THE MINES MAGAZiNE Col. Wendell W. Fertig Publisher Carter Kaanta Editor Volume 60 February, 1970 Number 2 Wiiiiam V. Burger Advertising Mar\ager and Alumni Personnel Placement Betty Decker Circulation Mgr. The ancient metailurgicai symbol contrasts with examples of the sophisticated equipment which modern metallurgists employ. From top clockwise: Bendix Time-of-Flight Mass Spec­ 73 rd National Western Mining trometer, Cahn Electrobaiance, Warman Cyclosizer and GE Conference and Exhibition, Den­ ver Hilton, Denver, Coio., Feb. Computer Terminal which symbolizes the great role compu­ 13-14. ters have in modern metallurgical practice. Mines Alumni Breakfast, Hilton Hotel {tickets may be purchased at registration), 7:30 a.m., Sat­ urday. Feb. 14. AIME'S 99th Annual Meeting. Den­ ver Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colo.. Feb. 15-19. fT COULB BB VERSE API Southern District Meeting, Rice Hotel, Houston, Tex., Mar. EMPHASIS ON HYDROMETALlURGtCAL 4-6. 1970 Joint Meeting of Southwest RESEARCH 6 Section of AAPG and SEG at 8 Statler Hilton Hotel, Mar. 8-1 !. THE PEOPLE PART OF RESEARCH Western Metal & Tool Exposition, METALLUR&Y FACULTY 12 Great Western Exhibit Center and Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, HENNESERRY'S PREDICTION 73 Mar. 9-13. Course In Applied Reservoir Fluid "HILDY" FROST TO LEAVE MINES 73 Flow Simulation, CSM Campus, BOUGAINVtLLE—A NEW VENTURE IN MINING Golden, Colo., Mar. 9-20. API Southwestern District Meet­ AND METALLURGY 74 ing, Inn of the Golden West, By Prof. T. Balberyszski Odessa, Tex., Mar. 18-20. That's sort of like asking why a banker goes to AAPG Pacific Section Meeting, LOW COST GROUP FLIGHT TO EUROPE 75 work in a bank. Newport Beach, Caiif., Mar. 19- OUTLOOK FOR 1970 76 20. A guy goes to work where the best work is. By Fredenck A. Fielder And some of the best engineering work around today Symposium on Mining and Ecology in the Arid Environment, Uni­ PROFILE Of A MINES GRADUATE—BONARDI 78 is in and around factories. versity of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., What would you say to designing the numerical Mar. 22-27. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FACULTY 79 1970 API Mid-Continent District control system for an automated steel milU Meeting, Broadview Hotel, Wich­ GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MATHEMATICS AT CSM 20 Or developing quality control procedures for the ita, Kans., Apr, 8-10. By Walter W. Whitman world's most powerful airplane engine? 1970 AP! Eastern District Meeting, Ramada Inn, Evansville, Ind., SAMPLES CAN'T TALK 22 Or managing a production team responsible Apr. 15-17. ie N. Kahn for delivering power generation equipment Annual Engineers' Day, Colorado to utility customers? School of Mines Campus, Friday ANNUAL MEETING OF CSM ALUMNI FOUNDATION. INC. 26 and Saturday, Apr. 17-18. And what would you say to a General Electric Offshore Technology Conference, program that puts you right to work on jobs like those? Albert Thomas Center, Houston, We figure if you're ready for our Manufacturing Tex., April 22-24. 1970 API Rocky Mountain District Management Program, you're ready for that kind Meeting, Cosmopolitan Hotel, of responsibility. Right from the start. Denver, Colo., Apr. 27-29. CALENDAR 3 ALUMNI BUSINESS 34 So our program packs about ten years of manu­ AMC 1970 Coal Show, Sheraton- Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 28 EDITORIALS 35 facturing experience into about three years of work. Ohio, May 11-14. CLASS NOTES 35 And the work will take you all around the country. Convention of Wyo. Mining Assn., QUIPS 28 Ask GE's top management people what they Jackson Lake Lodge, Jackson, MINERAL INDUSTRIES 29 ALUMNI HEADLINERS 36 Wyo., June 18-20. thought about starting out in a factory. Many will tell BOOK REVIEWS 29 IN MEMORIAM 38 you it was the best decision they could have made. Symposium on Advanced Experi­ mental Techniques in the Me­ PERSONNEL PLACEMENT 30 ADDRESS CHANGES 39 And where will you find those managers today? chanics of Materials, El Tropl- cano Hotel, San Antonio, Tex., PLANT NEWS 31 LOCAL SECTIONS 40 Running our factories, of course. Sept. 9-i i. SME Fall Meeting and AiME World CATALOGS 32 CAMPUS HEADLINERS 42 Lead Zinc Symposium, Kiel Audi­ WITH MANUFACTURERS 33 LETTERS 47 GENERAL^ ELECTRIC torium, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21-23. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 34 ADVERTISERS' LISTINGS 47 A'N EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER For more information ebout manufacturing engineering at General Electric, please write to Educational Relations and Recruiting, Room 801M, General Electric. 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, N, Y. 10022 EDITOR, 2177 WEST 7rH AVENUE, DENVER, COLO. 80204, except matters of advertising interest, which should be sent to W. V. BURGER, ADVERTISING MANAGER, The MINES Magazine, Golden, Colo. B040I. 2 FEBRUARY. 1970—THE MINES MAGAZINE FEBRUARY. 1970—THE MINES MAGAZINE 3 IT COULD BE VERSE Gentlemen, -please stand and toast Woe unto us! Hildreth Frost That paragon from coast to coast. Is leaving us, and much is lost. Is it too subtle to merely hint That splendid man, A-plus we rate. That greener pastures at the Mint The metallurgical graduate. Have lured him from our cloistered plot? He will be missed. His pipe will not. But do not drain your glasses yet; More men there are, let's not forget, Who fan the sparks to glowing embers— John Hager has a marked proclivity God's final touch, the faculty members. To base his life upon activity And of the best in academia Coefficients and thermody— Your choices (I can hardly blamia) Namic data piled so high Must inevitably merge They hide the clock, obscure the light; And fall on those with metallurg­ He sometimes stays at work all night. ical distinctionj and a call To teach the students in Hill Hall. Paul Herold, Golden's leading potter. Has several minor faults, but not a What kind of men are these I praise. Single one can I remember. Who spend their nights (and sometimes days) (My salary for next September Pondering matters educational. Will soon come up in conversation Oblivious to things sensational? Between him and the administration). What do they teach? How do they teach it? What is their goal? When will they reach it? As foundryman and such, Don Klodt Why have they forsaken riches Would get my well-considered vodt. (Selling donuts, digging ditches)? A melt-and-freeze investigator, Let me speak of them, these sages. He moonlights as administrator Before you turn to other pages. Of research at CSM Ted Balberyszski, handle unspellable,, He has the funds, but clings to them. With word-production completely unquellable, Teaches extractive^ non-ferrous for preference. Jack Lubahn strains great lumps of steel And acts as the Schoof s metaphysical reference. Until they break, and students feel There must be better ways to spend Walter L. Bradley, a demon at tennis. Their time and money than to bend Is thought of at Loveland as skiing's mam menace. These artifacts; and so he speaks He's said to be quite good at physical met. Of Socrates and other Greeks. But needs an interpreter, so we can get An inkling of what he is muttering there Phenomena of transportation In his Texan vernacular—but do we care? Don't seem to have the fascination To be a fellow's predilection; Rex Bull teaches ore-dressing, rather informally; But Gerry Martin's the exception. - Speaks with an accent you would not normally Use to call hogs. He dislikes July ^ And thinks that the 1776 war Al Schlechten used to run the show Was a dreadful mistake; he has given his word But had a call to up and go To attone for the actions of King George IIL To spend his talents and his time Languishing in Guggenheim. Bill Copeland eats X-rays for breakfast and dinner. On academics' affairs he spies And teaches kinetically, so he gets thinner. With tolerant, paternal eyes. He watched the Vikings while growing a beard. Come as you are! But when they had lost, he had it aU sheared. So there they are, these perfect men; His knowledge of rusting is deep and forbidding; We may not see their like again. He calls it corrosion^ but who is he kidding f Now's the time to sign up at your placement office for an interview with your Some come from far, you can tell by their manner, friendly, straight-tal[<ing Bethlehem Steel Loop Course recruiter. This could be Australia, Guyana, even Montana. Antipodean engineers They form an alloy of super-resilience. the start of something big! ( Farewelled Ron Davey, close to tears. Toughness and luster, nay, dazzling brilliance. He now displays amazing knowledge With men like these, who could be fearing BETHLEHEM STEEL Teaching smelting at this college. The future of Met. Engineenng. An Equal Opportunity Employer He also makes a point to warn ya —W.R.B. About the wines from California. FEBRUARY, 1970—THE MINES MAGAZINE 5 FEBRUARY. 1970—THE MINES MAGAZINE 4 IT COULD BE VERSE Gentlemen, please stand and toast Woe unto us! Hildreth Frost That paragon from coast to coast. Is leaving us, and much is lost. Is it too subtle to me^-ely hint That splendid man, A-plus we rate, That greener pastures at the Mint The metallurgical graduate. Have lured him from our cloistered plot? He will be missed. His pipe will not. But do not drain your glasses yet; More men there are, let's not forget. Who fan the sparks to glowing embers— John Hager has a marked proclivity God's final touch, the faculty members. To base his life upon activity And of the best in academia Coefficients and thermody— Your choices (I can hardly blamia) Namic data piled so high Must inevitably merge They hide the clock, obscure the light; And fall on those with metallurg­ He sometimes stays at work all night.