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The Magazine of Colorado School of Mines

MINESVolume 93 Number 2Spring 2003

Alumnus Finds Opals in Ethiopia page 23

Basketball Season Phenomenal page 26

Building a Better World page 16

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Mines is published quarterlyby the Colorado School ofMines and the CSM AlumniAssociation for alumni andfriends of the School. Themagazine is a merger ofMines Magazine (founded in1910) and Mines Today(founded in 1986). Themerger took place in 2000.

Comments and suggestionsare welcome. Contact us bywriting to MINES, P.O. Box1410, Golden, CO 80402;or call 303-273-3294 or 800-446-9488, ext. 3294,between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.,M-F, MST; or [email protected].

John U. Trefny, PresidentColorado School of Mines

John N. Schwartzberg ’88President CSM Alumni Association

Maureen Keller, EditorCSM Alumni Association

Marsha Konegni, Co-editor CSM CommunicationsCoordinator

Contributing WritersAaron BurmanGreg MurphyRobert Pearson ’59Jo Marie ReevesRobert SorgenfreiNick Sutcliffe

PhotographyHarry OlssonJulie VanLaanen

Graphic DesignEmelene Russell

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Letter to the Editor

I read the article on “The Glory Years of ROTC” by Lorraine Wagenbach in the fall 2002edition of Mines magazine with great interest. I knew there was a history and traditionthere; however, I did not know the details.

I am proud to say that many of my classmates and I shared in this history and tradition. I was in the Mines ROTC “Corps” beginning as a freshman in 1949 and endingin 1953 with a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Col. Wendell Fertig was the professor of military science and tactics during my first twoyears at Mines. Because of his widely known accomplishments during World War II,he was a hero and mentor to us all.

I well remember our officer-commissioning ceremony that took place immediatelyfollowing our academic graduation exercise. We had our uniforms on underneath ourrobes. After the academic ceremony, we took off our robes, were called to attention in ouruniforms and were sworn in. We then lined up, returned to the stage and were given ourcommission certificates and our orders. This was during the last stages of the Korean War,and we were all called to active duty.

After undergoing engineer officers basic training at Fort Belvoir, I was assigned to the 30thEngineer Topographic Survey Group at the Presidio in San Francisco. Many of my fellowjunior officers, as well as enlisted men, were Mines graduates and people that I had knownat the School. We had our own little unofficial alumni group there.

I have never regretted the two years I put into the service of my country. My Mineseducation fitted me well in the performance of my duty. As a 22-year-old soldier withcommand responsibility, I also did a lot of growing up.

I know that some of the people in school with me were sent to Korea and won medals.Several others stayed in the Army, made a career of it and retired as senior officers. Stillothers had very interesting duty assignments that utilized their Mines training. There mustbe a lot of good stories out there and perhaps someone ought to collect a few of them.

There is no doubt that the historic MinesROTC has made a major contribution to theCorps of Engineers and the general wellbeing of our country.

Fred Meissner Geol E ’53, MSc Geol ’54U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1954-1956

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26 AthleticsMen’s basketball team enjoys phenomenal run

Alumnus Finds Opals in EthiopiaEthiopian Rift Valley mine yields wide variety of colors

About Our Cover:

Engineers Without Borders-USA started with the drilling of a well toprovide water for the village of San Pablo, Belize. Before the well wasinstalled, children carried water for drinking and irrigation from anearby river. Now the Mines chapter of Engineers Without Borders willwork to bring the village electricity.Photo by Julie VanLaanen, Engineering Division.

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Philanthropy at Mines 28

Events Calendar 31

Staying Connected 32

From the Archive 35

In Memoriam 36

Six Honored by CSMAA 39

On the Move 40

Letter to the Editor 3

Short Takes 8

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Hewlett Foundation Funds Humanitarian Engineering 18

Showcasing Inventions with Market Potential 19

People Watch 20

Notes & Quotes 22

Changing Their Corner of the WorldAlumni work for change within the system

More Frogs than Princes at this Prom AlternativeHigh school environmental lab inspired

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T hey’re dancing again at

Bartlesville High Schoolin Oklahoma. But in1970, Murray Hitzmanwrote an editorial in thestudent newspaper, TheNautilus, which led tothe cancellation of theschool’s prom.

“We wanted to be radicaland change the world,”recalls Hitzman, nowhead of CSM’sDepartment of Geology

and Geological Engineering and the Charles F. Fogarty Professorof Economic Geology. Prom funds, he wrote convincingly in hiseditorial, could be more nobly spent on an environmental cause.Hitzman and his classmates wanted to convert a riverbottomforest, located immediately adjacent to the school campus, intoan outdoor science lab.

The project, of course, would cost much more money thanexisted in the prom fund. But the students’ willingness tosacrifice caught the attention of others. “Our principal JohnHaley gets the credit,” says Hitzman. He talked to influentialparents, well-heeled corporations, the school board, andeventually the city council. Then, Hitzman says, “All the stars fellin alignment. Somehow the money was found.” The governor ofOklahoma attended the lab’s dedication, and President RichardNixon called to offer his congratulations.

According to a story in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise,the 16-acre site served as an environmental science lab into the 1980s, when the area became overgrown. It remained nearly unusable until 2000, when again students, teachers,administrators, school board members and city officials workedtogether to not only save the site, but also enhance it. Nowstudents learn about soil, water, animals and plants in a settingthat includes a river, pond, meadow and woodlands.

Examiner-Enterprise reporter David Rain wrote of Hitzman’sinvolvement in the lab’s beginnings: “A former Bartlesvilleresident who in high school inspired the board of education topurchase land for an environmental science laboratory went onto win the International Science Fair, work in the White House,discover a major ore deposit in Ireland and head the geologydepartment at one of the most important schools for geology inthe world.”

Now Hitzman is looking at ways that Mines might partner withthe high school on environmental research. “There are just ahost of projects that could be done,” he says. Numerous labimprovements have been made, and many more are planned.

So the outdoor classroom at Bartlesville High is thriving—andstudents at the school are dancing too. Three years afterHitzman’s editorial ended the prom, another student reinstatedthe tradition. Hitzman smiles as he reveals who that studentwas: Daniel Hitzman, his younger brother.

Murray Hitzman, Nautilus Editor

Murray Hitzman today

More Frogs at this Prom Alternative

Than Princes

By Marsha Konegni

Challenge in Spain

Jordan Dimick, a geophysicsjunior, and Sarah Shearer BScGeop ’02 and currently, ageophysics master’s candidate,were among 90 students fromaround the world whoparticipated in the Shell BusinessChallenge in January inMarbella, Spain. The studentsteamed together to develop andpresent to senior Shellmanagement a five-year businessplan for a fictional island in theEast Indian Ocean.

Olds Heads to NSF

Associate Vice PresidentBarbara Olds will serve at theNational Science Foundation(NSF) in Washington D.C. forapproximately two years. Shebegan in March.

Olds has been appointeddirector of the Division ofResearch, Evaluation, andCommunication in theEducation and HumanResources Directorate at NSF.

Vice President of Academic Affairsand Dean of Faculty NigelMiddleton said, “Dr. Olds’ selectionfor this position is exceptionaltestimony to her national stature inthe assessment of educationalprograms, and her appointment isindicative of the increasing respectfor the Colorado School of Mineswithin NSF and related circles.”

Barbara Olds

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Department ofDefense FundsResearch

A Department of Defense programthat identifies and developsenvironmental technologies relatingto military readiness for nationaldefense will fund research projectsled by two Mines professors, TissaIllangasekare and Robert Siegrist.

Their projects are two of eightfunded nationwide by the StrategicEnvironmental Research andDevelopment Program that addressthe risks and cleanup of densenonaqueous phase liquids in soiland groundwater.

The U.S. Air ForceOffice of ScientificResearch will fund athird related project.Total funding for theprojects is $2 millionover three years.

Illangasekare is the AmaxDistinguished Chair in theEnvironmental Science andEngineering Division, andSiegrist is the divisiondirector.

Mines EducatesVisitors at Stock Show

Displaying many donated itemsfrom the Mines PetroleumEngineering Department, theIndependent Petroleum Associationof Mountain States won first placefor the “Most Educational” booth atthe 2003 National Western StockShow in Denver.

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Young to Serve onCollege Board

A. William “Bill” Young, associatevice president and director ofenrollment management, has beenelected to a four-year term as atrustee of the College Board, a not-for-profit association founded in1900. Now composed of more than4,300 schools, colleges, universities,and other educational organizations,the College Board serves more than3 million students and their parents,as well as 22,000 high schools and3,400 colleges, through majorprograms in college admissions,guidance, assessment, financial aidand enrollment.

Trefny Appointed to IIE Board

President John U. Trefny is one ofthree new members named to theRocky Mountain Regional Center of the Institute of InternationalEducation (IIE) Advisory Board.Others appointed were EncoreInternational President and CEOMichelle Sie Whitten and formertwo-term Wyoming Governor andU.S. Ambassador to Ireland Mike Sullivan.

Founded in 1919, the Institute ofInternational Education supportscooperative initiatives related tointernational business, diplomacy,education, the environment, energy,population and human rights.

Krauss Honored by TMS

The Minerals, Metals & MaterialsSociety (TMS) presented its highestaward, TMS Fellow, to MinesProfessor Emeritus George Krauss,for outstanding contributions to thepractice of metallurgical science andtechnology, at the organization’sannual meeting in March.

Matlock Elected to NAE

David K. Matlock is a newlyelected member of The NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE).Academy membership is among thehighest professional distinctionsaccorded an engineer. Total U.S.membership is 2,138 and foreignassociates total 165.

Matlock is the director of CSM’sAdvanced Steel Processing and

Products Research Center and the Armco FoundationFogarty Professor in theDepartment of Metallurgicaland Materials Engineering.In according academymembership honors,NAE notes Matlock’s“fundamental and appliedcontributions in the uses ofadvanced steels, includingthe development of micro-alloyed steels for criticalvehicle applications.”

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Fifty inches of snow in Golden didn’t stop the semiannual reviewmeeting of the Advanced Steel Processing and Products ResearchCenter. Already in town for the meeting, the visitors couldn’tleave—Denver was at a standstill as the city dealt with its biggestblizzard in 90 years. So the meeting continued. The photo (left)was taken on March 19 at the conclusion of the Industrial AdvisoryBoard business meeting. A front-loader had piled snow outside HillHall, and the gold dome of Guggenheim had turned white in the background.

Traylor Dedication

The lounge in CSM’s new Center forTechnology and Learning Media hasbeen named in honor of ClaireTraylor, a Republican state legislatorfrom Wheat Ridge who served in theColorado Senate from 1982 to 1994.Sen. Traylor died Aug. 31, 2002.

“It is entirely fitting that ClaireTraylor’s name be associated withour new Center for Technology andLearning Media, a state-of-the-artinstructional facility,” said MinesPresident John U. Trefny. “She was agreat friend of education in the stateof Colorado and a great friend tothis School.”

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Students DesignEarthquake RecordingSystems

Their assignment was to design aninexpensive seismic wave sensor foruse in classrooms around the world.So more than 350 Mines freshmenenrolled in Engineering PracticesIntroductory Course Sequence(EPICS) went to work buildingseismometers for $150 or less thatwere sensitive enough to measure amagnitude 6.5 or greater earthquakeanywhere in the world.

The U.S. Geological Survey, incollaboration with the IRISConsortium and CSM, hosted achallenge in December for theEPICS teams that awarded a

$300 first-place prize. Since theseismic sensors were intended forclassroom use, a Middle School

Design Award was also presented bystudent judges from West JeffersonMiddle School.

CSM RemembersProfessor White

James E. “Ed” White died Jan. 30 atage 84. White, professor emeritus of geophysics at Mines, was past president of the Society ofExploration Geophysicists and amember of the National Academy of Engineering. Last October he was also selected as an honorarymember of the Chinese Geophysical Society.

EPICS Director Bob Knecht with first place team

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Sands of the World

A unique sand collection is now ondisplay in Berthoud Hall. Donatedto the School by Elsie Stucka andher late husband Steve, thecollection includes sands fromaround the world—frombeaches, mountains and citiesto famous homes and thepyramids. More than 700 vialsare displayed. Familymembers, including Minesalumni, helped the Stuckascompile the collection.

Teaching Award to King

Hugh King P.E. ’55, senior lecturer inthe Department ofMathematical andComputer Sciences, has beenhonored with the 2003Burton W. Jones Award forDistinguished College orUniversity Teaching from theRocky Mountain Section ofthe Mathematical Associationof America. The selectioncommittee noted the qualityand scope of King’s innovativeteaching both in and out ofthe classroom.

Hitzman SelectedDistinguished Lecturer

Murray W. Hitzman has beenhonored by his peers as the year’sFaculty Senate DistinguishedLecturer. Hitzman is the head ofthe Department of Geology andGeological Engineering and theCharles F. Fogarty Professor ofEconomic Geology.

“An Earth Scientist Views EarthSystems Engineering” was the lecturedelivered by Hitzman in February atthe Green Center.

The Faculty Senate DistinguishedLecturer Award, established in 1990, gives the Mines faculty theopportunity to annually recognizeone of their outstanding colleagues.

They select a lectureradmired and respected asan educator, as well as aperson known forhaving stimulating ideasto convey and anability to communicatethose ideas effectively.

From 1982 through1993 Hitzmanworked throughoutthe world forChevronResourcesCompany. In 1993 he wasnamed Geological Society ofAmerica Congressional Fellow andworked on natural resource andenvironmental issues on the staff ofU.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman.Named Executive Branch Fellow by

the American Association for theAdvancement for Science/SloanFoundation in 1994, he served assenior policy analyst in the WhiteHouse Office of Science and

Technology Policy, specializing innatural resource, environmental andgeoscience issues.

Beatrice WillardRemembered

Dr. Beatrice “Bettie” Willard, the first department head of CSM’sEnvironmental Science andEngineering Ecology Department,died Jan. 7, at age 77. Willard wasinternationally known for herresearch, teaching and books abouthigh-altitude plants and protectingthe mountain tundra. She served in both the Ford and Nixonadministrations as head of theCouncil on Environmental Quality.

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Girl Scouts Earn Badges

CSM’s chapter of the Society ofWomen Engineers hosted a GirlScout Badge Day at the School inFebruary. Approximately 200 GirlScouts ages 10 to 12 had theopportunity to earn merit badges inone of four activities: ComputingFun, Engineering Everything,Science Sleuth or Science Discovery.They learned about sound and lightwaves, oil spill cleanup, and how tobuild a Web page. The annual eventencourages girls to enter the fields ofscience and engineering.

Art Appreciation

Foothills Art Center Director CarolDickinson led CSM Chorus Director Robert Klimek’s “MusicalTraditions” class of 30 students on a tour of the “35th AnniversaryExhibition: 27 Painters &Sculptors—4 Great Styles,” whichran at the center from mid-Januaryto mid-March. Klimek, interested inthe way in which the exhibition tiedin with styles of music, said, “Thestudents were astonished at thevariety and amount—and thequality—of the art.”

Many other Mines students, staffand faculty visited the show,which was the last exhibitiondesigned by Dickinson. After11 years as the director of thecenter, located at 809 15thStreet in Golden, Dickinsonplans a May retirement. “Irejoice when profs bring inregular or special classes orwhen they come in on theirown,” she said. Her husbandis Liberal Arts andInternational StudiesProfessor Emeritus Don Dickinson.

Honor Roll Athletes

At the Student Athlete AcademicAwards Luncheon in February, itwas pointed out that the mostimportant recognition category forMines athletes is not the FGM, TD,or ERA. It’s the GPA.

CSM had 15 student-athletes namedto the Rocky Mountain AthleticConference’s list of fall 2002Academic Award winners. Eligiblestudent-athletes must maintain aminimum 3.20 grade point averagefor that distinction. At Mines, theoverall cumulative GPA of allstudent-athletes is 3.32.

The annual banquet is sponsored byWells Fargo Bank in Golden.

Carol Dickinson with sculptureby Bruce Gueswel.

Softball team student-athletes

Advocating for wildlife is how Debbie (Schwabach) Goodman BSc

CPR ’80 is helping to make the world abetter place. She is the legislativelobbyist for the Audubon Council ofUtah. During last year’s session shehelped convince the legislature to keepthe Endangered Species MitigationFund almost intact – quite a coup inthese times of budget cuts. “I giveanimals a voice where they have none,"she says.

Goodman always has had a passion forwildlife and her first career was as an environmental engineer. Aftergraduation, she went to work forChevron and was assigned to a massiveenvironmental problem: what to doabout thousands of gallons of refinedproduct floating on the water table nearthe California coast. “I wanted to tryand clean up the environment and I gotto,” she recalls. “I was in the right placeat the right time.”

After her success in California,Goodman was transferred to Utahwhere she worked on Chevron’s pipelinesystem, which covered six states. “I gotto do lots of travel and see lots ofwildlife. I was in the field with peoplewho were wildlife enthusiasts. Iremembered I loved this stuff. I’ve had a passion for wildlife since I was a little kid.”

Some of what she saw horrified her,specifically the mass slaughter ofanimals considered varmints, such as

jack rabbits, coyotes and prairie dogs.“Anyone who loves animals would berepulsed by this discovery, more so me,because both my parents are Holocaustsurvivors. The parallels were just toomuch for me and I couldn’t walk awayfrom my outrage.”

Goodman says she began to get restlessafter 11 years with Chevron and quit theindustry. But she took with her valuable knowledge. “Women were inthe minority at Mines and in the oilindustry,” she says. “I had to learn tofunction in an environment dominatedby males, mostly older and conservative.I learned how to win acceptance andearn their trust and respect.” Those arecritical skills to have when facing theUtah state legislature, a historicallyconservative, mostly male group.

The transition to lobbyist was a gradualone. Goodman remained in the oilindustry for awhile by consulting parttime and enrolled in art classes. “Myright brain needed building,” she says.During that time she also took a coursein environmental politics. “We studiedthe politics of wilderness designationsand the points of controversy; who’sadvocating for what and why and howthat translates into public policy.”

The class produced a book, ContestedLandscape, published in 1999 byUniversity of Utah Press. Goodman co-wrote the chapter on the role of publicinterest groups in influencingwilderness policy. After interviewingadvocates and lobbyists from both sides,Goodman was inspired to volunteer forthe Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.Eventually she showed up at the Utahlegislature as an interested citizen. “Thefirst time I testified I could hardlyspeak,” she recalls. “Testifying is asawful as it looks, but it must be done.”Her Mines education, which taught herto think in terms of resource economics,

and years in the oil industryhave given her addedcredibility. In 2001, when the Utah Audubon Councilneeded a lobbyist, Goodmantook the job. “I’m speakingfor them,” she says, “but I’m also speaking from my heart.”

In addition to lobbying, Goodman is anartist whose subject matter is wildlife.Her medium is cut paper. Samples ofher work illustrate this article. She hasfour up-coming shows inUtah including the AntelopeIsland State Park VisitorsCenter and the Ogden TrainStation art gallery in 2004.She sells her artwork andalso donates it forenvironmental groupfundraisers.

“Being a wildlife advocate, Iend up hearing about awful things, likewhen deer are starving in winterbecause the snow is too high and theirwinter habitat has been turned intoresidential housing, or when hundredsof migrating birds collidewith a communicationstower in a foggy night,” saysGoodman. “Partly myartwork is an antidote tothose sorrows, and it allowsme to focus on the joyousside of nature and life.

“There is another facet aswell. At the legislature, I amforced to talk about animals as aresource, or in terms of their economicor recreational value to humans. Sothese images are an antidote to that aswell, and a way of expressing myamazement and fascination with theanimal world, and of sharing thosefeelings with others who feel the same way.”

Graduates leave Mines . . .

By Maureen Keller

Providing a voice forthose who have none

The careers of Mines alumni take many paths. The three profiled here have spent at least partof their professional lives working for change within the system.



Charles “Chuck” Baroch Met E ’54 is a consultant and chairmanof the board for an environment company and previously spentmore than 30 years in the power-generation business. He’s also

had a more-than 40-year interest in politics – local, state andfederal. “I got involved in the 1960s when there was a lack ofgood candidates in many locations,” he recalls. “I helpedencourage and support good candidates. I never had ambitionsto be a politician.”

But today he is an office-holder himself as the mayor ofGolden, Colo. Baroch was appointed to the position by the

Golden City Council in January 2002. He has been serving on thecouncil since January 1996, representing District 2 in Golden.His mayoral term runs through fall 2003, at which time a charteramendment enacted in 2001 takes effect. The mayor will nolonger be appointed by the council. He or she will be elected bythe citizens. Baroch can no longer run for council as arepresentative of District 2 because of term limits. He could,however, run for mayor. Baroch has not yet decided if he will. Ifhe doesn’t, he probably will retire from politics.

Golden’s City Council meets most Thursday eveningsthroughout the year. Baroch says being mayor takes about 15hours per week. He chairs council meetings, represents Goldenin other organizations within the metropolitan area and, with

the rest of the council, governs. It’s no easy task. “There’s quite acontingency of naysayers,” Baroch notes. “No matter what youdo, they don’t like it.”

Baroch’s focus for the rest of his two-year term is tocomplete the projects that have

already been started, such

as the newbridge across

Washington Avenue, solvingthe city’s water problems, finishing

the golf course, and completing the sale ofproperty in Clear Creek County. The land,

purchased at the turn of the 20th century, is being sold to theU.S. Forest Service for open space. Funds from the sale areneeded to improve Golden’s water supply.

Baroch serves because he believes he has the ability to get peopleto work together. “I can see both sides of the fence,” says theformer vice president of a Fortune 500 company. “I’m trying tomake the world a better place, even if it’s just a little segment ofthe world.”

Sitting in his Virginia office a quarter mile from the PentagonSept. 11, 2001, Miles Kara Geol E ’61 felt his desk shake andheard a loud noise. He went to his window and looked upexpecting to see jets flying in formation over nearby ArlingtonNational Cemetery. Instead, he saw dense black smoke billowingand papers flying from the direction of the Pentagon. It was, ofcourse, the terrorist attack and one of Kara’s former colleaguesdied that day.

Kara, a retired U.S. Army colonel whose career has been spent inintelligence, was quick to volunteer his services to thegovernment. When the 107th Congress announced a 9/11 JointInquiry Committee to investigate the attack, Kara immediatelyapplied to join the Joint Inquiry Staff. Having previously workedwith former CIA Inspector General L. Britt Snider, the first staffdirector, and former Department of Defense Inspector GeneralEleanor Hill, who took over from Snider, Kara’s qualifications

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The events of 9/11 and Kara’s subsequentopportunity to work on the Joint Inquirycontributed to a change in his personal life.Under doctor supervision, he spent the lastthree months of 2002 on a weight-controlprogram and lost 30 pounds. The programcombined a supplement, improved diet andincreased exercise.

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“The JointInquiryCommittee wasset up as abipartisan,bicameralendeavor by twopermanentstandingcommittees, theSenate SelectCommittee on

Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee onIntelligence,” says Kara. “This is historical, the first time ever in the history of the U.S. Congress that such a thing has been done.”

The Joint Inquiry Staff was made up of five teams of four: oneeach for the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency (NSA);another, on which Kara served, for all other related agencies; thefifth as a “look back” team to research the history of pastterrorist attacks dating back to 1986 and provide overarchingperspective. Their mission was to investigate the activities of theintelligence community relating to the Sept. 11 attacks. Whatdid the intelligence community know before the attacks? Whathas it learned since? How did it relate to other local, state andfederal agencies? How did the different intelligence agenciescommunicate with each other?

According to Kara, “One reason we were attacked is because ofwho we are. It is easier for terrorists to plan and execute suchattacks here because of our freedoms. Balancing securityconcerns with individual freedoms is a fundamental problem ofgrave concern that Congress wrestled with during the inquiry.”

“We hit the ground running,” recalls Kara. “We held nearly two

dozen hearings, some closed, some open. On Dec. 20, 2002, weofficially logged [to Congress] an 850-page report that includedindexes and alternative views.” The group reviewed thousandsof documents and interviewed or spoke with nearly 600 people.

The Joint Committee made 19 recommendations including theformation of a new cabinet-level position for nationalintelligence. The group also identified systemic problems incommunications – between the various intelligence agencies –and between the intelligence community and law enforcementand recommended changes. A National Commission, approvedby Congress in January, will now expand on the work done bythe Joint Inquiry.

Kara recalls his career in intelligence as somewhatserendipitous. “In 1961, I had every intention of being ageologic engineer,” he says. First, though, he had to serve hisROTC commitment, ended up in intelligence, enjoyed the work, and made it his career. Nevertheless, Kara says his Mineseducation helped him succeed. “It gave me a lot of analyticalskills. The skills I learned in scientific approach have served mein good stead, especially the skills to recognize and understandanomalies.”

After the professional staff of the Joint Inquiry completed itswork Feb. 2, Kara was hired as a professional staff member of theNational Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S. andbegan that assignment immediately.

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Someone who drives a nicecar and lives in a largehouse is surely richer than75 percent of the people in

the world. Right? The fact is that a personwho stores food in a refrigerator and hangsclothes in a closet is richer than more thanthree quarters of the world. Approximately4.5 billion people do not have these basicamenities. In addition:

■ 5 billion people (80 percent of theworld’s population) live below the poverty line

■ 4 billion people (70 percent) cannot read

■ 3 billion people (50 percent) do not haveaccess to clean water and sanitation.

Helping disadvantaged communitiesimprove their quality of life is the missionof a new, non-profit organization,Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), which asks, “What can we do?”

Dr. Bernard Amadei began to answer thisquestion when he met some people fromSan Pablo, Belize. They told him that mostof the people of the village worked all dayat a nearby banana plantation. Since thevillage had no electricity, running water orsanitation, children carried water fordrinking and irrigation from a nearbyriver. Amadei, a professor of civilengineering at the University of Colorado,recruited eight students and Denis Walsh, acivil engineering expert from Boulder, tohelp tackle this problem. It was the start ofEngineers Without Borders-USA. He hadno idea then how quickly it would grow.

The students and Amadei decided to installa ram pump to carry the water up to thevillage. Unfortunately, after the installationof the pump, a hurricane caused the waterlevel to rise over 70 feet, damaging theirinstallation. The process of engineering isalmost always iterative. One of the slogansof EWB-USA is “Adopt the Village” becausethe organization does not want non-working projects sitting throughout thedeveloping world. So funding was found

and a 140-foot well was drilled for thevillage. The well is still working.

Last fall semester, the newly founded CSMchapter of EWB-USA began work on itsfirst project: to give the village electricity.Students traveled to the village inNovember to survey the area. They willreturn to Belize this spring to install twosolar panels, which will be used to light thechurch, school, woman’s building and, ifpossible, power the pump in the well.Contributors to the CSM project areASME, IEEE, P.K. Sen, Dr. Eurich Dentists,Utility Engineering, Altair, the Slater Fundand the Hewlett Grant.

Only the CU chapter of EWB-USA existedat the beginning of the 2002 school year.Now 22 universities across the countryhave chapters encouraging engineeringstudents to get involved in the developingworld. Students are eager to participate sothey can apply their engineering knowledgeto real-world projects, while helpingimprove the worsening poverty gapthroughout the world.

Currently EWB-USA has 10 ongoing orcompleted projects around the world.Many of them deal with providing cleanwater to small villages in countries fromMauritania to Nicaragua. Volunteers workwith the leaders of villages to developlocally sustainable systems usingappropriate technologies that respect theirculture and autonomy. EWB-USA alsoprovides small electrical systems to giveschools light and power. One of thosesystems now lights a school for 850students in Haiti. Most of the projects arein small villages or on the outskirts oflarger cities. This gives EWB-USA theability to talk to the peopleand implement asystem that theywant and canmaintain.

EWB-USA has beenapproached formany more

projects. When a chapter takes on a project,members must find funding to purchasenecessary equipment and fly students tothe site to implement it. It is a wonderfulexperience not only for the students but forthe villagers as well. All donated moneygoes directly to the projects, not tofundraising events or TV commercials. Allof the directors of the program arevolunteers.

For information about contributing to a Mines project, contact the campus EWB-USA president Paula Schmitz [email protected]. To learn more aboutthe organization and current projects visithttp://www.ewb-usa.org.

By Aaron Burman BSc Eng ’02

Note about the author: Aaron Burman currently works for the U.S. Geological Survey as aresearch assistant and plans to attend graduate school to pursue a degree in internationalenergy policy. He is the Webmaster for the EWB-USA site.

Building a Better World One Community at a Time



Often, when possible, Minesengineering students have combined

course work with humanitarian projects,gaining practical experience whileimproving the lives of others. Now, moreoften, more students will have more serviceopportunities within the engineeringcurriculum at Mines.

Thanks to a four-year, $1,167,000 grantfrom the William and Flora HewlettFoundation, humanitarian engineering atthe School has become a fundamentalmission, both focused and funded. In fact,a minor in humanitarian engineering willnow be offered. Those who earn the minorcan pursue careers in a service field, orthey can apply their multifaceted expertiseand international experience in otherfields.

This may be a first. The School knows ofno other federal funding source thatspecifically targets humanitarian trainingfor engineering students. Although severalcommunity service programs exist invarious universities, apparently none focuson engineering education.

The project, “Serving Humanity: EngineersImproving the World Through Regional,National, and International CommunityService,” will be administered through theEngineering Division, with DivisionDirector Joan Gosink serving as projectdirector. The goal of the project, sheexplains, is the creation of a new cadre ofengineers, sensitive to social contexts andcommitted to contributing to the solutionof complex problems at locations aroundthe world in need of technical assistance.

In addition to recruiting current studentsenrolled in CSM engineering programs,which could raise retention rates, theproject is expected to draw more futurestudents, particularly women and minoritystudents, to engineering.

Developing the curriculum’s humanitarianengineering component will involveenhancing or modifying existing courses,as well as introducing new ones. Thecurriculum will consist of both technicaland non-technical courses. Gosinkdescribes two current course adaptations:■ Senior Design will significantly increase

the number, complexity and duration ofprojects with community andinternational emphases.

■ The Multidisciplinary EngineeringLaboratories (MEL) sequence willprovide new skills with relevance toservice missions. For example, MEL willintroduce experiments related todistributed energy systems (fuel cells,solar cells, wind turbines), sensors formonitoring well water levels and quality,and sensors for contaminant transportand containment.

New courses will include one-credit“applications” courses addressing technicalissues: small hydro; micro-turbine design;desalinization; photovoltaic systems;alternative energy; biomechanics for thedisabled; groundwater and pollutanttransport and remediation; low-costmedical imaging methods; small-scalecommunications systems; remote sensingas a tool in community planning,infrastructure planning, natural resourceplanning, environmental assessment anddisaster relief. Another addition will be asenior civil engineering elective coursetitled “Expansive soils: causes, damages,and solutions.”

The humanitarian engineering programwill also feature coursework related tohuman factors. LAIS is developing newcourses, including training in differentcultural perspectives, and offering a minorin humanitarian engineering. K-12

activities for both students and teachersare also planned.

Regional and international internships—with industries, governmental and non-governmental organizations—are key tothe program. They will be established witha long-term view, assuring thecontinuation of the service missionbeyond CSM and the life of the HewlettFoundation grant. Health and safety issuesfor students will be a paramount concern.Organizations that will help facilitate theinternships include:■ The U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services and the U.S. PublicHealth Service

■ The Golden Independent School

■ The National Sports Center for theDisabled

■ The Partnership for Public Service

■ The Federal University of Santa Maria inBrazil

■ Engineers Without Borders

■ The Namlo Foundation in Nepal.

Gosink’s project leadership team at Minesincludes Sanaa Azim, ChristianDebrunner, Jean-pierre Delplanque, TomGrover, Robert King, Ning Lu, JuanLucena, Carl Mitcham, Arthur Sacks,Marcelo Simoes and Doug Sutton.

Hewlett Foundation Funds Humanitarian EngineeringBy Marsha Konegni

An automatic page-turning device formusicians… methodologies and

apparatus for detecting bacteria andviruses… improvements in biodegradableplastic …a new process for steel heattreatment that couldimprove passenger safety inautomobiles…and insolesfor the shoes of diabeticpatients are some of theMines discoveriesspotlighted recently fortheir potential commercial-ization by the Office ofTechnology Transfer.

More than 20 innovationsby entrepreneurial faculty,students and staff were ondisplay at a TechnologyShowcase Program inFebruary at the School’snew research building.Inventions for display wereselected for their researchmerit, market potentialand promise for significanteconomic and socialimpact to society.

A keynote address fromJohn Hansen, chieftechnology officer forthe state of Colorado,preceded the showcase.Awards were presentedto the followingresearchers who havedeveloped new andpatented technologies:Ronald W. Klusman,Daniel M. Knauss,Angelo J. MadonnaPhD Applied Chem ’02,John J. Moore,Maximiliaan Peeters,Dennis W. Readey,Earl D. Sloan, Jr.,Rahmat Shoureshi,Kent J. Voorhees and

James D. Way. Receiving recognition fortheir efforts and leadership in formingCSM start-up companies were John S.Oakey MSc CPR ’99, president ofMetafluidics Inc., and John H. WheelerBSc Geop ’84, president of Microphage Inc.

For more information about the MinesOffice of Technology Transfer seewww.mines.edu/research/ott.

Showcasing Inventions with Market PotentialBy Marsha Konegni

Mission Granted:



cook for my family as a sort of payment for letting me freeload attheir house.” Having grown up in Southern California, Ogden atea lot of Mexican and Pacific-Rim food. “I cookfrom my roots,” he says. “I like to say I cookMexican Asian fusion with Americansensibility.”

Ogden had chosen CSM so he could ski anddecided to return to Colorado for more. “Iremembered a day the rugby squad played amatch in the beautiful Vail valley and decidedto go skiing for a season,” he says. He arrived in1993. “I then got a job flipping burgers up onthe hill at Two Elk, the busiest spot in Vail atthat time. After a week, I went from lackey torunning the station, answering to the executivechef.” Near the end of that first season, one ofOgden’s employees recommended he help prep at Terra Bistro. “Itwas my first real experience in fine dining,” he says. For the nextfour years, Ogden worked his way from prep cook to lunch cookto dinner. “At dinner, I started in salad then progressed through allthe stations: hot apps, sauté, grill and expediter.” He left Terra

Bistro as sous chef and began at that level at SaddleRidge, abeautiful resort in Beaver Creek originally built by American

Express as a corporate retreat. When the chefleft, Ogden moved into the top spot.

An executive chef wears many hats. He isresponsible for ordering and receiving product,making sure the equipment – ovens, stoves,drains, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers andso on – are running, creates schedules, developsmenus, monitors costs, minimizes waste andhires and fires staff. “Being a chef puts one inmany different situations,” says Ogden. “I like tothink that whatever is put in front of me, theskills I learned at Mines gives me the problem-solving that I need to excel. I think Dr. Van Kirk[PhD Pet ’72] taught those ideas very well in

Reservoir when I was a student.” Ogden even credits his educationwhen asked how he learned to cook. “I tell them the story aboutthe videotapes and the School of Mines in Golden,” Ogden says. “Ithink everyone who took quant lab knows how to cook as well asany pastry chef out there.”

Prier ’81 heads oil company

The first female president of Williams Alaska Petroleum is a Minesgraduate. Diane Prier BSc CPR ’81 is responsible for Alaska’s

largest petroleum refinery, a730,000-barrel terminal atthe Port of Anchorage and 29 Williams Express retailconvenience storesthroughout the state.

The secret to her success: abalanced life. “I stronglybelieve in work/life balanceso prioritizing and delegatingskills are essential forsuccess,” Prier says. “Myexpectations of myself as awife/mother/daughter and amember of my communitydepend on a balanced

lifestyle. I believe we will have more of ourselves to dedicate to theworkplace if we make time for our families – first.”

The former Diane Ritter married Philip Prier between her juniorand senior years at Mines. After graduation, the couple moved toTexas for her job, then to Florida for his job. “Phil generouslydecided that he would put his career aside so that we could followmy career,” says Prier. “He has done a lot of different things in themany places we have lived – from working as a controller for alocal newspaper to selling Harley Davidson motorcycles.” ThePriers have been happily married for 22 years and have a son, adaughter and two grandchildren.

Prier has worked for Williams Energy since 1993. She began as an operations manager of field services, director of the energygroup, vice-president of energy services and finally, in 2001, wasnamed president of Alaska Petroleum Inc. As such, she overseeswholesale marketing, refinery operations including engineering,environmental, health and safety, retail operations and marketing,and government and community affairs. In 2001, Prier’s teamachieved record business unit profitability for Williams of$80+ million.

Prier’s biggest challenge as president involves change. “We arefocusing on eliminating waste, streamlining processes and usingtechnology to improve performance,” she says. “It’s very difficult,yet rewarding, to encourage people to move outside of theircomfort zone to try something new and risk failure. I give thempermission and protection to make mistakes. If we only achievesuccesses, we are not pushing the envelope hard enough. It’s

wonderful to see momentum build as people try new things,experience success and are encouraged enough to try something else.”

“Another challenge involves getting people from differentdepartments to communicate well and work closely together. Itrequires continual encouragement, but the benefits include a teamthat understands the big picture, appreciates how their workimpacts others, and a group that works efficiently and effectivelytowards common goals. A true sense of ownership is developedwhen barriers between groups are removed.”

In addition to leading her company, Prier is active in thecommunity. She was co-chair of the 2002 United Way campaignin Anchorage and serves on the Anchorage EconomicDevelopment Council, The Alaska Oil and Gas Association andthe Providence Health Care Foundation. Prier is protective ofboth business development and the environment.

“The environment is what makes Alaska so special and we have to keep it in focus as we develop our industry,” she says. “We canhelp people in the community understand that technology existsto expand business and jobs with a minimal impact on theenvironment. That makes development and growth a win-win forall of us.”

Prier credits her Mines education with helping her succeed. “MyMines education taught me how to think logically throughcomplex problems and to evaluate a wide range of possibilities,”she says. “My time and studies at Mines also helped me to developa very disciplined approach to time management and priorities. Idefinitely refined my skills in persistence and in achieving goals.”

Prier may soon set some new goals because the Williams Alaskabusiness unit is for sale and her position with a new owner isuncertain. Her motto will carry her through to the next stage,“Treat life as an adventure; keep learning and growing. Putpassion into your work and balance into your life.”

Ogden ’92 is an executive chef

Geordy Ogden BSc Pet ’92 took his Mines degree into the kitchenand today is executive chef at SaddleRidge in Beaver Creek, Colo.

When Ogden graduated in 1992, the job market was flat and hespent time in San Francisco’s East Bay sending out résumés. Heworked briefly for Bank of America but it wasn’t a satisfyingexperience. “During that time, I stayed at my parents’ house andmy father had a nice vegetable garden,” Ogden recalls. “I got somevideotapes from the library and taught myself how to develop thefoundations of classical cooking techniques. This enabled me to

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pals have fascinated mankind sincebefore recorded history. ArchaeologistLouis Leakey found opals among 6,000-year-old artifacts in Kenya in 1939. In thefirst century A.D., the Roman Plinywrote about opalscomparing them

to rubies, amethysts and emeralds.Napoleon gave Josephine a magnificentopal with brilliant red flashes called the“Burning of Troy.” Queen Victoria wasespecially fond of the gem and wore opalsfrequently, making them popular duringher reign.

No other gemstone displays the variety ofshades, patterns and brilliance as doesthe opal. The gemstone is 2 percent to 10percent water, and is made of small silicaspheres. The brilliance is caused by light traveling through the silica anddiffracting as through a diffraction

grating into one or more colors toproduce what is called “play of colors.”

Gem-quality stones comefrom two types of deposits:

volcanic and sedimentary.The highest quality and

largest quantity of opalstoday come from

Australia, wheredeposits are

sedimentary. Mexico,where deposits are

volcanic, is the

world’s second-largest producer. In theearly 1990s, Telahun “Tel” Yohannes MSc Chem ’80 discovered opals, also of the volcanic variety, in his nativeEthiopia. He hopes soon to be competingin the world opal market.

Yohannes, a U.S. citizen since 1979 livingin Wheat Ridge, Colo., had not returnedto Ethiopia in 41 years. In 1993 he took

his family there for a six-week vacation.While being reintroduced to hisrelatives and enjoying the beautiful

Ethiopian scenery, he met a geologistwho invited him to his office forprofessional consultation. In the

geologist’s conference room,Yohannes noticed an opal nodule

that had been cracked open to exhibit amost beautiful content opal with awonderful play of colors. The geologistoffered the opal nodule, which was foundin Ethiopia, to Yohannes as a gift.Yohannes took it home to Colorado tostudy the opal’s stability, characteristicsand value as gem stone after it has beencut and polished.

In 1995, after positively establishing thecharacteristics and value of the opal,Yohannes returned to Ethiopia to conductreconnaissance, geological exploration,

surveying, random sampling andenvironmental impact evaluation. Toavoid the excessive cost of running aforeign-owned business, he named hisbrother, who is Ethiopian, head of thecompany and returned to Colorado withmore randomly sampled opal nodules forfurther study.

The opalized area where Yohannes has hisclaim is about 141 miles northeast ofAddis Ababa in central Ethiopia. It issituated on the western face of thenortheast escarpment of the greatEthiopian Rift Valley in rough terrainfilled with mountains, gorges and valleys.Yohannes returned to the site in July 1997

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Hollywood honorsSpringfield ’91 Christopher D. Springfield BSc Phy ’91has received the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences’ 2002 TechnicalAchievement Award for his work on theDeep Canvas rendering software. The

softwareprogramcapturestheoriginalbrushstrokes ofthetraditionalback-groundartist to

render the elements in three dimensionsfor animated films. Deep Canvas wasdeveloped at the Walt Disney Company foruse on Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empireand Treasure Planet. The award waspresented at a gala black tie dinner inMarch in Beverly Hills. Springfield and hiswife live in Glendale, Calif.

Springfield, who also has a doctorate inapplied physics from the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology, has worked for thefeature animation division at Disney forthe past five years. He was softwaredeveloper and technical director on Tarzanand Treasure Planet.

While in graduate school, Springfieldwrote and produced Green Eggs andHamlet with writer/director Mike O’Neal.The film is currently available on video.He also was a tracking supervisor forDigital Domain on the award-winning film Titanic.

Genereaux ’89 chroniclesextreme sports adventuresBruce Genereaux MSc Min Ec ’89 haspublished Beyond the Comfort Zone –Confessions of an Extreme Sports Junkie,excerpted in Mines Vol. 92, No. 1 (Winter2002). The book provides a look into themotivations, successes and failures ofextreme sportsmen as they tackle Class 5kayaking, rock climbing, extreme skiing

and adventureracing. Settingsinclude NewEngland’sTuckerman’sRavine, Chile’sPatagonia,California’sSierra Nevadas,Arizona’s SaltRiver Canyon,NewZealand’sSouth Islandand, of course,Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.The book is published by Class Five Pressand retails for $17.50.

Holstein ’79 elected judgeDavid H. Holstein BSc Pet ’79 was electedcounty judge for Henderson County,Texas, running on the Republican ballot.The Henderson County seat is located inAthens, Texas. Holstein has been living inGun Barrel City, Texas, and remains activein the oil and gas business.

Olsen ’84 named battalioncommanderLt. Col. Jared W. Olsen BSc Geol ’84 wasnamed battalion commander of the 926thEngineer Battalion at Green SpringsArmed Forces Reserve Center inBirmingham, Ala., in January. He was anROTC scholar at Mines and wascommissioned in the U.S. Army aftergraduation. He served on active duty until 1995.

Olsen also holds a master’s degreein environmental engineering fromUniversity of Illinois. In civilian lifehe is a program manager at theBaltimore District, U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers. He lives in south centralPennsylvania with his wife, Deborah,and three children.

Cowart ’77 to headPlanned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood of the RockyMountains (PPRM) has announced thatVicki Cowart MSc Geop ’77 will lead the$19 million, multi-state affiliate. PPRM isthe third largest Planned Parenthoodaffiliate in the country, with 32 healthcenters in six states. Each year PPRMprovides 110,000 women and men withreproductive health care. Its educationalprograms serve 19,000 people.

Cowart began March 1. She has spent the last 10 years serving as state geologist and director of the ColoradoGeological Survey.

“Planned Parenthood provides women andmen with the fundamental freedoms andindividual choices that allowed me topursue a career and succeed in a non-traditional field for women,” said Cowart.“When the opportunity to lead thisorganization presented itself, I couldn’tresist the exciting challenge of blending thenext step in my career with a cause aboutwhich I am passionate.”

David Holstein, right, with Sen. Phil Gramm

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Tel Johannes at work in his home in Wheat Ridge, Colo.


and lived in a tent while conducting detailedgeological survey, exploration and systematicsampling for a financial feasibility study.

At the end of that year, while working in the opal field,Yohannes became ill and then sustained neck andback injuries when he fell down a cliff. Sick andinjured, he returned to Colorado for treatment. In hisabsence, the opal mine was confiscated by locals and aclique of individuals whom he trusted, who bribed

government officialsand began miningand selling the opalsthemselves.

Only about 0.5percent of the nodulescontain opals that aregem-quality. But ofthose gem-qualitystones, more than halfare exceptional. Whatis unusual aboutEthiopian opals is

their large size and variety of colors. They range from clearwhite to dark brown. The gem quality stones range in valuefrom $10 to more than $10,000 per gram.

“Unfortunately, the group that took over didn’t know how tomine the opal nodules, knew nothing about opal quality andcharacteristics issues and did not know how to manage thebusiness,” Yohannes says. Opals are brittle, heat sensitive,crack, break, craze and scratch easily. They are soft comparedwith quartz (5 to 6 on the Mohs scale of 1-10 where talc is 1and diamond is 10). Opals can self-destruct by cracking andcrazing due to loss of the water within. It takes knowledge andcare to mine and market opals successfully.

For the past four years, Abay Resource TechnologyInternational LLC (ARTI LLC) Yohannes’ American company,has been in Ethiopian court fighting for the return of theclaim. Recently, the court decided in favor of ARTI andYohannes has been invited back to continue his work. Hehopes to return to Ethiopia soon.

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Opalsin Ethiopia

In addition to reclaiming the mine, Yohannes has been workingto solve the cracking and crazing problem of opals. DonaldHoover DSc Geop ’66, ARTI staff gemologist, is working withYohannes to stabilize rough and finished stones. Also, Yohanneshas approached James F. Ranville MSc Geochem ’88, PhDGeochem ’92 for consultation and assistance on the samecracking and crazing problem.

Several other Mines alumni also have become part of theEthiopian opal project. Alan Mencin BSc CPR ’79 is involvedwith marketing the opals. Bob Johannes BSc Geol ’85 and Caren Johannes BSc Geol ’85 have cut and polished some of theexperimental stones. “These two are doing an excellent job incutting, polishing and mounting the stones,” Yohannes says. Hehopes they will continue their work in the company when theopals are brought to market.

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Heading into the 2002-03 campaign,nobody outside the Mines AthleticsDepartment expected much from themen’s basketball team.

After all, just one season ago, Minesrecorded an overall record of 5-21,including 3-16 in the RockyMountain Athletic Conference. Inaddition, the squad was picked tofinish sixth of seven teams in the

RMAC East Division by the conference coaches.

However, Mines, led by second year Head Coach Pryor Orser, wasabout to prove that it was a team that could compete in thetalented league. A majority of last year’s team returned a yearolder and a year wiser, including sophomore guard Stephen Bahl,who earned RMAC Freshman of the Year and HonorableMention All-RMAC accolades following the 2001-02 season.

In addition, Orser brought in highly touted freshman point guardKevin Wagstaff from Rampart High School to run the show.Sophomore guard Matt Luedtke, a deadly three-point shooter,also joined the squad as a transfer from the University ofMontana. Senior center Mike McNish, junior forward FarrisBroussard, senior forward Justin Buckmaster and sophomorecenter Ryan Woodson also returned to the mix to provide Mineswith depth on the blocks. Following a strong summer by theplayers and an outstanding preseason, the team was ready to takethe court.

The 2002-03 season began with a memorablegame when Mines knocked off NorthernColorado, 81-80. The final two points camewhen Broussard nailed both ends of a one-and-one with just 1.2 seconds left. Thefollowing night, CSM defeated Mesa State, 98-93, in overtime to win the Colorado MinesClassic.

Mines then dropped two of its next threegames and stood at 4-2 on Dec. 5. That’s whenthe real fun began.

CSM would run off a school-record 11consecutive victories and ascend all the way tothe No. 4 ranking in the North Central Regionand the No. 26 ranked team in all of DivisionII. It marked the highest ranking ever attained

in the history of the Oredigger men’s basketballprogram.

The 11-game win streak began with a 113-94 victory overWestern State, marking one of two times the team topped the100-point barrier during the run. Mines also defeated NewMexico Highlands, 101-80 on Jan. 11.

The third and fourth wins during the streak came at Alaska-Anchorage right before the Christmas holiday. On Dec. 20, CSMpulled out an 83-81 win behind 16 points from Bahl. Thefollowing night, Luedtke scored 24 points and grabbed eightboards to lead Mines to a 95-78 win and a two-game sweep of theSeawolves.

Following the Christmas break, Mines would run off six straightwins capped by a 77-70 win in Volk Gymnasium against Regis.The streak also included the Orediggers’ first seven-game sweepof the RMAC West Division. CSM was one of two teams in theleague to accomplish that feat this season, joining Nebraska-Kearney, which spent much of the season nationally ranked.

But Mines would run into some stiff competition following its

11-game win streak as it lost seven of its next 10 games. Duringthat losing streak, the Orediggers played good basketball againstgood teams, but could never hit the key shot or get a key foul calldown the stretch.

Included in the losing streak was a six-point road loss at formernational champion Fort Hays State, a one-point loss at home toChadron State on a buzzer beater, a three-point loss at home toMetro State, the defending Division II National Champion,and a two-point heartbreaker in Volk Gymnasium to Nebraska-Kearney, which was ranked second in the nation and undefeated atthe time.

Mines concluded the regular season with road wins over ColoradoChristian and Regis to earn the No. 5 seed at the RMACTournament with an overallmark of 18-9 and 12-7 in leagueplay. By virtue of clinching theNo. 5 spot in the tournament,Mines had to travel to Fort HaysState, the No. 4 seed, for anopening round quarterfinalgame. Mines and FHSU had splittheir first two meetings of theregular season setting up therubber match at Gross MemorialColisuem on March 5.

The Tigers started out strongand claimed a 10-point leadmidway through the first halfbefore settling on a nine-pointlead at the break. From there,Fort Hays would extend its leadto as many as 20 points in thesecond half. However, Mines used a late run to slice its deficit toseven points with two minutes to play, but would get no closer asit concluded its season with an 82-69 setback to the Tigers.

Seven of Mines’ 10 losses came to teams who would go on toqualify for the NCAA Division II National Tournament.

Bahl earned First Team All-RMAC accolades for his performancein 2002-03 as he led the conference and was also among thenational leaders in scoring at 22.5 points per game. In addition,Luedtke garnered Second Team All-East Division accolades, whileMcNish and Broussard were named to the Honorable MentionAll-East Division Team. Freshman guard Kevin Wagstaff earnedthe RMAC Newcomer of the Year Award.



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The 2002-03 Colorado Mines men’s basketball team set a school record by winning 11 consecutive games from Dec. 14 through Jan. 23. The squad ended the season at

18-10 overall and 12-7 in the RMAC and advanced to the RMAC Tournament.

Four Named All-AmericaFour Mines athletes concluded their winter seasons by earning All-America honors in their respective sports. In addition, another fourindividuals qualified and competed at the national championships.

Leading the way in the winter season was senior 165-pounder Greg Chirieleison who captured eighth place at the NCAA Division II National Wrestling Championships in Wheeling, W.Va.Chirieleison posted a record of 2-3 at nationals with one of his losses coming in a tiebreaker.

Earning All-America accolades in swimming were junior ShaneCopsey, junior Gretta Simpson and senior Brooks Masterson. Copseygarnered two All-America honors as he took fifth in both the 100 and200 Breast.

Simpson earned her All-America selection with a seventh placeshowing in the 100 Fly (57.40), while Masterson was an All-Americapick in the 400 Individual Medley with an 11th place showing in 4:05.57.

Also competing at nationals for Mines were wrestlers MarkDubrovich and Chuck Halstead, as well as pole vaulter Zane Prickettand long jumper Gina Nichols from the indoor track squad.

Head Coach Pryor Orser

Stephen Bahl earned FirstTeam All-RMAC honors afterleading the league in scoring

at 22.5 points per game.

By GregMurphy

Spring Sports Updates (as of April 9)Baseball The Oredigger baseball team stands at 6-21 overall and 1-3 in conference play. Junior Adam Marwitz leads the offense inseveral statistical categories, including batting average (.395),doubles (8), home runs (5) and runs batted in (32). The pitchingstaff is paced by sophomore Kevin Barrett who has posted a 3-3 mark.Softball The CSM softball team has tallied a 7-15 mark this season,including a 4-12 mark in RMAC play. Junior Heidi Bauer continuesto pace the Oredigger attack as she is hitting .394 with 10 doubles,two home runs and eight runs batted in. Freshman BreeannDiCarlo has posted a 5-10 mark with a 3.43 earned run average onthe mound.Track and Field The Mines track and field teams are off to a greatstart in the outdoor season as they have fared well at meets hostedby Colorado State and Northern Colorado. The RMACChampionships are slated for May 1-3 at Adams State College.

Tennis The Oredigger tennis squad has compiled a 6-12 overallmark and an 0-3 record in conference play this season. SophomoreAlmed Sejati leads the squad with an overall record of 8-7 playingpredominately at No. 2 singles.Golf Mines turned in some great performances on the links duringthe spring season, including a fifth-place showing at the BearSpring Invitational in early April. Senior Ray Rodriguez has led thesquad all season as he is averaging 75.3 strokes per round.



Kickoff GalaKickoff GalaTRANSFORMING RESOURCES

T ransforming Resources: The Campaign for Mines was publiclylaunched on Feb. 22 at a black tie gala in the Volk Gymnasium

attended by approximately 250 alumni and friends. While detailsof the event were reported in the winter issue of Mines, it was tooclose to press time to include photos. Entertained by the MinesMarching Band, the Choir and the Jefferson County String Quartet,guests enjoyed an elegant and lively evening in the company offellow Mines supporters, renewing old friendships and makingnew ones.

In after-dinner remarks, President Trefny outlined a visionfor the School, emphasizing the role the campaign will play in realizing Mines’ future.

Following the president’s remarks, Campaign Co-ChairsSteve Chesebro’ ’64 (left) and Howard Janzen ’76unveiled the specific goals of the campaign and theamount raised to date—$65 million.

TRANSFORMING RESOURCES

Stanley and Judy Dempsey established aflexible gift annuity—their second—with agift of appreciated stock worth $166,238.They also made an outright gift of $6,650to the Arthur Lakes Library.

Scott Dickson ’95 donated land with avalue of $30,000 to benefit theDepartment of Chemistry.

Fred ’49 and Dorothy Dueser continuedtheir support of the Mines Annual Fundwith a Simon Guggenheim Society levelgift of $25,000.

In continuing support of the PetroleumEngineering Department, R. CharlesEarlougher ’36 contributed $30,067 to thedepartment.

Hugh ’49 and Ann Evans addedproperty with a value of $52,498 to theircharitable remainder trust.

Charles Fitch ’49 donated $50,000 forfaculty development in the MiningEngineering Department.

In honor of his 35th reunion, GeraldGrandey ’68 gave $25,000 to his namedendowed fund, in support of the McBrideHonors Program.

Bruce Grewcock ’76 fulfilled hisTransforming Resources campaigncommitment with a gift of $298,250 toestablish an endowed faculty support fundin construction/mining engineering.

Bill Guenther Jr. ’42 established theWilliam F. Guenther, Jr. EndowedScholarship with a gift of $100,000 andalso created a gift annuity of $150,000.

As part of their $100,000 commitmentto the McBride Honors Program, Bruce’60 and Eleanor Heister provided a gift of$25,000.

Ralph Hennebach ’41 renewed hismembership in the Simon GuggenheimSociety with a gift of $25,000.

Ed ’56 and Nien Hodder contributed$30,000 to the Experimental Mine. Anadditional $10,000 gift was directed to theMines Annual Fund.

Robert Irelan ’68 fulfilled $30,000 of his$100,000 Transforming Resources campaigncommitment, with $5,000 designated forthe Annual Fund and $25,000 for theIrelan Family Endowment for the McBride

Honors Progam.Al Ireson ’48 donated $45,000 and a

matching gift of $5,500 to the Ireson andFamily Endowed Scholarship. He alsocontributed $5,000 to the Annual Fund.

A $50,000 bequest was received from theestate of Heine Kenworthy ’32 in supportof the Department of Metallurgical andMaterials Engineering.

The Mines Annual Fund received$25,000 from Frank Labriola ’52, who willbe listed as a member of the GuggenheimSociety for fiscal 2003.

John ’52 and Erika Lockridge made agift of $52,837 in support of their men’sbasketball scholarship, the BlasterEndowed Scholarship Fund.

A bequest of $79,681 was received fromthe estate of Isabel McNeill, who was thewidow of Harry McNeill ’24. The gift wasdirected to the Harry McNeill EndowedScholarship Fund.

Don E. ’53 and Barbara Millercontributed $25,000 to the MillerScholarship Fund in honor of his 50threunion.

Steven and Gayle Mooney made a giftof $25,000 toward the Mines Annual Fund, which is part of their $125,000commitment to the Transforming Resources campaign.

An unrestricted bequest of $332,000 wasreceived from the estate of GracielaMurdock.

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darLunch Bunch, an

informal alumni get-together, meets at the Buffalo Rose in Golden, Colo.,11:30 a.m.

Denver-area Thursday Mixer: Wyncoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street,Denver, 5-7:30 p.m. No charge at door, pay own way. RSVP to Janet Blair, 303-273-3295.

Grand Junction, Colo.,section luncheon at

Bookcliff Country Club,2730 G Road, noon. For information call John Howe at 970-242-4903 or Del Tolen at 970-256-1118

Phoenix: golftournament

Lunch Bunch, an informal alumni get-together, meets

at the Buffalo Rose in Golden,Colo., 11:30 a.m.



Bookcliff Country Club, 2730 GRoad, noon. For information call John Howe at 970-242-4903

or Del Tolen at 970-256-1118.

Lunch Bunch, an informal alumni get-

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Bookcliff Country Club,2730 G Road, noon. For information call John Howe at 970-242-4903 or Del Tolen at 970-256-1118.



Denver-area Thursday Mixer: Wyncoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street,

Denver, 5-7:30 p.m.No charge at door, pay own way. RSVP to Janet Blair,303-273-3295.

Phoenix: Rockies vs.Diamondbacks base-

ball. Contact Eric Jacobs by June 20 at [email protected] or 602-524-7439.


Bookcliff Country Club,2730 G Road, noon. For information call John Howe at 970-2424903 or Del Tolen at 970-256-1118.



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Chesebro’s Create Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Engineering

Transforming Resources campaign Co-Chair Stephen D. Chesebro’ ’64 and his wife Dollie have created the first distinguished endowed chair in the PetroleumEngineering Department. The Chesebro’ chair will be funded with $2.5 millionendowment comprised of a $2 million Transforming Resources campaigncommitment and severalprevious gifts. It will assist theinternationally recognizeddepartment in recruitingoutstanding industry leaders tothe faculty. “The petroleumindustry is vital to our nationalsecurity and economicprosperity. Dollie and I wantthis gift to not only strengthenthe department and the School,but to contribute to theindustry worldwide,” saidChesebro’. “We also hope that this gift will challenge others in the Mines communityto consider making an investment in the School’s future.”

Energy is one of Mines’ six focus areas for preeminence, identified as part of theongoing strategic planning process. Remarking on the gift, President Trefny said,“The Chesebro’ Distinguished Chair addresses one of our most pressing needs. Thesuccess of the Petroleum Engineering Department and the School rests upon theintellectual achievement of our faculty. We are delighted that Steve and Dollie haveprovided this special resource to ensure the continued preeminence of this area andthe institution.”

Chesebro’ currently serves as chairman of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. Heformerly served as chairman and CEO of Tenneco Energy and president and CEO of PennzEnergy.

Mines Acknowledges Recent Donors



Officers

John N. Schwartzberg BSc Met ’88President

Arthur T. Biddle Met E ’61 President-elect

Alan J. Mencin BSc CPR ’79Treasurer

Kathleen A. Altman BSc Met ’80Secretary

Directors

Scott R. Clark BSc Pet ’85 Brenda J. Eckles BSc Geop ’94 Carole D. Graas PhD Mat Sc ’89 Hugh W. Evans EM ’49 Roxann M. Hayes BSc Eng ’95 Robert Kendrick EM ’54 Blase A. Leven MSc Geol ’89 Kimberly M. Lewis BSc CPR ’92Jodi M. Menebroker BSc CPR ’91 Pat Phillips Met E ’61 Laurence G. Preble PRE ’61Stefany B. Stokley BSc Geop ’99Jeffrey S. Suiter BSc Geop ’91 Julie D. White BSc CPR ’93

StaffMichael Watson

Executive DirectorJanet Blair

Administrative AssistantKathy Breit

Deputy DirectorMaureen Keller

EditorBob Pearson PE ’59

Sections CoordinatorJo Marie Reeves

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Phoenix, Ariz.

The Phoenix sectionheld a Mines Olympicsat Sisk Park Nov. 16.Pictured from left, frontrow, Andy Jurasin GeolE ’54, Bob Meiers BScBE ’81, MSc Met ’84,Hank Johns Met E ’66,Scott Gustafson BScGeop ’77, MSc Min Ec ’79, John McIver Met E ’50, Larry Valdez BSc Eng ’01 and BruceClark Met E ’48. Back row from left, Newell Orr Met E ’54, Stewart Towle Met E ’54, BobKerwin Met E ’53, Bob Smith Geol E ’55, Gordon Wieduwilt Geop E ’53, CharlieSorvisto EM ’54, Tom Warfield EM ’52 and Steven Passmore BSc Eng ’00.

Anchorage, Alaska

Seven alumni participated in a day of skiingon Super Bowl Sunday to benefit a localbattered women’s shelter. Pictured from left,Wendy King BSc Pet ’90, Tanya Barb BSc Pet’01, MS ETM ’02, Katie Britton BSc ChemEng ’01, Becky Brown BSc Math ’92, PattyChamberlain BSc CPR ’89 and Holly Daugherty BSC Eng ’01. Not pictured is Kai Binkley BSc Pet ’02.

Grand Junction, Colo.

Del Tolen PRE ’57 and Mike Nyikosorganized an alumni dinner for the women’sbasketball team and their parents after theMesa State game Jan. 3. Pictured center isTony Setter EM ’32, Mines’ oldest livingalumnus.

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Durango, Colo.

The men’s basketball team played Ft. Lewis Collegein Durango Jan. 18 and alumni showed up to cheer.

Golden, Colo.

Director of CSM’s Center for Commercial Applications ofCombustion in Space Frank Schowengerdt (standing) addressedthe Golden Lunch Bunch Jan. 9.

Vancouver, Canada

A group of Miners got together for breakfast Jan. 28 in Vancouverat the Cordilleran Roundup. Left to right, Arnie Birkhand,John Fairley, Barrett Sleeman, Norm Ross, John Chapman,Al Homenuke, Dave Philip, Gil Arseneau, Larry Kornze.Photograph by John Anderson.

The Athletic Department, inconjunction with CSMAA,held two basketball reunionsof former Mines players. Thefirst was Dec. 13 (above top).The second was Feb. 15(above middle). An alumniwrestling reunion (right) was held Feb. 9.

Bone Valley, Fla.

The Bone Valley alumni group held its annual picnic barbecueMarch 19 even though it rained.

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Miners Celebrate Marriage and the Good LifeBy Allen McGlone Geol E ’54

Marian and Bob Kendrick EM ’54began celebrating their 50thwedding anniversary two years earlyby hosting a Caribbean cruise for 61of their friends. The Kendricks willbe married 50 years in 2004.

The 14-day cruise took place in Mayaboard the Windjammer CruiseLines ship, the Amazing Grace, which carries freight and passengersbetween the Bahamas and Trinidad. It also services the tall ships ofthe Windjammer fleet. Built in 1955 and christened Pharos, shewas for many years the pride of the BritishNorthern Lighthouse Board and hosted thequeen and royal family on special occasions. In1989, Pharos was purchased by WindjammerCruises and renamed the Amazing Grace.

The Mines bunch included John McIver Met E’50, Sue and George Mitchell EM ’53, DaveJonson Geol E ’51, MSc Geol ’55 and Jan Hall,Mary and Tom Young EM ’52, Nancy andGordon Wieduwilt Geop E ’53, Carolyn andDon Adams PE ’52, Louise and Allen McGloneGeol E ’54, Marge and Gordon Miner EM ’48,Beth and Harry Ells PE ’54, Anne and DickSiegfried Geop E ’50, Ann and Sam McClarenPE ’54, and Jim Mulryan EM ’54 and Gail Wieder.

Partying started at a bon voyage dinner-dancein Miami, followed by a flight to Freeport,Bahamas, the next morning. During the cruise,

we visited 10 islands, sailing at night and enjoying island life andtours during the day.

The Amazing Grace docked first at Grand Turk Island with aSchool of Mines flag flying from the halyard. Grand Turks andCaicos Governor Cynthia Atswood and her attorney general werereceived at a luncheon aboard ship. Some of us fed stingrays atGrand Turk, others went snorkeling and toured the tall ships,Flying Cloud and Mandalay. In the evening, lectures were given bypassengers: Siegfried gave an overall view of the world petroleumreserves, Wieduwilt discussed continental drift.

A special event was the auction of passenger-donated items andservices for the Queen Elizabeth orphanage in Grenada. More than$1,400 was raised and given to the orphanage along with stuffedanimals and clothing.

Another event was a costume party where weall dressed as something starting with “P.”Kendrick was the Perfect Person—a Minesman.

After 12 days at sea, the Amazing Grace pulledinto Port of Spain, Trinidad, for a last day ofsteel-band performances and a dance contest;Jonson and partner Hall were the winners.

Meanwhile the Amazing Grace was loading forher return trip. The cruise was at an end, butthe Kendrick celebration continues.

The Miners: Front, from left, Harry Ells, Bob Kendrick, Gordon Wieduwilt and Dave Jonson. Back, from left, Tom Young, Al McGlone, George Mitchell,

Gordon Miner, John McIver and Jim Mulryan.

Celebrants Marian andBob Kendrick

The Amazing Grace

The Morse Brothers Equipment Company closed itsdoors in October 1985 after almost 90 years in business in theDenver area. It began a liquidation sale of its inventory ofcrushers, compressors, ball mills, mine loaders, locomotives,cars, pumps and other equipment used primarily by the miningindustry. In the mid-80s, the mining industry was in a deepeconomic downturn: There was not a viable hard-rock mine in full production anywhere in Colorado. It was time to quit thebusiness. Founded in 1898, the Morse Brothers MachineryCompany had been a leading purveyor of reconditioned industrialmachinery. Along with companies like Denver EquipmentCompany and Mine and Smelter Supply Company, it had helpedmake Denver a major center for the manufacture and sale ofmining machinery worldwide. In 1936, the company waspurchased by Max Grimes. He retained the Morse BrothersCompany name and under his stewardship, developed worldwidesales of both new and reconditioned equipment. In its heyday, thecompany employed 140 people. But in the 1970s the company

began to shrink until by 1985, only three employees remained,and two of them were the company’s owners, Harold andRaymond Grimes, who had taken over from their father, Max.

One of the people who attended the liquidation sale that Octoberday was William G. “Chip” Parfet Hon Mem ’96. As the sale waswinding down, he noticed shelf after shelf of catalogs, brochures,fliers, operating manuals and boxes of photographs thatemployees had used as reference material in the course of theirwork reconditioning equipment for almost 90 years. Parfet askedthe owners what they planned to do with the material. From theirreaction, it was obvious they hadn’t given it any thought. Parfetoffered to take it off their hands, and after a little hesitation, theyagreed, on the condition that he was not to sell it. After sealing thedeal with a handshake, Parfit boxed up his new collection with noclear idea of what to do with it. He knew the collection wasimportant to preserve, but was not sure how to do it. For 17 years,the material sat in a trailer in Golden, Colo. Last December, Parfetdonated it all to the Russell L. & Lyn Wood Mining History

Archive. It consists of more than 30 boxes of material thatwill be invaluable to the study of mining technology.

Material such as industrial equipment catalogs are characterizedas ephemera, never intended to be permanently kept, but simplyused for a specific purpose and disposed of. Much of thecollection was intended to advertise and sell products. Once a newmodel or product line came out, old catalogs were of no use andusually thrown away. Surviving copies of these publications arescarce, even rare. Since the Morse Brothers Company was in thebusiness of reconditioning equipment, it kept every singlepublication it received for possible future reference, making thiscollection rare and significant. With this material, one can tracethe evolution of a piece of equipment as it underwent designchanges over decades. The scope of this material on mining andmilling machinery and related technology makes it one of thefinest collections in the world.

Efforts have begunto catalog andpreserve thethousands ofbrochures, technicalbulletins, catalogsand otherpublications thatwill eventually bemade accessible. Allthe great names inmining machineryare represented:Denver Equipment

Company, Hendrie and Bolthoff, Mine and Smelter SupplyCompany, Dorr Company, Hardinge Company, Gardner Denver,Stearns Roger, Deister Concentrator Company, EimcoCorporation and many others. In addition, the collection containsboxes of photographs taken by professional commercialphotographers for catalogs published by Morse Brothers. Thesephotographs are a visual record of the type of machineryreconditioned and sold by the company and were taken with thebest possible lighting and contrast.

The industrial base that manufactured mining and millingequipment in Denver is largely gone. And with it, much of thedocumentary record of Denver’s role as a center for themanufacture of mining equipment has been lost or scattered. Butwe can be grateful that a promise sealed by a handshake 17 yearsago saved part of that record for posterity.

Robert Sorgenfrei is librarian/archivist of the Russell L. & Lyn WoodMining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library.

By Robert Sorgenfrei

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ROBERT C. “SKIP” ARNIM II PE ’72 died athis home in Bartlesville, Okla., Jan. 8. He

was 53. Arnim wasborn in Pasadena,Calif., and was raisedin Calgary, Alberta,Canada. In 1971, hemarried ElizabethGregory in Augusta,Ark. Arnim workedfor British Petroleum

Company for five years, then for PhillipsPetroleum Company for 25 years, retiringlast October. He was a member of the FirstBaptist Church in Bartlesville, the Society ofPetroleum Engineers, CSMAA and SigmaAlpha Epsilon, as was his father. He issurvived by his widow, Betsy, four sons, adaughter, his mother and two brothers.

RICHARD A.“DICK”ARTERBURN MET E ’66died at home in Graeagle, Calif., Dec. 18 atage 61. Arterburn was born in Nebraska, butspent most of hischildhood inAmarillo, Texas.It was there hemet and marriedhis lifelongcompanion andwife, Gail, in1962. Aftergraduation,Arterburnworked for ASARCO at its Amarillo zincsmelter. He then became mill metallurgistfor AMAX Lead in Salem, Mo. In 1970,Arterburn became staff engineer for KrebsEngineers in Menlo Park, Calif., where hepioneered the mathematical modelingprocess for the sizing and use ofhydrocyclones. His original work has beenrefined, but basically is still used by Krebsengineers today. This work was shared withthe industry in technical papers presentedthrough the Society of Mining Engineers ofAIME. He was a 36-year member of SME.In 1987, Arterburn moved to Reno, Nev.,where he founded ACP EquipmentCompany, a manufacturer’s representativeorganization, with Krebs Engineers as a

cornerstone. The company blossomed andArterburn added other interests within themineral processing industry. In 2000, thecompany was sold and he retired to hisother passions. He and Gail moved toGraeagle to pursue golf and fishing.Arterburn was a passionate golfer andvacationed in Ireland and Scotland to playgolf, fulfilling a long-time dream. He alsoattended the Master’s in Augusta, Ga., in2001 and also enjoyed several rounds of golfat Pebble Beach. Arterburn was active in theGraeagle Community Church and was adeacon on the church board at the time ofhis death. Arterburn is survived by hiswidow, two sons and three granddaughters.

By Charles B. Dugger Jr. Met E ’66

GEORGE M. BALL GEOP E ’52 died Nov. 7in Stuart, Fla., from complicationsassociated withchronic obstructivepulmonary disease. Hewas 76. Ball was bornin Texas but wasraised in Golden,Colo. He graduatedfrom Golden HighSchool at age 17 andthen joined the U.S. Navy, serving in theSouth Pacific during World War II. He waspart of the force that occupied Japan afterthe war. Afterwards, he attended Mineswhere his father was a professor in thepetroleum engineering department. Ballgraduated with a geophysical engineeringdegree, but switched careers to become atechnical writer. He retired to Florida. Ballloved trout fishing and returned toColorado nearly every summer to fish. Healso loved to read and was actively involvedin the Veterans of Foreign Wars and otherveterans’ organizations in Florida. Ball’swife, Orel, preceded him in death. He issurvived by three sons, a daughter, a sisterand 12 grandchildren.

JAMES M. COPELAND EM ’42 died Nov. 11at his home in Bradford, Vt. He was 89.Copeland was born in Oregon and grew upon the family farm on Sauvies Island in the

Columbia River. He excelled in track anddebate in high school and graduated with

honors. During the1930s, he was alaborer on theconstruction ofGrand Coulee Damand prospected forquick silver. Whileworking as arecruiter for Pacific

University, he met Elizabeth Rinehart, whomhe married in 1938. Upon graduation fromMines, Copeland became a materialsengineer for the Curtis Wright AircraftCompany in New Jersey. During that time heearned a master’s degree from StephensInstitute of Technology. In 1948 he moved toNichols, N.Y., where he took up farming. In1950 he became an engineer for IBM andspent the rest of his career there, ultimatelyresponsible for managing a group ofmaterials laboratories in the United Statesand Europe. He retired in 1974 and movedto Corinth, N.Y., where he raised sheep. Inretirement, Copeland also became chairmanof the Laymen’s Fellowship of theEvangelical Free Church of America andhelped arrange the establishment of morethan 160 new churches throughout thecountry. He is survived by his widow, fivesons, 17 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

LARRY G. HAYES EM ’52 of Modesto, Calif.,died Sept. 15 at home. He was 77. Hayes wasa native of McCook,Neb. He had lived inModesto since 1984.He was a miningengineer for 34 yearsand worked for KaiserEngineers. He was amember of SmyrnaLodge Free & AcceptedMasons of Ceres, Veterans of Foreign Warsand Moose Lodge. He was a World War IIArmy Air Corps veteran. Hayes is survivedby his widow, Donna, a son, a brother, twosisters and seven grandchildren.

ELIZABETH J. JORGENSEN BSC GEOL ’98died Nov. 11 at home following a longillness. She was 32. Jorgensen was ahomemaker and mother of twins. She hadworked for a time at S.R.K. Consulting inLakewood, Colo. Jorgensen is survived by herhusband, Todd, two sons, her parents andtwo sisters.

RONALD E. LENGERICH BSC MET ’75died June 24. He was in Golden, Colo., forhis son Benjamin’s (BSc Eng ’02) graduationfrom Mines. His son Matthew (BSc Min)graduated in 2000. Lengerich had enjoyed amorning run with his wife when he died. Hewas a reservoir engineer with BP Amoco inHouston. While at Mines, he was a memberof Blue Key and was active in the AlumniAssociation. He is survived by his wife, Judy,and four children.

CHARLES S. LINDBERG MET E ’40 died athome in Farmington, N.M., Dec. 20, 11 daysshy of his 89th birthday. After graduation,Lindberg went to work for AmericanSmelting & Refining in Amarillo, Texas.There he met Katy Roach, whom he married

in 1942. The couplemoved to Mexicoand lived there for11 years. All three oftheir children wereborn in Mexico. In1953, Lindbergmoved to Shiprock,N.M., where he

supervised the construction of the uraniummine for Kerr-Magee. In 1956, he started C& K Industrial Supply, retiring in 1975.During that time he volunteered for manycivic and church activities. Two of hischildren predeceased him. He is survived byhis widow, a daughter, four grandchildrenand five great-grandchildren.

JAMES W. MINETTE EM ’59 of Boron,Calif., died of cancer Jan. 26 at age 66. Whileat Mines, he met and married fellow studentDawn Hayford. After graduation, Minettebecame an engineer for U.S. Borax in Boron.He spent a short time with U.S. Potash in

Carlsbad, N.M., from 1964-65, but returnedto California. He helped represent the statemining community when the Californiablasting laws were being formulated in the

1960s. He thenbecame a member ofthe non-coal safetycommittee of theAmerican MiningCongress, serving inthat capacity until1991, when he alsoretired from U.S.

Borax. In 1985, Minette was miningmanager of Boron’s open pit when it wasawarded the Sentinels of Safety award as thesafest in the country. Throughout his career,Minette and his wife enjoyed mineralcollecting. Their collection of borates,smithsonites and worldwide minerals arewell known in collecting circles. In August,the collection was featured in a mineralshow in Springfield, Mass. Minette wroteseveral articles on mineral finds and donatedmineral collections to museums throughoutthe country. He was always happiest whenhe was at the bottom of some dusty oldmine collecting specimens. He is survived byhis widow, two sons, a daughter-in-law andtwo granddaughters.

DWIGHT L. MYERS EM ’41 died Dec. 5,nine days shy of his93rd birthday. Myerswas 31 when hegraduated fromMines. Prior to hiseducation, he spent 12years in the westernstates as a trampminer. Myers waspreceded in death by his wife, Agnes.

JAMES G. NEWMAN PRE ’51, 73, of IndianHills, Colo., died Oct. 30 in Denver. He wasborn in Inglewood, Calif., and aftergraduating from Mines, worked for PhillipsPetroleum, Great Western Sugar, J.C. Carlisleand Stearns Roger Corp., until retirement.After retirement, he continued his lifelonglove of education by taking classes at Red

Rocks Community College. He is survived by his widow, Myrna, five childrenand seven grandchildren.

WILLIAM D. PAYNE GEOL E ’59died Dec. 16 in Denver. He was 66. Aftergraduation, the New York City nativefulfilled his militaryduty as a secondlieutenant in the U.S.Army. He then beganhis career as a minegeologist in Butte,Mont., with AnacondaCompany, where hedeveloped anappreciation of the economic aspects ofgeology. From 1963-1966 he worked forAnglo American Corp. in Zambia. Onreturning from Africa, Payne earned adoctorate from Stanford University in 1971.From 1973-1981, he was Noranda’ssouthwestern district geologist, a positionthat allowed him to integrate his talents as ascientist, teacher and manager, and wasbased in Tucson, Ariz. Payne then becamearea manager for Getty Mining Co. In 1986,he became a principal for EngineeringDynamics, Inc. in Englewood, Colo. Overthe past five years as opportunities dwindledin mining and mineral exploration, Payne’senthusiasm and love for the economicaspects of geology drew his interests towardpetroleum geology and various futuristicprojections in economic geology. He issurvived by his widow, Suzanne, a daughterand two grandchildren.

JOHN A. RIDDLE MET E ’49 died peacefullyat his home in Castro Valley, Calif., Nov. 14.

He was 74. Riddlewas retired presidentof M & MResources, Inc. Healso served in theMinnesota NationalGuard. Riddle was aloving husband,father and

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humor and generosity,” said Paula, his wifeof 53 years. “He is greatly missed by hisfamily and all who had the opportunity toknow him.” Riddle is survived by his widow,four sons and 11 grandchildren.

JAKE R. SMITH EM ’50 died of cancer Feb. 5, the day before his 79th birthday.Born in Larkspur, Colo., he was the

youngest of sevenchildren. After highschool, he enlisted inthe Army Air Corp forfour years of service,after which heattended Mines. Hewas then hired bySmith Engineering

Works in Milwaukee, Wis., where he workedfor 13 years. At the time of retirement,Smith was general manager of the Talsmithdivision and vice president of Barber GreenCompany. He was an avid boater and aprivate airplane pilot and was proud of his100-ton captain’s license. Smith is survivedby his wife of 56 years, Louise, a daughterand two grandsons. A son preceded him indeath in 1970 in Vietnam.

AUGUST J. ZARCONE GEOP E ’63 ofDowners Grove, Ill., died Nov. 27 from abrain tumor. He was61. While at Mines,Zarcone was studentbody president andactive in Alpha TauOmega. Aftergraduation, he taughthigh schoolmathematics. Hemarried his wife, Helene, in 1968. In 1972,he received a master’s degree from NorthernIllinois University. He began teachingmathematics at College of DuPage in GlenEllyn, Ill., in 1980 and remained there untilhis retirement in August 2002. Zarcone wasthe recipient of the 1992-1993 College ofDuPage Outstanding Faculty Award andalso authored mathematics textbooks. “Hewas always happy to be in front of theclassroom and contribute to students’

learning,” said his daughter GenaPolihronidis. “When students needed extrahelp, his office door was always open.”Zarcone is survived by his widow, daughter,son-in-law and mother.

Also in Memoriam

FLOYD L. AMEND PRE ’53

NOV. 11, 2002

DONAL H. BLOCK EM ’65

NOV. 11, 2002

EDUARD DERIDDER MSC GEOP ’73

DEC. 30, 2002

KIRK C. FORCADE GEOL E ’36

JAN. 16, 2003

LEMOYNE G. LOSEKE MET E ’53

SEPT. 2002

E.D. “ED” UNDERWOOD JR. PE ’36

JAN. 6, 2003

SIX HONORED by CSMAA

MELVILLE F. COOLBAUGH AWARD

KEN LARNER GEOP E ’60 is the Charles Henry Green Professor ofExploration Geophysics and directorof the Center for Wave Phenomena atCSM. Larner joined the CSM facultyafter 18 years with WesternGeophysical Company that includednine years as vice president ofresearch and development. He isactive in numerous professionalsocieties and served as president ofthe Society of ExplorationGeophysics. He also received SEG’shighest award, the Maurice Ewing Medal. In 1981, he was awardedthe CSM Distinguished Achievement Medal. In 1992, he receivedthe Presidential Award for CSM outstanding educator.

YOUNG ALUMNUS AWARD

JOHN J. CHRISTMANN IV BSC

PET ’88 joined ApacheCorporation in Houston in 1997and was recently promoted toGulf Coast Region productionmanager. He has also served asdirector of business developmentand has been instrumental in thecompany’s growth throughacquisitions. He is a fourthgeneration Mines alumnus. Lastfall, Christmann spoke to theMcBride honors students on leadership and also has helped outwith recruiting new students to campus. Christmann has been amember of the Alumni Association since graduation. He is activein the Katy, Texas, community where he lives.

CSMAA HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS

CANDACE AMMERMAN BSC BE ’81is a popular lecturer at CSM and isfrequently honored by graduatingseniors who vote for their favoriteprofessors. In addition to teaching,she is faculty adviser to the CSMstudent chapter of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers and forthree consecutive years has beennamed regional ASCE facultyadviser of the year. Ammerman is the ASCE representative on the

National Concrete Canoe Competition committee that makes up the rules and administers the competition. She is also faculty adviser to the CSM chapter of Society of WomenEngineers, and is a past adviser of the student chapters ofTau Beta Pi and Alpha Phi Omega.

WARD O’MALLEY EM ’42 of Tipperary, Ireland, has been alifelong loyal and vocal supporter of Mines and the AlumniAssociation. After graduating from prestigious Phillips ExeterAcademy, he spent two years at Princeton University beforetransferring to Mines. After graduation from Mines, he earned agraduate degree in geology from Stanford University. According to O’Malley, his education from Mines was far superior to eitherPrinceton or Stanford. O’Malley had a career in the oil business,but since 1969 has also raised horses on his farm in Ireland. Hehas always been a great supporter of and a goodwill ambassadorfor the School.

After graduation, ROBERT W.PEARSON PE ’59 worked briefly as anengineer, but soon followed his realpassion—sports. For 32 years he was ateacher, coach and athletic admin-istrator at Mines. During his tenure asassistant basketball coach, Mines wontwo conference championships. Assoccer coach, his team won fourconsecutive conference champion-ships from 1993-96. Always a supporter and member of CSMAA,after retirement, Pearson joined the staff of the Association assections manager. Pearson also has been on the CSMAA board ofdirectors as well as the board of the CSM Credit Union.

ROBERT A. POND is executive vicepresident and a director of Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc. inIndiana, one of the leadingtunneling and mining contractors inNorth America. He has more than40 years of experience in nearlyevery phase of mining, tunneling,shaft sinking and heavyconstruction. Pond studied at Mines,

but left before graduation. While still a student, he co-foundedand managed Hardrock Contractors in Durango, Colo. Today, hisduties at Frontier-Kemper include overall business and contractmanagement for the company and its sponsored joint ventures.Pond is an officer of several construction-related corporations anda member and officer of several professional organizations. He is on the Visiting Committee for the CSM Mining EngineeringDepartment and is active in several local civic and sportingorganizations. He also writes a monthly column for a sport-shooting newspaper, The Clay Pigeon.

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Technology in Brooklyn Park, Minn.Richard M. Liconti BSc Geol,

BSc Min is president of NovaEnergy Services Inc. in Canonsburg,Pa.

William C. Messer BSc Geol isvice president of Gaddy EngineeringCompany in Huntington, W.Va.

Garry G. Schoonover BSc Pet ispresident of Rambling StoneEnterprises, Inc. in Richmond,Texas.

1974William H. Bird PhD Geol is

president of Scorpio MiningCorporation in Vancouver, BC,Canada.

Richard D. Dunham BSc CPR isretired in Midland, Texas.

Michael D. Kyrias BSc CPR istechnical manager for KelloggBrown & Root, Inc. in Perth, WestAustralia, Australia.

Wilfred S. Streeter BSc Min is aconstruction manager for J & JMaintenance in Colorado Springs,Colo.

1975Richard E. Ackermann BSc Min

is a mining engineer for Earth TechInc. in Oak Brook, Ill.

Darryl E. Pierce BSc Pet iscorporate secretary for Papco, Inc. inWarren, Pa.

Andrew P. Schissler BSc Min,PhD Min ’02 is a mining engineerfor the Mine Safety and HealthAdministration of the Departmentof Labor in Golden, Colo.

1976T. Arthur Palm BSc Min owns

and is principal consultant forMencon LLC in Price, Utah.

1977Jeffrey E. Carlson BSc Geol is

an operations manager for CredoPetroleum Corporation in Denver.

Allen E. May BSc Geop ispresident, international, of SamsonLone Star Limited Partnership inHouston.

1978Mark F. Coolbaugh BSc Geol is

a research assistant professor for theGreat Basin Center for GeothermalEnergy at University of Nevada -Reno.

Michael J. Dern BSc Pet ismanager of corporate planning forForest Oil Corp. in Denver.

Chris R. Roberts BSc Chem is adistinguished scientist for the RocheColorado Corporation in Boulder,Colo.

John C. Ruebush BSc Met, BScMath ’79 is worldwide commoditydirector for Johnson and Johnson inNew Brunswick, N.J.

Morris J. Schaefer BSc Min isowner and engineer for MountainSounds in Hesperus, Colo.

Andrew P. Swiger BSc Pet is vicepresident of Europe for Exxon MobilInternational Ltd. in London, UnitedKingdom.

1979Bradford J. Bends BSc Min is

vice president and managingdirector for BearingPoint inMcLean, Va.

Curt L. Golike BSc Pet isdirector of strategy and productiondevelopment for Occidental inHouston.

Monte E. Lawson BSc Phy is aprincipal engineer at NorthropGrumman Information Technologyin Colorado Springs, Colo.

Andrew J. O'Conor BSc Min issenior analyst for Strong CapitalManagement New York City.

Scott M. Rosenberg BSc Met isa captain for Horizon Airlines. Helives in Meridian, Idaho.

Scott T. Wilson BSc CPR is vicepresident of Lodi Gas Storage inAcampo, Calif.

1980Brian R. Bond BSc Geol is

president of Bond Mining Companyin Montrose, Colo.

George F. Canjar BSc Geol is anexploration manager for DavisPetroleum Corporation in Houston.

Chris Oglesby BSc Geol, MScGeol ’88 and his family have moved

to Thailand. He works for Unocal.James Ricotta BSc Pet and his

family have moved to Atyrau,Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea. Heconducts economic analysis forproject expansion and ensures thatassociated government regulatorywork is completed.

1981Leanne M. Baker MSc Min Ec,

PhD Min Ec ’84 is a consultant inTiburon, Calif.

J. Hugh Dickey MSc CPR ismanager of policy and politicalaffairs for ChevronTexacoCorporation in San Ramon, Calif.

Edwin E. Downer Jr. BSc Min isregional sales manager for WhayneSupply Company in Louisville, Ky.He recently obtained patent#6,497,059.

James L. Henze BSc Min is anassociate engineer for Cal OSHAMining and Tunneling in Yucaipa,Calif.

Glenn M. Vangolen BSc CPRhas been promoted to vice presidentof engineering and technical servicesfor Occidental Oil and GasCorporation in Texas.

1982Brian R. Disney BSc Pet 1982 is

a senior petroleum engineer forEncana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. inDenver.

Anthony A. Sirtautas BSc Geop1982, MSc Geop 1985 is a consultinggeophysicist for the Saudi AramcoCompany in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Kevin A. Sparks BSc CPR, MScCPR ’83 is director of engineering at


1949Arthur W. Ruff Geol E, EM,

DSc Min ’58 is an independentconsultant in La Mesa, Calif.

1950Ben H. Slothower EM is a

mining consultant for WesternMineral Appraisers, LLC, inBozeman, Mont.

1952John P. Lockridge Geol E is

president of Mountain PetroleumCorporation in Pebble Beach, Calif.

1953Edgar T. Hunter EM and

Harvey E. McCann EM becameLegion of Honor members of theAIME Jan. 1. They each joined in1953 and have maintainedmembership for 50 years. Theyreceived gold label pins and now pay50 percent of their regular dues.

1954Carl L. Blazel Geop E is an

independent consultant inHonolulu, Hawaii.

1956Ralph H. Dougherty Met E is a

partner with Dougherty, Clements& Hofer law firm in Charlotte, N.C.

1957Robert B. Steck Met E is an

associate vice president for MorganStanley and Company Inc. in TomsRiver, N.J.

1959Gerald S. Keen Geol E is retired

in Mobile, Ala.

1961George A. Holcomb EM is

retired in Grand Junction, Colo.William W. Walker Geol E owns

Walker Geological Services in Reno,Nev.

1962Charles W. Downing PRE has

retired from Esoteric EfficacyCorporation and lives in Leadville,Colo.

1963J. Paul Mathias PE is retired in

Centennial, Colo.

1964Lloyd J. Nordhausen PRE is

refinery operations manager forFrontier Refining Inc. in Cheyenne,Wyo.

1966James E. Skaggs Geop E is chief

geophysicist for Rock CreekVineyard in Norman, Okla.

1967Clyde E. Morrison PRE is

retired in Cypress, Texas.J. Nick Teets Met E is retired in

Hayden Lake, Idaho.

1968M. Clay Chambers PRE is

managing director of chemicals forEl Paso Corporation in Houston.

Edwin Darling Phy E is directorof ARAMARK Uniform Services inCoppell, Texas.

L. Bruce Hinton Geop E is ageoscience consultant for dB, LLC inDallas.

Gregory Hal Hoyl EM ispresident of Gregory H. Hoyl &Associates, Ltd. in Santana doParnaiba, Brazil.

1969Todd A. Brown Met E is vice

president of operations for Sara LeeBranded Apparel in Paris.

Wesley L. Lynn Met E is seniormetallurgical engineer for FikeCorp. in Blue Springs, Mo.

1970Richard C. Giesler BSc Chem is

business manager for Village Churchof Gurnee in Gurnee, Ill.

W. Randolph Hicks BSc Pet isgeneral manager for Kuukpik

Drilling LLC in Anchorage, Alaska.Allan V. Moran BSc Geol is an

independent consultant in Tucson,Ariz.

1971Larry R. Fischer BSc Min has

taken early retirement in Gallup,N.M.

Dan R. Harrison BSc Min isbranch manager for American CivilConstructors in Glenwood Springs,Colo.

David W. Philip EM isproprietor of DW Philip MiningServices in North Vancouver, BritishColumbia, Canada.

1972Claude C. Corkadel III BSc Met

is vice president of businessdevelopment for Rentech, Inc. inDenver.

Michael G. Long BSc Pet isexecutive vice president for NationsEnergy in Aktau, Kazakhstan.

J. Stephen Sutherlin BSc Pet is astaff reservoir engineer for ShellInternational Exploration andProduction in Houston.

1973Ronald H. Bissett BSc CPR is a

family physician for OSF HealthcareSystem at St. Francis Hospital inGladstone, Mich. He is the chair ofsafety and quality improvement anda physician liaison for informationtechnology.

Timothy M. Hawkes BSc Min isan engineering manager for ShanxiAsian-American Daning Energy Co.in Jincheng, Shanxi, China. It is thefirst Sino-American joint venturecoal mine in China and it has justcommenced operation. His home isin Surfside Beach, S.C.

Juan E. Joffre MSc Met headsthe department of metallurgy andmaterials at University of San LuisPotosi in Mexico.

John L. Kirk Jr. BSc Met, MScMet ’77 is vice president of sales andmarketing for Bosch Packaging


1987Deborah A. Beck BSc CPR is a

global improvemnet leader for DowChemical Company in Hahnville,La.

Peter C. Dillingham BSc Pet isdirector of business development forthe Advance Food Company inEnid, Okla.

Virgle R. Goodgame Jr. BScGeol is senior geologist for Anglo American in Bentley, W.A.,Australia.

J. Scott Kimbrough BSc Chemis a doctoral candidate at Universityof North Carolina School ofPharmacy.

Andrew D. Smith BSc Eng P.E.has been promoted to managerassociate for The Larkin Group. He

serves as a project manager inLarkin’s special projects marketsegment. Smith’s focus is watershedmaster planning and management aswell as stormwater design projects.

Steven C. Wood BSc Geop isvice president of Resource CapitalFunds in Denver.

1988Shamil Abu Hassan BSc Eng is

president and chief executive officerfor Aset Pertiwi Sdb Bhd inSeberang Jaya, Penang, Malaysia.

Peter R. Dawson BSc Min isvice president and general managerof the Dallas/Ft. Worth district forMartin Marietta Aggregates inFrisco, Texas.

Birol Elevli MSc Min, PhD Min’92 heads the mining department atDumlupinar University in Kutahya,Turkey.

Robert E. Farrar BSc Eng ispower delivery group manager for

Stanley Consultants Inc. inEnglewood, Colo.

David R. Kennar BSc CPR, MScCPR ’90 is a process engineer forChevronTexaco on the Hamacacrude upgrader project in Venezuela.

Corey D. Kramer BSc Pet islogistics manager for Hella Australiain Mentone, Victoria, Australia. Heand his wife, Michelle, have onechild.

Nicolas Lacouture BSc Min hasreturned from Colombia and isworking on his MBA at RiceUniversity in Houston.

1989Colin Engle BSc Geol, Geol E

’96 is a senior reservoir engineeringconsultant with Landmark GraphicsCorp. based in Leatherhead, UnitedKingdom.

Craig Friesen BSc Eng is a teamleader and project manager forWashington Infrastructure Servicesin Denver.

1990Bruce C. Bunch MSc Pet is a

reservoir production engineer forCastle Peak Resources LLC inBakersfield, Calif.

Richard K. Mackay BSc Phy,BSc Eng, MSc Appl Mech ’94 is anadjunct instructor in the CSMengineering department.

Robert S. Merrill BSc Eng isdirector of transport installed jointventures for Shell Oil Products inHouston.

Michael L. Ziegler BSc Eng isgeneral manager forSimplexGrinnell in ColoradoSprings, Colo.

1991Benjamin H. Houston BSc Geol

is a public health engineer for theUlster County Health Departmentin Woodstock, N.Y.

Joseph H. Katz PhD Math is asenior supply chain consultant forSAS Institute Inc. in Cary, N.C.

Thomas J. Rankin BSc Eng isthe electrical and automations team

leader for PT Caltex Indonesia.

1992Zaal Anuar Alias BSc Pet has

moved from Sarawak, Malaysia toMuscat, Oman. He is a reservoirengineer for PetroleumDevelopment Oman LLC.

Michael D. Christensen BScEng is process developmentengineer for Novellus Systems, Inc.in Tualatin, Ore.

Todd J. Mushovic BSc Pet is adrilling engineer for ConocoPhillipsin Houston.

Susan D. Rankin BSc Geol is anenvironmental engineeringconsultant for PT URS Indonesia.

John L. Strobel BSc Eng is asoftware engineer at NeoCore Inc. inColorado Springs, Colo.

Brian P. Yeagley BSc CPR is asenior risk engineer and projectmanager for Bass-Trigon Software inLittleton, Colo.

1993Alison Thomas Begeman BSc

Geop is an information developerfor Magic Earth in HighlandsRanch, Colo.

Debra L. Edwards MSc Geop isa geophysicist for the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers in Huntsville,Ala.

Renee D. Luka BSc Eng is adirector for Berger Inc. in Littleton,Colo.

James D. Parry BSc Pet hasbeen promoted to operationssuperintendent for Premier Oil inJakarta, Indonesia.

Chad C. Soliz BSc Geop is apatent attorney for Santangelo LawOffices, P.C. in Fort Collins, Colo..

T. Brooks Tucker BSc Eng isvice president and general managerfor Dimensions Diversified Inc. inEnglewood, Colo.

Michael R. Walker MSc Min Ecis director of project developmentfor the Michigan BroadbandDevelopment Authority in AnnArbor, Mich. He and his wife,Andrea, have two children.


Natural Pharmaceutical in Fall River,Mass.

1983Mark A. Balderston BSc Pet is a

consulting petroleum engineer forhis own company, BalderstonEngineering Inc. in Craig, Colo.

Lisa L. Edington BSc Geop is anapplications engineer providingtraining and support to civilengineers who use the MXRoaddesign software. She works forInfrasoft North America, Inc. in theDenver area.

Steven D. McPherson BSc Pet isan independent consultant in GrandJunction, Colo.

Daniel S. J. Morris BSc Geop ispresident of Imagine Exploration inHouston.

Michael J. Nilsen MSc Min waspromoted to vice president offinance for KeySpan EnergyDevelopment Corp. in New York.KeySpan owns the Ravenswoodpower plant, the largest in New York

City. Pictured is Nilsen, left, andJavier F. Samaniego MSc Min on theBrooklyn Bridge a month beforeSept. 11. He, Samaniego and theirwives ate dinner that night in theWorld Trade Center’s Windows onthe World restaurant.

Jeffrey S. Samuels BSc Min is ageotechnical engineer for MACTECEngineering & Consulting inJacksonville, Fla.

Sterling T. Strange III BSc Minis executive vice president and CSOfor Air Transport IT Services, Inc. inChantilly, Va.

1984Ceramography: Preparation and

Analysis of Ceramic Microstructures, areference and text book by RichardE. Chinn, BSc Met, MSc Mat Sc ’95,was co-published by ASMInternational and the AmericanCeramic Society in December 2002.Chinn is a materials researchengineer at the U.S. Department ofEnergy in Albany, Ore.

Michael James Glen BSc CPR ispresident of Saddle Peak Associatesin Calabasas, Calif.

David C. Raymes BSc Geop is aregional manager for GeologicServices Corp. in East Hartford,Conn.

Gregory N. Smallwood BSc Minis a project engineer for ContechControl Services in La Porte, Tex.

Eric D. Smith BSc Geop is aprocess control specialist forChevron Phillips ChemicalCompany LP in Houston.

Tommy L. Turnipseed BSc Minis manager of engineering servicesfor Lafarge North America Inc. inDenver.

Brenda J. Wolfe BSc CPR is amanager for process equipment inthe United States for MetsoMinerals, Inc. in Colorado Springs,Colo.

1985Haakon J. Bjorum BSc Pet is

senior energy economist for theEcon Center for Economic Analysisin Paris.

Ellen L. Johnson BSc Geop isthe western GOM area manager forthe Unocal Corporation in SugarLand, Texas.

Roy A. Kemp BSc CPR is anengineer for ConocoPhillips in theupstream technology division inHouston.

Javier Luengo BSc Pet is generalmanager for Empresa de Servicios ElFuturo in Guatemala City,Guatemala.

Ann Mattson BSc Geopsuccessfully defended her PhD

dissertation in geology lastNovember and is now a post-doctoral researcher in the geologyand geophysics department atUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Theron C. McLaren BSc Met isa senior engineer in the Office ofPipeline Safety for the Departmentof Transportation in Houston.

Cynthia M. Pascua BSc CPR issenior principal engineer forWashington Group Inc. in Denver.

Linda S. Tully BSc Geop is onthe technical staff at NorthropGrumman Information Technologyin Colorado Springs, Colo.

Lukas Zurcher BSc Geol is aresearch associate in the lunar andplanetary laboratory and a programmanager for geosciences atUniversity of Arizona in Tucson.

1986Glenn L. Anderson BSc Min

is a construction manager forTerraTherm Inc. in the Denver area.

Stephen Collins BSc Phy earnedhis PhD in communication studiesfrom Northwestern University inEvanston, Ill. His dissertation wasThe Influence of the Great Chain ofBeing on the Rhetoric Manual ofSixteenth Century Tudor England.Currently he is the chair of thecommunication department at PikesPeak Community College.

J. Glen Honstein BSc Pet is anassociate principal for Driltek inBakersfield, Calif.

Mark D. Mueller BSc Pet isengineering manager for NorthRockResources in Calgary, Alberta,Canada.

Todd A. Wang BSc Geol is thearea commander for the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers. His unit worksout of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota,Colombia.

Stephen D. Whidden BSc Geopis an account manager for WesternGeco in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.


couple resides in Fairbanks, Alaska,where Ryan is captain and manager

of operations for Alaska RiverwaysInc., and Sabrina is a projectengineer for Veco Alaska.

Alfred Bograh MSc Min Ec isthe proprietary trader for SwiftTradeSecurities Inc. in Montreal, QuebecCanada.

Hugh D. Green BSc CPRmarried Angela Gaccetta May 11 inArvada, Colo. The couple resides inChandler, Ariz., where Hugh is aprocess engineer for IntelCorporation. Angie is a physicaltherapist. The Greens are expectingtheir first child in July.

Jennifer A. Heine BSc CPR is anengineer and scientist for Boeing inAlbuquerque, N.M..

Mary Larson BSc Eng andHobie Troxel BSc Eng were marriedSept. 29 at the Mount VernonCountry Club in Golden, Colo.Family and friends, including several

Mines alumni, joined the couple tocelebrate their marriage. Mary is amechanical engineer with BAESystems and Hobie is an equipmentengineer for Motorola. They live inAustin, Texas.

Matthew Lengerich BSc Minand his wife, Heather, announce thebirth of Samantha Marie, born

Nov. 8 in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces.Matthew is CPI coordinator forColowyo Coal Company in Craig,Colo.

Sally J. Rautio BSc Pet is apetroleum engineer for Kerr-McGeeOil and Gas Corporation in Evans,Colo.

Curtus R. Regnier BSc Eng is aservice delivery order specialist forBellSouth Carrier ProfessionalServices in Atlanta.

Ann T. Whealan MSc Env Sc is ahydrologist for the U.S. GeologicalSurvey in Northborough, Mass.

Rachel S. Wilde BSc Met &Material Engineering is atransmission calibration engineerfor Ford Motor Company in AllenPark, Mich.

2001Abdulkarim M. Al-Jaziri PhD

Pet E is a research scientist in theResearch and DevelopmentCenter/Hydrocarbon Phase BehaviorUnit for Aramco in Dhahran, SaudiArabia.

Shannon S. Freeman BSc Eng isa mechanical engineer for AirControl Science Inc. in Boulder,Colo.

Mayumi Fukushima BSc Eng,MSc Eng & Tech Mgmt ’02 is anenvironmental engineer at URSCorp. in Denver.

Oscar E. Hernandez BSc Econ isassistant project manager with KahnConstruction Corporation inDenver.

Suzanne Moore BSc Geopmarried James Heskin in May inGolden, Colo. The couple resides inRichardson, Texas, where Suzanne is

a geophysicist for MatadorPetroleum Corp. and James is anindustrial engineer for TexasInstruments. Front row from left,

Chris Duncan BSc Met & Mat Eng’99, Quentin Moore BSc CPR ’98,MSc Env Sc, the bride, the groom,Michael Schaarshmidt. Back rowfrom left, Peter Varney PhD Geol’00, Justin Paulsen BSc Eng ’98,Angelina Scouthcott BSc Geop ’01,Melanie Magill BSc Eng ’02, ErinKock BSc Geop, Travis Moore BScEng ’98, Michael Magill BSc Phy,BSc Eng, Joseph Selby BSc Econ ’02,Rachael Selby BSc Eng ’02, JessicaLolley BSc Eng, Amber Larson BScEng, Holly Hindle BSc Geop.

Shiloh L. Kirkland MSc Geol isa geological engineer for TheForrester Group in Springfield, Mo.

Raymond L. Reichert BSc Phy isan analyst for Accenture in OverlandPark, Kan.

Andrea C. Resch MSc Env Sc isan environmental engineer forTetraTech Inc. in Santa Barbara,Calif.

Mason T. Wallick BSc ChemEng is a graduate student at CSM.

2002Jesse J. Adams BSc Met &

Material Engineering is a processengineer for ITN Energy Systems inthe Denver area.

Nasser A. Al-Dossary MSc MinEc is an economist for the SaudiAramco Company in Dhahran,Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad F. Al-Matrook MScPet is a graduate student at CSM.

Saad M.S. Al-Muaili BSc Engworks for Saudi Aramco Companyin Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Kate A. Baird BSc Eng is anengineer for TST Infrastructure inDenver.

Anthony J. Bednar PhDGeochem is a research chemist forthe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inVicksburg, Miss.

Eric W. Boogaard BSc Eng is amechanical engineer for Bosch inGreer, S.C.

Joshua J. Brnak BSc Pet is aproduction engineer for KinderMorgan Inc. in Snyder, Texas.

Benjamin T. Cooke BSc Phy is a


1994Tareq A. Al-Nuaim BSc Met is

engineering supervisor for SaudiAramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Aaron C. Carnevale BSc Eng,BSc Pet is a senior petroleumsoftware engineer for PerformanceScience Inc. in Evergreen, Colo.

Christian H. Ericksen BSc Met,MSc Met ’96 is manager of machineshops at A. Finkl & Sons Co. inChicago.

Timothy J. Piwowar Jr. BScGeol is a geologist for Shell OffshoreInc. in New Orleans.

Troy J. Wright BSc CPR is aproject manager for Amgen inLongmont, Colo.

1995John B. Brown BSc Pet is a

project coordinator for BakerHughes INTEQ in Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.

Lt. Col. Paul W. Gaasbeck MscMath is battalion commander, 1stBattalion, 22nd Field Artillery atFort Sill, Okla.

Jhairo J. Garcia-Bejarano BScPet works for Landmark-Halliburton in Caracas, Venezuela.

Eric J. Northcut BSc Eng, MScEngr Sys ’98 is director, customersolutions, for MedSourceTechnologies in Englewood, Colo.

Troy E. Stucky BSc Eng in anengineer with CH2M Hill inEnglewood, Colo.

Shannon R. Whitesell BSc Engis engineering manager for TexasInstruments in Dallas.

1996Andrew D. Aichlmayr BSc Met

in manager of quality andmetallurgy for Schlosser ForgeCompany in Rancho Cucamonga,Calif.

Christopher W. Clark BSc Pet isengineer and safety coordinator forA-Plus Well Service in Farmington,N.M.

Joseph P. Fagan Jr. M Eng Geopis president of Centennial

Geoscience Inc. in Littleton, Colo.Tracy Q. Gardner BSc CPR, BSc

Math, MSc CPR ’98 is doing a postdoc at TU Delfte in the Netherlands.

Jason W. Goodall BSc Math isan information technology specialistthe U.S. Department of Interior, Fish& Wildlife Service in Lakewood,Colo.

Matthew D. Holecek BSc Eng isa staff engineer for Sunoco LogisticsPartners in Tulsa, Okla.

Jessica C. Kaiser BSc Met is astudent at Chicago Kent College ofLaw.

Jose L. Moreno BSc Eng is asystems engineer for GeneralDynamics in Phoenix, Ariz.

Nicholas J. Newell BSc Eng isdirector of quality assurance forVidiator Technology in MountainView, Calif.

Charles W. O’Melveny BSc Geolis regional geologist for AspectResources, LLC in Denver.

Lorraine Patton BSc Min is amine engineer for General ChemicalIndustrial Products in Green River,Wyo.

Randall Phelps BSc Eng andKaren Phelps BSc Eng are proud toannounce the birth of their daughterKiandra Nicole, born Aug. 22.Randall works at Martin/Martin and

Karen works at Raytheon.Nigel D. Phillips BSc Geop is a

geophysicist with KennecottExploration in Tucson, Ariz.

Jorge H. B. Sampaio Jr. PhD Petis an assistant professor at NewMexico Tech in Socorro.

Raul D. Varela BSc Eng is chieftechnology officer for ETS Financial

Services in Denver.Scott R. Walker BSc Geol is a

geological engineer for the URSCorporation in Denver.

1998Virginia D. Carroll BSc CPR is

a process engineer for Donohue &Associates in Boise, Idaho.

Luciano A.R. Costa MSc Min Ecis a consultant for Petrobras in Riode Janeiro, Brazil.

Jason P. Gilger BSc Math &Computer Science is a technicalanalyst for CD Telecom inEnglewood, Colo.

Jess L. Kindler BSc Min and hiswife, Kyndra, announced the birth ofa daughter, Lane Diane Kindler bornDec. 12, weighing in at 9 pounds, 3.5

ounces. Kindler has left the U.S.Army and now works for Ingersoll-Rand in Garland, Texas. He isworldwide service manager for thecompany’s drilling solutionsdivision.

2000Erica Balstad BSc CPR and

Jonathan Lekawski BSc Geol ’99were married Oct. 9 at a villa outsideFlorence, Italy. Kevin ThompsonBSc CPR ’99 was best man. OtherMiners in attendance includeMichael Galiunas BSc Eng ’99, PhilMarsh BSc Geol ’99, and KatieThompson BSc CPR.

Ryan E Binkley BSc Pet andSabrina L English BSc Pet weremarried Oct. 12 in Frisco, Colo. Fiveof Sabrina’s six attendants are Minesalumni, along with Ryan’s best man,Chris Francis BSc Pet, and brother,Wade Binkley, who is a junior. The

partner in Paradigm Cryogenics inGolden, Colo.

Ryan J. Countryman BSc Math& Computer Science, BSc Eng is asoftware engineer for SEAKREngineering in Denver.

John-Paul DeBauge BSc Eng isa partner in Paradigm Cryogenics inGolden, Colo.

Eric R. Drennan BSc Eng is asupport engineer for Holcims inArgyle, Texas.

Eric P. Eastment BSc Eng is anelectrical engineering technician forthe U.S. Bureau of Reclamation inDenver.

Jeramyn J. Feucht BSc Math &Computer Science is a programmerfor Eagle Computer Systems inEagle, Colo.

Benjamin N. G. Freestone BScPet is a petroleum engineer for BPin Houston.

Justin R. Gale BSc Chem Eng isa graduate student at CSM.

Christopher J. Good BSc Eng isa graduate student at CSM.

Camille E. Gross-Rhode BScMet & Material Engineering is anengineer for Micron Technology inLittleton, Colo.

Jeffrey L. Hampton BSc Eng is aQA inspector and design engineerfor Jehn & Associates in Arvada,Colo.

David Heine PhD CPR is apost-doc researcher for SandiaNational Laboratories inAlbuquerque, N.M.

Ryan A. Hemphill BSc Eng is agraduate student in the bioresourceand agricultural engineeringprogram at Colorado StateUniversity in Fort Collins.

Mildred N. Kasumba BSc Eng isa plant electrical engineer forHolcim in the Denver area.

Amanda M. Kelly BSc Math &Computer Science attends the NavalPostgraduate School for the U.S. AirForce in Monterey, Calif.

Young-woo Kil PhD Geol is apost-doc on the isotope team at theKorean Basic Science Institute in

Daejeon, Republic of Korea.Aper Tunga Kilic MSc Geol is a

geologist for Turkiye PetrolleriAnonim Ortakligi (TurkishPetroleum Corporation) in Ankara,Turkey.

Jeffrey A. Major MSc Met &Material Engineering is a graduatestudent at CSM.

Thomas J. McCarty BSc Eng isin the U.S. Air Force and lives inLakewood, Colo.

Amy J. Mikkola-Streicher MScMet & Material Engineering is agraduate student at CSM.

Skye Nelson BSc Chem Engmarried Nickolus R. Pigott BSc Met& Mat Eng ’00 June 1 in Boulder,Colo. The couple resides in northernIllinois.

Junichiro Okuyama MSc Min isan engineer in the undergroundmachinery division for Komatsu inKomatsu-Shi, Japan.

Amanda K. Phillips BSc Pet is amaster’s student at the University ofLeoben, Austria.

Dawn A. Schippe BSc Geol is agraduate student at CSM.

Melissa R. Shelley BSc Eng is anengineer associate for the KansasDepartment of Transportation inLiberal.

Brock E. Sievers BSc Met &Material Engineering is a nuclearengineer for Puget Sound NavalShipyard in Bremerton, Wash.

Kate Dae-Young Slaga BScMath & Computer Science is amedical operations analyst forKaiser Permanente in Denver.

Edward T. Smith BSc Econworks for Total SpeedCommunication, Inc. in Denver.

Renee Spinhirne MSc Math &Computer Science is a graduatestudent at CSM.

Kevin M. Szympruch BSc Engis an environmental engineer withTerracon in Wheat Ridge, Colo.

Christopher G. Theel MSc EnvSc is a biomonitoring supervisor forSGS Commercial Testing andEngineering in Denver.

Roland S. Thurston BSc Chemis a graduate student at CSM.

Nga T. Truong BSc Chem Eng isan engineer in the LeadingEngineering Excellence Program ofAir Liquide America Corporation inCleburne, Texas.

M. Syafiul Umam MSc Geop isan exploration geophysicist for P.T.Caltex Pacific Indonesia in Duri,Indonesia.

Claudio A. Valencia MSc MinEc is a graduate student at CSM.

Christopher Hawk Vanek BScEng is an engineering associatemechanic for Ball Aerospace &Technologies Corp. in Boulder,Colo.

Michelle L. West BSc Chem andRobert A. Aikman II BSc Eng ’01were married Sept. 14 in Denver.More than 30 CSM alumni attendedthe ceremony. Robert, a secondlieutenant in the U.S. Air Force,graduated pilot training Sept. 6 andwill fly KC-135s out of MacDill AFB.

The couple honeymooned in CaboSan Lucas, Mexico, and currentlylives in Tampa, Fla.

Nathan D. Wilson BSc Eng is agraduate student at CSM.

Carrie R. Wittkopf BSc Pet is afacilities engineer for PioneerNatural Resources in Peyton, Colo.


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■ Percentage Bequest—To protect against market fluctuations, your bequest can direct a specific percentage of your estate to Mines.

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