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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 10/17/12 3:03 PM 28 hasselmann house boosters 14 end-of-year giving summary 6 warrior warrior wetland MAGAZINE VOL. 86 NO. 3 NO. 86 VOL. FALL/WINTER 2012 FALL/WINTER FRONTCover2.indd 1 MISSOURI S&T Magazine A MODERN MENTOR FALL/WINTER 2012 VOL. 86 NO. 3 BACK AND INTERIORCovers.indd 2 10/17/12 2:38 PM { FALL/WINTER 2012 } CONTENTS IN YOUR WORDS Ɋ&A and Letters 4 What is the one thing you couldn’t have survived at Rolla without? AROUND THE PUCK Wetland warrior 6 Donald Hey, CE’63, is restoring wetlands. An oil against obesity 7 Wild almond tree oil affects insulin resistance. An app for depression? 8 Internet usage could signal the blues. Homecoming overview 10 Miner Road Trip review. Overview: inductions 12 and commencement “The sky is not the limit.” Supporting what 14 matters most A look at the year in giving. Ɋueen of speed 17 Nikia Chapman races to win … in Elmo socks. FEATURES A modern mentor 18 Get to know S&T's 21st leader. Need for a house 25 hits home for Miners Finding a place to call home. ON THE COVER BEYOND THE PUCK Section events 31 Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader List of upcoming events. (atop Centennial Hall) intends to Class notes 32 take Missouri S&T to new heights. Find out what your former classmates are up to. Memorials 43 We remember our classmates and friends. Donor 48 Steve Frey, MS Phys’86 FALL/WINTER 2012 MISSOURI S&T MAGAZINE 1 Sect 1 TEMPLATE-final.indd 1 10/17/12 2:25 PM BRIEFLY { BY THE NUMBERS } , , MAGAZINE 8000000 Missouri S&T Magazine is written, edited and designed by the staff of the Missouri S&T Communications Department and the Miner Alumni Association. Gallons per year of water savings projected from the geothermal energy project. CHANCELLOR Cheryl B. Schrader VICE CHANCELLOR FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT Joan Nesbitt MINER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT John Eash, AE’79, MS EMgt’90 EDITORS Megan Kean-O’Brien, MS TComm’12 (Design & Production) 600 Percentage of 600 Darlene Ramsay, MetE’84 (Alumni) Wells to be drilled on S&T freshmen Mary Helen Stoltz, Engl’95 (News & Features) campus as part of the receiving geothermal energy ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITORS financial aid or project. Drilling Andrew Careaga Linda Fulps Mindy Limback scholarships. began in the Lance Feyh John Kean Luke Rinne spring. ASSOCIATE ALUMNI EDITORS 82 Linda Fulps Katie Machovsky Nancy Zamazanuk ASSOCIATE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION EDITORS Brandan Deason Jake Otto Year the geothermal STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER energy project is expected B.A. Rupert to be completed. Missouri S&T Magazine (USPS 323-500) (ISSN 1084-6948) is issued three times per year (March, July, November) in the interest of the graduates and former students of the Missouri School of 2014 Mines and Metallurgy, the University of Missouri-Rolla and Missouri University of Science and Technology. Missouri S&T Magazine is published by the Miner Alumni Association, Missouri S&T, 1200 N. Percentage of S&T freshmen who are Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409-0650. Periodicals postage paid at Rolla, first-generation college students. Mo., and additional mailing offices. Summer camps Missouri S&T Magazine is printed by R.R. Donnelley, Liberty, Mo. Covers are printed on 114 lb. - 7 pt. Sterling White; interior pages are for kids in first printed on 60 lb. Sterling White. through 12th Missouri S&T Magazine is printed using soy-based ink. grades hosted at S&T last POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Missouri S&T Magazine, summer. Missouri S&T, 1200 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409-0650. 17 Send letters to: News & features: Darlene Ramsay Phone: 573-341-4328 Miner Alumni Association Fax: 573-341-6157 Missouri S&T Email: [email protected] 1200 N. Pine St. Rolla, MO 65409-0650 Fax: 573-341-4706 Email: [email protected] magazine.mst.edu 2 MISSOURI S&T MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2012 Sect 1 TEMPLATE-final.indd 2 10/17/12 2:25 PM { Mary Helen Stoltz } FROM THE EDITOR EDITOR’S TOP FIVE Dear fellow alumni: It is my great pleasure to introduce to PICKS you Cheryl B. Schrader, the 21st leader of Missouri S&T. Since arriving in April, she’s wasted no time getting to know the campus and its people, as well as alumni (and share their own stories) when they Did you know Chancellor Cheryl and government leaders. Now it’s time for come back to Rolla. Chancellor Schrader 1} B. Schrader was honored by the White House for mentoring you to get to know her. supports that vision and gave the project women and underrepresented Her story is compelling. A champion of a boost this fall by earmarking a $500,000 minorities in engineering? Read STEM education and women and minorities estate gift for the house. The bequest will her story on page 18. in education, Schrader has a passion for be used as a challenge grant to attract mentorship and understands how powerful more contributions. When the challenge Karl F. Hasselmann, MinE’25, was one of the first people to positive role models can be for young is met, we’ll be $1.5 million closer to 2} successfully drill for oil in the adults. On the following pages, you’ll learn completion of the project. Read more Gulf of Mexico. Read more about about her own role model and about the about the project, including ways that the namesake of the Hasselmann ways she mentors today’s students. You’ll you can contribute, on page 25. Alumni House — and learn more learn about her research background, meet Keeping in touch with Miner alumni — about giving opportunities — on her family and learn about her vision for and faculty, staff and students — is one page 26. the future of Missouri S&T. of Chancellor Schrader’s goals. One of the An S&T grad competed in track A large part of that vision involves ways she’s doing that is through social 3} and field at the London Olympic you, fellow alumni. As we continue to media. Follow her on Twitter at Games. Find out how he did on raise funds for the Hasselmann Alumni @SandTChancellor. page 40. House, we do so with the dream of having Read on, and enjoy the Fall/Winter issue a comfortable place for Miners to gather of Missouri S&T Magazine! People with symptoms of 4} depression use the Internet differently than others. Read Mary Helen Stoltz more about the research behind that finding — and plans to create Engl’95 an app to trigger a diagnosis — on news & features editor page 8. 2013 marks the 105th Best Ever. 5} Come back to campus March 16 CorreCtionS and help us celebrate. Thank you to Dave Zimmerman, CE’69, for On page 30 in the “On the road” section, we pointing out that we misidentified one of the cars mislabeled two of the photos. Photo No. 2 is displayed by Dick Burdick, ME’52, in his classic actually the Camaro owned by Stephen Rode, car garage in Texas. What we labeled a 1957 ChE’84. Photo No. 3 is the Galaxie owned by Chevrolet Bel Air convertible in the photo on page Lloyd A. Meffert, ME’88, and his wife, Deanna. 41 of the Summer 2012 issue is actually a 1956 We apologize for these two errors. Chevrolet Bel Air. FALL/WINTER 2012 MISSOURI S&T MAGAZINE 3 Sect 1 TEMPLATE-final.indd 3 10/17/12 2:25 PM INAROUND YOUR WORDSTHE PUCK { Q&A { NEWS } & RESEARCH } To read additional answers, letters and for all of this issues’ tweets, go online to magazine.mst.edu. A roof-mounted FM dipole antenna. … I vividly recall the day I braved brisk winds and a very steep roof atop the old three-story Sigma Nu “White House.” I was able to secure an inexpensive A dipole antenna to the brick chimney, after which I sat on the peak of the roof for what seemed like a It would be my HP calculator. I had an long time. My prolonged rest had less to do with HP 28S in Thermodynamics. Without it, a fabulous view than it did with my appreciation I would never have been able to graduate. for the danger of going down backward over I will always live in an RPN universe. shingles rendered smooth and brittle by Shame on you, TI and Casio lovers. decades of sun and rain. The effort, however, And also a beer or two, but that’s a given. paid dividends far in excess of the investment. For years I listened to (St. Louis radio station) Richard A. Geisler, EE’89 KSHE FM from midnight to whenever I finished Indian Trail, N.C. my homework.