Charles J. Kuizon, Lucia Lambert, Michael Wintsch, Robert P. Kwon, Byung Doo Murchie, Bonnie Lake, Ellen Pheifer, Raymond Retired Lieser, Michael Plymate, Thomas Lowell, Wayne R. Mackey, John Porter, Elise Thornbury, William D. Millen, David Risser, Dennis Millholland, Madelyn Roberts, Connie STAFF Olson, Carolyn Shearer, Jay N. Pheifer, Raymond Smith, David Basu, Abhijit Porter, Elise Tenda!!, Bruce Brown, Thea Risser, Dennis Tilander, Nathaniel Coller, Maynard Roberts, Connie Wade, Jan Crouch, Becky Thompson, Glenn Waldrip, John Denson, Kenneth Volz, Steven Wiechmann, Mark Douthitt, Sandy Waldrip, John Freeman, Ellen L. Webb, Myron Hartgraves, Jeanette Welch, James Hazen, Dwight Zeller, Thomas Horowitz, Alan S. Iverson, Mary E. Lucas, Betty (Water Resourcs Research Center) Martindale, Kathy Miller, Charles S. Smith, Barry Tolen, James R. Weaver, Derrell Retired White, Alfred U.S.G.S. Vitaliano, Dorothy 3 RESEARCH ASSISTANTS FELLOWSHIPS 1975-76 1976-77 Ausich, William .............................. Survey Bauman, Jeanette .............................. HEW Bennett, Nathan .............................. Murray Belak, Ronald ........................ Hunt Oil Award Bottjer, David ................................. Hattin Dahl, Peter ......................... Texaco Fellowship Bradbury, Kenneth ............................. Ruhe Dixon, Joseph ................................. HEW Brunson, Karen (deceased) ....................... Ruhe Glover, William ....................... Hunt Oil Award Canfield, Christopher ........................... Hattin Mack, Gregory ............. Graduate Student Fellowship Cody, Clyde ................................. Murray Meschede, Louis ............................... HEW Duigon, Mark ................................. Ruhe Orlich, Michael ................................ HEW Duncan, Julie ................................ Murray Rimstidt, Daniel ............................... HEW Friberg, LaVeme ............................... Klein Tendall, Bruce ................................. HEW Knapp, Ralph ................................. Mead Terris, Linda ...................... Georgia Kaolin Co. Kwon, Byung Doo ........................... Rudman Walker, Steven ................................ HEW Lesher, Carl Michael ........................... Klein Wright, Bruce ................................. HEW Mack, Gregory ........................... Meinschein Olson, Carolyn, . Ruhe STUDENT AWARDS Plymate, Thomas ............................. Murray 1975-76 Risser, Dennis ................................. Ruhe Terris, Linda ................................. Murray Campbell, Andrew .................... Deiss Award and Thompson, Glenn .............................. Hayes Upperclassman Award Zeller, Thomas ................................ Mead Inouye, Elizabeth ................ Upperclassman Award Glover, William .............. Faculty Scholarship Award 1976-77 Lake, Ellen ............. Outstanding Associate Instructor Smith, Synthia ................... Upperclassman Award Basick, James ................................. Ruhe Tendall, Bruce ....................... Deiss Award and Bottjer, David ................................. Hattin Faculty Scholarship A ward Bradbury, Kenneth ............................. Ruhe Waterman, Arthur ............... Cumings-Malott Award Bromley, Bruce ........................... Meinschein Webb, Myron ........... Outstanding Associate Instructor Cody, Clyde ................................. Murray Duigon, Mark ................................. Ruhe 1976-77 Graham, Michael ............................... Ruhe Holm, Melody ............................ Meinschein Bomber, Brenda ................. Upperclassman Award Hudson, Michael ............................... Klein Campbell, Andrew ............ Faculty Scholarship Award Kwon, Byung Doo ........................... Rudman Gorham, Scott ........................... Deiss Award Moreau, Peter ................................ Murray James, Calvin ........... Outstanding Associate Instructor Olson, Carolyn ................................. Ruhe Inouye, Elizabeth ............. Alumni Association Award Pickering, Ann ..................... : ......... Murray Roberts, Connie ......... Outstanding Associate Instructor Risser, Dennis ................................. Ruhe Souders, Mark ................................. Ruhe FELLOWSHIPS 1975-76 Dixon, Joseph ............. HEW (Health, Education, and Welfare Mining and Mineral Fellowships) Duncan, Mack ....... 4th Year Graduate School Fellowship Hohn, Michael ...... 4th Year Graduate School Fellowship Kammer, Thomas ............ Graduate School Fellowship Orlich, Michael ................................ HEW Rimstidt, Daniel ............................... HEW Waters, Johnny ..................... Texaco Fellowship 4 FACULTY ACTIVITIES FROM LAKE MONROE TO MARS­ IU GEOLOGISTS PLAY A ROLE Geologists at Indiana University belong tists from several departments. analyses showed conclusively that argon, to an age when scientists in all disciplines Various of the faculty are involved in which Russian workers had suggested are struggling to improve man's under­ research related to another focus of current might make up nearly 50 per cent of the standing of his most immediate environ­ interest--energy needs. Professor Murray atmosphere, was present at the level of ment, even as they reach beyond earth for has been conducting research on tech­ only one to two per cent, a value consistent knowledge of an alien world. The faculty niques for magnetically separating iron with plausible outgassing histories. Rare here are involved in research at both ends sulfide from coal that have obvious practi­ gas and